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You are always so helpful. I hope you could help me find a way to count my edits. I have been using the following site: http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Iss246&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia
I tried the site today but but my screen returned "Page not found (404)"
I thought you would be able to help me find an alternative edit counter. Thanks. Iss246 ( talk) 02:07, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
I really don't think you understand the consequences of your actions in this crusade against that template. It isn't intended to be used on any pages other than categories. We have other templates that serve this purpose for article mainspace pages. Greg Bard ( talk) 22:37, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for the good work you have done with the Breast cancer awareness article. Gandydancer ( talk) 22:30, 10 June 2013 (UTC) |
Re: Wikipedia talk:Signatures#Automated signatures - I have been trying out VE, but they're not showing up in searches...? Oh, we have to use lowercase for tagfilters. See my contribs and various bugzilla submissions. ;P (Not much, admittedly, have been saved, but there are dozens of times I've tried to use it and had to fall back to edit-source, due to errors or templates or frustration) – Quiddity ( talk) 06:15, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I could use some help at the Betty Friedan article. This para (3rd para under Writing career): According to Daniel Horowitz, Friedan's time as a labor journalist was when she first became aware of women's oppression and exclusion, although Friedan herself disputed this interpretation of her work.[10] has a book as the ref but it does not seem reasonable that I would need to read the entire book to find the statement. Considering that this is a BLP and Friedan does not agree with the Horowitz statement, it seems to me that it would need better sourcing and perhaps even a better followup statement from Friedan. Then, the second statement re being a Marxist: Horowitz also states that Friedan concealed her past as a Stalinist Marxist.[11], that ref seems poor to me. I deleted the para asking for better sourcing and it was returned suggesting that I was free to provide it... What do you think? Gandydancer ( talk) 19:26, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. 155blue ( talk) 01:46, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
I notice that you're one of the few people who have commented positively at WP:RFC/U/A and are still active. If you get the chance, could you take a look here? I just drafted my first one and would like some feedback to know whether or not I'm doing it wrong. MezzoMezzo ( talk) 12:26, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your thoughts in this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 15:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I wondered if you could tell me how to put a tag on some text that is unsourced. There is text in a small section of the encyclopedia entry for industrial and organizational psychology that is unsourced. The section concerns i/o psychology and work and health. I remember that there is a tag of some sort that does not take up much space but that is a flag to indicate sourcing would be helpful. Thanks. Iss246 ( talk) 02:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
I got it. {{ unreferenced}}. Thanks anyway. Iss246 ( talk) 02:50, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.
Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey, WhatamIdoing. I take it by not weighing in on this, you agree with the wording as is (what S Marshall changed it to)? I assume that because I know that you have been involved in writing Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and there is currently a thread that you participated in at the aforementioned talk page. Flyer22 ( talk) 12:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Hooray!
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Now we have to get you onto irc.-- Jorm (WMF) ( talk) 21:45, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. If it's not any inconvenience, could you comment at this RSN post? It seems I'm getting feedback from editors who've cited the source in their edits to articles, and I'd like a more impartial opinion, so I randomly picked you out from the WP:RS talk page, LOL Dan56 ( talk) 02:26, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
To be honest, my thread on the Pump was simply supposed to start a discussion, not be a explicit 'proposal'...as I had noted, there was not a policy specifically against what I was talking about, other than the 'anti-unapproved-bot' stuff, and given that I had 'argued' with the person in question on his talk page, I really didn't want to specifically start drama there with him. Honestly, I was mostly hoping that by raising the issue in a public forum, I would get an 'expression' of what seemed to be the already existing consensus that I could point to, since he basically presents the attitude on his talk page that he isn't going to listen to individuals at all. I only got 'specific' due to people saying that I wasn't stating the 'problem' clearly enough, and as I said, he's not the only person that does it...just by far the most prolific. Unfortunately, apparently nobody else considers it to be a significant issue, given the responses, which I'm taking as an indication that I should just drop it. He's /blatantly/ flaunting the rules despite prior blocks about the same thing, though.
I personally try to avoid 'drama' as much as possible, because due to my own personal issues I don't usually come across very well. Revent ( talk) 16:04, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Not sure whether you're on the job yet. If you are, can I point you to what seems to be a reasonable concern voiced by JohnCD at AN, in case it gets missed? [2] --19:47, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello! I'm from the Turkish Wikipedia and I need to ask you a question about the Cleanup Taskforce. As I saw this team was active a few years ago in wikipedia. But it is not active anymore in the english and turkish wikipedias. For a few days I'm thinking to make a new team in the turkish wikipedia. But I was wondering why the taskforce isn't active anymore in wikipedia? If you can help I would be very pleasured. Nice Day! Talha Samil Cakir -- 85.102.170.176 ( talk) 21:37, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen comments you made earlier this year about the need to update documentation with the advent of the visual editor. You may be interested in this thread. -- RA ( ✍) 22:34, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I have been scrutinized about sock puppetry. I was wondering if Psych999 ( talk · contribs), Mattbrown69 ( talk · contribs), and 110.143.253.102 ( talk · contribs) have been sock puppets for Mrm7171. Iss246 ( talk) 16:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
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How can we verify offline references? (chat) techatology 23:27, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
That is what you wanted. Best. Biosthmors ( talk) 14:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You posted this text earlier today. In connection to this, I'm wondering if there will be a possibility of making the login (cookie) stay for more than the current 30 days? That way, we can minimise the hassle of haphardazly being logged once a month. Best of wishes.-- Paracel63 ( talk) 19:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I have made a proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Fork the wiki in which I used a diff authored by you as an example. Yngvadottir ( talk) 20:42, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes/Evidence. Please add your evidence by July 31, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes/Workshop.
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Thank you, user with an annoyingly high Intelligence Quotient, for quality articles contributions in MED, VE support, precise language, and for
speaking edit summaries, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
I'm just letting you know that I'm trying to implement your idea at Wikidata ( d:Wikidata:Property_proposal/Term#doctor_specializing_in). I'm still waiting for more supportive comments, but I think it can be created soon. -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 15:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm intrigued by the wording in Wikipedia:Advice_pages#Advice_pages. I largely agree with it.
However, given that it has been cited as evidence in an Arbcom case (See this evidence, especially the first bullet point in this section)
I hadn't seen this page before. On the one hand, that shouldn't be surprising, there are a lot of pages, and most of us have seen only a small portion. However, at the time I was looking into running for admin, I made a point of reading all the policies and guidelines, and this didn't ring a bell. That was some time ago, but at a later date, I started a project (since abandoned) to track the size of policies and guidelines over time, and this wasn't on my list.
