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Hi Larry,
I added a source but as soon as I posted it, it disappeared. I thought it had to be approved or something. That has happened to me multiple times YungNwise ( talk) 02:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Good evening, I am new to wikipedia editing so I dont have the full details I hope I am not bothering you. I realized that minorities in Turkey were called ... in Turkey like Kurds in Turkey, Circassians in Turkey etc instead of Turkish-Kurd or Turkish-Circassian. But Turks in Bulgaria were called 'Bulgarian Turks', I think that page namings must be neutral and follow a similar format. This is why I changed the name — Preceding unsigned comment added by Safinazuyuyor ( talk • contribs) 17:39, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Yes I am aware the article isnt just about Turks living in Bulgaria but rather Turks from Bulgaria regardless of where they live however we are not Bulgarian in origin. Our history doesnt begin with Bulgaria
I myself am a member of the Turkish community of Bulgaria. When talking about Turks in modern day Bulgaria borders but in the Balkan wars, prior to us becoming Bulgarian citizens, the article still refers to us as 'Bulgarian Turks' even though we were just Balkan Turks back then with no attachment to Bulgaria.
We call ourselves 'Bulgaristan Türkleri' meaning Turks from Bulgaria, Bulgarian Turks would be 'Bulgar Türkleri' but no one calls us that in our native language. Balgarski Turtsi meaning Bulgarian Turks is something started by the Bulgarian government to imply our history has always been tied to the country, it was started after communist-era ' Revival process' assimilation efforts didnt work so they started calling us Bulgarian Turks instead
Same for other minority articles, the Kurds in Turkey page isnt just about Kurds living in Turkey but Kurds from Turkey in general yet they are not called Turkish-Kurds on the article page.
A more accurate title would be 'Turks of Bulgaria', thank you for your advice I will take it to the talk page of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Safinazuyuyor ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Are you aware of the repeated removal of content deemed negative to Somalis here? You seem to have dropped off the talkpage. Buckshot06 (talk) 18:11, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please let me know what content in the Kyivstar article is promotional? -- Perohanych ( talk) 09:48, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there! I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. Recently, you reverted my fix to Vukovar.
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Hi there. You seem to be trying to cite non-existent references in articles such as Vukovar and Vinkovci. Could you take a look and insert the full reference? Cordless Larry ( talk) 08:21, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
The official data of the census in the Republic of Croatia for the city of Vukovar from the official website of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics are given on Wikipedia , the data were within the Exel only for now. The Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia successively divides the results of the 2021 census, for us it is important that due to the abundance of data we immediately correct the official results, and write them on wikipedia. This, official nummbers, are final and official for the total population of the city of Vukovar for 2021 census.
DerTorx ( talk) 18:08, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry. Thank you for your explanation of why you removed some edits to Matthew Parish. I appreciate your setting out your reasons. But can you explain why you think the edits are less than neutral?
I am not an expert in Wikipedia, but I did read the biography of living persons policy which explicitly states that great care must be taken with contested records of criminal offences. In particular, where there is more than one judgment of a court, going in different directions (as there are in the Matthew Parish case), it is essential to discuss both of them. In this case, the court proceedings had lots of problems. I realise I am probably anonymous to you, or at least that my name means nothing; I am a quiet person. But I am one of the world's legal experts in Kuwaiti politics (outside Kuwait) and I think my edits ought to be taken at face value unless another person with knowledge of Kuwaiti politics comes along and says that they are wrong. I spent great effort trying to make the introductory paragraph neutral, because in its current form it gives the impression that Matthew Parish is in prison which is not true. In fact that court judgment is not being executed at all. Now I don't expect you to know all of these details; but I did cite good quality secondary and primary sources (legal documents) for all the things I said. I made every effort for these amendments to be neutral and to represent the balance of the matter in good faith. There I would be grateful if you could reverse your "undo" actions. Surely that is better than my doing it and then you re-doing it and then we on forever! The issues are serious because we are dealing with serious and contested defamation (and actually it's false. and misleading) in the second sentence of the first paragraph of a living person's biography.
One idea I had to solve this problem is to give my amendments a period of one month during which we will see whether anyone edits them and whether there is really a contents war. Right now I don't se that there is a contents war - there's just your impression, which I will very much respect, is not based upon your expertise in the subject area (if you are in fact a Kuwait scholar, then I apologise and withdraw that remark!) This is a remarkable political affair, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of hits to articles in various fora, mainly because people in Kuwait can't read about this because all commentary upon it is banned. Hence it's not just a question of maintaining the living persons biography rules, but also about getting documented information into the public domain that people can debate and comment.
If you accept my approach then we might delete the ===Legal Issues=== section which is just repetitive. Or we could remove the entirety of the text from the first paragraph to form a new and replacement ===Legal Issues=== section.
I have another issue. Please can you look at /info/en/?search=Draft:Kuwaiti_videos_affair. I moved this article into drafts, which was very time consuming and document-heavy to write, a few days ago. I then wrote round to people and asked whether anyone had any comments. Nobody had any of substance. One administrator queried whether it was a conflict of interest. Another administrator appeared to disagree because the article was apparently neutral (and I made every effort to make it neutral); so after a few days I published it. That was done this morning. During the course of today a different administrator (not you) reversed it as being an "obvious COI" and used offensive language in the commentary. I don't think being discourteous helps, even in tense or difficult situations such as this one where we are debating the nuances of a foreign country's senior politics. Courtesy aside, if I'be already received the clear from an administrator to publish notwithstanding COI concerns, then why was it reversed by a different administrator? There are some references that need to be tidied up, to avoid what Wikipedia calls "reference rot" (an engaging phrase). But that can be done at one's leisure. It's not a reason to hold up an important article about an important subject. I or someone more knowledgeable than me can get round to that.
