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Hi! You had nominated the Brent M. Buckley for deletion, and the AFD was closed with no cconsensus, so I'm just dropping you a line to let you know that I have started a second AFD, in case you wanted to comment there. Cheers, Dawn Bard (talk) 14:20, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I don't get very many of those!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 01:09, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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...for the cup of coffee - nice to see you noticed my absence which was necessitated by some personal commitments. Hope I'll be able to continue contributing for a while, at least :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 00:43, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, if you'd like to work with the Rodriguez article from here, please do.
I've notified some of his professional colleagues in child psychiatry and have neither the time nor the energy to shepherd this base article to completion, but I think there ought to be one because of his contributions and his place in the history of child psychiatry right after Leo Kanner and Leon Eisenberg.
I do think that the designation ought to be "Alejandro Rodriguez (child psychiatrist)" rather than "Alejandro Rodriguez (psychiatrist)" - but I can leave this to winds of fate.
Hey guys!
I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.
It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:51, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
... to see how you are. You have not been active lately? Ottawahitech (talk) 02:31, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for the welcome and edits you made to my first page "Mori Shigeaki". Very prompt and friendly! Thanks. Max Hiroshima 13:21, 12 March 2012 (UTC) |
I am not sure if this is the way to contact you.
Please check he recent addition of citations to the article Emergency Infant Services. I hope the four additional citations are enough to remove the flag concerning he lack up sufficiant citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RainmakerUSA (talk • contribs) 22:17, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey VQuakr, thanks for checking up on the article I posted yesterday, and thank you for making me feel like a welcome part of the wikipedia family! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monosugoihikari (talk • contribs) 23:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey all!
Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).
In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at Wikipedia:New Page Triage: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!
Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
You're right, I was very fed up after dealing with another user and Saccyind was practically his clone right there, I've apologized somewhat. Thanks for your input. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 21:21, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Someone deleted the entire image while permissions are pending unnecessarily. How do I get the image back? Kmhistory (talk) 23:17, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! So, I'm working on the Jayshree Pandya bio -- thanks for getting to it so quickly! I'm having trouble with the secondary source requirement for notability, because her work is in a field that's just emerging as a result of the political/financial turbulence of the past few decades. Suggestions? Amazon has called this field "Country risk", but if you look at Wiki's country risk page, it's very oriented towards the financial risk aspect... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Writethestory (talk • contribs) 01:46, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
You have managed to confuse me. What exactly would you like me to do? If I did something wrong, it was by mistake and you can correct it if you desire. Regards.--MarshalN20 | Talk 18:04, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I created a new article today titled Shcramjet on which you have tagged multiple issues including notability, single source, and original research. I agree to the single source issue because Shcramjet is a very new concept and I could not get any reference that cite only the theoretical aspects; most of them are technical papers and I did not include them in the citations earlier. However, I have added two new citations so I guess that should fix the problem. The issues concerning notability and original research are not true since this actually is a promising field that many researches are looking into and is gaining some momentum lately. I personally am involved in its research so I understand the objective of it to quite a professional level. I have tried my best to revise the article within the limiting time that I have but I think it will do quite well as a stub for now. And I will surely be making further revisions later. So please be kind enough to revise your tags. Thank you. --Sudip 12:55, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Many thanks for your valuable help with my Treadwell's Bookshop article. (Phil, London UK) Plwest6 (talk) 09:07, 19 March 2012 (UTC) |
This is getting crazy. Mike again inputed the self published tags for Samuel H wood without giving any reason why (as per the talk page for the article). He ignored the talk page. Claiming that a scientist is self-publishing is incredibly serious (especially wood, who is world famous). Mike then leaves a 'last warning' on my talk page that I will be blocked- but he isn't an admin. Is there anything that can be done? Kmhistory (talk) 19:23, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the Welcome, and for the cookies, VQuakr. Appreciated.
Plwest6 (talk) 05:27, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys.
I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.
This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).
