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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of Labuan you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ceradon -- Ceradon ( talk) 18:41, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I have been going through the Battle of Labuan article that you created recently and I came across this US Navy loss ( USS Salute (AM-294)) during the lead up? Wondering if USS Salute (AM-294) should be written into the article. Regards Newm30 ( talk) 03:44, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I am flummoxed by Wikipedia citation method/style. Can you help me out on citing casualty numbers on battle of Luzon. here is battle of Luzon 205,535 Japanese killed (about 195k to 205k depending on how you count: https://books.google.com/books?id=BSrFX51AGPMC&pg=PA694&lpg=PA694&dq=US+Army+in+World+War+II,+War+in+the+Pacific,+Triumph+in+the+Philippines+appendix+h-2+japanese&source=bl&ots=jeBWkhNo3f&sig=FkinbcGFo3Jv7bEErQwG0Gam28w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tFi1VP-2LMacgwTwx4L4AQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=US%20Army%20in%20World%20War%20II%2C%20War%20in%20the%20Pacific%2C%20Triumph%20in%20the%20Philippines%20appendix%20h-2%20japanese&f=false I have other references on the range of civilian deaths I am working on prviding. 73.212.229.38 ( talk) 17:48, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Lord knows why the box should only include "the three main Allied leaders" considering the war began while Chamberlain was Prime Minister and ended while Truman was President. I think it's rather misleading to only include those three.
Hey Nick-D, back quite some time ago, you deleted a page about a Tasmanian soccer club - Nelson Eastern Suburbs FC. While I'm not questioning the lack of notoriety mentioned, or quality of the previous article, I intend to write up a new version of it, as they're now in the Tasmanian Championships. I'm more than happy to do the hard work and chase up sources and stuff, I was just hoping that you'd be able to unlock access to this and I could utilise what used to exist as a template for a newer, fresher page? If so, that would be really helpful. Cheers! - J man708 ( talk) 10:45, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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On 26 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Labuan, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that almost all of the buildings on Labuan island were destroyed by the bombardment which preceded its invasion by Australian forces during the Battle of North Borneo in June 1945? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Labuan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 01:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
The article Battle of Labuan you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Labuan for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Happy editing! -- ceradon ( talk • contribs) 02:37, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
You left a redundant message on my talkpage. And I just wanted to let you know that the only reason I readded that what you removed was because you didn't explain it properly as to why you removed the other two sources. I did not understand "don't need 3 refs for a simple statement". Your recent reason as to why you removed it again made perfect sense. So I did not add it again. Also, please do not leave silly messages like you did. There is no real reason to tell me you removed it again. It is not really necessary to do so. Please carry on with your business and have a good day...
-- PilotJaguar1996 ( talk) 16:06, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
On 5 February 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article No. 300 Group RAF, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that No. 300 Group of the British Royal Air Force was formed in Australia in 1944, and many of the personnel in one of its squadrons were Australian? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/No. 300 Group RAF. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:01, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I have to say I'm becoming increasingly concerned at the way our minds are synching -- no sooner do I begin reading Ulysses S. Grant with a view to commenting than I find you've completed a review yourself...! No matter, it's bound to have saved me some work, and I might be able to focus more on his political than his military career. If you're in a reviewing mood, though, be happy to get your thoughts on the Les Holden FAC, as you weren't able to get to the ACR... :-) Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 14:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Is there a noticeboard to ask for advice on notability?
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matilde Vernet y Sáez
By my interpretation of policy this person would never be considered notable, she is only known because of who her father is, its a stub and an orphan. W C M email 18:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
"Central Readiness Force" is the special operations command of japanese SF units combined of: Special Forces Group, 1st Helicopter Brigade, 1st Airborne Brigade, 101st NBC Protection Unit. It is similar to U.S Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
The "1st Helicopter Brigade" is the special aviation unit supporting special operation units of CRF. It is similar to U.S 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment .
The "Central Readiness Regiment" is a regiment ground combat unit of CRF, the main mission of which is to carry out operations on battlefields abroad as an advance force. As of now it is deployed in (DAPE base) in Djibouti, Horn of Africa, first overseas permanent military base of JSDF. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keijhae ( talk • contribs) 03:52, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Japanese Special Forces Group, 1st Helicopter Brigade, 1st Airborne Brigade and 101st NBC Protection Unit is under the command of "Central Readiness Force", which is the joint special operations command of JGSDF. (ref: Japan Ministry of Defence, GSDF Central Readiness Force, Japan Defence Focus, accessed February 2015.) Keijhae ( talk) 05:20, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
It is the writer opinion, but we must considered that the Central Readiness Force command the special operations units of JGSDF. It is the 1st joint special operations command of JGSDF which command special forces units in it. Only the japanese pacifist constitution article 9 limits the role of its forces, but not its capabilities. Anyway, the Central Readiness Regiment of CRF are already deployed in DAPE base in Djibouti, Horn of Africa since 2011, the first overseas permanent full pledged military base of JSDF. Keijhae ( talk) 05:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jonas Vinther -- Jonas Vinther ( talk) 16:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Do you think the historic Newspoll released this morning warrants a mention in the article? Timeshift ( talk) 05:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
You might want to respond to accusations/POV tag here. Timeshift ( talk) 00:08, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
OK what is going on. Longstanding AUSPOL convention is that opinion pieces are not WP:RS. Using an opinion piece to reference a pundit's opinion is WP:OR. You should find an WP:RS quoting the pundit's opinion to establish that the opinion is actually important. Or do you really want people quoting Andrew Bolt articles everywhere? -- Surturz ( talk) 06:06, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
The article Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jonas Vinther -- Jonas Vinther ( talk) 21:21, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
[8] Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 08:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
You asked for a detailed review and therefore I did my very best. But still, I was unable to find any serious flaws or any suggestions for improvement—other than the small edits I made along the way. I hope your still satisfied. Jonas Vinther ( speak to me!) 21:29, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Do you think there's any reason, based on this user's recent contributions, why he shouldn't be blocked for disruptive editing? JUst asking you for a second opinion. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
I've just spot checked a source for the contentious material:
The tendentious conduct on talk pages and ANI is also entirely unacceptable, and not in line with the conduct of a good faith editor. @ Buckshot06:, I'd support a block. Nick-D ( talk) 09:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D, same issue as with Bird occurred with a book by Geoffrey Roberts. See this discussion. Here is the source in gbooks [14]. So Bird isn't the only source which YMB29 misrepresented. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 14:23, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
From comparing this with the source, it's also clear to me that the source is being misrepresented. Roberts does indeed state that it's difficult to judge how many rapes took place and argues that estimates have been exaggerated to partially exonerate Germany. However, he also states that "hundreds of thousands of rapes in Germany" took place (and endorses the views of historian who estimates that the number may have been as high as 2 million), with this being much higher than the number which would be "normal" [his word] for a force of this size, and the focus of his analysis is what lead to such conduct. I can see no good reason for omitting this when discussing his analysis. This earlier edit was much worse - saying only that "Roberts concludes that, given the scale of the conlfict and the size of the territory involved, probably tens of thousands of rapes were normal for such a conquering force as the Red Army" deliberately misrepresents his argument that the Red Army's conduct was much worse than "normal" conduct for such a force. Again, I can't see any way that this could have been the result of a good faith mistake, especially given the agenda being advanced. I have blocked YMB29 for a week. Nick-D ( talk) 22:03, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
[17] Gaba has been editing in contravention of his topic ban and it is basically the same as before. [18] The topic ban violation has already been reported and I was pinged about it. I really don't want to get dragged back into the drama boards again, so I would rather not comment. Is that a sensible thing to do?
Also per WP:DENY should that edit be reverted? Regards, W C M email 10:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I was just hoping you could explain the revert you did on SkyCity Auckland as I'm a bit confused. Who's engaged in block evasion? To my eyes, there seems to be some useful material there which has got cut. Thanks! Ballofstring ( talk) 01:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
I question why you did not take advantage of the WP:ARBEE DS and issue a topic ban, rather than raising the block-level to indefinite. Would that not've been the more effective approach? RGloucester — ☎ 06:33, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nick-D. I am writing because I suspect that self-described "Guatemalan history buff" Nerdoguate might be the latest Horhey420 sockpuppet. Although there may not be enough evidence to be conclusive, in looking over their contributions it is obvious that they edited prior to creating the account. The massive size of edits like this is also a red flag, particularly considering (as with Horhey) the citations are formatted in several different ways due to the obvious copying-and-pasting. It might be wise to examine this accounts' actions more closely in the future. Regards, TheTimesAreAChanging ( talk) 20:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Nick - have added note about archaic spelling. regards Richard Bruce Bradford ( talk) 07:26, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I have noticed that you recently blocked LupinoJacky, I guess for his behaviour on Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Reporting_Illegitimate_Reversions and related articles. Now QTeuta tried to start the whole discussion all over again (the case is closed by now). He got already the interest from another user, culminating in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LupinoJacky/Archive. But there are to much coincidences on the way.
