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Saw your comment, and I wanted to reply without derailing the thread. In answer to your question, they don't pay me enough (such as it were) to do other people's notification work for them, and if you lack the courage to tell someone your dragging them before the admin inquisition then in my opinion you've got no faith or confidence in your position which speaks volumes as to whose really causing the trouble in the article(s), don't you think? Its not that hard to say "the problem's moved here, please come and discuss it" any more than it is to notify users of xfd or rfc or rfa discussions, and yet somehow no one wants to, and if editors and contributors can't be bothered to take ten seconds to leave a message then I won't be bothered to do it for them. TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:49, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi GMG
Thanks for reaching out. The page I have created is not promotional, and not intended to be so. I am working on it, as it is about a UK business containing only factual information.
Please can you provide any guidance on what you believe to be promotional?
Thank you.
Sheldonsbakery ( talk) 13:47, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi.
I am following the layout and content of similar articles. My sources come from the company website and news articles. I shall continue to edit, including references from external sources in the hope that it will pass review. Sheldonsbakery ( talk) 13:57, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
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Since you are already involved in on Category talk:Jews, please tell Triggerhippie4 that handing out commands or saying that editors should be barred from editing (for no other evident reason than that he they disagree with him) is not acceptable. Debresser ( talk) 10:09, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Make an edit filter, and prevent any editor with less than 50 edits from creating a new article with the word "solutions" in it. I give it 95% that if an article includes the word "solutions" it's going to have a very G11 time. The other 5% are probably articles about solutions in mathematics and/or physics. No independent good faith editor ever wrote:
NFQ Technologies is a Lithuanian and German-owned international software development company that builds web and mobile solutions for the travel, logistics, aviation and retail industries and also develops the proprietary platform ONGR for accelerating large-scale e-commerce projects.
It's just not a thing. Because it's a vaguely positive meaningless word designed to be vaguely positive but meaningless. It is the king, no... emperor of advertorial jargon. GMG talk 13:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
The creation of a separate page was to expand on different segment of the organisation. SIM Global Education, the brand and provider of private education and SIM Group. It is normal to port over information 1st and build from there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macustan ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo
Blink To Speak is a new eye language devised for helping patients who have an alert mind but a paralyzed body. This eye language guide has been given away to patients for free. Asha Ek Hope is a non-profit organization that helps ALS/MND patients all over India. This is an initiative supported and led by them.
Since the language was conceptualized and developed by TBWA, it is important to credit them. It is no way to promote the organization. I have edited the content of the page, to focus more on the eye language rather than the creator, TBWA\ India.
I request you to reconsider your opinion.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arshia.jain ( talk • contribs) 16:45, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo
I understand Wikipedia is not a means to promote things. Hence, the write-up is more informatory than promotional. It is for people looking for solutions to their communication struggles. Many ALS patients create their own versions of eye signs and use it with their family or caregivers. This page is intended for them to find if their caregiver ever looks for an existing eye language. And to understand it better. — Preceding
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Hi, I'm SamHolt6. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Sam Wakoba, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
SamHolt6 ( talk) 19:20, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for helping with my URL/website issue! :) SunnyBoi ( talk) 15:27, 24 April 2018 (UTC) |
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Thank's for your help on IRC, in articles, and basically everywhere. You're a great contributor with many substantial articles that you've created, and a lot of experience. Vermont ( talk) 21:52, 24 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hi --- no need to be rude, we're just trying to update the page about our company. It is possible to be constructive instead of simply deleting everything.
I'm 100% on board for making the entry factual and objective, but the current Wikipedia entry is not even accurate. We are not (and have not been for years) a mobile app company. We have more locations, employees, etc than are listed here. So in the interest of access to accurate and objective information, we will continue to update our page. If you have specific pieces you think would be better phrased differently or removed altogether, we welcome your constructive and specific feedback.
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, along with what you would specifically like changed, and what independent published sources support those changes. Note that if the proposed changes can only be supported by unreliable sources, like official websites and press releases, your suggestions are unlikely to be accepted.
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Hey there,
I see many edits have been done on the Eric Netsch page. I am curious if they follow all the rules now or if further edits need to be made. If I make one for the company Tapcart (www.tapcart.co) is that also going to be suggested for deletion? The owners feel they are notable enough to be placed on wiki. Smaller companies than them have made it. All advice is much appreciated.
Thanks! -- Nickybetsch ( talk) 11:23, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the info. --
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please can you explain how I include references on the page. sorry im pretty new to this thing and I just want to put my knowledge about football to good use — Preceding unsigned comment added by RossCunningham989 ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi GreeMeansGo, you tagged the page I created "SIGWATCH" speedy deletion because it seems to be promotional. While I contest the classification as promotional (I left a contestation on the talk page), I now understand that it might have also been because a conflict of interest (although you did not mention this). So sorry about that! I have left a full disclosure about my belonging to the organisation on my user page now. Thanks so much for your assistance - could you please send me the draft html code per email so I can rework it and create a new draft page that I can instead request someone with the right permission and authority to review in order to resolve this. Best wishes ( Solberg7836 ( talk) 17:16, 25 April 2018 (UTC))
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A tag has been placed on MaineHealth, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Cburnham89 ( talk) 17:30, 25 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hello,
I saw your speedy deletion on the MaineHealth page, I removed the mission statement as I can see how that can be perceived as an advertisement. Is that the specific area you were referring to? I tried making some changes to improve but not sure what specifically it was flagged for.
Thanks, Cburnham89— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cburnham89 ( talk • contribs) 17:30, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, can you please give me more information about how did you find the page promotional? In stead of deleting it why don't simply participate to improve the text ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadjem007 ( talk • contribs) 12:36, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo, Who told you that I am working for that company? Who told that I am not volunteer? Well It's much better to spend a little bit of your time explaining to me what I did wrong (one time), instead of spending your very precious volunteer time deleting all the pages that I will creat. Because I still don't know why this my text doesn't fit Wikipedia recommendations.
