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How can I put a reference required tag on an article please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunrays21 ( talk • contribs) 23:34, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunrays21 ( talk • contribs) 03:16, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Birth date and age. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim. Thanks for providing some honest insight on the page I'm trying to fix.
The links I have independently discussing the client are:
Andrea Iervolino, a mogul and a gentleman
The Italian-Canadian who has Hollywood Film Geeks Fuming
Hollywood North is young Film mogul's perch
Because the charity foundation he's started is still new and being improved upon, I will remove the "Philanthropist" claim.
When you said remove external links - did you mean JUST external links or any citations that aren't focused on solely him?
Mackenzie.wong ( talk) 14:50, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Jared Taylor. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that you did this:
(Deletion log); 06:13 . . Cullen328 (talk | contribs) deleted page Roberto Arevalo (Unreferenced stub BLP in Spanish. G2: Test page)
despite my objection on the talk page. It was not a very serious objection, but I didn't see the page as meeting the G2 criterion. It was clearly an attempt at adding content.
I'm very new to NPP and finding it very hard to get traction. It feels to me like there's a considerable distance between what the instructions say and what happens in practice - and this page was an example. My reading was that it should be tagged with {{ Not English}} and {{ Unreferenced}}, and - given that pro footballers are almost always considered notable - released as "reviewed".
Interested in your thoughts. I'm trying to learn by watchlisting a selection of NPP entries to see how other reviewers deal with them. At present, I'm only prepared to CSD the most blatant examples of their kind. — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 06:31, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
If it's possible I wanted to ask that the article DBZ be protected indefinitely. This page gets vandalized so many times. And I wanted to ask the same for the Yu-Gi-O! Page (only not indefinitely). I'm not sure how to request such things... ♠Dinah♠ 🎤 19:24, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cullen, we had a useful exchange about a year ago about bios for some Saskatchewan politicians. Your help and encouragement was appreciated! I have a question for you: I'd like to design a template for a new infobox that is specific to Canadian legislation, as the current infobox is based on US parliamentary procedure, and does not translate well to Canadian procedure. But, I've not found an easy "how-to" for designing a new template. Are there any resources on Wikipedia that you could point me to? (Bear in mind that I have very limited computer skills!) Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 14:49, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
All right, fair enough, I've been away from the Teahouse for a while. I can accept that you know better than I. ;) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 16:01, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you! نیشابوری ( talk) 20:06, 27 August 2017 (UTC) |
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Donald Trump. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim--thank you for your response to my comments on the Teahouse forum yesterday. I should have been more careful with my phrasing of the issue that I posted about, and my apologies if I have offended you or your fellow editors, who do very good work for this site! I have vested a lot of faith in Wikipedia over the years--it is the primary place I go to for information before I delve deeper into any topic. It was the source I used to find information about the organization being discussed, in fact, before I started to learn more about it. All I know is that when I searched for International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) the other day, nothing came up! I was dismayed because it has been my intention to fix this page up so that it accurately reflects the accomplishments of the organization. For some time, it has been sparse. This is not to promote a cause, but to communicate verifiable information that has now been altered or the page reverted back to an earlier state because some of the info is incorrect.
The last time I checked there was an extensive amount of information on the page that now appears to be gone. I was informed by the contributor IFIstaff that an editor named Huon had deleted a large amount of verifiable content rather than flagging the specific information or language in question and sent transcripts of this discussion. While this conversation shows neither party at its best, the larger issue that verifiable content was removed from Wikipedia at the discretion of an editor who refused to allow the user in question power to edit after the username was changed (as requested) and assurance was given that any language misconstrued would be removed (as requested) was troubling. I am not going to level any charges at Huon, I just think Wikipedia is an important source of free information and I don't want anyone to feel like they can't contribute content that is true and verifiable. Obviously users should be checked when this is not the case, but no editor should assume that content is untrue without doing the research.
