![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | → | Archive 15 |
Hi.
I think I need a second opinion. Today, I ran into Windows Blue (created today) whose body prose is word-for-word a duplicate of Windows 9. I put a CSD A10 tag on it but I've received an email that says it is an inappropriate tag. (Actually, the email reads like a plea not to delete the article.) Is the tag the right one?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
14:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Could you explain why you didn't relist this AFD. Seems a premature close given valid points from both sides still developing and the fact that those against deletion were arguing for changing our inclusion guidelines which isn't a matter for an AFD. He eithier meets WP:NFOOTY or GNG he doesn't on both counts. Blethering Scot 11:50, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I've noticed that there's no page for the UK company Amigo Loans, but there was one, before it was deleted on the grounds of lacking notability (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amigo_Loans). Reading the deletion page, I see that the only argument for notability was that the company had television adverts, which clearly doesn't make them notable, but after a google search of the company's name, I found multiple articles referencing, quoting and presenting research carried out by the company. (see: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/city/4305275/No-profit-loans-provided-by-credit-unions-are-on-the-rise.html, http://www.shropshirestar.com/shropshire-business/money/uk-money/2012/09/04/one-in-five-give-up-on-dream-job/, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/9395294/Payday-loans-could-cost-you-a-mortgage.html etc - there are more but as far as I can see these ones establish their notability). I think this page should be reinstated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.216.105.12 ( talk) 08:50, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi there,
This is Ciaron Davies, film maker and writer
I have been trying to write a wikepedia article for Fionnuala Collins the Irish artist but it has been declined and I am unsure what to do
I am a huge fan of her work. I think she is one of the freshest painters to come out of Ireland and deserves recognition for her talent. Recently, I even created a video of her 'Film Icons' collection free of charge. It can be found on youtube under "Film icons gallery You can find some of my fictional writing by searching for ciaron davies hubpages
the article for Wikepedia was written by my self and I set up the account for her. I'm doing it because I would like to see her on Wikepedia. She is an excellent artist, a very kind person and a very hard worker.
Do you have any advice on how I might get the article published? Or would you be interested in re-drafting it your self?
Hope that your day is great! Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Ciaron Davies
[----] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fionnualamarycollins ( talk • contribs) 10:29, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 76.248.149.47 ( talk) 14:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry I'm fairly new to Wikipedia, so thanks for giving me advice. For InMobi I do believe the controversy section should be left as Internet board messages can be valid sources of references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dongito ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know... the film had its premiere at the Smithsonian on September 24, and is now beginning to screen world-wide. I did some work on the incubated article and the moved it back to mainspace. I do not think any could claim now that it misses on WP:NF or WP:GNG. Best regards, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 23:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi.
How do you do? Sorry to bother you but I am looking for help about a somewhat peculiar status of an image. I feel I am not wiki-experienced enough to understand. I know all sorts of venues of review, appeal, dispute resolution and such in Wikipedia but choosing one and then saying the right thing in them is the main concern. Besides, I do not want to cause unintended harm to anyone. So, I thought maybe you would care to help me assess the situation and understand it. I'd be grateful if you did. Do you have time? (If you don't, I understand.)
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
21:29, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I just sent you an email - I'd like to talk to you for an article I'm working on. If you could get back to me when you have a free moment, I'd much appreciate it :) Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itinerantgirl ( talk • contribs) 10:45, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Have you noticed this? Cheers! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/ GG-J's Talk 07:59, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
That was quick. -- Lenin and McCarthy | ( Complain here) 23:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for closing this AfD. I would greatly appreciate, though, if you could expand your closing rationale a bit. As far as I can see, the arguments for deletion were all policy based, whereas the arguments for keeping the article were almost a version of "I like it". So I'm curious what made you go for "no consensus". Thanks! -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 08:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
TatSat is edit warring on Autobiography of a Yogi page. The current cover was deleted by commons and Yworo said I should upload it through Wikipedia instead. TatSat has deleted it 3 times and I have written the explanation when I undid his edits. Also, he is vandalizing the article, even though Yworo gave clear guidance. See this page [1] and scroll to the bottom of the page -
"The most we are really going to be able to include would be something like the following:
I think we might need to protect the page??? Red Rose 13 ( talk) 14:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Stradivarius, a user called Guillaume has just removed the original cover of the book it took us months to correct. As you know, the curent image in (that was in) the infobox is not a copyrighted image. The book and its contents, including the cover, illustrations and photographs is in public domain. Red Rose will not allow the article to become neutral. We went through mediation and it took us months to insert the correct picture of the cover which was just removed. Who told Guillaume the image is copyrighted? Here we are again as we started. The only image in the page is the image of SRF´s version of the book. Besides Red Rose will not allow a neutral point of view. The page as it is advertises the version of the book published by Self-Realization Fellowship. I will tag the page as not neutral. If I keep being unable to edit the page with facts and the book history, we will have to ask mediation again. Mediation was just closed. Is that what Red Rose wants? Now the correct cover is marked for deletion. Thank you. Tat Sat ( talk) 15:43, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Stradivarius. Here are two inks - among many - to online facsimiles of the Autobiography of a Yogi. The publishers - who has not been prosecuted for copyright violation - state the book is in public domain and offer the book for free download (including the use of the original cover:
I am sorry for the length text but please bear with me for this is important to clarify the issue about the photographs were published in Bold textSRF´s maganize as you can verify. There is no mention of the photos nor the cover of Autobiography of a Yogi which was already ruled to be in public domain without any doubt, since 1991. Please Self-Realization Fellowship versus Ananda this information, since you recommended not only the cover but photographs that are in the book should be deleted. I quote:
Hey, Mr. Stradivarius. Please help contribute to my WikiProject. This WikiProject is about different cultures. If you can take some time and help contribute to it, that would be very nice of you. I am starting this project this week and would like to finish by next week. Please help me with this project. Thank you very much. Please answer on my talk page because I might not be able to keep track of who is contributing and who is not. I would like you to also share your culture. If you can give me a little summary about your culture such as, foods, lifestlye, holidays, traditions, e.t.c, that would be extremely helpful. Thank you. Pleas reply on MY talk page. Happy edits! Have a great day! DEIDRA C. ( talk) 18:33, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dear
I want to know about Trishneet Arora — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.173.116.180 ( talk) 10:36, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please read the discussion on the talk page, and look at the edit history. Am not happy at being given a warning. Have been trying to counter act POV pushing by andy the grump - that it is a perversion, and should clearly be labled as such. I have also read BLP and see nothing that prohibits mentioning widely publisised allegations, and criminal charges, even if there was no conviction - could you please explain. I feel that i am being discriminated against as an IP editior. 87.194.46.83 ( talk) 11:57, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi sir,
I think many articles of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona should be merged with the main article of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona . Articles such as these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Poly_Pomona_Department_of_Chemical_and_Materials_Engineering (should be merged with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Poly_Pomona_College_of_Engineering)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cal_Poly_Pomona_presidents
Could you please check the main article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Polytechnic_University,_Pomona
thanks -- Irani12 ( talk) 15:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I find completely unfair your decision. Professor Canelo is a well know Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon worldwide. Why you do not support professionals to be on Wikipedia? Please revert this decision. With many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbncnl ( talk • contribs) 21:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
As promised before I'm writing to tell you that the move review for the Tenedos article ended. Seems like the move review ended without creating anything constructive towards either way. I believe it was a major violation of administrator rights the way the closing admin closed it but that seems to be no longer relevant. Basically, the move review provided nothing for it to sink on anyone. So, what now? TheDarkLordSeth ( talk) 16:17, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stradivarius. Please, could be possible, for courtesy, that these pages: 1, 2 and the others linked to it do not appear in search engines (Google, Bing, etc)? And could be possible it: 3 and it, too: 4? Thank you.-- USAnne ( talk) 08:24, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Heya! I've had a request for help from User:Ananyaprasad with the Rashmi Singh (author) article that was recently deleted. I explained that I can't restore it, but that I could request for a copy to be put into their userspace to work on until it passes notability guidelines. I figure that wouldn't do much harm for them to have a copy to work on for the time being. Tokyogirl79 ( talk) 13:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Mr. S, would you kindly give a little justification if you're going to prune down something I insert. "More neutral wording" doesn't cover removing a fact entirely. If you thought my phrasing of Doyle's world tour was spun, you could have made it neutral without completely deleting it. At this point, if I insert something factual into the article, I'm not doing it on a whim. I could have written a two-paragraph blurb on the matter that you would have pruned down to half a sentence, so I took the lesson of your copy edit and simply started with the half-sentence. By removing even that, you're insulting me by supposing I haven't even been trying to pay attention to what you've tried to show me about brevity and proper summary. A world champion athlete's touring of the world wonders is perfectly encyclopedic enough to warrant a half-sentence insert. You don't want me littering the page with hippy youtube media references, so I gave a perfect epitome reference which documented both the win and the fact of his world tour, together. Obviously my exact wording is derived from a much bigger perspective. If you didn't trust the tone, fine, but removing the basic insertion entirely is uncalled for.
