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While I understand what you were trying to do on the Archivist page, if you had spent a couple hours researching instead of blindly removing all the "unsourced" material, then you could have made a meaningful contribution to the page. Instead, you set it back and forced someone like me to fix your error and add back in most of the material, with sources. So, please, if you are going to edit pages about archives, read more about the field before doing so. -- Historyday01 ( talk) 18:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Just as an explanation: While the source in the article states, that Mahboula is located 36 kilometres south of Kuwait City, in other sources (e.g. here or here) the very same area is presented as being within Kuwait City. Where does this apparent contradiction come from? Kuwait City doesn't exist as an administrative unit. Kuwait City as such can refer either to the agglomeration with 3 million inhabitants (of which Mahboula is clearly a part of) or to the town's historic core within the Capital Governorate (more ore less Sharq, Mirgab and Jibla, what you would call Downtown or CBD elsewhere, and that's what the distance of 36 kilometres refers to). This was an attempt to bring the information in line with what our article Kuwait City is about. -- Mai-Sachme ( talk) 08:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello. What kind of reliable sources does it take to keep Michael Landes' filmography credits, as well as when he started acting? Thanks. Martinc1994 ( talk) 20:09, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Fourthords, I was curious as to why you undid my revisions on the Jonny Kim page. Although your revision is in accordance with WP:PRECISELANG, I don't think it conforms with anything else on Wikipedia— I have never seen "as of x date" in the children field on anyone else's infobox, nor have I seen "as of x date" in regard to a subject's marriage. I believed it was customary to let the source dates speak for themselves. Is there anything in the manual of the style that states we must write "as of x date" for this type of information? Thank you! Dog Starkiller ( talk) 23:56, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Dog Starkiller
Although your revision is in accordance with WP:PRECISELANGI mean, that's your question asked and answered.More generally, Kim is a young man; his quantity of children and the status of his marriage aren't immutable and actually easily subject to change by the standards of the US. One tactic is to say "Kim is married with three children" and hope that readers look at and correctly interpret our citations to understand when that information was accurate; mightn't they instead think it's accurate as of when they're reading the article if written in the present tense? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:04, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed that you removed a lot of material that people have since been restoring. From the number of items you listed in your edit summary, I'll assume it was because of "uncited claims in BLP". However, a lot of the material was not controversial. I understand it's a fine balance of dealing with unsourced text. I'm not sure if you are familiar with Antetokounmpo or were just generally going cleanup, but WP:PRESERVE is good to follow regardless e.g. consider using cleanup tags asking for sources. Don't feel obligated to respond. Regards.— Bagumba ( talk) 11:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
I was curious about your almost-reversion
Special:Diff/1021299908 here to a {{
Cite EB1911}} invocation, for three reasons. I do appreciate your keeping the |volume=
though.
First, what does "exhausted" mean? As a long-time editor it's new to me and I just find it puzzling. Is there an explanation I can read?
The addition of the commented-out |accessdate=
is, I think, superfluous, because I've always understood Wikisource citations as fixed forever (as long as Wikipedia itself lasts). Also: I guess the inclusion of |language=en
, as forwarded to {{
Cite encyclopedia}}, would be useful if the citation is ever copied to another wiki, but I have never bothered in thousands of uses. Still, if there are new consensuses I'm happy to learn.
David Brooks (
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18:28, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
|accessdate=
because it's a listed parameter at {{
cite EB1911}}, and I don't make assumptions as to what'll later be useful to other editors or downstream users. It's the same with |language=
: if an editor wants to copy-and-paste a source into another language, having that parameter already present ensures they'll have the whole thing available to them; it also inflicts zero harm on the English Wikipedia to use the parameter (in the interests of thoroughness). Also, if consensus changes someday, and we want to change how we use those parameters on this wiki, the effort's already been spent.None of these are hard-and-fast rules I've encountered anywhere. I did check though, and there're definitely no prohibitions. So if my doing so helps me and/or somebody else down the line, then why not? —
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Hello there. I noticed you undone my contribution to Peter Ostrum because you think it was creating ambiguity. Well, I believe adding two years regarding when the man got married is also ambiguous which is why I added something like "late 1980s" to suit both of them. 172.250.44.165 ( talk) 23:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Fourthords ( talk · contribs) was already recently asked to be more careful about deleting material that appears to be unsourced. Please be more careful, seriously. Fourthourds deleted chunks of information from the article Popeye (film) and it seems that due care and attention was not taken. [1] The Production section opens by mentioning a book, written by Parish, and this book is also included in the Bibliography. Some of the text deleted starts with "Parish wrote" and "Parish notes" and it would have been far more appropriate to add a {{ Citation needed}} request than to entirely delete those paragraphs. Please show the hard work of other editors the respect you would like your edits to be shown. I have improved the article and made the referencing clearer but there was no need for those deletions if Fourthords had taken the small amount of time needed to read the article.
It would be better if Fourthourds did not make large deletes in future and instead marked text as needing citations or made multiple smaller edits with clearer edit summaries. -- 109.79.160.61 ( talk) 14:08, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. […] Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.Looking at my edit of 01:02, 29 August 2021, all of the claims I removed lacked inline citations to reliable sources. That page also links to Wikipedia:Editing policy#Try to fix problems, and suggests using {{ citation needed}} templates, but they are not required. Furthermore, when 2120 articles are still flagged with citation-needed templates from 14.5 years ago (meaning there are productive editors today who weren't alive when those articles were left unverified), I not only doubt the efficacy of that process, but will not rely on it to bring articles up to the absolute bare minimum.As for helpfully linking to Help:Edit summary, I said of my edit to Popeye (film):
+ WP:ITHAT; - stray spacing; - uncited claims; - empty infobox parameters; + category alphabetization;. Again perusing my edit there, that edit summary succinctly provides and/or links to explanations for the edits I made. Perhaps you didn't click on the links in my summary, reading the explanations there? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:21, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
It would be better and clearer […] It would be better […] It would make things easier for yourself and other editors…citation neededI'm not sure which part of the Verifiability policy you consider to be a mistake, but until such time as its changed by consensus, it remains an English Wikipedia policy that still says,
Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.I don't understand why you feel the retention of uncited claims is beneficial to the encyclopedia, but that really seems contrary to our many policies and guidelines.Lastly, while it's possible I've removed cited material in the past (an accident for which I would and do apologize if so), I am careful. The editors at #Please try better next time, #Giannis Antetokounmpo, and #Deletion of material from Popeye (film) didn't allege I deleted material with citations, but instead felt put out by application of the policy that requires editors provide such explicit evidence for all claims. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:00, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
You quoted the rule Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports[2] the material may be removed
but that's some selective quoting, the same paragraph continues
editors may object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references; consider adding a citation needed tag as an interim step
.
There was nothing to suggest the text was contentious, this wasn't a biography, there was no need for a speedy delete of those paragraphs, it was film article, a fairly old article one in need of better formatting.
The prose clearly stated at the start of the Production section the book that was being used as a source, and that book was also referenced in the bibliography. The author of that book Parish was named again at the start of the paragraphs that were deleted. It is difficult to believe you read the words and concluded the text was unreliable or "likely to be challenged" and would be difficult to verify, rather that you mechanically checked the end of the paragraph did not include a reference and robotically deleted it. Even if you might not have technically broken the rules you have certainly rushed to the deleting part and missed the spirit of all the rules, to improve and better verify the articles. --
109.79.165.170 (
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01:34, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
There was nothing to suggest the text was contentious. "Contentiousness" not a requirement for removing uncited prose, nor is it an allowance for not providing inline citations.
It is difficult to believe…I cannot speak to your capacity for imagination or assuming good faith, and don't see the relevance.
Even if you might not have technically broken the rules…I make every effort not to; I try to double-check the policies, guidelines, and manuals reasonably frequently ( consensus can change, after all).