In addition, the edits I made to the page were in fact changed/reversed ( /info/en/?search=The_International_Federation_of_Interior_Architects/Designers) and information on the page is now incorrect. IFI has not been a member of the International Design Alliance for some time now (no one is a member since the Alliance broke up). I don't know if you can check this, but none of the sub-pages that I edited appear at all-- IFI World Interiors Day (IFI WID) and IFI World Interiors for the Next Generation (IFI WING). The former is a public and globally recognized day of celebration for the interior architecture/design community and was established by IFI; the latter is a global awards competition, the last iteration being in 2013--why have these been removed from the IFI Wikipedia page?
I fully appreciate the NPOV and the information you supplied about Wikipedia and its editors. I am guilty of not doing my research before I made some of those accusations.
Apologies for taking up too much of your time already. Disagreements fleshed out online like this are unusual for me and I would not like them to become commonplace. If you want evidence of my claims against the editor in question, I think you can go to Huon's page and view the conversation with IFIstaff unless it has been removed. As I said before, it was not my intention to offend and I'm not pursuing charges against this editor now that the page is restored. Wikipedia is an important source of information for many, and the content that appears on there is trusted as fact. I just hope that the power editors have is not used to make other people's lives more difficult, block them when they have agreed to comply and publish/restore wrong/old information on a site that many, including myself, use and trust daily.
Thanks for your work.
–ynejdawi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ynejdawi ( talk • contribs) 15:08, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello again! So I went to open a sock puppet investigation on a new editer because their wording and edits are very suspicious however I cannot seem to be able to take the survey or whatever it is called. Could I possibly give you the information and you open it for me? I do believe I know the puppetmaster as well. ♠Dinah♠ 🎤 22:09, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Ok, so we talked about whether my YouTube video is a source on Wikipedia, and if so, how to put it in references. Here is what is found about the video.
*Anthony Ying credits the show and act in the title. *Anthony Ying mostly uploads the full clips of several reality competiton shows, such as America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, and The X-Factor.
Now I have a question: Is this a reliable YouTube video that can be put in the References section of America's Got Talent(season 12)? Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzapkO8cPuU Thank you for reading this, Cullen328. Hope you can help. Thissecretperson ( talk) 19:57, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).
Hi Jim,
when a product makes news on tv or in a newspaper, is this the credible source you are referring to.
Many thanks Jim
Steve Roeder ( talk) 19:23, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
This article continues to be the target of someone with a grudge against its subject, as shown in the edit histories of the ip and registered account continuing to reinsert material that violates BLP. Kablammo ( talk) 12:14, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
Your recent comment in a Teahouse discussion caught my attention. You wrote, "The new page patrollers are deluged with a flood of terrible garbage and may pass by a relatively well developed article like yours." I agree completely. I ventured into patrolling new pages for awhile, hoping to help to whittle down the backlog. I read some good articles, but many more were poorly done, often with no citations and no content to demonstrate notability.
When I found articles that were unsourced and showed no indication of notability, I marked them for deletion and moved on to review another article. Eventually, however, I was chastised because I had not searched the Internet to try to find sources that would establish notability for an article's topic before nominating it for deletion. After that, I stopped patrolling new pages and returned to using my time on Wikipedia for creating new articles and editing existing articles.
It seems to me that as long as patrollers must do research to look for material that authors did not find (or did not include in an article), the backlog will continue to grow. It's hard enough to wade through that "flood of terrible garbage", without having to do research for justification that often probably does not exist. Eddie Blick ( talk) 00:39, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Dina Powell. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
I came across this plaintive request from a newbie. Not aware of the deletion discussion, and the deletion note not pointing me directly to the AfD, I did some looking around. It appears that deleting the pages to terms mortal wound and mortally wounded leaves a lot of redlinks behind (strangely, links almost exclusively related to articles concerning the American Civil War). Would it be better to unlink, or to direct to the Wictionary link to "mortal"? BusterD ( talk) 02:26, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm referred here by an administrator Alex Shih to seek your assistance in improving an article I wrote two days ago, Verve International. It had been deleted but restored after incontrovertibly contesting it. It is tagged as having "contain content that is written like an advertisement" which I have been having a difficult time to fish out. I'll appreciate your helping me with it.