Please let me know your thoughts. I understand your philosophy as an administrator; and I am sure you will respect mine as one of several players amidst a complex Middle Eastern political minefield. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pandypandy ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Because I'm not an expert in Wikipedia coding, could you please acknowledge that you've read this and therefore I know I've got it right how to write to you.pandypandyPandypandy (talk) 15:43, 11 February 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pandypandy ( talk • contribs)
While I am grateful for your explanation, I do nevertheless find some confusions in it that I don't follow.
1. Your primary proposition is that the recent amendments to this article, that you have reversed, is not neutral because it contains the assertion "the integrity of the Geneva courts was brought into disrepute by a report in Swiss publicly owned media". You say that this attributes an opinion to Wikipedia; but in fact it does not. It is written in the passive tense, and it cites a reliable sources, namely an article on the Swiss national public media website. That article is in French; but the language of the article does not change the level of its reliability. It's pretty uncontroversial that right-thinking people would call into question the integrity of the Geneva courts by virtue of a report of a payment of a US$1 million bribe. I used the passive tense in my text to express the generality of the assertion that it looks pretty unsatisfactory if people are paying US$1 million bribes to achieve litigation outcomes. Now I can change the text to "According to the principal Swiss public media outlet, ...". The idea that paying a bribe does not call into question the integrity of legal proceedings is fanciful, and I don't there's a neutrality issue here.
2. As to the intelligence service issue, there are in fact three sources. One is a court document that implies a relationship. The second is a court conviction that implies a relationship. The third is a book that implies a relationship. All these sources seem pretty solid to me. One could change the language "It might be inferred that ...". This might assuage your concerns.
3. Your taking issue with minor issues of linguistic construction, relating to the use of the passive tense, can surely not be grounds for erasing the entirety of the amendments, including the observation that Matthew Parish is a well-known academic in the field of constructivism that sat on the entry for a long time but then was removed and replaced with the "imprisonment" story. To put this another way, and I think you acknowledge this, you should have filleted the amendments by changing the use of the passive tense that you did not like rather than by deleting all the amendments in their entirety a substantial number of which go to the question of whether the biography of living persons policy is being complied with in presenting "the other side of the argument" in relation to a court conviction that all the evidence suggests is being ignored. The implication of the second sentence in the first paragraph of the article as you have reverted it to is that Matthew Parish is serving a prison sentence, which is manifestly false given for example the following academic website article - the website publishes articles from officials related to (present or past) government.
4. I therefore say to you with all respect that a "pruning" approach would have been more appropriate, to ensure compliance with the biography of living persons policy which is intended to shield the Wikimedia foundation and its editors from defamation actions. I am not threatening you with such an action; but you will observe upon rereading of that policy that the policy explicitly states that this is its purpose. The other course you could have pursued would be to suspend / delete the article entirely, pending resolution of the defamatory allegations which subsequent to my amendments it was apparent to you was contested.
5. Nevertheless, and I am very grateful for this, you have proposed a way forward, and that is professional of you and I appreciate it. I will follow your advice.
6. I don't quite understand the concept of "consensus" as you refer to it. Consensus between whom? I assume between you and me. Anyway I will assume and rely upon your good faith.
7. You did not respond to my complaint about the removal in offensive terms ("ducking" meaning "++cking) of the "Kuwaiti videos affair" article. Could I kindly ask you what you intend to do about that, or what I should do. There seems to me both that there is a procedural error here (I was informed that the COI issue was resolved and then when I published the draft article it was immediately removed again for an "obvious" conflict of interests); and a decency error (writing so offensively to an editor who, it can at least be conceded, spent substantial time writing a complex article about a difficult subject). I am also a volunteer in this process. Nobody is paying me and nobody is being paid in connection with any of the things this post discusses. What I am trying to do is to get out into the public domain an important issue of public interest for discussion and wider knowledge. I am doing this because I think it is in the greater good. Whoever the editor was who wrote to me in terms I found offensive, I would prefer not to have any further dealings with, particularly when she (I assume it's a she) cited as her grounds for withdrawing the article an issue which I thought had already been resolved. Please let us consider whether administrators may sometimes overstep the proper bounds of their own discretion.
8. More generally, the concept of "conflict of interests" concerns me in the way it is being applied. It is normal for all sorts of people to have interests in a matter. If Wikipedia had a rule that nobody with an interest in a matter could write about it, it would probably be much the poorer as an encyclopaedic institution. But "conflicts of interest" arise only where the interest of the author / editor is inconsistent with the interests of the Wikimedia Foundation which as I understand it is to publish an international encyclopaedia discussing the balanced truth. That is also what I am trying to do. You will note that I am not trying to delete all defamatory material about Matthew Parish; I am merely trying to ensure that statements on Wikipedia about a very controversial subject are balanced. The reasons it is important to get the balance right here (and I have done my best to achieve that, so I am sorry if you consider those efforts lacking) is to promote the public interest, not to defraud the public.
9. Thank you for your ongoing voluntary work, which I now understand a little more clearly. You must be a saint to do all of this without payment. I can express to you that compliment with ease.