All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:43, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
How do you move an article with using talk and what are you saying to me when you sent me that message? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nultiaaliyah1 (talk • contribs) 01:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
SIR,
I JUST WANT TO create an article about the photogrpahy/video distributor in the phillippines. i am confused what approach to use since you have deleted my 1st and 2nd attempts. i cant understand the tutorial. can you give me tips? thanks! alvin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alvinglori (talk • contribs) 01:38, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
How do you move an article with using talk and what are you saying to me when you sent me that message? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nultiaaliyah1 (talk • contribs) 01:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I did not intend to get involved with an edit war, and I did not just revert edits, I tried to discuss the matter but to no avail. In any case, can't we just drop the Hispanic \ Caucasian \ Latino description and describe Zimmerman as just multiracial? We can get more specific when we get better sources. It's the most neutral solution I believe. Otherwise we will have this endless discussion. :) Mythic Writerlord (talk) 08:48, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Completed as per request. Unfortunately not much sources, you might have to find it yourself! - Mailer Diablo 13:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like to vote on the nationality of the dark knight rises movie and on whether it should be added to the introduction of the article. Certain editors harassed me to no end when I asked for vote last time. You can actually still see the conversation on the talk page were one of the editors began to verbally abuse me. There seems to be an idea of people "owning" articles. As in, this is my article and no one else can edit it. Not the right attitude for wikipedia-- especially if it is supposed to be a community. Voting may not be the encouraged method, but surely a straw poll or something. The harassment has got to stop. --DavisJune (talk) 00:04, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeWazowski is harrassing me. I'm trying to add information about a screening for The Dark Knight Rises and he keeps deleting it saying that no one will care. How does he get to decide what's important and what's not important. I've cited the material. Shouldn't he take this to the talk page. He's just trying to engage in an edit wars. --DavisJune (talk) 01:04, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the load off! Hope I get a chance to work on this article. Ottawahitech (talk) 13:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
OK. I tried something, and it wound up being trickier than I expected. Now, I'm in a position where I don't know how to resolve the problem. The issue is the article for Modiola. At some point, someone edited it to include a reference to a bivalve by the same name. Problem is, the bivalve's name is Modiolus not Modiola. I reverted the edit, but now there's a disambiguation page pointing to Modiola (plant). Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but there's no point, since there's nothing to disambiguate. Perhaps a See also Modiolus would be more appropriate if any mention is needed at all. In any case, how to delete the disambiguation page and fix the main page?Victor Engel (talk) 03:04, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:
coding
All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.
Stuff to look at
We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.
I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.
I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:16, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Please remove the One source template. Check if its okay. If u deny it, I'll do my best to add more reference by adding more source. Lee, Eungki C. (talk) 15:27, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
The FOR SCIENCE! Barnstar | ||
Thanks for your awesome work on the hand-coding tool :). You were quite comfortably in the top 5 patrollers; if I make it to OpenSourceBridge in June, remind me to buy you a big ol' beer! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:48, 27 April 2012 (UTC) |
Would you mind taking a look at the page "John and Caitlin Matthews" for tone? I edited the page earlier, but removed my edit when I came under pressure from the subjects to make it more eulogic. Perhaps my feelings about this are clouding my judgement.
Thanks!
Plwest6 (talk) 04:08, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey VQuakr/Archives/2012 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.
On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).
On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:34, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey VQuakr! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:43, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I've added to the talk page of Julia Davis (American cinema). What do you think? (Jpgarry (talk) 14:56, 18 May 2012 (UTC))
I am here as you were part of a previously Rfd discussion HERE. Based on the comments on the Rfd, I believe that this article could have been saved if it was cited better and written more in Wikipedia styling and formatting (Wikified article HERE). I have made substantial improvements to the article and reposted it. As you part of the discussion for Rfd (either you nominated or took part in the Rfd discussion), I wanted to personally notify you. While this is not an official Rfc, I would appreciate any feedback that you may have. I have not notified the original creator of the article as it does not look like they have made any contributions on Wikipedia since the article was deleted.
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.
The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:28, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Someone who works as hard as you do must work up quite an appetite. Here: hope you enjoy the cheesy greasy goodness...
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Mmmm, eicosapentaenoic acid! Thanks!!! VQuakr (talk) 04:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
This notification is to inform you of a straw poll being conducted at the talk page of Shooting of Trayvon Martin, your comments would be welcome and appreciated on the allegations of witness #9. [2] Note: If you choose to comment, please mention you were contacted via this notification. Thanks!-- Isaidnoway (talk) 08:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your interest in this page. Please have a look at our comment on the Talk page or the Conflict of Interest tread. I think this explains why the recent changes have been made. In the light of this would you remove your conflict of interest flag on the site?