…you have certainly rushed to the deleting part and missed the spirit of all the rules, to improve and better verify the articles.As I said above to the other anonymous editor, I don't see how the retention of uncited claims is beneficial to the encyclopedia: that really seems contrary to our many policies and guidelines. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 04:30, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi Fourthords, I wanted to thank you for your edit on Krzyżewo, Braniewo County in September 2020. It removed some unsourced claims (or as you put it, unverified claims, which I guess is the same thing). I did a search for the words "Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland" and there are many articles with the same text - always unverified. If you agree that this is a good idea, I would like to remove that from every article where it's unverified. Hattie Cape ( talk) 00:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to give you a heads up that I intend to update Dakota Skye’s page and I contact you as I have seen that you have had some previous editorial history with it. There is so much information missing that it gives an unfair account of her life, whether it be good or bad.
There is one particular key event in her life, that isn’t mentioned at all and sadly could be argued also contributed to her struggles. As I’m sure you understand when researching it, multiple citations are required to be added to include it and they all interlink. In so much so that existing copy will be expanded upon and other new information, as well as the key event will be added purely because they are mentioned in the interviews. I’m talking at the beginning of her career to 7 days before she sadly passed away.
The problem, I have it that I need to refer to web articles from adultDVDtalk and fleshbot, which I believe have previously been added then removed. Both sites have a history of legit interviews. Other pages in Wikipedia use them as citations. So I plan to add them back a long with a few others that interlink and it will all make sense and hopefully read as well as I intend it to (or it my head atleast lol)
Updates will be gradual and I ask that you give me time and excuse any mistakes, as I’m new at this
Thanks
JR
JackRidley ( talk) 16:29, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Why did you remove the singles chronology? Both "No Leaf Clover" and "St. Anger" have "I Disappear in theirs. yawaraey ( talk) 03:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I am not a very frequent editor, but if I happen to be reading an article and information seems out of date or otherwise incorrect I will try to update it to be more accurate. I certainly want to stay within expected guidelines, so please let me know if my recent edit on Shia LaBeouf (song) is not satisfactory. The way that I approached it was that the information about number of views after five years was not as relevant as the number of views currently. This is similar to a page about a baseball player that shows current number of strikeouts, for example. Each game that is played potentially results in an edit for that page to be more accurate, but is not necessarily part of a published article. If my line of thinking is incorrect please let me know. I just happened to be reading the page on this song after watching it on YouTube and thought it was odd that the number of views represented data that was at least two years old and decided Wikipedia would benefit from more recent data. Thank you in advance for any insight you can offer. -- Maestro616 ( talk) 14:26, 12 October 2021 (UTC)Maestro616
The way that I approached it was that the information about number of views after five years was not as relevant as the number of views currently.I don't understand how any number of views is inherently important. Salon found it worth mentioning, though, so I originally added that source. (I also don't understand your baseball metaphor, sorry.) I will concede that so long as we open with Salon's initial recognition of views, following that up with a more-recent count would be reasonable. Am I making sense? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 18:13, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
The 'one issue' seems to be the only notable one. Without that, I doubt he would warrant a wiki page. Valetude ( talk) 18:48, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Hey, I'm trying to get
Mrs. Landingham promoted to GA-status—i know you're meticulous with sourcing, but I didn't find the sourcing to back up guidance in the form of honest mentorship and good-natured banter
. Could you help me out?
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Hello Fourthords, Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 00:36, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Fourthords,
Just a reminder that when you tag pages like Dracula (1975 radio program) for deletion, whether CSD, PROD or AFD/RFD/TFD/etc., you need to post a notification of the tagging on the talk page of the page creator. Your own talk page has notifications just like this. These notifications are made easier if you utilize Twinkle, and set your Twinkle Preferences to "Notify page creator"...then Twinkle will post notifications just like this whenever you tag a page for deletion so you don't have to. It also has other features like the ability to tag articles for improvements and it will keep track of your deletion taggings in deletion logs. It's a very handy tool for editors.
Whether or not you use Twinkle, please post talk page notifications whenever you tag a page for deletion in the future. It's an important step in the deletion process, especially for PRODs because sometimes the rationale for a proposed deletion can be addressed and remedied by other editors. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 18:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, I would very much like to know why you felt the need to remove a ton of information that clearly is cited on their website? You removed it being independent, the founders, distributor, location, and all of its artists currently and formerly signed on? Did you even care to look at their website? It’s literally attached. I’m referring to this edit in particular [2]… now I will be adding majority of it back as it’s clearly sourced within their website. From your recent discussions on your talk page it also seems you have a history of doing this to many different pages. Pillowdelight ( talk) 00:13, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi, while checking category updates I came across your user draft User:Fourthords/Pilot (M*A*S*H). This seems to have been forgotten, but looks suitable to be merged into the live article Pilot (M*A*S*H). Would you like to do it yourself? – otherwise I would be willing. – Fayenatic London 05:45, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
Why removing the athletic section, according to this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Asbury_University&diff=next&oldid=1094854018 jlog3000 ( talk) 17:09, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Sometimes it needs no source because…That's incorrect. Everything needs a source. I already quoted the policy above. If you're making any claims in an article, you need to provide the source, and anything without a source may be removed until a source is provided. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 00:35, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Just letting you know, since this appears to be your modus operandi. I know everything on Wikipedia needs to be sourced, but remember that even if every single sentence or paragraph doesn't have a tiny number at the end doesn't mean it's unsourced. Maybe some paragraphs are all cited to a single source, so the citation is only added at the very end of the last paragraph. Or maybe the citation is a different format, like authors' names with years. Also, deleting uncited statements is not the way to go, as they remove information which other editors can potentially source and verify later. If you feel certain statement/s need a source, just add citation needed tags. No offense, but broad removal of uncited content can feel disruptive. Remember, do not disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point. 49.144.192.56 ( talk) 05:34, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
…if every single sentence or paragraph doesn't have a tiny number at the end doesn't mean it's unsourced.Apparently the verifiability policy says, "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." Those tiny numbers or parenthetical authorial notes are both forms of inline citation, and I very rarely remove those. If I did so incorrectly, please point me to that citation and I'll definitely investigate further.
…deleting uncited statements is not the way to goThat's odd, because the verifiability policy says, "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source."
If you feel certain statement/s need a source…I'm fine being on-board with the consensus of the verifiability policy and requiring all claims to be cited to reliable sources.
No offense, but broad removal of uncited content can feel disruptive.Yeah, I feel the same way about editors who don't provide citations to reliable sources. Fortunately, (a) I don't edit Wikipedia based on how I feel, and (b) removing uncited material is allowed, while adding it isn't.
Remember, do not disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point.What point? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 17:58, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
any material lacking an inline citation ... may be removedThe key word is "may". Yes, it is acceptable to remove uncited material, but it is not the number one must-do solution. And while the verifiability policy states that people should try to add sources when editing, that doesn't mean that they have the exclusive responsibility to add sources to their statements. Remember, Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Adding sources or "citation needed" tags to uncited statements, if you feel they may have a grain of truth, fosters that collaboration. Frankly, deleting material for the sole purpose of highlighting the importance of sourcing is more disruptive than adding sources to potentially true statements. Always remember that being unsorced doesn't automatically make it a dubious or untrue "claim". 2001:4453:5F7:6400:9013:C9FB:2561:7B58 ( talk) 03:25, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
any material lacking an inline citation ... may be removedThe key word is "may". Yes, it is acceptable to remove uncited material, but it is not the number one must-do solution. And while the verifiability policy states that people should add sources to their statements, that doesn't mean that they have the exclusive responsibility to do so. Remember, Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Adding sources or "citation needed" tags to uncited statements, if you feel they may have a grain of truth, fosters that collaboration. Frankly, deleting material solely to make the point that editors should try to always source their edits is more disruptive than adding sources to potentially true statements. Always remember that being unsourced doesn't automatically make a statement a dubious or untrue "claim". 2001:4453:5f7:6400:549:47e1:e575:4d41 ( talk) 03:25, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources., which itself links to an instruction that says,
If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article.When everybody sees those words, and then declines to provide the required sourcing, that is well-and-sufficiently "dubious" (a qualifier I cannot find at Wikipedia:Verifiability). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 19:21, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Not adding sources isn't inherently an indication of irresponsibility or dubiousnessIt is, as demonstrated by the instructions linked to from every edit-screen that says, "If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it."If I don't notice it, please leave me a note here when consensus changes such that our policy no longer says "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." In the meantime, do you have specific articles of yours where you'd prefer I leave in-place uncited claims? I keep track of where I'm not allowed upon threat of drama. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:10, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
How's this for a 'metric of divination'?I don't know, do you have a link to that page bearing the weight of consensus?
