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I'm wondering if I'm going about things the right way - on a page where I've been doing some editing, another person has twice summarily removed some of what I'd added. I've asked them in the Discussion page to explain why: but had a one line answer that didn't explain. Is there anything else I can do to try to understand? No-one else has chipped in to explain either, so maybe this person is on their own in their approach to editing?
That was a quick response - thanks. Have a look at the Discussion page for honour killings, the section headed 'Itaqallah - why do you keep deleting stuff, with little explanation?'.
Please read Wikipedia:No original research, which disallows use of primary sources to make deductions or claims. There is no verifiable reason to believe any of the mentioned texts relate to "honour killing" in any way, as I have articulated many times on the talk page. You have also been removing other material which doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else in the article, on the basis that it's a 're-hash'. Please explain this in more detail on the talk page. ITAQALLAH11:48, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've read it. But the Holy Book section you deleted does not make deductions or claims from the primary sources. Wikipedia:No original research says 'anyone—without specialist knowledge—who reads the primary source should be able to verify that the Wikipedia passage agrees with the primary source.' That is the case with the religious section.
What content are you concerned about, saying 'You have also been removing other material...' ?
References
Hi. Just wanted to pop in and leave a quick note about removing material. Look at the refs that might be embedded and if there's one that's "named" (usually so it can be used again with that name) it probably is used more than once. So removing the "anchor" (the ref fields with the ref name) reference destroys the necessary fields for those refs that use the "name". Cheers E_dog95' Hi '01:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good work there. I'm glad that you are writing this.
One thing I noticed is the sentence "Firstly, some claim that honour killings only occur among rural or uneducated groups...". This should be attributed to a person or group.
This is merely a friendly thank you (for writing the article) and a heads up before a less friendy editor comes by and causes a ruckus. E_dog95' Hi '00:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The editors working on this article are playing (very strictly) by the book.
The first night that I began working on the references for that article I ran across the case of the Egyptian's from Texas. At that time it was just a few days old and I was surprised to see an incident so close to home. Their last name is Said. There has been coverage in magazines, televisions, and books. The two daughters that were killed went to Lewisville High School. I worked on that article recently and saw that an editor had included the incident. I updated the references there. One item that I found was in a book called Dark Night of the Soul. There's also this article. I'm sure there are quite a few more regarding this specific case.
So I just wanted to bring these to your attention. I do think it's good to have specific examples of honor killing mentioned in the article. Those other editors, like I said, are adhering to the rules very closely. E_dog95' Hi '01:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ways to improve Shakeel Begg
Hi, I'm Rasimmons. CanterburyUK, thanks for creating Shakeel Begg!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This article seems to cast its subject in an extremely negative light without enough context for readers to develop a fair opinion on him. It would be best to change the language to be a little more neutral.
Hey, I see you removed the POV tag from the article again. I understand the difficulty in discussing a possible religious extremist in a neutral way, however the wording of the article itself uses some loaded language and makes unsubstantiated claims.
E.g. from the introduction: "He is extremely influential among followers of hardline conservative Islam in the UK.". Is he? How do we know this? How do we justify the use of language like "extremely influential" instead of merely saying "influential"?
I'm not having a dig, I'm just saying this article needs a great deal of work in maintaining neutrality, as well as some formatting too. I'm happy to try and help though. I've not got a great deal of experience in actually writing articles. The only article I've written was about an extinct scorpion and I ended up with a part of it was removed for being incorrectly sourced.
The POV tag was added because in reading this I don't get the sense that I'm merely reading about an unpleasant person, but I'm reading something written by someone who intensely dislikes this person, and that's not how wikipedia is meant to be written. Your choice of words suggests for instance that there's doubt over his university qualifications. The tag will be re-added: two other wikipedians have now said it needs work on the neutrality and you shouldn't remove the tag until after it's been discussed, not because you've looked over your own work and think it's neutral. As far as I can tell User:rasimmons has not had a chance to discuss the tag with you before you removed it earlier. It's very hard to accurately assess your own writing, some of the stuff I've had friends pick up in my own that I've missed is mind boggling.
I also feel that the use of constant block quotes, references to youtube videos and the structure of the sections in the article need some going over, though I'm going to have to spend some time in front of the WP:MANUAL before I know how to properly arrange stuff.