I looked at Wikipedia:List of guidelines and do not see it listed (to be fair, the advice page is mentioned in the see also list, but by definition, a see also list is supposed to be other things, not the main subject, so one would expect to find a guideline in a list of guidelines, not buried in a see also list. I do note that the heading says " a summary of the most important guidelines" so not exhaustive. I then went, as suggested, to the more comprehensive list, Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines but I do not see it there either. While this does not mean it isn't a guideline, it does suggest that it may escape the review of even diligent editors.
I then looked to see how the wording was developed.
If I am reading the history correctly, it was added in one edit here.
I looked to read the consensus discussion. Because the edit was in March 2010, I checked Archive 14, which covers Sep 2009–April 2010, and do not see anything.
Please do not get me wrong - I very much support the general theme. However, if the guideline is going to be part of an ArbCom decision, and it turns out to be written by one editor with no discussion, and in a guideline not listed in the obvious lists, that may dilutes its impact. I haven't done a lot of research, so it is possible there has been extensive discussion, but in some other place. As the author of the words, I'm hoping you can shed some light on the history.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 17:34, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Did you know ... that since you expressed an opinion on the GA/DYK proposal last year, we invite you to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the matter? Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Regards, Gilderien Chat| What I've done 22:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC) |
Hello. May I clarify, are you questioning my wikt:veracity or wikt:expertise? I've had a brief look at your contributions to wikipedia and although I can see good work since 2007, and also several article creations, it doesn't strike me that you are an active editor in the area under discussion, i.e. European BLPs, so what gives you the authority to "not believe" an editor who is? Since I am not sure how to respond to your comment "I also don't believe your assertion" - I wonder if perhaps you just simply misread my comment. What I said was that Ana Ivanovic is the only case of a simple-diacritic stripped BLP on en.wp. It's possible that there's a stub lurking somewhere by accident that is so non-notable that no one has ever noticed the mistake, but that is a completely different thing from a deliberate removing of diacritics from a highly visible BLP as happened here. Otherwise, apart from the rudeness of your statement, best regards. In ictu oculi ( talk) 06:22, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I think
this is a very good idea. Are you still thinking in that direction? A template like that might be helpful.
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Hello, I came across your username via one of numerous discussions of VE, which seems to have generated an extraordinary quantity of hot air (though not from you).
What you say about "which" and "that" is broadly correct. But I hope that you don't mean to suggest that there's anything wrong with "restrictive" which, because of course there isn't anything wrong with it. (For why "restrictive" and "defining" are less than fully appropriate terms, consider Huddleston and Pullum's example [in CGEL, pp 1064-1065] "He sounded like the clergyman he was": containing what they call a "bare integrated relative" clause, one that doesn't restrict the reference of "clergyman" in any way.) -- Hoary ( talk) 09:36, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi. We really need your opinion on which of these photos would make the best Infobox portrait for the Rick Remender article. Could you please offer your opinion in that discussion? The most recent subsection of that discussion is here, so you can just chime in there if you don't want to read the whole thread. I really appreciate it. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 17:14, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
WAID, with all respect, while you're probably right, is now really the right time? This is a group that's upset because they fear core tools, necessary to their work, might end up phased out. While I don't for a moment think it was your intent, you have to realise that, as a member of the WMF, telling them that, well, basically, that they aren't as important as they think, when you don't address their actual concerns, can very, very easily be read as dismissive. Again, I don't think that's what you meant, but you need to be a little bit more careful. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:09, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I'm saying this offline based mainly on your comments about Wikipedia at WP:Naming conventions (use English). I apologise if this is inappropriate but I had a brief look at your contributions before coming here to get an idea where you're coming from and try to understand your view better. I note that you have only 20% of so article space contributions, few article creations and few (perhaps none, I can't recall now) article creations touching on European language article space (Hungarian bios, Maltese geo articles, that sort of thing). This of course is no problem, we all have our contributions. But it does mean that you may not be well informed of editor consensus and article reality (another form of editor consensus) in the area you wish to participate in directing editors but do not yourself regularly edit. I hope that is not unfair comment, it is a simplistic generalization from your contributions, and therefore may be wrong. If it is accept my apologies and correct me. If it is correct, please listen to the following comment:
You may consider this is "the rule" but the editing community overwhelmingly, as judged by RfCs, RMs, and most importantly article reality consider that sources which are unreliable for the statement being made are unreliable for the statement being made (I have just quoted WP:IRS in inverted form as I'm sure you realise).
There is no need to find out "how Wikipedia chooses to do it" because this is known. Take 10 en.wp non-English Latin alphabet European language space bio or geo articles of your own choosing and analyse them for yourself. Then come and discuss with editors who work in this space. It's a matter of courtesy to the editing community. In ictu oculi ( talk) 06:55, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
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Apparently a press release, so not copyvio [3]. Please don't revert again as I'd have to warn you for 3RR if I warn our new editor. This isn't really a problem anyway, I'm sure we have enough watchers on this article. Thanks though for your edits. Dougweller ( talk) 05:35, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm just letting you know that I have declined your CSD on User talk:120.149.40.66. We do not generally delete user talk pages, in particular those of IP addresses that might be shared. It is sufficient to simply remove any vandalism or spam. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:44, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey WhatamIdoing. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.
We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.
Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
You have been helpful in the past. I was hoping you can help again. I have been having difficulty with user:Mrm7171. So has User:Psyc12. Mrm7171 is very unbending about changes he wants to make to the OHP site. I don't know if it matters to you that both Psyc12 and I are professors who teach OHP courses; between us we have expertise in OHP. Mrm7171 wants consensus from Psy12 but when Psyc12 shares consensus on some points but not on every point, Mrm7171 insists that he is right and wants every one of 9 points he wants to enter onto the OHP page. I am lukewarm on some points Psyc12 concedes but I go along because I don't want to fight about every single point on Mrm7171's list of 9 points. Can you intervene? Just look at the last few sections of the OHP talk page. Thanks. Iss246 ( talk) 21:06, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
If you read the bottom of the OHP talk page, you will observe that I caught Mrm7171 making stuff up to suit his attempts to undermine OHP. I think he should be barred from Wikipedia for making stuff up.