…deleting information based on your personal interpretation of policy is antithetical to the mission of Wikipedia.It seems that the "Any material lacking…" instructions at WP:V don't require any interpretation.
Also, are the multiple editors coming to your talk to disagree with your MO…I only seem to have accrued 8–14 whole contributors asking about it.
Why don't you try adding sources for a change.That wouldn't be a change, though. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:56, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
do you have a link to that page?It's not policy, but still a good thing to keep in mind if you believe that Wikipedia's mission is to propagate information through collective efforts.
I only seem to have accrued 8-14 ... contributorsIt doesn't matter if 14 or 14,000 people disagree with you; if there's more than one, especially when there's an admin who's been around for 16 years who knows many policies by heart, then there's a problem. So why don't you be the one to find and add sources to uncited statements? It's encouraged, not too hard, and you'll learn a lot. 2001:4453:5F7:6400:D401:B75E:4313:6C83 ( talk) 04:40, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
It's not policy, but…Ah, thanks.
It doesn't matter if 14 or 14,000 people disagree with youIt does, though. Consensus is determined by the editing community at large, and isn't overridden by a few editors; 14000 editors, on the other hand, would likely exceed any discussion ever conducted on the project, and indicate a new consensus with which I could comply. As for an
an admin who's been around for 16 years who knows many policies by heart, the policy page at Wikipedia:Administrators says, "like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors."
So why don't you be the one to find and add sources to uncited statements?Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:38, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
…others can always step to either delete them, add sources themselves, or flag them as needing sources for yet other editors to add.I also read the policy as saying that those are some of the options available to all editors.
you're the only editor who deletes every uncited statement they see…citation needed All this being said, it seems to boil down to: you don't like the application of policy as written by consensus. I'm sorry you experience displeasure, and would recommend that if you feel strongly about your preferred interpretation of the policy, you should gain consensus to change it. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Hey, Fourthords. I see multiple other editors coming in to ask about deleting unsourced noncontroversial/nondubious material rather than simply tagging it as citation needed. You keep quoting the verifiability policy, but that isn't the only consideration. Yes, content needs to be sourced, but that doesn't mean all unsourced content should be removed. Valereee ( talk) 15:06, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
…rather than simply tagging it as citation needed.There are unsourced claims, tagged with {{ citation needed}}, that are older than many productive Wikipedia contributors; I'm not relying on that mechanic to maybe fix articles when I can do so. There are almost a half-million of those tags in articles right now; I'm not contributing to that backlog of other editors' work.
…that doesn't mean all unsourced content should be removedThe verifiability policy says, "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." — Fourthords | =Λ= | 17:58, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources., which itself links to an instruction that says,
If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article.When everybody sees those words, and then declines to provide the required sourcing, that is well-and-sufficiently "dubious" (a qualifier I cannot find at Wikipedia:Verifiability).Whether the "point" of {{ citation needed}}, neither you nor I can look at prose lacking in verification for a over a decade and know how many previous editors: (1) saw that, (2) found nothing, and (3) left the page in place for the next editor to "find that!" This site has been in the top ten worldwide internet destinations for most of its life; do we have a page that lays out the odds for how many different editors have passed the buck on whether Mohammed Jaifoon "declared himself the ruler of Dholpur"? It is perhaps a malicious or comedic lie by Shantidoot ( talk · contribs)? How many have seen that and thought, 'it's probably true, and I don't personally find it dubious, or I believe it's true, or I personally agree with that assessment; the next editor can find the source for it.' Approximately 14.46 years after adding, we still don't know. No, I'm not going to cross my fingers, and bank on hopes-and-prayers that uncited claims are "likely-correct".Consensus has agreed that: (a) everything should be sourced and cited, and (b) we may remove that which isn't. So sometimes I do. I truly wish that editors read the pages they're editing and provided the requisite sources for their contributions, but they don't, and that's not my failure, despite a whole 8–10 editors' objections. Do you have any specific articles where you'd prefer I leave the uncited information alone in contravention of policy? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 19:17, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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Here are the full lyrics of "Marly-Gomont" the song performed by Kamini and the exact term used is "foot" (diminutive of "football"), "football" is the official term used everywhere but in the USA, the federation who held that sport is called Federation of International Football Association (FIFA). "Soccer" is just a local term, nothing else : [ copyright-violating material removed] Carlo Colussi ( talk) 16:36, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I just added back in a statement to A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye as uncited with a link to WP:V. A quick check of the source cited on the sentence prior to that revealed that the uncited info was accurate and included with that source. WP:BURDEN does state that it's the obligation of someone adding content to make sure it's cited, but there is an equal obligation under BURDEN to make an effort to address uncited material, not just cut it. Particularly on articles that have been around a while there's a reasonable chance that a statement was dethatched from its source during editing or that it was added at a time when general resources were considered as good as inline sources. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 21:23, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution.It also specifically says,
Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.These doesn't seem to be a requirement that every source already present should be consulted before removing uncited material. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:38, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
When tagging or removing material for lacking an inline citation, please state your concern that it may not be possible to find a published reliable source, and the material therefore may not be verifiable. If you think the material is verifiable, you are encouraged to provide an inline citation yourself before considering whether to remove or tag it.Simply saying "uncited," absent a WP:BLP concern, and deleting for that reason alone without engaging in at least a little investigation fails to meet that standard. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 16:47, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources., which itself links to an instruction that says,
If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article.If any unsourced material was added to an article, it was done so intentionally. The original editor who was familiar with the claims, and who added the material: if they couldn't find the apropriate sources to add, I do not expect myself or anybody else to readily do so. This is also assuming the original editor wasn't being malicious with nonsense contributions, for which no sources will ever be found, but are otherwise sitting in articles indefinitely; how long should such lies sit in our articles (tagged and untagged)?Either way, when I remove unsourced material, of course it's probably unverifiable—why else wouldn't it be sourced? I don't mind verbosifying my edit summaries duly (either the example above of something of your instruction), if you think it's necessary for those consensuses to be linked and explained each time. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 17:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
"Why else wouldn't it be sourced?, particularly for older articles, can be as simple as when it was written the general sources were considered sufficient and inline sourcing was less common. In other cases, over the years, various edits may have moved the citation away from the statement. In the case of A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, a quick look at the source for the first half of the paragraph showed that the information removed was included in that source. Moving the citation from the first sentence to the end of the paragraph solved the concern. That's all I'm asking: Before you cut content, take a quick look to see if it is actually verifiable or is even sourced elsewhere in the article.Obviously, there are cases where an addition is clearly nonsense or where a WP:BLP violation is involved where deletion is the correct immediate fix. Beyond that, the mere presence or absence of a reference doesn't mean something is true or false. I recently cut a line in the Louisiana Purchase article that said the U.S. shipped gold to Napoleon as part of the purchase agreement (a claim added in 2007). There were sources on the paragraph, but checking them didn't supported the statement and some additional research showed it was completely wrong. Simply looking for unsourced paragraphs hadn't discovered that wrong information.You recently cut a large section from the Mushy Callahan article excising his movie career, but didn't change the section head or the lede that both mentioned his film work. A reader seeing a section head "Retirement from boxing and movie career" and only a quick mention of him staying in LA to peruse a career in the movie industry would have been better served with the more detailed information about his work as a technical advisor and trainer, all of which a quick Google search verified in general (although it took longer to build out more precise sourcing), even if it was flagged as needing sources.BURDEN says you may cut uncited material (not must), but it equally says you are encouraged to seek a source or to flag it instead of cutting (with the obvious exception of contentious material about living people, which should be cut). I think the chopping of content without actually examining it (and seeing if the cut has impacts in the remainder of the article) doesn't necessarily improve the project. Instead, I think it's reasonable to do some research or add a CN flag if you don't have the time or inclination to research. Even if those flags linger, it's a hint to readers to question the statement and a prod for editors to fix it. Cutting material simply for the lack of an inline cite doesn't do that. You can chalk it up to different philosophies for approaching edits, but I'd just ask you to take care with deletions and to consider using CN flags unless you're reasonably certain the information is bunk. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 20:00, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
BURDEN says you may cut uncited material (not must), but it equally says you are encouraged to seek a source or to flag it instead of cuttingI'm also not required to, though.