Could you take a look at this? Please, pretty please?
Thanks in advance. The Banner talk 02:09, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
A former soldier is adding edits that are not supported by references. So far the info he provides is of little or no value, imo. Thought I would let you know. Don Brunett ( talk) 20:41, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett
Nick I took it upon myself to remove the information. I felt it was written with personal motive and it did not add any value to the article. You can look and determine if I was in error. Thanks. Don Brunett ( talk) 21:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett
Yes I will, just as soon as I figure out whats wring with my machine (shes an old xp model that turned seven a few months back, but shes been having problems the last few days and I'm growing concerned that it may be something serious. TomStar81 ( Talk) 20:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
A new user, Suneditor, has just popped up and is editing the same articles as our friend User:Keijhae. Making the same reverts too. Is it possible to request a checkuser? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 07:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick, User:Thandieu123 has made recent edits at Battle of Hòa Bình and a number of other pages that were the usual / similar haunts of User:MiG29VN and his socks, which makes me believe they are one and the same. This edit in particular at Hoa Binh changing "French Union Victory" to "Viet Minh strategic victory" here [19] is almost identical to that made by User:113.186.112.119 here [20] who is blocked as a MiG29VN sock. Pls also consider Thandieu123's interest in both Eastern Front (e.g Operation Bagration), weaponry (e.g. 5.56×45mm NATO), and Vietnam War topics which is a very similar editing pattern to MiG29VN and all his socks. His addition of "U.S. body count" to Operation Allen Brook with this edit [21] and the edit warring after it was disputed is also similar to the usual editing pattern of the MiG29VN socks which fixate on body count. If you could pls look at this when you get a chance that would be appreciated. To be clear I think a block of Thandieu123 as a sockpuppet is needed. Given that they are a logged in user as opposed to an IP is a different process req'd (i.e. sock puppet investigation and check user)? I imagine I will be able to dig up more evidence if its req'd so pls let me know. Regards. Anotherclown ( talk) 22:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello again Nick. User:Chimtuhu looks like the latest sockpuppet of MiG29VN to me. Their latest edits are:
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Hi. RE: [28] I think in the future it would be more constructive to either consult with the person who added the POV tag, or explicitly obtain talkpage consensus before removing a POV tag. That said, I am much happier with the text at Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill motion, 2015 so I'm happy to let the tag removal stand. There is a polite way and an impolite way to resolve POV disputes, and you (uncharacteristically) chose the latter this time round. Peace. -- Surturz ( talk) 02:40, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I filed for a block review over at ANI in regards to the block of User:Thewolfchild. Caden cool 22:32, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I thought I'd check this with an admin, and as WCM's mentor I thought you might be a good choice. Would you mind reviewing this, in reference to this Commons deletion request? Thanks, Kahastok talk 20:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Did you look at the thing on the top? Says "about a week"... I think your speedy close was a little abrupt. It's OK, I have listed at [[WT:MILHIST], but I think you were a bit trigger happy to close it, when I have never seen you before. That gives you the same right as I do... we all come here voluntarily, and I thank you for it, but that was a bit trigger happy I think... I said so on the forum but it is better I say to you personally. I will probably get in trouble for this, now. Si Trew ( talk) 04:10, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Never seen you swear on the wiki before, hope everything is OK. W C M email 09:59, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Our company recently had an article written for us by a third party called writersforhire. I show the draft was deleted by you on February 5, 2015. Our company is the Living Scriptures. Reading the article that was submitted we are confused as to why this draft was deleted. What do we need to do to get this fixed?