Wikipedia is a fine project. However, when "contributors" make stuff up because they have a mission to accomplish such as undermining a subject area, such contributors should be barred from the encyclopedia. Mrm7171 should be barred from being able to edit on Wikipedia. Iss246 ( talk) 02:57, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
I am contacting every editor who commented at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Questions about "oppose" comments in WP:RFC/Us, in case you might wish to participate in the RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Clarification of the rules. Thank you. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 17:30, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, WhatamIdoing,
All the sources I have been consulting recently for edits to IQ classification and related articles strongly agree that terminology has changed, and what was formerly known as Mental retardation is now called Intellectual disability. The ICD 10 system of terminology appears to be the only one that hasn't fully made the switch, but the reliable secondary sources aren't waiting, and DSM-5 has made the switch. The National Library of Medicine medical subject heading has made the switch also. So I think that the two existing articles need to be merged. I have been reading up on the Wikipedia documentation about how to merge two articles with long edit histories, and that is not easy. I am willing to do all the work, but first of all I will gather the source citations to post to the talk pages of both articles. I hope you will look on as I do the work to make I sure merge the articles correctly. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 02:20, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi WAID! If you have a minute, could you check the citation examples page for the Cochrane donations? 59 accounts were approved and delivered this week :) Wikipedia:Cochrane/Citations Ocaasi t | c 23:31, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
You may have missed
my reply to your question about defining "expired".
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Wavelength (
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In this comment, you suggest I read Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Ending RfCs. That section does clarify some points in the discussion. However, that very section is linked to and quoted from in the comment you replied to. Are you suggesting I could somehow link to and quote something without reading it? ʍ w 12:17, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
I do indeed understand how it could look. So, again, how is the OP expected to determine when a discussion has run long enough, and what the consensus is, if comments from them will be discredited as biased? (Needless to say, the point is moot for the Notability Noticeboard discussion; I want it to be done by-the-book so that it only needs to be done once. But now we're discussing possible changes and clarifications to make to WP:RfC.) ʍ w 20:01, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
I was going back over my talk page and found your comment about my ActiveWatchers script not working. It was indeed broken, and I just fixed it. Sorry to have neglected that for so long but I was mostly inactive for a while there. If it's still not working for some reason let me know :) equazcion (talk) 01:10, 15 Sep 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know that I've updated your statement ( 19 Oct 2012) that read [my italics]:
Legality of mirrors and forks
Every contribution to the English Wikipedia has been licensed for re-use, including commercial, for-profit websites. Republication is legal, so long as the licenses are complied with.
I've amended this to read Copyright status of mirrors and forks...Republication is not a breach of copyright. As I see it, a possible problem with your original broad statement is that a court might deem republication to be illegal or actionable for reasons other than copyright, and it is not in our best interests to offer an open-ended guarantee of legality. In particular, the exemption in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act may not apply where a third party intentionally copies material from Wikipedia. If someone is defamed in a Wikipedia article, WMF is apparently protected by §230. If a third party who copied the article accepts liability, it would be undesirable to let them sue us because we have assured them that "republication is legal". I'm not a lawyer, so please undo this if you wish. - Pointillist ( talk) 21:37, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
To User:WhatamIdoing. I write to report that user:Mrm7171 engages in disruptive editing ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing). He engages in tendentitious edits on the occupational health psychology talk page and on the OHP page itself. He avoids efforts to build consensus. He resists the thoughts of other editors. He has pursued the goal of making OHP look like a subdiscipline of industrial/organizational psychology. He failed to reach that goal. Now Mrm7171 appears to be going in a very different direction. Almost an opposite direction.
The context is this. The second sentence of the OHP page informs the reader that OHP emerged out of the confluence of three disciplines, health psychology, i/o psychology, and occupational health. I think that sentence spells out the interdisciplinary origins of OHP sufficiently.
Earlier today Mrm7171 loaded up the opening paragraph of the OHP page with so many disciplines that it appears OHP is going hither and thither. If he can't win the battle in support of his view that OHP is a subdiscipline of i/o, he goes in another direction to fight a different battle, namely that OHP amounts to a hodgepodge of disciplines. If one line of attack fails, then he takes up another line of attack. He has been doing this dance ever since he joined Wikipedia.
He reverted my earlier edit which was aimed at keeping the opening paragraph straightforward. He insists on editing the opening paragraph such that OHP is made to look like a mixture of almost every social science plus industrial engineering and public health.
It would be like someone writing in the i/o page that i/o is a mixture of psychometric psychology, aptitude/intelligence research (e.g., Hunter and Schmidt), structural equation modeling, social psychology, economics, ergonomics, etc. Mrm7171 has to stop the disruptive edits.
Yes, sometimes people in public health produce research that is over interest to OHP researchers. Yes, sometimes people in social psychology produce research that is of interest to i/o researchers. So what. That is not the way to introduce a subject in an introductory paragraph. Iss246 ( talk) 14:25, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
And, as a general comment, this article seems to be overloaded with details about what exactly OHP researchers have done, and how they have done it. For example, I'd be happy to mention that OHP has used both qualitative and quantitative research methods, with a hatnote, but the two present sections on the subjects seem overblown. What do others think? Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC) I think Mrm7171 made some apt edits. I tip my hat to him. I'm not absolutely sure with regard to my thinking about the research methods section but on balance my thinking is that the section is helpful to readers because the section, which includes internal links, gives a reasonable idea of the tools OHP researchers employ when investigating the relation of psychosocial workplace factors to disease. Iss246 (talk) 18:10, 17 September 2013 (UTC) OK. However, to my eye, the section is not really what I'd find most useful in an encyclopedia, and were I to take to wikilawyering (perish the thought), I might think that it relies rather too much on primary sources. Will you indulge me, if I try a bold edit, by leaving it for a few days to get other opinions? Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:12, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello again, WAID. Thanks very much for your support the other day. I meant to thank you at the time. You really are a blessing to the project and it's very important that you are here. I've been watching things since the rollout in July and think you've been doing a fantastic job. It's even more impressive considering all that you've had to endure. I know things have been very tough lately and I hope you are holding up well. I know I'd crumble if I were in your position. It takes a person of great strength and wisdom to be able to do what you've done and I'm really very thankful that your helping the Foundation and the project. It's very generous of you. I wanted to let you know that it means a lot to me and others to have you helping so much. Our projects benefit millions of people and it can't happen without fine upstanding people like yourself. Thank you ever so much for all your support. 64.40.54.151 ( talk) 06:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Just been catching up on some of the community discussions and thinking about how much I appreciate your dedication and especially your understanding of the big picture. I was thinking you need to change your user box from This user's Intelligence Quotient is annoyingly high to something more like This user's Intelligence Quotient is refreshingly high. Glad to have you here. Thanks for everything. 64.40.54.196 ( talk) 04:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your opinion on which photo would be better for the Rebecca Housel Infobox in this discussion? If you are unable to, I understand; you don't have to reply to this message. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 03:36, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi WhatamIdoing, my intention with creating the article was to help all parties. I'm concerned that you feel (at least part of it) isn't. How can I help? Widefox; talk 17:02, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
by The Interior ( talk · contribs), Ocaasi ( talk · contribs)
Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...