If you really think Doyle's recent world tour isn't encyclopedic enough to warrant a mention, or needs a particular level or type of reference strength to include, then please elaborate on this with something other than absolutely nothing. You can examine the footage yourself from his YouTube channel, it's the latest handful of uploaded videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/10055870 Squish7 ( talk) 14:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Tell me how should i make nominations visible? they have already been shown. How to add? where to get the source? My source is TV. Cant place that on wiki sorry. -- I'm Titanium chat 15:52, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Not "preachy" at all, and I am always happy to get advice. I suppose part of the problem was that it was pretty clear from the start that one of the users was simply not here to build an encyclopaedia. His contributions might not have constituted "vandalism" in the "traditional" sense but were, in my opinion, a form of "intellectual vandalism". His whole focus, unambiguously so, was to WP:PROMO his preferred niche style of a particular art-form. While everyone behaved and no-one " outed" anyone, it did became fairly clear that the editor involved was directly connected to the subject and had a fairly clear WP:COI. Did I overstate my case? Probably; I sometimes get carried away in "defence" of WP's "honour" and this was probably one of those times. More than happy to take your comments on board - always appreciated. Stalwart111 (talk) 00:07, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
When you have time, please look at this list on the Talk page. Thanks, Keahapana ( talk) 03:15, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I am thankful for your attempts to help me with the content dispute, but they have gone stale. What I (or we) can do about it? Lguipontes ( talk) 12:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm just so annoyed by the fact that users have really started to target me. Like seriously. User:Dharmadhyaksha has removed the averages from a page i created claiming it to be meaningless Mathematics. I have no problem with that. I, in turn, asked him to remove the same useless math from the US versions too. Why be biased towards the indian version? just cause i created that page? Look at the msg i posted on his talkpage. [2] What m i doing wrong? It's either he's too pussy too get involved with more editors on this change or he just hates me. -- I'm Titanium chat 06:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I'll annoy you some more (just kidding!). :) Do you think I am pushing a POV or being rude here? I don't see it that way, in my opinion I just made the wording more neutral, tried to explain my reasons, and soon people got all accusative, concerned and hurting. No one knows a 17-year-old with 1600 edits does silly things sometimes (even if I think my view is not silly at all)? Oh, these guys... Lguipontes ( talk) 14:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much! It’s amazing how fast you responded. It’s really frustrating when someone is deleting reliable references simply because it’s not how they would like it to be, and it’s really nice to know that now you will keep an eye on this! The most annoying thing is that the stuff this guy was deleting are stuff which were discussed on the talk page.
It was already established that though Belarusians weren’t called Belarusians, they still existed as an ethnic groups, they were just referred to as Litvins or Ruthenians, and the definition was basically descendants from the Rus’ people living on the territory of the Great Duchy of Lithuania (they spoke the same language, they had the same origin, which is the definition on an ethnic group, and even if someone was polonized, it doesn’t change from what ethnic group their ancestors came from).
The name Belarusians was actualy started by the Russians in order to disconnect those people from their history and loyalty to the Great Duchy of Lithuania. Belarusians were a majority in the Great Duchy, their language was the official language and they were even called Litvins after the Duchy, so the Russian government found it worrying and as it was doing then decided to “play” with identities and names.
So anyway, this issue was discussed, and it was established that the Belarusians existed but under a different name and using reliable sources it was shown that Kościuszko’s family was of Belarusian origin, though polonized (I was actualy the one who found the link that his family was polonized), so it’s highly frustrating when you see a guy first deleting the information saying that the links are not in English (which is not a good enough argument), then deleting them saying Belarusians didn’t exist then (which is not true and it was discussed on the talk page), then deleting it saying that his family was polonized (which is true, but it was discussed on the talk page and it was agreed that national identity and ethnic origin are not the same thing and though polonized Kościuszko’s origin ethnically was still Belarusian/Litvin/Ruthenian). Important to note, this guy didn’t write on the Talk page even once and I doubt if he read it.
I myself an half Polish and half Belarusian, and unlike what this guy says I don’t try to “steal” a Polish hero, he obviously is a Polish hero, he spoke Polish, he fought for Poland and he dedicated his life to Poland, but I don’t see how being from a different ethnic origin can contrast being loyal to your country, and when people like him try to hide an ethnic origin of a person because in their eyes it will make this person less of a hero (I don’t see any other explanation)… I find it dangerous because it comes from an assumption that a minority can’t be loyal and can’t be patriotic, which for me as a Pole/Belarusian who lives in the UK is very scary and I would even say hate-spreading.
Anyway, sorry for writing so much, just wanted to show what I see is happening. Thank you so much for protecting the page and for keeping an eye on it! It’s good to know someone is taking care of the issue! Danton's Jacobin ( talk) 10:53, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:13, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Administrator,
we do not agree with the deletion of the page of the article The ONE Study. We would really appreciate comments and explanation on the reason of the deletion. It would allow a fruitful discussion that could lead to a satisfactory solution. Our commitment is very high and we would collaborate in order to produce a publishable article of global interest, as we think that the page would be very interesting for the society, without any promotional scope and intent. The clinical study is lead by a German public Institution and the research project is funded by a public Institution, the European Commission (EC). The project is listed in the link of the EC:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/health/biotechnology/new-therapies/projects-fp7_en.html
Hope to have a positive and helpful feedback from you. Regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 13:51, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr Stadivarius, Very notably, 2 of the acknowledgments to The ONE Study are in a "Science" article and a "Nature Reviews Immunology" article; these are peer reviewed journals obviously of the highest impact in the field. The first two papers are not on open access journals. "Immunology. Regulatory T cells get their chance to shine." Leslie M.; 2011 May 27;332(6033):1020-1. "Regulatory immune cells in transplantation." Wood KJ, Bushell A, Hester J.; Nat Rev Immunol. 2012 May 25;12(6):417-30. doi: 0.1038/nri3227.