Hello nick, can you ban the user Alaney2k also known as nirgensburg/grisuu_29 on youtube which was deleted yesterday, and this account will be on the ban community. 2600:1006:B10D:2F12:1D33:9AC3:5F5A:2325 ( talk) 03:43, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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Tony1 suggested I could create an article on Rowley Richards. I would just like a second opinion on whether he is notable. (Richards, not Tony). Hawkeye7 ( talk) 05:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
It's perhaps one of the most iconic quotes about Australia and its economy to come out of the 20th century. It still generates discussion today, all you have to do is paste it into Google. That's what's "so what". Is it more to do with you not wanting any kind of quote that tarnishes or smears Australia's reputation or credibility on Wikipedia? Because I think it should be there. Ashton 29 ( talk) 09:52, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
It looks Buckshot06 does seemingly not have a suggest wording, so I propose we implement yours as the majority is already in favor of that. Thoughts? Jonas Vinther • ( speak to me!) 23:44, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nick-D:
I have been asked to do a new article for the above title, which you deleted on 5 February. This will be a Paid Edit, and of course I will follow all the rules and guidelines and declare that I'm being recompensed. Can you resurrect the piece and put it in a Sandbox somewhere so I can see what had been done before? Thanks so much. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 19:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Convoy of Hope. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 05:15, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
For your comments at ANI. W C M email 11:14, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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On behalf of the coordinators of the Military History Wikiproject, I am pleased to award you the A-Class Medal with Swords for your great work on Operation Goodwood (naval), Peter Raw, and Battle of Labuan. Well done! Regards, Peacemaker67 ( crack... thump) 01:47, 5 April 2015 (UTC) |
On 9 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kaname Harada, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Japanese World War II flying ace Kaname Harada has been an anti-war activist since 1991? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kaname Harada. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Gday Nick. Recently I came across Draft:Queensland University Active Citizens Air Force Squadron. I've been attempting to assist a new / inexperienced editor with getting this one up to standard, and in the process I came to realize that the editor that submitted it hasn't had much luck with the system to date (the draft has bounced around since 2013). There are of cse quite a number of issues with the article which I will try and work through but I was wondering if you might assist in another way. Specifically the editor's username is "QUSRAAFCAF" which is contrary to our username guidelines. He was blocked a little while ago as a result and has now submitted a request to change his username - here: Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple - so that he can continue to work on the article. Unfortunately there isn't much detail in the renaming request he submitted so I'm just a little concerned that a volunteer that comes across his request without some background knowledge might not understand what he requires and decline. As an Admin are you able to action such requests? If so would it be possible to ask you to have a look at his request and if you agree that its all above board make the required change for him? The background can be found at User talk:QUSRAAFCAF. Unfortunately its a bit of a saga and I was hoping to try to not chase off a new user that might be able to contribute something of value (he has also contributed some interesting images to Commons which I hope are legit...). Thanks again. Anotherclown ( talk) 14:21, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello again. This one might interest you - User talk:AWMOfficialRecords. I seem to recall a little while back you were involved in a project to engage with the AWM, was that right? I wonder if this might be a useful lead. Of cse I understand why the account was block (i.e. due to our username policy) but I wonder if this bloke might be salvaged as a contributor somehow? Anyway just thought I'd mention it to you whilst I was here. All the best. Anotherclown ( talk) 14:26, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Please join in with an opinion regarding a new edit conflict. Cheers, and have a nice weekend, Jonas Vinther • ( speak to me!) 12:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick. In my enthusiasm last week I created Queensland University Squadron as a redirect to RAAF University Squadrons. Unfortunately (for me) I'm now of the opinion that Draft:Queensland University Active Citizens Air Force Squadron is now ready to be moved in to mainspace but I can't move it over the redirect. I've requested deletion of the redirect but I'm not having any luck with getting someone to blow it away. Just wondering if you had the time to have a look at my request and action if you agree with my assertion that it is non-controversial. Thanks again. Anotherclown ( talk) 12:27, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
