This editor was formerly known as Toddstreat1.
Hello Toddst1 and Welcome to Wikipedia!!!.
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Native American tribes are very rarely featured in U.S. films, despite the fact that they have lived in North America for more than 11 thousand years. Thus, when documentaries or Hollywood films focus on a tribe, we generally include this in the individual tribe's article. Badagnani 20:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for allowing me to add pics to your excellent articles. I have enjoyed your contributions and appreciate the fact that I can add to them in a small way. It would be my pleasure to take some photos of St Barnabas Church. Right now I am traveling but will be back in Washington in a few days and so will head out there sometime in the next week. Best regards, John Quarterczar 16:29, 29 September 2007
Hi, I've added pics to the three articles you told me about. For St. Barnabas, I added a gallery becuase I had three pics I thought were interesting. Its alright with me if you want to move them or reposition them. I'm only glad I could help out. BTW Maybe you could help me with an article for Oden Bowie. I've tried four times to put together a memorial page to him at findagrave.com but the powers that be on that site kep telling me it isn't good enough (i.e. not long enough, not detailed enough, etc.) -- John Quarterczar 11:16, 2 October 2007
((Unreferenced)) should be used only on articles that have no sources (references or external links). The ((Refimprove)) template is appropriate for articles with some sources but not enough. ((Unreferencedsect)) , ((Primarysources)), or ((Citations)) may also work well for your purposes. Thanks--BirgitteSB 15:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Frankly, if you know enough to see that something is unreferenced, it would be nice if you provided some of the references yourself.Tedickey 23:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
That's right, I was referring to governor Oden Bowie. :) Here is a link to the page I created:
I hope it is OK to be talking about this page on wikipedia. Let me know if not. Thanks!
Thanks for the help, I'm new to this and that is a great feature to use. Hopefully I can create some good pages and edits. Thecinderellastory 15:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed this revert which you made to Michigan. While it was a good revert (the same information appears in the article lead, and adding trivia is generally bad), it was not nonsense. Michiganders actually do use their hands for to indicate locations in both peninsulas. Just thought I'd let you know! :) -- dcclark (talk) 00:32, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I've reverted this edit - since the user in question is not blocked (although if he continues uploading inappropriate pages, I agree he will be), and you have no power to block him, please don't issue misleading warnings. — iridescent (talk to me!) 23:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Why do you think the article is a hoax? The article itself mentions that he may not be real so where is the hoax in it?--E tac 23:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
hoax 1 An act intended to deceive or trick. 2 Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means.
Hi Todd. Saw your AfD nomination here. A hoax would be an article that is not based in reality; The article asserts that its subject may be fictional (and based on what I see on Google, probably is). Therefore, it's a little like a double-negative. Want to see some good old fashioned hoaxery? Anyway... Google/Yahoo are always good friends in sniffing out hoaxes. Happy editing. Into The Fray T/C 23:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Domthedude001 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding ((subst:Smile)) to their talk page with a friendly message.
Nice work with the CSDs! -Domthedude001 02:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I rewrote the article, with seven refs. Does this pass muster now? Zagalejo^^^ 04:14, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
A nationally syndicated radio show in a country of 31 million people is notable by definition. Bearcat 07:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I've removed your ((db-repost)) tag from this article. G4 covers material that has been deleted as a result of consensus at XfD and specifically does not cover reposted speedy-deleted material. — iridescent 17:14, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I think you are correct that the text was originally just copied from the Grand Lodge's website, ... but it has been substantially edited since it was first posted... I can do more re-writing if needed, to make it even more different (and thus no longer a copy vio.) Please remove the tag. Blueboar 17:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
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Toddst1 17:41, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Why deleted?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mousehead (talk • contribs) 22:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Please bear with me. I'm trying to put all of the data up for the Thai tambons and then batch translate them to English. There are several hundred of these tambon sites I'm doing at once. It's much easier to do it like that than to translate one by one. An example of one that's already in English because I did it that way (before I realized the project would take for ever if done one-by-one) is Nakhon Pa Mak. They will be in English, and they will have much more content. An example of one of my near-complete geo-cites is Phitsanulok Province. I'm trying to get the whole province up as quickly as possible. If there's a better way to mass-start several hundred sites on a template for a wiki-project, my ears are open. Thanks.Kevin Borland, Esq. 18:41, 19 October 2007 (UTC) By the way, in case you wanted to know the names of the villages in that tambon, I went ahead and transcribed that particular page for you. (I didn't do full translation yet, or add detailed content; I'll put in etymologies and stuff like that later).Kevin Borland, Esq. 18:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
sorry im a newbie
Thanks for the help
--Franksbnetwork 13:30, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Thankyou also for helping me, im also new and it was good to know what you can and can't do.
--Franksbnetwork 13:35, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reconsideration on Daphne, appreciated.--Alf melmac 14:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Toddst1,
Thanks a lot for the helping hand in keeping that Acmar Group nonsense in check. I may have Twinkle as my sidearm, but nothing beats some good ol' fashioned backup =)
Just wish I'd thought to report them for username violation before it escalated.... --jonny-mt(t)(c) 14:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I recently created a page for Paul Adam (English novelist), I did it by researching the info that's available on the Internet, as well as reading several book covers that include a mini-bio. I'm not sure how this info should be worded.
Can you tell me how to improve it, so that the signs you placed at the top of the page can be removed?
Thanks.
Margamanterola 16:40, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey! I removed your PROD of Joie Davidow because I believe I was able to address your concerns. So I just want to make sure you agree that the concerns have been addressed. Cheers! --Mark (Mschel) 19:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I am the administrator for http://www.shsu.edu/~org_tt. I am trying to add the page to wikipedia but am running into errors. what do i do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Datboyjeff (talk • contribs) 00:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I am confused as to why this was vandalism I was in the process of writing a page and only the first paragraph was posted as I meant to preview what I had so father but published it by accident long before the article was finished. It was then put up for speedy deletion so i contested the by inserting ((hang on)). I went to write my explanation and when I came back my ((hangon)) messege was gone so i reposted it and you accused my of vandalism, which I don't understand as I am the author of the page and was only trying to contest its deletion.
Thanks, Please Respond. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nheeter (talk • contribs) 01:44, 25 October 2007
The preceeding question was moved here by User:Toddst1 because it was left on my User Page.
Hi Todd, I am the author of the eClerx article. By the time I could put up the hangon tag, the page was (very speedily indeed :) deleted. I am trying to inititate dialog with the two users who put the page up for deletion. Meanwhile, I will try to create the page all over again. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eclerx and let me know if there are still any reasons why I should not put this article on Wikipedia. Nshuks7 08:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Toddstrea1, I have cleaned and added all the references to my Group_development article. I also removed the tags you had put on it. Is that ok? Can you take a look? Thanks! Jsarmi 22:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC) P.S. Btw, how can I request somebody to review the content and give feedback or does that just happen organically as people get interested in the content?
Can I suggest that if you're not going to have a user page, you set it up to redirect to your talk page (just create a page with #REDIRECT [[User talk:Toddst1]] as the only text). At the moment, we've had to delete it five times so far due to people mistakenly leaving messages on it. — iridescent 23:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Oda Mari told me he made a mistake by calling my edits vandalism Kevin j 19:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC).
Why, dear Todd, did you tag my recently created article on Sensory Sweep for speedy deletion?Umzingeli 19:54, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
I created the Bianyifang article and haven't even gotten a chance to put the contents in. And you are flagging it for deletion. Benjwong 21:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if you can read French, but this article was about a child who was born and died today. You were of course correct to tag it for speedy deletion, and I have deleted it, but I must say that this one of the hardest experiences I have had on Wikipedia. Dsmdgold 23:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, this page Garden_Networks was marked as speedy deletion. This was because i was still editing the page. Thanks for the tip above. I wasn't aware of this trick when I first created the page. Due to lack of experience, I copied and pasted and that override your speedy deletion tab. But still put on the hangon tag at the top of page to acknolwdge the speed deletion tag. I hope I didn't cause too much problems by overriding the original tag. I'd like to improve the page to meet the standard. Now my question is, if it's an issue (overriding the speedy deletion tag and not meeting some requirements) what am I supposed to do to fix them? Is it OK for me to remove the hangon tag?
I think it was unfair that you are going to kick me out of here if I "vandalize" this site. I don't get how adding a tag I was allowed to add and TOLD I COULD TO A CERTAIN PAGE is vandalism.
Landhermie 02:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1
I enlist your help in making Stage Gate Process so it adheres to your guidelines and policies. This is a process used in over 80% of companies in new product development. It is not blatant adverting...it talks about the process not the company.
````Sunil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunil Bechar (talk • contribs) 18:02, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a question about why the article is up for deletion. I found out as many facts as I could about Joseph Joyner to make the Wikipedia article thorough. I understand that there is many outside references, but that was to show validity to the site. Not only does Joseph star in one movie, but he also competes in Poker tournaments and is currently in medical school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvferr (talk • contribs) 02:26, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
hey we are college students doing a research project, and we everything that we are typing is true. You can delete this after we have presented this at 11 am tomorrow, for now just let it go. We are not anti-Disney, I love the Lion King. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Disneykids (talk • contribs) 03:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
"removed incorrect stmt" appears to apply to "British launched their attack on Washington, D.C., from their boats along the Patuxent at Benedict 22 miles (35 km) from the Chesapeake, Nottingham". What's the correct statement to add in its place? Tedickey 10:39, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
The HCA: Hermit Crab Association was founded in March 2001 as a place for owners of land hermit crabs to get together and exchange information, and ultimately raise the awareness of the needs of land hermit crabs in captivity. On November 21, 2006 the name HCA: Hermit Crab Association was registered as a trademark (tm serial no. 78783774)
Recently a member of the HCA attempted to create a Wikipedia article about our organization, to detail its history, but Toddst1 told our member that the entry was considered vandalism (!!!) and the article was marked for speedy deletion.
We are hoping this was not done maliciously. The HCA: Hermit Crab Association has had to endure unfortunate attacks by disgruntled members in the past. This problem has died down a bit but we suspect there may still be some animosity on their part.
Thank you for your time.
Crab Diva 18:30, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Not that it matters but Landhermie is actually a teenage girl. She's been a member at our site for going on three years now, so we know her well. She generally leaps before she looks, so to speak, but is harmless.
One thing I am concerned about. If the HCA: Hermit Crab Association were to get its members together to write an article detailing our founding, our mission and history, our annual conventions and unique form of government, would that article be considered advertising? I've looked at the 5 Pillars and the other rules about self promotion but there are gray areas that I am not clear on. Also what could we do to prevent our former disgruntled members from engaging us in an edit war? We really don't want to cram our trademark down their throats and get nasty with them. Thank you again. Crab Diva 19:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I believe you are unfairly removing content from this page. Snopes may be a rumor page, but their coverage on Disney is documented. Besides, if you would leave the content alone long enough, others would be able to add the citations that are lacking. There are credible sources out there that do state this information. Please stop removing content. This page is fairly new and deserves a chance to be developed. Stop tagging my edits as vandalism. I believe yours are doing far more damage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nilast (talk • contribs) 21:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I have responded to your accusation, and would like to know what you have to add. Thanks, Somnabot 23:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I am the author of the page - I just asked Somnabot to capitalize the "B" in Baron in the title (could not figure out the rename function), and he saw the copyright violation that was posted. Actually, the information on the TSOS site was written by Ho and I, not by the TSOS. I have responded in more detail on the Talk Ho Baron page. Sorry for the bother. Hobaron 03:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I added ((hangon))
to Angel Moxie after discovering that there was an extensive edit history for a previous version of that article, which did not at any time include a CSD tag. It appears that an admin deleted that article without review back in January. I haven't had a chance to investigate other articles that User:Frank Lofaro Jr. has been re-creating yet, though I did find one with no delete history. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:09, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
This page, Toddst1/Archive 1 contains archived talk page discussions for Toddst1 (talk) November 2007.
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Gee, Toddst1, how about waiting longer than 2 freaking minutes before tagging an article as unsourced. You know, maybe give the editor a few days to gather some references when he SAYS it's just a stub at this point. Do you really think an author of this many books can't be supported by some citations, given a little time? Rosencomet 01:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
The eClerx page has been deleted once again. This time by someone who was not even in the discussion. I want to know why or how this is happening. It is harrowing to find carefully measured words being deleted every few days. Having to start over again is no fun either. Can anyone just drop by and arbitrarily delete pages?Nshuks7 07:30, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Be aware that you're stepping into a minefield here by nominating a Billy Hathorn (talk · contribs) article for deletion; while he has a very long history of uploading wildly inappropriate articles, people who nominate them for deletion tend to get dragged into a crossfire of arguments (this was my taste of it). — iridescent 16:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Please be careful to avoid biting the newbies. The article, which includes the only four contributions of the user (and is now deleted), certainly wasn't appropriate for Wikipedia, but you accused him of adding an inappropriate page (which is fair), and then threatened him with blocking for vandalism (it isn't clear what that was for) and then again for blanking the page (when he tried to remove it because he agreed with the deletion). When dealing with a new user who may not be familiar with Wikipedia process and procedure, it's often better to take a little time to write a friendly, descriptive message rather than banging on a Twinkle template and moving on. Thanks for your help. Stifle (talk) 17:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Dear Toddst1, Please accept my apology. I created that article before I read the appropriate article section on wikipedia. I now realize not to create controversial articles or articles with opinion. Thank you for telling me my mistake and I assure you it will not happen again. Sincerely,helraiser9191 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helraiser9191 (talk • contribs) 17:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
(Refactored comment that Toddst1 left on User talk:Trenton Browne removed because it was out of context and appeared as if Toddst1 warned himself )
Why not respond to the points I made in my message? Please explain to me how it was NOT through prejudice and/or small mindedness that my article was deleted. Please explain to me what recourse I have against what seems like an editorialship that has been corrupted by power? Then block me if you you think that is the right thing to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.233.217.181 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 1 November 2007
Sorry for the hangon thing and thanks for explaining it. I didn't know what I was doing before.
Landhermie 23:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
I fixed the signature bug that you encountered on User talk:Suzystorm earlier. Ctrl+F5 and you shouldn't have to manually edit it anymore. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:08, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
I do not feel sorry when I tag speedy deletion on articles which are pure vandalism, spam, ad, self-bio, nonsense. But I think, I did at least one mistake. This chicago greeter, global greeter stuff deserve main namespace. But you and then me tagged it for speedy deletion. Obviously user is new and the way he wrote made us to think that it is advertisement. In fact it is about volunteers who welcome and guide tourists in cities. Such non-profit, selfless social services deserve regognition. Please see http://www.chicagogreeter.com
From now, I will slow down. TRIRASH 19:16, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
"Baleet" was a legitimate page, not vandalism, and should be reinstated.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhazared (talk • contribs) 15:15, 4 November 2007
Hello Toddst1,
You have been undoing entries that I am adding to wiki. Can you please give us some guidelines so we know exactly why you are removing these entries? For example I was a close personal friend of Wally Schirra (one of the original seven astronauts) and Wally wrote a book called "The Real Space Cowboys" just before he died. We made an entry into his biography about the book (which can be clearly seen on the hyperlink you removed) and yet you trashed the entry tagging it as vandalism. Can you explain why this would be construed as an inappropriate entry? Is it because the hyperlink was in the wrong place?
Please explain.
Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mheimbecker (talk • contribs) 16:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Actually I am associated with Apogee Books and the publisher Robert Godwin. Many of the Apogee authors have their own wiki pages and are wondering why their wiki pages don't mention their books, or why their books don't have their own pages. Many of these people are astronauts or very old people who contributed in a big way to winning the space race and have no comprehension of how Wiki works. e.g. Sir Arthur Clarke who has contributed to several of our books has individual wiki pages for practically everything he's ever written. One of our books is the book that inspired him to be a writer! He says as much in the introduction. (Conquest of Space by David Lasser) Buzz Aldrin has been running around the country doing signings of Apogee titles for almost a decade and was responsible for starting the imprint. Before he died Wally Schirra (one of the original seven astronauts) co-wrote "The Real Space Cowboys" for Apogee and appeared all over the world doing signings. His two books from forty years ago are mentioned, but not the Apogee one from last year just before he died. This makes no sense. Three of Robert Godwin's books are cited by someone else as references on Schirra's page. Godwin's other titles were used as primary sources for Dr James Hansen's official biography of Neil Armstrong "First Man" published last year. Surely these facts should be mentioned somewhere in the wikipedia? I have attempted to create a presence on Wiki without blatantly advertising the books. The links I had placed on Wally Schirra's page lead to an informational page about his book, which just happened to link to a page where it was for sale. No advertising was meant by this act. If we had wanted to advertise the books we could have shown the thousands of links to reviews, and news stories, or posted links to the thousands of articles in wikipedia which cite our books as sources. Or worse still, placed links to our shopping cart. Apogee publishes more space books than any other publisher on the planet but I didn't say that because I know it would be inappropriate. I would urge anyone who wants to delete these entries to actually try Googling some of these names and see how many tens of thousands of reviews and news stories there are relating to Apogee before making that call. Mheimbecker 20:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I have clarified this article somewhat, and believe it offers sufficient context to not be a candidate for speedy deletion. --Stormie 01:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Please don't delete. I'm working on it, and it will have content within a few minutes. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 00:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Todd,
Having blocked my initial article on 121connection.co.uk, I'm confused why the index for match.com is there? Surely this entry should also be removed under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content and does not indicate how or why the subject is notable? It is blatant advertising?
Kind Regards
Mark —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcwillis (talk • contribs) 00:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
this is not a memorial
Toddst1,
Why would you want ManhattanGMAT to be speedily deleted? Another test prep company, Veritas Prep, has an article almost exactly similar to the one up for ManhattanGMAT right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael.dinerstein (talk • contribs) 17:36, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Todd, I think I fixed the Sybarite entry - I followed procedure and did the "hang on" tag and added some 'talk. I thought it was similar to some other entries, so didn't think it would be counted as spam. I certainly did not intend it as so. Thanks. Asami 22:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
If you ever find a problem user like User:TIMMAYYYY posting vicious attack pages, and I'm around, just drop me a note and I will block immediately. Defamation like that is the worst form of vandalism and no series of warnings is needed in my book.--Fuhghettaboutit 02:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Please do not mark pages for speedy deletion under criteria G1 unless that page is "gibberish, an unsalvageably incoherent page with no meaningful content.". The reason I am pointing this out is because of the tag you placed on Shane Hansen, which was clearly not nonsense. Thanks - Rjd0060 02:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on ASIX Electronics. I do not think that ASIX Electronics fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because public companies are usually notable, at least assertedly so. I request that you consider not re-tagging ASIX Electronics for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. You are, of course, free to tag the article with ((prod)) or nominate it at WP:AFD. Carlossuarez46 01:44, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
You deleted my article on Trading Nothing which took me quite a lot of my precious time to prepare, and you cited there wasn't an indication it was significant.