Below the reference of open access papers published on peer reviewed journals on The ONE Study. http://www.transplantationresearch.com/content/1/1/11 Editorial "The ONE Study compares cell therapy products in organ transplantation: introduction to a review series on suppressive monocyte-derived cells" Geissler EK.; Transplantation Research 2012, 1:11 doi:10.1186/2047-1440-1-11
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3422982/ "Translating tolerogenic therapies to the clinic - where do we stand?" Issa F, Wood KJ. Front Immunol. 2012;3:254. Epub 2012 Aug 20.PMID: 22934094 [PubMed]
These two papers are open access thus you can check them without problems.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that The ONE Study was highlighted in a special Sunrise Symposium session by request of The Transplantation Society 2012 meeting this year in Berlin (the largest international organ transplantation meeting held every 2 years). Moreover, the project coordinator, Prof. E. K. Geissler, gave a presentation on The ONE Study as the keynote speaker at a joint meeting of the American Society of Transplantation and the European Society of Transplantation held in Nice, France (Oct 12-14, 2012; www.esot.org/meetings/publicplatform/MeetingPlatform.aspx?MeetingPlatformUI=15 We hope to have properly addressed your requests and met the criteria.
Best regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 09:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Ok. We will follow your suggestion. Thanks for that. The last tentative from our side is to copy the texts of the articles of Science and Frontiers in Immunology regarding The ONE Study.
Science, Author MITCH LESLIE: Six European institutions are collaborating on the ONE Study, a 5-year project to test whether T regs can prevent rejection of idney transplants. “There’s a huge need to improve immunosuppression in [organ] transplants,” says Andrew Bushell, a transplant immunologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The ONE Study and Bluestone’s type 1 diabetes trial will dose patients with polyclonal T regs, which turn down immune responses relatively broadly. The alternative is so-called antigen-specifi c T regs, which block attacks by other T cells that target a particular antigen, such as a characteristic protein on the cells in a transplanted organ. In theory, antigen-specific T regs shouldn’t provoke general immune suppression that might undermine antipathogen defenses and even lead to cancer. “We really believe that antigen specificity is the future of any successful T reg therapy,” says transplant immunologist and ONE Study collaborator Giovanna Lombardi of King’s College London. Bluestone says that future diabetes trials will also probably switch to antigen-specifi c T cells.
Frontiers in Immunology, Review, Authors Issa and Wood: The European Union is currently funding the first study for the valuation of immunomodulatory cellular therapy in SOT (www.onestudy.org). The ONE Study, a multi center Phase I/II clinical trial, will evaluate the safety and feasibility of various types of cell therapy including expanded nTreg, Tr1 cells, Mregs,and tolerogenic DCs in living-donor kidney transplantation. All centers will utilize a common adjunctive immunosuppressive protocol in order to provide a true comparison of the various cellular therapies. Control patients will be transplanted in 2013 and cell therapy groups in 2014, providing a follow up period of 12 months.
Regarding the open access paper on Transplantation Research, I would like to underline that it is a peer reviewed journal thus before the publication, the paper was evaluated, revised and approved by a committee of experts ij the field. Prof Geissler is not the owner of the journal, neither of the reserach or the clinical trial done in The ONE Study. He is the project coordinator of The ONE Study and he wrote a scientific paper on this work. After that, a group of expert evaluated his paper, reviwed it and accepted it for publication as valiad, reliable and notable. For this reason and thanks to the process behind every single publication on peer reviewed journals, we can stongly confirm that the paper is completely reliable and notable, otherwise it would not have been accepted for publication.
We will be delighted if you can do your further, may be last, evaluation based on the text of the papers that you were not able to read and on our last comment. I hope that you will appreciate our efforts focused in something that we think can be of broad interest for the common people to which wikipedia offers its contents.
Thank you very much for your kindness and avalilability. Regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 12:04, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr Stardivarius, we are available to send you the *.pdf of the mentioned articles, but we need your instructions for this. Regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 10:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Administrator,
actually we have completed a web-page where you can find 11 papers related to The ONE Study that can be considered as secondary sources. Below the link: http://www.openaire.eu/en/component/openaire/project_info/default/625?id=260687&confirm=ddd41314b6ec3c5d06fbe8773fd76c6888cfe799
Most of these papers are open access thus you cam simply access to the papers. All these papers are published on peer revied journals with a high impact factor, which are COMPLETELY independent from the project and from the project coordinator. Some of the papers mention The ONE Study as a very important and unique project in its field and other report the results that the consortium The ONE Study is generating within this collaborative project. For this reason there are the acknowledgement to the project and to the European Commission.
We are looking forward to have your final impression and evaluation. Best regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 12:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Just a quick question really. I came across this article in September and planned on making a number of changes to it, as it was written pretty much like an advertisement. I noticed however it was recently deleted via Afd, and you were the closing editor. In your opinion is this an article that could be re-created if the article wasn't written like an advertisement? From what I can see its borderline notable, it's simply been created on two occasions by average editors JP22Wiki ( talk) 15:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
How can Bigg Boss 6 be merged when many editors have voted on keep. All the copyright has been removed. I have rewritten the summaries in my own words. It is the biggest reality show in India. Dont do this. All international versions have separate pages for every season. Check it out, everything on Bigg Boss 6 is original now. Please reconsider. Please. -- I'm Titanium chat 18:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. How I am to work? As I start my work- put up anything anywhere or ask, 2-3 people (admin) start stalking me and reply in a demeaning way. Is this Wikipedia? You just have to see my contributions and see what is happening! I have just started work and they are trying to pick up a nonsense conversation. Please help. Ananyaprasad ( talk) 11:28, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to ask a favor of you, in your role as an uninvolved administrator who is also well trusted by editors at WP:V. Please take a look at WT:V#Summing up and the discussion that follows it, and determine the consensus and close the RfC there. Unlike the lead discussion, I'm pretty sure this one is non-controversial and the consensus will be easy to see, but I think it's best to have a by-the-book closure process. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 13:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
I've been away for a while and just got back, and I see that the bot has removed the RfC tag and the discussion seems to have quieted down, so I suspect that you might as well wrap it up at your next convenience. Thanks again. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:08, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you protected the Jeff Mangum page recently due to the Anne Frank vandalism. If you could do the same for Astra Taylor, that'd be awesome. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LethargicParasite ( talk • contribs) 07:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
Thanks for semi-protecting my userpage! Have a nice day! Cheers! Mediran talk| contribs 09:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC) |
(Barnstar archived)
FYI - I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for page protection#Bot archiving that you might be interested in contributing to. Thanks. ‑Scottywong | chat _ 23:13, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
You blocked the List of members of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Blocking is fine. The problem is the sequence you have frozen this article in, leaves the sanitized, whitewashed, one-sided POV version Arzel has been disruptively trying to have presented. As you already observed, the dissenting opinion was well documented with reliable sources. That's the wikipedia way. Arzel presents no sources, just his word; "no it isn't." I think my version properly deserves to be the state this article is frozen in. TruthtellernoBS ( talk) 02:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I am Shubha Phutela's cousin sister. I am glad that you increased the protection of her page. I wanted to clarify reason of her death and have submitted an edit request for the page. Kindly look into that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gita1602 ( talk • contribs) 13:59, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I've given the section a copy edit. I have one question, though - why did you say "Bengaluru" instead of "Bangalore"? — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 15:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I am not sure what "(Adding {{ pp-dispute}}" means on the above page. I can't see any difference in the versions. Thank you. 13:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeLouis ( talk • contribs)
Looking for more feedback from uninvolved parties for an RFC I posted at the page ALCAT test. The discussion is here: Talk:ALCAT test#RFC:Neutrality and reliable sources. Many thanks. Plot Spoiler ( talk) 19:43, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
A discussion has been opened at Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard#Frank_L._VanderSloot, where all discussion should take place.