Thank you. RovingFingers ( talk) 04:41, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
![]() | This article contains content that is written like
an advertisement. |
Earlier conversation held reproduced below:
Hey there, I went to respond to our threaded conversation, but it's now archived, so I'll ping you here to say thanks for the connections and responses. Yes, I work with Merrilee at OCLC! This is a great project. I've edited for a while, here and there, I'm still learning. I am looking forward to introducing library staff to Wikipedia. I also have found Teahouse in general a fascinating space, it seems like a ripe opportunity to get to know people and help them beyond pointing them to guidelines and policies. I'm thinking about a question that I responded to under my volunteer username, that was about the non-degree granting school in Kenya/Brazil. You also responded to this user, I think. I looked through the history of that article and are a number of ways that the person's contribution to AfC could have been addressed. It's a missed opportunity (in my view) that the editors who had a look at that page responded by declining it and giving the reason it should be a degree-granting school and needs more independent references. There's so much we need to cover to improve the encyclopedia, especially about spaces outside the North American or European contexts. Non-degree granting schools may very well be notable for the services they provide to a population. And a way to help someone is to guide them to how to search for independent sources, this is something that perhaps a "librarian in Wikipedia' could do, by suggesting books or reference sources that could be accessed via the Wikipedia Library or a local pl, which might help someone improve their contribution. I'm riffing a bit here, but wondered if you have heard of anything like this happening in Teahouse or in the AfC process before? The AfC seems to me like it is a cry for help from new contributors and a real opportunity to create a human-to-human partnership with new contributors by someone who is experienced in information searches, newcomers could be made to feel more invited to contribute if their interests were affirmed and respectfully guided in that AfC. Monikasj ( talk) 18:54, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim, I am having a difficult time trying to get an article started regarding Atlantis. Researching Atlantis is a hobby that I enjoy. Before I make another attempt to put up an article, I would like to talk to you about it. What about an article with a name like “The search for Atlantis” or Atlantis in America. People have been searching for Atlantis for years and have a lot to say about it. Also, some people think Atlantis was in America. Do you have any ideas?AlternateYou 21:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlternateYou ( talk • contribs)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox writer. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Just a note that you recently speedy deleted the Liberalized Arguments article, but the AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberalized Arguments remains open. North America 1000 11:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your input. I can let the whole thing go but the book is about Herman Armour Webster who now has a (not great) Wikipedia page. I have been studying Webster since 2009 at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the American Field Service(AFS) Archives (they took over from the people who supported Webster's volunteer ambulance work in WWI), and I have access to all Webster's Yale Class reunion year books. Oral history is not great but Webster had many things destroyed in WW II (He remained in France) and it is the best we can do in some cases. I have also done research at the Bibliotèque Nationale in France, visited his gravesite (He didn't give me any secret insights), and, of course, used the net. I published an article about him in Janus the organ of AFS. I spoke to a friend with more experience than I have in publishing and he suggested self publishing. Part of the problem is that I can try to make things interesting by writing about his service to France, but Webster is not the kind of artist that a mainstream publisher is going to jump to publish a book about. Really and truly I would like to list it as an external resource when it is done so that people who know that it is there if they want it. The number of copies sold is not going to make me rich. It is just that this began so very long ago I would like it done. Nicodemus ( talk) 20:12, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cullen! I have edited the indentation here. Please read WP:INDENT. Feel free to ask any questions you may have. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 19:49, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, totally random, but we meet again. A long time ago (year or two) I saw you had edited an article that I had as well. I just randomly remembered your username, as my real name is Cullen (I suppose because it is uncommon). And today, I just happened to see you in the teahouse. Just wanted to stop by and say hey, even though we've never even talked. VTnav ( talk) 05:17, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Dismissal of James Comey. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Today I found the page Kansas State Aggies football, 1900–09, and as I was adding some material, I noticed the similarity of its 1906 section to the content of the article 1906 Kansas State Aggies football team. I then found the articles 1900 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1901 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1902 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1903 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1904 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1905 Kansas State Aggies football team, and 1907 Kansas State Aggies football team, all of which are essentially the same as their corresponding sections on the 1900-1909 page.