You can chalk it up to different philosophies for approaching edits…It is probably just different interpretations of where the emphasis should lie, and that's not an acute problem. I lay more weight on the responsibilities of preceding editors and the prima facie reliability of the project. Consensus says neither is truer, and I think I understand your POV.
…I'd just ask you to take care with deletions and to consider using CN flags unless you're reasonably certain the information is bunk.I do sometimes use in-line tags like {{ citation needed}}, {{ unreliable source?}}, and others; that decision is typically guided by my intuition about certain articles, and also whether I expect retaliation. I certainly don't take a dim view of your asking; I appreciate the input. Though I will still remove uncited claims from articles, know that your well-articulated and thoughtful discourse may stay my hand more than your silence would've. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 20:19, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Fourthords, since the last time I contacted you about repeated complaints from multiple editors about you deleting content for being tagged citation needed -- when the article does contain sources that support the content -- you've gotten two more complaints. It's only been two months, and you've had long arguments with at least two people here on your talk alone, and you just aren't taking any of this criticism on. If a bit of content in something other than a BLP is not dubious, removing it isn't the best way to handle it. Finding a source is the best way to handle it. I even showed you back in August just how easy it was for me to find the source for the content you'd removed. The person who put the tag on may not have even known what they were talking about. They could have been a vandal for all you know. The answer to a citation needed tag is not to remove content. It's to find the citation.
I am really concerned about this. You are abusing that policy. Valereee ( talk) 10:52, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
for no reason other than it having been tagged for […] too longis inaccurate, and may be coloring both the meaning behind your question, as well as my actions overall. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
…and you just aren't taking any of this criticism on.Really? I thought Tcr25 and I had a rather amicable discussion, since when I've only removed unsourced material IAW WP:V—at articles in which I didn't comprehensively check every single other source in the article—twice: at the articles Coolio and Ryan Fournier because they were both receiving high levels of attention and scrutiny by the non-editing public.
The answer to a citation needed tag is not to remove content. It's to find the citation.According to the verifiability policy, they're both answers.
You are abusing that policy.As I said to 2001:4453:532:1900:1C9F:D7D0:47CB:E0E8 ( talk · contribs) above, this seems to boil down to: you don't like the application of policy as written by consensus. On top of that, you're taking issue with a narrower SOP (when sources may already exist in an article, but aren't duly cited), which seems to have been answered satisfactorily by users who weren't equally "really concerned" and vaguely accusing me of "abuse". I would recommend that if you feel strongly about your preferred interpretation of the policy, you should gain consensus to change it. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Congrats on the edits you've made. I can assure you her father was severely burned (cannot recall if they were electrical burns or not) in a workplace accident. I know this isn't really a reliable source, but it is specified here (and I believe in a few documentaries). Regards, and thanks again. K.D. Kieronoldham ( talk) 21:56, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Your changes ( [3]) make absolutely no sense. Basic grammar and syntax. Please review. Thanks. 107.122.161.18 ( talk) 22:34, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
+ category alphabetization; + {{use mdy dates}} update; + {{unbulleted list}};. That was to explain that (a) the categories of that article were alphabetized, (b) the
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Hey Fourthords,
Noticed your simplifying of an infobox at the Humptulips, Washington page - [4] - and had a couple of questions that might help me be a better editor:
1. Is this to help simplify the infoboxes, ridding it of unneeded or redundant parameters?
2. Or is it more along the lines of cleanliness at it's end point, i.e. they're overstuffed to begin with?
3. Should skinning-down the infobox be standard practice and something I should be doing?
I'm currently undertaking the additions of infoboxes on CDP's and unincorporated communities in WA state, and want to make sure I'm not adding to a maintenance/editing backlog by using a full-throated template (I'm currently going with the grain of those infobox layouts as already incorporated throughout WA town/city/CDP/et all articles).
If you have the time, I'd love your feedback especially considering your experience and respectability here at Wikipedia. TheGREYHORSE ( talk) 01:04, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
|alt=
) is to actually encourage that activity. Infobox templates also change over time, and it's best practice to return to the source —e.g. {{
infobox settlement}}—for the optimal and standardized parameter names and variable spacing, which leaving the original October 2007 version of the template might discourage. There're also lesser concerns like time spent scrolling past unused parameters and a general desire for tidiness.However, absolutely none of this is codified (that I'm aware of). They're just my intuitions and personal practices that don't conflict with any policies, guidelines, manuals, or other editors. I wouldn't dive into editing an article for the express purpose of examining its infobox code; at
Humptulips, Washington I was adding the cropped photo as my primary edit, and then made those other hopefully-uncontroversial edits while I was in the neighborhood. —
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12:32, 8 December 2022 (UTC)Title. Why are you doing this? Why are you deleting Wikipedia Pages - Creating new Wikipedia Pages for no reason, and then attempting to link your new Wikipedia Pages to the old ones by re-directing from the Main WikiPedia profiles you are deleting? This is being updated to confirm you have been reported to AN/I. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 64.231.234.195 ( talk) 09:49, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Louis Conradt a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Suicide of Louis Conradt. This is known as a " cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
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It appears that you tried to give Louis Conradt a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Suicide of Louis Conradt.I didn't. The content of the latter article was originally and entirely developed independently of the former. Suicide of Louis Conradt was created from whole cloth, and then Louis Conradt was turned into a redirect. I'm gonna remove the {{ history merge}} (and link to this discussion in my edit summary) because I'm worried a bot might make a technical mess by trying to merge two different wholly distinct article histories. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 23:46, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi - I've requested a WP:THIRDOPINION about the Charles Robert Jenkins/Tan Zan question. Regards, Muzilon ( talk) 00:13, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
When you're adding a template to an article for referencing problems, such as you did a couple of days ago at Orlando Jones, you do not backdate the template to the original creation of the article — that results in the regeneration of long-deleted redlinked maintenance categories such as Category:Articles needing additional references from November 2004, that don't have a legitimate basis for recreation at all but cannot be left as unresolved redlinks either. You date the template to the month in which you're adding the template, i.e. February 2023, regardless of when the page was originally created. For one thing, the table you're tagging as an "unreferenced section" wasn't in the article yet as of 2004, so it isn't a 19-year-old issue — so what's important in the context of that template is not "how long has the article existed", but "when was the referencing problem noticed and tagged for". Bearcat ( talk) 13:50, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
This category combines all articles lacking sources from February 2023, which means "articles which have been lacking sources from the month February 2023", not "articles which were found in February 2023 to be lacking sources". The Orlando Jones article has had an unreferenced filmography section since its creation, meaning that entire section has been wildly out of compliance for 18.2 years. Since that sort of long-standing failure is profound and important to realize, and given the self-description of the category pages, I've always dated the {{ unreferenced}} templates to whenever that article or section first lacked sourcing; you're the first to contradict my actions and those pages. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:09, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Fourthords
NFL players have U.S. ... even murderers such as Dahmer, Bundy and Gacy have U.S.
Just wondering why this page do I get such feedback. I'm not going to get into all the ins and outs of Wikipedia, rules and wording etc.
I'm hoping that in a few months Robert Rozier isn't the only former NFL player left. Many editors are doing what I'm going. Hundreds a day.
Believe me, I'm not here to aggravate you.
