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Right on. How the Prime Minister of Hungary would not be notable is a mystery to me. Drmies ( talk) 04:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for adding sources in the current unfortunate situation, but when you do, don't forgetto remove the unref tag--and if you add only a single source, it is probably good to place a refimprove tag--at leas tthat is what I have been doing. DGG ( talk ) 10:20, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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Frank Andersson (45 revisions restored):
an olympic medallist for f**k's sake
22:16, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Please see here, Unitanode has created an account and is mass prodding under that account here Off2riorob ( talk) 00:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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For your template at {{ Unsourced BLP flagged}}, a brilliant suggestion for the BLP issue - it's a shame it's not getting more attention. Ray Talk 05:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC) |
If I could distract you just for a moment from all this excitement at BLP, I was wondering if you could give an opinion on this discussion at FFD. Headshots of three Playboy centrefold models (now all deceased), used to show what as subjects of their articles they looked like. Does the fact that the same headshots are used in the guide to its former centrefolds on Playboy's own site represent an unconquerable barrier to our claiming fair use? Jheald ( talk) 21:17, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Lulu has made reverts without joining our discussion on the talk page -- I've invited Lulu to participate (see my revert notes and the discussion page). Unilateral reverts absent any dialogue after repeated attempts to begin a discussion are evidence of POV editing in my opinion. Thanks.
Lordvolton ( talk) 23:16, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Despite my best efforts to create a dialogue an "anonymous" editor just reverted again. The ip address is 149.77.52.78 I've left a note on Lulu's page asking them to please participate in the dialogue which doesn't seem to be an option being embraced by the editors.
Please advise. =-)
Lordvolton ( talk) 23:38, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
In case no one has said this to you before, thanks for stopping by
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people, which will delete the vast majority of 50,000 articles created by 17,400 editors, mostly new editors. "The key word is "draconian" - we should have an orderly, organized, agreed-to improvement-and-deletion campaign." So true!
Ikip 01:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
RE:
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Mass-prodding It is obvious this editor is not listening. There is always RFC. I would happily co-sponsor, but not write.
Ikip
04:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, please take a look at this... could you pop by there and explain what is going on, please? Edit warring is not acceptable, nor is reinserting unsourced material. Thanks. ++ Lar: t/ c 17:16, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Your analysis on facts versus historical opinion is well thought of. In contrast, others accuse me of all kinds of things. Keep on writing good comments, not like those non-helpful editors. JB50000 ( talk) 08:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Just thought you may want to know, an alternate account deleted my poorly worded invitation on your talk page. Some editors disagreed about these deletions. [1] and also went to ANI about it.
I actually appreciate this deletion because I completely rewrote the template. The template was inviting you here: here.
Best wishes with the controversies above, you seem to be holding your own. :) Let me know if I can help you in anyway. Ikip 04:25, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
For some reason the bot did not get the redirects. I cleaned those up and the category is now deleted. Vegaswikian ( talk) 08:12, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Any objections to deleting this one? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:33, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Are you saying that it should be included in the Obama article? I think that eventually it should but fighting is so bad there that I won't touch it for now and it's not that critical if the article waits a few weeks to cover current events. However, some do put in current events even not so notable ones. JB50000 ( talk) 05:06, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
...at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Compromise.3F. Hat's off to you for that. Hopefully everything will be smoother going forward. If I can help please let me know. ++ Lar: t/ c 14:51, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
RE: Wikipedia_talk:RFC/BLP#Moment_Please.21 and your comment. [2]
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The BLP Barnstar is for users who work to diligently source and maintain neutrality in biography articles, ensuring they adhere to the Biographies of Living Persons policy.
This barnstar is awarded to Wikidemon, for vigorously defending the integrity of Wikipedia from possible "experimental breaches". Thank you for your diligence and hard work. Okip BLP Contest 07:49, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
User:PeterbrownDancin is now an indefinitely banned confirmed strawman sockpuppet, we will never know for sure if he was part of yet another "experimental breach" of unreferenced biographies of living people.
Okip BLP Contest 07:49, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I've replied to your message. Minima c ( talk) 08:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you have edited the Barack Obama article and I want to invite your feedback on this draft article on the international media reaction to Barack Obama's 2008 election. Please note that images are available to improve the article's look and will be added once the page is published. Please leave comments on the draft's discussion page. Thank you! -- Amandaroyal ( talk) 20:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Admitting you're wrong was very helpful to me. Saw it in your contribution history. Hipocrite ( talk) 09:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
For your help digesting the ANi nonsense. What was never mentioned is that porn companies, as a rule, don't seem to advertize outside their established delivery routes or their customer bases, I rarely see it except adverts for special events and even then .. they're just porn stars. Wikipedia would be a colossal waste of time for promotion. Even the porn stars themselves usually catch on that only the dry version of their bio might be kept. In any case I appreciate the common sense. -- Banjeboi 01:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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This RfC has opened and your comments are welcome and encouraged. Please visit Wikipedia:Community de-adminship/RfC. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 16:15, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
I am informing you that I have filed a WP:SPI case which indirectly involves you here. DD2K ( talk) 22:19, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
(I was considering nominating an article you created, List of chefs, for deletion for reasons I explained there on the talk page... basically that such a list is inevitably either indiscriminate, incomplete, or over-large and can best be done as a category. As a courtesy I'm just notifying you instead in case you have other ideas or a suggestion for how to improve it. If the redlinks are serving as a pointer to articles that could be created, perhaps that is best put in Wikipedia space, e.g. in a wikiproject list of articles to create. Cheers, - Wikidemon (talk) 08:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC))
I saw your comments regarding "broke the bank" and wanted to note that I have been "fighting" a formulation regarding the mention of Bill O'Reilly. It is clear that the segment "Political donations and activism" is similarly vulnerable to "spin" and that choice of words matters. What I react to is the formulation "Commentator Bill O'Reilly accused Soros of funding the self-described progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America." On the surface, this may seem OK, but I believe it gives O'Reilly undu weight and that the section would be better stated as "Soros is also thought to be connected to the self-described progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America". I have written my opinions about this on the discussion page.
I would be interested to hear your opinion on the "O'Reilly" edit wars. Johnfravolda ( talk) 18:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm back. For almost two months, I was on what the Aussies might call a "walkabout" with some old college buddies, except I was using a car and I was in North America. Far too busy, having too much fun, and getting Internet access that was too sporadic to do much here. Then when I got back, for a month I was catching up at work. Now I'm back at Wikipedia. Let's continue working together to make it a better encyclopedia. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 13:40, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
What was this about? [3] -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 04:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
I have recently referenced your comments offered in the RS/N discussion(s) on WorldNetDaily WP:RS considerations within a related issue being discussed in the RS/N "talk" page. This message is to notify you of that reference and to both solicit and encourage any further contribution you might have in this matter. Thanks. -- JakeInJoisey ( talk) 18:22, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
This was removed as a BLP violation - please don't restore it.-- Scott Mac (Doc) 13:29, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I admire you for trying to archive what has essentially become a one man soapbox, but if Jimbo is content to let it continue, I say let it. I think any reasonable person would come away from reading that with the same opinion I have of RicoCorinth, so let him keep at it. Personally, I think as long as he's on Jimbo's page, he's staying out of the encyclopedia. I'm pretty sure that's not a bad thing. AniMate 05:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Discussions have been conclusive in the past for the 1 tiny bit of information I included in the article. The information I included is sourced, and I've even made a new talk page point (which no one has responded to). I should not be the one punished here. -- Erroneuz1 ( talk) 18:51, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Good move restoring the RS material at Revolution Muslim.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 00:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You mentioned at the CS AN/I that you had not looked into the claim that CS is being disingenuous about what happened. I think the diffs are there for you to see, if you want to, and I can put them together for you. But the bottom of the Neutral discussion spells out one related recent example rather clearly. AGF is an assumption. It is rebuttable, by the editor's statements and actions. And this AN/I is replete with such statements and actions. This is not just a bad block. But a horrid block made with forethought, knowing it was a bad block (and ban) as evidenced by his statement the day prior, where the blocker had just been criticized, where the blocker does not now admit it was bad, where CS refuses as well to commit to comply with wp:admin and wp's consensus policy, where CS has in the past admitted to volitionally violating the block policy. That's why that is not enough. I didn't even initially ask that he be desysopped. But after all the discussion and input from many editors, for his reactions to be: a) duplicity, and b) refusal to abide by policy, drives me to support the Jclemens suggestion. Perhaps you missed, but he doesn't agree to abide by policy. He doesn't agree to honor consensus. In fact, as you can see from the AN/I discussion's first post, it was exactly that which led to the volatile edit warring that he engaged in at that article. This is outrageous behavior -- and if a cop were to pummel you over the head for crossing at a yellow light, lie, and then refuse to agree to abide by the yellow light law ... I don't think that you would say, let's give him his billy club and put him back on the street. It's outrageous behavior, not a speeding ticket, and his sysop powers are not as necessary to his continued livlihood as his driver license might be.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 06:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
You might want to weigh in here. -- causa sui ( talk) 15:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
The RfC hasn't been open for 8 days. They are typically open for 30 days. Declaring a consensus this early is premature especially given the number of opposes in the last few days. - Atmoz ( talk) 19:26, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Wikidemon, please see my last question on Talk:AA. I think my proposal is a satisfactory, middle-ground solution. With better oversight by a responsible admin, I think the article will be unlocked in a matter of days. Greg L ( talk) 22:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
You said:
You might want to qualify that a bit - Risker is a fine administrator and capable editor, just doesn't seem to have full support in policy or by the community in this one case :) - Wikidemon ( talk) 22:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
It's really amazing to me that we haven't learned anything yet. Anyone who opposes Greg L ( talk · contribs)'s ideas about how this article should be edited will be met with bald reverting, not to mention pages of ad-hominems on the talk page: and if they use sysop tools to prevent that, they'll be met with accusations of misuse of sysop tools. It was me before and Risker is next. If Risker is dragged through the same kind of business as I was, do you think any more sysops will be willing to come near this thing? Why is it that this kind of aggressively hostile editing practice is tolerated at all? -- causa sui ( talk) 15:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Regarding this edit that you made a few days ago...