This is not personal, we're all just trying to make wikipedia the best it can be. Either respond here or on my talk page and we can work out how to bring this up to standard.
Hedge89 (talk) 22:48, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
HI Hedge89: I've responded to you on the Talk page of Shakeel Beeg.
I appreciate your input.
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Slatersteven Thanks, I;ve contributed there. As I wrote there - hard to see on what basis this case is not noteworthy - every UK main media covered it in depth: and convictions in the UK for Terrorism are rare. And on top he was training a jihadi children's army.CanterburyUK (talk) 14:28, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, In general, the best response - assuming you continue to believer that the subject is notable - is to improve the article. It can be helpful to look at teh way similar articles rated good are formatted and written. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Drmies - That looked like boilerplate text. It would help me if you could write specifically what you refer to? I see Wiki lists 6 types of disruptive editing?CanterburyUK (talk) 20:05, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Both of those users have reverted just once. You, however, reverted once to restore your preferred version of the Toronto college of psychologists section, and then again, to restore it after I put back the WP:STATUSQUO version. Hence, 2 reverts in 24 hours. While text is in dispute, it is best to keep the status quo version until a new version is agreed upon. This prevents edit wars. — Shibbolethink(♔♕)22:44, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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I was surprised to see your post appear on my talk page.
Especially in the middle of a dialogue with Firefangledfeathers about what THEY had written - not at all about you or anything you had one.
seeing as you are now on my Talk page: can I nudge you to respond in the Peterson Talk page to the request I made there:
"How about we cooperate more moving forward - to ensure a better dialogue in the future - would you be OK if we both agreed to answer any questions we put to each other (content questions of course)?"CanterburyUK (talk) 23:46, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi CanterburyUK,
On the reverts, here's the deal: you added the OCP content on 6 January. It was removed by SFR. Your first series of edits today re-added some of the removed content, including the subsection and the comments from Poilievre. This counts as a revert. Your later edit re-added a bunch of content that Shibbo had removed, including the subsection heading and Poilievre's comments.
Shibbo answered you already about what's different between you and the other two editors. Incidentally, SFR is already formally aware of BLP DS.
Pings don't work unless you sign in the same edit as you add the ping. I highly recommend using Template:u or Template:ping rather than copying from a user's signature
CUK, I think a number of your comments/concerns on the article talk page make sense and I suspect some of the gut concerns I have with articles like this are shared by you. That said, an admin once said they treated every page as if it had a 1 revert per day limit. Note a revert is any time you reverse, either exactly or roughly, an edit recently made by another editor. Some people think they are OK if they revert two different things rather than the same disputed content twice... nope, not OK. Also back to back edits count as 1 edit since they could have been done as part of 1 large edit vs a sequence of small ones. Anyway, the admin's point was two fold. No one can accuse you of edit warring if you only make 1 revert per day. Perhaps they can claim you are being too bold but not edit warring. Also, even if other editors get frustrated with talk page disagreements, they typically will be more amenable to compromises so long as you aren't making disputed changes to the article. But the other reason is that often you will be more successful if, after your edit is reverted, if you talk it out with the other editors. Sometimes you will get nowhere but if you are trying to make a change and two editors will revert it if you do, well you will hit the revert limit before they do and thus you can't win. However, if you are polite (and you seem to be) and talk without making article page changes, well, many editors will try to find a compromise with you. This is my long way of saying, even if you think the others are wrong, in the long run you will be more effective if you don't make edits to the article when it's reasonably clear others will reject them. Springee (talk) 23:27, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It worked! Yes, the first link (to your edits from the 6th) is not a revert. The next two links are the reverts. Reverts are restoring disputed changes in whole or in part. Today, you twice restored bits of material that others had objected to. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 23:20, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I doubt that's what Shibbolethink meant, but it doesn't affect the revert math. Partial restoration is a revert. I doubt anyone will seek out sanctions based on this—I certainly won't—but I'd be careful, were I you, not to make it the beginning of a pattern. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 00:46, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please consider if your comments are likely to persuade editors. There is an issue that if you post too much on a talk page editors will feel you are bludgeoning the discussion. At some point you have to accept there is only so much convincing you can do. More sometimes ends up being less when it comes to talk page comments. Springee (talk) 23:41, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
it does strike me as a shame that so few editors are active on the page - supposedly a high profile topic.