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Hi WhatamIdoing! I undid the redirect of Disposophobia to Compulsive hoarding as there obviously was no consensus about this, but I now propose to merge Disposophobia into Compulsive hoarding. Would you like to give your comment on the talk page? Kind regards, Lova Falk talk 17:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi WhatamIdoing, I wanted to see if you're working on anything interesting at the moment. You once said (a long time ago) that you wished I worked on more pages you've watchlisted (feel free to give me a few examples of interesting medical articles you had in mind) and I thought I would take you up on the offer. I just wanted to let you know that I would be happy to collaborate with you at any time now and in the future. Cheers! TylerDurden8823 ( talk) 05:20, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello WaId,
Greetings from the east coast. On your recent community page: the developer community, and the donor community, are also considered part of the community by some people. Donors are considered active community members for many movements, including political and non-profit movements. Interestingly, while we have ways to communicate directly to both readers and editors (as a community), the mechanisms for communicating with donors are much more restricted and more rarely used. – SJ + 01:45, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
I've drafted up an RfA at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/RfC to add Pending Changes to all BLP with few or no watchers, please feel free to sculpt it into a presentable state. Josh Parris 05:36, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I have a quick question about your addition to WP:Merging#Step 4: Close the merger discussion and determine consensus. I see that you proposed it at WP:Village pump (proposals)#Merge articles to be regulated, receiving support but no direct edits. Am I correct that both are entirely your own contributions? Thanks. Flatscan ( talk) 05:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Waid, we need an expert opinion at the BP article. The BP company rep, Arturo, has a few questions about the information in the Health section of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill section. His note on the talk page seems to explain things pretty well, but let me know. If you don't have time right now, perhaps you could suggest another editor that could help us out. Thanks. Gandydancer ( talk) 16:16, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 16:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
May I have a further explanation of the relevant portion of WP:Advice pages? How does it reconcile with the idea that a group of Wikipedians can form a consensus anywhere, whether on the village pump or on a Wikiproject page or a talk page? WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:41, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 19:47, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion regarding the better photo for an article Infobox? Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream ( talk) 23:58, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
You had plenty of time to review the RFC before it went live, and removing one statement that you claim is biased while leaving the other, is ... biased. Now, since everyone involved has been getting along just fine, while you seem unable to review a BLP impartially and recognize that it is wholly uncited by an edit-warring SPA, would you mind not messing up what has been til now a friendly RFC? Thank you, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you weigh in on an editorial dispute between Mrm7171 and me on how to edit the health psychology entry? Thank you Iss246 ( talk) 15:35, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you so much whatamidoing for pointing out, and so boldly, that in your opinion, and based on the 1986 reference you highlighted for everyone's formal attention (occupational)health psychology is just a specialization within health psych. I've corrected the health psych article, based on your wisdom. Other articles may need to be now corrected though, to reflect your "weighing in" and proper Wikipedia guidance. Thank you for "weighing in" as requested by your friend iss246. Mrm7171 ( talk) 00:23, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Several new proposals have been submitted at Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014 since you last commented on it. You are invited to return to comment on the new proposals. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 01:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Thought you might appreciate some small balls to chew on. Cheers for all of your good work! Iryna Harpy ( talk) 02:43, 18 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hi WhatamIdoing! I asked for some help about getting cleanup listings at the village pump ( Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_122) but unfortunately I haven't been able to follow the majority of my correspondences up until recently. When I asked, you pointed me to a page about getting added ( [5]), but in order to do that I need a username and password. I assume that you had a second step in mind that I wasn't able to ask about at the time. How might I go about finding someone who has the permissions?
As a sidenote, I hope you're well and would like to say that wherever I see you're edits, they're always constructive and useful. And you should definitely try some bubble tea. -- LT910001 ( talk) 15:28, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello whatamIdoing, we've talked in a few places before. Right now, we're talking past each other about whether edit-warring needs some new exemptions, or not, based on the Bbb23 actions at the Sheldrake page. You seem to think that I'm either not familiar with the context of the Bbb23 action, or that I'm not familiar with the content-dispute. I feel the same way about you, since I don't think we interpreted the situation the same way at all. :-) Rather than continue to flail on the policy-talkpage, I figured I would come here. What is your take on the content-dispute, in question? Are you under the impression that it is ongoing? What is your take on which sides exist/existed in the WP:BATTLEGROUND, and how many sides? If you'd rather keep this on the WP:EW talkpage, or move it to my talkpage, or whatever, or skip it, I'm flexible — just let me know what works for you. Please leave me a talkback (no watchlist), and thanks for improving wikipedia, it's appreciated. p.s. Except for WP:FLOW, sorry! ;-) But we can argue that another time. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 01:45, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi whatamidoing. When you get a chance could you have a quick look at the separate occupational burnout and burnout (psychology) articles. I think they should be merged, which was first proposed by an editor in 2010? If you and any other editors agree, how do I do it please? Mrm7171 ( talk) 09:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I need the help of a veteran editor like yourself on the industrial/organizational psychology talk page. Iss246 ( talk) 02:39, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi WhatamIdoing! You participated in an RFC/U concerning User:QuackGuru in 2011. There is a new RFC/U on for the same user at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/QuackGuru2, and your input would be welcome. Cheers, -- Mallexikon ( talk) 07:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
It's the small things. A year ago you helped me correct some editing mistakes when another editor was raining on me. At the same time you invited me to the WP:MED project. It's been fun having good people to volunteer with and a meaningful mission to work towards. You're a good person. Thanks. Ian Furst Ian Furst ( talk) 01:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC) |
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You have helped write a significant portion of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Perhaps you'd be interested in weighing in on the above linked discussion, especially since you are a strong believer in WP:Preserve? Flyer22 ( talk)
"....the specific rules for medicine-related articles...." the specific ambitions you mean — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.74.252.94 ( talk) 15:55, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, you disagree with me about physics, but not about the Bieb? You must have a really warped sense of what's important in this world. ;-) Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 19:42, 21 February 2014 (UTC) (and since we're dealing with Serious Matters check out my new essay)
Hi WhatamIdoing. Would you go to Mrm7171's talk page and comment on what I put there about my charge of POV? It seems to me that most of the problem with him/her is that he/she is trying to promote I/O psychology, and that's the root of much of his conflict with other editors. Thanks. Psyc12 ( talk) 00:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