Hi to you too!
Captain Lance Murdoch ( talk) 03:28, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about the confusion. I fixed the title problem and the format effects. -- William S. Saturn ( talk) 22:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on that page!-- Dark Charles ( talk) 02:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I thought you might want to know I've opened a thread concerning you at WP:AN/I#Wikidemon, WP:V and WP:BLP. Jayjg (talk) 01:21, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
to the other issue you were involved in is this one.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 07:44, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
I saw an ad for the book in the New Yorker, and having felt annoyed that the attack book Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation had gotten enough media attention to warrant an article (whoops, there go my politics), i wanted to create this one to be fair (not that one couldnt write a cogent critique of our president). thanks for creating it. i think books are underrepresented on WP, compared to tv shows and music recordings. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 15:54, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Please do not
delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at
List of Jewish actors. Thank you.
Jayjg
(talk)
12:07, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
I agree that the nominations were of dubious faith in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreyer Farms (2nd nomination) and the first nomination a day before. However, in each case, there were other recommendations to delete the article from good faith editors. Based on that, how is the nomination subject to a close as a speedy keep? The second criterion doesn't seem to apply because of the second part of it, "and nobody unrelated recommends deleting it (since calling a nomination vandalism does not make it so, and vandals can be correct)." — C.Fred ( talk) 13:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we usually only link to a few "official" websites, not every one that is affiliated with the company. I believe there is a consensus for doing so with respect to our external links guidelines, especially since most of these "official" links are not about the subject of the article at all, they are just websites that are owned by the subject. Please reconsider reverting to my cleanup of this section. Them From Space 20:28, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
May I ask why you thought that removing {{ not a ballot}} and {{ spa}} was a bright idea? What do you think those tags are for? And moving to an inconspicuous location, without leaving a reference, a note that there's sockpuppetry involved? You thought that was appropriate? Please think before you do these things! ╟─ Treasury Tag► high seas─╢ 17:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles ( talk) 20:11, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Since I mentioned your name/activity at this AN/I (regarding another editor), I thought I should pay you the courtesy of letting you know. Best.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 21:33, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your edit. I believe there needs to be a civil rights section in the article, especially in light of the Arizona controversy. Why doesn't the Gates arrest controversy civil rights? Cmguy777 ( talk) 02:35, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Someone is vandalizing the Presidency of Barack Obama. Help! Cmguy777 ( talk) 02:47, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
On their website the organization title is given as Marines' with the possessive. Is there a reason why the current article isn't so titled? BrokenSphere Msg me 03:28, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
As per your advice, "stereotypical" has been changed to "popular" which works much better. Thanks Hotcop2 ( talk) 13:09, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, old friend. I hope this finds you well. There's a rather heated discussion at ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy regarding an editorial by a Mr. Grenell. Please drop in and take a look at it. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 15:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Wikidemon, just wanted to say thanks for posting your perception of consensus and your salient position on the matter here. You helped bring a little sanity to the situation after my frustration with a sock showing up. Also, thanks for the "silliness" redacting and for trying to keep things focused. Regards, AzureCitizen ( talk) 15:39, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
This is exactly how we should be dealing with this stuff. The excessive use of sarcastic and demeaning hats is not constructive.-- William S. Saturn ( talk) 07:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello there, Wikidemon. There was a recent discussion at WP:ANI regarding the systematic removal of Media Matters for America as a reliable source. I've started an RfC regarding MMfA, Media Research Center, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, Newsbusters etc. at Wikipedia: Identifying reliable sources. Some of us believe that these hyperpartisan sources should never be used as factual sources at Wikipedia, due to their tendency to selective edit facts. Please participate in this important discussion, concerning one of Wikipedia's most fundamental editing policies, on the Reliable Sources Talk page here. Skoal. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 14:10, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for
your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a
neutral point of view. A contribution you made to
Barack Obama appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe this important
core policy. Thank you.
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Hi there! I'm gonna pack my bags and FLY ( talk) 10:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
–Jimmy Wales Wikipedia is private property that calls itself the open source encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The only real reason I was banned was to prevent me from adding true, well sourced info that was critical of Obama. NPOV states, "All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. This is non-negotiable and expected of all articles and all editors." I would also like to point out this ARBCOM ruling: "Removal of sourced edits made in a neutral narrative is disruptive" "8) It is disruptive to remove statements that are sourced reliably, written in a neutral narrative, and pertain to the subject at hand." "Passed 5 to 0 at 05:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)" When I add true, well sourced, relevant info, I am committing a " victimless crime," which, as a libertarian, is something that I think should be allowed. Mr. Howell's teddy bear ( talk) 05:25, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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Do not comment on my talk page either refute what I said or leave it alone.
Tomgazer ( talk) 22:48, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Please note that you have made three reversions today at Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. Any further revisions within a 24-hour period will put you in violation of the WP:3RR policy and may well lead to your account being blocked to prevent disruption to the article. Also, note that you have been edit-warring over this section of the article for a few days. 3RR is not an entitlement to edit war, and the article is (along with others) on "article probation" (see Talk:Barack Obama/Article probation, as referenced in the article's talk page), which all means that the account may be blocked for continuing disruption even without a 3RR violation. I will be reverting this edit [6], and also making a change to your latest attempt to change the language with respect to the passage of the Arizona birther bill. If you wish to make changes that other editors disagree with, please use the article talk page rather than edit warring. Thanks. (Wikidemon)
Hi. I value your unbiased judgement and wonder if you'd be interested to chime in with an opinion on my posting of a question on the RS noticeboard here. In either case--that is, whether or not this question intrigues you enough for you to comment--I appreciate your consideration of my request; thanks.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 17:41, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
...a third person to necessarily agree with Jarhed or with me. Maybe they would come up with something in between? or even take a fresh tack altogether? Or maybe one or the other or both of our approaches would be critiqued, aside from the merits of the particular edits under discussion? Or maybe the question is just too boring to comment on? or the discussion too wp:TLDR??
In any case, since my request of you, above, a noticeboard discussion has ensued (that is, sort of ensued; archived here: wp:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 72#New Communities, Inc., and the CMT movement); but, even in this additional forum, after my co-disputant and I presented our views, not one additional Wikipedian volunteered any tie-breaking opinion. Then, my co-disputant also requested help at Editorial Assistance Requests here: wp:Editor assistance/Requests#Requesting advice on BLP, CITE and PROMOTION problems on article--and this also to no avail!
The disagreement is about whether a local weekly newspaper with editorial oversight can be used as a source for the assertion that Shirley Sherrod was a land collective activist who co-founded New Communities collective farm in 1969.
Too frickin boring?-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 03:10, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
The current Climate change case has not been accepting evidence for a while, so I've removed your submission. If you would like to submit evidence, participants have been asked by the arbs to first inquire on the talk page as to whether or not it is desired. That being said, the Committee has been working on the Proposed decision and is unlikely to require or desire new evidence, especially when the Committee is aware of the situation. Thanks, ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 13:21, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
I have another little problem and I'd appreciate your attention. You've been very objective in the past. On the Ugg boots article (and related articles), we have a bunch of Australian editors (led by an Australian administrator) who are engaged in the following editing pattern:
To explain all the legal terminology, they're trying to define "ugg boots" as a generic term, rather than a trademark. They want these articles to talk at great length about the one or two court cases where this strategy was successful, and exclude and delete the many, many cases (in both courts and arbitration) where the same "generic term" defense strategy was a miserable failure.
If they want to talk about a "generic term," they have to take the bad with the good. I started a "request for comment" on the Talk page. Please comment there. Thanks. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 15:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
<smiles> -- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 17:23, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
For your comments at ANI during the recent kerfuffle in particular William M. Connolley ( talk) 09:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I thought there was breaking news about the hitherto-unknown fact that his parents had sent him to Culver Military Academy as a child. ;-) Flatterworld ( talk) 21:53, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Demon, I'm puzzled by this comment of yours. I think that the particular "editor in good standing" to whom you refer is me. If so, I thank you for regarding me as being in good standing, and for saying that I asked my question fairly. But I don't know in what sense I asked it aggressively.
Perhaps you also refer to me when you talk of "an experienced editor [who] edit wars the talk page on the side of the provocation", and if so I invite you either to retract your charge of edit warring or to take the charge to WP:AN or wherever.