Well excuse me, but if you can point me to a more interesting or successful Internet trading up adventure happening anywhere in Europe right now, or even anywhere in the world, then I would really love to know. (OK, one red paperclip beats mine, no argument, but really that has finished happening).
If you can do that then maybe I have more work to do, but if not then I believe my trading nothing adventure is plenty significant enough to qualify for a place in Wikipedia.
Please do the world a favour and restore my short article to its rightful place.
Faithfully,
Andrew Henderson
--Tradingnothing 16:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Todd, thanks for the welcome. I need some help. The subject material for this topic has been deleted. I don't understand why. Someone apparently has attempted to place an article under this topic in the past and met the same end. Admittedly there is not a great deal of published material on this subject from outside sources, but when I read articles in wikipedia like kwanzaa, I find way less. Other similar religious groups also have less notation and they remain on Wikipedia. The creation of such a large group is historically relevant and in the realm of Christianity/Religion even more historic. Your incite is appreciated. (Seenitall 17:32, 12 November 2007 (UTC))
Hey, you don't delete an article until there is a discussion done on it first. This is a notable subject just like any other television channel out there. What makes Playboy TV any more notable then this one? And I wasn't finished editing the article either, i was going to add more info to the age as well as references. This isn't fair, and if I have to I'm gonna report this. MusiMax 21:10, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
please review my Eric Delony page with the cite to AASHTO --Saguinter 20:32, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Todd, I've noticed that many of your requests for speedy deletion seem to happen just a few minutes after the page has been created. Could you please note the advice in the first paragraph at WP:NPP#Patrolling new pages. Phil Bridger 14:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Actually, your article Equipment reservation policies wasn't deleted very speedily - it was tagged from the bottom of the list. I had nothing to do with you asking for more time as all I did was tag it. If you put a ((hangon)) or comments in the talk page after that, I didn't see them. That part should be taken up with User: MaxSem who deleted it.
Frankly, if I remember correctly, the article seemed to be cut and paste from a gym's web page or something along those lines with zero context for Wikipedia. Toddst1 16:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Nope - it was the right article, I just didn't remember it correctly. That is exactly the kind of article new page patrollers are supposed to tag with speedy. -- Toddst1 (talk) 19:23, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Bomber, Perhaps you should have read the article before commenting. Toddst1 (talk) 17:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Responding to Phil: you have a good point. Toddst1 (talk) 20:15, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
When you put a speedy deletion tag on Thoai Anh Pham, you put it as an attack, although it was clearly a spam page. In the future, read the content of the article before tagging it. Thanks, Redmarkviolinist (talk)
I think we should keep Jack Clemmons. He is in hundreds of books and documentaries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Persianhistory2008 (talk • contribs) 22:04, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Why are you being so aggressive with the speedy deletes? I had barely started this article stub when you came along and deleted it. Are you knowledgeable about what's notable in aviation history? Please restrain your disrespect and contact the author before hitting the delete button. BomberJoe 22:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I meant to say WP:CSD#A7. Toddst1 09:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
< - second personal attack by BomberJoe (talk) 17:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC) removed - >
Hi how r u you deleted my article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notkool35 (talk • contribs) 15 November 2007
Extrakun 10:56, 16 November 2007 (UTC) Hi, I received the proposal to delete, but even before I can review, it has already been deleted. I have to say I am quite confused. I have even made an explanation on why I think the information should be around. I guess I will hold on writing the article till there enough information to suffice Meanwhile, I will just put the relevant information on the main Hellgate page. When it starts to clutter up again I'll move it to another article.
My mistake. I forgot that I have two accounts on Wikipedia and used the wrong one to edit my User Page. Nanodave is a pseudonym for Ditaylor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nanodave (talk • contribs) 22:19, 18 November 2007
Dear Toddst1
How are you doing?I strongly protest your mail where you have warned me about my disrruptive edition of Nitish Mishra.
Mr Nitish Mishra is a MLA in the Bihar province of India and he is holding the post of Sugar Cane Development Minister.If any other Indian politicians can find place in wikipedia then why not he?
You can type nitish mishra on google and see all references.Most of prestigious news papers have published about him.He belongs to prestigious Mishra Family of India.His father Mr Jagganath Mishra, his uncle Late Lalit Narayan Mishra and his cousin Mr Vijay Kumar Mishra all are on wikipedia.
I will appreciate your affort to restore him on Wikipedia and honour him which he deserves.
Regards
Bipin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bipin dr2002 (talk • contribs) 13:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to add the following:
((For| Abdul Quddoos Khan, the Pakistani microbiologist associated with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed |Abdul Quddoos Khan))
to Abdul Qadeer Khan, but I'm getting errors:
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Return to Abdul Qadeer Khan.
It appears that the link is already in the article and it's preventing me from editing. (I inserted spaces above so I could ask the question) Ideas?? Toddst1 (talk) 19:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Thw1309. You should try
:''For Abdul Quddoos Khan, the Pakistani microbiologist associated with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [[Abdul Quddoos Khan]]''
This looks like
Happy editing. --Thw1309 (talk) 19:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
I have reported the problem at m:Talk:Spam blacklist. You should watch the page. They will correct the mistake or tell you, what to do. I'm sorry, but that's all, I can do. --Thw1309 (talk) 20:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks!! Toddst1 (talk) 23:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Zavvi store locations, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zavvi store locations. Thank you. -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 19:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
The page about Mega AS Consulting Ltd is similar to other pages edited at Wikipedia such as Aladdin Knowledge Systems. This is not an advert or spam. These are mere facts about the company - in the same way and syntax as used by other companies in the same industry at Wikipedia.
Mega AS technology is young and innovative. Wikipedia is not intended (as I understand it) to be the advertising place for established companies. It is not intended to be advertising at all. It is supposed to treat all with the same respect and regards to the information provided and benefit for others.
The Mega AS product lines is different in the same way the RSA Hardware token or Aladdin eToken are. It is a new niche in the Identity Management market. It was recognized and awarded by technology peers.
What is the possible reason for singling it out.
Please contact me advise if there are any irregularities or you think that the information is missing. I'm happy to provide further explanations/information/documentation.
This information is relevant, factual and interesting to the people in the industry.
Cheers,
Arnnei — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arnneisp1 (talk • contribs) 03:09, 20 November 2007
Why is your reasoning delete my contribution on the independent film series? It was fully in compliance with speedy deletion criterion A7. It was significant as a Relevant example of independent film. The film series in question is studied as an example of independent film by Year 11 students at specialised technology status schools. Seriously you have impaired the contiued education of several students I personally know. Regards, --User:surfdarthvaderSurfdarthvader (talk) 11:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
You have left a note on my Talk Page that I have been attacking you on this page, yet when I review my comments I see that you refer to my comments as merely "impolite". You are not correct to say that I am "attacking" you when I complain about your behaviour on this Talk Page. If you are a beginning or self-appointed patrolman, please ask for help from a more experienced editor before whacking other peoples' contributions. It's easy to offend a huge number of editors by doing what you do - and it's not wise. Further, you cannot have me banned from Wikipedia simply because I am making a little noise on your Talk Page about your immature behaviour. It's not wise to prance about making such preposterous statements. BomberJoe (talk) 22:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Virgin Megastores store locations, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virgin Megastores store locations. Thank you. -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 13:54, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Todd for your editing. Your warning message was kind of harsh well very harsh!!! I'm new to wiki and wasn't interested in "furthering my personal agenda" as you stated. I think he's a great person, my purpose was to enlighten Christians who believe he is who he represents himself as. The information you deleted IS true but I believe your adjustments are a good compromise. I guess it's up to the reader to do the additional research to find the truth OUTSIDE OF WIKIPEDIA. Peace and blessings my friend. Thanks for your time and your professionalism :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Truthofyahweh (talk • contribs) 05:44, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
A photo of this gentleman is hard to come by. I did however find a photo of his wife Mary Digges Lee and have inserted this in the article. If you or someone else could locate an image of TSL that would be great.Rumbird (talk) 21:29, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1. I have raised some issues on the Dmitry Sitkovetsky talk page.Regards,--Atavi 15:02, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
you for some reason deleted my reference to the SOMB on Erin Dolgan's page as I was writing the article. Can you get it back as I cannot figure out how to do it.RKChesnutt 23:21, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
RKChesnutt 23:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)Todd, Why'd you delete my reference to the SOMB on Erin Dolgan's article. Is it a violation? I was writting the article as you were deleting!!!!
Hi, Thanks for the nice comments and removing the notability tag!I have been working on citations and cleaning up some external links. I think I'm done with the citations for now. Can we now remove the citation tag? Or is this done by a bot? --Peggy Brennan 23:43, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Peggy, You've made great progress on the article. Nice work. I removed the global ((nofootnotes)) tage and replaced it with two ((nofootnotes)) tags for the sections that need footnotes the most.
In general, you can remove them yourself, but it's always good to discuss it on the talk page explaining why you've removed them and leaving an edit summary.
Keep up the great work! Toddst1 (talk) 18:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
thanks for review topic "ProCurve Training". You added the Advertisement tag. Please be more specific and give example how to make it better. Thanks haegi
I have been writing the pages for most Categories: "French_science_fiction_writers" and "French_fantasy_writers" spun off from the French science fiction and Fantastique pages, which I also wrote. On these, we do have the following source:
French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier ISBN 0-7864-0596-1.
It wasn't deemed necessary to recopy the same info on each and every author page. If you have time to do it, you are however welcome to do so. JMLofficier 16:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | ||
I award this barnstar to you, Toddst1, for all of the fine work you have done combating vandalism and spam on the Wikipedia. Kudos, and keep up the good work! Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 14:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC) |
hi, I added 3 refs and removed the tag. Looks ok? Pundit|utter 15:11, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Glad you nominated both of them. I don't see why they can't be referred to in an article about that congressional district. Mandsford 21:15, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Would it be better just to keep the short quotation from the final sermon in the Wikipedia entry, and move the full version to the Boucher page on Wikiquote? David Trochos (talk) 00:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to creating articles in wikipedia, and you nominated my first article on raphappy.com for speedy deletion. Then it was deleted. Considering this as a critique for myself, I revised the article and added more references to prove its notability. Since two weeks, it is active and also stub sorted. I wanted to have your feedback on this issue. Do you think that my revision made the difference for the article to stay, or do you think is this article still not suitable for wikipedia? In my first trial, I was hoping other people to put in some words, references, etc.. so that the article could grow by itself. Is it not a good approach to create an article? Should the first posts always include as much detail/references as it can?
Thanks, Msinan (talk) 00:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
According to WP:STUB, short articles are acceptable , as long as it is clear that the subject is notable. According to WP:CSD, db-context is meant only. for articles where there is so little information that it is impossible to tell what the article is even talking about. One sentence is enough, if it says what is necessary as in Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, so i declined the speedy. DGG (talk) 04:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand why you singled out the Chipeşii River. It is part of the Wikiproject Rivers and there are several thousand similar articles. For the time being the structure of the hydrographic network is being entered. Other information will follow once the network is complete. This is valid also for the Chipeşii River. Afil (talk) 04:47, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
As a rule of thumb I generally consider all "list of X in Maryland" articles to have top importance in the Maryland project, unless X is an overly specific or obscure topic, which "people" is definitely not.-Jeff (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message. The affiliation should be the present or in the alternative it could read Church of England original; Episcopal present, or something to that effect. Each national church in the Anglican Communion today is an independent church or denomination. The Church of England in Canada now calls itself the Anglican Church of Canada, for instance. The present usage pertains to governance. St. Barnabas is subject to the governance of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, which in turn is subject to the governance of the ECUSA. The ECUSA, while a member of the Anglican Communion, is independent and is not subject to its governance. Keep up the good work. St. Barnabas is a very interesting article. clariosophic (talk) 21:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC) Italic text
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There are no copyright problems since I own the website and material. I've know this man personnally for over 45 years. The info came from keishinkan-karate.com and/or keishinkan-karate.us (another I own). My name is Rodney Murray. One should stick to the things they are in the know about... or conduct an adquate investigation. Therein lies the problem and the leading cause of many legal battles. Those of infringement bounce back and forth with time. Is there truely anything new under the sun? The data contained in GoDaddy.com, Inc.'s WHOIS database, while believed by the company to be reliable, is provided "as is" with no guarantee or warranties regarding its accuracy. This information is provided for the sole purpose of assisting you in obtaining information about domain name registration records. Any use of this data for any other purpose is expressly forbidden without the prior written permission of GoDaddy.com, Inc. By submitting an inquiry, you agree to these terms of usage and limitations of warranty. In particular, you agree not to use this data to allow, enable, or otherwise make possible, dissemination or collection of this data, in part or in its entirety, for any purpose, such as the transmission of unsolicited advertising and solicitations of any kind, including spam. You further agree not to use this data to enable high volume, automated or robotic electronic processes designed to collect or compile this data for any purpose, including mining this data for your own personal or commercial purposes. Please note: the registrant of the domain name is specified in the "registrant" field. In most cases, GoDaddy.com, Inc. is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database.
20622 1st Place South Des Moines, Washington 98198 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: KEISHINKAN-KARATE.COM Created on: 06-May-06 Expires on: 06-May-08 Last Updated on: 28-Oct-07 Administrative Contact: Murray, Rodney keishinkanUSA@msn.com KEI SHIN KAN USA 20622 1st Place South Des Moines, Washington 98198 United States (206) 878-0828 Technical Contact: Murray, Rodney keishinkanUSA@msn.com KEI SHIN KAN USA 20622 1st Place South Des Moines, Washington 98198 United States (206) 878-0828 Domain servers in listed order: NS13.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS14.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
See Underlying Registry Data Report Invalid Whois —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.0.226 (talk) 23:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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I just saw that you're trying to delete this page. I realize that you're trying to protect the integrity of wikipedia, but I'm going to lose my job if this person gets removed (as a result of my own negligence). If you want it cleaned up, then that's fine ... I'll find someone who has more information. But it's been on Wiki for quite some time. And there are much more sources. I'd appreciate it if you'd remove these tags (for deletion) and I'll work on getting it fixed. But there is considerable notability here (than is currently shown)... I just don't have the validate info at my disposal. The bots have not had a problem with the page at all. Please show some compassion here. Thanks. --User:yardalestep 12:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
You flagged Charles D. Metcalf article with a notability and verifiability tags. Metcalf's 2-star military career is interesting; achieving an equivelant rank in the Federal Government's Senior Executive in his second careeer is more interesting, but what makes him "notable" is fact that he now runs one of the largest mueseums in the world--larger than the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Nevertheless "notability" is somewhat subjective so here are similar wikipedia biographies to compare notability. Current director of Smithsonian's Air Space Museum is John R. Dailey. Note the Dailey biography is rated as a Start level article, and the sources cited are official government biographies (same as Metcalf article). Also, every Secretary of the Smithionian has biography in wikipedia--even thoughs who are far less accomplished than Gen Metcalf (e.g. Robert McCormick Adams). Regarding verifiability, Metcalf article is based on official Air Force biographies which were cited in Reference section. Here are ten examples of ther Air Force Generals who's wikipedia articles are based solely on the official biographies. James Alan Abrahamson Air Force Bio ; Ronald J. Bath Air Force Bio ; Gregory A. Biscone Air Force Bio ; Dana H. Born Air Force Bio ; Trudy H. Clark Air Force Bio ; Roger E. Combs Air Force Bio ; John B. Conaway Air Force Bio ; Susan Y. Desjardins Air Force Bio ; Frank Drew Air Force Bio ; Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. Air Force Bio ; and there are many/many more. In the case of Gen Metcalf, he actually has two official biographies--one for his military career (Major General Charles D. Metcalf, and a second from his Senior Executive Service career (Charles D. Metcalf, SES). Respectfully request you remove the tags from the Metcalf article.--Orygun (talk) 04:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Have added a good number of non-Gov sources to support various aspects of the article. Please take look see if it's enough to clear the tag.--Orygun (talk) 04:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the template. Nice article, BTW. Toddst1 (talk) 16:35, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Great--thanks for your help!--Orygun (talk) 23:08, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Wow. Is this guy really worth his own page? I read the whole thing looking for anything to indicate that he did more than work diligently at his job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrick Neylan (talk • contribs) 03:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
No problem about the delete - I just followed a link to a stub and thought I'd redirect it to a more appropriate place. Sharikkamur (talk) 17:42, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Right before I ended my day, you put a couple of very funny templates on a page I set a layout for (I thought the outline there would make my next day go better). I saw the templates right before I quit -- actually, I added the commonscat thingie which pointed to a gallery that did not exist, had a lite laugh and proceeded to end my day.
I have 'fluffed' the page out with information since then. I was going to just leave the templates there and you alone because they provide useful links to where to get the citation information here quickly, but I just realized the extraordinarily useful fact that you can just paste the empty template and preview it -- a better url is delivered (along with a warning). So, now I am bothering you, friendly like but without a template....
I think it should be you who removes the templates on that page Culiseta and perhaps at the same while, peruse the information and make sure it is up-to standards and whatever. I feel like I am taking a refresher course for high school biology, except for the fact that I did not have a course in high school biology. Also, I just pasted the text from Walter Reed, it seemed to be good as it was and most of the interesting words there were easily wikilinked. I mentioned the paste-job in the summary and learned how to seriously cite a reference at that point -- so, if it needs to be reworded, let me know or reword it for me.
That was fairly painful reading about the species which is pictured there -- it should be the journal citation on the page. A few days later, I got to read how creepy some of Carl Linnius classifications were. It has all been relatively interesting in spite of the fact that it is about the one critter I have killed the most often. Do mammals swat at a mosquito that is biting as a reflex and not as a premeditated slaughter? Needless to say, I am sorry I did not take biology now in high school (my school had a loved and very respected teacher for it) but I still probably wouldn't because of the dissections. Eek! -- Carol 12:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
What sort of reference would you expect in this section, since most of the entries link to specific topics that give associated references? Tedickey (talk) 20:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
HI! I noticed that my biography for Oden Bowie was finally accepted at findagrave! I'm not sure if you had anything to do with that, but if so, THANKS! I had gotten so frustrated and had lost faith. Thanks so much for any and all help you gave! Quarterczar (talk) 01:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1. I am new to wikipedia so sorry if I ask too much silly questions. I really tried to read all available articles about "speedy deletion" and I don't know how to improve my article any more. After hours and days of trying my artice was deleted. Can you please help me to improve my article? Thanks! Chaoticgood (talk) 23:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Unio College, Tellippalai, Sri Lanka, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Unio College, Tellippalai, Sri Lanka is a redirect to a non-existent page (CSD R1).