Reading around the many Wiki pages on how to edit - it's my impression that this page often fails to meet those guidelines: eg
Improve, Don't Remove. If something doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards, try to fix the problem rather than just remove what's broken. (Nothing stops new contributors from coming back like having all their hard work end up in the bit bucket.)
@Shibbolethink: Thanks for being helpful Shibbolethink.
Do you think it helps encourage involvement of a wider and more diverse set of editors - if that principle is set aside on the Peterson page?
For all that it is a high profile and controversial subject matter: I don't see the level of activity on tweaking the content, as that high profile would suggest. CanterburyUK (talk) 21:31, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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You could have waited until a time where you hadn't just made a revert, or you could have asked on the talk page for someone to add it mentioning that you'd just made a revert. Sideswipe9th (talk) 00:49, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They're trying to be nice, as to prevent you from being blocked. You would be well advised to make no edits to the article without affirmative consensus on the talk page, as you've been consistently editing again consensus which seldom ends well on a contentious article that is subject to discretionary sanctions. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:39, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I originally came to your talk page too give you the blp discretionary sanctions alert, but saw you were already alerted. I figured I'd pipe in here. You can also watchlist any user talk page. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:57, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please stop making a new talk page section every time you disagree with someone about something done on the page which is related to a section that already exists. Just add to that section or, if you must, create a new sub-section. To continue doing this may become a problem wrt WP:BLUDGEONING, as it continuously increases the prominence of your concerns in comparison to other editors comments. Likewise, you should not expect every user on Wikipedia to reply to every question you put to them. No one is under any obligation to answer your questions. This doesn't necessarily mean they dislike the question, or that they are offended, or that they do not read the questions. it also is not uncivil, at least by the definition set forward in WP:UNCIVIL.
In fact, that page explicitly recommends: Consider ignoring isolated examples of incivility, and simply moving forward with the content issue. You may find that most users on wiki will not respond to direct characterizations or accusations wrt their behavior on article talk pages, as this is not the place to raise these concerns. User talk would be the appropriate place to do so.
But more than anything, no one is obligated to answer your questions. Especially if they do not think answering them would be productive or a good use of their time. Such behavior of continued personal questions and talking about conduct where you should be talking about content, could even be interpreted as WP:SEALIONing behavior, which could be a component of WP:TE, and reason to get blocked. You appear to be a very new user, and so I am telling you this to help you find your way on wikipedia, and avoid having sanctions placed against you! Just keep that in mind. — Shibbolethink(♔♕)21:41, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is a repeating pattern of regular between us -a pattern that I am not finding helpful - so I'd like to break it.
Please will you stop giving me unsolicited advise about my editing practise or editing practise in general. Let me make my own way and succeed or fail in that. Others here have been offering advice, that I have engaged with -so I am not without helpful advisors.
Please restrict yourself 100% to discussions of content.
(Note: I am implying nothing regards your motive or what you think or feel when you give me give me unsolicited advice )
I will no longer reply to any unsolicited advise about my editing practise you write - unless you frame it in positivity and stated recognition of the good-faith intention of my editing.
As an aside: I believe that my record in the Peterson page is positive - in making the page a better page for for readers.
- that my intervention removed a statement that was mis-leading readers and mis-representing Peterson
PS - your message makes a number of straw-man arguments about what you think I have done or why; and what you think is bad practise - but I am not responding to them -even though I disagree with many. CanterburyUK (talk) 13:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Believe it or not, Shibbolethink is trying to help you here, and is giving you good advice. You are trying to run before you can walk, you are not listening to advice you are being given, and you are trying people's patience. I've been around a while, and I've been involved in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of talk page discussions, and I can assure you that people get blocked simply for being time sinks. I don't think you have any bad intentions, but you need to start listening to what people are telling you, else your editing experience here may end up being curtailed. GirthSummit (blether)19:55, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Garth Summitt:
How does your unsolicited advice regards my editing style (I am implying nothing regards your motive ) fit in with this Wiki advise:
"A newcomer brings a wealth of ideas, creativity, and experience from other areas that, current rules and standards aside, have the potential to better our community and Wikipedia as a whole. It may be that the rules and standards need revising or expanding; perhaps what the newcomer is doing "wrong" may ultimately improve Wikipedia. Observe for a while and, if necessary, ask what the newcomer is trying to achieve before concluding that their efforts are wanting or that they are simply "wrong". "
Some editors here have praised my efforts - so can you expand: exactly what do you mean by:
"your editing experience here may end up being curtailed".