10. Please consider whether the "Kuwaiti videos affair" administrator ought to have her administrative privileges removed for using offensive language, as would an editor. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
11. As an aside, I think the policy against legal threats (and I am not making a legal threat in this text) is quite misguided. Everyone is bound by the law: you, me and the Wikimedia Foundation. Legal threats can be helpful, because they are attempts to prevent legal actions that are devastatingly costly if pursued. The correct way to respond to legal threats, if they are made, is not to ban the person making the threat - they might have a good point and to do so might be seen as evidence of malice. Instead the correct way to respond to a legal threat is to write in a rational and calm way, as you have done to me.
12. In conclusion, I will add the revised "Matthew Parish" text to the talk section of that page so that you and I can agree it; and I ask you to look again at the reasons why the "Kuwaiti videos affair" was peremptorily taken down notwithstanding a period of due process, with a view to your agreeing in consensus with me the process to have that detailed and neutral article restored.
With kindest regards,
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Hello Cordless Larry! Im new to Wikipedia and I saw some errors but I however added information with original research in my first edit, I apologise. I just wanted to improve the Population regions of the British Sri Lankans wikipedia article and someone already added the cities and links before I made them visible. I could use sources from BBC pages and a few websites that would help. Would it be fine if I add the Populations regions from those websites? And about the number of Sri Lankan people, I think it would be quite higher compared to the other sources as I have found an article saying that the number might be 3 or 4 times more than the population of Sri Lankan born peoples, its from The Sunday Times lk created in 2014. Ill try my best getting the best sources for the British Sri Lankans article.
Thank you. TheCeylon24 ( talk) 20:35, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
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Could you please assist in my edits on the Crime and race in the UK article ? I am trying to counter balance the article with references due to it being so unbalanced I reference mostly thd independent bbc or guardian along others any help in properly adding the information of these sources will be appreciated as I know a certain editor just wants to remove any counter view and will be waiting to delete material they do not like. 90tillinfinitydue ( talk) 13:30, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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I believe you are being overly aggressive with your warnings and general manner in which you communicate please be aware several sources state different net worths his main page states 3.1 billion for example this is not vandalism nor disruption be calm and assume good faith. 90tillinfinitydue ( talk) 11:30, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello I would like the reference for the rule that states 'also see is for internal links only'. kindly please provide it. OR.. if you cannot, you could have at least had the courtesy to go to the talk page or even my page before making the edit. I look forward to your ref.
Dava4444 ( talk) 08:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi CordlessLarry, thanks for this edit, adding Portugaltheo20 ( talk · contribs) to the AlanCity20 SPI. May I ask how you managed to connect the two? I'm mystified. Mathglot ( talk) 22:13, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Good Morning ! Thank you very much for your contact, for the moment I am a little busy, I will probably come back to you in mid-July.
Regard Rana Tabassum — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.184.117.238 ( talk) 10:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
The following email was directly from the Norwegian Register from 2022. Please see below for their full and contact information. Please maintain this well-sourced line in Wikipedia. Thank you
Thank you for your email. As far as I can see the Nova Science Publishers is approved in the Norwegian register from 2022. It seems like the publisher has been considered again for approval and was re-accepted from 2022 and forward.
You find the publisher and information we have about it here: https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=12778
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Vil du abonnere på vårt nyhetsbrev? http://nyhetsbrev.hkdir.no 68.195.229.226 ( talk) 20:01, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
This sentence will be added to the Overview then. Please note: An article lead is supposed to contain neutral information only. This sentence should be removed "A prolific publisher of books, Nova has received criticism from librarians for not always subjecting its publications to academic peer review and for republishing public domain book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices" as its duplicated in the body as well. 68.195.229.226 ( talk) 20:06, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
I respectfully request communication with you regarding the substantial edits I made to correct inaccurate, insubstantial and sparse information on Umana bio. I stated I had sources and notice that on similar bios, often narrative info is unsourced or cited. I know you strive to provide the best product to viewers possible. I do not know how to source or cite info. Please assist as EVERYTHING I added...which effort took almost 6 hours...has been reversed by you. There is wrong and insufficient info again. Please assist me. I have not deliberately tried to break protocol.