To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Unio College, Tellippalai, Sri Lanka, please affix the template ((hangon)) to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 11:02, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
you recently pressed a case against me (marktherufftheryder) as being a sockpuppet of james brown1605. despite the fact that i have been banned i just wish to inform you that i was not his sockpuppet. i have read the literature on meatpuppets on wikipedia and whilst i am aware that i might be classified as a sockpuppet according to the fact that wikipedia makes no disinction between the two i disagree wholeheartedly with the label you have given me. james brown1605 is a friend of mine who told me that his article was listed for deletion and so i went to his discussion page where i felt that people were not looking objectively at his page and disagreed with a number of points that were raised against it and so spoke in favour of it and edited it to meet the standards requested by other editors. james brown1605 in no way asked me to go onto the page and argue his case. i feel that as the afd page was not a vote i do not see in any way how simply adding another voice to the discussion can be so grossly going against the rules that you would list the user for a ban, it is not as if you can get 'shouted down' on a forum, but then again maybe you were only trying to get your edit count up. i am sure you can drum up some wikipedia technicality that proves you right and me wrong, bravo to you. the fact that you considered me or james brown1605 to be experienced editors is a joke since i have only ever done minor deletions on other pages and to my knowledge he has done no such editing on wikipedia before his article, but perhaps you were annoyed that an article you listed for deletion did not bamboozle its creators and was judged to be valid and met with support from other editors which might be why you only accused me of sockpuppetry after the case had been resolved in our favour. you probably do not care that you were incorrect about me as im sure getting another edit under your belt takes you one step closer to that much coveted adminship because godforbid you could actually achieve something in the real world but i just wanted you to know that some other people actually want to contribute to wikipedia despite your best attempts to stop them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markruffryder (talk • contribs) 03:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Trivial coverage goes to the description of the coverage itself, not who publishes. This mention is small, you claim it satisfies criterion 1 but that clearly states a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of Internet addresses and site do not count, which this is. #3 doesn't offer any significant coverage of the site, so regardless of whether or not they think the creator is an expert on the subject, WEB doesn't make an allowance for "if the owner of the subject is an expert it makes it notable". Hence why I referred to these as pieces of trivial coverage.--Crossmr (talk) 02:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
hi, I noticed you have had recommended speedy deletion of the Article EncSpot, citing it as webcontent. I would like to point out that EncSpot was a "requested article" on Wikipedia. Encpost is about a software application and not web content. Additionally how come it got into the requested articles list? Thanks in advance for your comments. Aandu (talk) 09:17, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
Tagging an article for speedy deletion that was declined twice before is a silly thing to do, don't you think? Please do remember to check the history and remember that A9 also does not apply when the article has claims of significance even when the artist has no article. Regards SoWhy 06:17, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
See WT:SHIPS#SS Pendleton - I messed the ping up, so making sure you are notified. Mjroots (talk) 16:39, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
I am not sure why you have decided to remove most of the content on the page, but a similar matter arose back in 2014 and was looked into by a number of higher-up editors. All the content was put back and the only thing requested was a notice at the bottom of the About Us page ... which was done and is still there. http://www.rehs.com/aboutus.html?contemporary=N "The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)."
I would ask that you please reconsider your edits to this page. All the best Howard L. Rehs (talk) 20:26, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
This is what was requested by the previous editors to make it good: Unless otherwise noted on the specific page, all information and images displayed on this web site are the property of Rehs Galleries, Inc. and may not be reproduced in any manner or from without the express written permission of Rehs Galleries. Inc.
And the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike and Copyright is the 'otherwise noted'.
Also, why was the Scholarly Research section removed? There were plenty of references for all those projects:
Thanks! Howard L. Rehs (talk) 21:21, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Are you saying that the definitive research on a particular artist is not important? Or that you do not understand what a catalogue raisonne is? Howard L. Rehs (talk) 21:48, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Please explain how your deletion of the covers list dovetails with WP:COVERSONG. There was no discussion of any version in the deleted itesm. Tapered (talk) 21:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
"When a song has renditions (recorded or performed) by more than one artist, discussion of a particular artist's rendition should be included in the song's article (never in a separate article), but only if at least one of the following applies:
- the rendition is discussed by a reliable source on the subject of the song,
- the rendition itself meets the notability requirement at WP:NSONGS."
— as stated verbatim in WP:COVERSONG
Hi. I hope you are online.
Is there any essay which states "a good online presence does not mean notability"?
Also, your input on this issue will be appreciated a lot. Thanks :-) —usernamekiran(talk) 20:47, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. Re. this edit. I originally blanked the AfD back about 5 years ago in my capacity as an oversighter. A request came through requesting that it be deleted as some of the commentary was considered borderline defamatory and the article was appearing high in pageranks. Rather than delete/suppress, which definitely wouldn't fly, I opted to blank as a courtesy. The history, etc, would still clearly be there if needed. Anyways - that was the rationale. - Alison ❤ 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there.
I noticed you had spoken on this talk page of the user User:The Hudson New Yorker. They have made further disruptive and unessacery edits on all five of the New York City Borough pages by changing the lead for no reason. With the possibility of them being a sock puppet of an account which already has a bad history, what should be done about this user? Thanks, WikiImprovment78 (talk) 16:31, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi User:Toddst1, can you add a bit to Calvin Harris please? How his musical influences are Jamiroquai and Fatboy Slim (he says here [2]) Because you'd phrase it properly and know which section it belongs in, hope you can help. :)--Theo Mandela (talk) 07:57, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
dear Toddst1, You have written that my text is unsupported, but it isn't- I was quoting from the Brain's Way of Healing by Dr. Norman Doidge. Maybe you would like to read it, and then re-edit this article. It seems that whoever has written the page has a negative bias which is damaging the reputation of the Feldenkrais Method: the sources to which are pretty out of date, as has neuroscience advanced a lot since 2009. If I have cited things wrongly, my apologies, I am not an academic, but have tried to follow protocol as I read it on Wikipedia. Any advice would be gratefully received. Yours sincerely, FGUK1
Thanks for your reply- I did add references. But will try to do it better when I have a little more time. Which bits in particular did you object to? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FGUK1 (talk • contribs) 00:12, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
In response to your information re COIs - please could you respond to the below comments?
Dear Toddst1, I have corrected a citation of myself BY SOMEONE ELSE, not added my own self-reference. The original citation: 1) had my name as "Kristy"; 2) referred to p.34 when that was the quotation number and it should have been pp.10-11; 3) was written in a way to suggest that it was my opinion that Brutus was Caesar's son (which is extremely erroneous).
Therefore by removing this entire section, you are removing someone else's section of work, which I was merely correcting as it was misquoting me and that was not acceptable.
Yours sincerely, Dr Kirsty Corrigan.
So how can the edit be requested through the proper channels, when the entire section has now been removed?
Also it is extremely concerning that anyone can write anything and misquote someone, but an expert cannot correct the errors - please explain how this can be possible?
Please note this is not my own theory, but is the well-known theory of all modern historians. Furthermore I did not cite myself, but was misquoted in this - the person who wrote the article was quoting the ancient historians' theory and attributing it to me incorrectly. How can I correct all of their errors? khc 18:57, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
I'm disappointed you reverted, but I invite you to contribute here. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 22:38, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
So even though the source linked shows a picture (of the actual script that the actual cast and crew read at the table read, which is EW's only source for the title) that lists the title as Break down the House, I'm supposed to leave the wrong title because Entertainment Weekly can't possibly have mistyped the title in the article text? Librarynerds (talk) 02:07, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1. I'm not sure why this happened, but I wanted to let you know that when you used OneClickArchiver at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year, it was archiving things to /Archive 1 when they should be going to /Archive 12. I went ahead and moved those threads to Archive 12. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 00:44, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Could you offer further explanations as to why Jeff King (consultant) is unworthy of an entry? Many sources, campaign involvements, lineage, newsworthy and notable; all which are easily verifiable via the google machine. I thought that a post in your talk page would be appropriate because of your interest in the political arena and references cited.
Furthermore, there certainly does not seem to be any demonstrated desire for privacy; very much the opposite..
http://www.rollcall.com/news/hoh/baby-announcement-by-steve-king-gets-political --Wikipietime (talk) 14:12, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Yes and thank you!
Hi Todd,
Sorry about that, I just worked out what I did wrong!
Why are you reporting me to the edit warring noticeboard? Clearly you are not familiar with this conversion. Please stop with this. LittleJerry (talk) 15:15, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I'm new to Wikipedia so this may simply be a lack of understanding, but could you please explain why you're deleting my article? It has three sources referenced as evidence of its legitimacy. It's a story told in Welsh schools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TEDupont (talk • contribs) 14:15, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
I see that SPEEDY deletion was successful derived from a consensus of editors. Would you please move the deleted article and talk pages to Draft or sandbox space? There were significant new news events that would have further distinguished her notability and worthiness for this revised BLP article. What is the a procedure for formally contesting this deletion? This action, deletion, does not "sit" right with me and a wider consensus of editors is warranted, in my respectful opinion. --Wikipietime (talk) 12:10, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" -Wiesel
As recipient of;
"... If you can't go along with this consensus, re-creating this article, you may be blocked from editing..."
I do interpret as a threat which bothers me none. Maybe I get it, due to you familiarity with my contributions, most lately the failed attempt to creat an article on Steve King's son Jeff King. That is why I would have wanted a broader consensus with a more objective history. --Wikipietime (talk) 13:37, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi -- I'm unclear why you made this change. It was better before. It was accurate before -- though the word currently is not needed. We don't say in Trump's article "he is president as of ..., using that template." Why do it here? Plus, it inserts the British date format. Improperly, for a US person, where we did not have the British date format before. 2604:2000:E016:A700:F9A5:6FB5:9D46:809F (talk) 18:17, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. Cheers, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 14:07, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
The wiki page was not put up by me. I do not understand why you have removed the page. I merely added some minor edits yesterday to make it accurate. It is now not accurate after your changes.
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Hes referring to the the reference article headlines not being accurate, I just checked with archive.org and a couple of the website have changed their headlines since I posted the original references.Pastorma (talk) 23:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Bt sir why remove my editing section of Sonu nigam?? I think my information was true Sonu123456789 (talk) 17:45, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, Thank you for your message. I am one of the two principals of The Stabilizers and can confirm that the information in the wiki is currently correct - or close enough. I am the source for most of the other articles cited. This is why I removed the warning tag. If I've made an error, please advise. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgentAudio (talk • contribs) 19:20, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
My apologies, they have a 500 word limit and I played with what I wanted to say for over an hour so some stuff that was there originally got removed, trimmed, condensed, etc. I've noted that in the statement; if you spot any other inaccuracies lemme know and I'll fix them as soon as I am able to. TomStar81 (Talk) 16:21, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for tending to the COI editing on Jay Town the last few days! Marquardtika (talk) 02:48, 21 August 2017 (UTC) |
I'm glad there's another set of eyes on the page. I think the three editors are coordinating or otherwise working together. (and one seems to be the founder) I had considered tagging it as A7 (and I'm not going to remove it) but at least some of the bands have articles which might mean this label has a credible claim of significance. I was considering starting an AfD. 331dot (talk) 21:12, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Hey Todd, just to inform you in the context of your message. I have made no edits at LoginRadius page. Please do not assume that I am doing the changes. If I will make any changes, I will do it being logged it :) Thanks, Prince — Preceding unsigned comment added by Princekapoor (talk • contribs) 10:03, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Stop edit-warring on this page: this is disruptive. Write your opinion on the talk but don't revert any of these covers again without discussing it first, thanks. What is laughable is that you let UB40's and Annie Lennox's names appearing in the lead whereas there ain't one single word concerning them in the body of the article. Valboo (talk) 23:14, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Any idea how I can be "good cop"? I'd like to salvage both the list and the editor. And I'm not sure he's deleting any entries, just doesn't think that anything other than the 90 years is useful in that way.Naraht (talk) 17:22, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Hey Todd,
Thanks for your message, admittedly it's been about 12 years since actively using HTML etc., prior to the broadband/'"Brazil"' era, I was a little more capable - so after my first attempt to alter/stumble through the edit, I found the visual editor much simpler as I wasn't having to rely on what is now just a vague memory!
I hope you can see what I meant re the edit too, would appreciate your insight on the matter as I think it's quite a hot subject potentially, i.e. might go against currently held opinion... and it could be interesting to then try to work out where it could have been, if you follow my train of thought of course. And presuming you are interested in debating currently held views on this matter - if not please appreciate I'm not a 'n00b' I'm simply briefly re-familiarising myself with it, I'm sure there is probably a page for actual debate but I just thought given that you're there you might be interested etc, etc. If so:
Apart from what I said in the edit, and edit summary - the source provided on the Wall of Severus page confirms its' existence if you only interpret the texts as they were written by the authors. They were highly regarded and educated historians and scholars nearest chronologically and are saying in quite strong terms that he had himself built an entire wall from one sea to the other. What is perhaps a matter for debate is whether or not Severus' efforts were successful in providing fortitude. If that were the case, I suppose it'd still be standing today. There is not really anything to prove on the main page of Septimius Severus that he only re-strengthened Hadrians wall, other than suggesting he did.
Moreover, there is nothing other than 'previously held thought' on the main page of Hadrians Wall to assert he had only strengthened Hadrians Wall - whereas the texts included in the Domesday source I provided earlier and the Latin source I added to the page all seem to strongly support that he had built 'a wall', and I appreciate that what I'm suggesting means it would then have to be found to be proven but I really don't see anything that does prove that he didn't, other than.. like I said... just... because?? Right? :)
Thanks again
Rob — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.150.101 (talk) 01:52, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
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I am completely baffled by your insertion of verify information on her birth and "provide quotation", as I provided that in my comment which you reverted. This source [9] states her name was "Albertha Madeline Hanna at birth on April 18, 1900". This source [10] of births in St. Matthews Parish, New Providence, states (entry #4) her birth occurred on 18 April 1900 and her parents were "Robert Samuel Hannah and Lilla Celeste Hannah Formerly Minns". This source, [11] her marriage record, shows that her middle name was actually Magdalena, confirms her spelling of the last name as Hanna and gives her father's name again as Robert. It should be irrelevant if you can access them as off-line sources are allowed and I find that often, since I do not live in the US that I cannot open sources others can open. I don't participate in edit warring and hope that you will remove your tag, as it is incorrect. The cited sources do confirm the information provided. SusunW (talk) 18:25, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Citations on her birth are already given in the text as well. Even without a subscription to the oxford dictionary, you should be able to see [12] "Delia Mercedes Weber Pérez in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, on 23 October 1900" The full source goes on to say her father was Johann Stephan Weber "a goldsmith who had immigrated to the Dominican Republic from Curaçao" and the second source [13] "Delia fue hija única del matrimonio de Juan Esteban Weber Sulié y Enriqueta Pérez (Santo Domingo, 1883-1950), nació en 1900" (Delia was the only daughter of the marriage of ... born in 1900). SusunW (talk) 20:16, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
The article is involved in WP:COI, so I think it should be deleted. Adityavagarwal (talk) 22:46, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help with the Geri Allen discography. Each section has been referenced now DISEman (talk) 01:37, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Toddst1, thanks for your note. Could you elaborate on what you mean by adding sources to the 'Days of the Year' entries? I've tried to stay consistent with the style of the pages, and none of the 'Days of the Year' pages I've seen have citations attached to the list entries. I've been linking all new names to their Wiki-articles, and I've been fairly careful about choosing biographical articles which cite sources for birthdates.
I'm currently a member of WikiProject Women, and that's keeping me pretty busy right now, but I'll consider adding my name to the 'Days of the Year' project. There are definitely overlapping interests in these projects. I've actually been focusing on the year pages this week (e.g. "1900"), because I've only just realized that there's a pretty big gender gap in these year/date lists -- almost 7 times more men than women in lists of notable births, deaths, etc. I thought I'd work on bringing some of them up to parity. All the best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 21:43, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello again -- I don't understand what the issue is with this article. In the "Life" section of the subject's article, it is stated that "The Duchess died at Dresden on 25 January 1900", and this statement is accompanied by an inline citation from a 1900 obituary from The Times. What do you want? Do you want me to cite that Times source next to Princess Adelheid's entry on the January 25 page?
I read the 'Days of the Year' proposal to change project guidelines re: sourcing, and you're right -- it's gory. I'm unclear how it's planned to be implemented. Quite a few of the already existing entries on 'January 25' don't have any inline citations to back up dates of birth and death. I'm sure you have better things to do than police my edits, and I certainly have better things to do than make edits that may be promptly removed, so until I understand how the new guidelines are operating, I'll avoid adding anything to the DOY pages. Alanna the Brave (talk) 12:59, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Well, alrighty then -- that's what I'll do. Alanna the Brave (talk) 14:49, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
One last question: do the citation guidelines also apply to the year pages? I had assumed WikiProject Days of the Year and WikiProject Years were two separate things, with different domains (i.e. calendar days versus years), but you also reverted a few of my edits on the "1900" page. I knew about citations being necessary for notable events on year pages, just not births/deaths. Thanks, Alanna the Brave (talk) 16:34, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
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When adding a missing significant person's birth (I typically add musicians/entertainers of note) to the "Births" section of a calendar date, should I make sure the Wikipedia profile page (not created/edited by me) to which I've linked has accurately sourced the subject's birth date? I assume this has been the reason for the reverted edits.Crumptyjack (talk) 18:19, 9 December 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crumptyjack (talk • contribs) 07:07, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
@Toddst1 - The NY Times On this Day external links on each date page are no longer functioning. Neither the BBC nor Canadian links seem to have comprehensive data on significant events/births/deaths for each date. I've been searching for an adequate database to cite for my notable birth listings, but many of those have reliability errors. Are you aware of a comprehensive database of notable births by date that meets Wikipedia standards for source material? Crumptyjack
If you're going to add references to every item in every day of the year article, e.g. this, please format the citation correctly, and please add a "References" section to the article to which you're adding the singular reference. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:39, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
How is this trying to improve things? The Rambling Man (talk) 22:18, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
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It was a revert to a much older version, including previously removed interwiki links and unreferenced trivia. Trivialist (talk) 20:57, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
No, it's a fact that it has been used as a slighting term. BlackAdvisor (talk) 21:03, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the one who added the section about being able to view the Chinese Space Station.