I am well aware that the IP who raised this point (or non-point) has been a pain (and I recently deleted at least one of his posts myself), and that he continues to be a pain. However, couched within the aggrieved tone and bluster is what I see as a reasonable if very minor point. (He appears to want to construct a little edifice of OS on this very minor point, but that's a separate matter.) I remain open to argument that I am wrong about this. I trust that others, too, remain open to argument, tiresome though such argument undoubtedly is. -- Hoary ( talk) 13:02, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed an edit for the mainspace of an important Wikipedia policy, the Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources policy. Essentially, I believe that some sources are so partisan that using them as "reliable sources" invites more problems than they're really worth. You've previously participated in the RfC on this subject, or another related discussion indicating that you are interested in this important policy area. Please indicate here whether you support or oppose the proposed edit. The original discussion is here. Thanks. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 01:54, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
My goal was to be clear, and I have obviously failed to meet that goal. Your comment seems like good advice if I were simply proposing to modify the existing GS/CC/RE process. Obviously, ArbCom is stepping in an going to impose something. They have proposed something. This discussion is a proposal for a minor modification of the ArbCom process, which would , if approved completely replace the GS/CC/RE. Yes, I agree it would be good to get arb input - I just added a link so they know this discussion exists. (I had begun the discussion on the PD page, but met some resistance - in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have caved and moved the discussion to the GS/CC/RE talk page quite so quickly.)-- SPhilbrick T 14:40, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
The lede looks much better, thanks! Do you think the issues (personal reflection, sourcing, etc) still apply? I'm wondering how to improve the Semantic Web article. Aside from possibly breaking out the list of projects into a separate article (do you think it's sufficiently notable for that?) I don't know what to do next. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 11:24, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
What's your rationale behind [12]? I have provided rationale behind every one of my edits [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]. Now it's your turn. Victor Victoria ( talk) 03:58, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
By reverting 5 of my edits w/o giving a detailed explanation for each one, you were essentially being a revert ninja. All you stated in your edit summary is that you don't like red links, but Wikipedia policy encourages good redlinks. Victor Victoria ( talk) 15:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I followed the link from your user page to the urbandictionary definition of your user name. I must say your choice of user name does not seem to be something to brag about, and it puts all your edit warring in a brand new perspective. Victor Victoria ( talk) 17:53, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Wikidemon, thank you for your comments and offer of help. I agree that my article links do need to be made into full citations. I'm trying to learn how to create full citations...and would appreciate it, if in this instance, you were able to create the citations. Also, I mentioned this site and article >( http://www.spectacle.org/1109/craig.html) as being a possible reference source. This site is not a blog, and has been publishing monthly for 15 years. I will paste below, information I just received from the site owner/article author, and ask for your opinion on whether this source can or should be used as a source. Would it be helpful to post this 'article and site source' information on the discussion page?
My site is conceived like a monthly magazine on the web, hence an "ezine", which at this point is something of an antiquated term. The mission statement is here:
http://www.spectacle.org/mission.html
Here are some guidelines for people who want to write for the Spectacle:
http://www.spectacle.org/write.html
Material I have posted on the site has been assigned by teachers and used by students in research papers:
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html
The monthly letters column indicates that I have a readership who responds to articles in the Spectacle:
http://www.spectacle.org/0910/letters.html
The Ethical Spectacle was a plaintiff in the ACLU litigation which resulted in the Communications Decency Act being held unconstitutional:
http://www.spectacle.org/cda/cdamn.html
(this information was emailed to me today 09/16/2010, by site owner and article author, Jonathan Wallace) Wikirjd7 ( talk) 14:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I attempted to convert my edits links to full citations, I could not succeed. Would you please make the citations. (note: I will post this same info on the discussion page also) Below are the sentences I added and the details of their reference:
1. "Classified ad flagging does not require account log in or registration, and can be made anonymously by any visitor". ref name="faq000" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#000 ) (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
2. "The number of flaggings required for a posting's removal is variable and remains unknown to all but craigslist.org". ref name="faq000" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#000 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
3. "Flaggings can also occur as acts of disruptive vandalism and for the removal of competitors postings". ref name="faq000" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#000 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
4. "The Flag Help Forum is an unmoderated volunteer community, it is not staffed by craigslist employees, and it is not affiliated with craigslist.org". http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#volunteers (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( article title = " Volunteers " )( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
5. "The forum volunteers have no access to information about craigslist.org user accounts or ads, and must rely upon information supplied by the ad poster to try and piece together the reason an ad was flagged and removed". ref name="faq001" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#001 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
6. "The Flag Help Forum's unmoderated format allows anyone, including disruptive trolls, to post anonymously and without accountability". http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#Unmoderated (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( article title = " Unmoderated " )( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
7. "The forums usefulness and effectiveness can be compromised by trolls who post malicious replies to help threads". ref name="faq001" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#001 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
Thank you very much for taking your time and effort to help me with these citations. Ron Wikirjd7 ( talk) 12:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Re this edit, it is normal to endorse one's own view. I've added a section to the bottom of that post for endorsers to sign. Mjroots ( talk) 20:11, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Wikidemon, you are cordially invited to participate in mediation here. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 00:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:53, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Your deletion of my edit of the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary thread was absolutely baseless. 76.168.205.230 ( talk) 04:51, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
That's unfair and wrong. I directly quoted her and didn't characterize her statements in my edit. Just because I'm characterizing them on your talk page doesn't mean I did anything wrong in my edit. I'm going to put the quote back in. 76.168.205.230 ( talk) 18:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Plan on responding anytime soon? Wikifan12345 ( talk) 00:39, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
further to our talks on List of Jewish actors I've started a debate on altering WP:BLP to clarify how we handle sources that identify someone as Jewish please have a look and weigh in on either side of the fence. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 20:29, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I've explained my edit to the policy at Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons#Non-English_sources_and_BLP_.28foreign_language_sources.29. Perhaps you could devise a better method of avoiding sources which cannot actually be verified without considerable difficulty. Peter Karlsen ( talk) 07:48, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
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Sorry for the canned message; first time using twinkle (I will definitely write notifications by hand in the future). But I am concerned that Gamification and Funware are neologisms that aren't sufficiently established words.-- Anthonzi ( talk) 11:21, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
This is just to point out that I've responded to your point about recusals on the requests for clarification page. I also appreciated your contribution on the merits of the issue. Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 16:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I am not trying to add content that isn't true or supported, for example see craigslist and manhunt.net i have added a lot more sources, also you seem to know a lot here. how can i find more sources for dudesnude or do i have enough at this point? Hemanetwork ( talk) 01:43, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
You asked me to get a hold of you if there were issues with my article; if you have a chance to look at it, it seems to have gotten quite a bit out of date, especially since the majority of my RS press coverage has been in the last fifteen months, and it doesn't reflect my current job. (It's a bit embarrassing to be introduced as a speaker and have to correct the person who introduced me because they relied on an inaccurate Wikipedia article.) The CCAF article could also use updating. A handy-dandy index of recent sources can be found here. Thanks. THF ( talk) 20:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Dear Wikideamon, you wrote, "Reverting something as vandalism or with no explanation at all is not the same as declining a request. It's actually not much of anything. I would tend to summarily undo an unexplained revert of a viable edit I had made, if I didn't notice it came from an administrator or established editor, and I would be piqued if they made block threats or filed AN/I reports over it before trying to discuss - that looks a bit tendentious."
WD, saw your message to Mkativerata, I agree wholeheartedly. It will probably be 36 hours minimum before I'd have time to write up a deletion review request, so if you want to take the lead I support you in it. It's worth using google books to identify passages from both the sources we've given already and other sources that show how notable this intersection is. I notice that there is a lot of coverage on acting restrictions in Nazi Germany, and in the USSR as well as how even Hollywood would not give non-Jewish roles to Jewish actors - prompting name changes and even plastic surgery. This led to the creation of the stereotypical "Jewish Character" as portrayed by Jewish Actors. In fact, considering the ammount of material we could create a Secular Jewish acting article and use it to justify the existence of a list of proponents. Just some things to consider. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 03:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing it with Obama. I can't believe Tarc wants no mention of the midterm. Nobody is saying the Obama or Boehner is bad or good. But to not have that and having comments about the Chicago White Sox and Obama's 2005 first pitch is really bad writing. Thanks to you, it is fixed.
I think the term "shallacking" is worth mentioning but it is less important that mention of the midterm election. It's one of those words that is never used but a president suddenly brings it to the spotlight. Just like Obama's "teachable moment". MVOO ( talk) 20:10, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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When you posted this comment on TALK:List of Jewish actors, you seemed to have the right idea about how that list is patently unencyclopedic. Why the complete 180 reversal on the AfD when the opportunity to make a new, better list finally presented itself? Bulldog123 19:10, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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-- Kumioko ( talk) 02:55, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm the kind of chap who enjoys discussing things for the sake of it - I'd like to take you up on the discussion as to whether the penis guy's remark was anti semitic, but purely as a platonic, theoretical, head in the sky (and of no relevance to the wiki discussion) sort of debate, if you're interested? If not obviously no pressure, it would just be a fun discussion and I can see why it may not appeal! Egg Centric ( talk) 19:04, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Is the article [18] better now? Someone65 ( talk) 07:47, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
From your ES I gather that Righthaven LLC was deleted for some reason and then re-created by you. Is that the case? What happened? My vague recollection of the article is that it had some important information that's not in the current version, but I'm not certain, because some of the information that I'm remembering is in Democratic Underground#Copyright infringement lawsuit. Thanks for any light you can shed. JamesMLane t c 04:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
An IP editor has been aggressively/passionately arguing for an addition to Health care reform in the United States about how the individual mandate is a bill of attainder which is apparently illegal. The IP editor tried to edit war in the addition then went to the talk page to continually push the point. I and another editor asked the IP editor to provide sources for the criticism so we could work on it and see if it should be added, but all we got continually were law excerpts, supreme court rulings, etc not directly on the bill from the IP editor with his/her interpretations of those excerpts. When the IP editor did finally proved a good source, we wanted to see if we could write something, but the IP editor reverted back to their previous pattern of excerpt quotes and interpretations.