The questions are:
Hi there Stradivarius, long time no see. Just had a quick note, I was taking a look at the RFPP log (good job keeping it clear by the way) when I edit conflicted you with List of Barbie's friends and family. I was about to decline it based on sparse negative activity and went ahead and soft-blocked the troublemaker IP address. I noticed that user is the only one in over a week who has improperly edited, and in fact all other anonymous users were editing constructively (since October 16). I'm not sure if you had another reason for protecting the page for two weeks, but it seems to me it's fairly safe to leave unprotected; perhaps if you're worried about vandalism extending the block on the user might be a better idea. Of course, I'm not really familiar with RFPP practices these days so if I'm being a bit archaic please let me know. =) Nice running into you, cheers. · Andonic contact 01:42, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. It has been shown at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MountWassen that this Afd you closed today includes a !vote by a confirmed sockpuppet (SirAppleby). Although the user did note make any other statements in the discussion under different names you might still want to consider your closure given the number of "reliable" participants in the discussion. De728631 ( talk) 17:46, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stradivarius, Could you please consider blocking this IP: 115.241.251.112. The IP has recieved all many warnings (see history) but keeps blanking the page. Thanks. Torreslfchero ( talk) 11:28, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Are downloading pics from the internet permissible on wikipedia? if you want to contribute a pic to an article and you can list the contributing editer, is that allowed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OldWell ( talk • contribs) 16:53, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure you don't want me messing with the sandboxes on either of these infoboxes. I have no idea what to do about that, but do appreciate you're keeping an eye on what is requested. It was done by Plastikspork on the Template:Infobox settlement. That's the only clue I can give you about how this is supposed to be done. — Maile ( talk) 17:30, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stradivarius, I request you to plz refer to User_talk:Kwamikagami#False_Accusation. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 13:55, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
---|
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
Hi Mr Stradivarius. You placed a page protect on Frank Vandersloot [7] last week and I'm afraid that as soon as it expired today, one of the editors involved in the previous dispute went right back to edit warring [8] [9] [10] and making arbitrary changes without having resolved the issues or getting consensus. In fact, the loose consensus on the the issue was that the previous version was appropriate and that the proposed changes being made by this editor are unwarranted. [11] Thus, the latest changes seem to clearly be WP:TE. Can you renew the page protect for another week to prevent edit earring until the issues are resolved, or should I file a request on the page protection request board? Thanks in advance. Rhode Island Red ( talk) 19:09, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
|
Hi everyone. I can appreciate that tensions are running high here, but my talk page isn't really the right place to have an argument about this. If you want to talk about the edit warring, I think the AN3 thread would be the most productive place. The best place to talk about the content, of course, is the article's talk page. I don't want to pre-empt the results of the AN3 thread by protecting the page again, but you are welcome to file another request at WP:RFPP if you want. Please mention the AN3 thread in it if you do, though. Thanks — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 00:33, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
THought you might appreciate knowing about this page (you'll need your admin tools to see it, but trust me, it's hardly worth bothering). I've blocked the user in question; given the article he's been posting (which I deleted too, it turns out) there's no question that he's NOTHERE. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 14:40, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Why? Why? Why? Ashford 4XI Hockey was perfectly harmless and didn't ever do anything to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Houstonj07 ( talk • contribs) 14:30, 2 November 2012 (UTC) Question which included most of page-blanking restored by -- Shirt58 ( talk) 14:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)>
Hello Mr. Stradivarius, thank you for your comment on my talk page regarding Thomas Peterffy; hopefully you can help me with this issue.
I attempted to add a simple factual comment to the Peterffy page, but apparently I'm having a problem finding the balance between acceptable unreferenced (but factual) comment, and comment that is subject to sufficient uncertainty that it requires reference to an unbiased source. I have researched the subject, and rewritten the addition, with appropriate footnotes. Please look at it and let me know if it requires any amendments.
On another tack, it seems that editing of this subject (Peterffy) has been subject to a higher than normal demand for sourcing and referencing, even some ideas that seem to me rather non-controversial. And when a demand for sourcing is made, the entire edit is thrown out, not just whatever specific passage is deemed questionable.
I wonder if there isn't more going on here than simply a quest for proper citing of references? Perhaps a political agenda? I haven't had this much difficulty, ever, editing a page, and my suspicions were particularly heightened by an earlier an edit reversion that mentioned "...far left-wing rants". In that particular case, the objectionable edit was indeed a rant - but would it have been acceptable to that particular redactor if it had been a "right-wing rant?"
Anyway, thanks for any assistance. Cordially, Kenwg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenwg ( talk • contribs) 03:51, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Your opinion is requested in this discussion.
If you're in an area that was affected by Hurricane Sandy, and are unable to reply, I hope that you have not suffered too greatly, and my best wishes go out to you. Nightscream ( talk) 22:46, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for your quick action to my request regarding the ongoing vandalism of the MGM-52 Lance Article by that IP User ( talk). I wasn't really sure if I had posted that on the right noticeboard and I didn't really know what, if any, action should have been taken. Just wanted to say thanks. Cheers, Mate. King of Nothing ( talk) 15:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
excuse me but can I know how did you protect the page of Pope Theodoros II .. Al Ahly SC page is attacked by IP vandalism almost everyday and I have to fix everything manually .. I added a protection section in the talk page but apparently I don't know how to request a page protection or doing it myself .. can you help me ?? -- Zo3a ( talk) 21:48, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey Strad, do you know, does NYB intend to discuss his closure with the parties to the mediation prior to the 13 November deadline? Cheers! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 23:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 11:10, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
There are more reviews stored/re-directedon on my own site (and around the net now) for this album Guy — Preceding unsigned comment added by GuyManning ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
You have been trouted for: oopsy oops, that's what happens when you have such a stylish signature on Talk:Language_pedagogy and go on about being a language teacher, and then have such a stylish userpage, with a rainbow, too, and something too small and floppy at top right to quite make out; I don't know what might come if it. I wish we had some of your style at Teflpedia (and you're quite welcome to advise us or contribute to our wiki and way you might). I've been trying to sort a navigational system over there and came over here to see what we call " Methodology" here. What, "Language pedagogy"? Ouch. I'm sticking with "Methodology" for now in the "Contents" page I'm working on. Time to toss the trout back into the river. Cheers! -- Rogerhc ( talk) 05:17, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Just a quick note to say thanks. Gnosygnu ( talk) 23:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Well done for protecting the article! Is it a temporary one or permanent? I just don't see why the information which is being reverted is an issue. The talk pages was not touched for ages, though I'm sure that would be the best way to resolve the issue. Danton's Jacobin ( talk) 19:01, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
this person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Omair00 thanks in advance for your help. CombatMarshmallow ( talk) 01:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
at metalcore — Preceding unsigned comment added by CombatMarshmallow ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I apologize for the "cut the crap" remark on the Talk page for Green Mountain College. However, I do not think we need dispute resolution as you suggested. Throughout the course of the day, this issue has been discussed ad nauseum with at least three other editors and one admin and none have sided with PE2011. In this case, the majority opinion has been stated, yet PE2011 refuses to accept it. Kingsrow1975 ( talk) 09:16, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Stradivarius, I am doing a research paper on the Truth of Wikipedia, specifically focusing on the controversial topic of Marie Antoinette. By exploring this page I am learning more about the validity of Wikipedia. While perusing the talk and history pages, I noticed that you have been very invested in this page. I am just wondering if you could tell me why you choose to edit the Marie Antoinette page, and why you have not been focusing on the content, but rather the editing? Why did you find this page in particular? I see that you are focused on language, but I don't necessarily see the connection to Marie Antoinette.. Finally, why did you choose to start participating on Wikipedia? What drives you to do so? It would be great if you could get back to me soon about these questions, I really appreciate your help! The link to the talk page: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Marie_Antoinette> MarieAntoinetteResearchPaper ( talk) 06:19, 12 November 2012 (UTC)An Interested Student
Thank you for getting back to me! I really appreciate you answers, and the Truth article will indeed be a great thing to add in! :) MarieAntoinetteResearchPaper ( talk) 17:14, 12 November 2012 (UTC)Student
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | → | Archive 15 |
Hi.