This this article deserves a bit of watching. As the last talkpage note said, too much about unreadable sections of the army, and equipment, and not enough about its history, human rights abuses etc. Please keep an eye, because the equipment fanboy division will be back pretty quickly, I very much guess... Buckshot06 (talk) 10:08, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, any chance you could protect the above article which is under attack at the moment? Regards Denisarona ( talk) 11:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick. You recently deleted an article for a food industry executive (Thomas F. Olin, Jr.) on the basis that the person was not notable. Apparently, we are getting mixed signals here, as Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink have been soliciting articles regarding chief/top executives of large national food corporations. Is it possible that you are not aware of this or perhaps there is a certain threshold of corporate size that 'qualifies' the company or the person for an article? Archway Cookies was the third largest cookie company in the United States, with retail brand sales exceeding $300,000,000 per year. Please compare to similar executive article listings: James Jenness-Kellog, John A. Bryant, Paul C. P. McIlhenny-Tobasco sauce. C. Joseph Genster-Diet drinks. John F. Grundhofer-BJs Restaurants, Michael W. Rice-Utz Foods, Thomas A. Garrett-Arbys, Sally J. Smith-Buffalo Wild Wings, Edmund A. Gann-Seafood, James B. Adamson, Dan Bane-Trader Joes, Lee Bickmore-Nabisco, Salli Setta-Red Lobster, Bernard D. Rubin-Tootsie Roll, Robert Holland (executive)-Ben & Jerry's ... and many other executives of varying importance and notoriety ... /info/en/?search=Category:American_chief_executives_of_food_industry_companies
Hi Nick, not sure if you remember this discussion some years ago, which you contributed to. I've been slowly consolidating 'Military facilities' and 'Military bases' across a whole range of the subcategories. Now there is an opposed move of about three of the subcategories at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Opposed_nominations. Would you kindly consider giving your views there? Regards Buckshot06 (talk) 10:14, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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Nick, could you do me a favour and move User:Hawkeye7/Sandbox6 to Kinsella v. Krueger, a redirect, and delete User talk:Hawkeye7/Sandbox6. The move template says to do it myself, but I cannot. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 12:27, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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Paul B explained the situation in the article of Adolf Hitler very clearly, taking out the "Austrian-born" from the sentence was probably pointless from the start, I apologize for the inconvenience. ( N0n3up ( talk) 15:42, 26 April 2015 (UTC))
Gday Nick. Would it be possible to request semi-protection for Landing at Anzac Cove pls? I've asked the IP that is making changes to discuss on the talkpage on a couple of occasions but haven't had any luck so far. Thanks in advance. Anotherclown ( talk) 06:24, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Gday again. Sorry in advance for the long post. As you have probably seen there have been a number of very similar edits made to the Battle of Singapore article that follow the line of highlighting reports of the poor performance of Australian forces during this battle (alleged or otherwise). Of course the information may be legitimate (even if I would say it is probably undue weight to include it in such detail and without probably historical analysis and comment, while the sources are also not of the highest quality and the referencing is of poor quality). Regardless, I think there may be some cause for concern here as it could be the work of one or a number of sock puppets. Without going in depth I think there is some evidence to support this concern (and more could be found if req’d).
Firstly, consider the IP recently making the edits at Battle of Singapore - User:121.44.135.48. According to Geolocate [33] this belongs to iiNet Limited and is located in Sydney, New South Wales. Now consider an IP that has recently been editing at Operation Compass - User:121.44.136.27. According to Geolocate [34] this also belongs to iiNet Limited and is located in Sydney, New South Wales. An established editor, User:100menonmars, recently admitted to being IP 121.44.136.27 here (they forgot to logon apparently), so given that the IPs are clearly the same person I'd say it is 100menonmars editing the Battle of Singapore article whilst logged out (at the least they have forgotten to log in again or for some reason it seems they do not want their identity to be known whilst making these edits).
Secondly, I am concerned that there may also be a connection between User:TimSala (who also recently made edits to Battle of Singapore) and User:100menonmars (who has apparently never edited the article - expect probably as an IP). Neither seem to have edited the same article (recently at least that I could see); however, one similarity I have noticed is that both have used a similar citation method on occasion (specifically being the inclusion of a question mark (?) next to a missing page number, presumably the result of a Google Book preview. Consider here [35] for User:100menonmars at Operation Compass and here [36] for User:TimSala at Battle of Singapore. This doesn’t seem like it is likely to be coincidental (and I’m fairly sure I can dig up other examples). At the very least it may be cause for a Check User.