Should the 1900-1909 overview page be deleted? I noticed that its 1908 and 1909 sections contain links to the main articles about those seasons. If that were done for the other years' sections, little would remain on the page. Eddie Blick ( talk) 00:33, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Are you going to explain why you don't think Richard L. Gage qualifies for CSD? Natureium ( talk) 19:54, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim,
Do you know an editor, including yourself, who might be interested or willing to assist with edits to the Liposuction Page? The information on the page presents a misleading portrait of procedures that remove adipose tissue, which is an important endocrine organ. The long-term health and contour outcomes are not good for the well being of the recipients. I have much information complied and knowledge on the subject.
Thank you, Juliet Sabine ( talk) 02:53, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Here's a dirty little story that's still a redlink... Seth Low Junior College
SEE THIS. Alumni include Isaac Asimov and Herbert Aptheker. Carrite ( talk) 00:35, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I rarely make such a stupid mistake but I have a half-assed excuse. The new editor
posted above the oldest post on the TP, and I wasn't paying close attention when I replied which is how my response ended up in the
older post below his question. I also wasn't aware of my screw-up pinging Doc James. It has been a long time since I've screwed-up that badly. Anyway, the reason I pinged you was because the editor is new and seemingly from a country where Homeopathy is the norm fairly common. I was hoping with proper guidance and a better understanding of our PAGs, he could be a productive editor, although I am aware that he is editing a topic that can be quite controversial in a hurry, which I why I thought it best to escalate it into your capable hands. I see that he has also been active
here.
Atsme
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23:59, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Deletion of Mohandas petition in Homoeopathy page. As per the Wikipedia:[ reliable sources (medicine)] page, only" position statements from national or international expert bodies" are allowed not individual responses.<br Dr Kurian John Poruthukaren 19:12, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Dear Cullen. Thank you very much for guiding me Dr Kurian John Poruthukaren ( talk) 17:04, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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How can I put a reference required tag on an article please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunrays21 ( talk • contribs) 23:34, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunrays21 ( talk • contribs) 03:16, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Birth date and age. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim. Thanks for providing some honest insight on the page I'm trying to fix.
The links I have independently discussing the client are:
Andrea Iervolino, a mogul and a gentleman
The Italian-Canadian who has Hollywood Film Geeks Fuming
Hollywood North is young Film mogul's perch
Because the charity foundation he's started is still new and being improved upon, I will remove the "Philanthropist" claim.
When you said remove external links - did you mean JUST external links or any citations that aren't focused on solely him?
Mackenzie.wong ( talk) 14:50, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Jared Taylor. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that you did this:
(Deletion log); 06:13 . . Cullen328 (talk | contribs) deleted page Roberto Arevalo (Unreferenced stub BLP in Spanish. G2: Test page)
despite my objection on the talk page. It was not a very serious objection, but I didn't see the page as meeting the G2 criterion. It was clearly an attempt at adding content.
I'm very new to NPP and finding it very hard to get traction. It feels to me like there's a considerable distance between what the instructions say and what happens in practice - and this page was an example. My reading was that it should be tagged with {{ Not English}} and {{ Unreferenced}}, and - given that pro footballers are almost always considered notable - released as "reviewed".