I think I need a second opinion. Today, I ran into Windows Blue (created today) whose body prose is word-for-word a duplicate of Windows 9. I put a CSD A10 tag on it but I've received an email that says it is an inappropriate tag. (Actually, the email reads like a plea not to delete the article.) Is the tag the right one?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
14:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Could you explain why you didn't relist this AFD. Seems a premature close given valid points from both sides still developing and the fact that those against deletion were arguing for changing our inclusion guidelines which isn't a matter for an AFD. He eithier meets WP:NFOOTY or GNG he doesn't on both counts. Blethering Scot 11:50, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I've noticed that there's no page for the UK company Amigo Loans, but there was one, before it was deleted on the grounds of lacking notability (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amigo_Loans). Reading the deletion page, I see that the only argument for notability was that the company had television adverts, which clearly doesn't make them notable, but after a google search of the company's name, I found multiple articles referencing, quoting and presenting research carried out by the company. (see: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/city/4305275/No-profit-loans-provided-by-credit-unions-are-on-the-rise.html, http://www.shropshirestar.com/shropshire-business/money/uk-money/2012/09/04/one-in-five-give-up-on-dream-job/, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/9395294/Payday-loans-could-cost-you-a-mortgage.html etc - there are more but as far as I can see these ones establish their notability). I think this page should be reinstated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.216.105.12 ( talk) 08:50, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi there,
This is Ciaron Davies, film maker and writer
I have been trying to write a wikepedia article for Fionnuala Collins the Irish artist but it has been declined and I am unsure what to do
I am a huge fan of her work. I think she is one of the freshest painters to come out of Ireland and deserves recognition for her talent. Recently, I even created a video of her 'Film Icons' collection free of charge. It can be found on youtube under "Film icons gallery You can find some of my fictional writing by searching for ciaron davies hubpages
the article for Wikepedia was written by my self and I set up the account for her. I'm doing it because I would like to see her on Wikepedia. She is an excellent artist, a very kind person and a very hard worker.
Do you have any advice on how I might get the article published? Or would you be interested in re-drafting it your self?
Hope that your day is great! Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Ciaron Davies
[----] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fionnualamarycollins ( talk • contribs) 10:29, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 76.248.149.47 ( talk) 14:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry I'm fairly new to Wikipedia, so thanks for giving me advice. For InMobi I do believe the controversy section should be left as Internet board messages can be valid sources of references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dongito ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know... the film had its premiere at the Smithsonian on September 24, and is now beginning to screen world-wide. I did some work on the incubated article and the moved it back to mainspace. I do not think any could claim now that it misses on WP:NF or WP:GNG. Best regards, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 23:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi.
How do you do? Sorry to bother you but I am looking for help about a somewhat peculiar status of an image. I feel I am not wiki-experienced enough to understand. I know all sorts of venues of review, appeal, dispute resolution and such in Wikipedia but choosing one and then saying the right thing in them is the main concern. Besides, I do not want to cause unintended harm to anyone. So, I thought maybe you would care to help me assess the situation and understand it. I'd be grateful if you did. Do you have time? (If you don't, I understand.)
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
21:29, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I just sent you an email - I'd like to talk to you for an article I'm working on. If you could get back to me when you have a free moment, I'd much appreciate it :) Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itinerantgirl ( talk • contribs) 10:45, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Have you noticed this? Cheers! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/ GG-J's Talk 07:59, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
That was quick. -- Lenin and McCarthy | ( Complain here) 23:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for closing this AfD. I would greatly appreciate, though, if you could expand your closing rationale a bit. As far as I can see, the arguments for deletion were all policy based, whereas the arguments for keeping the article were almost a version of "I like it". So I'm curious what made you go for "no consensus". Thanks! -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 08:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
TatSat is edit warring on Autobiography of a Yogi page. The current cover was deleted by commons and Yworo said I should upload it through Wikipedia instead. TatSat has deleted it 3 times and I have written the explanation when I undid his edits. Also, he is vandalizing the article, even though Yworo gave clear guidance. See this page [1] and scroll to the bottom of the page -
"The most we are really going to be able to include would be something like the following:
I think we might need to protect the page??? Red Rose 13 ( talk) 14:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Stradivarius, a user called Guillaume has just removed the original cover of the book it took us months to correct. As you know, the curent image in (that was in) the infobox is not a copyrighted image. The book and its contents, including the cover, illustrations and photographs is in public domain. Red Rose will not allow the article to become neutral. We went through mediation and it took us months to insert the correct picture of the cover which was just removed. Who told Guillaume the image is copyrighted? Here we are again as we started. The only image in the page is the image of SRF´s version of the book. Besides Red Rose will not allow a neutral point of view. The page as it is advertises the version of the book published by Self-Realization Fellowship. I will tag the page as not neutral. If I keep being unable to edit the page with facts and the book history, we will have to ask mediation again. Mediation was just closed. Is that what Red Rose wants? Now the correct cover is marked for deletion. Thank you. Tat Sat ( talk) 15:43, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Stradivarius. Here are two inks - among many - to online facsimiles of the Autobiography of a Yogi. The publishers - who has not been prosecuted for copyright violation - state the book is in public domain and offer the book for free download (including the use of the original cover:
I am sorry for the length text but please bear with me for this is important to clarify the issue about the photographs were published in Bold textSRF´s maganize as you can verify. There is no mention of the photos nor the cover of Autobiography of a Yogi which was already ruled to be in public domain without any doubt, since 1991. Please Self-Realization Fellowship versus Ananda this information, since you recommended not only the cover but photographs that are in the book should be deleted. I quote:
Hey, Mr. Stradivarius. Please help contribute to my WikiProject. This WikiProject is about different cultures. If you can take some time and help contribute to it, that would be very nice of you. I am starting this project this week and would like to finish by next week. Please help me with this project. Thank you very much. Please answer on my talk page because I might not be able to keep track of who is contributing and who is not. I would like you to also share your culture. If you can give me a little summary about your culture such as, foods, lifestlye, holidays, traditions, e.t.c, that would be extremely helpful. Thank you. Pleas reply on MY talk page. Happy edits! Have a great day! DEIDRA C. ( talk) 18:33, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dear
I want to know about Trishneet Arora — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.173.116.180 ( talk) 10:36, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please read the discussion on the talk page, and look at the edit history. Am not happy at being given a warning. Have been trying to counter act POV pushing by andy the grump - that it is a perversion, and should clearly be labled as such. I have also read BLP and see nothing that prohibits mentioning widely publisised allegations, and criminal charges, even if there was no conviction - could you please explain. I feel that i am being discriminated against as an IP editior. 87.194.46.83 ( talk) 11:57, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi sir,
I think many articles of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona should be merged with the main article of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona . Articles such as these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Poly_Pomona_Department_of_Chemical_and_Materials_Engineering (should be merged with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Poly_Pomona_College_of_Engineering)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cal_Poly_Pomona_presidents
Could you please check the main article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Polytechnic_University,_Pomona
thanks -- Irani12 ( talk) 15:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I find completely unfair your decision. Professor Canelo is a well know Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon worldwide. Why you do not support professionals to be on Wikipedia? Please revert this decision. With many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbncnl ( talk • contribs) 21:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
As promised before I'm writing to tell you that the move review for the Tenedos article ended. Seems like the move review ended without creating anything constructive towards either way. I believe it was a major violation of administrator rights the way the closing admin closed it but that seems to be no longer relevant. Basically, the move review provided nothing for it to sink on anyone. So, what now? TheDarkLordSeth ( talk) 16:17, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stradivarius. Please, could be possible, for courtesy, that these pages: 1, 2 and the others linked to it do not appear in search engines (Google, Bing, etc)? And could be possible it: 3 and it, too: 4? Thank you.-- USAnne ( talk) 08:24, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Heya! I've had a request for help from User:Ananyaprasad with the Rashmi Singh (author) article that was recently deleted. I explained that I can't restore it, but that I could request for a copy to be put into their userspace to work on until it passes notability guidelines. I figure that wouldn't do much harm for them to have a copy to work on for the time being. Tokyogirl79 ( talk) 13:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Mr. S, would you kindly give a little justification if you're going to prune down something I insert. "More neutral wording" doesn't cover removing a fact entirely. If you thought my phrasing of Doyle's world tour was spun, you could have made it neutral without completely deleting it. At this point, if I insert something factual into the article, I'm not doing it on a whim. I could have written a two-paragraph blurb on the matter that you would have pruned down to half a sentence, so I took the lesson of your copy edit and simply started with the half-sentence. By removing even that, you're insulting me by supposing I haven't even been trying to pay attention to what you've tried to show me about brevity and proper summary. A world champion athlete's touring of the world wonders is perfectly encyclopedic enough to warrant a half-sentence insert. You don't want me littering the page with hippy youtube media references, so I gave a perfect epitome reference which documented both the win and the fact of his world tour, together. Obviously my exact wording is derived from a much bigger perspective. If you didn't trust the tone, fine, but removing the basic insertion entirely is uncalled for.