You said you deleted the section due to lack of a reference/source/inline citation.
I didn't think that information that is available at numerous satellite-viewing websites -- like https://in-the-sky.org/satmap_radar.php or http://spaceweather.com/flybys/flybys.php?zip=85051 -- needed to be referenced. To me, if the info is available at numerous places, I tend to consider that to be "common knowledge" that is easily found/accessible.
Maybe a caveat of something like "visible to the naked eye within two hours before sunrise and/or two hours after sunset" should be included. But if anyone is familiar with satellite-viewing, they already know that. Plus, viewing times, and other info, are given at these sites.
But I leave it up to you as to whether or not to keep the section in the article.
As a side note, the same type of section could also be added to the entry/article on the International Space Station (ISS). 2600:8800:786:A300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 15:03, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
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I did not add anything unsourced in January 10. I only added a person with an article born on this day.Neel.arunabh (talk) 03:43, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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I need to know what the concern is. All sources on this page are from university archives where Professor Winquist taught, including Cal State, Chico, and Syracuse University. Like the archivists at Chico State's library, archivists at Syracuse University requested their information be sourced with a simple acknowledgement. All the information from the info box, for example, comes from a curriculum vita sent from Syracuse University Libraries Special Collections University Archives (the photo was sent from California State University, Chico). Perhaps this the problem? All the other material comes directly from Charles E. Winquist's writings (what I have added, anyway). Perhaps the list of his books is the problem. I would hate to remove this; it is from the original stub, but it certainly is an ad-like reference. Please let me know how to improve this page. Thank you.Clyde DeForest Switzer (talk) 21:27, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, I recieved "the next time you insert a spam link, as you did ..." could you please clarify more what is the reason? As the reference is well aligned with the topic page. Or was the problem with formal presentation? Jak sky (talk) 19:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Can you please enlighten me on what you deem as a personal attack on my talkpage? Other than the time where CBG17 left his first message, I revisited my recent edit summaries, and see no such offense. All I was doing was removing peoples messages and request they leave me alone... Rogue1 20:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey, Todd. Why do you think the article Lammin Sullay is of no importance? Because you don't know the individual yourself? If you put his name on Google you'll find quite a lot of information, mostly in Finnish or Swedish, but considering you're American, you must only speak English. However, fortunately for you there is information about him on English as well. Newspapers include articles about him, books by several authors include information about him, even the page from the Swedish Immigrant Institute includes a whole page specifically about him. In what way would this man not be important enough to be considered worth mentioning on Wikipedia? It's unfair how only one individual determines who is important and who is not, despite the evidence supporting otherwise. Regards, Sullay (Let's talk about it) 11:07, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi. You helped earlier in the month with this editor, leaving warnings on his talk page. Now he did this. Very odd revert. It had a cite. I added another one since. But his revert and his edit summary made no sense. But now I am blocked from leaving messages on his talk page, so I am telling you because maybe you can help again. Thank you. --2604:2000:E016:A700:C8B1:1AA4:8F8E:BB14 (talk) 08:16, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
The account that you tagged is almost certainly a sock of User:Nsmutte, rather than BattleshipMan. Joefromrandb (talk) 06:50, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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You removed the Bill Belichick thing I put on January 27. Here is the source of his hiring on that day. Please put it back in for that date. Its in the 3rd paragraph of the link. [16]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsinger121 (talk • contribs) 17:56, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Quick question, why did you add a citation needed tag next to Kees van Dongen's birth day, in the infobox? Is that date listed differently elsewhere? Coldcreation (talk) 04:40, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Toddst1 - I may have misread the tone of your Shane edit summary, so sorry. I appreciate your attempts to give some source muscle to some fairly loose sections in these articles. Of particular interest to me at the moment is your recent tag to the "Cover versions" in the "Tom Dooley" article. FYI, I have had rather little to do with the article overall and that section especially, though I can say from long and broad experience writing about folk music that pretty much all of those listed versions are legitimate significant recordings. My question here is simply how to proceed. Getting RS for each of the recordings listed would be relatively easy if a bit time-consuming, but the RS can establish mainly that the recordings were made and exist. Pls let me know if that will satisfy the WP:SONGCOVER protocol, which I have read and find a bit ambiguous on this point. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 07:20, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
So what would valid evidence for he date of birth be? I had the day and month, and used math to get the year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mw843 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hi. 76.243.120.241 (talk) 20:21, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. You rejected my change in the "Briefs" article because of "copyvio". You have the right to refuse my additions, i respect it. But I am asking you very much, do not accuse me of infringing on copyright. I didn't stole any photo. Best wishes Stan old (talk) 16:25, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
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If May 20 is the day when Cuba celebrates its independence, then how do explain this? https://publicholidays.la/cuba/independence-day/ 2600:8800:5A80:1394:402B:9598:36A8:D238 (talk) 23:43, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
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You messaged me about anonymous editing. I have no idea how to do that - I remain logged in as Indianink all the time. I was not even aware one could edit without being logged in. As my computer skills are strictly limited, if you can explain what went wrong and how to avoid it in future I will. You also messaged me about adding the year of death of Roy Bentley to the births section on the page dedicated to May 17. I got the information from the Wikipedia page on Roy Bentley, and as far as I can see on the May 17 page, no other year of death is supported by an outside source, so I did not realise this had to be done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indianink (talk • contribs) 10:47, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
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Just a quick note to let you know that I have reversed your edit - where you stated that the date for Bill Oddie's birth was unsourced. Actually, the date that had been given was correct (and sourced), and a reference has now been added by me (a long-time Goodies fan). Best wishes. Figaro (talk) 05:28, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Robert Rave, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: published novel on notable publisher and claims coverage in RS (which probably still exists somewhere). Thank you. SoWhy 09:29, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Can you stop changing the celebrity birthdays! Matt Campbell (talk) 02:33, 30 June 2018 (UTC)User:Matt CampbellMatt Campbell (talk) 02:33, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Maybe you shouldn't be on this Wikia!!!!! Take that!!!!! Matt Campbell (talk) 02:39, 30 June 2018 (UTC)User:Matt CampbellMatt Campbell (talk) 02:39, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Just so you know about Chris Pratt, that is his date of Birth so I don't know why you are going around changing that, and another thing you edited my profile page without permission, you don't edit other users profile pages without permission from the user!!!!! Matt Campbell (talk) 02:28, 30 June 2018 (UTC)User:Matt CampbellMatt Campbell (talk) 02:28, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for taking the time to alert me to the potential conflict of interest with my username. This account is not shared with anyone else; however, I understand the name is generic. Should I request a change to a username that would uniquely identify me within the organization? If so, how? Also, I am still getting up to speed on the Wiki markup, but I can provide citations for the changes I made and will make over the next couple of weeks. My employer, Tusculum College is moving to University status, so the entry on Wikipedia will need to reflect this. I researched a few other institutions that moved from College to University status, and it appeared the name change was made on their existing page, rather than to create a brand new page for the University status. We do want the history of Tusculum College up to the move to University to be part of the Wikipedia reference. I'd appreciate any guidance or best practices to follow for making these updates. Thank you. Tuswebmaster (talk) 14:28, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I don't know what I need to add St William of Perth. The link I added was a Wikipedia article. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 19:02, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks, note takenDr Ugbede-ojo (talk) 11:37, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
In my effort to add the John Spenkelink execution to the May 25 page, I linked to his biographical article. Isn't that enough verification? John Paul Parks (talk) 19:58, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I’m entirely sure that a former assistant US attorney who did these things for many years for a living saying that Judge Mosman’s conduct is highly irregular is a reliable source. Moreover, his viewpoint was the experts’ consensus viewpoint until politics got involved. Wikipedia needs to be reliable; it doesn’t matter whether people who don’t like facts feel the facts aren’t neutral. If you have other the material facts that add to the discussion feel free to add them
I am reverting. Alterrabe (talk) 15:14, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Actually, I have now cited McCarthy, a legal commentator of national repute, in a mainstream national publication, whose description is much less diplomatic and restrained than mine was. I hope you enjoy it.Alterrabe (talk) 15:32, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the citation, it really escaped my mind.Dr Ugbede-ojo (talk) 11:56, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I added this today, and I've changed the image of the tomb for the page of the church itself, but it would be great if you (or someone else with editing privileges) could replace the rather poor image on Galileo's main page to this new image. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BenjaminJamesCousins (talk • contribs) 09:33, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello Todd, I was not aware of the change, so thanks for the heads up. I don't see that my edits have been reverted on DOY pages or on person pages where I've added a date of birth or death. I've read the links you provided, but am not clear on if I need to provide inline references for every person I add to a day of the year. Regards, Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 08:04, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm unclear why you are citing me for unverified content. The article in question had a reference for Bub's birthday prior to your feedback, and I tagged the reference in the infobox directly after your feedback. Please let me know what I'm missing, or restore the June 21 page to its previous state. Thank you. Sunsetastoria (talk) 20:56, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Although I'm a bit perplexed why adding publicly available information about a significant figure at a significant university should be considered "controversial", given that all previous office holders have that same information displayed in full, I will respect this decision. I'll perhaps avoid adding this for any person going forward now that I am aware of this guidance. Thank you. Ash243x (talk) 23:44, 30 June 2018 (UTC-5)
I'm confused by the message I got from you saying that changes I made to an article on July 14 didn't have a reliable source and that it's been removed. The small item is still there (1938 event, re Howard Hughes) and there is a source linking to the front page of the July 15, 1938 New York Times which confirms the info in the item. Gbevan55 (talk) 19:45, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, you may or may not have read WP:DEADREF, which details the steps you should take when encountering a reference that contains a dead link. I have restored the citation you removed (along with the information that was cited by it) via point 2. It took me less than 10 seconds to do this. If you could try harder next time, that'd be great. Cheers, Nzd (talk) 22:05, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
I fixed my first edit by sourcing IMDB which gives her birthday. What gives with the ban-warning? --Volvlogia (talk) 04:09, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
I did not Relize the DOB were unsourced I never added them ... someone else did Jena (talk) 23:48, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
His page says he was born 7/30, citing the same source as the 7/28 page.Stuartkau (talk) 02:24, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
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It'S Because i create articles on game of this genre, but Wikipedia don't considared them as notable. so i think this genre of game is not notable for Wikipedia because...
So no casual games on Wikipedia is constructive. Thank you72.10.135.251 (talk) 17:38, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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templates is not constructive. Toddst1 (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Hi Toddst1,
I did not intend any 'disruptive editing' I saw your first message about references, thus I attempted to edit again, this time with reference tags in an effort to verify the birthday of the person mentioned. My intention is to edit the page properly.
Thank you
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What you did on my edits are unacceptable. The other parties have that as well (those are not my edits) and not erased. They were merely breakdowns from the elections pages (Indonesian legislative election, 2014 for instance). About August 5, there are no other reference besides yours, so in order to make consistency, the other events, births, and deaths should have reference as well. Just saying. If you want references so bad on those parties, I will have it presented in an hour. In the meantime, I will undo your edits. Thanks for the notice. – Flix11 (talk) 01:36, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
I have added the sources but you report me to the WP:AIV? What is wrong with you? I have followed your request. – Flix11 (talk) 04:05, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
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People would be a lot less snarky with you if you followed the guidelines at WP:PRESERVE. Reverting should be a last recourse, not the first step you take. Krychek (talk) 14:42, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for taking care of the IP troll. However, it that this IP has several connected IPs with similar numbers. I reverted a couple of them at the Raymond Leo Burke article. This must've been what spawned the personal attack on my talk page. You might want to consider looking in that article's edit history and blocking some of those for the same length of time in order to prevent block evasion and more inappropriate behavior over the coming week. Thank you. Display name 99 (talk) 01:10, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
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I'm not sure if a direct social media account from the person can apply. Could it be interpreted as a primary source since it's directly from her? https://www.instagram.com/p/Blbn6vQgBJg/?taken-by=taoporchonlynch
Thanks - TDI19 (talk) 04:36, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Definitely a good point! I can understand that Instagram is not a typical source but I feel in this case it’s basically the same as the person confirming their birthday in an interview or something? TDI19 (talk) 05:24, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hello @Toddst1, Please could you read the comments that I have written on the 'history' page of Sharon Pincott. I think these are very valid. I wish to speak back to Swister Twister (plus the other key Wikipedia editor whose name escapes me at the moment) re this page - which they were both instrumental in creating - and editing - with me, re both format and content. Is this okay with you? Note too that this page was also, at the time of approval, said to adhere to Australia Wikipedia standards. Arnie1000 (talk) 22:34, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
I have been trying to contact somebody from Wikipedia regarding this for days now, so I really hope you are able to help me. I am quite unclear on why my edits have all been deleted, stating it was "conflicts of interest" and because they appeared to be promotional. None of this is valid or accurate, and nearly every one of my sources is cited from newspaper clippings from the state's official newspaper, The Tennessean. I would appreciate if you could assist me in understanding why this has happened, and also to help me get back my edits since i put time into them and did so accordingly to all rules and regulations outlined by Wikipedia. Hsi2018 (talk) 20:35, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Abdelaziz Khourdifi, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: minor claim of significance with RS mention and book publishing. Since this was tagged for 5 days without anyone deleting it, I'm going to assume no one felt comfortable with speedy deleting this, so take it to WP:AFD please. Thank you. SoWhy 07:49, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello, if you would stop your vandetta and actually take a moment to read the source information, instead of assuming "Bad Faith" you would find toward the bottom of the article the following passage.
"Fairbanks was born June 10, 1933, and played football at Michigan State under legendary coach Biggie Munn. Fairbanks coached three years of high school football, then joined the Arizona State staff of Frank Kush. In 1962, Fairbanks moved on to Bill Yeoman’s staff at the University of Houston, where Fairbanks occasionally would visit the Arkansas spring practices of Frank Broyles’. It was there Fairbanks met Mackenzie, and when Mackenzie became OU’s head coach, he hired Fairbanks as part of a staff that included Switzer, Galen Hall, Larry Lacewell, Pat James and Homer Rice."(CTRL + F is your friend, it helps you find key words like I don't know, dates of birth)-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 13:55, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your note. I deleted that text as Cohen is not seeking a seat in the State Assembly at this time, and will not be present on the ballot come September or November. I didn't want folks to be mislead! Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.9.24.66 (talk) 14:12, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I am a somewhat new pending changes approver, and i stick mostly to the pages of topics that i am familiar with. I am aware of the responsibilities that this right gives and am willing to positively contribute to wikipedia. When there are high pending changes left, i usually open 2-3 at a time and verify them at the same time, and i believe this is the first time someone has pointed me out as i have overlooked an edit.
August 7 change: Apologies if i might have overlooked something. The logs show that i accepted a revision including Lighthouse day, but i remember seeing(and approving) a different edit, something related to a massacre by the "Kingdom of Iraq", atleast that's what was shown to me by the Interface:
Old Text: 1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.
New Text: "1933 – The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.
I am not sure how I overlooked Lighthouse day. I will be more careful next time, i am at fault here. I was a bit busy at that time, and forgot to look down further than the blue highlighted text.
Regarding Edit war on Soap opera villians page: I approved a single change on the edit war, yes. There were 2 references to confirm the same thing, that "Adam newman" is a villian in a soap opera, I thought it was unnecessary as the first reference already points it out. I left a detailed reply on User talk:--XenaDance--, one of the parties in the edit-war. I also pinged a senior user JuneGloom07 who recently made an edit on the same page, because my approval was somewhat of a gray area. That Senior user reverted the edit in favor of Xenadance. In this case, what would you recommend I could have done? I guess i could have rejected the edit, then made a fresh edit of my own removing the reference and citing a proper reason in the edit itself. Again Apologies Daiyusha (talk) 18:11, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I fixed my first edit by sourcing IMDB which gives her birthday. What gives with the ban-warning? --Volvlogia (talk) 04:09, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi @Toddst1:, thank you for your very prompt review of Ike Vern; I had barely got the article uploaded and you were on to it! Much obliged, Jamesmcardle(talk) 06:08, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi @Toddst1:, Please know that I'm not trying to 'own' the Sharon Pincott page. I am merely the original creator of it. I do not know Sharon Pincott personally but have followed her elephant work, and book writing, for 18 years. I am a wildlife conservationist and a lover of Africa. I ask, please, for you to reconsider any deletions you've made that have been adequately and professionally Referenced. Zimbabwe is hot in the news right now, and so is Pincott with her documentary. I can see that the number of people viewing her page has been substantial each day of late. Please know that there are still various people with hidden agendas still out to belittle her solid achievements for elephant conservation in Zimbabwe (with key elephant things still ongoing) and this is most unfortunate. I'm just asking you to please relook at it and consider if there is anything you could perhaps add back. I have read your page, as it now stands, and cannot see anything there that is not referenced fact. I would be grateful too therefore if you could remove the banner across the page that suggests it is promotional and like an advertisement. I can assure you that alot of work has been put in by myself and I know of two other wildlife conservationists (all of us unknown to Pincott) to ensure that just facts are stated. We each have been extra careful to ensure lots of References have been used well. I thank you in advance. Arnie1000 (talk) 00:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey, just a head's up: I undid your revert on August 13, because there's a source for that date in the Coldstream Guards article. I don't feel it's necessary to add that ref to the August 13 list as well, but I'd gladly do so if you want. rchard2scout (talk) 12:23, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks you for your edits to Taha Afshar. I took the speedy off for copyright vio as the copyvios detector was only showing 17%, which is low. Closing it at Afd, where it will likely be deleted, allows the admins to SALT it. Obviously someone is pushing the article, so SALt will be helpful.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 06:59, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for clearifying the sources issue on the Suis La Lune page! Iliketoknitfool (talk) 18:22, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
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I saw that you removed his DOB information due to a lack of references. I found a couple and will be adding them. Just wanted to let you know so that you will understand when I revert the removal.