Thank you, Jeanne Kilpatrick Reidlove ( talk) 09:13, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. I know this process is simple and familiar to you, but it has been excrutiatingly difficult and complex for me, someone not familiar with the protocols and faceless, inaccessible communications. As a long-time journalist and former professor of law and society, I struggle with the arcana of internet technology. Wikipedia's directions and impersonal research methodology can be daunting as it is mostly faceless volunteers with whom I can't speak or supply information, but if I am to perform due diligence and get this bio correct (there are flagrant errors embarrassing to Wikipedia) then I must persist. I rely greatly upon Wikipedia for all my research and respect its intent, but now must question its content due to this experience. I hope this natter can be resolved as this bio deserves competent, well-researched attention. Reidlove ( talk) 11:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Again, thank you. Reidlove Reidlove ( talk) 13:08, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bothering you, but may you explain to me why did you removed all the things on the Amhara people page? What is poorly written I don’t understand?? Tamart0290 ( talk) 07:11, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
if you think something is poorly written you can fix an error that you think you see. Why removing the whole thing I don’t understand? Tamart0290 ( talk) 07:13, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I advise you, if you can, to go and check all the sources that I mentioned. everything that I edited on the page is based on what is written on the sources. Tamart0290 ( talk) 07:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
What is copyrighted? What do you mean by that? if you cheat the sources they from Weill established scholars. Tamart0290 ( talk) 08:41, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
So what can I do exactly? if you check the sources they well based from well known scholars. I really don’t understand it?? Tamart0290 ( talk) 08:43, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
So you don’t want me to use the quote from the source? You want me to improvise? Tamart0290 ( talk) 08:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Look, I don’t want you to delete the sources, so tell me exactly what do I need to do in order for you and the Oder administrations to not remove it? Tamart0290 ( talk) 09:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
other* Tamart0290 ( talk) 09:15, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi, the user yhonas J deleted all the sources from the Amhara page. I don’t understand This. How those he allowed to delete all those sources? Why? Tamart0290 ( talk) 18:12, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi there, someone has pointed out that a wikipedia page was made about me then deleted as I wasn't deemed notable enough. No worries. I never considered that I should be on there. But someone showed me the page discussing why I should be deleted. Again no worries. Delete by all means. But does the page have to stay available on google search discussing how un-notable I am? and how you couldn't find the Sean Hughes stuff (actually you can find it on YouTube, but who cares). Seriously. Please remove your discussion about me. I don't think it's right that it is available. It's not relevant to anything, and I find it somewhat offensive to be discussed in such a dismissive way on such a public forum. Thanks Sarah Waterhouse - non-notable tuba player 2A00:23C6:DF86:3D01:68AE:ED32:F1E8:512F ( talk) 21:49, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
In Draft:Peringottukara_Devasthanam_Sree_Vishnumaya_Swami_Temple does this {{AfC submission|t||ts=20221011072510|u=Globifydigital|ns=118|demo=}} mean that you draftified it? The use of AFC there made me think at first that you had submitted it to AFC, but ?now I think I understand. David10244 ( talk) 05:05, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
.What i was adding this isnt a ethnic gallery, it is simply a link to people with arab/european and colombian nationalities. Ethnicity and nationality are two different things. for example, herbert king and and radamel falcao are both colombians of british descent. yet one is afro colombian the other is a mestizo. Ethnicity does equal race or nationality ElMangoose23 ( talk) 21:49, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
You removed my cat from the list of oldest cats without attempting to verify the information. What is the reasoning for this? Kurross ( talk) 23:34, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi Larry, This IP user is vandalizing language-related articles for a couple of weeks by now, and has been warned repeatedly to stop. He is clearly not here for any encyclopaedic purposes. Can you give him a temporary block to discourage him? LandLing 07:35, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
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Re your recent change to White British, it looks as if the figure used is adding together the figures for "White", "Irish Traveller", and "Roma" from the spreadsheet. I don't know whether anywhere in the source explains this. - David Biddulph ( talk) 18:14, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
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I don't know if you noticed, but Talk:Emily St. John Mandel turned a bit vigorous. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 22:54, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:54, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
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They have requested a name change and I think you might want to take a look at their unblock request, which I've put on hold. What do you think? Daniel Case ( talk) 07:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Source 1.8 million arabs in germany
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The information that I have added to the article about ethnic minority politicians is accurate and correctly sourced. The House of Commons publication from November 2022 has added Paul Scully to its list, so I hope that is ok. ClemsfordB ( talk) 18:58, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I believe this Ibn Zaydun has been incorrectly transliterated in the page and title. Arabic has a clear letter 'و', which makes a 'O' sound. The English transliteration causes the name to be pronounced incorrectly. Please consider changing it to ZAYDOUN. A quick search online and you will see that most pages use the correct transliteration of Zaydoun, with an OU rather than just a U. I think this is quite important considering the little resources available regarding this exceptional poet.
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Hello Cordless Larry, The author is trying to publish a biography of a notable person, written in French, in Wikipedia (for which all Wikipedia rules for notoriety are adhered). The author uploaded the biography in error, more than a month ago, in Wikimedia Commons using the CC Share Alike International 4.0 license.
There are no photos, media, etc. . The biography consists of a text in pdf. format . The author would like to change the license he selected from CC ShareAlike 4.0 International to the correct license CC ShareAlike 3.0 and upload the biography in Wikipedia.
No one has contributed any information to the biography. No history has been added. Where and how, please, can the change of license be edited in Wikimedia Commons without deleting it, if possible. Or, can it just be published directly (by the author!) in Wikipedia with the new correct license.
I read numerous documents of useful information but still having trouble. Is it possible to edit the draft biography on Wikimedia Commons to change the license? If yes, where and how can the license be changed in Wiki Commons? Can the author just edit the license under Metadata. If so, would it be possible for you to provide steps? We're trying to do our best following directives with technology in our dynamic 70's and 80's. Thank you, in advance, for your time and suggestions. Thank you Keudal39 Keudal39 ( talk) 15:15, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry, You have been very helpful so I am back to you with another question. How can I find the name of the author of a biography in English, in Wikipedia. I am publishing an independent, biography in French of the same person, updating the information and sources- awards, books, references, etc. and would like to cite the initial work or author. I checked "History" of the article, and there are numerous names. It will be published with the same license (CCShareAlike 3.0). I printed the English biography and at the very bottom of the page there is a link: "Retrieved from https:// en.wikipedia.org, etc..." . Would it be sufficient to include this link to attribute/cite the work? Thank you again for addressing my question. Keudal39 Keudal39 ( talk) 15:21, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
This edit @ Talk:British Pakistanis seem to be usual signature comment by long time blocked sock NangParbat. I have not deleted similar comment from my own user space but I went on to reply, then I did not know they are a abusive sock. Retaining it on article talk page would misrepresent WIkipedia policies hence reverting the sock edit is better or you have any other suggestion. Just wish to have your second opinion else I shall revert the same. Bookku ( talk) 03:30, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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I added a source but as soon as I posted it, it disappeared. I thought it had to be approved or something. That has happened to me multiple times YungNwise ( talk) 02:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Good evening, I am new to wikipedia editing so I dont have the full details I hope I am not bothering you. I realized that minorities in Turkey were called ... in Turkey like Kurds in Turkey, Circassians in Turkey etc instead of Turkish-Kurd or Turkish-Circassian. But Turks in Bulgaria were called 'Bulgarian Turks', I think that page namings must be neutral and follow a similar format. This is why I changed the name — Preceding unsigned comment added by Safinazuyuyor ( talk • contribs) 17:39, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Yes I am aware the article isnt just about Turks living in Bulgaria but rather Turks from Bulgaria regardless of where they live however we are not Bulgarian in origin. Our history doesnt begin with Bulgaria
I myself am a member of the Turkish community of Bulgaria. When talking about Turks in modern day Bulgaria borders but in the Balkan wars, prior to us becoming Bulgarian citizens, the article still refers to us as 'Bulgarian Turks' even though we were just Balkan Turks back then with no attachment to Bulgaria.