Interested in your thoughts. I'm trying to learn by watchlisting a selection of NPP entries to see how other reviewers deal with them. At present, I'm only prepared to CSD the most blatant examples of their kind. — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 06:31, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
If it's possible I wanted to ask that the article DBZ be protected indefinitely. This page gets vandalized so many times. And I wanted to ask the same for the Yu-Gi-O! Page (only not indefinitely). I'm not sure how to request such things... ♠Dinah♠ 🎤 19:24, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cullen, we had a useful exchange about a year ago about bios for some Saskatchewan politicians. Your help and encouragement was appreciated! I have a question for you: I'd like to design a template for a new infobox that is specific to Canadian legislation, as the current infobox is based on US parliamentary procedure, and does not translate well to Canadian procedure. But, I've not found an easy "how-to" for designing a new template. Are there any resources on Wikipedia that you could point me to? (Bear in mind that I have very limited computer skills!) Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 14:49, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
All right, fair enough, I've been away from the Teahouse for a while. I can accept that you know better than I. ;) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 16:01, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you! نیشابوری ( talk) 20:06, 27 August 2017 (UTC) |
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Donald Trump. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim--thank you for your response to my comments on the Teahouse forum yesterday. I should have been more careful with my phrasing of the issue that I posted about, and my apologies if I have offended you or your fellow editors, who do very good work for this site! I have vested a lot of faith in Wikipedia over the years--it is the primary place I go to for information before I delve deeper into any topic. It was the source I used to find information about the organization being discussed, in fact, before I started to learn more about it. All I know is that when I searched for International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) the other day, nothing came up! I was dismayed because it has been my intention to fix this page up so that it accurately reflects the accomplishments of the organization. For some time, it has been sparse. This is not to promote a cause, but to communicate verifiable information that has now been altered or the page reverted back to an earlier state because some of the info is incorrect.
The last time I checked there was an extensive amount of information on the page that now appears to be gone. I was informed by the contributor IFIstaff that an editor named Huon had deleted a large amount of verifiable content rather than flagging the specific information or language in question and sent transcripts of this discussion. While this conversation shows neither party at its best, the larger issue that verifiable content was removed from Wikipedia at the discretion of an editor who refused to allow the user in question power to edit after the username was changed (as requested) and assurance was given that any language misconstrued would be removed (as requested) was troubling. I am not going to level any charges at Huon, I just think Wikipedia is an important source of free information and I don't want anyone to feel like they can't contribute content that is true and verifiable. Obviously users should be checked when this is not the case, but no editor should assume that content is untrue without doing the research.
In addition, the edits I made to the page were in fact changed/reversed ( /info/en/?search=The_International_Federation_of_Interior_Architects/Designers) and information on the page is now incorrect. IFI has not been a member of the International Design Alliance for some time now (no one is a member since the Alliance broke up). I don't know if you can check this, but none of the sub-pages that I edited appear at all-- IFI World Interiors Day (IFI WID) and IFI World Interiors for the Next Generation (IFI WING). The former is a public and globally recognized day of celebration for the interior architecture/design community and was established by IFI; the latter is a global awards competition, the last iteration being in 2013--why have these been removed from the IFI Wikipedia page?
I fully appreciate the NPOV and the information you supplied about Wikipedia and its editors. I am guilty of not doing my research before I made some of those accusations.
Apologies for taking up too much of your time already. Disagreements fleshed out online like this are unusual for me and I would not like them to become commonplace. If you want evidence of my claims against the editor in question, I think you can go to Huon's page and view the conversation with IFIstaff unless it has been removed. As I said before, it was not my intention to offend and I'm not pursuing charges against this editor now that the page is restored. Wikipedia is an important source of information for many, and the content that appears on there is trusted as fact. I just hope that the power editors have is not used to make other people's lives more difficult, block them when they have agreed to comply and publish/restore wrong/old information on a site that many, including myself, use and trust daily.
Thanks for your work.
–ynejdawi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ynejdawi ( talk • contribs) 15:08, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello again! So I went to open a sock puppet investigation on a new editer because their wording and edits are very suspicious however I cannot seem to be able to take the survey or whatever it is called. Could I possibly give you the information and you open it for me? I do believe I know the puppetmaster as well. ♠Dinah♠ 🎤 22:09, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Ok, so we talked about whether my YouTube video is a source on Wikipedia, and if so, how to put it in references. Here is what is found about the video.
*Anthony Ying credits the show and act in the title. *Anthony Ying mostly uploads the full clips of several reality competiton shows, such as America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, and The X-Factor.
Now I have a question: Is this a reliable YouTube video that can be put in the References section of America's Got Talent(season 12)? Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzapkO8cPuU Thank you for reading this, Cullen328. Hope you can help. Thissecretperson ( talk) 19:57, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).