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Hi VQakr,
Thank you for your help on Jenny Bae's page. I'm here very good friend & handling here PR. How do I get rid of "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia" removed? I feel the page is now in accordance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apm44 (talk • contribs) 10:30, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Saw this edit and thought you might be interested in the thread at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#University_of_Bedfordshire if you haven't already seen it. One thing to bear in mind - the school rep did originally remove that stuff - but following the COI and at bit of a chat some of it arrived back in towards the bottom of the article - hence the article now has things like the 'Worst University' telegraph article in twice. If you fancied getting a bit more involved in the article and stripping out some of the puffery that would be ideal, but I'm aware you've probably got a bit case load... Thanks Fayedizard (talk) 22:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi VQakr,
Thank you for note on the page "Tramondos_Industries". The reason that I would consider this is a valuable page for the readers because there is not a lot sofa bed supplier in Singapore with a history of 24 years serving this type of furniture. Also, it is one of the leading and reputable sofa bed company in Singapore. (Search in www.google.com.sg with keyword sofa bed and you will realized that it is the leading brand in local search.) Such company with this archievement should have a page in place in wikipedia.
Wallpapersgp (talk) 09:18, 24 July 2012 (UTC)wallpapersgp.
Hi there. My name is Juan Carlos. I'm a doctoral candidate at the University of Barcelona Spain and I have no affiliation with any of the sites I've written and are writing about. I spent about a month reading through all the rules and a week profreading the first three drafts of my Pinsex article written in word. Ultimately you have to throw yourself in the water and try to swim. I sandboxed the article a full eight hours trying to get everything right. Finally when I thought it was ready I posted it and it was deleted almost instantly. I modified the article and tried to use the Pinterest article (which itself was speedily deleted... a few times) as an example. The cultural relevance of that site can no longer be denied. And Pinsex is starting to pop up everywhere. I've started seeing it on facebook... it's shown up on twitter... and as far as i know my article is the first major encyclopedic study of the site. I have more I want to cover as well and I'm doing my utmost to make all changes suggested and make this one work first. Thanks for your help and patience. - Juanaffiliato (talk) 03:20, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Just letting you know. Thanks!Fomeister (talk) 22:02, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).
The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.
I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:06, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
t's been a week since there have been any edits of issue at University_of_Bedfordshire. The case appears to have settled down and I'd like to think that our corresponding editors now trust wikipedia a bit more with the articles. I've moved the COI banner over the to talk page, but I think we can probably relax with it a little. Very nice working with you and I hope to do so again soon. Cheers :) Fayedizard (talk) 11:45, 6 August 2012 (UTC) |
VQuakr, My sources... Encyclopaedia Britannica 1973 'Space Exploration', History of Rocketry & Space Travel by Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III 1969, Time Magazine July 25, 1969 are extremely reliable. If you think they're not I suggest you take it up with them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uktorah (talk • contribs) 02:23, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
If that's all that is requred, then I shall find and reference a publication which contains such facts and figures. I did not realise that my own calculations were placed in a lesser regard than that of a published author. I hope you did not have something important to do instead of checking my addition. Thank you. Torah. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uktorah (talk • contribs) 03:12, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
If you read the publication I mentioned, you will understand that: The facts are from a reliable source (i.e. NASA) There is a discrepancy (they don't 'add up' with NASA's own data that the Moon has 1\6th of Earth's gravity) Hence, there is evidence of a Moon hoax which is why these facts were added to the Moon Hoax section. Which part are you having concerns over? Torah. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uktorah (talk • contribs) 03:43, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
The words 'goalpost' and 'moving the' spring to mind! Reliable sources have been added while you were typing. Please read them. If you want me to go onto the NASA site and find their published transcripts then I will...? I'm sure their figures applied to Newton's Law will be sufficienty reliable. Torah.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Uktorah (talk • contribs)
Bailey Chipping -Removed because of referencing
This is Bailey Chipping. You removed my short piece today. I have tried to correct it by adding references. If this works I can add a few more. But this is my first attempt at writing and entry and it is more than a little ocnfusing. ~I hope yuou get this and if you do, please let me know. But I am unustre how you do get back i n touch! Bailey--Bailey Chipping (talk) 14:04, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:08, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