We call ourselves 'Bulgaristan Türkleri' meaning Turks from Bulgaria, Bulgarian Turks would be 'Bulgar Türkleri' but no one calls us that in our native language. Balgarski Turtsi meaning Bulgarian Turks is something started by the Bulgarian government to imply our history has always been tied to the country, it was started after communist-era ' Revival process' assimilation efforts didnt work so they started calling us Bulgarian Turks instead
Same for other minority articles, the Kurds in Turkey page isnt just about Kurds living in Turkey but Kurds from Turkey in general yet they are not called Turkish-Kurds on the article page.
A more accurate title would be 'Turks of Bulgaria', thank you for your advice I will take it to the talk page of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Safinazuyuyor ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there. You seem to be trying to cite non-existent references in articles such as Vukovar and Vinkovci. Could you take a look and insert the full reference? Cordless Larry ( talk) 08:21, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
The official data of the census in the Republic of Croatia for the city of Vukovar from the official website of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics are given on Wikipedia , the data were within the Exel only for now. The Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia successively divides the results of the 2021 census, for us it is important that due to the abundance of data we immediately correct the official results, and write them on wikipedia. This, official nummbers, are final and official for the total population of the city of Vukovar for 2021 census.
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Hello Cordless Larry. Thank you for your explanation of why you removed some edits to Matthew Parish. I appreciate your setting out your reasons. But can you explain why you think the edits are less than neutral?
I am not an expert in Wikipedia, but I did read the biography of living persons policy which explicitly states that great care must be taken with contested records of criminal offences. In particular, where there is more than one judgment of a court, going in different directions (as there are in the Matthew Parish case), it is essential to discuss both of them. In this case, the court proceedings had lots of problems. I realise I am probably anonymous to you, or at least that my name means nothing; I am a quiet person. But I am one of the world's legal experts in Kuwaiti politics (outside Kuwait) and I think my edits ought to be taken at face value unless another person with knowledge of Kuwaiti politics comes along and says that they are wrong. I spent great effort trying to make the introductory paragraph neutral, because in its current form it gives the impression that Matthew Parish is in prison which is not true. In fact that court judgment is not being executed at all. Now I don't expect you to know all of these details; but I did cite good quality secondary and primary sources (legal documents) for all the things I said. I made every effort for these amendments to be neutral and to represent the balance of the matter in good faith. There I would be grateful if you could reverse your "undo" actions. Surely that is better than my doing it and then you re-doing it and then we on forever! The issues are serious because we are dealing with serious and contested defamation (and actually it's false. and misleading) in the second sentence of the first paragraph of a living person's biography.
One idea I had to solve this problem is to give my amendments a period of one month during which we will see whether anyone edits them and whether there is really a contents war. Right now I don't se that there is a contents war - there's just your impression, which I will very much respect, is not based upon your expertise in the subject area (if you are in fact a Kuwait scholar, then I apologise and withdraw that remark!) This is a remarkable political affair, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of hits to articles in various fora, mainly because people in Kuwait can't read about this because all commentary upon it is banned. Hence it's not just a question of maintaining the living persons biography rules, but also about getting documented information into the public domain that people can debate and comment.
If you accept my approach then we might delete the ===Legal Issues=== section which is just repetitive. Or we could remove the entirety of the text from the first paragraph to form a new and replacement ===Legal Issues=== section.
I have another issue. Please can you look at /info/en/?search=Draft:Kuwaiti_videos_affair. I moved this article into drafts, which was very time consuming and document-heavy to write, a few days ago. I then wrote round to people and asked whether anyone had any comments. Nobody had any of substance. One administrator queried whether it was a conflict of interest. Another administrator appeared to disagree because the article was apparently neutral (and I made every effort to make it neutral); so after a few days I published it. That was done this morning. During the course of today a different administrator (not you) reversed it as being an "obvious COI" and used offensive language in the commentary. I don't think being discourteous helps, even in tense or difficult situations such as this one where we are debating the nuances of a foreign country's senior politics. Courtesy aside, if I'be already received the clear from an administrator to publish notwithstanding COI concerns, then why was it reversed by a different administrator? There are some references that need to be tidied up, to avoid what Wikipedia calls "reference rot" (an engaging phrase). But that can be done at one's leisure. It's not a reason to hold up an important article about an important subject. I or someone more knowledgeable than me can get round to that.