Further to this the contributions of User:TimSala and IP User:121.44.135.48 are also similar in places, suggesting a connection between them, and reinforcing the possibility of a connection between User:100menonmars and User:TimSala by association. Consider TimSala inserted information about the defeatist attitude of Maxwell here [37], the two days later IP 121.44.135.48 makes this edit [38] with the edit summary “More on defeatist attitude of Maxwell.” Whilst it is possible that this is a coincidence, or a case of one editor’s work inspiring that of another to expand etc, I am dubious given the other similarities.
Lastly, my suspicion extends to User:Makesenseofit, who has also made edits to Battle of Singapore recently. Interestingly TimSala inserted the same SMH ref to a Peter Stanley article at Battle of Muar here [39] as Makesenseofit did at Battle of Singapore here [40]. Again possibility a case of one editor inspiring another but I doubt it.
Indeed these accounts, the IPs, 100menonmars, TimSala, and Makesenseofit seem to edit in some similar areas: for instance Battle of Greece, Battle of Singapore, Battle of Crete, Battle of Muar and a number of other North African campaign articles (although not so much TimSala admittedly) and they all seem to include similar information (i.e. to do with Australian military history, but more specifically information that might be seen to either be critical of the performance of Australian forces, or at least highlighting losses / failures). There is of cse some value in this, but I'd be very surprised if the isn't a connection between some or all of these accounts. TimSala has been around the longest (since Oct 10); however, pretty much stopped editing in 2013 and only resumed again in Apr 15, while 100menonmars and Makesenseofit were created in May 14 and Mar 15 respectively.
The pro Italian aspect to some of 100menonmars' edits at Greco-Italian War (and their temporary block in Feb 15) leads me to hold suspicions of possible connections to other editors working / disrupting work in that field but I really have no evidence of that at all (on taking a closer look some of the correspondence 100menonmars' talk page suggests they seem to be in contact by email so it is probably just a genuine shared interest there rather than the same editor – might be best to chalk this last one up to my natural over-suspicion). Anyway I’m interested in your take of my reasoning, and whether this should be pursued (and if so how) as I don't want to sling mud needlessly. I'm also fairly sick of WikiDrama but I'm concerned about possible motives here so I feel compelled to at least mention it. Thoughts? Anotherclown ( talk) 11:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
FWIW I have started an SPI here - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TimSala. I've only had limited involvement in this area so hopefully I haven't muffed it. P.S. Nick sorry to here you are unwell, all the best. Anotherclown ( talk) 12:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello again. A couple more at Battle of Ia Drang - User:113.190.46.130 and User:113.190.46.114. One was previously blocked but the block expired. Also another at Massacre at Huế - User:113.22.115.149. Would you pls be able to have a look at some point? The disruption seems low level and has so far mostly been detected and reverted so its not urgent at this stage. Thanks again. Anotherclown ( talk) 11:26, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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Why do you think the category on countries in the Southern Hemisphere is not very useful? I think it is very useful in geography. Thebuck093 ( talk) 15:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D. Thanks for all the work you to do keep Wikipedia such an amazing community. I contributed to the CourseHorse page that looks like you deleted 2.25.15 (G11; unambiguous promotion). Intent here was not to be promotional and would like to help fit within guidelines. Could you please help me understand what changes would be needed to be made to make compliant? Thank you! -- Emf1111 ( talk) 20:54, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
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I need your urgent opinion on the recent talk entries: I will remove Bias / Opinion could you please jump in?
Myself, I've an overcoming feeling that such approach, is a bad way to try improve the article. It seems that User: Pensiveneko is engaging in multiple sites, with the commonly tenor to remove all the paragraphs and sentence who might not fit his POV in less than one week; See: 1, 2, 3.
Also Pensiveneko is name-calling serious and reputable publications of scholars into an inappropriate magnitude. Such behavior is unacceptable. Please have a look. Thank you. LikePancakes ( talk) 13:37, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello Nick-D, I wanted to inform you that I've created an account and going to replace the ip-sign. Regards, Ben. LikePancakes ( talk) 14:59, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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Could you take a look at Dr. Stephen Bilbrey, DVM? You recently blocked its creator, DCL2015 ( talk · contribs · logs), after s/he created promotional bios on three other non-notable veterinarians from the same group. This last one is equally promotional, equally non-notable, and a total copyvio of the single cited source to boot. I would tag it for speedy, and/or blank it and tag it as copyvio, but it's already at AFD...and...my brain hurts. Maralia ( talk) 04:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
You're probably already aware but the editor at Australia has a disturbingly high percentage of edits marked as minor (63.75%). He definitely needs "coaching" in what is a minor edit and what isn't. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 08:17, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
[43] IP editor insists on adding what I presume is his own website. Is that an exception from a 1RR limitation? W C M email 15:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry for my inserting the Miller/Commager reference without putting any text in. I meant to do it earlier; I'll do it now.