Hello, I am a student at wingate university and I posted the link to my two articles of the Rhoda page. I understand that you flagged the comparison to Mary Magdalene (because it is not very necessary), but I do not understand the feminist perspective article? I would like that one to stay just as a suggestion to other readers on Rhoda. if its okay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I can understand why that should not be there! I apologize! I have deleted the link to that page. however, can the link to the Feminist perspective stay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards ( talk • contribs) 17:08, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I understand! I did try to edit the Rhoda page but that made people unhappy until they finally edited my work down to the small last paragraph. That is why I didn't want to add it directly to the Rhoda page. I along with my professor (who is a biblical scholar) will continue to edit and add sources to the Feminist perspective page so it meats the requirements. Would that be okay? I would just like that small link to stay there so possibly other feminist biblical scholars can edit the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards ( talk • contribs) 17:25, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, if you have seen this before me, and had different impression. All I know is that I reported them using WP:TW, but fortunately now I am checking my contribs I came across this weird diff. I didn't remove yours manually. Do you have clue why it happened that way?. – Ammarpad ( talk) 18:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Classic. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia / cheap sh*t room 08:19, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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Just an fyi, banning an administrator from using administrative privileges has come up before, as I mentioned in the discussion. isaacl ( talk) 18:02, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Just a little heads up, I created Template:Db-g0 from the one on your userpage. L293D ( ☎ • ✎) 19:39, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Meh, A10 re CT_scan#Medical_use would have probably worked for me.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 02:21, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
I added to your RFA questions section but then removed what I put in because I am not experienced like those people who participate there.
Tell me about you being approached for paid editing. Company? Individual? How did they contact you? What did they want you to write? What was the offered pay?
Good luck! Vanguard10 ( talk) 04:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Just putting this here, because I've got nowhere else to put it and probably no one that cares to listen anyway. That Nazi comment on RfA. Phew boy. That got me in the gut, and right before I tried to lay down for bed too.
I...I remember the first time I was spit on. I was in seventh grade. Someone I'd never met took a big draw from the water fountain and just spit it all over me. I...presumed it must have been a mistake. Like he got choked or something. He looked me in the eye and walked away, like I should have known what it was I did wrong to deserve that. I had no idea. And that was my introduction into modern race relations in the US.
I...I wasn't born in Germany; I was born in West Germany when there was still a wall and everything. I was barely old enough to remember that checking our car for extra stray wires was a thing, because being a US citizen living in West Germany, it wasn't out of the question that someone would try to blow us up to prove a point. So, when I came back to the states I wasn't really used to our particular type of racial tensions. I was completely naive to the point of stupidity, and I was only starting to get used to people trying to blow me up because I was American, and not distrusting me because I was brown.
Turns out, most white people think I'm Mexican. Mexicans tend to think I'm Puerto Rican, and visa versa. By that I mean that I'm not taken off guard anymore if someone just walks up to me and starts speaking Spanish, and I have to ask them in broken Spanish to please speak English. Black folks tend to think I'm half black. I'm not, I'm just brown. I look like my mother and she looks like her mother. We're Cherokee. Somehow we missed that whole thing where Jackson marched half of us to our deaths on the way to Oklahoma. My dad's white. So is my sister, my wife and daughter. If...you've never been a brown dad in a grocery store in rural Kentucky with a white baby in your cart, well...good for you then. It's not always a pleasant experience.
I...I do reserve the right to defend bigots, because I'm better than them. And that's something that someone who is better than them would do. I don't want to be their enemy. I want to be their friend. Because those type of people are looking for enemies, and when they meet a friend that doesn't look like they do, they're dumbfounded. I want to dumbfound them. I want nothing more than to befuddle them and make them think differently than they do, because the way they think is wrong, and toxic, and I'm tired of it. GMG talk 04:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
disarming white Americans before the coming race warand I don't think that's okay to put in an article. I was pig headed and wrong. But I do think that we should tell people they're wrong because they're wrong for the reasons they're wrong, based on the strength of their arguments and their foundation in sources, and not based on who they are. That is exactly the standard that I expect myself, to be told when I'm wrong, and why I'm wrong in a way that helps me be better. That's why I don't say probably lots of things that I might have said two years ago, and it's the reason I'll hopefully be a better editor in two years than I am now.
GMG, I've been reading some of the concerns expressed in the oppose votes - primarily because a few were by editors I consider wiki-friends who have earned my respect. From there I did some random spot checking to see what I could learn before I voted and eventually landed here. While I'm not brown, my family is a colorful lot, and I can relate to what you said. I'm old mature enough and worldly enough to know that prejudice and bigotry are not limited to race and that the motivating forces in human nature are very complex. I see individuals, not race, social status, religion, nationality, education, etc. I've been that way all my life, dating back to early childhood as the member of a yankee family who invaded Texas which is how we were made to feel (almost a century after the Civil War ended). Before Dad moved us south, I was scorned as the "spawn" of a "mixed" marriage (Irish father x Italian mother) in Providence, RI, (Dad attended Brown, which is the only brown in my immediate lineage) so I was often called either a "wop" or a "mick". If that wasn't enough scorn in a child's life, I grew-up having to defend my handicapped sister against ridicule and physical attacks - some kids can be very mean and so can some adults - so I grew-up as a scrappy kid. The majority of my friends were people of color, and that hasn't changed over the years. During my first few years on WP, I was stereotyped and placed into just about every pidgeonhole one can imagine, simply for trying to adhere to our written policies, specifically NPOV and BLP. Like you, my first impulse is not to reject but to befriend in an effort to introduce/influence others and help them see things from a different perspective, more as fellow human beings rather than as a particular body style and paint color. Some people have become so irreversibly entwined in their own preconceived notions and first impressions they don't even realize that what they're doing is just another form of bigotry. Anyway...thanks for sharing your story, and thank you for volunteering
at RfA. I wish you luck and minimal grief during the process. Hmmm...for some reason "process" brings to mind
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As someone whose interaction with you consists of a few (generally dissenting!) votes in AfD, I wanted to add another voice against those thinking that defending a bigot indicates, in any way being one. Wikipedia frequently becomes a howling mob, and having another admin willing to defend their victims is of benefit. Nosebagbear ( talk) 09:04, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
I assume it's your daughter? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 21:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
It looks like this is going to be a nail biter. Some RfA's are a walk on the beach, and some are more like dinner with the Inquisition. As one who went through the latter kind I wish you well and appreciate your work here, however this turns out. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 04:14, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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I was away the last hours, - sorry to see what happened, and you on medication. All the best for your health, and family! - I would like to take you by your word about meeting at an article. Today I had the death of a woman whom I have admired for a long time on my watchlist. I struggle to get her In The News. All refs were practically dead, all writing (with love by JackofOz) needs to be sourced otherwise. All help welcome. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:33, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
When you have a mo - TNT ❤ 17:24, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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At the risk of treading where I'm not wanted, I did want to leave a note saying how much I do appreciate you as an editor, and that your demeanor in what I'm sure was a stressful experience was nothing less than graceful, and that it did nothing but increase the amount of respect I have for you, regardless of my stance in the RfA. I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, but I landed on the side of posting it publicly since my criticism was so public. Anyway, all the best, and thank you for all that you do for this project. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Nobody thinks you are a Nazi or sympathize with Nazis.Sorry Andrevan... but I suspect you need to reread the RfA. GMG talk 23:44, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
This was a dreadful RfA. I'd take the rest of the day off and sample some of the finer things in life. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:01, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
If there's some practical way that I can buy you a drink, I'd like to do so. Happy to share a paypal address by email? I'm very disappointed that this RfA didn't fly. GoldenRing ( talk) 18:38, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Protonk. You don't know me from Adam. Like some other people you've never met or interacted with I showed up to your RfA and decided based on what I read of yours and/or what other people wrote about what you wrote (which is often the case as in any discussion about a user) that you should not be an admin. That's...a hard experience to go through. Even my RfA which was pretty uncontroversial and forever ago engendered serious anxiety and concern for me. Total and near total strangers summing you up is stressful. I won't offer more sympathy, not because you don't deserve it but because sympathy from a total stranger who--by all appearances--just got the outcome they wanted at your expense is at best valueless.