I am sorry it has taken me this long to respond Mrm7171's above comment. I dislike ad hominem remarks. In the many bits of text Mrm7171 has written, I lost track of the above. I am not a friend of WhatamIdoing. I respect WhatamIdoing. She is very smart. Neutral. Very capable. She pointed out errors I made early in my work on Wikipedia. And over time she answered technical questions when I posed them to her. The reason I posed them to her was because I learned that she had a great deal of technical knowledge about Wikipedia and is a gracious person who will answer technical questions. I add that WhatamIdoing has not been over-involved with articles such as the article about OHP and i/o psychology. That is all there is to it. Iss246 ( talk) 04:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. You had seemed to me to be a calm, wise, fairly mature person, a literary type, probably a professional academic, possibly an a mature academic such as a book writer. Probably with grown up children. And (WMF) people, excepting the accountant and the lawyer, seem to be recently pimply, tending hyperactively enthusiastic, and not yet having achieved stable employment. So since you put on the suffix, I have been quite confused. Are my impressions very wrong? Are they completely wrong? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 14:11, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey WAID. Article is up for deletion. Should wait until it is decided upon before linking IMO. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 23:05, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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You are always so helpful. I hope you could help me find a way to count my edits. I have been using the following site: http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Iss246&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia
I tried the site today but but my screen returned "Page not found (404)"
I thought you would be able to help me find an alternative edit counter. Thanks. Iss246 ( talk) 02:07, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
I really don't think you understand the consequences of your actions in this crusade against that template. It isn't intended to be used on any pages other than categories. We have other templates that serve this purpose for article mainspace pages. Greg Bard ( talk) 22:37, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for the good work you have done with the Breast cancer awareness article. Gandydancer ( talk) 22:30, 10 June 2013 (UTC) |
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Hi there. I could use some help at the Betty Friedan article. This para (3rd para under Writing career): According to Daniel Horowitz, Friedan's time as a labor journalist was when she first became aware of women's oppression and exclusion, although Friedan herself disputed this interpretation of her work.[10] has a book as the ref but it does not seem reasonable that I would need to read the entire book to find the statement. Considering that this is a BLP and Friedan does not agree with the Horowitz statement, it seems to me that it would need better sourcing and perhaps even a better followup statement from Friedan. Then, the second statement re being a Marxist: Horowitz also states that Friedan concealed her past as a Stalinist Marxist.[11], that ref seems poor to me. I deleted the para asking for better sourcing and it was returned suggesting that I was free to provide it... What do you think? Gandydancer ( talk) 19:26, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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I notice that you're one of the few people who have commented positively at WP:RFC/U/A and are still active. If you get the chance, could you take a look here? I just drafted my first one and would like some feedback to know whether or not I'm doing it wrong. MezzoMezzo ( talk) 12:26, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your thoughts in this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 15:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I wondered if you could tell me how to put a tag on some text that is unsourced. There is text in a small section of the encyclopedia entry for industrial and organizational psychology that is unsourced. The section concerns i/o psychology and work and health. I remember that there is a tag of some sort that does not take up much space but that is a flag to indicate sourcing would be helpful. Thanks. Iss246 ( talk) 02:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
I got it. {{ unreferenced}}. Thanks anyway. Iss246 ( talk) 02:50, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hey, WhatamIdoing. I take it by not weighing in on this, you agree with the wording as is (what S Marshall changed it to)? I assume that because I know that you have been involved in writing Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and there is currently a thread that you participated in at the aforementioned talk page. Flyer22 ( talk) 12:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Now we have to get you onto irc.-- Jorm (WMF) ( talk) 21:45, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. If it's not any inconvenience, could you comment at this RSN post? It seems I'm getting feedback from editors who've cited the source in their edits to articles, and I'd like a more impartial opinion, so I randomly picked you out from the WP:RS talk page, LOL Dan56 ( talk) 02:26, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
To be honest, my thread on the Pump was simply supposed to start a discussion, not be a explicit 'proposal'...as I had noted, there was not a policy specifically against what I was talking about, other than the 'anti-unapproved-bot' stuff, and given that I had 'argued' with the person in question on his talk page, I really didn't want to specifically start drama there with him. Honestly, I was mostly hoping that by raising the issue in a public forum, I would get an 'expression' of what seemed to be the already existing consensus that I could point to, since he basically presents the attitude on his talk page that he isn't going to listen to individuals at all. I only got 'specific' due to people saying that I wasn't stating the 'problem' clearly enough, and as I said, he's not the only person that does it...just by far the most prolific. Unfortunately, apparently nobody else considers it to be a significant issue, given the responses, which I'm taking as an indication that I should just drop it. He's /blatantly/ flaunting the rules despite prior blocks about the same thing, though.
I personally try to avoid 'drama' as much as possible, because due to my own personal issues I don't usually come across very well. Revent ( talk) 16:04, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Not sure whether you're on the job yet. If you are, can I point you to what seems to be a reasonable concern voiced by JohnCD at AN, in case it gets missed? [2] --19:47, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello! I'm from the Turkish Wikipedia and I need to ask you a question about the Cleanup Taskforce. As I saw this team was active a few years ago in wikipedia. But it is not active anymore in the english and turkish wikipedias. For a few days I'm thinking to make a new team in the turkish wikipedia. But I was wondering why the taskforce isn't active anymore in wikipedia? If you can help I would be very pleasured. Nice Day! Talha Samil Cakir -- 85.102.170.176 ( talk) 21:37, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
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I have been scrutinized about sock puppetry. I was wondering if Psych999 ( talk · contribs), Mattbrown69 ( talk · contribs), and 110.143.253.102 ( talk · contribs) have been sock puppets for Mrm7171. Iss246 ( talk) 16:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
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I have made a proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Fork the wiki in which I used a diff authored by you as an example. Yngvadottir ( talk) 20:42, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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I'm just letting you know that I'm trying to implement your idea at Wikidata ( d:Wikidata:Property_proposal/Term#doctor_specializing_in). I'm still waiting for more supportive comments, but I think it can be created soon. -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 15:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm intrigued by the wording in Wikipedia:Advice_pages#Advice_pages. I largely agree with it.
However, given that it has been cited as evidence in an Arbcom case (See this evidence, especially the first bullet point in this section)
I hadn't seen this page before. On the one hand, that shouldn't be surprising, there are a lot of pages, and most of us have seen only a small portion. However, at the time I was looking into running for admin, I made a point of reading all the policies and guidelines, and this didn't ring a bell. That was some time ago, but at a later date, I started a project (since abandoned) to track the size of policies and guidelines over time, and this wasn't on my list.