If you really think Doyle's recent world tour isn't encyclopedic enough to warrant a mention, or needs a particular level or type of reference strength to include, then please elaborate on this with something other than absolutely nothing. You can examine the footage yourself from his YouTube channel, it's the latest handful of uploaded videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/10055870 Squish7 ( talk) 14:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Tell me how should i make nominations visible? they have already been shown. How to add? where to get the source? My source is TV. Cant place that on wiki sorry. -- I'm Titanium chat 15:52, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Not "preachy" at all, and I am always happy to get advice. I suppose part of the problem was that it was pretty clear from the start that one of the users was simply not here to build an encyclopaedia. His contributions might not have constituted "vandalism" in the "traditional" sense but were, in my opinion, a form of "intellectual vandalism". His whole focus, unambiguously so, was to WP:PROMO his preferred niche style of a particular art-form. While everyone behaved and no-one " outed" anyone, it did became fairly clear that the editor involved was directly connected to the subject and had a fairly clear WP:COI. Did I overstate my case? Probably; I sometimes get carried away in "defence" of WP's "honour" and this was probably one of those times. More than happy to take your comments on board - always appreciated. Stalwart111 (talk) 00:07, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
When you have time, please look at this list on the Talk page. Thanks, Keahapana ( talk) 03:15, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I am thankful for your attempts to help me with the content dispute, but they have gone stale. What I (or we) can do about it? Lguipontes ( talk) 12:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm just so annoyed by the fact that users have really started to target me. Like seriously. User:Dharmadhyaksha has removed the averages from a page i created claiming it to be meaningless Mathematics. I have no problem with that. I, in turn, asked him to remove the same useless math from the US versions too. Why be biased towards the indian version? just cause i created that page? Look at the msg i posted on his talkpage. [2] What m i doing wrong? It's either he's too pussy too get involved with more editors on this change or he just hates me. -- I'm Titanium chat 06:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I'll annoy you some more (just kidding!). :) Do you think I am pushing a POV or being rude here? I don't see it that way, in my opinion I just made the wording more neutral, tried to explain my reasons, and soon people got all accusative, concerned and hurting. No one knows a 17-year-old with 1600 edits does silly things sometimes (even if I think my view is not silly at all)? Oh, these guys... Lguipontes ( talk) 14:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much! It’s amazing how fast you responded. It’s really frustrating when someone is deleting reliable references simply because it’s not how they would like it to be, and it’s really nice to know that now you will keep an eye on this! The most annoying thing is that the stuff this guy was deleting are stuff which were discussed on the talk page.
It was already established that though Belarusians weren’t called Belarusians, they still existed as an ethnic groups, they were just referred to as Litvins or Ruthenians, and the definition was basically descendants from the Rus’ people living on the territory of the Great Duchy of Lithuania (they spoke the same language, they had the same origin, which is the definition on an ethnic group, and even if someone was polonized, it doesn’t change from what ethnic group their ancestors came from).
The name Belarusians was actualy started by the Russians in order to disconnect those people from their history and loyalty to the Great Duchy of Lithuania. Belarusians were a majority in the Great Duchy, their language was the official language and they were even called Litvins after the Duchy, so the Russian government found it worrying and as it was doing then decided to “play” with identities and names.
So anyway, this issue was discussed, and it was established that the Belarusians existed but under a different name and using reliable sources it was shown that Kościuszko’s family was of Belarusian origin, though polonized (I was actualy the one who found the link that his family was polonized), so it’s highly frustrating when you see a guy first deleting the information saying that the links are not in English (which is not a good enough argument), then deleting them saying Belarusians didn’t exist then (which is not true and it was discussed on the talk page), then deleting it saying that his family was polonized (which is true, but it was discussed on the talk page and it was agreed that national identity and ethnic origin are not the same thing and though polonized Kościuszko’s origin ethnically was still Belarusian/Litvin/Ruthenian). Important to note, this guy didn’t write on the Talk page even once and I doubt if he read it.
I myself an half Polish and half Belarusian, and unlike what this guy says I don’t try to “steal” a Polish hero, he obviously is a Polish hero, he spoke Polish, he fought for Poland and he dedicated his life to Poland, but I don’t see how being from a different ethnic origin can contrast being loyal to your country, and when people like him try to hide an ethnic origin of a person because in their eyes it will make this person less of a hero (I don’t see any other explanation)… I find it dangerous because it comes from an assumption that a minority can’t be loyal and can’t be patriotic, which for me as a Pole/Belarusian who lives in the UK is very scary and I would even say hate-spreading.
Anyway, sorry for writing so much, just wanted to show what I see is happening. Thank you so much for protecting the page and for keeping an eye on it! It’s good to know someone is taking care of the issue! Danton's Jacobin ( talk) 10:53, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:13, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Administrator,
we do not agree with the deletion of the page of the article The ONE Study. We would really appreciate comments and explanation on the reason of the deletion. It would allow a fruitful discussion that could lead to a satisfactory solution. Our commitment is very high and we would collaborate in order to produce a publishable article of global interest, as we think that the page would be very interesting for the society, without any promotional scope and intent. The clinical study is lead by a German public Institution and the research project is funded by a public Institution, the European Commission (EC). The project is listed in the link of the EC:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/health/biotechnology/new-therapies/projects-fp7_en.html
Hope to have a positive and helpful feedback from you. Regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 13:51, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr Stadivarius, Very notably, 2 of the acknowledgments to The ONE Study are in a "Science" article and a "Nature Reviews Immunology" article; these are peer reviewed journals obviously of the highest impact in the field. The first two papers are not on open access journals. "Immunology. Regulatory T cells get their chance to shine." Leslie M.; 2011 May 27;332(6033):1020-1. "Regulatory immune cells in transplantation." Wood KJ, Bushell A, Hester J.; Nat Rev Immunol. 2012 May 25;12(6):417-30. doi: 0.1038/nri3227.