As I predicted, there is still not a chance in hell of that debate ending in any way other than keep. Despite that, thanks to your revert of my attempted snow closure, this still has 5 days to run, with the count now at 25 keeps to 4 deletes. If this were to be overturned from this point, it would surely be some kind of Wikipedia record. So kindly reconsider that earlier revert, and the fact that WP:SNOW is nothing but a "polite request not to waste everyone's time". HeCameFromTheShadows (talk) 18:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you tagged HeCameFromTheShadows telling him an SPI case was opened on him? Generally, I intentionally do not do this as it isn't required and often causes problems. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 23:40, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional feedback on the "Harrison McAllister Randall" and "Ralph Alanson Sawyer" entires.... I'm working on improving the structure of footnotes and references, inlcuding the elimination of orphan status, to getthese in better shape. Jenszorn (talk) 14:15, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for tagging that. I had just done it myself and got edit conflicted with you. We'll see what the admin does with it. It might be a case for WP:CV. Not good. NTox · talk 06:27, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello, VQuakr! I saw that you have make some corrections on the article I created, thanks you! Can you please help me improve i, there is some message about cleanup, I'm a newbie very need you help and advise! Kind regards, --Kind regards, Jcrafteam (talk) 17:59, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! Thanks for quick reply! I have looked carefully for your recommendations how to improve the article and did the following: deleted repeating urls, has cut off the works to the absolute key ones left, simplified their structure; made corrections in references deleted bad ones inserted more reliable and understandable in English. As to the other your recommendations I have some troubles understanding what exactly you mean, I would be very thankful if you'd show me in expamples and comparison patterns what should I correct and improve. Thank you in advance! --Kind regards, Jcrafteam (talk) 02:26, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I just want to thank you for repairing that utter mess I made at Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance.--ZarlanTheGreen (talk) 22:36, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your third opinion at Talk:Missouri Gas Energy. It was helpful, and I'm sure it will result in an improved article. Cheers! --Drm310 (talk) 23:00, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
VQuakr, I don't understand why I cannot add a reference from BJ nor a page about BJ by wietngrim, what is the difference with for example: BJ's Restaurant & Brewery or on the BJ page : Bradbridge Jackson - which has no content page? Thanks for explaining. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WimBonjean (talk • contribs) 07:57, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I was curious to know how long to give Goodreads time to address, correct, and delete previous violations of their ToS? (And current "updated" version?) The whole point of a Wikipedia page is to present facts to the public. If violations of their ToS continue and Goodreads fails to respond, shouldn't that be reflected in their Wikipedia page? I have links that clearly show their own "Librarians" (and other general members) repeatedly violating the sites ToS, (with a hate group created to attack authors and harassment on their book reviews pages) and Goodreads failure to address, delete, amend, and punish the violators. (I wasn't sure if I should leave those links here. If you would like to see them, let me know. I would be happy to share it with you.) It just seems to me that if a website is going to post a ToS (or rules of service) and present itself on Wikipedia, then there needs to be a balance of facts presented. And if said website is going to continually "look the other way" of site violations (and violators) or "pick and choose" who can or can not violate those rules, the public should be informed about it. No entity should be allowed to control the content of facts that should or should not appear on their Wikipedia page if indeed evidence is available otherwise. Thank you. Carroll Bryant (talk) 17:59, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Very well, discussion started. CRRaysHead90 | Get Some! 03:06, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your response to my plea for help with the above article. In general I understand what you're saying, but I based the format and content of my article on existing ones for authors in the same field such as Carole Mortimer that don't have any warnings. I'm not complaining about that article; I just can't see in what respect my own article differs. Ms Mortimer's bibliography is certainly longer, but she appears to have no more references or external links. Mgswiki (talk) 06:24, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
In fact, having looked at the Carole Mortimer article again, I'm beginning to understand. Crudely speaking, there should be nothing in a Wikipedia article that does not already appear elsewhere, either on the WWW or in print - correct? On that assumption, I've made some changes to my article and will dig out more references to add into it over the next few days. Mgswiki (talk) 07:29, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
I note that you've proposed the above article for deletion. In general I understand what you're saying, and obviously you are in a far better position to judge, but there are a couple of points on which I'm not clear. First is, do you only go by the sites listed in the 'Find sources' tag? And second is, given that any person and consequently their career has to start somewhere, at what point would they be considered worthy of an entry? It seems a bit like pulling oneself up by one's bootlaces - what independent sources could there be that do not ultimately lead back to the author's own biography? BTW I updated the article just now to refer only to the content in specific sources. Mgswiki (talk) 18:25, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply, and I appreciate your help. I'm sorry you're having to hand-hold me so much, but as I say it is my first article. Where I'm getting lost is that although I know in general what is meant by a secondary source, I'm not sure what 'secondary sources' there could be for a novelist? Given that the subject of my article has had 17 novels published around the world by a well-known, international publishing house and has sold over a million copies to date, would that not of itself qualify as 'notable'? Mgswiki (talk) 08:16, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your compliments and your suggestion. I didn't know about the "Did You Know..." page. I'll definitely look into it. Sincerely, Lenschulwitz (talk) 22:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice about WP:BITE ! TheChampionMan1234 00:13, 13 September 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for your third opinion. I ask for a clarification, please:
1. When you say "put forward border on original syntesis" what do you mean by that? Am I committing Original Synthesis or not? Are all my contributions? Is it only some? Into exactly which and how?.