I looked at Wikipedia:List of guidelines and do not see it listed (to be fair, the advice page is mentioned in the see also list, but by definition, a see also list is supposed to be other things, not the main subject, so one would expect to find a guideline in a list of guidelines, not buried in a see also list. I do note that the heading says " a summary of the most important guidelines" so not exhaustive. I then went, as suggested, to the more comprehensive list, Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines but I do not see it there either. While this does not mean it isn't a guideline, it does suggest that it may escape the review of even diligent editors.
I then looked to see how the wording was developed.
If I am reading the history correctly, it was added in one edit here.
I looked to read the consensus discussion. Because the edit was in March 2010, I checked Archive 14, which covers Sep 2009–April 2010, and do not see anything.
Please do not get me wrong - I very much support the general theme. However, if the guideline is going to be part of an ArbCom decision, and it turns out to be written by one editor with no discussion, and in a guideline not listed in the obvious lists, that may dilutes its impact. I haven't done a lot of research, so it is possible there has been extensive discussion, but in some other place. As the author of the words, I'm hoping you can shed some light on the history.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 17:34, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello. May I clarify, are you questioning my wikt:veracity or wikt:expertise? I've had a brief look at your contributions to wikipedia and although I can see good work since 2007, and also several article creations, it doesn't strike me that you are an active editor in the area under discussion, i.e. European BLPs, so what gives you the authority to "not believe" an editor who is? Since I am not sure how to respond to your comment "I also don't believe your assertion" - I wonder if perhaps you just simply misread my comment. What I said was that Ana Ivanovic is the only case of a simple-diacritic stripped BLP on en.wp. It's possible that there's a stub lurking somewhere by accident that is so non-notable that no one has ever noticed the mistake, but that is a completely different thing from a deliberate removing of diacritics from a highly visible BLP as happened here. Otherwise, apart from the rudeness of your statement, best regards. In ictu oculi ( talk) 06:22, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, I came across your username via one of numerous discussions of VE, which seems to have generated an extraordinary quantity of hot air (though not from you).
What you say about "which" and "that" is broadly correct. But I hope that you don't mean to suggest that there's anything wrong with "restrictive" which, because of course there isn't anything wrong with it. (For why "restrictive" and "defining" are less than fully appropriate terms, consider Huddleston and Pullum's example [in CGEL, pp 1064-1065] "He sounded like the clergyman he was": containing what they call a "bare integrated relative" clause, one that doesn't restrict the reference of "clergyman" in any way.) -- Hoary ( talk) 09:36, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi. We really need your opinion on which of these photos would make the best Infobox portrait for the Rick Remender article. Could you please offer your opinion in that discussion? The most recent subsection of that discussion is here, so you can just chime in there if you don't want to read the whole thread. I really appreciate it. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 17:14, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
WAID, with all respect, while you're probably right, is now really the right time? This is a group that's upset because they fear core tools, necessary to their work, might end up phased out. While I don't for a moment think it was your intent, you have to realise that, as a member of the WMF, telling them that, well, basically, that they aren't as important as they think, when you don't address their actual concerns, can very, very easily be read as dismissive. Again, I don't think that's what you meant, but you need to be a little bit more careful. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:09, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I'm saying this offline based mainly on your comments about Wikipedia at WP:Naming conventions (use English). I apologise if this is inappropriate but I had a brief look at your contributions before coming here to get an idea where you're coming from and try to understand your view better. I note that you have only 20% of so article space contributions, few article creations and few (perhaps none, I can't recall now) article creations touching on European language article space (Hungarian bios, Maltese geo articles, that sort of thing). This of course is no problem, we all have our contributions. But it does mean that you may not be well informed of editor consensus and article reality (another form of editor consensus) in the area you wish to participate in directing editors but do not yourself regularly edit. I hope that is not unfair comment, it is a simplistic generalization from your contributions, and therefore may be wrong. If it is accept my apologies and correct me. If it is correct, please listen to the following comment:
You may consider this is "the rule" but the editing community overwhelmingly, as judged by RfCs, RMs, and most importantly article reality consider that sources which are unreliable for the statement being made are unreliable for the statement being made (I have just quoted WP:IRS in inverted form as I'm sure you realise).
There is no need to find out "how Wikipedia chooses to do it" because this is known. Take 10 en.wp non-English Latin alphabet European language space bio or geo articles of your own choosing and analyse them for yourself. Then come and discuss with editors who work in this space. It's a matter of courtesy to the editing community. In ictu oculi ( talk) 06:55, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
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Apparently a press release, so not copyvio [3]. Please don't revert again as I'd have to warn you for 3RR if I warn our new editor. This isn't really a problem anyway, I'm sure we have enough watchers on this article. Thanks though for your edits. Dougweller ( talk) 05:35, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm just letting you know that I have declined your CSD on User talk:120.149.40.66. We do not generally delete user talk pages, in particular those of IP addresses that might be shared. It is sufficient to simply remove any vandalism or spam. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:44, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey WhatamIdoing. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.
We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.
Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
You have been helpful in the past. I was hoping you can help again. I have been having difficulty with user:Mrm7171. So has User:Psyc12. Mrm7171 is very unbending about changes he wants to make to the OHP site. I don't know if it matters to you that both Psyc12 and I are professors who teach OHP courses; between us we have expertise in OHP. Mrm7171 wants consensus from Psy12 but when Psyc12 shares consensus on some points but not on every point, Mrm7171 insists that he is right and wants every one of 9 points he wants to enter onto the OHP page. I am lukewarm on some points Psyc12 concedes but I go along because I don't want to fight about every single point on Mrm7171's list of 9 points. Can you intervene? Just look at the last few sections of the OHP talk page. Thanks. Iss246 ( talk) 21:06, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
If you read the bottom of the OHP talk page, you will observe that I caught Mrm7171 making stuff up to suit his attempts to undermine OHP. I think he should be barred from Wikipedia for making stuff up.