Please let me know your thoughts. I understand your philosophy as an administrator; and I am sure you will respect mine as one of several players amidst a complex Middle Eastern political minefield. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pandypandy ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Because I'm not an expert in Wikipedia coding, could you please acknowledge that you've read this and therefore I know I've got it right how to write to you.pandypandyPandypandy (talk) 15:43, 11 February 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pandypandy ( talk • contribs)
While I am grateful for your explanation, I do nevertheless find some confusions in it that I don't follow.
1. Your primary proposition is that the recent amendments to this article, that you have reversed, is not neutral because it contains the assertion "the integrity of the Geneva courts was brought into disrepute by a report in Swiss publicly owned media". You say that this attributes an opinion to Wikipedia; but in fact it does not. It is written in the passive tense, and it cites a reliable sources, namely an article on the Swiss national public media website. That article is in French; but the language of the article does not change the level of its reliability. It's pretty uncontroversial that right-thinking people would call into question the integrity of the Geneva courts by virtue of a report of a payment of a US$1 million bribe. I used the passive tense in my text to express the generality of the assertion that it looks pretty unsatisfactory if people are paying US$1 million bribes to achieve litigation outcomes. Now I can change the text to "According to the principal Swiss public media outlet, ...". The idea that paying a bribe does not call into question the integrity of legal proceedings is fanciful, and I don't there's a neutrality issue here.
2. As to the intelligence service issue, there are in fact three sources. One is a court document that implies a relationship. The second is a court conviction that implies a relationship. The third is a book that implies a relationship. All these sources seem pretty solid to me. One could change the language "It might be inferred that ...". This might assuage your concerns.
3. Your taking issue with minor issues of linguistic construction, relating to the use of the passive tense, can surely not be grounds for erasing the entirety of the amendments, including the observation that Matthew Parish is a well-known academic in the field of constructivism that sat on the entry for a long time but then was removed and replaced with the "imprisonment" story. To put this another way, and I think you acknowledge this, you should have filleted the amendments by changing the use of the passive tense that you did not like rather than by deleting all the amendments in their entirety a substantial number of which go to the question of whether the biography of living persons policy is being complied with in presenting "the other side of the argument" in relation to a court conviction that all the evidence suggests is being ignored. The implication of the second sentence in the first paragraph of the article as you have reverted it to is that Matthew Parish is serving a prison sentence, which is manifestly false given for example the following academic website article - the website publishes articles from officials related to (present or past) government.
4. I therefore say to you with all respect that a "pruning" approach would have been more appropriate, to ensure compliance with the biography of living persons policy which is intended to shield the Wikimedia foundation and its editors from defamation actions. I am not threatening you with such an action; but you will observe upon rereading of that policy that the policy explicitly states that this is its purpose. The other course you could have pursued would be to suspend / delete the article entirely, pending resolution of the defamatory allegations which subsequent to my amendments it was apparent to you was contested.
5. Nevertheless, and I am very grateful for this, you have proposed a way forward, and that is professional of you and I appreciate it. I will follow your advice.
6. I don't quite understand the concept of "consensus" as you refer to it. Consensus between whom? I assume between you and me. Anyway I will assume and rely upon your good faith.
7. You did not respond to my complaint about the removal in offensive terms ("ducking" meaning "++cking) of the "Kuwaiti videos affair" article. Could I kindly ask you what you intend to do about that, or what I should do. There seems to me both that there is a procedural error here (I was informed that the COI issue was resolved and then when I published the draft article it was immediately removed again for an "obvious" conflict of interests); and a decency error (writing so offensively to an editor who, it can at least be conceded, spent substantial time writing a complex article about a difficult subject). I am also a volunteer in this process. Nobody is paying me and nobody is being paid in connection with any of the things this post discusses. What I am trying to do is to get out into the public domain an important issue of public interest for discussion and wider knowledge. I am doing this because I think it is in the greater good. Whoever the editor was who wrote to me in terms I found offensive, I would prefer not to have any further dealings with, particularly when she (I assume it's a she) cited as her grounds for withdrawing the article an issue which I thought had already been resolved. Please let us consider whether administrators may sometimes overstep the proper bounds of their own discretion.
8. More generally, the concept of "conflict of interests" concerns me in the way it is being applied. It is normal for all sorts of people to have interests in a matter. If Wikipedia had a rule that nobody with an interest in a matter could write about it, it would probably be much the poorer as an encyclopaedic institution. But "conflicts of interest" arise only where the interest of the author / editor is inconsistent with the interests of the Wikimedia Foundation which as I understand it is to publish an international encyclopaedia discussing the balanced truth. That is also what I am trying to do. You will note that I am not trying to delete all defamatory material about Matthew Parish; I am merely trying to ensure that statements on Wikipedia about a very controversial subject are balanced. The reasons it is important to get the balance right here (and I have done my best to achieve that, so I am sorry if you consider those efforts lacking) is to promote the public interest, not to defraud the public.
9. Thank you for your ongoing voluntary work, which I now understand a little more clearly. You must be a saint to do all of this without payment. I can express to you that compliment with ease.
10. Please consider whether the "Kuwaiti videos affair" administrator ought to have her administrative privileges removed for using offensive language, as would an editor. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
11. As an aside, I think the policy against legal threats (and I am not making a legal threat in this text) is quite misguided. Everyone is bound by the law: you, me and the Wikimedia Foundation. Legal threats can be helpful, because they are attempts to prevent legal actions that are devastatingly costly if pursued. The correct way to respond to legal threats, if they are made, is not to ban the person making the threat - they might have a good point and to do so might be seen as evidence of malice. Instead the correct way to respond to a legal threat is to write in a rational and calm way, as you have done to me.