Thank you for hearing me out. Bringingthewood ( talk) 06:04, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, how are you, im. sorry i couldn't find any more information on Tami Stronach, and also i thought that the entry rateyourmusoic.com was a reliable entry and i didn't relaise that it wasn't she was really only ever known as a child star in The Neverending Story as the Childlike Empress and she became famous even though her appearance in that film was a mere 3 minutes, the movie Ultra_Low is listed on IMDB, which may also not be reliable, and although that role she is listed as having a starring role, it is a independent film from a small studio, so there may not be much written on it. I have found another article about her, i don't know if this is exceptable either, but gives a few details about her ancestry background, i dont know if she is referred to as American , but she resides in California, and with her family has lived in several countries and the film The Neverending Story was made in Germany, site is Mamamia.com.au/neverending-story-empress-tami-stronach/ .kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.14.227 ( talk) 08:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
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While I understand what you were trying to do on the Archivist page, if you had spent a couple hours researching instead of blindly removing all the "unsourced" material, then you could have made a meaningful contribution to the page. Instead, you set it back and forced someone like me to fix your error and add back in most of the material, with sources. So, please, if you are going to edit pages about archives, read more about the field before doing so. -- Historyday01 ( talk) 18:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Just as an explanation: While the source in the article states, that Mahboula is located 36 kilometres south of Kuwait City, in other sources (e.g. here or here) the very same area is presented as being within Kuwait City. Where does this apparent contradiction come from? Kuwait City doesn't exist as an administrative unit. Kuwait City as such can refer either to the agglomeration with 3 million inhabitants (of which Mahboula is clearly a part of) or to the town's historic core within the Capital Governorate (more ore less Sharq, Mirgab and Jibla, what you would call Downtown or CBD elsewhere, and that's what the distance of 36 kilometres refers to). This was an attempt to bring the information in line with what our article Kuwait City is about. -- Mai-Sachme ( talk) 08:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello. What kind of reliable sources does it take to keep Michael Landes' filmography credits, as well as when he started acting? Thanks. Martinc1994 ( talk) 20:09, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Fourthords, I was curious as to why you undid my revisions on the Jonny Kim page. Although your revision is in accordance with WP:PRECISELANG, I don't think it conforms with anything else on Wikipedia— I have never seen "as of x date" in the children field on anyone else's infobox, nor have I seen "as of x date" in regard to a subject's marriage. I believed it was customary to let the source dates speak for themselves. Is there anything in the manual of the style that states we must write "as of x date" for this type of information? Thank you! Dog Starkiller ( talk) 23:56, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Dog Starkiller
Although your revision is in accordance with WP:PRECISELANGI mean, that's your question asked and answered.More generally, Kim is a young man; his quantity of children and the status of his marriage aren't immutable and actually easily subject to change by the standards of the US. One tactic is to say "Kim is married with three children" and hope that readers look at and correctly interpret our citations to understand when that information was accurate; mightn't they instead think it's accurate as of when they're reading the article if written in the present tense? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:04, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed that you removed a lot of material that people have since been restoring. From the number of items you listed in your edit summary, I'll assume it was because of "uncited claims in BLP". However, a lot of the material was not controversial. I understand it's a fine balance of dealing with unsourced text. I'm not sure if you are familiar with Antetokounmpo or were just generally going cleanup, but WP:PRESERVE is good to follow regardless e.g. consider using cleanup tags asking for sources. Don't feel obligated to respond. Regards.— Bagumba ( talk) 11:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
I was curious about your almost-reversion
Special:Diff/1021299908 here to a {{
Cite EB1911}} invocation, for three reasons. I do appreciate your keeping the |volume=
though.
First, what does "exhausted" mean? As a long-time editor it's new to me and I just find it puzzling. Is there an explanation I can read?
The addition of the commented-out |accessdate=
is, I think, superfluous, because I've always understood Wikisource citations as fixed forever (as long as Wikipedia itself lasts). Also: I guess the inclusion of |language=en
, as forwarded to {{
Cite encyclopedia}}, would be useful if the citation is ever copied to another wiki, but I have never bothered in thousands of uses. Still, if there are new consensuses I'm happy to learn.
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|accessdate=
because it's a listed parameter at {{
cite EB1911}}, and I don't make assumptions as to what'll later be useful to other editors or downstream users. It's the same with |language=
: if an editor wants to copy-and-paste a source into another language, having that parameter already present ensures they'll have the whole thing available to them; it also inflicts zero harm on the English Wikipedia to use the parameter (in the interests of thoroughness). Also, if consensus changes someday, and we want to change how we use those parameters on this wiki, the effort's already been spent.None of these are hard-and-fast rules I've encountered anywhere. I did check though, and there're definitely no prohibitions. So if my doing so helps me and/or somebody else down the line, then why not? —
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Hello there. I noticed you undone my contribution to Peter Ostrum because you think it was creating ambiguity. Well, I believe adding two years regarding when the man got married is also ambiguous which is why I added something like "late 1980s" to suit both of them. 172.250.44.165 ( talk) 23:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Fourthords ( talk · contribs) was already recently asked to be more careful about deleting material that appears to be unsourced. Please be more careful, seriously. Fourthourds deleted chunks of information from the article Popeye (film) and it seems that due care and attention was not taken. [1] The Production section opens by mentioning a book, written by Parish, and this book is also included in the Bibliography. Some of the text deleted starts with "Parish wrote" and "Parish notes" and it would have been far more appropriate to add a {{ Citation needed}} request than to entirely delete those paragraphs. Please show the hard work of other editors the respect you would like your edits to be shown. I have improved the article and made the referencing clearer but there was no need for those deletions if Fourthords had taken the small amount of time needed to read the article.
It would be better if Fourthourds did not make large deletes in future and instead marked text as needing citations or made multiple smaller edits with clearer edit summaries. -- 109.79.160.61 ( talk) 14:08, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. […] Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.Looking at my edit of 01:02, 29 August 2021, all of the claims I removed lacked inline citations to reliable sources. That page also links to Wikipedia:Editing policy#Try to fix problems, and suggests using {{ citation needed}} templates, but they are not required. Furthermore, when 2120 articles are still flagged with citation-needed templates from 14.5 years ago (meaning there are productive editors today who weren't alive when those articles were left unverified), I not only doubt the efficacy of that process, but will not rely on it to bring articles up to the absolute bare minimum.As for helpfully linking to Help:Edit summary, I said of my edit to Popeye (film):
+ WP:ITHAT; - stray spacing; - uncited claims; - empty infobox parameters; + category alphabetization;. Again perusing my edit there, that edit summary succinctly provides and/or links to explanations for the edits I made. Perhaps you didn't click on the links in my summary, reading the explanations there? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:21, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
It would be better and clearer […] It would be better […] It would make things easier for yourself and other editors…citation neededI'm not sure which part of the Verifiability policy you consider to be a mistake, but until such time as its changed by consensus, it remains an English Wikipedia policy that still says,
Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.I don't understand why you feel the retention of uncited claims is beneficial to the encyclopedia, but that really seems contrary to our many policies and guidelines.Lastly, while it's possible I've removed cited material in the past (an accident for which I would and do apologize if so), I am careful. The editors at #Please try better next time, #Giannis Antetokounmpo, and #Deletion of material from Popeye (film) didn't allege I deleted material with citations, but instead felt put out by application of the policy that requires editors provide such explicit evidence for all claims. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:00, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
You quoted the rule Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports[2] the material may be removed
but that's some selective quoting, the same paragraph continues
editors may object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references; consider adding a citation needed tag as an interim step
.
There was nothing to suggest the text was contentious, this wasn't a biography, there was no need for a speedy delete of those paragraphs, it was film article, a fairly old article one in need of better formatting.
The prose clearly stated at the start of the Production section the book that was being used as a source, and that book was also referenced in the bibliography. The author of that book Parish was named again at the start of the paragraphs that were deleted. It is difficult to believe you read the words and concluded the text was unreliable or "likely to be challenged" and would be difficult to verify, rather that you mechanically checked the end of the paragraph did not include a reference and robotically deleted it. Even if you might not have technically broken the rules you have certainly rushed to the deleting part and missed the spirit of all the rules, to improve and better verify the articles. --
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There was nothing to suggest the text was contentious. "Contentiousness" not a requirement for removing uncited prose, nor is it an allowance for not providing inline citations.