I implore you to think carefully and long about why a bunch of total strangers showed up to your RfA with strong and severe opinions about you. I suspect you've already given it some thought and I can see that other editors have offered their thoughts to you. In thinking about it, consider that the answer may not be one which flatters you or your conduct. You'll certainly find or be offered answers that do. Those answers will come as a balm and will almost all seem to stem from a place of understanding and nuance, especially when compared to categorical rejection. They will, to the last, have a grain of truth or more. Many will feel clever or speak to a platonic detachment which feels so appropriate to our mission here. The most potent will make you feel proud of your iconoclasm.
Those words are poison.
"I...I do reserve the right to defend bigots, because I'm better than them." The pause you telegraph here is instructive to me. It indicates that not only did you consider your words by writing them in the first place but you considered your consideration. Consider it a bit more. The idea that we're better than bigots therefore we can consider their ideas without being captured by them (because we're not ignorant, stupid, biased--take your pick) is as seductive as it is wrong. We all came from the same dirt which we'll all return to. There are bigots who founded colleges and bigots who won wars just as there are bigots whose crowning achievement is shooting up their Keurig. I live in America so I've had to spend much more of my time than I expected in the last year marching against nazis. At one of those marches I ran into some asshole very proud of his white genocide shirt that didn't even have the right 14 damn words on it. I don't flatter myself that I'm better than him. Doing so only accomplishes two things. First, it allows me to dismiss the threat he poses without engaging it. Second, it leads me to believe that whatever challenge he is facing and failing I am overcoming from the start. The thread between both of those is there is work to be done on ourselves and with others at all times. You have work to do. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
You might object that the work you've set out to do is outlined in the end of the paragraph I quoted above. Engaging with racism in the way you describe can be useful but most contexts on wikipedia (including the one spurring the comment you made) aren't a personal and private intervention. What you say and do is not just for the consumption of an intended audience of one. You're finding that out rather rudely right now but so might an editor engaged in a dispute with someone who is promoting racist views on wikipedia. They might be surprised to discover you've set out to "be [a] friend" to bigots, as a rule. They would rightly expect you to treat them fairly and just as rightly feel unfairly treated when you act to demonstrate your friendship. They won't know that deep down you don't harbor the same feelings as the bigot (how could they!) and fundamentally it won't matter. They also won't know your intent in establishing this friendship (again, how could they) nor will they (I suspect) feel validated that you've 'dumbfounded' the other editor. From their perspective they'll have only seen an administrator who treated them unfairly and in doing so offered comfort to a bigot.
I hope you'll read through your RfA when you're able and seek out those who offered strong criticism. Protonk ( talk) 18:40, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
I think this comment was worded very well, given what I thought you meant to say. You established your perspective by talking about your childhood. You explained your bonafides with respect to how you live IRL. You made and justified your claim that you were unrepentant about defending bigots with an appeal to the preceding paragraphs. It was as well worded as one could expect. What I'm saying is it betrays a lack of judgment I found both serious and disqualifying for reasons I explained above.
In your reply you give me a promise of your even-handedness in dealing with every editor and then indicate that your original comment was meant to express this sentiment. If that were the case I would say the original comment was poorly worded. But I don't think that's the case. I think you're expressing two separate sentiments. One in the comment where you say "I don't want to be their enemy. I want to be their friend. Because those type of people are looking for enemies, and when they meet a friend that doesn't look like they do, they're dumbfounded. I want to dumbfound them." and another above. They're not two attempts at describing the same thought; they're two different thoughts and I should have no reason to think one not reflecting the other is a result of poor communication. Protonk ( talk) 12:24, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
If that were the case I would say the original comment was poorly worded.That is the case, which is why it was poorly worded. I have no particular interest in Nazis. But they exist, so I do happen to come across them on occasion. The particular instance I had in mind when I wrote what I wrote was related to this editor, which had a run in with a current admin, who felt that they could apparently be as dismissive as they pleased with editors who disagreed with them ideologically, and because of that, it bounced around from ANI, to RFEA to BLPN. I caught it at BLPN, and instead of piling on with flippant disregard, I did my best to explain how the editor's concerns conflicted with policy and practice. Because I did so, it stopped bouncing. The editor didn't get their way, but they had an explanation for why they didn't.
Sorry your RFA failed. In my opinion that's completely unfair. Still, I hope you'll continue to be the great contributor that you've been so far. Kind regards, Yintan 19:12, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
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Sorry about that mess. The fact that you were able to keep a cool head throughout is truly a highlight; Possibly the greatest thing I've ever witnessed on this site. Compliments on civility are not damaging, and no matter what anyone else says, that is an indisputable fact. 💵Money💵emoji💵 Talk 20:59, 2 May 2018 (UTC) |
...but that I'm sorry you had to endure what you did. I'll spare you the patronizing and simply say that I thought what happened sucked out loud. - Atsme 📞 📧 01:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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I really appreciate how you went through a grueling RFA even with a lot of oppose !votes. It would be hard for any editor to keep their composure in any RFA, let alone one with a lot of opposition. Keep up the good work ethics and civility, and I hope you'll run again soon. epicgenius ( talk) 02:03, 3 May 2018 (UTC) |
I look forward to your next RFA, hopefully as GreenMeansGoOnWheels! ( power~enwiki~on~wheels) 02:16, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps it's insensitive for me to say so (and if it is, I apologize for my lack of tact), given my vote, but I'm truly sorry about that RfA: if I could have found a place to put it, I'd have noted somewhere in my comments that you've always been a fine editor, and an exemplary gentleman, in all our encounters; yet I cannot help but feel that saying so would have just been twisting the knife more.