I was hoping for a couple more eyes on the situation so that something good can come of this because I'm getting to my wits end and I don't have the time for the continual back and forth. Like I stated on the talk page, if it can be neutrally written, then it should be added.
Thanks for taking a look. Brothejr ( talk) 16:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Wikidemon, I've been casually stalking you for about 2 years ago. I forget where we first ran into one another, but I remembered thinking that you would make a great Admin. I considered nominating you at the time, but upon reviewing your edit history decided that 2008 around the elections was probably not the right time. You were embroiled in numerous articles where the flames were burning bright. I thought you did a good job navigating those flames, but knew that if you ran (at that time) that people who disagreed with you would oppose on political grounds rather than based upon what you bring to the project. Since then, I've paid some attention to you and have often considered asking you if you would be interested in running for adminship? This is not a solid offer to nominate you (I'd want to dig around your history some more) but if you are interested I'd be willing to take a closer look at you. If you are interested, are there any specific concerns/issues that you fear might doom such a nomination? Also, it should be noted, that politically, you and I are probably about as far apart as we can get... but that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate what you bring to the table. If you're interested, let me know, I'll be watching your page.--- Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 08:22, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Now that there seems to be more open communication between us.... Would you be willing to answer this question I posted on your talk page a while back? I'm not trying to re-hash old topics but I am incredibly curious why the 180 reversal from holding the same position that I had about the unencyclopedicness of that list to !voting keep on the AfD (an AfD that would have sparked another list and solved the problem in one fellow swoop)? You may noticed that ever since the AfD, that Jewish actors list has just gotten worse, and I doubt it's going to get any better without instigating an edit war (which I'm clearly not willing to do now). Bulldog123 02:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Undulatus asperatus is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Undulatus asperatus until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
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Hey Wikidemon, please see my response to IP 78...; I think it addresses your point as well. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 20:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Is someone - just not Ratel? The bit about "attack Collect" is troubling - as that was one of Ratel's favourite diversions. Ah well -- posted all the BLP/N prior discussions there and hope others note all this. Cheers. Collect ( talk) 22:46, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
I've made some comments about injun at Talk:Native_American_name_controversy#Re-opening_the_discussion_on_.22Injun.22 -- Evertype· ✆ 08:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wikidemon. I am curious as to why you made this edit, with the edit summary stating "horse = dead, put down the stick. Seiously, what happened is they circulated false rumors. The rest is an argument, not what they did.". This section came to my attention when an anon ip made this edit, changing "false" to "skeptical". I noticed the "vague" tag and looked at the source provided to see how I could clear up any vagueness. I made this edit, partially and directly quoting the source. Fat&Happy cleaned it up a bit and inserted an access date, which you also removed. I do see that you then restored a portion of the specifics, but left the "vague" tag. So in essence, you've restored the "vague" tag while removing the recent access date and partial quote from the source. Now, I know you're a sharp fellow, but just what is the point here? The paragraph was not very large, especially considering the following paragraph concerning Jim Geraghty, which is more than twice as large. Dave Dial ( talk) 03:56, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
please don't do this. [19]. I will remove one more time (and if I don't others surely will),, but please do heed my request and note the article probation notice on top of the article talk page. In case you do not know, this article is watched and edited by many editors who have worked bY consensuS regarding article contents Tags like that degrade the article without encouraging consensus or even letting others know what your issue is Again, if you have any issues to discuss about the article please use the associated talk page. Thx, Wikidemon ( talk) 02:10, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
I have responded to you here. Thank you. Bus stop ( talk) 15:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi if you feel compelled to delete ALL of my refs and work maybe you could show some common courtesy to post on the talk page to find out your opinions on what you will compromise on and what is relevant to the article.-- R. Mutt 1917 Talk 02:50, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
What makes the mention of NPR not notable? Numerous birther websites are citing NPR's gaffe as fuel for their claims. I don't see it being irrelevant. Efcmagnew ( talk) 01:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Heh. I take out 3K characters, and you put back 34. I'm winning.
Good putback, but I'm expecting to hear from various irate Celts. PhGustaf ( talk) 03:13, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
...I mentioned you here [22] Writegeist ( talk) 20:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
The Tavern on The Green is mentioned in Mr Popper's Penguins. I don't know how to add it, but I noticed you had worked on the article. Just an FYI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.133.37 ( talk) 08:25, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I like your initiative in striking comments by a banned user. That said, I request you make an annotation next to each strike you make so that it is clear why the edits were struck (particularly if the discussion is reviewed in the future, or a small section is reviewed by a newer editor who assumes either the editor struck themselves or that a mistake was made). Particularly in the future, chances are your edit-summary will be missed. Regards, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 11:55, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time and striking Chester's comments on the abortion talk page. That must have been tedious. Out of curiosity, what exactly is the difference between a sockpuupet and a sockpuppet? No good deed goes unpunished:) ArtifexMayhem ( talk) 19:18, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
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I saw your 05:29, 2 July 2011 (UTC) comment at WP:AN/I and wanted to respond to points you raised about my actions and this essay. Please be aware that I haven't taken these edits up recently. In fact, I've been doing it for some years now, and have done more than 3,000 of them. I will continue to do them, as they are in line with policy. If that alienates the community, it's unfortunate but not of a concern to me. There are plenty of people here who hate me and I really don't care. I'm not here to be liked. The community's wishes are expressed through policy and guideline. That is what I follow. That some people get upset about NFCC application is unfortunate, but it doesn't change those policies and guidelines. If one or more people want to see 10c changed/removed, they are welcome to start a proposal at WT:NFC.
I developed the essay because quite a number of people respond to 10c removals in consistent ways. That a number of people respond in such ways does not make them right. I am far from alone in responding to people who raise these complaints. It has become highly repetitive to respond to these complaints. Thus, the essay as an attempt to answer common complaints. It's really no different in intent than WP:FIXNF. It's a standard set of responses to a standard set of complaints. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:04, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
You need to stop reverting my edits without fixing the problem. ΔT The only constant 04:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wikidemon - this suggestion may be of interest to you: Wikipedia talk:Article Incubator/Climategate#Transwiki to Greenlivingpedia?-- Chriswaterguy talk 16:23, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Wikidemon. Thanks for trying to add the missing rationale for the use of this file at Coat of arms of Newport. However, the rationale you added was not appropriate for this particular usage and so I have amended it by adding a custom explanation of the purpose of use. I realise that it is time consuming to write custom rationales but often the available boilerplate rationales are inadequate or (as in this case) irrelevant. Good fair use rationales are an essential aid for small-scale content re-users when deciding on the usability of an article containing non-free content. If you have any problem with my change to the rationale you added, please let me know. CIreland ( talk) 04:01, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
I have already removed the files from those pages, as the image was being used as a decorative icon- clearly not a suitable use for a non-free image. There's no point leaving the rationales on the page- at best this is confusing, at worst, downright misleading, as it implies that a usage on those articles is acceptable. J Milburn ( talk) 14:30, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Right, so far as I can see, you're literally stalking me now, and that's not cool, at all. You don't get/don't like the NFCC. That's fine; I'm willing to sit here and explain it to you. Following me to other articles to force non-free content in is simply not acceptable. If you genuinely want me to explain why you're wrong, I will, but I will not tolerate that. J Milburn ( talk) 20:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
...choose a place, and go. I'm not interested in arguing about who's edit warring, I'm not interested in repeatedly telling you that the burden of proof lies with you, I'm not interested in whose side I'm on. Let's just discuss the flaming images. J Milburn ( talk) 21:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Wikidemon --
I have responded to your post at WP:VPP regarding "In popular culture" sections, and would appreciate it if you would consider looking over my response and looking at my proposal again. I think we are mostly in agreement, judging by your Periodic table vs. Santa Claus example, but for some reason you stated that you oppose my proposal. I think you have perhaps been misinformed by the repeated misrepresentations of my proposal by several users (who claim that I am "OMFG TRYING TO REMOVE ALL POPULAR CULTURE SECTIONS!!!"), rather than responding based on an analysis of my actual proposal which suggests nothing of the sort.
My proposal aims to do exactly what you have suggested: Include high-quality "Cultural significance"/"In popular culture" sections for articles like Santa Claus or Zombie or Samurai that have had a significant cultural impact, while removing trivial pop-culture references from articles like Periodic table. Tempers are flaring over my proposal, but I'm respectfully asking that you calmly revisit my suggested amendment to WP:INDISCRIMINATE and consider whether or not it would have the effect of promoting the type of content you wish to promote, while removing the type of content you think does not belong in our articles.