I mean that your account may be blocked from editing. I'm not threatening to do that myself, I'm advising you to take on board the advice that you are being given by vastly more experienced editors. I appreciate that you didn't ask for my advice, but I am offering it nonetheless; you can choose to ignore it if you wish. GirthSummit (blether)09:45, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @Garth Summit:
You wrote: "your account may be blocked from editing".
But I'm wondering on what basis I would be blocked? I can see Wiki has strict double-Revert rules and I might be blocked for 24 hours - though other editors here have hinted that my reverts so far would be unlikely to cause any block.
I have helped the page in at least two significant ways - correcting where it had misled readers and under-represented Peterson.
I'd like to hear the exact , specific basis you think I might be blocked for?
I'm not for a moment suggesting it is your intention - but it does sound a little like a veiled threat.
But if I'm over-stepping some line I'm not aware of, please do reveal it to me.
PS - on the Peterson page I've not seen many examples of the former of this wiki practise: "Observe for a while and, if necessary, ask what the newcomer is trying to achieve before concluding that their efforts are wanting or that they are simply "wrong". " - but seen lots of the latter. Just my view. CanterburyUK (talk) 00:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You have already been given various links to read through, in the first post in this thread. All I am saying is that you should read those, and take them to heart. There is no threat, veiled or otherwise, just advice. By the way, pings will not work if you do not spell an editor's name correctly. GirthSummit (blether)01:10, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Can you expand on "I can assure you that people get blocked simply for being time sinks". I searched wiki but came up empty handed for 'time sink' in editing guidance - maybe my search missed something? CanterburyUK (talk) 02:09, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Pings also don't work if you get the spelling wrong, and then fix it afterwards. If you make a mistake the first time, to trigger a notification you need to add a new ping, signing the post in the edit you add it.
Hey. Just to let you know I've undone the change to capitalisation you made in Peterson's article. Per MOS:JOBTITLE, when referring to generic positions like "professor of [subject] at [university]" we use lower case as those titles are common nouns.
Steven Pinker is an exception to this because he holds a specific professorship that is otherwise unique; the "Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology". Accordingly the position Pinker holds is a proper noun A similar counterpart with an enwiki article is the "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics", which is a specific professorship held by only a single person at a time, and to whom the current holder is described as "the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics". Sideswipe9th (talk) 01:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
When it comes to how to write and format prose the Manual of Style has entries for pretty much everything. You'll also want to familiarise yourself with the core content and conduct policies at a minimum, and knowing how to search through the rest of the policies and guidelines that can cover anything from all content to specific types of content is a good skill to pick up. The reliable sources guideline is key everywhere, as all content in the article space needs to be supported by reliable sources. Figuring out how to search the list at WP:RSP and the archives of WP:RSN are important to help identify if a previously discussed source is reliable or not.
There's also some specific policies and guidelines for specific content areas; BLP applies to all biographical content anywhere on Wikipedia (including all talk pages), MEDRS applies to all medical related content, MOS:IDINFO has all of the key points for trans and non-binary related content. There's some others for other contentious content areas, but as I don't edit in them I'm less familiar with them.
Honestly though, you've picked a tough article to learn the ropes on. Peterson sits at an intersection of several contentious topics; biographies, gender identity, American politics, climate change. Those topics are all individual minefields, and where they intersect with each other can get messy. Don't be afraid to just walk away from the article and go and edit somewhere or something less contentious while you get familiar with the main rules. Sideswipe9th (talk) 01:24, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that walking away is ideal - I feel quite pleased with myself having instigated 2 significant improvements for the reader.
And at the moment - I'm not sure I find the Peterson page scores well against: Manual of Style/Lead section - which is the most important part of the page for the reader. CanterburyUK (talk) 02:22, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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