Wikipedia is a fine project. However, when "contributors" make stuff up because they have a mission to accomplish such as undermining a subject area, such contributors should be barred from the encyclopedia. Mrm7171 should be barred from being able to edit on Wikipedia. Iss246 ( talk) 02:57, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
I am contacting every editor who commented at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Questions about "oppose" comments in WP:RFC/Us, in case you might wish to participate in the RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Clarification of the rules. Thank you. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 17:30, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, WhatamIdoing,
All the sources I have been consulting recently for edits to IQ classification and related articles strongly agree that terminology has changed, and what was formerly known as Mental retardation is now called Intellectual disability. The ICD 10 system of terminology appears to be the only one that hasn't fully made the switch, but the reliable secondary sources aren't waiting, and DSM-5 has made the switch. The National Library of Medicine medical subject heading has made the switch also. So I think that the two existing articles need to be merged. I have been reading up on the Wikipedia documentation about how to merge two articles with long edit histories, and that is not easy. I am willing to do all the work, but first of all I will gather the source citations to post to the talk pages of both articles. I hope you will look on as I do the work to make I sure merge the articles correctly. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 02:20, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi WAID! If you have a minute, could you check the citation examples page for the Cochrane donations? 59 accounts were approved and delivered this week :) Wikipedia:Cochrane/Citations Ocaasi t | c 23:31, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
You may have missed
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In this comment, you suggest I read Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Ending RfCs. That section does clarify some points in the discussion. However, that very section is linked to and quoted from in the comment you replied to. Are you suggesting I could somehow link to and quote something without reading it? ʍ w 12:17, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
I do indeed understand how it could look. So, again, how is the OP expected to determine when a discussion has run long enough, and what the consensus is, if comments from them will be discredited as biased? (Needless to say, the point is moot for the Notability Noticeboard discussion; I want it to be done by-the-book so that it only needs to be done once. But now we're discussing possible changes and clarifications to make to WP:RfC.) ʍ w 20:01, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
I was going back over my talk page and found your comment about my ActiveWatchers script not working. It was indeed broken, and I just fixed it. Sorry to have neglected that for so long but I was mostly inactive for a while there. If it's still not working for some reason let me know :) equazcion (talk) 01:10, 15 Sep 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know that I've updated your statement ( 19 Oct 2012) that read [my italics]:
Legality of mirrors and forks
Every contribution to the English Wikipedia has been licensed for re-use, including commercial, for-profit websites. Republication is legal, so long as the licenses are complied with.
I've amended this to read Copyright status of mirrors and forks...Republication is not a breach of copyright. As I see it, a possible problem with your original broad statement is that a court might deem republication to be illegal or actionable for reasons other than copyright, and it is not in our best interests to offer an open-ended guarantee of legality. In particular, the exemption in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act may not apply where a third party intentionally copies material from Wikipedia. If someone is defamed in a Wikipedia article, WMF is apparently protected by §230. If a third party who copied the article accepts liability, it would be undesirable to let them sue us because we have assured them that "republication is legal". I'm not a lawyer, so please undo this if you wish. - Pointillist ( talk) 21:37, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
To User:WhatamIdoing. I write to report that user:Mrm7171 engages in disruptive editing ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing). He engages in tendentitious edits on the occupational health psychology talk page and on the OHP page itself. He avoids efforts to build consensus. He resists the thoughts of other editors. He has pursued the goal of making OHP look like a subdiscipline of industrial/organizational psychology. He failed to reach that goal. Now Mrm7171 appears to be going in a very different direction. Almost an opposite direction.
The context is this. The second sentence of the OHP page informs the reader that OHP emerged out of the confluence of three disciplines, health psychology, i/o psychology, and occupational health. I think that sentence spells out the interdisciplinary origins of OHP sufficiently.
Earlier today Mrm7171 loaded up the opening paragraph of the OHP page with so many disciplines that it appears OHP is going hither and thither. If he can't win the battle in support of his view that OHP is a subdiscipline of i/o, he goes in another direction to fight a different battle, namely that OHP amounts to a hodgepodge of disciplines. If one line of attack fails, then he takes up another line of attack. He has been doing this dance ever since he joined Wikipedia.
He reverted my earlier edit which was aimed at keeping the opening paragraph straightforward. He insists on editing the opening paragraph such that OHP is made to look like a mixture of almost every social science plus industrial engineering and public health.
It would be like someone writing in the i/o page that i/o is a mixture of psychometric psychology, aptitude/intelligence research (e.g., Hunter and Schmidt), structural equation modeling, social psychology, economics, ergonomics, etc. Mrm7171 has to stop the disruptive edits.
Yes, sometimes people in public health produce research that is over interest to OHP researchers. Yes, sometimes people in social psychology produce research that is of interest to i/o researchers. So what. That is not the way to introduce a subject in an introductory paragraph. Iss246 ( talk) 14:25, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
And, as a general comment, this article seems to be overloaded with details about what exactly OHP researchers have done, and how they have done it. For example, I'd be happy to mention that OHP has used both qualitative and quantitative research methods, with a hatnote, but the two present sections on the subjects seem overblown. What do others think? Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC) I think Mrm7171 made some apt edits. I tip my hat to him. I'm not absolutely sure with regard to my thinking about the research methods section but on balance my thinking is that the section is helpful to readers because the section, which includes internal links, gives a reasonable idea of the tools OHP researchers employ when investigating the relation of psychosocial workplace factors to disease. Iss246 (talk) 18:10, 17 September 2013 (UTC) OK. However, to my eye, the section is not really what I'd find most useful in an encyclopedia, and were I to take to wikilawyering (perish the thought), I might think that it relies rather too much on primary sources. Will you indulge me, if I try a bold edit, by leaving it for a few days to get other opinions? Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:12, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello again, WAID. Thanks very much for your support the other day. I meant to thank you at the time. You really are a blessing to the project and it's very important that you are here. I've been watching things since the rollout in July and think you've been doing a fantastic job. It's even more impressive considering all that you've had to endure. I know things have been very tough lately and I hope you are holding up well. I know I'd crumble if I were in your position. It takes a person of great strength and wisdom to be able to do what you've done and I'm really very thankful that your helping the Foundation and the project. It's very generous of you. I wanted to let you know that it means a lot to me and others to have you helping so much. Our projects benefit millions of people and it can't happen without fine upstanding people like yourself. Thank you ever so much for all your support. 64.40.54.151 ( talk) 06:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Just been catching up on some of the community discussions and thinking about how much I appreciate your dedication and especially your understanding of the big picture. I was thinking you need to change your user box from This user's Intelligence Quotient is annoyingly high to something more like This user's Intelligence Quotient is refreshingly high. Glad to have you here. Thanks for everything. 64.40.54.196 ( talk) 04:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your opinion on which photo would be better for the Rebecca Housel Infobox in this discussion? If you are unable to, I understand; you don't have to reply to this message. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 03:36, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi WhatamIdoing, my intention with creating the article was to help all parties. I'm concerned that you feel (at least part of it) isn't. How can I help? Widefox; talk 17:02, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi WhatamIdoing! I undid the redirect of Disposophobia to Compulsive hoarding as there obviously was no consensus about this, but I now propose to merge Disposophobia into Compulsive hoarding. Would you like to give your comment on the talk page? Kind regards, Lova Falk talk 17:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi WhatamIdoing, I wanted to see if you're working on anything interesting at the moment. You once said (a long time ago) that you wished I worked on more pages you've watchlisted (feel free to give me a few examples of interesting medical articles you had in mind) and I thought I would take you up on the offer. I just wanted to let you know that I would be happy to collaborate with you at any time now and in the future. Cheers! TylerDurden8823 ( talk) 05:20, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello WaId,