All that aside, though, I hope this doesn't sour you on Wikipedia: we need good editors, excellent editors, and (let's be honest) you're one of the best, GMG. I certainly hope we don't lose you, but I'd understand if you decided that your family takes priority. One last thing: if I'm ever in Kentucky, how's a beer sound? My treat. — Javert2113 ( talk) 03:53, 3 May 2018 (UTC) |
Don't know if I understand what went down. Perhaps it was just too surreal. I happen to observe offhand that you write & communicate well, so additionally don't understand the self-deprecation re same. (What seems to be "amiss" is reaction -- fear of exaggerated possibilities untied to the real world, that somehow cross an "Accepted Politically Correct Values" pillar?! Can't get the comparison out of my head Kanye West scolded recently by a politician w/ same skin color: "He's a creative young person but sometimes speaks out of turn. He needs assistance in forming his ideas [properly]." Surreal needle off the gauge!?) Warm or cold? -- IHTS ( talk) 05:36, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Please don't suggest that you "wasted time" by coming forward to run the gauntlet of detractors and being willing to take on a job whose difficulty is seldom appreciated by the community as a whole. I hope you will try again before too long. Deb ( talk) 07:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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For your courageous decision to run for adminship, despite the high standards and low levels of civility held there. (I myself have to admit that I was not
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Great minds think alike! I was just going to put File:Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight 1944.jpg in the article when I found you had already done it, just minutes after I uploaded that image to Commons. clpo13( talk) 17:47, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
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Your deletions of material concerning a certain Alek Minassian was perhaps hasty and perhaps excessive; please use the "citation needed" tag (as you are familiar with tags) rather than lend yourself to con-censorship. 126.161.172.98 ( talk) 18:08, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I've recently listed Fawad Khan in FA candidates. I'll an honor for me if you consider reviewing it. Amirk94391 ( talk) 04:04, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
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Good on you for jumping in to rapidly improve Rape in Germany. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:27, 2 July 2018 (UTC) |
...that with this edit, you just helped a neo-Nazi to promote the "identitarian" movement by keeping a much more prominent version of their symbol in the article, on the grounds that it's an SVG and the alternative is a JPG. Who cares if it's an SVG! It's in the damn infobox, where it hardly matters/ What matters is that it's an in-your-face logo, dominating the top of the page, helping to promote a vile philosophy and is not a neutral presentation of the symbol, as the other image is. You're clearly not seeing the forest for the trees, here. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 18:43, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
On 6 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Indian Peace Commission, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Indian Peace Commission, established by the US Congress in 1867 to negotiate with and "civilize" Native American tribes, ultimately ushered in a decade of war? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Indian Peace Commission. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Indian Peace Commission), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi there. Thanks so much for your comments at the Prison education FAC, they were very helpful. Unfortunately the FAC has been closed; while I wasn't expecting it to pass this closure is unfortunate since there was no clear consensus among reviewers yet on how to improve it. Accordingly I've nominated the article for peer review. All comments are welcome, and I will happily review something for you in return for your comments there. See Wikipedia:Peer review/Prison education/archive2. Thanks. Freikorp ( talk) 03:34, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks to editors like you who are willing to review articles such as North Cascades National Park and offer excellent suggestions, it is now a Featured Article!-- MONGO ( talk) 15:59, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
I've also got File:Trump Protester in Parliament Square.jpg and File:Trump Is Like My Son's Nappies.jpg if you fancy running the gauntlet of a Commons transfer. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:11, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help earlier. Would you be able to take a look at this? I posted it a couple of days ago, but no response from anyone. I think it's just Daily Mail redux but would appreciate your advice. Carbon Caryatid ( talk) 08:35, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
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... on scoring a quick TFP with Hollow Horn Bear. Xcllnt choice. Sca ( talk) 13:35, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for answering my question on the Teahouse page. I couldn't see how to thank you there! I'm still learning and have planned to visit the pages you suggested. RA778T ( talk)
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Dear sir, I am going to give details of this article full. ARJ 15:34, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Dear sir, i can also see this, website http:// www.priya-kumar.com
For more details, i want some time tor update article. ARJ 15:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amarjeetkr97 ( talk • contribs) 15:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
The Alex Gurteen article should not be speedily deleted in my opinion because it is not a copy of the previous version due to the fact I have written the article from scratch. The article looks fairly similar because it list the same achievements as in the first article. I accept this page may not be kept but I do think it should be done properly through the AFD process. Epsomathlete ( talk) 21:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Fair enough, I won't replace again. Epsomathlete ( talk) 22:20, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Hadn’t even noticed I’d hit the revert, which is damned odd, but I’m still not used to a pad vs. a PC. Qwirkle ( talk) 12:46, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Re: As to the issues of BLP raised on the Jeong article, I'm less than sympathetic, so long as the source would otherwise be reliable enough for us to normally use in an article.
Not to re-litigate the issue, but I wanted to make clear that I agree with (and always have!) the WP:RS standard you propose; wanted to clarify in case I left you with the wrong impression. Abecedare ( talk) 17:16, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
I wondered if I should just open an RfC asking if RS should apply to {{ Press}}, but I wanted to figure out how other people understand its purpose first. I can also foresee some people arguing WP:EL as more applicable, but I find EL not to be much help, since it's both vague and we're talking about a talk page. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:25, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
material available solely in questionable sources or sources of dubious value should be handled with caution, and, if derogatory, should not be used at all, either as sources or via external links. GMG talk 17:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi GreenMeansGo. Since you were a participant in Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 July 27#File:'Bridge' by Kenneth Noland, 1964..jpg, I thought you should know about c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:'Bridge' by Kenneth Noland, 1964..jpg. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 00:27, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Re: this, yeah, that was a mistake, thanks for fixing it. Editing on mobile, generated a random click. Thought I had managed to cancel it, but I guess not. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:05, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi GreenMeansGo
Could you please indicate what is not good on the one2many page ? You mention that the references used generic unreliable websites. I would not consider FCC, ETSI, official d=Dutch government websites unreleiable websites. Special care has been taken that , No commercial or press releases are part of the one2many wiki page. Sources make are official whitepapers from independent organiations 5G Americas and ETSI.
one2many is a significant contributor since 2017 to the public safety in many countries and for that contribution it should be able to be found on wiki.
hope for you fair response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CMASChris001 ( talk • contribs) 13:45, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey User:GreenMeansGo one should get an additional chance to improve and learn also in Wiki. The current Wiki article does not contain any advertising for one2many. We removed any article that potentially made reference to one2many as you would rank that as possible advertisement. one2many is an important contributor to international standarisation committes as 3GPP and [[ETSI] in public warning since 2007
For you information one2many business competition has Wiki pages so the rational to remove one2many seems not fair.