Below the reference of open access papers published on peer reviewed journals on The ONE Study. http://www.transplantationresearch.com/content/1/1/11 Editorial "The ONE Study compares cell therapy products in organ transplantation: introduction to a review series on suppressive monocyte-derived cells" Geissler EK.; Transplantation Research 2012, 1:11 doi:10.1186/2047-1440-1-11
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3422982/ "Translating tolerogenic therapies to the clinic - where do we stand?" Issa F, Wood KJ. Front Immunol. 2012;3:254. Epub 2012 Aug 20.PMID: 22934094 [PubMed]
These two papers are open access thus you can check them without problems.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that The ONE Study was highlighted in a special Sunrise Symposium session by request of The Transplantation Society 2012 meeting this year in Berlin (the largest international organ transplantation meeting held every 2 years). Moreover, the project coordinator, Prof. E. K. Geissler, gave a presentation on The ONE Study as the keynote speaker at a joint meeting of the American Society of Transplantation and the European Society of Transplantation held in Nice, France (Oct 12-14, 2012; www.esot.org/meetings/publicplatform/MeetingPlatform.aspx?MeetingPlatformUI=15 We hope to have properly addressed your requests and met the criteria.
Best regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 09:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Ok. We will follow your suggestion. Thanks for that. The last tentative from our side is to copy the texts of the articles of Science and Frontiers in Immunology regarding The ONE Study.
Science, Author MITCH LESLIE: Six European institutions are collaborating on the ONE Study, a 5-year project to test whether T regs can prevent rejection of idney transplants. “There’s a huge need to improve immunosuppression in [organ] transplants,” says Andrew Bushell, a transplant immunologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The ONE Study and Bluestone’s type 1 diabetes trial will dose patients with polyclonal T regs, which turn down immune responses relatively broadly. The alternative is so-called antigen-specifi c T regs, which block attacks by other T cells that target a particular antigen, such as a characteristic protein on the cells in a transplanted organ. In theory, antigen-specific T regs shouldn’t provoke general immune suppression that might undermine antipathogen defenses and even lead to cancer. “We really believe that antigen specificity is the future of any successful T reg therapy,” says transplant immunologist and ONE Study collaborator Giovanna Lombardi of King’s College London. Bluestone says that future diabetes trials will also probably switch to antigen-specifi c T cells.
Frontiers in Immunology, Review, Authors Issa and Wood: The European Union is currently funding the first study for the valuation of immunomodulatory cellular therapy in SOT (www.onestudy.org). The ONE Study, a multi center Phase I/II clinical trial, will evaluate the safety and feasibility of various types of cell therapy including expanded nTreg, Tr1 cells, Mregs,and tolerogenic DCs in living-donor kidney transplantation. All centers will utilize a common adjunctive immunosuppressive protocol in order to provide a true comparison of the various cellular therapies. Control patients will be transplanted in 2013 and cell therapy groups in 2014, providing a follow up period of 12 months.
Regarding the open access paper on Transplantation Research, I would like to underline that it is a peer reviewed journal thus before the publication, the paper was evaluated, revised and approved by a committee of experts ij the field. Prof Geissler is not the owner of the journal, neither of the reserach or the clinical trial done in The ONE Study. He is the project coordinator of The ONE Study and he wrote a scientific paper on this work. After that, a group of expert evaluated his paper, reviwed it and accepted it for publication as valiad, reliable and notable. For this reason and thanks to the process behind every single publication on peer reviewed journals, we can stongly confirm that the paper is completely reliable and notable, otherwise it would not have been accepted for publication.
We will be delighted if you can do your further, may be last, evaluation based on the text of the papers that you were not able to read and on our last comment. I hope that you will appreciate our efforts focused in something that we think can be of broad interest for the common people to which wikipedia offers its contents.
Thank you very much for your kindness and avalilability. Regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 12:04, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr Stardivarius, we are available to send you the *.pdf of the mentioned articles, but we need your instructions for this. Regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 10:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Administrator,
actually we have completed a web-page where you can find 11 papers related to The ONE Study that can be considered as secondary sources. Below the link: http://www.openaire.eu/en/component/openaire/project_info/default/625?id=260687&confirm=ddd41314b6ec3c5d06fbe8773fd76c6888cfe799
Most of these papers are open access thus you cam simply access to the papers. All these papers are published on peer revied journals with a high impact factor, which are COMPLETELY independent from the project and from the project coordinator. Some of the papers mention The ONE Study as a very important and unique project in its field and other report the results that the consortium The ONE Study is generating within this collaborative project. For this reason there are the acknowledgement to the project and to the European Commission.
We are looking forward to have your final impression and evaluation. Best regards Surgery-ukr-geissler ( talk) 12:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Just a quick question really. I came across this article in September and planned on making a number of changes to it, as it was written pretty much like an advertisement. I noticed however it was recently deleted via Afd, and you were the closing editor. In your opinion is this an article that could be re-created if the article wasn't written like an advertisement? From what I can see its borderline notable, it's simply been created on two occasions by average editors JP22Wiki ( talk) 15:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
How can Bigg Boss 6 be merged when many editors have voted on keep. All the copyright has been removed. I have rewritten the summaries in my own words. It is the biggest reality show in India. Dont do this. All international versions have separate pages for every season. Check it out, everything on Bigg Boss 6 is original now. Please reconsider. Please. -- I'm Titanium chat 18:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. How I am to work? As I start my work- put up anything anywhere or ask, 2-3 people (admin) start stalking me and reply in a demeaning way. Is this Wikipedia? You just have to see my contributions and see what is happening! I have just started work and they are trying to pick up a nonsense conversation. Please help. Ananyaprasad ( talk) 11:28, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to ask a favor of you, in your role as an uninvolved administrator who is also well trusted by editors at WP:V. Please take a look at WT:V#Summing up and the discussion that follows it, and determine the consensus and close the RfC there. Unlike the lead discussion, I'm pretty sure this one is non-controversial and the consensus will be easy to see, but I think it's best to have a by-the-book closure process. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 13:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
I've been away for a while and just got back, and I see that the bot has removed the RfC tag and the discussion seems to have quieted down, so I suspect that you might as well wrap it up at your next convenience. Thanks again. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:08, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you protected the Jeff Mangum page recently due to the Anne Frank vandalism. If you could do the same for Astra Taylor, that'd be awesome. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LethargicParasite ( talk • contribs) 07:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
Thanks for semi-protecting my userpage! Have a nice day! Cheers! Mediran talk| contribs 09:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC) |
(Barnstar archived)
FYI - I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for page protection#Bot archiving that you might be interested in contributing to. Thanks. ‑Scottywong | chat _ 23:13, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
You blocked the List of members of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Blocking is fine. The problem is the sequence you have frozen this article in, leaves the sanitized, whitewashed, one-sided POV version Arzel has been disruptively trying to have presented. As you already observed, the dissenting opinion was well documented with reliable sources. That's the wikipedia way. Arzel presents no sources, just his word; "no it isn't." I think my version properly deserves to be the state this article is frozen in. TruthtellernoBS ( talk) 02:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I am Shubha Phutela's cousin sister. I am glad that you increased the protection of her page. I wanted to clarify reason of her death and have submitted an edit request for the page. Kindly look into that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gita1602 ( talk • contribs) 13:59, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I've given the section a copy edit. I have one question, though - why did you say "Bengaluru" instead of "Bangalore"? — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 15:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I am not sure what "(Adding {{ pp-dispute}}" means on the above page. I can't see any difference in the versions. Thank you. 13:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeLouis ( talk • contribs)
Looking for more feedback from uninvolved parties for an RFC I posted at the page ALCAT test. The discussion is here: Talk:ALCAT test#RFC:Neutrality and reliable sources. Many thanks. Plot Spoiler ( talk) 19:43, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
A discussion has been opened at Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard#Frank_L._VanderSloot, where all discussion should take place.