It is difficult to believe…I cannot speak to your capacity for imagination or assuming good faith, and don't see the relevance.
Even if you might not have technically broken the rules…I make every effort not to; I try to double-check the policies, guidelines, and manuals reasonably frequently ( consensus can change, after all).
…you have certainly rushed to the deleting part and missed the spirit of all the rules, to improve and better verify the articles.As I said above to the other anonymous editor, I don't see how the retention of uncited claims is beneficial to the encyclopedia: that really seems contrary to our many policies and guidelines. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 04:30, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi Fourthords, I wanted to thank you for your edit on Krzyżewo, Braniewo County in September 2020. It removed some unsourced claims (or as you put it, unverified claims, which I guess is the same thing). I did a search for the words "Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland" and there are many articles with the same text - always unverified. If you agree that this is a good idea, I would like to remove that from every article where it's unverified. Hattie Cape ( talk) 00:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to give you a heads up that I intend to update Dakota Skye’s page and I contact you as I have seen that you have had some previous editorial history with it. There is so much information missing that it gives an unfair account of her life, whether it be good or bad.
There is one particular key event in her life, that isn’t mentioned at all and sadly could be argued also contributed to her struggles. As I’m sure you understand when researching it, multiple citations are required to be added to include it and they all interlink. In so much so that existing copy will be expanded upon and other new information, as well as the key event will be added purely because they are mentioned in the interviews. I’m talking at the beginning of her career to 7 days before she sadly passed away.
The problem, I have it that I need to refer to web articles from adultDVDtalk and fleshbot, which I believe have previously been added then removed. Both sites have a history of legit interviews. Other pages in Wikipedia use them as citations. So I plan to add them back a long with a few others that interlink and it will all make sense and hopefully read as well as I intend it to (or it my head atleast lol)
Updates will be gradual and I ask that you give me time and excuse any mistakes, as I’m new at this
Thanks
JR
JackRidley ( talk) 16:29, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Why did you remove the singles chronology? Both "No Leaf Clover" and "St. Anger" have "I Disappear in theirs. yawaraey ( talk) 03:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I am not a very frequent editor, but if I happen to be reading an article and information seems out of date or otherwise incorrect I will try to update it to be more accurate. I certainly want to stay within expected guidelines, so please let me know if my recent edit on Shia LaBeouf (song) is not satisfactory. The way that I approached it was that the information about number of views after five years was not as relevant as the number of views currently. This is similar to a page about a baseball player that shows current number of strikeouts, for example. Each game that is played potentially results in an edit for that page to be more accurate, but is not necessarily part of a published article. If my line of thinking is incorrect please let me know. I just happened to be reading the page on this song after watching it on YouTube and thought it was odd that the number of views represented data that was at least two years old and decided Wikipedia would benefit from more recent data. Thank you in advance for any insight you can offer. -- Maestro616 ( talk) 14:26, 12 October 2021 (UTC)Maestro616
The way that I approached it was that the information about number of views after five years was not as relevant as the number of views currently.I don't understand how any number of views is inherently important. Salon found it worth mentioning, though, so I originally added that source. (I also don't understand your baseball metaphor, sorry.) I will concede that so long as we open with Salon's initial recognition of views, following that up with a more-recent count would be reasonable. Am I making sense? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 18:13, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
The 'one issue' seems to be the only notable one. Without that, I doubt he would warrant a wiki page. Valetude ( talk) 18:48, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Hey, I'm trying to get
Mrs. Landingham promoted to GA-status—i know you're meticulous with sourcing, but I didn't find the sourcing to back up guidance in the form of honest mentorship and good-natured banter
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Hello Fourthords, Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 00:36, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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Whether or not you use Twinkle, please post talk page notifications whenever you tag a page for deletion in the future. It's an important step in the deletion process, especially for PRODs because sometimes the rationale for a proposed deletion can be addressed and remedied by other editors. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 18:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, I would very much like to know why you felt the need to remove a ton of information that clearly is cited on their website? You removed it being independent, the founders, distributor, location, and all of its artists currently and formerly signed on? Did you even care to look at their website? It’s literally attached. I’m referring to this edit in particular [2]… now I will be adding majority of it back as it’s clearly sourced within their website. From your recent discussions on your talk page it also seems you have a history of doing this to many different pages. Pillowdelight ( talk) 00:13, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi, while checking category updates I came across your user draft User:Fourthords/Pilot (M*A*S*H). This seems to have been forgotten, but looks suitable to be merged into the live article Pilot (M*A*S*H). Would you like to do it yourself? – otherwise I would be willing. – Fayenatic London 05:45, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
Why removing the athletic section, according to this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Asbury_University&diff=next&oldid=1094854018 jlog3000 ( talk) 17:09, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Sometimes it needs no source because…That's incorrect. Everything needs a source. I already quoted the policy above. If you're making any claims in an article, you need to provide the source, and anything without a source may be removed until a source is provided. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 00:35, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Just letting you know, since this appears to be your modus operandi. I know everything on Wikipedia needs to be sourced, but remember that even if every single sentence or paragraph doesn't have a tiny number at the end doesn't mean it's unsourced. Maybe some paragraphs are all cited to a single source, so the citation is only added at the very end of the last paragraph. Or maybe the citation is a different format, like authors' names with years. Also, deleting uncited statements is not the way to go, as they remove information which other editors can potentially source and verify later. If you feel certain statement/s need a source, just add citation needed tags. No offense, but broad removal of uncited content can feel disruptive. Remember, do not disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point. 49.144.192.56 ( talk) 05:34, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
…if every single sentence or paragraph doesn't have a tiny number at the end doesn't mean it's unsourced.Apparently the verifiability policy says, "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." Those tiny numbers or parenthetical authorial notes are both forms of inline citation, and I very rarely remove those. If I did so incorrectly, please point me to that citation and I'll definitely investigate further.
…deleting uncited statements is not the way to goThat's odd, because the verifiability policy says, "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source."
If you feel certain statement/s need a source…I'm fine being on-board with the consensus of the verifiability policy and requiring all claims to be cited to reliable sources.
No offense, but broad removal of uncited content can feel disruptive.Yeah, I feel the same way about editors who don't provide citations to reliable sources. Fortunately, (a) I don't edit Wikipedia based on how I feel, and (b) removing uncited material is allowed, while adding it isn't.
Remember, do not disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point.What point? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 17:58, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
any material lacking an inline citation ... may be removedThe key word is "may". Yes, it is acceptable to remove uncited material, but it is not the number one must-do solution. And while the verifiability policy states that people should try to add sources when editing, that doesn't mean that they have the exclusive responsibility to add sources to their statements. Remember, Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Adding sources or "citation needed" tags to uncited statements, if you feel they may have a grain of truth, fosters that collaboration. Frankly, deleting material for the sole purpose of highlighting the importance of sourcing is more disruptive than adding sources to potentially true statements. Always remember that being unsorced doesn't automatically make it a dubious or untrue "claim". 2001:4453:5F7:6400:9013:C9FB:2561:7B58 ( talk) 03:25, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
any material lacking an inline citation ... may be removedThe key word is "may". Yes, it is acceptable to remove uncited material, but it is not the number one must-do solution. And while the verifiability policy states that people should add sources to their statements, that doesn't mean that they have the exclusive responsibility to do so. Remember, Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Adding sources or "citation needed" tags to uncited statements, if you feel they may have a grain of truth, fosters that collaboration. Frankly, deleting material solely to make the point that editors should try to always source their edits is more disruptive than adding sources to potentially true statements. Always remember that being unsourced doesn't automatically make a statement a dubious or untrue "claim". 2001:4453:5f7:6400:549:47e1:e575:4d41 ( talk) 03:25, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources., which itself links to an instruction that says,
If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article.When everybody sees those words, and then declines to provide the required sourcing, that is well-and-sufficiently "dubious" (a qualifier I cannot find at Wikipedia:Verifiability). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 19:21, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Not adding sources isn't inherently an indication of irresponsibility or dubiousnessIt is, as demonstrated by the instructions linked to from every edit-screen that says, "If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it."If I don't notice it, please leave me a note here when consensus changes such that our policy no longer says "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." In the meantime, do you have specific articles of yours where you'd prefer I leave in-place uncited claims? I keep track of where I'm not allowed upon threat of drama. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:10, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
How's this for a 'metric of divination'?I don't know, do you have a link to that page bearing the weight of consensus?