2. I had already divided the issues individually, as you have proposed. No response. Had not seen?
3. As regards the sources: Are you saying that I have to start a discussion to determine if the "Max Planck Encyclopedia Public International Law" is a valid source in International Law, if "The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law" is a source valid in Law of the Sea, if "Fordham International law Journal" is a valid source legal issues, if a study of the European Union about territorial waters is a valid source in this question of precisely terrtoriales waters? Please I request you to confirm this.
4. Must be removed the reference to Article 310 of UNCLOS, due to not being supported by any source to apply that law to the issue of Gibraltar as told by you? Many Thanks--Juanmatorres75 10:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juanmatorres75 (talk • contribs)
1. When you say "put forward border on original syntesis" what do you mean by that? Am I committing Original Synthesis or not? Are all my contributions? Is it only some? Into exactly which and how?.
Could you answer it, please? thank you very much--Juanmatorres75 17:48, 13 September 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juanmatorres75 (talk • contribs)
On 15 September 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tracey Shelton, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Tracey Shelton had to run from the debris cloud after photographing the explosion from a tank shell in Aleppo, Syria, that killed three opposition fighters? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tracey Shelton. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:02, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Dear VQuakr, I see a tag was placed on one of the pages that I created about a hoax. It says a discussion is taking place. May I know what are the main problems with this article and what should I do to make it more credible. I am not against deletion/merging. But I feel it was a fine article to contribute. --Have a nice day! --Thanks and Regards --Aditya Saxena (talk) 08:02, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much. You are a very kind user. I hope you could help me in Wikipedia for I am young and have only few knowledge about these things. Sadie Louise Kane (talk) 10:48, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
<font=3> You're invited to participate in Wikipedia Takes Portland 2012, an annual event which occurs each September in Portland, Oregon as part of Wikipedia Takes America and Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States. Photographing sites in Portland listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the main focus of Wikipedia Takes Portland. This year the event will kick off at Saturday, September 22nd at noon at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Currently, there are no formal plans--this is simply an opportunity to meet fellow Wikipedians before trekking around PDX to photograph sites on the Register. Not interested in coming downtown? You can still upload your images as part of the international photo competition. Be sure to RSVP and share the results of your work HERE (number of images uploaded, links to galleries, successes, feedback, etc. Click here for more information about meetups in Portland! --Another Believer (Talk) 15:07, 20 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Hey VQuakr/Archives. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:08, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello VQuakr,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Vipul Narigara for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Mdann52 (talk) 16:36, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
<font=3>WIKIPEDIA LOVES LIBRARIES: MULTNOMAH COUNTY EDIT-ATHON! You're invited to participate in Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012, an edit-athon hosted by Multnomah County Library for the purpose of improving stubs relating to Multnomah County. The event will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Central Library in downtown Portland. You can view details about this Wiki Loves Libraries event here. Be sure to RSVP and share the results of your work HERE. Click here for more information about meetups in Portland! --Another Believer (Talk) 21:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Your name has been mentioned in a discussion concerning User: Agadant and the Web Sheriff article at the Administrator's Noticeboard. You can join the discussion by clicking here.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 22:45, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I always think of you when I have a question regarding the inside workings of Wikipedia, so I hope you don't mind me bothering you on your talk-page.
Here is my question: does someone keep track of Wikipedians who nominate a lot of articles for deletion, and whose nominations end with Keep votes most of the time? - just curious and many thanks in advance. Ottawahitech (talk) 17:08, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Someone like you is necessary at: Talk:Hurricane_Sandy#Full_of_routine_content where things are starting to deteriorate. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:32, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome.