Thank you, and warm regards. ~ Mesoderm ( talk) 01:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
The non-free image File:Wilson The Volleyball.jpg was recently restored to Wilson Sporting Goods by you after it have been removed for failure of our non-free content criteria policy, specifically item #10c which requires a "separate, specific non-free use rationale for each use of the item". The image still fails the 10c policy requirement and has been removed from the article again. Please do not restore this image to that article again without complying with the requirements of that policy. For more information on how to write an appropriate non-free use rationale, please consult Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. If you have questions about this, please ask. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 13:03, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
And to this edit summary; no it isn't obviously free. Rather the opposite, as it it a screenshot from the movie. Clearly copyrighted. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 14:23, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
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Right on. How the Prime Minister of Hungary would not be notable is a mystery to me. Drmies ( talk) 04:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for adding sources in the current unfortunate situation, but when you do, don't forgetto remove the unref tag--and if you add only a single source, it is probably good to place a refimprove tag--at leas tthat is what I have been doing. DGG ( talk ) 10:20, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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an olympic medallist for f**k's sake
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Please see here, Unitanode has created an account and is mass prodding under that account here Off2riorob ( talk) 00:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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For your template at {{ Unsourced BLP flagged}}, a brilliant suggestion for the BLP issue - it's a shame it's not getting more attention. Ray Talk 05:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC) |
If I could distract you just for a moment from all this excitement at BLP, I was wondering if you could give an opinion on this discussion at FFD. Headshots of three Playboy centrefold models (now all deceased), used to show what as subjects of their articles they looked like. Does the fact that the same headshots are used in the guide to its former centrefolds on Playboy's own site represent an unconquerable barrier to our claiming fair use? Jheald ( talk) 21:17, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Lulu has made reverts without joining our discussion on the talk page -- I've invited Lulu to participate (see my revert notes and the discussion page). Unilateral reverts absent any dialogue after repeated attempts to begin a discussion are evidence of POV editing in my opinion. Thanks.
Lordvolton ( talk) 23:16, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Despite my best efforts to create a dialogue an "anonymous" editor just reverted again. The ip address is 149.77.52.78 I've left a note on Lulu's page asking them to please participate in the dialogue which doesn't seem to be an option being embraced by the editors.
Please advise. =-)
Lordvolton ( talk) 23:38, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
In case no one has said this to you before, thanks for stopping by
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people, which will delete the vast majority of 50,000 articles created by 17,400 editors, mostly new editors. "The key word is "draconian" - we should have an orderly, organized, agreed-to improvement-and-deletion campaign." So true!
Ikip 01:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
RE:
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Mass-prodding It is obvious this editor is not listening. There is always RFC. I would happily co-sponsor, but not write.
Ikip
04:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, please take a look at this... could you pop by there and explain what is going on, please? Edit warring is not acceptable, nor is reinserting unsourced material. Thanks. ++ Lar: t/ c 17:16, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Your analysis on facts versus historical opinion is well thought of. In contrast, others accuse me of all kinds of things. Keep on writing good comments, not like those non-helpful editors. JB50000 ( talk) 08:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Just thought you may want to know, an alternate account deleted my poorly worded invitation on your talk page. Some editors disagreed about these deletions. [1] and also went to ANI about it.
I actually appreciate this deletion because I completely rewrote the template. The template was inviting you here: here.
Best wishes with the controversies above, you seem to be holding your own. :) Let me know if I can help you in anyway. Ikip 04:25, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
For some reason the bot did not get the redirects. I cleaned those up and the category is now deleted. Vegaswikian ( talk) 08:12, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Any objections to deleting this one? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:33, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Are you saying that it should be included in the Obama article? I think that eventually it should but fighting is so bad there that I won't touch it for now and it's not that critical if the article waits a few weeks to cover current events. However, some do put in current events even not so notable ones. JB50000 ( talk) 05:06, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
...at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Compromise.3F. Hat's off to you for that. Hopefully everything will be smoother going forward. If I can help please let me know. ++ Lar: t/ c 14:51, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
RE: Wikipedia_talk:RFC/BLP#Moment_Please.21 and your comment. [2]
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User:PeterbrownDancin is now an indefinitely banned confirmed strawman sockpuppet, we will never know for sure if he was part of yet another "experimental breach" of unreferenced biographies of living people.
Okip BLP Contest 07:49, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I've replied to your message. Minima c ( talk) 08:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you have edited the Barack Obama article and I want to invite your feedback on this draft article on the international media reaction to Barack Obama's 2008 election. Please note that images are available to improve the article's look and will be added once the page is published. Please leave comments on the draft's discussion page. Thank you! -- Amandaroyal ( talk) 20:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Admitting you're wrong was very helpful to me. Saw it in your contribution history. Hipocrite ( talk) 09:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
For your help digesting the ANi nonsense. What was never mentioned is that porn companies, as a rule, don't seem to advertize outside their established delivery routes or their customer bases, I rarely see it except adverts for special events and even then .. they're just porn stars. Wikipedia would be a colossal waste of time for promotion. Even the porn stars themselves usually catch on that only the dry version of their bio might be kept. In any case I appreciate the common sense. -- Banjeboi 01:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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I am informing you that I have filed a WP:SPI case which indirectly involves you here. DD2K ( talk) 22:19, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
(I was considering nominating an article you created, List of chefs, for deletion for reasons I explained there on the talk page... basically that such a list is inevitably either indiscriminate, incomplete, or over-large and can best be done as a category. As a courtesy I'm just notifying you instead in case you have other ideas or a suggestion for how to improve it. If the redlinks are serving as a pointer to articles that could be created, perhaps that is best put in Wikipedia space, e.g. in a wikiproject list of articles to create. Cheers, - Wikidemon (talk) 08:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC))
I saw your comments regarding "broke the bank" and wanted to note that I have been "fighting" a formulation regarding the mention of Bill O'Reilly. It is clear that the segment "Political donations and activism" is similarly vulnerable to "spin" and that choice of words matters. What I react to is the formulation "Commentator Bill O'Reilly accused Soros of funding the self-described progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America." On the surface, this may seem OK, but I believe it gives O'Reilly undu weight and that the section would be better stated as "Soros is also thought to be connected to the self-described progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America". I have written my opinions about this on the discussion page.
I would be interested to hear your opinion on the "O'Reilly" edit wars. Johnfravolda ( talk) 18:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm back. For almost two months, I was on what the Aussies might call a "walkabout" with some old college buddies, except I was using a car and I was in North America. Far too busy, having too much fun, and getting Internet access that was too sporadic to do much here. Then when I got back, for a month I was catching up at work. Now I'm back at Wikipedia. Let's continue working together to make it a better encyclopedia. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 13:40, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
What was this about? [3] -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 04:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
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This was removed as a BLP violation - please don't restore it.-- Scott Mac (Doc) 13:29, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I admire you for trying to archive what has essentially become a one man soapbox, but if Jimbo is content to let it continue, I say let it. I think any reasonable person would come away from reading that with the same opinion I have of RicoCorinth, so let him keep at it. Personally, I think as long as he's on Jimbo's page, he's staying out of the encyclopedia. I'm pretty sure that's not a bad thing. AniMate 05:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Discussions have been conclusive in the past for the 1 tiny bit of information I included in the article. The information I included is sourced, and I've even made a new talk page point (which no one has responded to). I should not be the one punished here. -- Erroneuz1 ( talk) 18:51, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Good move restoring the RS material at Revolution Muslim.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 00:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You mentioned at the CS AN/I that you had not looked into the claim that CS is being disingenuous about what happened. I think the diffs are there for you to see, if you want to, and I can put them together for you. But the bottom of the Neutral discussion spells out one related recent example rather clearly. AGF is an assumption. It is rebuttable, by the editor's statements and actions. And this AN/I is replete with such statements and actions. This is not just a bad block. But a horrid block made with forethought, knowing it was a bad block (and ban) as evidenced by his statement the day prior, where the blocker had just been criticized, where the blocker does not now admit it was bad, where CS refuses as well to commit to comply with wp:admin and wp's consensus policy, where CS has in the past admitted to volitionally violating the block policy. That's why that is not enough. I didn't even initially ask that he be desysopped. But after all the discussion and input from many editors, for his reactions to be: a) duplicity, and b) refusal to abide by policy, drives me to support the Jclemens suggestion. Perhaps you missed, but he doesn't agree to abide by policy. He doesn't agree to honor consensus. In fact, as you can see from the AN/I discussion's first post, it was exactly that which led to the volatile edit warring that he engaged in at that article. This is outrageous behavior -- and if a cop were to pummel you over the head for crossing at a yellow light, lie, and then refuse to agree to abide by the yellow light law ... I don't think that you would say, let's give him his billy club and put him back on the street. It's outrageous behavior, not a speeding ticket, and his sysop powers are not as necessary to his continued livlihood as his driver license might be.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 06:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
You might want to weigh in here. -- causa sui ( talk) 15:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
The RfC hasn't been open for 8 days. They are typically open for 30 days. Declaring a consensus this early is premature especially given the number of opposes in the last few days. - Atmoz ( talk) 19:26, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Wikidemon, please see my last question on Talk:AA. I think my proposal is a satisfactory, middle-ground solution. With better oversight by a responsible admin, I think the article will be unlocked in a matter of days. Greg L ( talk) 22:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
You said:
You might want to qualify that a bit - Risker is a fine administrator and capable editor, just doesn't seem to have full support in policy or by the community in this one case :) - Wikidemon ( talk) 22:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
It's really amazing to me that we haven't learned anything yet. Anyone who opposes Greg L ( talk · contribs)'s ideas about how this article should be edited will be met with bald reverting, not to mention pages of ad-hominems on the talk page: and if they use sysop tools to prevent that, they'll be met with accusations of misuse of sysop tools. It was me before and Risker is next. If Risker is dragged through the same kind of business as I was, do you think any more sysops will be willing to come near this thing? Why is it that this kind of aggressively hostile editing practice is tolerated at all? -- causa sui ( talk) 15:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Regarding this edit that you made a few days ago...