12. In conclusion, I will add the revised "Matthew Parish" text to the talk section of that page so that you and I can agree it; and I ask you to look again at the reasons why the "Kuwaiti videos affair" was peremptorily taken down notwithstanding a period of due process, with a view to your agreeing in consensus with me the process to have that detailed and neutral article restored.
With kindest regards,
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Hello Cordless Larry! Im new to Wikipedia and I saw some errors but I however added information with original research in my first edit, I apologise. I just wanted to improve the Population regions of the British Sri Lankans wikipedia article and someone already added the cities and links before I made them visible. I could use sources from BBC pages and a few websites that would help. Would it be fine if I add the Populations regions from those websites? And about the number of Sri Lankan people, I think it would be quite higher compared to the other sources as I have found an article saying that the number might be 3 or 4 times more than the population of Sri Lankan born peoples, its from The Sunday Times lk created in 2014. Ill try my best getting the best sources for the British Sri Lankans article.
Thank you. TheCeylon24 ( talk) 20:35, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
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Could you please assist in my edits on the Crime and race in the UK article ? I am trying to counter balance the article with references due to it being so unbalanced I reference mostly thd independent bbc or guardian along others any help in properly adding the information of these sources will be appreciated as I know a certain editor just wants to remove any counter view and will be waiting to delete material they do not like. 90tillinfinitydue ( talk) 13:30, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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I believe you are being overly aggressive with your warnings and general manner in which you communicate please be aware several sources state different net worths his main page states 3.1 billion for example this is not vandalism nor disruption be calm and assume good faith. 90tillinfinitydue ( talk) 11:30, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello I would like the reference for the rule that states 'also see is for internal links only'. kindly please provide it. OR.. if you cannot, you could have at least had the courtesy to go to the talk page or even my page before making the edit. I look forward to your ref.
Dava4444 ( talk) 08:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi CordlessLarry, thanks for this edit, adding Portugaltheo20 ( talk · contribs) to the AlanCity20 SPI. May I ask how you managed to connect the two? I'm mystified. Mathglot ( talk) 22:13, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Good Morning ! Thank you very much for your contact, for the moment I am a little busy, I will probably come back to you in mid-July.
Regard Rana Tabassum — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.184.117.238 ( talk) 10:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
The following email was directly from the Norwegian Register from 2022. Please see below for their full and contact information. Please maintain this well-sourced line in Wikipedia. Thank you
Thank you for your email. As far as I can see the Nova Science Publishers is approved in the Norwegian register from 2022. It seems like the publisher has been considered again for approval and was re-accepted from 2022 and forward.
You find the publisher and information we have about it here: https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=12778
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Vil du abonnere på vårt nyhetsbrev? http://nyhetsbrev.hkdir.no 68.195.229.226 ( talk) 20:01, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
This sentence will be added to the Overview then. Please note: An article lead is supposed to contain neutral information only. This sentence should be removed "A prolific publisher of books, Nova has received criticism from librarians for not always subjecting its publications to academic peer review and for republishing public domain book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices" as its duplicated in the body as well. 68.195.229.226 ( talk) 20:06, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
I respectfully request communication with you regarding the substantial edits I made to correct inaccurate, insubstantial and sparse information on Umana bio. I stated I had sources and notice that on similar bios, often narrative info is unsourced or cited. I know you strive to provide the best product to viewers possible. I do not know how to source or cite info. Please assist as EVERYTHING I added...which effort took almost 6 hours...has been reversed by you. There is wrong and insufficient info again. Please assist me. I have not deliberately tried to break protocol.
Thank you, Jeanne Kilpatrick Reidlove ( talk) 09:13, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. I know this process is simple and familiar to you, but it has been excrutiatingly difficult and complex for me, someone not familiar with the protocols and faceless, inaccessible communications. As a long-time journalist and former professor of law and society, I struggle with the arcana of internet technology. Wikipedia's directions and impersonal research methodology can be daunting as it is mostly faceless volunteers with whom I can't speak or supply information, but if I am to perform due diligence and get this bio correct (there are flagrant errors embarrassing to Wikipedia) then I must persist. I rely greatly upon Wikipedia for all my research and respect its intent, but now must question its content due to this experience. I hope this natter can be resolved as this bio deserves competent, well-researched attention. Reidlove ( talk) 11:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Again, thank you. Reidlove Reidlove ( talk) 13:08, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bothering you, but may you explain to me why did you removed all the things on the Amhara people page? What is poorly written I don’t understand?? Tamart0290 ( talk) 07:11, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
if you think something is poorly written you can fix an error that you think you see. Why removing the whole thing I don’t understand? Tamart0290 ( talk) 07:13, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I advise you, if you can, to go and check all the sources that I mentioned. everything that I edited on the page is based on what is written on the sources. Tamart0290 ( talk) 07:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
What is copyrighted? What do you mean by that? if you cheat the sources they from Weill established scholars. Tamart0290 ( talk) 08:41, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
So what can I do exactly? if you check the sources they well based from well known scholars. I really don’t understand it?? Tamart0290 ( talk) 08:43, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