Please indicate what we need to improve in our page not to be removed by you ? 16:08, 8 August 2018 (CET CMASChris001 ( talk) 14:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC) 16:09)
Please note that reverting an edit 3 times within a 24 hour period can get you sanctioned. I'm not sure if you read the talk on the Alex Jones page. There is somewhat divided consensus, and your welcome to join the discussion. People who put up edits with bias are violated WP s NPOV policy. -- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 14:16, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
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Saw your comment, and I wanted to reply without derailing the thread. In answer to your question, they don't pay me enough (such as it were) to do other people's notification work for them, and if you lack the courage to tell someone your dragging them before the admin inquisition then in my opinion you've got no faith or confidence in your position which speaks volumes as to whose really causing the trouble in the article(s), don't you think? Its not that hard to say "the problem's moved here, please come and discuss it" any more than it is to notify users of xfd or rfc or rfa discussions, and yet somehow no one wants to, and if editors and contributors can't be bothered to take ten seconds to leave a message then I won't be bothered to do it for them. TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:49, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi GMG
Thanks for reaching out. The page I have created is not promotional, and not intended to be so. I am working on it, as it is about a UK business containing only factual information.
Please can you provide any guidance on what you believe to be promotional?
Thank you.
Sheldonsbakery ( talk) 13:47, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi.
I am following the layout and content of similar articles. My sources come from the company website and news articles. I shall continue to edit, including references from external sources in the hope that it will pass review. Sheldonsbakery ( talk) 13:57, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
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Since you are already involved in on Category talk:Jews, please tell Triggerhippie4 that handing out commands or saying that editors should be barred from editing (for no other evident reason than that he they disagree with him) is not acceptable. Debresser ( talk) 10:09, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Make an edit filter, and prevent any editor with less than 50 edits from creating a new article with the word "solutions" in it. I give it 95% that if an article includes the word "solutions" it's going to have a very G11 time. The other 5% are probably articles about solutions in mathematics and/or physics. No independent good faith editor ever wrote:
NFQ Technologies is a Lithuanian and German-owned international software development company that builds web and mobile solutions for the travel, logistics, aviation and retail industries and also develops the proprietary platform ONGR for accelerating large-scale e-commerce projects.
It's just not a thing. Because it's a vaguely positive meaningless word designed to be vaguely positive but meaningless. It is the king, no... emperor of advertorial jargon. GMG talk 13:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
The creation of a separate page was to expand on different segment of the organisation. SIM Global Education, the brand and provider of private education and SIM Group. It is normal to port over information 1st and build from there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macustan ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo
Blink To Speak is a new eye language devised for helping patients who have an alert mind but a paralyzed body. This eye language guide has been given away to patients for free. Asha Ek Hope is a non-profit organization that helps ALS/MND patients all over India. This is an initiative supported and led by them.
Since the language was conceptualized and developed by TBWA, it is important to credit them. It is no way to promote the organization. I have edited the content of the page, to focus more on the eye language rather than the creator, TBWA\ India.
I request you to reconsider your opinion.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arshia.jain ( talk • contribs) 16:45, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo
I understand Wikipedia is not a means to promote things. Hence, the write-up is more informatory than promotional. It is for people looking for solutions to their communication struggles. Many ALS patients create their own versions of eye signs and use it with their family or caregivers. This page is intended for them to find if their caregiver ever looks for an existing eye language. And to understand it better. — Preceding
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Hi, I'm SamHolt6. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Sam Wakoba, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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Thank you for helping with my URL/website issue! :) SunnyBoi ( talk) 15:27, 24 April 2018 (UTC) |
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Thank's for your help on IRC, in articles, and basically everywhere. You're a great contributor with many substantial articles that you've created, and a lot of experience. Vermont ( talk) 21:52, 24 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hi --- no need to be rude, we're just trying to update the page about our company. It is possible to be constructive instead of simply deleting everything.
I'm 100% on board for making the entry factual and objective, but the current Wikipedia entry is not even accurate. We are not (and have not been for years) a mobile app company. We have more locations, employees, etc than are listed here. So in the interest of access to accurate and objective information, we will continue to update our page. If you have specific pieces you think would be better phrased differently or removed altogether, we welcome your constructive and specific feedback.
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, along with what you would specifically like changed, and what independent published sources support those changes. Note that if the proposed changes can only be supported by unreliable sources, like official websites and press releases, your suggestions are unlikely to be accepted.
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Hey there,
I see many edits have been done on the Eric Netsch page. I am curious if they follow all the rules now or if further edits need to be made. If I make one for the company Tapcart (www.tapcart.co) is that also going to be suggested for deletion? The owners feel they are notable enough to be placed on wiki. Smaller companies than them have made it. All advice is much appreciated.
Thanks! -- Nickybetsch ( talk) 11:23, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the info. --
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please can you explain how I include references on the page. sorry im pretty new to this thing and I just want to put my knowledge about football to good use — Preceding unsigned comment added by RossCunningham989 ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi GreeMeansGo, you tagged the page I created "SIGWATCH" speedy deletion because it seems to be promotional. While I contest the classification as promotional (I left a contestation on the talk page), I now understand that it might have also been because a conflict of interest (although you did not mention this). So sorry about that! I have left a full disclosure about my belonging to the organisation on my user page now. Thanks so much for your assistance - could you please send me the draft html code per email so I can rework it and create a new draft page that I can instead request someone with the right permission and authority to review in order to resolve this. Best wishes ( Solberg7836 ( talk) 17:16, 25 April 2018 (UTC))
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A tag has been placed on MaineHealth, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Cburnham89 ( talk) 17:30, 25 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hello,
I saw your speedy deletion on the MaineHealth page, I removed the mission statement as I can see how that can be perceived as an advertisement. Is that the specific area you were referring to? I tried making some changes to improve but not sure what specifically it was flagged for.