Greetings from the east coast. On your recent community page: the developer community, and the donor community, are also considered part of the community by some people. Donors are considered active community members for many movements, including political and non-profit movements. Interestingly, while we have ways to communicate directly to both readers and editors (as a community), the mechanisms for communicating with donors are much more restricted and more rarely used. – SJ + 01:45, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
I've drafted up an RfA at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/RfC to add Pending Changes to all BLP with few or no watchers, please feel free to sculpt it into a presentable state. Josh Parris 05:36, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I have a quick question about your addition to WP:Merging#Step 4: Close the merger discussion and determine consensus. I see that you proposed it at WP:Village pump (proposals)#Merge articles to be regulated, receiving support but no direct edits. Am I correct that both are entirely your own contributions? Thanks. Flatscan ( talk) 05:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Waid, we need an expert opinion at the BP article. The BP company rep, Arturo, has a few questions about the information in the Health section of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill section. His note on the talk page seems to explain things pretty well, but let me know. If you don't have time right now, perhaps you could suggest another editor that could help us out. Thanks. Gandydancer ( talk) 16:16, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 16:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
May I have a further explanation of the relevant portion of WP:Advice pages? How does it reconcile with the idea that a group of Wikipedians can form a consensus anywhere, whether on the village pump or on a Wikiproject page or a talk page? WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:41, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 19:47, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion regarding the better photo for an article Infobox? Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream ( talk) 23:58, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
You had plenty of time to review the RFC before it went live, and removing one statement that you claim is biased while leaving the other, is ... biased. Now, since everyone involved has been getting along just fine, while you seem unable to review a BLP impartially and recognize that it is wholly uncited by an edit-warring SPA, would you mind not messing up what has been til now a friendly RFC? Thank you, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you weigh in on an editorial dispute between Mrm7171 and me on how to edit the health psychology entry? Thank you Iss246 ( talk) 15:35, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you so much whatamidoing for pointing out, and so boldly, that in your opinion, and based on the 1986 reference you highlighted for everyone's formal attention (occupational)health psychology is just a specialization within health psych. I've corrected the health psych article, based on your wisdom. Other articles may need to be now corrected though, to reflect your "weighing in" and proper Wikipedia guidance. Thank you for "weighing in" as requested by your friend iss246. Mrm7171 ( talk) 00:23, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Several new proposals have been submitted at Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014 since you last commented on it. You are invited to return to comment on the new proposals. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 01:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Thought you might appreciate some small balls to chew on. Cheers for all of your good work! Iryna Harpy ( talk) 02:43, 18 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hi WhatamIdoing! I asked for some help about getting cleanup listings at the village pump ( Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_122) but unfortunately I haven't been able to follow the majority of my correspondences up until recently. When I asked, you pointed me to a page about getting added ( [5]), but in order to do that I need a username and password. I assume that you had a second step in mind that I wasn't able to ask about at the time. How might I go about finding someone who has the permissions?
As a sidenote, I hope you're well and would like to say that wherever I see you're edits, they're always constructive and useful. And you should definitely try some bubble tea. -- LT910001 ( talk) 15:28, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello whatamIdoing, we've talked in a few places before. Right now, we're talking past each other about whether edit-warring needs some new exemptions, or not, based on the Bbb23 actions at the Sheldrake page. You seem to think that I'm either not familiar with the context of the Bbb23 action, or that I'm not familiar with the content-dispute. I feel the same way about you, since I don't think we interpreted the situation the same way at all. :-) Rather than continue to flail on the policy-talkpage, I figured I would come here. What is your take on the content-dispute, in question? Are you under the impression that it is ongoing? What is your take on which sides exist/existed in the WP:BATTLEGROUND, and how many sides? If you'd rather keep this on the WP:EW talkpage, or move it to my talkpage, or whatever, or skip it, I'm flexible — just let me know what works for you. Please leave me a talkback (no watchlist), and thanks for improving wikipedia, it's appreciated. p.s. Except for WP:FLOW, sorry! ;-) But we can argue that another time. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 01:45, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi whatamidoing. When you get a chance could you have a quick look at the separate occupational burnout and burnout (psychology) articles. I think they should be merged, which was first proposed by an editor in 2010? If you and any other editors agree, how do I do it please? Mrm7171 ( talk) 09:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I need the help of a veteran editor like yourself on the industrial/organizational psychology talk page. Iss246 ( talk) 02:39, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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It's the small things. A year ago you helped me correct some editing mistakes when another editor was raining on me. At the same time you invited me to the WP:MED project. It's been fun having good people to volunteer with and a meaningful mission to work towards. You're a good person. Thanks. Ian Furst Ian Furst ( talk) 01:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC) |
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"....the specific rules for medicine-related articles...." the specific ambitions you mean — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.74.252.94 ( talk) 15:55, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Oh, you disagree with me about physics, but not about the Bieb? You must have a really warped sense of what's important in this world. ;-) Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 19:42, 21 February 2014 (UTC) (and since we're dealing with Serious Matters check out my new essay)
Hi WhatamIdoing. Would you go to Mrm7171's talk page and comment on what I put there about my charge of POV? It seems to me that most of the problem with him/her is that he/she is trying to promote I/O psychology, and that's the root of much of his conflict with other editors. Thanks. Psyc12 ( talk) 00:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
I am sorry it has taken me this long to respond Mrm7171's above comment. I dislike ad hominem remarks. In the many bits of text Mrm7171 has written, I lost track of the above. I am not a friend of WhatamIdoing. I respect WhatamIdoing. She is very smart. Neutral. Very capable. She pointed out errors I made early in my work on Wikipedia. And over time she answered technical questions when I posed them to her. The reason I posed them to her was because I learned that she had a great deal of technical knowledge about Wikipedia and is a gracious person who will answer technical questions. I add that WhatamIdoing has not been over-involved with articles such as the article about OHP and i/o psychology. That is all there is to it. Iss246 ( talk) 04:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. You had seemed to me to be a calm, wise, fairly mature person, a literary type, probably a professional academic, possibly an a mature academic such as a book writer. Probably with grown up children. And (WMF) people, excepting the accountant and the lawyer, seem to be recently pimply, tending hyperactively enthusiastic, and not yet having achieved stable employment. So since you put on the suffix, I have been quite confused. Are my impressions very wrong? Are they completely wrong? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 14:11, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey WAID. Article is up for deletion. Should wait until it is decided upon before linking IMO. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 23:05, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)