So you don’t want me to use the quote from the source? You want me to improvise? Tamart0290 ( talk) 08:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Look, I don’t want you to delete the sources, so tell me exactly what do I need to do in order for you and the Oder administrations to not remove it? Tamart0290 ( talk) 09:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, the user yhonas J deleted all the sources from the Amhara page. I don’t understand This. How those he allowed to delete all those sources? Why? Tamart0290 ( talk) 18:12, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi there, someone has pointed out that a wikipedia page was made about me then deleted as I wasn't deemed notable enough. No worries. I never considered that I should be on there. But someone showed me the page discussing why I should be deleted. Again no worries. Delete by all means. But does the page have to stay available on google search discussing how un-notable I am? and how you couldn't find the Sean Hughes stuff (actually you can find it on YouTube, but who cares). Seriously. Please remove your discussion about me. I don't think it's right that it is available. It's not relevant to anything, and I find it somewhat offensive to be discussed in such a dismissive way on such a public forum. Thanks Sarah Waterhouse - non-notable tuba player 2A00:23C6:DF86:3D01:68AE:ED32:F1E8:512F ( talk) 21:49, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
In Draft:Peringottukara_Devasthanam_Sree_Vishnumaya_Swami_Temple does this {{AfC submission|t||ts=20221011072510|u=Globifydigital|ns=118|demo=}} mean that you draftified it? The use of AFC there made me think at first that you had submitted it to AFC, but ?now I think I understand. David10244 ( talk) 05:05, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
.What i was adding this isnt a ethnic gallery, it is simply a link to people with arab/european and colombian nationalities. Ethnicity and nationality are two different things. for example, herbert king and and radamel falcao are both colombians of british descent. yet one is afro colombian the other is a mestizo. Ethnicity does equal race or nationality ElMangoose23 ( talk) 21:49, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
You removed my cat from the list of oldest cats without attempting to verify the information. What is the reasoning for this? Kurross ( talk) 23:34, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi Larry, This IP user is vandalizing language-related articles for a couple of weeks by now, and has been warned repeatedly to stop. He is clearly not here for any encyclopaedic purposes. Can you give him a temporary block to discourage him? LandLing 07:35, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
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Re your recent change to White British, it looks as if the figure used is adding together the figures for "White", "Irish Traveller", and "Roma" from the spreadsheet. I don't know whether anywhere in the source explains this. - David Biddulph ( talk) 18:14, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
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thanks for the help DMPenguin ( talk) 18:07, 20 December 2022 (UTC) |
I don't know if you noticed, but Talk:Emily St. John Mandel turned a bit vigorous. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 22:54, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:54, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:54, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 ( talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}} |
Donner60 ( talk) 07:29, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
They have requested a name change and I think you might want to take a look at their unblock request, which I've put on hold. What do you think? Daniel Case ( talk) 07:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Source 1.8 million arabs in germany
YEA686868701 ( talk) 22:40, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
The information that I have added to the article about ethnic minority politicians is accurate and correctly sourced. The House of Commons publication from November 2022 has added Paul Scully to its list, so I hope that is ok. ClemsfordB ( talk) 18:58, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I believe this Ibn Zaydun has been incorrectly transliterated in the page and title. Arabic has a clear letter 'و', which makes a 'O' sound. The English transliteration causes the name to be pronounced incorrectly. Please consider changing it to ZAYDOUN. A quick search online and you will see that most pages use the correct transliteration of Zaydoun, with an OU rather than just a U. I think this is quite important considering the little resources available regarding this exceptional poet.
Thanks 82.17.76.152 ( talk) 19:22, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
tag from
Futures of Education, which you proposed for deletion. .... If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}}
back to the page. Instead, feel free to list it at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks!
Lisa Rechelle (
talk) 10:25, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry, The author is trying to publish a biography of a notable person, written in French, in Wikipedia (for which all Wikipedia rules for notoriety are adhered). The author uploaded the biography in error, more than a month ago, in Wikimedia Commons using the CC Share Alike International 4.0 license.
There are no photos, media, etc. . The biography consists of a text in pdf. format . The author would like to change the license he selected from CC ShareAlike 4.0 International to the correct license CC ShareAlike 3.0 and upload the biography in Wikipedia.
No one has contributed any information to the biography. No history has been added. Where and how, please, can the change of license be edited in Wikimedia Commons without deleting it, if possible. Or, can it just be published directly (by the author!) in Wikipedia with the new correct license.
I read numerous documents of useful information but still having trouble. Is it possible to edit the draft biography on Wikimedia Commons to change the license? If yes, where and how can the license be changed in Wiki Commons? Can the author just edit the license under Metadata. If so, would it be possible for you to provide steps? We're trying to do our best following directives with technology in our dynamic 70's and 80's. Thank you, in advance, for your time and suggestions. Thank you Keudal39 Keudal39 ( talk) 15:15, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry, You have been very helpful so I am back to you with another question. How can I find the name of the author of a biography in English, in Wikipedia. I am publishing an independent, biography in French of the same person, updating the information and sources- awards, books, references, etc. and would like to cite the initial work or author. I checked "History" of the article, and there are numerous names. It will be published with the same license (CCShareAlike 3.0). I printed the English biography and at the very bottom of the page there is a link: "Retrieved from https:// en.wikipedia.org, etc..." . Would it be sufficient to include this link to attribute/cite the work? Thank you again for addressing my question. Keudal39 Keudal39 ( talk) 15:21, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
This edit @ Talk:British Pakistanis seem to be usual signature comment by long time blocked sock NangParbat. I have not deleted similar comment from my own user space but I went on to reply, then I did not know they are a abusive sock. Retaining it on article talk page would misrepresent WIkipedia policies hence reverting the sock edit is better or you have any other suggestion. Just wish to have your second opinion else I shall revert the same. Bookku ( talk) 03:30, 17 May 2023 (UTC)