Thanks, Cburnham89— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cburnham89 ( talk • contribs) 17:30, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, can you please give me more information about how did you find the page promotional? In stead of deleting it why don't simply participate to improve the text ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadjem007 ( talk • contribs) 12:36, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo, Who told you that I am working for that company? Who told that I am not volunteer? Well It's much better to spend a little bit of your time explaining to me what I did wrong (one time), instead of spending your very precious volunteer time deleting all the pages that I will creat. Because I still don't know why this my text doesn't fit Wikipedia recommendations.
Hello, I am a student at wingate university and I posted the link to my two articles of the Rhoda page. I understand that you flagged the comparison to Mary Magdalene (because it is not very necessary), but I do not understand the feminist perspective article? I would like that one to stay just as a suggestion to other readers on Rhoda. if its okay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I can understand why that should not be there! I apologize! I have deleted the link to that page. however, can the link to the Feminist perspective stay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards ( talk • contribs) 17:08, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I understand! I did try to edit the Rhoda page but that made people unhappy until they finally edited my work down to the small last paragraph. That is why I didn't want to add it directly to the Rhoda page. I along with my professor (who is a biblical scholar) will continue to edit and add sources to the Feminist perspective page so it meats the requirements. Would that be okay? I would just like that small link to stay there so possibly other feminist biblical scholars can edit the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards ( talk • contribs) 17:25, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, if you have seen this before me, and had different impression. All I know is that I reported them using WP:TW, but fortunately now I am checking my contribs I came across this weird diff. I didn't remove yours manually. Do you have clue why it happened that way?. – Ammarpad ( talk) 18:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Classic. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia / cheap sh*t room 08:19, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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Just an fyi, banning an administrator from using administrative privileges has come up before, as I mentioned in the discussion. isaacl ( talk) 18:02, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Just a little heads up, I created Template:Db-g0 from the one on your userpage. L293D ( ☎ • ✎) 19:39, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Meh, A10 re CT_scan#Medical_use would have probably worked for me.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 02:21, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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I added to your RFA questions section but then removed what I put in because I am not experienced like those people who participate there.
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Good luck! Vanguard10 ( talk) 04:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Just putting this here, because I've got nowhere else to put it and probably no one that cares to listen anyway. That Nazi comment on RfA. Phew boy. That got me in the gut, and right before I tried to lay down for bed too.
I...I remember the first time I was spit on. I was in seventh grade. Someone I'd never met took a big draw from the water fountain and just spit it all over me. I...presumed it must have been a mistake. Like he got choked or something. He looked me in the eye and walked away, like I should have known what it was I did wrong to deserve that. I had no idea. And that was my introduction into modern race relations in the US.
I...I wasn't born in Germany; I was born in West Germany when there was still a wall and everything. I was barely old enough to remember that checking our car for extra stray wires was a thing, because being a US citizen living in West Germany, it wasn't out of the question that someone would try to blow us up to prove a point. So, when I came back to the states I wasn't really used to our particular type of racial tensions. I was completely naive to the point of stupidity, and I was only starting to get used to people trying to blow me up because I was American, and not distrusting me because I was brown.
Turns out, most white people think I'm Mexican. Mexicans tend to think I'm Puerto Rican, and visa versa. By that I mean that I'm not taken off guard anymore if someone just walks up to me and starts speaking Spanish, and I have to ask them in broken Spanish to please speak English. Black folks tend to think I'm half black. I'm not, I'm just brown. I look like my mother and she looks like her mother. We're Cherokee. Somehow we missed that whole thing where Jackson marched half of us to our deaths on the way to Oklahoma. My dad's white. So is my sister, my wife and daughter. If...you've never been a brown dad in a grocery store in rural Kentucky with a white baby in your cart, well...good for you then. It's not always a pleasant experience.
I...I do reserve the right to defend bigots, because I'm better than them. And that's something that someone who is better than them would do. I don't want to be their enemy. I want to be their friend. Because those type of people are looking for enemies, and when they meet a friend that doesn't look like they do, they're dumbfounded. I want to dumbfound them. I want nothing more than to befuddle them and make them think differently than they do, because the way they think is wrong, and toxic, and I'm tired of it. GMG talk 04:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
disarming white Americans before the coming race warand I don't think that's okay to put in an article. I was pig headed and wrong. But I do think that we should tell people they're wrong because they're wrong for the reasons they're wrong, based on the strength of their arguments and their foundation in sources, and not based on who they are. That is exactly the standard that I expect myself, to be told when I'm wrong, and why I'm wrong in a way that helps me be better. That's why I don't say probably lots of things that I might have said two years ago, and it's the reason I'll hopefully be a better editor in two years than I am now.