Hi to you too!
Captain Lance Murdoch ( talk) 03:28, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about the confusion. I fixed the title problem and the format effects. -- William S. Saturn ( talk) 22:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on that page!-- Dark Charles ( talk) 02:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I thought you might want to know I've opened a thread concerning you at WP:AN/I#Wikidemon, WP:V and WP:BLP. Jayjg (talk) 01:21, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
to the other issue you were involved in is this one.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 07:44, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
I saw an ad for the book in the New Yorker, and having felt annoyed that the attack book Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation had gotten enough media attention to warrant an article (whoops, there go my politics), i wanted to create this one to be fair (not that one couldnt write a cogent critique of our president). thanks for creating it. i think books are underrepresented on WP, compared to tv shows and music recordings. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 15:54, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Please do not
delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at
List of Jewish actors. Thank you.
Jayjg
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12:07, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
I agree that the nominations were of dubious faith in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreyer Farms (2nd nomination) and the first nomination a day before. However, in each case, there were other recommendations to delete the article from good faith editors. Based on that, how is the nomination subject to a close as a speedy keep? The second criterion doesn't seem to apply because of the second part of it, "and nobody unrelated recommends deleting it (since calling a nomination vandalism does not make it so, and vandals can be correct)." — C.Fred ( talk) 13:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we usually only link to a few "official" websites, not every one that is affiliated with the company. I believe there is a consensus for doing so with respect to our external links guidelines, especially since most of these "official" links are not about the subject of the article at all, they are just websites that are owned by the subject. Please reconsider reverting to my cleanup of this section. Them From Space 20:28, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
May I ask why you thought that removing {{ not a ballot}} and {{ spa}} was a bright idea? What do you think those tags are for? And moving to an inconspicuous location, without leaving a reference, a note that there's sockpuppetry involved? You thought that was appropriate? Please think before you do these things! ╟─ Treasury Tag► high seas─╢ 17:01, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. Since I mentioned your name/activity at this AN/I (regarding another editor), I thought I should pay you the courtesy of letting you know. Best.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 21:33, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your edit. I believe there needs to be a civil rights section in the article, especially in light of the Arizona controversy. Why doesn't the Gates arrest controversy civil rights? Cmguy777 ( talk) 02:35, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Someone is vandalizing the Presidency of Barack Obama. Help! Cmguy777 ( talk) 02:47, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
On their website the organization title is given as Marines' with the possessive. Is there a reason why the current article isn't so titled? BrokenSphere Msg me 03:28, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
As per your advice, "stereotypical" has been changed to "popular" which works much better. Thanks Hotcop2 ( talk) 13:09, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, old friend. I hope this finds you well. There's a rather heated discussion at ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy regarding an editorial by a Mr. Grenell. Please drop in and take a look at it. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 15:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Wikidemon, just wanted to say thanks for posting your perception of consensus and your salient position on the matter here. You helped bring a little sanity to the situation after my frustration with a sock showing up. Also, thanks for the "silliness" redacting and for trying to keep things focused. Regards, AzureCitizen ( talk) 15:39, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
This is exactly how we should be dealing with this stuff. The excessive use of sarcastic and demeaning hats is not constructive.-- William S. Saturn ( talk) 07:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello there, Wikidemon. There was a recent discussion at WP:ANI regarding the systematic removal of Media Matters for America as a reliable source. I've started an RfC regarding MMfA, Media Research Center, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, Newsbusters etc. at Wikipedia: Identifying reliable sources. Some of us believe that these hyperpartisan sources should never be used as factual sources at Wikipedia, due to their tendency to selective edit facts. Please participate in this important discussion, concerning one of Wikipedia's most fundamental editing policies, on the Reliable Sources Talk page here. Skoal. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 14:10, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hi there! I'm gonna pack my bags and FLY ( talk) 10:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
–Jimmy Wales Wikipedia is private property that calls itself the open source encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The only real reason I was banned was to prevent me from adding true, well sourced info that was critical of Obama. NPOV states, "All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. This is non-negotiable and expected of all articles and all editors." I would also like to point out this ARBCOM ruling: "Removal of sourced edits made in a neutral narrative is disruptive" "8) It is disruptive to remove statements that are sourced reliably, written in a neutral narrative, and pertain to the subject at hand." "Passed 5 to 0 at 05:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)" When I add true, well sourced, relevant info, I am committing a " victimless crime," which, as a libertarian, is something that I think should be allowed. Mr. Howell's teddy bear ( talk) 05:25, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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Do not comment on my talk page either refute what I said or leave it alone.
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Please note that you have made three reversions today at Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. Any further revisions within a 24-hour period will put you in violation of the WP:3RR policy and may well lead to your account being blocked to prevent disruption to the article. Also, note that you have been edit-warring over this section of the article for a few days. 3RR is not an entitlement to edit war, and the article is (along with others) on "article probation" (see Talk:Barack Obama/Article probation, as referenced in the article's talk page), which all means that the account may be blocked for continuing disruption even without a 3RR violation. I will be reverting this edit [6], and also making a change to your latest attempt to change the language with respect to the passage of the Arizona birther bill. If you wish to make changes that other editors disagree with, please use the article talk page rather than edit warring. Thanks. (Wikidemon)
Hi. I value your unbiased judgement and wonder if you'd be interested to chime in with an opinion on my posting of a question on the RS noticeboard here. In either case--that is, whether or not this question intrigues you enough for you to comment--I appreciate your consideration of my request; thanks.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 17:41, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
...a third person to necessarily agree with Jarhed or with me. Maybe they would come up with something in between? or even take a fresh tack altogether? Or maybe one or the other or both of our approaches would be critiqued, aside from the merits of the particular edits under discussion? Or maybe the question is just too boring to comment on? or the discussion too wp:TLDR??
In any case, since my request of you, above, a noticeboard discussion has ensued (that is, sort of ensued; archived here: wp:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 72#New Communities, Inc., and the CMT movement); but, even in this additional forum, after my co-disputant and I presented our views, not one additional Wikipedian volunteered any tie-breaking opinion. Then, my co-disputant also requested help at Editorial Assistance Requests here: wp:Editor assistance/Requests#Requesting advice on BLP, CITE and PROMOTION problems on article--and this also to no avail!
The disagreement is about whether a local weekly newspaper with editorial oversight can be used as a source for the assertion that Shirley Sherrod was a land collective activist who co-founded New Communities collective farm in 1969.
Too frickin boring?-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 03:10, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
The current Climate change case has not been accepting evidence for a while, so I've removed your submission. If you would like to submit evidence, participants have been asked by the arbs to first inquire on the talk page as to whether or not it is desired. That being said, the Committee has been working on the Proposed decision and is unlikely to require or desire new evidence, especially when the Committee is aware of the situation. Thanks, ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 13:21, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
I have another little problem and I'd appreciate your attention. You've been very objective in the past. On the Ugg boots article (and related articles), we have a bunch of Australian editors (led by an Australian administrator) who are engaged in the following editing pattern:
To explain all the legal terminology, they're trying to define "ugg boots" as a generic term, rather than a trademark. They want these articles to talk at great length about the one or two court cases where this strategy was successful, and exclude and delete the many, many cases (in both courts and arbitration) where the same "generic term" defense strategy was a miserable failure.
If they want to talk about a "generic term," they have to take the bad with the good. I started a "request for comment" on the Talk page. Please comment there. Thanks. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 15:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
<smiles> -- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 17:23, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
For your comments at ANI during the recent kerfuffle in particular William M. Connolley ( talk) 09:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I thought there was breaking news about the hitherto-unknown fact that his parents had sent him to Culver Military Academy as a child. ;-) Flatterworld ( talk) 21:53, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Demon, I'm puzzled by this comment of yours. I think that the particular "editor in good standing" to whom you refer is me. If so, I thank you for regarding me as being in good standing, and for saying that I asked my question fairly. But I don't know in what sense I asked it aggressively.
Perhaps you also refer to me when you talk of "an experienced editor [who] edit wars the talk page on the side of the provocation", and if so I invite you either to retract your charge of edit warring or to take the charge to WP:AN or wherever.