The questions are:
Hi there Stradivarius, long time no see. Just had a quick note, I was taking a look at the RFPP log (good job keeping it clear by the way) when I edit conflicted you with List of Barbie's friends and family. I was about to decline it based on sparse negative activity and went ahead and soft-blocked the troublemaker IP address. I noticed that user is the only one in over a week who has improperly edited, and in fact all other anonymous users were editing constructively (since October 16). I'm not sure if you had another reason for protecting the page for two weeks, but it seems to me it's fairly safe to leave unprotected; perhaps if you're worried about vandalism extending the block on the user might be a better idea. Of course, I'm not really familiar with RFPP practices these days so if I'm being a bit archaic please let me know. =) Nice running into you, cheers. · Andonic contact 01:42, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. It has been shown at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MountWassen that this Afd you closed today includes a !vote by a confirmed sockpuppet (SirAppleby). Although the user did note make any other statements in the discussion under different names you might still want to consider your closure given the number of "reliable" participants in the discussion. De728631 ( talk) 17:46, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stradivarius, Could you please consider blocking this IP: 115.241.251.112. The IP has recieved all many warnings (see history) but keeps blanking the page. Thanks. Torreslfchero ( talk) 11:28, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Are downloading pics from the internet permissible on wikipedia? if you want to contribute a pic to an article and you can list the contributing editer, is that allowed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OldWell ( talk • contribs) 16:53, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure you don't want me messing with the sandboxes on either of these infoboxes. I have no idea what to do about that, but do appreciate you're keeping an eye on what is requested. It was done by Plastikspork on the Template:Infobox settlement. That's the only clue I can give you about how this is supposed to be done. — Maile ( talk) 17:30, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stradivarius, I request you to plz refer to User_talk:Kwamikagami#False_Accusation. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 13:55, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
---|
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
Hi Mr Stradivarius. You placed a page protect on Frank Vandersloot [7] last week and I'm afraid that as soon as it expired today, one of the editors involved in the previous dispute went right back to edit warring [8] [9] [10] and making arbitrary changes without having resolved the issues or getting consensus. In fact, the loose consensus on the the issue was that the previous version was appropriate and that the proposed changes being made by this editor are unwarranted. [11] Thus, the latest changes seem to clearly be WP:TE. Can you renew the page protect for another week to prevent edit earring until the issues are resolved, or should I file a request on the page protection request board? Thanks in advance. Rhode Island Red ( talk) 19:09, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
|
Hi everyone. I can appreciate that tensions are running high here, but my talk page isn't really the right place to have an argument about this. If you want to talk about the edit warring, I think the AN3 thread would be the most productive place. The best place to talk about the content, of course, is the article's talk page. I don't want to pre-empt the results of the AN3 thread by protecting the page again, but you are welcome to file another request at WP:RFPP if you want. Please mention the AN3 thread in it if you do, though. Thanks — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 00:33, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
THought you might appreciate knowing about this page (you'll need your admin tools to see it, but trust me, it's hardly worth bothering). I've blocked the user in question; given the article he's been posting (which I deleted too, it turns out) there's no question that he's NOTHERE. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 14:40, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Why? Why? Why? Ashford 4XI Hockey was perfectly harmless and didn't ever do anything to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Houstonj07 ( talk • contribs) 14:30, 2 November 2012 (UTC) Question which included most of page-blanking restored by -- Shirt58 ( talk) 14:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)>
Hello Mr. Stradivarius, thank you for your comment on my talk page regarding Thomas Peterffy; hopefully you can help me with this issue.
I attempted to add a simple factual comment to the Peterffy page, but apparently I'm having a problem finding the balance between acceptable unreferenced (but factual) comment, and comment that is subject to sufficient uncertainty that it requires reference to an unbiased source. I have researched the subject, and rewritten the addition, with appropriate footnotes. Please look at it and let me know if it requires any amendments.
On another tack, it seems that editing of this subject (Peterffy) has been subject to a higher than normal demand for sourcing and referencing, even some ideas that seem to me rather non-controversial. And when a demand for sourcing is made, the entire edit is thrown out, not just whatever specific passage is deemed questionable.
I wonder if there isn't more going on here than simply a quest for proper citing of references? Perhaps a political agenda? I haven't had this much difficulty, ever, editing a page, and my suspicions were particularly heightened by an earlier an edit reversion that mentioned "...far left-wing rants". In that particular case, the objectionable edit was indeed a rant - but would it have been acceptable to that particular redactor if it had been a "right-wing rant?"
Anyway, thanks for any assistance. Cordially, Kenwg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenwg ( talk • contribs) 03:51, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Your opinion is requested in this discussion.
If you're in an area that was affected by Hurricane Sandy, and are unable to reply, I hope that you have not suffered too greatly, and my best wishes go out to you. Nightscream ( talk) 22:46, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for your quick action to my request regarding the ongoing vandalism of the MGM-52 Lance Article by that IP User ( talk). I wasn't really sure if I had posted that on the right noticeboard and I didn't really know what, if any, action should have been taken. Just wanted to say thanks. Cheers, Mate. King of Nothing ( talk) 15:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
excuse me but can I know how did you protect the page of Pope Theodoros II .. Al Ahly SC page is attacked by IP vandalism almost everyday and I have to fix everything manually .. I added a protection section in the talk page but apparently I don't know how to request a page protection or doing it myself .. can you help me ?? -- Zo3a ( talk) 21:48, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey Strad, do you know, does NYB intend to discuss his closure with the parties to the mediation prior to the 13 November deadline? Cheers! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 23:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 11:10, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
There are more reviews stored/re-directedon on my own site (and around the net now) for this album Guy — Preceding unsigned comment added by GuyManning ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
You have been trouted for: oopsy oops, that's what happens when you have such a stylish signature on Talk:Language_pedagogy and go on about being a language teacher, and then have such a stylish userpage, with a rainbow, too, and something too small and floppy at top right to quite make out; I don't know what might come if it. I wish we had some of your style at Teflpedia (and you're quite welcome to advise us or contribute to our wiki and way you might). I've been trying to sort a navigational system over there and came over here to see what we call " Methodology" here. What, "Language pedagogy"? Ouch. I'm sticking with "Methodology" for now in the "Contents" page I'm working on. Time to toss the trout back into the river. Cheers! -- Rogerhc ( talk) 05:17, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Just a quick note to say thanks. Gnosygnu ( talk) 23:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Well done for protecting the article! Is it a temporary one or permanent? I just don't see why the information which is being reverted is an issue. The talk pages was not touched for ages, though I'm sure that would be the best way to resolve the issue. Danton's Jacobin ( talk) 19:01, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
this person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Omair00 thanks in advance for your help. CombatMarshmallow ( talk) 01:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
at metalcore — Preceding unsigned comment added by CombatMarshmallow ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I apologize for the "cut the crap" remark on the Talk page for Green Mountain College. However, I do not think we need dispute resolution as you suggested. Throughout the course of the day, this issue has been discussed ad nauseum with at least three other editors and one admin and none have sided with PE2011. In this case, the majority opinion has been stated, yet PE2011 refuses to accept it. Kingsrow1975 ( talk) 09:16, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Stradivarius, I am doing a research paper on the Truth of Wikipedia, specifically focusing on the controversial topic of Marie Antoinette. By exploring this page I am learning more about the validity of Wikipedia. While perusing the talk and history pages, I noticed that you have been very invested in this page. I am just wondering if you could tell me why you choose to edit the Marie Antoinette page, and why you have not been focusing on the content, but rather the editing? Why did you find this page in particular? I see that you are focused on language, but I don't necessarily see the connection to Marie Antoinette.. Finally, why did you choose to start participating on Wikipedia? What drives you to do so? It would be great if you could get back to me soon about these questions, I really appreciate your help! The link to the talk page: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Marie_Antoinette> MarieAntoinetteResearchPaper ( talk) 06:19, 12 November 2012 (UTC)An Interested Student
Thank you for getting back to me! I really appreciate you answers, and the Truth article will indeed be a great thing to add in! :) MarieAntoinetteResearchPaper ( talk) 17:14, 12 November 2012 (UTC)Student