GMG, I've been reading some of the concerns expressed in the oppose votes - primarily because a few were by editors I consider wiki-friends who have earned my respect. From there I did some random spot checking to see what I could learn before I voted and eventually landed here. While I'm not brown, my family is a colorful lot, and I can relate to what you said. I'm old mature enough and worldly enough to know that prejudice and bigotry are not limited to race and that the motivating forces in human nature are very complex. I see individuals, not race, social status, religion, nationality, education, etc. I've been that way all my life, dating back to early childhood as the member of a yankee family who invaded Texas which is how we were made to feel (almost a century after the Civil War ended). Before Dad moved us south, I was scorned as the "spawn" of a "mixed" marriage (Irish father x Italian mother) in Providence, RI, (Dad attended Brown, which is the only brown in my immediate lineage) so I was often called either a "wop" or a "mick". If that wasn't enough scorn in a child's life, I grew-up having to defend my handicapped sister against ridicule and physical attacks - some kids can be very mean and so can some adults - so I grew-up as a scrappy kid. The majority of my friends were people of color, and that hasn't changed over the years. During my first few years on WP, I was stereotyped and placed into just about every pidgeonhole one can imagine, simply for trying to adhere to our written policies, specifically NPOV and BLP. Like you, my first impulse is not to reject but to befriend in an effort to introduce/influence others and help them see things from a different perspective, more as fellow human beings rather than as a particular body style and paint color. Some people have become so irreversibly entwined in their own preconceived notions and first impressions they don't even realize that what they're doing is just another form of bigotry. Anyway...thanks for sharing your story, and thank you for volunteering
at RfA. I wish you luck and minimal grief during the process. Hmmm...for some reason "process" brings to mind
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As someone whose interaction with you consists of a few (generally dissenting!) votes in AfD, I wanted to add another voice against those thinking that defending a bigot indicates, in any way being one. Wikipedia frequently becomes a howling mob, and having another admin willing to defend their victims is of benefit. Nosebagbear ( talk) 09:04, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
I assume it's your daughter? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 21:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
It looks like this is going to be a nail biter. Some RfA's are a walk on the beach, and some are more like dinner with the Inquisition. As one who went through the latter kind I wish you well and appreciate your work here, however this turns out. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 04:14, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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I was away the last hours, - sorry to see what happened, and you on medication. All the best for your health, and family! - I would like to take you by your word about meeting at an article. Today I had the death of a woman whom I have admired for a long time on my watchlist. I struggle to get her In The News. All refs were practically dead, all writing (with love by JackofOz) needs to be sourced otherwise. All help welcome. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:33, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
When you have a mo - TNT ❤ 17:24, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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At the risk of treading where I'm not wanted, I did want to leave a note saying how much I do appreciate you as an editor, and that your demeanor in what I'm sure was a stressful experience was nothing less than graceful, and that it did nothing but increase the amount of respect I have for you, regardless of my stance in the RfA. I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, but I landed on the side of posting it publicly since my criticism was so public. Anyway, all the best, and thank you for all that you do for this project. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Nobody thinks you are a Nazi or sympathize with Nazis.Sorry Andrevan... but I suspect you need to reread the RfA. GMG talk 23:44, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
This was a dreadful RfA. I'd take the rest of the day off and sample some of the finer things in life. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:01, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
If there's some practical way that I can buy you a drink, I'd like to do so. Happy to share a paypal address by email? I'm very disappointed that this RfA didn't fly. GoldenRing ( talk) 18:38, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Protonk. You don't know me from Adam. Like some other people you've never met or interacted with I showed up to your RfA and decided based on what I read of yours and/or what other people wrote about what you wrote (which is often the case as in any discussion about a user) that you should not be an admin. That's...a hard experience to go through. Even my RfA which was pretty uncontroversial and forever ago engendered serious anxiety and concern for me. Total and near total strangers summing you up is stressful. I won't offer more sympathy, not because you don't deserve it but because sympathy from a total stranger who--by all appearances--just got the outcome they wanted at your expense is at best valueless.
I implore you to think carefully and long about why a bunch of total strangers showed up to your RfA with strong and severe opinions about you. I suspect you've already given it some thought and I can see that other editors have offered their thoughts to you. In thinking about it, consider that the answer may not be one which flatters you or your conduct. You'll certainly find or be offered answers that do. Those answers will come as a balm and will almost all seem to stem from a place of understanding and nuance, especially when compared to categorical rejection. They will, to the last, have a grain of truth or more. Many will feel clever or speak to a platonic detachment which feels so appropriate to our mission here. The most potent will make you feel proud of your iconoclasm.
Those words are poison.
"I...I do reserve the right to defend bigots, because I'm better than them." The pause you telegraph here is instructive to me. It indicates that not only did you consider your words by writing them in the first place but you considered your consideration. Consider it a bit more. The idea that we're better than bigots therefore we can consider their ideas without being captured by them (because we're not ignorant, stupid, biased--take your pick) is as seductive as it is wrong. We all came from the same dirt which we'll all return to. There are bigots who founded colleges and bigots who won wars just as there are bigots whose crowning achievement is shooting up their Keurig. I live in America so I've had to spend much more of my time than I expected in the last year marching against nazis. At one of those marches I ran into some asshole very proud of his white genocide shirt that didn't even have the right 14 damn words on it. I don't flatter myself that I'm better than him. Doing so only accomplishes two things. First, it allows me to dismiss the threat he poses without engaging it. Second, it leads me to believe that whatever challenge he is facing and failing I am overcoming from the start. The thread between both of those is there is work to be done on ourselves and with others at all times. You have work to do. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
You might object that the work you've set out to do is outlined in the end of the paragraph I quoted above. Engaging with racism in the way you describe can be useful but most contexts on wikipedia (including the one spurring the comment you made) aren't a personal and private intervention. What you say and do is not just for the consumption of an intended audience of one. You're finding that out rather rudely right now but so might an editor engaged in a dispute with someone who is promoting racist views on wikipedia. They might be surprised to discover you've set out to "be [a] friend" to bigots, as a rule. They would rightly expect you to treat them fairly and just as rightly feel unfairly treated when you act to demonstrate your friendship. They won't know that deep down you don't harbor the same feelings as the bigot (how could they!) and fundamentally it won't matter. They also won't know your intent in establishing this friendship (again, how could they) nor will they (I suspect) feel validated that you've 'dumbfounded' the other editor. From their perspective they'll have only seen an administrator who treated them unfairly and in doing so offered comfort to a bigot.
I hope you'll read through your RfA when you're able and seek out those who offered strong criticism. Protonk ( talk) 18:40, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
I think this comment was worded very well, given what I thought you meant to say. You established your perspective by talking about your childhood. You explained your bonafides with respect to how you live IRL. You made and justified your claim that you were unrepentant about defending bigots with an appeal to the preceding paragraphs. It was as well worded as one could expect. What I'm saying is it betrays a lack of judgment I found both serious and disqualifying for reasons I explained above.
In your reply you give me a promise of your even-handedness in dealing with every editor and then indicate that your original comment was meant to express this sentiment. If that were the case I would say the original comment was poorly worded. But I don't think that's the case. I think you're expressing two separate sentiments. One in the comment where you say "I don't want to be their enemy. I want to be their friend. Because those type of people are looking for enemies, and when they meet a friend that doesn't look like they do, they're dumbfounded. I want to dumbfound them." and another above. They're not two attempts at describing the same thought; they're two different thoughts and I should have no reason to think one not reflecting the other is a result of poor communication. Protonk ( talk) 12:24, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
If that were the case I would say the original comment was poorly worded.That is the case, which is why it was poorly worded. I have no particular interest in Nazis. But they exist, so I do happen to come across them on occasion. The particular instance I had in mind when I wrote what I wrote was related to this editor, which had a run in with a current admin, who felt that they could apparently be as dismissive as they pleased with editors who disagreed with them ideologically, and because of that, it bounced around from ANI, to RFEA to BLPN. I caught it at BLPN, and instead of piling on with flippant disregard, I did my best to explain how the editor's concerns conflicted with policy and practice. Because I did so, it stopped bouncing. The editor didn't get their way, but they had an explanation for why they didn't.