…deleting information based on your personal interpretation of policy is antithetical to the mission of Wikipedia.It seems that the "Any material lacking…" instructions at WP:V don't require any interpretation.
Also, are the multiple editors coming to your talk to disagree with your MO…I only seem to have accrued 8–14 whole contributors asking about it.
Why don't you try adding sources for a change.That wouldn't be a change, though. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:56, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
do you have a link to that page?It's not policy, but still a good thing to keep in mind if you believe that Wikipedia's mission is to propagate information through collective efforts.
I only seem to have accrued 8-14 ... contributorsIt doesn't matter if 14 or 14,000 people disagree with you; if there's more than one, especially when there's an admin who's been around for 16 years who knows many policies by heart, then there's a problem. So why don't you be the one to find and add sources to uncited statements? It's encouraged, not too hard, and you'll learn a lot. 2001:4453:5F7:6400:D401:B75E:4313:6C83 ( talk) 04:40, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
It's not policy, but…Ah, thanks.
It doesn't matter if 14 or 14,000 people disagree with youIt does, though. Consensus is determined by the editing community at large, and isn't overridden by a few editors; 14000 editors, on the other hand, would likely exceed any discussion ever conducted on the project, and indicate a new consensus with which I could comply. As for an
an admin who's been around for 16 years who knows many policies by heart, the policy page at Wikipedia:Administrators says, "like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors."
So why don't you be the one to find and add sources to uncited statements?Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:38, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
…others can always step to either delete them, add sources themselves, or flag them as needing sources for yet other editors to add.I also read the policy as saying that those are some of the options available to all editors.
you're the only editor who deletes every uncited statement they see…citation needed All this being said, it seems to boil down to: you don't like the application of policy as written by consensus. I'm sorry you experience displeasure, and would recommend that if you feel strongly about your preferred interpretation of the policy, you should gain consensus to change it. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Hey, Fourthords. I see multiple other editors coming in to ask about deleting unsourced noncontroversial/nondubious material rather than simply tagging it as citation needed. You keep quoting the verifiability policy, but that isn't the only consideration. Yes, content needs to be sourced, but that doesn't mean all unsourced content should be removed. Valereee ( talk) 15:06, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
…rather than simply tagging it as citation needed.There are unsourced claims, tagged with {{ citation needed}}, that are older than many productive Wikipedia contributors; I'm not relying on that mechanic to maybe fix articles when I can do so. There are almost a half-million of those tags in articles right now; I'm not contributing to that backlog of other editors' work.
…that doesn't mean all unsourced content should be removedThe verifiability policy says, "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." — Fourthords | =Λ= | 17:58, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources., which itself links to an instruction that says,
If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article.When everybody sees those words, and then declines to provide the required sourcing, that is well-and-sufficiently "dubious" (a qualifier I cannot find at Wikipedia:Verifiability).Whether the "point" of {{ citation needed}}, neither you nor I can look at prose lacking in verification for a over a decade and know how many previous editors: (1) saw that, (2) found nothing, and (3) left the page in place for the next editor to "find that!" This site has been in the top ten worldwide internet destinations for most of its life; do we have a page that lays out the odds for how many different editors have passed the buck on whether Mohammed Jaifoon "declared himself the ruler of Dholpur"? It is perhaps a malicious or comedic lie by Shantidoot ( talk · contribs)? How many have seen that and thought, 'it's probably true, and I don't personally find it dubious, or I believe it's true, or I personally agree with that assessment; the next editor can find the source for it.' Approximately 14.46 years after adding, we still don't know. No, I'm not going to cross my fingers, and bank on hopes-and-prayers that uncited claims are "likely-correct".Consensus has agreed that: (a) everything should be sourced and cited, and (b) we may remove that which isn't. So sometimes I do. I truly wish that editors read the pages they're editing and provided the requisite sources for their contributions, but they don't, and that's not my failure, despite a whole 8–10 editors' objections. Do you have any specific articles where you'd prefer I leave the uncited information alone in contravention of policy? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 19:17, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I just added back in a statement to A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye as uncited with a link to WP:V. A quick check of the source cited on the sentence prior to that revealed that the uncited info was accurate and included with that source. WP:BURDEN does state that it's the obligation of someone adding content to make sure it's cited, but there is an equal obligation under BURDEN to make an effort to address uncited material, not just cut it. Particularly on articles that have been around a while there's a reasonable chance that a statement was dethatched from its source during editing or that it was added at a time when general resources were considered as good as inline sources. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 21:23, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution.It also specifically says,
Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.These doesn't seem to be a requirement that every source already present should be consulted before removing uncited material. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:38, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
When tagging or removing material for lacking an inline citation, please state your concern that it may not be possible to find a published reliable source, and the material therefore may not be verifiable. If you think the material is verifiable, you are encouraged to provide an inline citation yourself before considering whether to remove or tag it.Simply saying "uncited," absent a WP:BLP concern, and deleting for that reason alone without engaging in at least a little investigation fails to meet that standard. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 16:47, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources., which itself links to an instruction that says,
If you are adding new content, it is your responsibility to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article.If any unsourced material was added to an article, it was done so intentionally. The original editor who was familiar with the claims, and who added the material: if they couldn't find the apropriate sources to add, I do not expect myself or anybody else to readily do so. This is also assuming the original editor wasn't being malicious with nonsense contributions, for which no sources will ever be found, but are otherwise sitting in articles indefinitely; how long should such lies sit in our articles (tagged and untagged)?Either way, when I remove unsourced material, of course it's probably unverifiable—why else wouldn't it be sourced? I don't mind verbosifying my edit summaries duly (either the example above of something of your instruction), if you think it's necessary for those consensuses to be linked and explained each time. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 17:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
"Why else wouldn't it be sourced?, particularly for older articles, can be as simple as when it was written the general sources were considered sufficient and inline sourcing was less common. In other cases, over the years, various edits may have moved the citation away from the statement. In the case of A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, a quick look at the source for the first half of the paragraph showed that the information removed was included in that source. Moving the citation from the first sentence to the end of the paragraph solved the concern. That's all I'm asking: Before you cut content, take a quick look to see if it is actually verifiable or is even sourced elsewhere in the article.Obviously, there are cases where an addition is clearly nonsense or where a WP:BLP violation is involved where deletion is the correct immediate fix. Beyond that, the mere presence or absence of a reference doesn't mean something is true or false. I recently cut a line in the Louisiana Purchase article that said the U.S. shipped gold to Napoleon as part of the purchase agreement (a claim added in 2007). There were sources on the paragraph, but checking them didn't supported the statement and some additional research showed it was completely wrong. Simply looking for unsourced paragraphs hadn't discovered that wrong information.You recently cut a large section from the Mushy Callahan article excising his movie career, but didn't change the section head or the lede that both mentioned his film work. A reader seeing a section head "Retirement from boxing and movie career" and only a quick mention of him staying in LA to peruse a career in the movie industry would have been better served with the more detailed information about his work as a technical advisor and trainer, all of which a quick Google search verified in general (although it took longer to build out more precise sourcing), even if it was flagged as needing sources.BURDEN says you may cut uncited material (not must), but it equally says you are encouraged to seek a source or to flag it instead of cutting (with the obvious exception of contentious material about living people, which should be cut). I think the chopping of content without actually examining it (and seeing if the cut has impacts in the remainder of the article) doesn't necessarily improve the project. Instead, I think it's reasonable to do some research or add a CN flag if you don't have the time or inclination to research. Even if those flags linger, it's a hint to readers to question the statement and a prod for editors to fix it. Cutting material simply for the lack of an inline cite doesn't do that. You can chalk it up to different philosophies for approaching edits, but I'd just ask you to take care with deletions and to consider using CN flags unless you're reasonably certain the information is bunk. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 20:00, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
BURDEN says you may cut uncited material (not must), but it equally says you are encouraged to seek a source or to flag it instead of cuttingI'm also not required to, though.