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:28, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Your polite admonition is genuinely appreciated. Your insistence that changing the subject is the proper course of action when dealing with uncivil behavior is not. I am not that particular about where such a discussion takes place. If some preponderance of the community wants such discussions moved to personal talk pages, that's fine. But then that's what you should've lobbied for. Changing the subject is not. As I mentioned on that talk page, the issue with which that discussion was opened was already resolved. Veering back to it, as a solution to the problem of an incorrect venue for a discussion on civility, is specious, and comes across as misdirection. You were contacted to help resolve a problem concerning an uncivil editor, and by refusing to that, you provided one more example illustrating how the WP community is largely incompetent and apathetic in dealing with problem editors. Perhaps you and editors like you should try considering that the level of frustration with which my responses to problem editors like Hearfourmewesique sometimes manifest themselves is do to your refusal to do anything about it.
Thank you also for notifying me about the sockpuppet investigation. However, I don't believe I have anything to add, since I don't have CheckUser powers, nor any evidence that Hearfourmewesique is or isn't O. long johnson. The idea that the two may be one and the same hadn't occurred to me. Nightscream (talk) 05:17, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for all your past help, here is something for the List of Whistleblowers. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-08/local/me-358_1_test-data Stay well ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qui Tam Relator (talk • contribs) 21:28, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Those Dirty Words, I wasn't aware that a deletion discussion had started when I speedy-deleted it for promotion (because COI was obvious from the username, and the tone was unduly promotional). Generally, if there's a discussion, I let it run. Sorry. Now I see they've re-created the page (using a different username, presumably) ... if you want to re-nominate it for AfD, be my guest. - Dank (push to talk) 18:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
https://sites.google.com/site/defenseweek651989/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qui Tam Relator (talk • contribs) 22:06, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for intervening. I want to point out, that I had repeatedly to corrrect an obvious wrong translation. My counterpart likes to be involved in edit-wars also on german and italian wikipedia and since yesterday even on Commons. I beg you to check the sources and enter into the merit of the debate. Sorry that I'm in a hurry, so I don't have time now to list you in detail what is happening. I always tried to discuss the issues first - see talk page.--Sajoch (talk) 07:34, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
I deleted under G11, because the article was pov and promotional in tone. I often add a remark when I speedy as a pointer to other problems, such as "unsourced BLP" or "no independent sources". In this case, the lack of independent sources suggested that there might be problems with establishing notability, although that's not a CSD criterion for schools. Sorry if my attempt to be helpful has muddied the waters Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:09, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Qui Tam Relators input is on the Talk page. Your ideas are sound and makes it easier for the research reader. The last big fix I believe you did with CactusWriter and it improved the format very much. TTT Things Take Time... 166.137.208.39 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:29, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Tracey Shelton Headshot.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.
If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as ((non-free fair use)) or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. VernoWhitney (talk) 18:50, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I have contacted Wikipedia admins through Wikipedia email days ago. They asked me to edit something on my article. The article is not for advertising purposes. I do not redirect to any downloading page or a link to store. I am only illustrating some Neatly features, history, team and enough references that redirect the reader to many articles written by trusted sources talking about Neatly. Take my clues in consideration please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MMSayed (talk • contribs) 08:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you! I will work on editing the article to seem neutral. Pleasured to have your quick reply — Preceding unsigned comment added by MMSayed (talk • contribs) 10:41, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Now I will have to put some in the oven too!
Leng T'che (talk) 03:08, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
RE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Davis_(American_cinema)
Why do you keep removing portions of Julia Davis page, claiming that her information is "disputed" or "couldn't be verified". Disputed by whom? What couldn't you verify? Information related to her case is widely available, including the National Whistleblowers Center, Huffington Post, etc.
Who is disputing her listings/claims?
FilmMouse (talk) 19:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).
You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want: this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).
If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:02, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for providing a third opinion - it's a useful mechanism! Alexbrn (talk) 22:51, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
You should edit with prudence. Sawol (talk) 07:51, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Hasteur (talk) 12:35, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello VQuakr: Thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. Have a happy and enjoyable holiday season and a happy New Year. Additionally, Santa Claus is also quite likely appreciative of your efforts to improve the encyclopedia! Northamerica1000(talk) 06:12, 24 December 2012 (UTC) |
This is extremely embarrassing for Wikipedia. One minute of research on your end would have resulted in the conclusion that this is one of the most important jazz music theory books ever written. Viriditas (talk) 08:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)