Sorry your RFA failed. In my opinion that's completely unfair. Still, I hope you'll continue to be the great contributor that you've been so far. Kind regards, Yintan 19:12, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
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Sorry about that mess. The fact that you were able to keep a cool head throughout is truly a highlight; Possibly the greatest thing I've ever witnessed on this site. Compliments on civility are not damaging, and no matter what anyone else says, that is an indisputable fact. 💵Money💵emoji💵 Talk 20:59, 2 May 2018 (UTC) |
...but that I'm sorry you had to endure what you did. I'll spare you the patronizing and simply say that I thought what happened sucked out loud. - Atsme 📞 📧 01:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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I really appreciate how you went through a grueling RFA even with a lot of oppose !votes. It would be hard for any editor to keep their composure in any RFA, let alone one with a lot of opposition. Keep up the good work ethics and civility, and I hope you'll run again soon. epicgenius ( talk) 02:03, 3 May 2018 (UTC) |
I look forward to your next RFA, hopefully as GreenMeansGoOnWheels! ( power~enwiki~on~wheels) 02:16, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps it's insensitive for me to say so (and if it is, I apologize for my lack of tact), given my vote, but I'm truly sorry about that RfA: if I could have found a place to put it, I'd have noted somewhere in my comments that you've always been a fine editor, and an exemplary gentleman, in all our encounters; yet I cannot help but feel that saying so would have just been twisting the knife more.
All that aside, though, I hope this doesn't sour you on Wikipedia: we need good editors, excellent editors, and (let's be honest) you're one of the best, GMG. I certainly hope we don't lose you, but I'd understand if you decided that your family takes priority. One last thing: if I'm ever in Kentucky, how's a beer sound? My treat. — Javert2113 ( talk) 03:53, 3 May 2018 (UTC) |
Don't know if I understand what went down. Perhaps it was just too surreal. I happen to observe offhand that you write & communicate well, so additionally don't understand the self-deprecation re same. (What seems to be "amiss" is reaction -- fear of exaggerated possibilities untied to the real world, that somehow cross an "Accepted Politically Correct Values" pillar?! Can't get the comparison out of my head Kanye West scolded recently by a politician w/ same skin color: "He's a creative young person but sometimes speaks out of turn. He needs assistance in forming his ideas [properly]." Surreal needle off the gauge!?) Warm or cold? -- IHTS ( talk) 05:36, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Please don't suggest that you "wasted time" by coming forward to run the gauntlet of detractors and being willing to take on a job whose difficulty is seldom appreciated by the community as a whole. I hope you will try again before too long. Deb ( talk) 07:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help earlier. Would you be able to take a look at this? I posted it a couple of days ago, but no response from anyone. I think it's just Daily Mail redux but would appreciate your advice. Carbon Caryatid ( talk) 08:35, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on File:Marathon Oil logo.svg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 09:54, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
... on scoring a quick TFP with Hollow Horn Bear. Xcllnt choice. Sca ( talk) 13:35, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for answering my question on the Teahouse page. I couldn't see how to thank you there! I'm still learning and have planned to visit the pages you suggested. RA778T ( talk)
An arbitration case regarding German war effort articles has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
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Dear sir, I am going to give details of this article full. ARJ 15:34, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Dear sir, i can also see this, website http:// www.priya-kumar.com
For more details, i want some time tor update article. ARJ 15:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amarjeetkr97 ( talk • contribs) 15:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
The Alex Gurteen article should not be speedily deleted in my opinion because it is not a copy of the previous version due to the fact I have written the article from scratch. The article looks fairly similar because it list the same achievements as in the first article. I accept this page may not be kept but I do think it should be done properly through the AFD process. Epsomathlete ( talk) 21:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Fair enough, I won't replace again. Epsomathlete ( talk) 22:20, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Hadn’t even noticed I’d hit the revert, which is damned odd, but I’m still not used to a pad vs. a PC. Qwirkle ( talk) 12:46, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Re: As to the issues of BLP raised on the Jeong article, I'm less than sympathetic, so long as the source would otherwise be reliable enough for us to normally use in an article.
Not to re-litigate the issue, but I wanted to make clear that I agree with (and always have!) the WP:RS standard you propose; wanted to clarify in case I left you with the wrong impression. Abecedare ( talk) 17:16, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
I wondered if I should just open an RfC asking if RS should apply to {{ Press}}, but I wanted to figure out how other people understand its purpose first. I can also foresee some people arguing WP:EL as more applicable, but I find EL not to be much help, since it's both vague and we're talking about a talk page. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:25, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
material available solely in questionable sources or sources of dubious value should be handled with caution, and, if derogatory, should not be used at all, either as sources or via external links. GMG talk 17:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi GreenMeansGo. Since you were a participant in Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 July 27#File:'Bridge' by Kenneth Noland, 1964..jpg, I thought you should know about c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:'Bridge' by Kenneth Noland, 1964..jpg. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 00:27, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Re: this, yeah, that was a mistake, thanks for fixing it. Editing on mobile, generated a random click. Thought I had managed to cancel it, but I guess not. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:05, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi GreenMeansGo
Could you please indicate what is not good on the one2many page ? You mention that the references used generic unreliable websites. I would not consider FCC, ETSI, official d=Dutch government websites unreleiable websites. Special care has been taken that , No commercial or press releases are part of the one2many wiki page. Sources make are official whitepapers from independent organiations 5G Americas and ETSI.
one2many is a significant contributor since 2017 to the public safety in many countries and for that contribution it should be able to be found on wiki.
hope for you fair response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CMASChris001 ( talk • contribs) 13:45, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey User:GreenMeansGo one should get an additional chance to improve and learn also in Wiki. The current Wiki article does not contain any advertising for one2many. We removed any article that potentially made reference to one2many as you would rank that as possible advertisement. one2many is an important contributor to international standarisation committes as 3GPP and [[ETSI] in public warning since 2007
For you information one2many business competition has Wiki pages so the rational to remove one2many seems not fair.
Please indicate what we need to improve in our page not to be removed by you ? 16:08, 8 August 2018 (CET CMASChris001 ( talk) 14:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC) 16:09)
Please note that reverting an edit 3 times within a 24 hour period can get you sanctioned. I'm not sure if you read the talk on the Alex Jones page. There is somewhat divided consensus, and your welcome to join the discussion. People who put up edits with bias are violated WP s NPOV policy. -- Intellectual Property Theft ( talk) 14:16, 9 August 2018 (UTC)