Hi Jim,
when a product makes news on tv or in a newspaper, is this the credible source you are referring to.
Many thanks Jim
Steve Roeder ( talk) 19:23, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
This article continues to be the target of someone with a grudge against its subject, as shown in the edit histories of the ip and registered account continuing to reinsert material that violates BLP. Kablammo ( talk) 12:14, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
Your recent comment in a Teahouse discussion caught my attention. You wrote, "The new page patrollers are deluged with a flood of terrible garbage and may pass by a relatively well developed article like yours." I agree completely. I ventured into patrolling new pages for awhile, hoping to help to whittle down the backlog. I read some good articles, but many more were poorly done, often with no citations and no content to demonstrate notability.
When I found articles that were unsourced and showed no indication of notability, I marked them for deletion and moved on to review another article. Eventually, however, I was chastised because I had not searched the Internet to try to find sources that would establish notability for an article's topic before nominating it for deletion. After that, I stopped patrolling new pages and returned to using my time on Wikipedia for creating new articles and editing existing articles.
It seems to me that as long as patrollers must do research to look for material that authors did not find (or did not include in an article), the backlog will continue to grow. It's hard enough to wade through that "flood of terrible garbage", without having to do research for justification that often probably does not exist. Eddie Blick ( talk) 00:39, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Dina Powell. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
I came across this plaintive request from a newbie. Not aware of the deletion discussion, and the deletion note not pointing me directly to the AfD, I did some looking around. It appears that deleting the pages to terms mortal wound and mortally wounded leaves a lot of redlinks behind (strangely, links almost exclusively related to articles concerning the American Civil War). Would it be better to unlink, or to direct to the Wictionary link to "mortal"? BusterD ( talk) 02:26, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm referred here by an administrator Alex Shih to seek your assistance in improving an article I wrote two days ago, Verve International. It had been deleted but restored after incontrovertibly contesting it. It is tagged as having "contain content that is written like an advertisement" which I have been having a difficult time to fish out. I'll appreciate your helping me with it.
Thank you. RovingFingers ( talk) 04:41, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
![]() | This article contains content that is written like
an advertisement. |
Earlier conversation held reproduced below:
Hey there, I went to respond to our threaded conversation, but it's now archived, so I'll ping you here to say thanks for the connections and responses. Yes, I work with Merrilee at OCLC! This is a great project. I've edited for a while, here and there, I'm still learning. I am looking forward to introducing library staff to Wikipedia. I also have found Teahouse in general a fascinating space, it seems like a ripe opportunity to get to know people and help them beyond pointing them to guidelines and policies. I'm thinking about a question that I responded to under my volunteer username, that was about the non-degree granting school in Kenya/Brazil. You also responded to this user, I think. I looked through the history of that article and are a number of ways that the person's contribution to AfC could have been addressed. It's a missed opportunity (in my view) that the editors who had a look at that page responded by declining it and giving the reason it should be a degree-granting school and needs more independent references. There's so much we need to cover to improve the encyclopedia, especially about spaces outside the North American or European contexts. Non-degree granting schools may very well be notable for the services they provide to a population. And a way to help someone is to guide them to how to search for independent sources, this is something that perhaps a "librarian in Wikipedia' could do, by suggesting books or reference sources that could be accessed via the Wikipedia Library or a local pl, which might help someone improve their contribution. I'm riffing a bit here, but wondered if you have heard of anything like this happening in Teahouse or in the AfC process before? The AfC seems to me like it is a cry for help from new contributors and a real opportunity to create a human-to-human partnership with new contributors by someone who is experienced in information searches, newcomers could be made to feel more invited to contribute if their interests were affirmed and respectfully guided in that AfC. Monikasj ( talk) 18:54, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim, I am having a difficult time trying to get an article started regarding Atlantis. Researching Atlantis is a hobby that I enjoy. Before I make another attempt to put up an article, I would like to talk to you about it. What about an article with a name like “The search for Atlantis” or Atlantis in America. People have been searching for Atlantis for years and have a lot to say about it. Also, some people think Atlantis was in America. Do you have any ideas?AlternateYou 21:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlternateYou ( talk • contribs)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox writer. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Just a note that you recently speedy deleted the Liberalized Arguments article, but the AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberalized Arguments remains open. North America 1000 11:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your input. I can let the whole thing go but the book is about Herman Armour Webster who now has a (not great) Wikipedia page. I have been studying Webster since 2009 at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the American Field Service(AFS) Archives (they took over from the people who supported Webster's volunteer ambulance work in WWI), and I have access to all Webster's Yale Class reunion year books. Oral history is not great but Webster had many things destroyed in WW II (He remained in France) and it is the best we can do in some cases. I have also done research at the Bibliotèque Nationale in France, visited his gravesite (He didn't give me any secret insights), and, of course, used the net. I published an article about him in Janus the organ of AFS. I spoke to a friend with more experience than I have in publishing and he suggested self publishing. Part of the problem is that I can try to make things interesting by writing about his service to France, but Webster is not the kind of artist that a mainstream publisher is going to jump to publish a book about. Really and truly I would like to list it as an external resource when it is done so that people who know that it is there if they want it. The number of copies sold is not going to make me rich. It is just that this began so very long ago I would like it done. Nicodemus ( talk) 20:12, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cullen! I have edited the indentation here. Please read WP:INDENT. Feel free to ask any questions you may have. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 19:49, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, totally random, but we meet again. A long time ago (year or two) I saw you had edited an article that I had as well. I just randomly remembered your username, as my real name is Cullen (I suppose because it is uncommon). And today, I just happened to see you in the teahouse. Just wanted to stop by and say hey, even though we've never even talked. VTnav ( talk) 05:17, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Dismissal of James Comey. Legobot ( talk) 04:23, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Today I found the page Kansas State Aggies football, 1900–09, and as I was adding some material, I noticed the similarity of its 1906 section to the content of the article 1906 Kansas State Aggies football team. I then found the articles 1900 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1901 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1902 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1903 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1904 Kansas State Aggies football team, 1905 Kansas State Aggies football team, and 1907 Kansas State Aggies football team, all of which are essentially the same as their corresponding sections on the 1900-1909 page.
Should the 1900-1909 overview page be deleted? I noticed that its 1908 and 1909 sections contain links to the main articles about those seasons. If that were done for the other years' sections, little would remain on the page. Eddie Blick ( talk) 00:33, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Are you going to explain why you don't think Richard L. Gage qualifies for CSD? Natureium ( talk) 19:54, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim,
Do you know an editor, including yourself, who might be interested or willing to assist with edits to the Liposuction Page? The information on the page presents a misleading portrait of procedures that remove adipose tissue, which is an important endocrine organ. The long-term health and contour outcomes are not good for the well being of the recipients. I have much information complied and knowledge on the subject.
Thank you, Juliet Sabine ( talk) 02:53, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Here's a dirty little story that's still a redlink... Seth Low Junior College
SEE THIS. Alumni include Isaac Asimov and Herbert Aptheker. Carrite ( talk) 00:35, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I rarely make such a stupid mistake but I have a half-assed excuse. The new editor
posted above the oldest post on the TP, and I wasn't paying close attention when I replied which is how my response ended up in the
older post below his question. I also wasn't aware of my screw-up pinging Doc James. It has been a long time since I've screwed-up that badly. Anyway, the reason I pinged you was because the editor is new and seemingly from a country where Homeopathy is the norm fairly common. I was hoping with proper guidance and a better understanding of our PAGs, he could be a productive editor, although I am aware that he is editing a topic that can be quite controversial in a hurry, which I why I thought it best to escalate it into your capable hands. I see that he has also been active
here.
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Deletion of Mohandas petition in Homoeopathy page. As per the Wikipedia:[ reliable sources (medicine)] page, only" position statements from national or international expert bodies" are allowed not individual responses.<br Dr Kurian John Poruthukaren 19:12, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Dear Cullen. Thank you very much for guiding me Dr Kurian John Poruthukaren ( talk) 17:04, 25 September 2017 (UTC)