You can chalk it up to different philosophies for approaching edits…It is probably just different interpretations of where the emphasis should lie, and that's not an acute problem. I lay more weight on the responsibilities of preceding editors and the prima facie reliability of the project. Consensus says neither is truer, and I think I understand your POV.
…I'd just ask you to take care with deletions and to consider using CN flags unless you're reasonably certain the information is bunk.I do sometimes use in-line tags like {{ citation needed}}, {{ unreliable source?}}, and others; that decision is typically guided by my intuition about certain articles, and also whether I expect retaliation. I certainly don't take a dim view of your asking; I appreciate the input. Though I will still remove uncited claims from articles, know that your well-articulated and thoughtful discourse may stay my hand more than your silence would've. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 20:19, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Fourthords, since the last time I contacted you about repeated complaints from multiple editors about you deleting content for being tagged citation needed -- when the article does contain sources that support the content -- you've gotten two more complaints. It's only been two months, and you've had long arguments with at least two people here on your talk alone, and you just aren't taking any of this criticism on. If a bit of content in something other than a BLP is not dubious, removing it isn't the best way to handle it. Finding a source is the best way to handle it. I even showed you back in August just how easy it was for me to find the source for the content you'd removed. The person who put the tag on may not have even known what they were talking about. They could have been a vandal for all you know. The answer to a citation needed tag is not to remove content. It's to find the citation.
I am really concerned about this. You are abusing that policy. Valereee ( talk) 10:52, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
for no reason other than it having been tagged for […] too longis inaccurate, and may be coloring both the meaning behind your question, as well as my actions overall. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
…and you just aren't taking any of this criticism on.Really? I thought Tcr25 and I had a rather amicable discussion, since when I've only removed unsourced material IAW WP:V—at articles in which I didn't comprehensively check every single other source in the article—twice: at the articles Coolio and Ryan Fournier because they were both receiving high levels of attention and scrutiny by the non-editing public.
The answer to a citation needed tag is not to remove content. It's to find the citation.According to the verifiability policy, they're both answers.
You are abusing that policy.As I said to 2001:4453:532:1900:1C9F:D7D0:47CB:E0E8 ( talk · contribs) above, this seems to boil down to: you don't like the application of policy as written by consensus. On top of that, you're taking issue with a narrower SOP (when sources may already exist in an article, but aren't duly cited), which seems to have been answered satisfactorily by users who weren't equally "really concerned" and vaguely accusing me of "abuse". I would recommend that if you feel strongly about your preferred interpretation of the policy, you should gain consensus to change it. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Congrats on the edits you've made. I can assure you her father was severely burned (cannot recall if they were electrical burns or not) in a workplace accident. I know this isn't really a reliable source, but it is specified here (and I believe in a few documentaries). Regards, and thanks again. K.D. Kieronoldham ( talk) 21:56, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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+ category alphabetization; + {{use mdy dates}} update; + {{unbulleted list}};. That was to explain that (a) the categories of that article were alphabetized, (b) the
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Hey Fourthords,
Noticed your simplifying of an infobox at the Humptulips, Washington page - [4] - and had a couple of questions that might help me be a better editor:
1. Is this to help simplify the infoboxes, ridding it of unneeded or redundant parameters?
2. Or is it more along the lines of cleanliness at it's end point, i.e. they're overstuffed to begin with?
3. Should skinning-down the infobox be standard practice and something I should be doing?
I'm currently undertaking the additions of infoboxes on CDP's and unincorporated communities in WA state, and want to make sure I'm not adding to a maintenance/editing backlog by using a full-throated template (I'm currently going with the grain of those infobox layouts as already incorporated throughout WA town/city/CDP/et all articles).
If you have the time, I'd love your feedback especially considering your experience and respectability here at Wikipedia. TheGREYHORSE ( talk) 01:04, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
|alt=
) is to actually encourage that activity. Infobox templates also change over time, and it's best practice to return to the source —e.g. {{
infobox settlement}}—for the optimal and standardized parameter names and variable spacing, which leaving the original October 2007 version of the template might discourage. There're also lesser concerns like time spent scrolling past unused parameters and a general desire for tidiness.However, absolutely none of this is codified (that I'm aware of). They're just my intuitions and personal practices that don't conflict with any policies, guidelines, manuals, or other editors. I wouldn't dive into editing an article for the express purpose of examining its infobox code; at
Humptulips, Washington I was adding the cropped photo as my primary edit, and then made those other hopefully-uncontroversial edits while I was in the neighborhood. —
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12:32, 8 December 2022 (UTC)Title. Why are you doing this? Why are you deleting Wikipedia Pages - Creating new Wikipedia Pages for no reason, and then attempting to link your new Wikipedia Pages to the old ones by re-directing from the Main WikiPedia profiles you are deleting? This is being updated to confirm you have been reported to AN/I. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 64.231.234.195 ( talk) 09:49, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Louis Conradt a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Suicide of Louis Conradt. This is known as a " cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Kleuske ( talk) 21:42, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
It appears that you tried to give Louis Conradt a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Suicide of Louis Conradt.I didn't. The content of the latter article was originally and entirely developed independently of the former. Suicide of Louis Conradt was created from whole cloth, and then Louis Conradt was turned into a redirect. I'm gonna remove the {{ history merge}} (and link to this discussion in my edit summary) because I'm worried a bot might make a technical mess by trying to merge two different wholly distinct article histories. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 23:46, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi - I've requested a WP:THIRDOPINION about the Charles Robert Jenkins/Tan Zan question. Regards, Muzilon ( talk) 00:13, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
When you're adding a template to an article for referencing problems, such as you did a couple of days ago at Orlando Jones, you do not backdate the template to the original creation of the article — that results in the regeneration of long-deleted redlinked maintenance categories such as Category:Articles needing additional references from November 2004, that don't have a legitimate basis for recreation at all but cannot be left as unresolved redlinks either. You date the template to the month in which you're adding the template, i.e. February 2023, regardless of when the page was originally created. For one thing, the table you're tagging as an "unreferenced section" wasn't in the article yet as of 2004, so it isn't a 19-year-old issue — so what's important in the context of that template is not "how long has the article existed", but "when was the referencing problem noticed and tagged for". Bearcat ( talk) 13:50, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
This category combines all articles lacking sources from February 2023, which means "articles which have been lacking sources from the month February 2023", not "articles which were found in February 2023 to be lacking sources". The Orlando Jones article has had an unreferenced filmography section since its creation, meaning that entire section has been wildly out of compliance for 18.2 years. Since that sort of long-standing failure is profound and important to realize, and given the self-description of the category pages, I've always dated the {{ unreferenced}} templates to whenever that article or section first lacked sourcing; you're the first to contradict my actions and those pages. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:09, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Fourthords
NFL players have U.S. ... even murderers such as Dahmer, Bundy and Gacy have U.S.
Just wondering why this page do I get such feedback. I'm not going to get into all the ins and outs of Wikipedia, rules and wording etc.
I'm hoping that in a few months Robert Rozier isn't the only former NFL player left. Many editors are doing what I'm going. Hundreds a day.
Believe me, I'm not here to aggravate you.
Thank you for hearing me out. Bringingthewood ( talk) 06:04, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, how are you, im. sorry i couldn't find any more information on Tami Stronach, and also i thought that the entry rateyourmusoic.com was a reliable entry and i didn't relaise that it wasn't she was really only ever known as a child star in The Neverending Story as the Childlike Empress and she became famous even though her appearance in that film was a mere 3 minutes, the movie Ultra_Low is listed on IMDB, which may also not be reliable, and although that role she is listed as having a starring role, it is a independent film from a small studio, so there may not be much written on it. I have found another article about her, i don't know if this is exceptable either, but gives a few details about her ancestry background, i dont know if she is referred to as American , but she resides in California, and with her family has lived in several countries and the film The Neverending Story was made in Germany, site is Mamamia.com.au/neverending-story-empress-tami-stronach/ .kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.14.227 ( talk) 08:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)