Thanks! 1980fast (talk) 22:31, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I was creating a reference edit on the page Deborah Marquit, for her designs in the music video, Aint None of Your Business, not at all as an advertisement, as you inferred, but as genuine fact. The credits for the designs are not in writing on the video credits, so I thought a link the video would work, not realizing that this is not the correct way to reference the work. The credits are for designs used for costume and if you would please note all the other references on the page as such. It is not an Ad, it is a historic reference to the designer's work. As I was trying to correct my errors and find the proper references, I was cut off from the page. Is it possible you can remove the content that is in anyway incorrect and reinstate the page to its place on Wikipedia? (I understand that the reference cannot be from tabloid journalism or from Youtube) Many Thanks, :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvmarquit (talk • contribs) 05:34, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
With all due respect, you are incorrect, it is not a promotional page. You removed a beginning of a timeline spanning 35 years of historic fashion references with dates and work done for each, including the costume description for films, and videos. Can you put them back?--Dvmarquit (talk) 08:02, 3 September 2018 (UTC) thank you.
Hello Toddst1 ~ Would you kindly reinstate the status of the page Deborah Marquit as you found it. We were in the midst if editing and adding refernce updates, and much of the intense work involved was removed by you without prior notification.--Lovestar Horatio (talk) 18:07, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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It is in the NFL article that the APFA was founded on Sept 17, 1920 and again I do not see any..ANY sources for anything on these date pages.... 02:50, 15 September 2018 Newyearbaby
Greetings. I am not sure why you reverted my active link to a Canadian History page and replaced it with the previous broken one. I've updated many, many of the On This Day Wikipedia pages.
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Hello Toddst1. I've been abroad and don't understand message addressed to me. I can see tho that you've made substantial deletions to the Sharon Pincott page I've inputted to in the past and you ask about conflict of interest? There isn't any conflict of interest. Why should there be? I've been assisting to keep page on specialist in a field I keep well abreast of updated with useful info. You've deleted such worthy info. You've left few references to published interviews but even deleted Forbes Africa. How many people get into Forbes magazine! There's also no mention anymore of all of the political intimidation and threats endured inside Zimbabwe which strikes me as terribly strange. Grateful please advise how I contribute to this page now although it doesn't appear conducive to updates any longer 01:52, 15 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReaderUSA (talk • contribs)
You've twice reverted my edit on the page for September 18. In the last revision, you explained "you need a reference for the dates of birth". But I didn't add or change any dates of birth. I added to Kerry Livgren's entry the name of the band he's associated with, because that is the more familiar name, and I added "politician" to Ben Carson as at this point that's at least as important with him as his medical and literary work. Am I missing something? Brettalan (talk) 20:25, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Dominique Monféry, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: previous version of the article contains claims of significance. Thank you. SoWhy 08:08, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lucy Ellmann, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: multiple claims of significance: Won notable award; Has notable family and spouse; Book reviews in NYT. Thank you. SoWhy 08:09, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
I am a novice in templating and such. You asked for sources, I can provide them, but I do not know how to add them. https://insomniac.games/game/spider-man-ps4/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465602/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.65.44 (talk) 22:21, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the edit.BUT Some users are constantly changing my user pages and this leads to conflict more.I have decided now not to place any images in my user page account .its fine --Manavatha (talk) 08:58, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure this was complete bollocks. I did a google search for "CHI Records" "Spencer Durham" and got back some teenage kid. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:34, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Good work on keeping the crap out of articles recently.
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Hi! I'm a long term wikipedia and donator. I've stumbled upon Paul Reiffer's page, and I was shocked how fake it is! Thanks for emending it a bit.
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Hi. User:JoeyofthePriuses has re-added a lot of entries that I previously removed, mostly about racing drivers, with references, but in some cases these appear to be unreliable. I don't want to get involved in an edit war with them, so I'll leave it to you to decide what action is appropriate. Deb (talk) 11:31, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi Todd Re: Jim Cooper There is no COI. Jim Cooper and I have not seen each other for years. Many years ago we lived together and I knew his mother and siblings. That's why I have some documents on his life before 2000. My desire to edit his Wikipedia page is not done for pecuniary reason. I was just trying to correct the minor problems and to add facts I know from documents I have and can cite. Cheers Steve Farrow SteveJF (talk) 14:38, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
My edit of Odenton, Maryland was deemed less than neutral and removed. I only added the information on an upcoming high school opening and cited the news article I sourced from. Not sure as to how that is not neutral?
Jdynasty76 (talk) 00:00, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Was it the line about many parents want a new high school? That was already on the page before my edit. Or was it the whole paragraph? It was my first edit, I am just making sure, so I am more careful in the future. Thanks Jdynasty76 (talk) 00:16, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
No worries. Thanks for the help! Jdynasty76 (talk) 00:21, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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"You have been blocked from editing for a period of 12 hours for disruptive creation of user pages for other users."
I have absolutely no idea what this means or why it appears aimed at me. I have no idea how to create user pages for other users, nor would I do so. Perhaps my page has been hacked by malicious spyware?
Further, "speedy elimination...User Kgrad" is equally puzzling. Kgrad (talk) 02:44, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
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My edit for listing actress Terri Garr in the December 11 "Births" was removed. One only needs to look up Teri Garr in Wikipedia to confirm she was born on December 11, 1944. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artwohl (talk • contribs) 15:43, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
The edit which you have linked to, claiming that she is trying to add false information, dates from 2014. Her only recent edit was to remove one mention of her correct birth date, which was unnecessary anyway as it is mentioned elsewhere in the article. However, your edit removed reliably referenced information - her birth name. I think that an "Oops, sorry!" might be required, along with removing the unjustified new warning on her talk page.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:44, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Savina Petrilli is not a redlink, and he did die in 1923. Why should I have not accepted the revision? HarryKernow (talk to me) 20:29, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
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Would you be kind enough to look at the listing for Rehs Galleries and at least put in the actual periods of art the gallery handles? The gallery specializes in 19th and 20th century European and American art with an emphasis on 19th century Academic, Barbizon and Realist paintings. Artists would include Julien Dupre, Daniel Ridgway Knight, Emile Munier, William A. Bouguereau, Jean B.C. Corot, Henry Moret, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehs_Galleries
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As you can see, I've done a lot of work on this, adding references and removing unreferenced entries. But there is still a lot more to do and I've been working on it intermittently for months. This gives you some idea how long it's going to take without anyone else chipping in. It's difficult enough just to stop people adding more unreferenced entries when I'm not looking. Any suggestions? Deb (talk) 11:50, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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FYI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edin_Velez - let me know your feedback as you have reviewed the article of "Edin Velez" in 2010. Thanks Srirammedfri (talk) 05:54, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
It's me. 173.11.92.205 (talk) 20:34, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Please explain how a reference and link of an established page that is about a Mar 14 observance in the Mar 14 section on observances is vandalism. Dlhyndman1964 (talk) 15:48, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
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It's me. Toddst1 (talk) 20:12, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Please explain your reversion. It's a standard thing to do. And in this case, you restored a factual error along with deleting cited/encyclopedic content. Regards, --67.48.200.162 (talk) 20:39, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
There's a person using multiple IP addresses to keep adding unreferenced births (mostly Australian sportsmen) to these articles. I have protected a few of them to prevent IPs editing but obviously this can only be a temporary solution. I would be grateful if you look out for them as well. Take a look at recent edits on January 23, 24, 25, etc. Deb (talk) 18:25, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I've more or less completed the referencing of January 1 and have started on January 2 in earnest, but it's a huge task. I feel you should at least have a look. Deb (talk) 13:01, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Toddst1. Every other birth/death has no reference. Is this something very new that referencing has to be added? Surely the reference can be found on the page of the person who is linked? Regards Willbb234 (talk) 21:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
(Just noticed that referencing is on all of the January 1 births and deaths)
Ok, thank you. I will add some references. Can these be taken directly from the reference on the subjects wikipedia article? Regards
Hi Toddst1, I just added a reference on January 3 article. Is this alright? Willbb234 (talk) 10:08, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you; that makes sense. However, few if any of the surrounding entries have them; it was rather easy to infer from that that no sources were required. Perhaps you should add an edit notice (or, you may already have done so and I missed it. If so, sorry). Daniel Case (talk) 17:56, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi - I'm new to Wikipedia and have added a contribution to the article which you have flagged as I haven't added the reference. I'm not sure how to do this - basically the reference is the amendment - it is the book that I have listed. I am not sure how to prove it but it is visible on booksellers like Amazon if that helps.
Could you add the relevant symbol or show me how to.
Much appreciated, Lee . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youth Culture Expert (talk • contribs) 00:10, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
Could you please clarify "constructive" vs "non-constructive" additions for holidays and observances? Where would something like "Red Nose Day" go on the "this day in history" pages? Or can things like that only be added after they happen? Or is there another calendar with things like "Red Nose Day," "ALS Awareness Month," etc. are inserted? --virginiatcombs (talk) 18:00, 21 May 2019
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- Each addition now requires a direct citation from a reliable source on this page supporting it. Simply providing a wikilink is not sufficient and additions without direct sources will be removed.
- The births and deaths listed on this page are only for people for whom there is a Wikipedia article (no red links and no redirects). Please do not add yourself (unless there is a Wikipedia article about you), or anyone without a Wikipedia article. Any entry added for anyone without an article will be deleted.
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Hey, guess what, I just rolled back again, because it is obvious vandalism by an IP editor, and I'm using rollback for what it's for. And where did you come from, specifically? Are you part of the TPH/AldezD cabal? Robert K S (talk) 01:09, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, just to let you know, the user specified above has been adding multiple entries to DOTY pages, without references. I have already warned them but they have ignored me. Please review and maybe try to talk to them? Also they have been contributing to other pages, adding unsourced information, which may need reviewing. Reagrds, Willbb234 (talk) 11:37, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I seem to have jumped again without looking. the external links were in the reference, and the BHL source is a basic reference for hagiography research (so very rs). I have done this in the past, with no problem. Can you help me so I don't waste more of your time? I looked over the WP/EL page and can't figure it out. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:29, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I have added multiple references on the January 3 DOTY page. The majority are citing websites and I have noticed that Deb (or other users adding references) have been citing mainly from books. I have read WP:RS, and it appears nothing is wrong with citing the websites, especially as I have checked the websites for WP:V. Is there anything wrong with continuing to mainly cite using websites? Regards Willbb234 (talk) 19:25, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, can I add myself to WP:DOTY member list? Regards Willbb234 (talk) 20:14, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
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You left a note on my talk page about my being unaware of WP:V regarding additions to these pages. If you had checked my edit note, you would have seen that I wasn't adding info to the page but putting info in alpha order. Regards Denisarona (talk) 08:45, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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Regarding your edit and your note re Please see MOS:NOBOLD, the article is now missing information that the bold text had previously identified. The Liturgical calendar should be an exception.ΙΣΧΣΝΙΚΑ-888 (talk) 12:41, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I don't understand why my edits were removed if my information is true (and cited). I'm not writing in a biased manner and I do know more about him than anyone on this website could. Please let me know what the problem is. Cassiejaestew (talk) 02:50, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
the edits I made to August 10, August 31 and October 29 got reverted, the explanation you gave was too confusing, can you explain why they we're reverted, I'm happy to help Great Mercian (talk) 08:08, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
so what this means is that i need to find a source to verify my edits from, do you mean from a site on the internet or a wikipedia article? Great Mercian (talk) 20:10, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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Here's some advice that could be useful; try to write on people's talk pages in a friendlier way. Your postings on my page obviously show how high and mighty you think you are, and it appears other fellow Wikipedians feel the same way by looking at your history. You can make commentary without the attitude. Have a great day!Scott218 (talk) 04:06, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that you have added a huge number of references on May 11, thank you! You have done this with the help of reFill and I was wondering whether this is the best way to go about this? Regards, Willbb234 (talk) 15:20, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
When i was editing the List of Hispanic and Latino Americans. it wasn't any different then the other ones i did similar to it. Matt Campbell (talk) 01:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
While I respect your message regarding rejected edits of the 'versions' of English used.. and while I am indeed aware of, respect and note the policy that when a subject pertains MOSTLY or EXCLUSIVELY to the UK, that version (and spelling therewith) is utilized; I would note that in the case of, for example, "Dark Fiber(Fibre)" such not only does not pertain exclusively to the UK, but such had its origins in, and the term was coined in the USA. THUS, my suggestion to edit the english spelling version of such.
Otherwise, the policy then would be more truly: unless it is a subject pertaining only to the United States (such as what that would be I do not know), everything should be spelled (spelt?) regardless of whether such item, object, thing originated within the USA; British spelling rules apply. Being that any object, item known, spoken of, and utilized outside of the USA would abrogate the usage of American English spellings. One then would go to wikipedia and see British spellings applied to any and all things, objects and items, exclusively.
that is all. Curious as to the true explanation as I dont have any true skin the game other than trying to be as accurate as possible.
thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.220.130 (talk) 14:04, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1
I have been asked to supply sources for alterations or additions to On This Day pages. I added the death of Johnny Kidd, which I sourced from the Wikipedia page for Johnny Kidd - I also checked another source and the date given by Wikipedia matched. Just so it is crystal clear - are you saying we are not to edit using Wikipedia as a source?
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Thanks for your note. I’d have taken this to AfD myself but was busy today so thanks for doing that too. Mccapra (talk) 20:25, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
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Please refer to this edit of mine that clearly shows that I added the reference to the BNP for the source of Burke's birthdate. Please stop accusing me of something that I didn't do. I would appreciate your cooperation. Funandtrvl (talk) 20:38, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Dear Toddst1,
I have never attempted to edit a wikipedia page before tonight. I did so because a colleague of mine, Dan Welcher, has been woefully misrepresented in the media of late and now wikipedia is perpetuating the falsehoods. I apologize if I did not follow protocol.
I attempted to remove the line that he has left UT because he. has. not. Please phone the university if you need to confirm this, and do not rely on the press, which has done a terrible job and essentially tried Professor Welcher by newspaper. An investigation is underway of these ridiculous and hysterical accusations, and until that investigation is concluded the facts are that Professor Welcher is still a faculty member of UT. Do not sully the reputation of a man, an artist, and a colleague, until you have facts to offer. He is being smeared by people with ulterior motives. Thank you. Pup68 (talk) 04:27, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi. In regard to the motto of Rockville, I'm a little confused by your claim that "Just because it's on a web page doesn't mean it's their motto". It's not just featured on a web page, it's featured on the seal of the city, which you can see in the article (or, if that's not good enough, on the city's own website). Zacwill (talk) 22:57, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Where does it say that something has to have had a significant impact on pop culture to be in someone's "In popular culture" section? Thanks. Mbsyl (talk) 20:58, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm closing this discussion here and transcribing it to the article talk page where it belongs. Please reply there.Toddst1 (talk) 22:38, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello. This article is too long, need to omit some unnecessary paragraphs, help summarize this article (and copy edit). Thanks you. Olascf (talk) 13:29, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi Todd You asked about the source for the O’reilly’s rainforest retreat info. I know this as I knew the people and the location involved in this and I walked the old trail which is now known to very few. I have asked people locally if anyone can locate a photo as I know I have seen an old photo of the cars and the horses.
This site, gives some of the story about the two day journey by car and horse without the precise detail of the location I gave: https://www.smartstepstoaustralia.com/oreillys-rainforest-retreat-family-accommodation-in-the-gold-coast-hinterland/ O’Reilly’s is set in Lamington National Park – a 22,000 hectare park that is home to a variety of types of rainforest including ancient Gondwana Rainforests. The O’Reilly family moved from Ireland to the Blue Mountains before settling in the McPherson Ranges in Southern Queensland in 1911 to begin dairy farming. They cleared the tracks and farmland painstakingly by hand. When the area was declared national park, this isolated them but in 1915 they began hosting tourists in the O’Reilly’s Guesthouse. It used to take guests two days via car, train and horseback to get to the resort!” Marilyn Leask (talk) 14:33, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
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Why are you from Washington having a gratuitous go at this article?Rodolph (talk) 00:36, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
Dear Toddst1
Re. Nigel Coates article, I have made some small edits which I hope you will not categorise as 'puff'. Most importantly though, the word 'Architect' in the article heading (presumably there for disambiguation) is misleading as Prof. Coates is not actually an architect. (I appreciate this is counter-intuitive as he is responsible for a fair bit of architecture. Zaha Hadid or Thomas Heatherwick are somewhat similar. Research the way RIBA awards qualifications and the ARB registers architects in the UK if you require an explanation.) What change would you advise here? nb I have amended the description of Prof. Coates' occupation to an accurate one. If you change this it will be to the detriment of the article as I do not have the time to keep spinning in circles undoing your edits.
Best regards, Ace Morgan 12:29, 29 October 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acemorgan (talk • contribs)
Hi Todd,
Thanks for your message regarding my edits made to the Philip Ardagh biog.
I hope to add citations to all corrections (except for one) but am learning as I go along. It's the coding/writing that's the challenge, not the authenticity of the content.
From what you say, I can work on the draft in history and then, once the citations have been added, repost it. Thank you.
There is one edit I would ask that you make in the meantime.
Nowhere does Philip Ardagh publish any of his works as 'Philip Ardagh Roxbee Cox' so this is very confusing. I can find only two public references to his full name: in the Oxford Guide To Children's Literature and Who's Who.
I know that he does not publicise his full name and uses 'Philip Ardagh' for all events, public appearances, talks, etc and is even known as 'Philip Ardagh' in all publishing meeting, etc.
If you feel it important that the name Roxbee Cox appear somewhere in the entry, might it not be possible to say later in the text that, according to Who's Who, his full name is Philip Ardagh Roxbee Cox, 'Ardagh' being his mother's maiden name?
I feel this would be much more helpful to all concerned.
Look forward to your response. Thank you. 16th October 2019
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Hi Toddst1, Many thanks for such a speedy response. Yup, I'm an intern currently trying to sort out the years of literary festival programme, articles, posters, publicity and other material he's accumulated over the years! Skunfkins Trousers —Preceding undated comment added 14:48, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi Todd. This is Bedogan. I am currently trying to clean up and add citations to Aclan Bates' page to make it more credible. I am not being paid to do this.
I actually can't believe the page stayed as it was for years with no citation or corroboration until I tried to add citations! Then it got marked for deletion.
Broken Angel is a legitimate, full-length Hollywood film. It's not a 'stretch' to say that Mr. Bates directed it.
Mr. Bates is active both in the US and Turkey. He has numerous productions to his name in both countries.
Because the US productions are older, I'm having difficulty in finding source material to back them up. His more current activity, as it is taking place at present in Turkey, is documented in Turkish.