I am well aware that the IP who raised this point (or non-point) has been a pain (and I recently deleted at least one of his posts myself), and that he continues to be a pain. However, couched within the aggrieved tone and bluster is what I see as a reasonable if very minor point. (He appears to want to construct a little edifice of OS on this very minor point, but that's a separate matter.) I remain open to argument that I am wrong about this. I trust that others, too, remain open to argument, tiresome though such argument undoubtedly is. -- Hoary ( talk) 13:02, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed an edit for the mainspace of an important Wikipedia policy, the Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources policy. Essentially, I believe that some sources are so partisan that using them as "reliable sources" invites more problems than they're really worth. You've previously participated in the RfC on this subject, or another related discussion indicating that you are interested in this important policy area. Please indicate here whether you support or oppose the proposed edit. The original discussion is here. Thanks. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 01:54, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
My goal was to be clear, and I have obviously failed to meet that goal. Your comment seems like good advice if I were simply proposing to modify the existing GS/CC/RE process. Obviously, ArbCom is stepping in an going to impose something. They have proposed something. This discussion is a proposal for a minor modification of the ArbCom process, which would , if approved completely replace the GS/CC/RE. Yes, I agree it would be good to get arb input - I just added a link so they know this discussion exists. (I had begun the discussion on the PD page, but met some resistance - in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have caved and moved the discussion to the GS/CC/RE talk page quite so quickly.)-- SPhilbrick T 14:40, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
The lede looks much better, thanks! Do you think the issues (personal reflection, sourcing, etc) still apply? I'm wondering how to improve the Semantic Web article. Aside from possibly breaking out the list of projects into a separate article (do you think it's sufficiently notable for that?) I don't know what to do next. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 11:24, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
What's your rationale behind [12]? I have provided rationale behind every one of my edits [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]. Now it's your turn. Victor Victoria ( talk) 03:58, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
By reverting 5 of my edits w/o giving a detailed explanation for each one, you were essentially being a revert ninja. All you stated in your edit summary is that you don't like red links, but Wikipedia policy encourages good redlinks. Victor Victoria ( talk) 15:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I followed the link from your user page to the urbandictionary definition of your user name. I must say your choice of user name does not seem to be something to brag about, and it puts all your edit warring in a brand new perspective. Victor Victoria ( talk) 17:53, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Wikidemon, thank you for your comments and offer of help. I agree that my article links do need to be made into full citations. I'm trying to learn how to create full citations...and would appreciate it, if in this instance, you were able to create the citations. Also, I mentioned this site and article >( http://www.spectacle.org/1109/craig.html) as being a possible reference source. This site is not a blog, and has been publishing monthly for 15 years. I will paste below, information I just received from the site owner/article author, and ask for your opinion on whether this source can or should be used as a source. Would it be helpful to post this 'article and site source' information on the discussion page?
My site is conceived like a monthly magazine on the web, hence an "ezine", which at this point is something of an antiquated term. The mission statement is here:
http://www.spectacle.org/mission.html
Here are some guidelines for people who want to write for the Spectacle:
http://www.spectacle.org/write.html
Material I have posted on the site has been assigned by teachers and used by students in research papers:
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html
The monthly letters column indicates that I have a readership who responds to articles in the Spectacle:
http://www.spectacle.org/0910/letters.html
The Ethical Spectacle was a plaintiff in the ACLU litigation which resulted in the Communications Decency Act being held unconstitutional:
http://www.spectacle.org/cda/cdamn.html
(this information was emailed to me today 09/16/2010, by site owner and article author, Jonathan Wallace) Wikirjd7 ( talk) 14:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I attempted to convert my edits links to full citations, I could not succeed. Would you please make the citations. (note: I will post this same info on the discussion page also) Below are the sentences I added and the details of their reference:
1. "Classified ad flagging does not require account log in or registration, and can be made anonymously by any visitor". ref name="faq000" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#000 ) (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
2. "The number of flaggings required for a posting's removal is variable and remains unknown to all but craigslist.org". ref name="faq000" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#000 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
3. "Flaggings can also occur as acts of disruptive vandalism and for the removal of competitors postings". ref name="faq000" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#000 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
4. "The Flag Help Forum is an unmoderated volunteer community, it is not staffed by craigslist employees, and it is not affiliated with craigslist.org". http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#volunteers (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( article title = " Volunteers " )( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
5. "The forum volunteers have no access to information about craigslist.org user accounts or ads, and must rely upon information supplied by the ad poster to try and piece together the reason an ad was flagged and removed". ref name="faq001" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#001 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
6. "The Flag Help Forum's unmoderated format allows anyone, including disruptive trolls, to post anonymously and without accountability". http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#Unmoderated (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( article title = " Unmoderated " )( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
7. "The forums usefulness and effectiveness can be compromised by trolls who post malicious replies to help threads". ref name="faq001" http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm#001 (web site = " Unofficial Flag FAQ " ) ( name of authors = " craigslist users " or " Flag Help Forum Volunteers " ) ( Retreived on = 09/15/2010 )
Thank you very much for taking your time and effort to help me with these citations. Ron Wikirjd7 ( talk) 12:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Re this edit, it is normal to endorse one's own view. I've added a section to the bottom of that post for endorsers to sign. Mjroots ( talk) 20:11, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Wikidemon, you are cordially invited to participate in mediation here. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 00:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:53, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Your deletion of my edit of the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary thread was absolutely baseless. 76.168.205.230 ( talk) 04:51, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
That's unfair and wrong. I directly quoted her and didn't characterize her statements in my edit. Just because I'm characterizing them on your talk page doesn't mean I did anything wrong in my edit. I'm going to put the quote back in. 76.168.205.230 ( talk) 18:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Plan on responding anytime soon? Wikifan12345 ( talk) 00:39, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
further to our talks on List of Jewish actors I've started a debate on altering WP:BLP to clarify how we handle sources that identify someone as Jewish please have a look and weigh in on either side of the fence. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 20:29, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I've explained my edit to the policy at Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons#Non-English_sources_and_BLP_.28foreign_language_sources.29. Perhaps you could devise a better method of avoiding sources which cannot actually be verified without considerable difficulty. Peter Karlsen ( talk) 07:48, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
A discussion has begun about whether the article
Gamification, which you created or to which you contributed, should be
deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the
deletion policy.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gamification until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.
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11:06, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for the canned message; first time using twinkle (I will definitely write notifications by hand in the future). But I am concerned that Gamification and Funware are neologisms that aren't sufficiently established words.-- Anthonzi ( talk) 11:21, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
This is just to point out that I've responded to your point about recusals on the requests for clarification page. I also appreciated your contribution on the merits of the issue. Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 16:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I am not trying to add content that isn't true or supported, for example see craigslist and manhunt.net i have added a lot more sources, also you seem to know a lot here. how can i find more sources for dudesnude or do i have enough at this point? Hemanetwork ( talk) 01:43, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
You asked me to get a hold of you if there were issues with my article; if you have a chance to look at it, it seems to have gotten quite a bit out of date, especially since the majority of my RS press coverage has been in the last fifteen months, and it doesn't reflect my current job. (It's a bit embarrassing to be introduced as a speaker and have to correct the person who introduced me because they relied on an inaccurate Wikipedia article.) The CCAF article could also use updating. A handy-dandy index of recent sources can be found here. Thanks. THF ( talk) 20:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Dear Wikideamon, you wrote, "Reverting something as vandalism or with no explanation at all is not the same as declining a request. It's actually not much of anything. I would tend to summarily undo an unexplained revert of a viable edit I had made, if I didn't notice it came from an administrator or established editor, and I would be piqued if they made block threats or filed AN/I reports over it before trying to discuss - that looks a bit tendentious."
WD, saw your message to Mkativerata, I agree wholeheartedly. It will probably be 36 hours minimum before I'd have time to write up a deletion review request, so if you want to take the lead I support you in it. It's worth using google books to identify passages from both the sources we've given already and other sources that show how notable this intersection is. I notice that there is a lot of coverage on acting restrictions in Nazi Germany, and in the USSR as well as how even Hollywood would not give non-Jewish roles to Jewish actors - prompting name changes and even plastic surgery. This led to the creation of the stereotypical "Jewish Character" as portrayed by Jewish Actors. In fact, considering the ammount of material we could create a Secular Jewish acting article and use it to justify the existence of a list of proponents. Just some things to consider. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 03:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing it with Obama. I can't believe Tarc wants no mention of the midterm. Nobody is saying the Obama or Boehner is bad or good. But to not have that and having comments about the Chicago White Sox and Obama's 2005 first pitch is really bad writing. Thanks to you, it is fixed.
I think the term "shallacking" is worth mentioning but it is less important that mention of the midterm election. It's one of those words that is never used but a president suddenly brings it to the spotlight. Just like Obama's "teachable moment". MVOO ( talk) 20:10, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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When you posted this comment on TALK:List of Jewish actors, you seemed to have the right idea about how that list is patently unencyclopedic. Why the complete 180 reversal on the AfD when the opportunity to make a new, better list finally presented itself? Bulldog123 19:10, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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-- Kumioko ( talk) 02:55, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm the kind of chap who enjoys discussing things for the sake of it - I'd like to take you up on the discussion as to whether the penis guy's remark was anti semitic, but purely as a platonic, theoretical, head in the sky (and of no relevance to the wiki discussion) sort of debate, if you're interested? If not obviously no pressure, it would just be a fun discussion and I can see why it may not appeal! Egg Centric ( talk) 19:04, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Is the article [18] better now? Someone65 ( talk) 07:47, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
From your ES I gather that Righthaven LLC was deleted for some reason and then re-created by you. Is that the case? What happened? My vague recollection of the article is that it had some important information that's not in the current version, but I'm not certain, because some of the information that I'm remembering is in Democratic Underground#Copyright infringement lawsuit. Thanks for any light you can shed. JamesMLane t c 04:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
An IP editor has been aggressively/passionately arguing for an addition to Health care reform in the United States about how the individual mandate is a bill of attainder which is apparently illegal. The IP editor tried to edit war in the addition then went to the talk page to continually push the point. I and another editor asked the IP editor to provide sources for the criticism so we could work on it and see if it should be added, but all we got continually were law excerpts, supreme court rulings, etc not directly on the bill from the IP editor with his/her interpretations of those excerpts. When the IP editor did finally proved a good source, we wanted to see if we could write something, but the IP editor reverted back to their previous pattern of excerpt quotes and interpretations.