Since I am doing this in my spare time, I can't check the page or do research every day. And since the page stayed as it was for so many years, leaving it up until I can document it properly is not going to hurt anybody.Bedogan (talk) 06:32, 5 November 2019 (UTC)Bedogan
Dear Toddst, you reverted me today. I guess you did not read the remark on the “talk” page of November 6, so i’ll Repeat it here. Please state your answer here or on that talk page please.
reference required in this case?
I corrected the new entry from an anonymous user to "1632 – King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle of Lützen." But does this new entry also require a source from outside? (otherwise this book "Williamson, David. Debrett's Kings and Queens of Europe. pp. 124, 128, 194, 207. ISBN 0-86350-194-X." could be consulted if someone has access to this) Kind regards Saschaporsche (talk) 09:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Kind regards, Saschaporsche (talk) 14:02, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
I've blocked this user for 2 weeks as I see he's had multiple warnings from you and has just ignored them. I'll be happy to give him a much longer block if he doesn't take note. Deb (talk) 11:56, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your post on User talk:Deb and was concerned because I think I accepted a DOY edit yesterday (the linked article supported DOB, and I didn't realize there needed to be a cite added on the DOY page). I'd like to fix my error, but I can't find the article. Is there a log or query I can run that would show edits that I accepted? Schazjmd (talk) 18:52, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi,
Concerning this reversion, I would like to point out that it wasn't really an addition to a Day of the Year page, but a movement. You can see in my contributions that I first modified the person's entry, adding a reference for the date of birth, then deleted the text from December 12 and inserted it in December 6. So now, an entry has been lost.
Anyway, adding a source is always a good idea, and I have no problem with that. Just one question: the reference should justify the date of birth (like what I did when I edited the person's article) or the person's notability (like the Encyclopedia Britannica entry)?--Joutbis (talk) 10:29, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
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Howard Knob is officially called just that. I posted a link to the USGS webpage to confirm this and there less accuracy in the article on Boone, NC do to editing to remove my edit. I did leave as part of my edit a mention of the alternative, though unofficial, naming of Howard's Knob.
Even the Wikipedia article on the mountain is titled Howard Knob with a mention to the alternative name with the possessive s. But the official name is Howard Knob.
hey Toddst1 sorry about that, i don't edit too often but thank you for the clarification BurrShotHam711 (talk) 02:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, that's all fine and understandable, but I tend to work on the guideline of following what it already there: if everything has a separate citation, I will add it too; if not, I won't. The November 23 page has no separate sources, so frankly I don't see why I should have to when the article being linked to does have the relevant verification within it and literally hundreds of other entries on the same page are seemingly being allowed to remain without evidence, simply because they were added at an earlier point in time to my addition. Crowsus (talk) 18:31, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
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Just blocked this guy for six months - his first action after returning from the previous block was to make another unsourced addition. Deb (talk) 09:14, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
in first sentence club must be shortened to "paro" and either no confirmation for 0 (0) stats with tertons so make it empty, otherwise its clear vandalism! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.133.254.196 (talk) 10:55, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
I added Sue Lyon and Jerry Herman from the info on their Wikipedia pages. Is this not reliable enough? Or do I need an outside source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuartkau (talk • contribs) 20:35, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Added this and used his Wikipedia article as the source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuartkau (talk • contribs) 20:39, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks. I understand now.Stuartkau (talk) 00:23, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
even in the version you first saw, the many publications are enough to make A7 inappropriate--and he is almost certainly actually notable. DGG ( talk ) 01:27, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
I was reading your user page. I liked the part about the Gazette and you being Wikipedia. Look at this [[19]] Watch the mark 1:14:36 mark about wikipedia. Then look at this [[20]]. I can positively confirm I am not in association with any organized crime figures but it was an eye opener for eure. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 22:14, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
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Toodst1, since you were kind enough to thank me for some of my edits to March 12, I am going to take that as license to pester you for advice. As you've probably seen I've been working through that article adding references, and I've come across a case where the DoB is sourced in the article to an offline publication that I don't have a copy of. There's apparently no reliable online source available. Should I assume good faith and copy the reference across without checking it, or delete the entry and add it to a list of sources to check? Realistically the chances of me locating a copy of Rock Sound from the mid-2000s are close to zero, so in this case (and, I suspect, many other cases) the latter option is going to mean removing the article from the list. Thanks, and seasons greetings, if you celebrate at this time of year, Wham2001 (talk) 18:50, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Todd, thank you for helping me find the way.
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Hi, I met Matthew at a charity event and he was keen to tidy up his page to ensure it's accuracy.
I have a draft article would it be possible to let me know what can and can't be added?
I think even just tidying up and re-wording what is there would look much better.
Andrew Moscardini (talk) 11:22, 22 February 2020 (UTC) Andrew Moscardini
I edited added the correct birthdate for Richard Portes (december 10, 1941) and you threatened to take away my editing abilities. You claimed it was innacurate and defamatory. What did I do wrong.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:6c1:2960:d0b:9389:3051:aaf4 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, :Toddst1. I'm deeply concerned with the edits of User:Rockhead126 for this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lee_Moore
1) The text is not neutral and might violate according to Neutral point of view (NPOV). This is also based on criminal charges "against nature" back in 1990s when homosexuality was criminalized. For at least the text has to be balanced. 2) Verifiability (V) issues. The text is hard to verify as two links added are impossible to verify as the source requires to pay for reading:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/197783902/
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/198650650/
3) The birthday date is unsourced and has WP:BLP/WP:DOB issues
4) The last thing, I saw that another user tagged the article for deletion because of not neutral tone and poor sourcing but Rockhead126 removed the tag and brought two new sources (above) that are not verifiable. He also put new text that made the article even more unbalanced and now it doesn't look neutral at all. I don't think that a Wikipedia article should look like this. Actually, I didn't find any other sources regarding the politician. --2601:1C0:CB01:2660:18AC:BB3E:F427:1844 (talk) 04:37, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Todd
I assumed that since pages for older video games frequently include external links to where one can still buy the game, it would also be appropriate to include a link to where the official strategy guide for the game could be purchased. As the author, I’ve republished 8 of my old game books using CreateSpace/Kindle Direct (an arm of Amazon.com). As such, rather than being generally available, people who want help with the game can ONLY find these books at Amazon.com worldwide.
Would you prefer that I: * edit the Body text to something like “republished by the author, 2019, Amazon.com”? * do the same but make Amazon.com a link? * something else?
I’m not attempting to spam here, but don’t see that linking to the only vendor from whom the official guide can be purchased is that different from linking to a specific game vendor (Moby Games, for example) from whom the game can be purchased. Neither are arms of the game’s publisher.
Steve GameMaven (talk) 05:41, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Who’s in a better position to talk about a book than its author? Besides, I’m not commenting on their quality or recommending them. I’m merely noting their existence, which—if one is a gamer—is important info related to the game and certainly as important as various game review articles that are cited.
And my questions above are real. You’re obviously an experienced Wikipedia contributor and I am not, so I’m honestly asking what is and is not appropriate in terms of mentioning the OFFICIAL book for these games. If the mention in the body is okay and a direct external link is not, I’ll stick with the body text and no link. I’m asking you for advice. GameMaven (talk) 06:17, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Please check my talk page for two other proposed additions for a couple of games and let me know if they’re okay. This probably wraps them up. Thanks for the clarifications and your help. GameMaven (talk) 17:47, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, I am unsure what specifically you want the lead to be. I believe that you want the date he was hired somewhere and according to the cited article, Steve Pikiell was hired on March 16, 2016. The question is how you want that formatted in the lede. Additionally, most of the other current coaches in the Big 10 use somewhat similar formatting, so what specific would need to be fixed for those articles? Any that use the word currently or something else? --Super Goku V (talk) 07:43, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi!
I've finished referencing 9 March and I was just wondering whether I needed to have it checked before moving it into the DOY articles brought up to standard section or not.
Thanks, --Suonii180 (talk) 13:40, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
--Suonii180 (talk) 08:36, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, If you're looking for dates of birth (and death, where applicable) of recentish British MPs, this is a good source. --Cavrdg (talk) 21:22, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Todd
I just saw your comment on my Talk page concerning an edit you made to the “Alone In the Dark 3” article. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand how the mention of an official strategy guide (i.e., by definition, the only sanctioned, authorized, or commissioned book) for a computer or video game isn't relevant or useful information for those seeking information about that game. GameMaven (talk) 05:41, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
I received a message that I have added incorrect information on the Maltese(dog) article. I have never edited a wikipedia article (at least I don't think I have) and I'm not even really sure how to do it. Do you happen to know what or when the edit waas made? Very confused.
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Hello. I am confused on why Leah LaBelle was removed from the "Death" section of the January 31 article when the LaBelle article has references for the day that she died. Also, none of the people listed in that section have sections on the actual page so your edit summary just left me confused. I do not understand the reason for the removal. Aoba47 (talk) 21:59, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, I just to say to apologize for everything and your concerns on my edits and probably my worst mistake ever. Apparently, the revision for Wikipedia:Request for page protection was a mistake edit, I accidentally click the "Submit Query" on Twinkle which I'm still not get the gadget work, good thing you reverted my edit; in 2020 in the Philippines, it's not a edit war or blanking, I don't even have any problems with another user but how come its a edit war?, the only reason why I removed some of the sources is because it is not the "major and important" event and I'm from the Philippines that it's basically not part of the article; in disruptive pending changes, it's not a bullying, I'm actually one of the victims of bullying in real life, I saw your message on my talk page but how come its a bullying? no comment on that; and pages for days of the year, basically some IP users have just vandalize such as in April 29 where it added about the 10 year anniversary of PewDiePie's YouTube channel, while the rest no comment on that. Again, I apologize if you feel that I ruined Wikipedia and hopefully it won't happen again. I hope your considered my reasonable message. Movies Time (talk) 15:26, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
I appreciate the feedback and the earlier thanks, but with regard to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March_24&oldid=933100951, I'm unclear how the Associated Press / the Houston Chronicle are considered mirrors or forks? The referenced source was https://www.chron.com/life/article/Birthdays-March-24-12774163.php
Also, it appears you also reverted my minor formatting update https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March_24&oldid=933102152
Thanks Slvrstn (talk) 02:16, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Todd, you stated Wikipedia is not censored, and will not be censored simply due to information being offensive. Therefore please stop changing the information I am adding to the US Sixth Fleet page. Thank you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.56.55.185 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Wasn't a self-published website Todd, and you know that damned well. For Filip Muller, it was a nationwide organization for advancing knowledge of capital punishment. For the Sixth Fleet Page, the site in question is owned and managed by an ASSOCIATION of the VETERANS of the USS Liberty attack; it doesn't get any better than a friggin PRIMARY SOURCE OF THE ATTACK. You are a biased propagandist at best and this whole site is a sham. The very top quotes on your own page being leftist propaganda serves as proof enough to show your bias. Enjoy this echo chamber by yourself, loser. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.56.55.185 (talk) 23:43, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, you reverted my addition of a wikilink to the movie article, citing WP:IMDBREF but left the IMDb ref in the article. I've removed the IP editor's addition of the IMDb-sourced information, I think that's what you intended. Schazjmd (talk) 18:57, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
The birth list in this article neglects to mention Camaron de la Isla who was born in 1950. I got that information from his page in Wikipedia. Maybe you should have checked before you deleted my edit. I was only trying to help.
DrMusicArt (talk) 19:11, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
He also "frequented the 4chan and Reddit message boards, sites popular with internet trolls".
While this is a quote its not a Neutral_point_of_view of 4chan and Reddit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bakermonitor1932 (talk • contribs) 03:28, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
I just want to say that I appreciate your input on the article and welcome any good-faith effort to improve it. You've tightened up the citations and removed fluff, and you corrected some of my errors. I'm still new at this, so I could always use the help. FollowTheSources (talk) 21:01, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello could you please explain to me why the edits on the Conan page were deleted. Thank you Wjrz nj forecast (talk) 06:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
</ref> As of March 30, 2020, the show has been filmed from O’Brien’s house due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid-19 pandemic]]. <ref name="Vulture">((cite web|title= How the Late-Night Shows Are Handling Coronavirus Quarantine |date=April 8, 2020|author=Wright, Megh|url=https://www/amp/s/www.vulture.com/amp/2020/04/late-night-shows-nyc-coronavirus.html |accessdate=May 20, 2020))</ref>
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help. Your friend, WJRZ Wjrz nj forecast (talk) 06:48, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi!
I saw you removed my source on the date of birth of Judi Patton, which I had added after trying to clean up the completely unsourced edits of User:WelshDragon18. I agree that it wasn't a great source, but it was the only one I could find that gave a day of birth, and it referred to the un-archived governors webpage and was also the same as the article originally had said. However, while searching I also found this source for the year and place of birth: Murphree, Daniel S. (9 March 2012). Native America : a state-by-state historical encyclopedia. Greenwood. p. 433. ISBN 978-0313381263. which you can read here: [22]
Now this is an from an encyclopedia about a pretty unrelated topic, but would this be an acceptable source?
I could also use some help if you have the time in going through all of WelshDragon18's edits and reverting any arbitrary date changes. He has done at least dozens, perhaps hundreds of edits going back years arbitrarily changing dates on biographical articles such as this [23] and this [24], often several times to different dates and directly against the existing sources and it is going to take me a while to get through them all. I am currently at 15 April 2020.
Thanks in advance for any help! Knuthove (talk) 16:43, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
I do understand but I don't want any of my good work to all be undone, I'm very concerned about that. To be frank, there's nothing that says you have to revert these changes, so why complain when you have obviously chosen to take on this role? I appreciate your comments and will be more careful in future. WelshDragon18 (talk) 23:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Dear Toddst1,
I believe you have made an error in your editing of the page "Shooting of Duncan Lemp". The facts corrected were already cited in the references concerning the announcements from the family.
If I may ask, what is your role within the Wikipedia community?
Best — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markelees (talk • contribs) 21:26, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
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I just wanted to touch base with you to let you know why I reverted and expanded your deletion of the riot section on Jake Paul's page. He claimed he was recording it to release a video to show the outrage of police brutality. In my view that makes it vocational. I reverted for that reason and left a section on the Jake Paul talk page explaining so. I also included cites and summary of his position and reasoning for it. I am happy to discuss and engage my reasoning on that talk page. Cheers. P37307 (talk) 00:16, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
I don't understand why you've reverted this as Alan Freeman, a highly renowned radio presenter, has a Wikipedia article in his name. Martyn Smith (talk) 12:14, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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Fair enough. I got the info from the BMD register on genesreunited but couldn’t figure out how to link to it successfully. Dick Shane (talk) 19:15, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Let's see if a one-year block has any more effect. I'm doubtful - if he didn't learn after a 3-month block, will he ever? - but it would normally take something a bit more serious than adding unreferenced content for me to do an indefinite block. Deb (talk) 06:54, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
I wanted to revert a good faith edit on Maine, and then saw you beat me to it with an edit summary I'd like to be able to use. Is this a rollback function where I can include "good faith"? ---Sluzzelin talk 20:51, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Dear Toddst1,
I have found the sources of births on August 12, September 8, December 10 and December 27 as well as deaths on February 22.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Aravindhan Ravikumar (talk) 15:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I recently created the Jacob R. Day page and I saw you nominated it for deletion. This is all well and good, but your removal of the deletion notice and the comment you left when removing the nomination ("too soon - hadn't seen the history") left me confused - Was the nomination removed because I created the page very recently, or was it removed because the page meets the required notability guidelines for pages? Thanks! AviationFreak💬 01:13, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hello Todd I am a friend of Shawn Fonteno and updated the info after noticing it was not on his page. I do not do much editing on Wikipedia and only did so to add correct information. Sorry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Fonteno — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.27.251.49 (talk) 21:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hi - I'd actually argue that CABI is a tertiary source, not primary...and even if one insisted on its status as primary, there's perfectly reasonable grounds in this case to use the source. Nevertheless, have added two different sources which confirm the birth date and age. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 07:08, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hi! You reverted my edit, which had added:
"On 20 July 1987, Paul McCartney recorded a cover, included on the 1991 worldwide release of his album Снова в СССР."
to the "Summertime" song page. Thanks for noting "good faith", but your edit description gives no clue as to why you thought the reversion necessary. I'm still mystified, as the cover is by a notable artist and of good musical value, so I thought the addition was notable enough for inclusion. yoyo (talk) 04:33, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
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your note said "no source" --- however, none of the entries in that article have "sources". It is assumed (correctly) that the sources are contained in the article indicated (Sue Draheim). Assuming that you have misunderstood the parameters involved in the article, I will return the listing for the April 11, 2013 for her death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhooha (talk • contribs) 17:18, 31 October 2020 (UTC)--Akhooha (talk) 20:18, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
I dont see why you get to delete valid information that is on every single other celebrity's page? personal life is part of all wikipedia pages and its not disclosing any private or controversial information. its a fact and i dont see why it shouldnt be there. its not gossip. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.190.94 (talk) 23:44, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey- why did you say that my edit on Rocky Mount, North Carolina was disruptive? Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:10, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Toddst1, I've removed that link from Trumpism because of how unorganized and unstructured the heading paragraph looked with it interrupting the content of the page. I'd wager that the link was meant to be a reference, but clearly the original poster failed at doing so due to the link not being encapsulated in a reference superscript if this was the case. Why should we expect casual readers of Wikipedia to take an article seriously when the content isn't organized? May you explain to me why that link is perplexingly placed in the middle of a sentence in the heading? W.C Cross (talk) 07:15, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
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is an entirely valid form of reference, although not as widely used as "being encapsulated in a reference superscript" using <ref> ... </ref>. Toddst1 (talk) 07:22, 19 November 2020 (UTC)Hi, Im keen to discuss what ways I can update the Wikipedia page about my brand, Mixmag, within your guidelines, using citations where required. Some images, facts and info on the page are out of date. I am the MD of Mixmag and am keen for people looking up my brand on Wikipedia to get up-to-date information. The page was targeted this year by the owner of a smaller media brand looking to hurt our business; he has since agreed he will stop editing our page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harryisourking (talk • contribs) 12:29, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello @Toddst1:, I think you nominated the page Sword of the Spirit for deletion in 2008. The result was 'Move to User Sandbox' It doesn't currently seem to be in a Sandbox, though. I would like to propose that the article be re-nominated for deletion because there are not enough sources to present the article neutrally. There is not even any WP:RS that describe the organization, except in passing. A few reliable sources mention scandals in the organization but do not say much about the organization itself. So I think there are not enough sources to present the article neutrally. What do you think? Franciskouj (talk) 11:44, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello @Toddst1: So I have received a Conflict of Interest notification from you.