I was hoping for a couple more eyes on the situation so that something good can come of this because I'm getting to my wits end and I don't have the time for the continual back and forth. Like I stated on the talk page, if it can be neutrally written, then it should be added.
Thanks for taking a look. Brothejr ( talk) 16:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Wikidemon, I've been casually stalking you for about 2 years ago. I forget where we first ran into one another, but I remembered thinking that you would make a great Admin. I considered nominating you at the time, but upon reviewing your edit history decided that 2008 around the elections was probably not the right time. You were embroiled in numerous articles where the flames were burning bright. I thought you did a good job navigating those flames, but knew that if you ran (at that time) that people who disagreed with you would oppose on political grounds rather than based upon what you bring to the project. Since then, I've paid some attention to you and have often considered asking you if you would be interested in running for adminship? This is not a solid offer to nominate you (I'd want to dig around your history some more) but if you are interested I'd be willing to take a closer look at you. If you are interested, are there any specific concerns/issues that you fear might doom such a nomination? Also, it should be noted, that politically, you and I are probably about as far apart as we can get... but that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate what you bring to the table. If you're interested, let me know, I'll be watching your page.--- Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 08:22, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Now that there seems to be more open communication between us.... Would you be willing to answer this question I posted on your talk page a while back? I'm not trying to re-hash old topics but I am incredibly curious why the 180 reversal from holding the same position that I had about the unencyclopedicness of that list to !voting keep on the AfD (an AfD that would have sparked another list and solved the problem in one fellow swoop)? You may noticed that ever since the AfD, that Jewish actors list has just gotten worse, and I doubt it's going to get any better without instigating an edit war (which I'm clearly not willing to do now). Bulldog123 02:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Undulatus asperatus is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Hey Wikidemon, please see my response to IP 78...; I think it addresses your point as well. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 20:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Is someone - just not Ratel? The bit about "attack Collect" is troubling - as that was one of Ratel's favourite diversions. Ah well -- posted all the BLP/N prior discussions there and hope others note all this. Cheers. Collect ( talk) 22:46, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
I've made some comments about injun at Talk:Native_American_name_controversy#Re-opening_the_discussion_on_.22Injun.22 -- Evertype· ✆ 08:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wikidemon. I am curious as to why you made this edit, with the edit summary stating "horse = dead, put down the stick. Seiously, what happened is they circulated false rumors. The rest is an argument, not what they did.". This section came to my attention when an anon ip made this edit, changing "false" to "skeptical". I noticed the "vague" tag and looked at the source provided to see how I could clear up any vagueness. I made this edit, partially and directly quoting the source. Fat&Happy cleaned it up a bit and inserted an access date, which you also removed. I do see that you then restored a portion of the specifics, but left the "vague" tag. So in essence, you've restored the "vague" tag while removing the recent access date and partial quote from the source. Now, I know you're a sharp fellow, but just what is the point here? The paragraph was not very large, especially considering the following paragraph concerning Jim Geraghty, which is more than twice as large. Dave Dial ( talk) 03:56, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
please don't do this. [19]. I will remove one more time (and if I don't others surely will),, but please do heed my request and note the article probation notice on top of the article talk page. In case you do not know, this article is watched and edited by many editors who have worked bY consensuS regarding article contents Tags like that degrade the article without encouraging consensus or even letting others know what your issue is Again, if you have any issues to discuss about the article please use the associated talk page. Thx, Wikidemon ( talk) 02:10, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
I have responded to you here. Thank you. Bus stop ( talk) 15:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi if you feel compelled to delete ALL of my refs and work maybe you could show some common courtesy to post on the talk page to find out your opinions on what you will compromise on and what is relevant to the article.-- R. Mutt 1917 Talk 02:50, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
What makes the mention of NPR not notable? Numerous birther websites are citing NPR's gaffe as fuel for their claims. I don't see it being irrelevant. Efcmagnew ( talk) 01:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Heh. I take out 3K characters, and you put back 34. I'm winning.
Good putback, but I'm expecting to hear from various irate Celts. PhGustaf ( talk) 03:13, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
...I mentioned you here [22] Writegeist ( talk) 20:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
The Tavern on The Green is mentioned in Mr Popper's Penguins. I don't know how to add it, but I noticed you had worked on the article. Just an FYI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.133.37 ( talk) 08:25, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I like your initiative in striking comments by a banned user. That said, I request you make an annotation next to each strike you make so that it is clear why the edits were struck (particularly if the discussion is reviewed in the future, or a small section is reviewed by a newer editor who assumes either the editor struck themselves or that a mistake was made). Particularly in the future, chances are your edit-summary will be missed. Regards, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 11:55, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time and striking Chester's comments on the abortion talk page. That must have been tedious. Out of curiosity, what exactly is the difference between a sockpuupet and a sockpuppet? No good deed goes unpunished:) ArtifexMayhem ( talk) 19:18, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
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I hereby award this Barnstar of Good Humor to Wikidemon for his valiant and honorable attempts to tolerate the terrible attempts at injecting humor by the Lord Dreadstar, just not a funny man in the realm of Santorum Dreadstar ☥ 22:06, 23 June 2011 (UTC) |
I saw your 05:29, 2 July 2011 (UTC) comment at WP:AN/I and wanted to respond to points you raised about my actions and this essay. Please be aware that I haven't taken these edits up recently. In fact, I've been doing it for some years now, and have done more than 3,000 of them. I will continue to do them, as they are in line with policy. If that alienates the community, it's unfortunate but not of a concern to me. There are plenty of people here who hate me and I really don't care. I'm not here to be liked. The community's wishes are expressed through policy and guideline. That is what I follow. That some people get upset about NFCC application is unfortunate, but it doesn't change those policies and guidelines. If one or more people want to see 10c changed/removed, they are welcome to start a proposal at WT:NFC.
I developed the essay because quite a number of people respond to 10c removals in consistent ways. That a number of people respond in such ways does not make them right. I am far from alone in responding to people who raise these complaints. It has become highly repetitive to respond to these complaints. Thus, the essay as an attempt to answer common complaints. It's really no different in intent than WP:FIXNF. It's a standard set of responses to a standard set of complaints. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:04, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
You need to stop reverting my edits without fixing the problem. ΔT The only constant 04:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wikidemon - this suggestion may be of interest to you: Wikipedia talk:Article Incubator/Climategate#Transwiki to Greenlivingpedia?-- Chriswaterguy talk 16:23, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Wikidemon. Thanks for trying to add the missing rationale for the use of this file at Coat of arms of Newport. However, the rationale you added was not appropriate for this particular usage and so I have amended it by adding a custom explanation of the purpose of use. I realise that it is time consuming to write custom rationales but often the available boilerplate rationales are inadequate or (as in this case) irrelevant. Good fair use rationales are an essential aid for small-scale content re-users when deciding on the usability of an article containing non-free content. If you have any problem with my change to the rationale you added, please let me know. CIreland ( talk) 04:01, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
I have already removed the files from those pages, as the image was being used as a decorative icon- clearly not a suitable use for a non-free image. There's no point leaving the rationales on the page- at best this is confusing, at worst, downright misleading, as it implies that a usage on those articles is acceptable. J Milburn ( talk) 14:30, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Right, so far as I can see, you're literally stalking me now, and that's not cool, at all. You don't get/don't like the NFCC. That's fine; I'm willing to sit here and explain it to you. Following me to other articles to force non-free content in is simply not acceptable. If you genuinely want me to explain why you're wrong, I will, but I will not tolerate that. J Milburn ( talk) 20:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
...choose a place, and go. I'm not interested in arguing about who's edit warring, I'm not interested in repeatedly telling you that the burden of proof lies with you, I'm not interested in whose side I'm on. Let's just discuss the flaming images. J Milburn ( talk) 21:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Wikidemon --
I have responded to your post at WP:VPP regarding "In popular culture" sections, and would appreciate it if you would consider looking over my response and looking at my proposal again. I think we are mostly in agreement, judging by your Periodic table vs. Santa Claus example, but for some reason you stated that you oppose my proposal. I think you have perhaps been misinformed by the repeated misrepresentations of my proposal by several users (who claim that I am "OMFG TRYING TO REMOVE ALL POPULAR CULTURE SECTIONS!!!"), rather than responding based on an analysis of my actual proposal which suggests nothing of the sort.
My proposal aims to do exactly what you have suggested: Include high-quality "Cultural significance"/"In popular culture" sections for articles like Santa Claus or Zombie or Samurai that have had a significant cultural impact, while removing trivial pop-culture references from articles like Periodic table. Tempers are flaring over my proposal, but I'm respectfully asking that you calmly revisit my suggested amendment to WP:INDISCRIMINATE and consider whether or not it would have the effect of promoting the type of content you wish to promote, while removing the type of content you think does not belong in our articles.
Thank you, and warm regards. ~ Mesoderm ( talk) 01:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
The non-free image File:Wilson The Volleyball.jpg was recently restored to Wilson Sporting Goods by you after it have been removed for failure of our non-free content criteria policy, specifically item #10c which requires a "separate, specific non-free use rationale for each use of the item". The image still fails the 10c policy requirement and has been removed from the article again. Please do not restore this image to that article again without complying with the requirements of that policy. For more information on how to write an appropriate non-free use rationale, please consult Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. If you have questions about this, please ask. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 13:03, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
And to this edit summary; no it isn't obviously free. Rather the opposite, as it it a screenshot from the movie. Clearly copyrighted. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 14:23, 9 July 2011 (UTC)