I can assure you that I have no affiliation whatsoever with any of the organisation pages I contribute to. There may be some confusion, it is in fact Franciskouj who is employed by the Sword of the Spirit, and states so on their user talk page...there have also been some section blanking issues with ip only users etc...
This article was in fact started by another wiki user who makes contributions to topics relevant to the charismatic renewal.
I contribute specifically to covenant community organisation pages as I have access to a fair number of sources on these communities, and have noticed that much of the material on existing wiki pages for these organisations suffer from sparse documentation, corporate vanity and poor sourcing.
I have taken a bit of time to try and conform to wiki standards, and hope that the presentation of my content is appropriately accurate to the source and neutral.
I have begun with reputable news sources (NYT, Washington Post, Penguin) and some academic publishing. Some of the content included here was sourced and suggested for inclusion by Franciskouj as you will be able to see on the talk page.
I can fully understand that at first glance there appears to be a negative bias. It is unfortunate that this organisation has seen little discussion in reliable sources other than to discussion or academic study of the more unsavoury aspects of the organisation.
Franciskouj has suggested some recent contributions, and I have suggested myself expansion on the topics of community structure and ritual practice (I am drafting a section on ritual practice which relies primarily on journal publishing and books by professors who have studied this organisation). I am also aware of at least one current academic who studies these organisations, so I believe there will be more authors for future contributions and further material which may be used for sourcing.
Perhaps this will help flesh out the article somewhat and allow a little more neutral reading.
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Hi Toddst1,
Thanks again for this message! Reviewing WP:DOY is at least a quarter of the WP:RPC process, and had you not informed me I would have continued to think a wikilink was sufficient for a citation. I was reading your userpage, and noticed something very interesting. I love the very first quote you have - but I have an issue with your citation. The citation says it was retrieved on 1 August 2016, but the article was published on 31 August 2016.
Is this a minor detail? Yes.
Am I still bringing it to your attention? Yes.
HouseBlaster (talk) 02:24, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm sorry I made a bad edit to the article, and thanks for repairing it. I was mass-reverting the work of a new editor who, 95% of the time, finds rather outlandish "sources", which they don't check, and which don't support the article text. I knew there would be a few mistakes, but I needed to act fast before good edits piled on top of the bad ones. It's more effort to manually revert than it took to make the bad edits!--Quisqualis (talk) 15:26, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
I am sorry to notice that "ViaMichelin Barcelona Restaurants: online restaurant guide" and "MICHELIN GUIDE ESPAÑA" do not exist on the internet. Maybe on paper. Could you please correct that? The Banner talk 13:36, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Toddst1, I do not follow the drama-boards, so I did not notice that you were no longer an admin. It is a pity.-- Toddy1 (talk) 12:18, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi I was about to delete a few words including a hanging reference to complete your Revision as of 05:51, 6 September 2020 by Toddst1 on Robin Collins but I see that AnomieBOT "rescued" the reference:
I'll delete it — this is just in case you left it there because you thought it needed special treatment.
Thanks for so much work! BAPhilp (talk) 05:44, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
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Todd,
I'm looking to collaborate with someone of the extensive work I've done on American founding father Roger Sherman and his descendants. I'm wondering if this might interest to you?
This work is part of greater effort in following the evolution of a American founding family.
Aaron (03:09, 30 November 2020 (UTC))
I have all the supporting documentation, and want to make sure that all the proper citations are included and page formations, etc.
AaronB0413 {ATrain (talk) 20:32, 30 November 2020 (UTC)}
Hi Toddst1
Just a quick question. I noticed you rolled back my date-entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2 (adding musician Anna David to the 'Births' list). I'm curious to know why? :)
Cheers and have a lovely weekend
Kmilling (talk) 13:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
You reverted my edit on November 10 but I think you meant to get the one before - could you take another look?— Rod talk 21:51, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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Look Toddst1, You need to stop it. Why do you keep delting my contribution. It's not disruptive to add Juice WRLD, to the list of December 2 Births, he was a rapper before he died. There is an article about, he wasn't on the list, so I add him and then you delete him, and I don't like it. It's not a disruption top add a single correction or reply, so just stop messing up everything. I'm not doing anything wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xfhxzf (talk • contribs) 03:50, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for making the Green Star section. They debuted it in Japan recently as well. (Hello23223 (talk) 20:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC))
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OK, I give in to all the reverts you've made. I've made some mistakes on my edits. And I'm Sorry. You've won the battle, but you haven't won the war. Click [[32]], and see the contributions I've made. Please click the preview button, some of them say accepted. I'm promise you, you won't regret it Xfhxzf ([[33]]) , 3:09 PM, MST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xfhxzf (talk • contribs) 22:10, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edits on Wedbush Securities! You did some great cleanup work there. It seemed like the article had some serious problems, but I wasn't really sure how to handle them. Thanks for taking care of them. palindrome§ǝɯoɹpuᴉןɐd 22:54, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi Todd, you substantially reduced in the scope the academic value of the Wedbush page. Wikipedia now has more characters on the Legal Cases as it does on the History section. This hardly seems appropriate for one of the largest investment banks in the United States managing over $2.5 billion, the firm has been around since 1955. The true extent of history as written is now practically non-existent as is the prior corporate structure. The edits I did were based on the pages of other banks too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.229.142.133 (talk) 07:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. Just wondering what criteria is needed to add a DOY to a page. This edit was reverted. I'm fine with that, but wondering for instance how that link is any different to [International Polar Bear Day], which is just a random pick from the existing list. -- drrngrvy tlk @ 10:01, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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You removed most of the last ¶ at Ian McFarlane, with the edit summary: way, way off topic
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...this,[34] his grave marker says 1916. To say 1916/1917 is unsourced. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:15, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
I've seen you on some newer PCRs talk page, offering advice (especially with the date thing; it's not mentioned anywhere.) I (and probably other new PCRs) appreciate this a lot! It's helped better my judgement on some unclear cases. So thanks for taking the time to look at PCR accepts for things we could improve on. :) Sennecaster (What now?) 03:01, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
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Ah,I saw the date in Prithvi Narayan Shah and kingdom of nepal page.And I also didn't saw any reliable sources for other article written in the page. So pls explain me I. Dept. Thank you, PN27 PN27 (talk) 10:45, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1 - On 12 May 2021 I discovered that musician Marshal Royal was listed under 'Births' on the page 'On this day'. He was born on 5 December 1912 - not 12 May. In the entry about Royal there's a verified reference, confirming his date of birth, so with that in mind I took the liberty and moved Royal to 'On this day' 5 December 1912. That has now been reverted, and I have a hard time understanding why. Please advise :) -- Kmilling - 16:49, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I have one question regarding to the Days of the Year. For the edit to stay, it needs to have some soft or reference or some kind of clarification for proof that the event has occurred. Is that right?
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Todd, help me out here. I saw what you did, but I also wrote up a half dozen of those, and we just can't keep adding them infinitely. Of course there's also Template:Lynching in the United States, which has many more names, and as a footer that's much more handy than a long list in a sidebar. And ideally they'd both "pull" from the same well, so you don't have to update either one--or worse, both. Any ideas? Oh, and there's List of lynching victims in the United States, which is probably the most visible, the most edited and watched, and the easiest to maintain... Drmies (talk) 17:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Help copy edit. Thanks you. Vnosm (talk) 05:29, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
The person really was born on 8 January 1999. It can be confirmed at his band's official website ([35]) and La Repubblica article published on the same date of his birth. Anyway, will replace the previous reference with the one from La Repubblica.--ParoleSonore (talk) 22:56, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey Toodst1,
I see that you've reverted my edit that added Vladimir Tkachenko to the list of people born on the 20th of September. I understand that references/citations are needed for such additions, but the wiki page for the athlete itself points to his FIBA (the International Basketball Federation) page that lists his DOB as the 20th of September. If that is not a good enough citation, I would sincerely like an explanation on what is.
Best, SamTelson Samtelson (talk) 04:58, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
A template is a device that serves as a model for others to copy. It does not prescribe that examples of text used within itself shall apply across the board, only that they represent the formats in which actual detail shall be presented in the live version of the article. Hence, while the template gives Pre-1600, 1601–1900 and 1901– as examples of recommended sub-heading format, a given article might use Pre-1801, assuming a substantial number of instances before the 19th century; 1801–1850 and 1851–1900, if there is a long list of 19th century items; and then 1901–1910, 1911–1920, etc. if there is a huge list of 20th century items.
The whole point of the exercise is to improve readability for our readers, not to make matters worse by splitting a list of 100 births into three sub-sections containing 3, 17 and 80 items respectively. A template is there for illustration only. The whole point of a template is to provide a format that is used as a basis for the actual detail. You do NOT apply template examples literally. No Great Shaker (talk) 18:21, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Todd, and thank for the feedback on the Sunnyvale, California page. I'm afraid I'm looking for clarification on what what you claim I'm leaving unsourced. One of my edits includes adding a "citation needed" tag to the claim that Lockheed moved its headquarters to Sunnyvale, which I can't find substantiated anywhere (and believe to be untrue). Much of the edit is re-ordering content that is already in the article, in part to consolidated the three references to being in Silicon Valley into just one. I added a section on the 1988 ESL Shooting, which is notable and well sourced. I also highlighted Sunnyvale's significance to video games, as the former home of Atari. Would you please advise, and perhaps pepper what you see as problem areas with "citation needed" and/or other tags, rather than reverting the whole edit? Thank you Johnlogic (talk) 23:06, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Toddst1, hope that you're well. I was wondering if there's any way to convince you to participate in the interview at WP DOTY? (interview here: User:Tom (LT)/sandbox/WikiProject days of the year interview draft - even a few questions would be most appreciated). It would be great to have a few more voices in the interview and I am enthusiastic about trying to have these interviews because it helps show editors how diverse in interests our movement is, reminds editors how we are all human and here in good faith, and continues to develop a sense of community :). Tom (LT) (talk) 08:10, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hi I’m Dragongirl95, I saw your reply to my request to edit Richard White (actor) and it said it needs citations from a reliable source? How is IMDb not a reliable source? How do I prove his birthday is August 4,1953? I’m one of Richards biggest fan so I highly doubt I would give inappropriate information about his birthday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragongirl95 (talk • contribs) 07:38, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
It seems someone has been involved in edit war with you. I have reverted it. Please block that user aswell protect the page from disruptive edits. Already that page has lots of edit wars recently.
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Hi Dragongirl95 here,
I read ur newest reply and I didn’t realize that you don’t count IMDb for sources. However does this count as a reliable source? https://famousbirthdays.io/richard-white-voiceactor/. I kinda wish that I had done the galaxycon live session with Richard so that I could’ve asked him in virtual person but I was too late and when you google his birthday in the sear it says his birthday is August 4,1953 so I don’t know how much proof you need for Richards birthday date.
Thanks for your time
Remember this guy? I've just blocked him permanently. Deb (talk) 11:29, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
What on earth?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:36, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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Pierre Testu-Brissy. Your edit comment said ... this ascent not even mentioned in the linked person's biography. It is cited in the Wiki page, but where can I find his biography? It's not obvious in my Google searching. I am excited (a bit) about reading it and enhancing the Wiki article. Many thanks. Chienlit (talk) 08:36, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
I managed to find a few references for this on Google Books if you're interested, but none of them really explain why. A friend of mine is a bit of an expert on the history of ballooning and has written a book about it (which doesn't mention this incident), but one thing I learned from him is that the earliest experiments with hot air balloons had little in the way of objective and they had no idea how they were going to use them in the long term. Apparently one theory was that horses would run faster if they had a balloon attached to them! Deb (talk) 07:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello again, Toddst1! On the page December 14, I reverted this edit because the latter person does not have a page on Wikipedia, let alone a citation to a reliable source as required per WP:DOYCITE. I could be wrong (as I have been many, many times before), but isn't that the proper protocol under DOYCITE? I believe what happened is you thought I had added the person to the article without a citation, but I in fact removed it, and then you reverted it. Sorry for the lack of clarity, I was unsure how to eloquently state this! HouseBlastertalk 18:15, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
I appreciate you reviewing my article over Salvatore Briguglio, so adding inline citations is just adding the source next to the text where it came from? I also want to add an image on the article, https://themobmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/briguglio-GI-515113372_crop.jpg but I'm not sure how to avoid copyright, any help would be appreciated, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sodapoppers (talk • contribs) 01:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, if you don't mind checking the article to see if I'm doing inline citations correctly, I just want to be sure of it.--Sodapoppers (talk) 02:28, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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I approved a pending change by user:Superior-wisconsin and cleaned it up a little. You reverted my cleanup but not the original change. Is that what you meant to do? (To be clear: I have no problem with you reverting both edits.) Cheers, Nick Levine (talk) 23:36, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Have you noticed the spate of new users adding poorly-sourced content about Finland to day and year articles? Deb (talk) 20:25, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
I've done nothing of the sort. What "poorly referenced biographical content" are you referring to? If you are going to accuse me of something it would help if you specify the details of you are talking about. Two Bananas (talk) 21:10, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
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hello, on Dec 17 you wrote that I was engaged in an edit war on the Dec 18 page. On the Dec 18 page I removed an entry that was clearly duplicate, as per the talk page, where the possibility of removing it was raised, and no one said otherwise. That was the only thing I did on the Dec 18 page. Could you please clarify for me? Thanks. --142.163.194.149 (talk) 01:59, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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You wrote: "Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Cynthia McQuillin, you may be blocked from editing. Toddst1 (talk) 14:25, 16 December 2021 (UTC)"
Can you please be more descriptive? What did I say that disruptive in a Talk forum? I like Cynthia McQuillin's work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.35.22.229 (talk) 18:47, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi Toddst1, happy new year. Would you mind having a look at the history of this page, plus the comment "Laws affecting 29_February: bold, revert,DISCUSS" on the talk page? I've directed both users to the DOY template. Do you want to add any comments? Cheers, Kiwipete (talk) 02:30, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Hey @Toddst1,
Thank You for informing me about my mistake and I appreciate that but I would be really glad if you could just elaborate a little more and specify the wrong edit so that I keep this in mind and avoid repeating the same mistake.
Plus, would really appreciate if you can just clear to me what's Awesome Wikipedian? Regards Natureisablessing (talk) 05:03, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
First, thank you for guiding me through this process of adding content to en.wikipedia. Originally, I was attempting to add to the February 8 deaths column "2020 Robert Conrad, American actor". My source was the "New York Times Arts column February 8, 2020. I guess I must have placed the information in the "article" section which was not my original intent. I have no idea what you are talking about in my submitting an article. --THOMAS (talk) 03:49, 9 February 2022 (UTC)Thomasterryjr.
My apologies, I attempted to revert some disruptive editing to the article, and accidentally reverted one edit instead of two. I corrected this, but I didn't realise that you had made an edit in the meantime, so I've deleted the sentence you deleted as per WP:NOR. Thank you for your many contributions, and sorry for the bother,
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V.C. Bird IS the subject of an article, and should be included in the June 28th and December 9th articles. V.C. Bird is also relevant and notable enough to be included in these articles. I see no reason to why my edits were reverted. 123waawaaaa (talk) 23:16, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
My logic for adding this information to the Natasha Bassett page is as follows: She is a public figure, in the performing arts and this particular information will be significant in her career. Note that I'm not adding information about her directly, but took care to add information about a report about her, that is significant ito her career. Would appreciate it if you can restore my addition to this page. Thank you
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Reyna I. Aburto. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
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Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cristian Vogel which rules out csd and bold redirects. The article is very poor but he is notable, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 23:16, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm not aware that we have policy not to have dates of birth on the main page. Secretlondon (talk) 10:08, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
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For the record, I'm not the only one who posted DOBs and I did not have any ill intent. There are dozens of articles on Guantanamo detainees that have DOBs on them posted by other editors. Are you going to revert them all? Anyway, I'll leave David Hicks' page alone since his article is clearly on your watchlist. --IPCA87 (talk) 14:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
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Why were you reverting the addition of Andrew Scheer's date of birth? That's about as standard a feature of an article on a human being as I can imagine. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:43, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Todd, could I ask you to help resolve the apparent edit war between myself and User:Spicyapplesauce on the May 23 article. Spicyapplesauce had previously asked on the talk page (Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2022) to change the order of Bonnie and Clyde, with User:RudolfRed replying "Not done: that part of the list is alphabetical". Since then Spicyapplesauce have themselves edited the page, which I have reverted twice now. After my last revert, I backed up RudolfRed's reply, asking Spicyapplesauce to desist from making this change. They have now made the same edit for the third time. Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 02:43, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Ok so I don't know if you saw my reply to your message on my talk page and might aswell paste it here. I was expecting for some feed back. Anyways I see what you're refering because of your recent edits remove some details of the Kansas State Reps. They aren't unsourced as you claim in WP:RS. It's located here from the Kansas State Legislature Library. It doesn't violate WP:BLP or WP:DOB since they make it public. The only thing I didn't do that I probably should had is to tag it with a reference, since some articles already put it in another sentence. Dillon251992 (talk) 18:06, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
I was clearly misunderstanding the basics of WikiProject Days of the year and the manual of style of dates, so Thanks for withdrawing my moves, because I didn't know how to withdraw it. Sorry for the late reply and Thanks! Jishiboka1 (talk) 05:25, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Todd. If the warning about Active Arbitration Remedies is still needed on this page, could the line "Editors may not make any modifications to the official name of this country" be changed to clarify that "this country" refers to North Macedonia? As it stands, the warning is ominous yet baffling. (I had to dig to figure out the warning's context and what country was meant, and I'm not 100% sure I understand the issue.) CAVincent (talk) 06:02, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, you objected to my mass proposed deletion of a bunch of articles on The Wire minor characters. I have now opened a thread to discuss these: [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters#Redirecting articles on [mostly] minor The Wire characters]]. I hope you can weigh in there if you are able. Long story short, I am saying there that I think most of the in-universe content of all these articles (which we agree are currently crappy articles—the question is whether the topics of them are potentially article-worthy) needs to go, but I think it's worth seeking input about whether that should be done by wholesale blanking and redirecting these articles, or by keeping them but deleting most of their content and turning them into stubs with a bunch of cleanup tags on the top. (I was originally going to do this at AfD, which is also what you suggested, but later on I decided not to, 1 because I can't do it anyway without registering an account, and 2 because the last time this was tried at AfD everyone just said it's more appropriate for a talk page than AfD anyway.) 61.18.156.43 (talk) 03:32, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
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CreecregofLife has reverted a section from NickRewind without giving a reason, and he reverted it again. I tried to make the programming section a little bit more detailed but CreecregofLife is reverting it all. Could you please do something about him?
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What sources would you say would constitute as “Reliable”? For his DOB? Because trust me, I’ve been trying to search. I’ve seen stuff like tweets, personal info pages created for him, birthday messages on media etc but yet those somehow don’t count. So what would exactly count? WikiFlame50 (talk) 06:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
I’ve just provided 2 sources for his birthday. One with a full biography of martinet and an article that states he is 66 years old. No news sites have talked about his birthday from what I’ve been trying to search. They are actually reliable. They do say a lot. And for one thing, I’m not trying to be a burden. I edit soap pages mostly so I didn’t understand your terms whatsoever. But being honest here, don’t you think you could have been a bit lighter with me? I didn’t know and you went a bit full on with me with those messages. If you revert my reliable sources once again, Just tell me what sources I’m supposed to look for. WikiFlame50 (talk) 07:06, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Again I apologise, I’m not a bad user and I never try to break the rules. I just find it extremely annoying that his DOB always gets reverted when pretty much everyone says it’s September 17th 1955 and wish him HB on September 17th. It just makes no sense.WikiFlame50 (talk) 07:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
I’ve just spotted something. On Charlie Day’s page, his DOB is sourced with sites named TV Insider and Rotten Tomato, Are those sites reliable, just to ask? WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:01, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
I thought it would be better to ask instead of me getting fucked over. WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:06, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
The group was originally based in Olympia in the 1990s, but at this point has members living in Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. They perform in all three cities (though during the COVID pandemic they've performed almost entirely in Portland, with a truncated version of the group, basically the Portland portion of the band plus sometimes one or two from out of town). If you have a better way to word that than what I've said, please feel free. Maybe just "Pacific Northwest-based"? I'm not really concerned, as long as it stays basically accurate.
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Im currently trying to make amends and make things right. I’m sorry for all the damage I caused. I accept full responsibility of my actions, all you did was tell me what I did wrong. You didn’t deserve any blatant treatment from me, I was acting like a moron and it’s not who I am. I’ve learned my lesson, I will always make sure my sources are reliable 100%. WikiFlame50 (talk) 18:43, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, I didn't understand the requirements.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 15:37, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
I am trying to update information about ME on wiki and you reject it as un sourced and 'crap". Where M I going wormg here? best, Roger Redgate 31.50.124.56 (talk) 16:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
I'm confused by your update on my page re: unsourced edits. As you can see from the edit log, all I did was fix some grammatical issues. Not sure why I became the target of your ire. Herodotus419 (talk) 03:40, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
I added Zach Hadel to the Mar 4 birth section ans Chris O'Niell to the Nov 21 birth section, both of those dates are listed on their actual wikipedia pages so it isnt me pulling it out of my ass, and i even made an effort to source it regardless, yet you delete both additions I made, which would be fine, but you didnt fix it. Had you taken down mine and put it back up how you deem "correctly" I wouldnt be upset, but you took it down just because. Please give me a reason as to why immediately when you get the chance. LusAir (talk) 17:05, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hi your edit on Sali Berisha page has been reverted 2 times so far and your edit-warning well... it was ignored. Side-note: Is that you dog in the pic? He won the elections, right? :p — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.G ReDark (talk • contribs) 00:24, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
No you got it wrong I didn't remove anything I tried to restore that content same as you, basically after you restored that material the user removed it again and I restored it like you did (2 times). Take a look what I mean, I just informed you what that user did, also in another page one of the content you restored is mine. Yeah I forgot to sign my name, sorry about that. S.G ReDark (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed Cliff Richard's date of birth on 9 September 2022 and quoted the WP:DOB rule which is predicated on the subject requesting the information not be published. I can't find any record of that ever occurring. Can you supply a source for making this type of edit? Cliff Richard's birth information is widely known and he is not borderline notable. Unless you're Cliff Richard himself or one of his employees, then your edit seems to be a misunderstanding of the guidelines and should be reverted. Kind regards, TedRoach (talk) 11:49, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Did you really mean to create that in mainspace? Onel5969 TT me 11:19, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
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What exactly would you consider a 'reliable source' for the data that I'm still living in Yorktown? I mean, I could update my home page (which is on a computer at MIT, so the general public doesn't have access to it; i.e. some random person can't pretend to be me there), but I'm not sure you would consider that reliable.
Also, you removed the information that I help maintain the online catalogue raisonné for Yoshitoshi. That can be verified to a certain degree by looking at resources linked to from the bio page here, e.g. the actual Web-site. But again, that might not meet your elevated standard for 'reliable'.
While I understand and agree with the general goal of verifiability of material on Wikipedia, I think things have gone too far when details like that I'm still living in Yorktown, and maintain the Yoshitoshi site, are removed because they are not adequately sourced - at least to the elevated level that you are enforcing. I have zero interest in jumping through hoops to find sources that meet your standards (although I could, if I cared; e.g. there is a published book that refers to me as the maintainer of the Yoshitoshi site).
I didn't create that bio page, or add much material to it; most was done by others. I used to occasionally drop by, both i) to update it to be current (e.g. when I retired) and ii) to ensure that it was accurate. However, I can guarantee you that after this unpleasant interaction, I will never even look at it again. Ironically, over time, this will inevitably make the page less accurate, but I guess this will not bother you, because it will still better meet your individual perception that it is more reliably sourced - errors and all. Noel (talk) 14:37, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
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I don't know why You removed the entry. I added a reference from a government source. How is that not a reliable source? also, it would be nice if significant changes in policy are added to the affected pages. Kdammers (talk) 20:06, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
I don't really understand the distinction between an article about the single 'Love Me Do' which mentions the release date and an article about the event. Anyhow, the event is notable enough to be included - if you can find a WP:RS maybe you could add it yourself. Regards Scrabble1968 (talk) 22:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
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What's your honest opinion on this? No one seems interested. Deb (talk) 11:27, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. I noticed that on the page " Dúlamán", the "notable recordings" section was deleted. I think that a "notable recordings" section is necessary. These sections have been present in many pages about certain folk songs so I don't see the need to remove it JayBirdtyper (talk) 21:55, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
You probably know more about that than I considered you've been participating in WP longer than I have. I should have asked you why you removed it instead. That said, from what I could gather from what you sent me, it says that covers that gain attention by themselves, could receive a mention. There are at least three melodies to dúlamán with the most influential being the tune used by Clannad. Altan and anúna which used different tunes, are pretty instrumental in the Irish music scene. I still trust your judgement more than mine JayBirdtyper (talk) 00:35, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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I found your update in the "Summertime" article related to "Ukrainian Yiddish lullaby": [44]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Summertime_(George_Gershwin_song)&diff=1082038288&oldid=1082037950
Why did you remove this information?
I want to help fix russian article about "Summertime". There is the same portion of text about "Ukraine roots" was being injected, removed and injected again. It seems to be a fake. Usikpavel (talk) 13:00, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
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First, thanks for the maintenance you put into the May 6 page that keeps it at such a good level of quality.
I have just one question about your recent reversion of the edit I made to the events list. You mentioned in your edit summary that the event itself needs to have a Wikipedia page to qualify for the Day of the Year list. However, I thought that rule was for holidays, and that other events qualify if they're an important part of associated pages? To use examples from the May 6 page, there's no Wikipedia page for Crazy Horse's surrender in Nebraska or for Babe Ruth's first major league home run, but there are biographical pages for Crazy Horse and Babe Ruth in which those events are recounted. Would Ida Hunt Udall beginning her later-to-become-historic diary qualify because she herself has a biographical page in which beginning her diary is treated? P-Makoto (talk) 00:32, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Toddst1 (talk · contribs) I hope you are doing well now, I just want to tell you that Jam Agarao herself told to me/us that his birthdate is December 6, 1988 so if possible don't please delete what I put on her page. — Einahr (talk) 04:13, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey Todd can I ask that if you heard the song It Was A Good Day in GTA SA then why did you remove my input on the song's article Kabelo Lesooana (talk) 15:02, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
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I am curious about your removal of the birthdate on an article I am working on. Out of pure curiosity, what is the typical standard for a source when it comes to the birthdate of a subject? If it’s not self-verified on a database but that database requires all non-self-verified birthdates to be proven by birth documentation.. is that not acceptable?
Genuine question. I’m still fairly new to editing. 4theloveofallthings (talk) 00:25, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
@Toddst1 4theloveofallthings (talk) 00:28, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
I edited this page to add a recording by a well known irish singer and radio presenter. You responded by completely removing the list of covers of this song, citing lack of compliance with WP:COVERSONG. Most of the covers listed here are by notable artists and they do not break any of the rules as far as I can see. Please re-instate the list of covers. 217.183.11.26 (talk) 23:31, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, you recently reverted the above edit because there is no article on it. However, there is quite an extensive article on the subject and it is linked in the edit: War in Donbas (2014–2022)#April_2014:_conflict_begins. Is this insufficient to accept edit 1131173420? --22:55, 2 January 2023 (UTC) 89.206.112.11 (talk) 22:55, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Katherine Agapay, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a recently created redirect - consider WP:RfD. Thank you. Salvio 15:20, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Editors are expected to treat each other with respect and civility. On this encyclopedia project, editors assume good faith while interacting with other editors. Here is Wikipedia's welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! I do not appreciate your behavior on my talk page. –DMartin 07:58, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Please do not attack other editors, as you did in your edit summary on Guy C. Barton House. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. –DMartin 08:36, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
For the benefit of any TPS and @Doncram:, Here is the context - DMartin's edits:
Both of these articles demonstrate easily passing WP:GNG. My "personal attack" was stating This editor seems to have something against landmarks in Omaha in an edit summary declining one of the prods: [50]. Interpreting that as a personal attack in the context of these 7 edits - yeah "Piffle." Toddst1 (talk) 07:10, 16 January 2023 (UTC) |
Hi, I saw and responded to your further comments at my Talk page. But I find this interaction to be creating negativity and not useful to me, and life is short, and I request that you do not post again at my Talk page. (With exception that if you want to take one last shot at me, because I did reply to you there, I won't mind, and then I would be inclined not to respond besides, say, pointing out this request.) Sincerely, --Doncram (talk,contribs) 01:10, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi! Sir why you always deleting(againt's) to me? — Einahr (talk) 03:44, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I just want you to clarify that I'm not related to WikiNerd881, It's just a coincidence that we almost had as same name. He joined wikipedia in February and I contributed here in June 2022. Anyway, just because I edited/created his talk page means I owned that account?
My only sockpuppet is Noobsusguy33 which was created in July. I just don't get that you accused me of being related to WikiNerd881? This is unprofessional, I just edited his userpage and eventually became a sockpuppet? I joined wikipedia as Noobguy33. It became WikiCentral24 I believe August of 2022 but I don't relate to WikiNerd881. Noobguy33 used to be my usernames until I requested to change it into "WikiCentral24". I just don't know what are you saying to me.
He has more experience than mine, he contributed more than mine, and he joined wikipedia 4 months before I joined and started my first edit. I just don't get this so much. TheWikiCentral24 (talk) 12:26, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
Do you have any tips to make it sound less promotional? — VORTEX3427 (Talk!) 02:54, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
You have started arbitray disputes with me now on Chemy Soibelman, the draft of Chrissy Chlapecka, and are now tagging articles from years ago that I openly disclose on my user page were paid contributions. None of these subjects are famous or have anything in common and aren't even all BLPs, so I can only conclude that you are intentionally stalking my profile and contributions looking for things to tag or dispute. I have no idea what your issue with me is, but this is bordering on harassment and needs to stop now. I would greatly prefer not to take this to ArbCom. Invisiboy42293 (talk) 22:22, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
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template at the top of the talk page accompanying any paid contributions (and to fill in the parameters). Maybe you don't think this applies to you either. Well, I've done it for you. Another burden that you're shirking.Hi, hope you are doing well. I noticed that you recently changed the title of the article to "2023 Thathri land subsistence." I believe that the more appropriate word for this topic would be "subsidence" instead of "subsistence."
"Subsidence" refers to the sinking or settling of the ground surface, whereas "subsistence" refers to the minimum resources necessary for survival. While "subsistence" is a related concept, it is not the primary focus of the article and may lead to confusion for readers.
I would suggest making the change back to "2023 Thathri land subsidence" to provide a clearer and more accurate representation of the topic. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this suggestion.
Thank you again for your efforts to improve Wikipedia.❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 08:43, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Todd, thanks for going over this entry. I saw there were issues with a lack of reliable sources in previous drafts (which have been rightly rejected) and have tried to correct that. I'm appealing the rejection here, I hope that's alright. I wasn't sure otherwise where/how it should be appealed. Kevin B. Lee to my mind without a doubt a notable filmmaker and critic whose work merits having an entry (I say this as a long-time Wiki user and occasional contributor and as a film curator/writer) so I think it's worth going through the work of ensuring that's reflected through the sources. I added numerous articles about his work from independent leading media outlets (LAtimes, Nytimes, Chicago Tribune, Yale News), as well as numerous peer-reviewed academic journals. I also rephrased some of the writing, which read in earlier drafts too much like a resume. Thanks again for taking the time to consider this new draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boaz.levin (talk • contribs) 10:18, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Steve Dent, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The filmography section suggests credibility. I would recommend other deletion methods. Thank you. BangJan1999 00:54, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
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Her birth date is listed on Maureen McTeer's page. Perhaps you want to get rid of it there too. Freefry (talk) 21:19, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, before outright deleting a reference like here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve-O&diff=prev&oldid=1159847000 , please check if the archive link is still accessible, like in this case --FMSky (talk) 07:34, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
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Unsure that removing the entire section here makes sense. Evidently Schottky lent his name to the device, so it makes sense to tie the two together in the article body, whereas now he's only linked from the lead and the infobox. Any particular reason for removing the whole bit? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 23:13, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
I decided to start this article as the subject is a distinguished Scottish songwriter responsible for several Hollywood film themes. My intention is to add more detail to it and there is much to be had from acceptable sources. Others may wish to contribute too. You have placed a redirect on it however which means readers cannot access the actual detail of the article. May I respectfully ask you to explain why this is so that I can continue to contribute useful information to the Wiki? Leitrim Lad (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Todd, I just wanted to follow up with you regarding the edits made to the Taino (rapper) Wikipedia page. I have gone ahead and made the necessary changes to address the issues you raised, including removing any unencyclopedic content and cleaning up external links. Additionally, I have added back the Legal section with shortened, neutral context and proper citations, as I believe it provides valuable information backed up by historical newspaper citations and links to potential relevant topics.
If you have any further feedback or suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
Best regards Cperez21 (talk) 17:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi. Just so as you know, there is a short discussion a little further up AssociateAffiliate's talk page as a response to your original PROD. I suspect that might be why they appeared a little "snarky" at the AfD. It's worth noting that redirecting to a suitable list is just about the standard approach for this sort of article (and has a long running consensus from AfDs going back years) and that both of us would have supported that bold move. If you want to run any other similar articles past me please do so, it's usually pretty straightforward to decide whether there's a case for redirecting straight away of whether an article needs to go to AfD. Or you can make the decision yourself - if someone thinks it's in error they'll revert it and, presumably, expand on why. Thanks. Blue Square Thing (talk) 09:03, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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Dear Todd I see that there was once a page for the prominent UK lawyer David Sherborne. He is frequently in the news and currently representing Prince Harry in a very newsworthy court case. He has previously represented many major celebrities including Johnny Depp and Princess Diana. He was also representing celebrities claiming that they had suffered media intrusion at the Leveson Inquiry. Given the level of public interest in him eg prominent newspapers sucha s the New York Times profiling him ...eg:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/world/europe/prince-harry-lawyer-david-sherborne.html
https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-david-sherborne
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-harry-lawyer-david-sherborne-b2352262.html
Perhaps there a case for reinstating the David Sherborne web page? Best wishes Booklung Booklung (talk) 19:51, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, sorry about the Nauta picture and thanks for nominating the picture for deletion on Commons. I was mistaken as to its copyright status, I erroneously believed it to be created by the United States Government.
Apologies.
Bremps... 00:13, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
I wasn't aware that Maggie Haberman had complained to us about her DOB being displayed. I'll have to remember that. Where is the source for that complaint? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 23:16, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Todd Bowie, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. BangJan1999 21:35, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello Toddst1. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Doug Corella, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. BangJan1999 21:36, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is AssociateAffiliate's sig. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:23, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
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Do you have an explanation for this threat that you made to an IP editor? I don't mean whether it's true or not (I don't care), but why would you think that this is an appropriate message to send another person? – bradv 23:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
we know who you are and who your parents areis clearly a threat. But to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't mean to intimidate this IP in a threatening way by telling them you know who they are and where they live, what exactly did you mean by it? – bradv 00:38, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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Request reason:
Block was clearly punative (WP:BLOCKNOTPUNITIVE). While my edit summary was dickish, there's no indication it would be repeated (it won't) or required a 2-week block to prevent further disruption (WP:BLOCKPREVENTATIVE).
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The block is consistent with Wikipedia:No personal attacks#Consequences of personal attacks and does not appear to fall under WP:BLOCKNOTPUNITIVE because there is current conduct issue of concern
. Your only response above was that "there was no threat" so when you say there's no indication it would be repeated
I have to retort that it would be more accurate to say that there's no indication that it wouldn't be repeated, given that your only comment on the matter was the opinion that it wasn't even a threat. That type of edit summary is inappropriate to an extreme degree, and while I can't speak for other admins I think there needs to be a demonstrated understanding that this was an issue and that it will not reoccur before an unblock can be made. Aoidh (talk) 13:49, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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@Aoidh: what part of "it won't" wasn't clear?. Toddst1 (talk) 13:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
it won'tis a vague aside that doesn't address the issue. What is "it"? A dickish comment? The block wasn't for being dickish. - Aoidh (talk) 13:59, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
Shouldn't have been OS-ed in the first place imhois obviously true; that's why it's no longer OS'ed. More deeply though, the oversight ethos is one of "tool of first resort" because the harm of leaving something out there that gets permanently removed is more than the harm of temporarily removing it and then restoring it. While I disagree with the particular use of OS here, Xaos clearly acted in good faith, brought it up for review among other OS when he learned it was considered controversial, and agreed that it should be changed to RD after hearing feedback from a variety of colleagues. Barkeep49 (talk) 16:37, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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