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I've penned a reply. I'd take a wait and see approach at the moment; if annals school does not reply in a way that suggests an openness to work with others then I would forward the matter to arbcom to ensure that the editor, the articles, and the subject material are all dealt with simultaneously. In this manner, any future attempt to deal with the articles without regards for the policies and guidelines here will result on immediate sanctions against the editor and protection for the articles. This will also demonstrate good faith by tossing a life line to or wayward editor, at which point he can either reel himself back from the abyss or hang himself with the rope. Since it will be his choice, it should spare us any longer term issue with editor resentment. TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:15, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Nick, thanks for cleaning up my idiotic spelling errors. My brain isn't fully awake yet. Facepalm It seems the talk page from Talk:City of Canberra (Boeing 747-400) got lost somewhere in the move fiasco, because Talk:City of Canberra (aircraft) is blank. Could you find it? Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 11:28, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
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I had posted last month a comment about the 80th Infantry... I think that it was misunderstood and you answered in a very offensive way... I chose not to answer you but I found a work that can explain more what I am talking about... See 80th Division (United States) and you will understand what I had exactly meant... I think that the 80th Infantry Division of the United States has quite the same function as the 80th Infantry Division of the United Kingdom... However, you had not developed your work as the one for the US 80th Infantry Division... I advise you not to underestimate people and accept critics next time... If you could understand what a person says to you, do not offense him... However, I invite you to work more until you develop all works about UK Infantry Divisions...-- Csisc ( talk) 15:41, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Just a request for help Nick, an IP editor has been making changes to the Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress articles. They insert and change text without providing new citations and although they make an effort to communicate on the talk page, they refuse to sign edits and also comment on old threads. They appear not to understand how wikipedia works, I have reverted the recent changes they made on the articles as they are getting into a mess where the text does not relate to the current references. I would have protected the articles but could be seen as involved so I am looking for some outside eyes to have a look please, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 10:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Just looking at the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American B-25 Mitchell articles, the recent revisions were at first being treated as legitimate AGF edits. I initially tried to correct grammar and spelling but noted that wholesale changes were being made that tended to challenge authoritative and long-standing reference sources. The edit commentary at times referred to out-of-date or inaccurate references being "corrected". After awhile, I noticed that major changes were not accompanied by verifiable sources and the persistent use of poorly written, grammatically incorrect submissions were rife with minor spelling errors, an indication that the editor may not be a native English speaker. All this aside, on the appropriate talk pages, bouts of "wiki-lawyering" and a series of combative and hostile assertions that the editors revising the latest submissions were vandals, was even more troubling. Does this type of activity warrant some other type of intervention, as I see that the articles have had some protection applied? FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:26, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
The North American B-25 Mitchell article was left unprotected and it appears to be the only place where the disruptive edits continue. I really don't care about the content edits, except that most of the time the writing needs attention, it's the comments on the talk page that really are a concern. I'm done with trying to help here. Adding polite expressions of don't be "incivil" make no difference. An admin needs to look at this type of behaviour. 20:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
See Boeing B-29 Superfortress. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 21:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
This MOD is now extending to the North American P-51 Mustang. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 12:02, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I have been retained by The Writers for Hire to once again attempt to write an article about the above person for Wikipedia. (Articles about him have been deleted twice.) Before I took the contract, I looked at the sources about him, and I found that he may indeed be "significant, interesting or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded." I don't know the exact failings of the previous two articles, but I'm looking at one or two sources in which he has been interviewed in depth by a neutral reporter and also some multiple independent sources concerning him in combination. I will not use any refs that are not on target. I'm thinking the piece will be short, but in my opinion the fellow is Notable: He's founded a process in bodybuilding that has gained independent attention that doesn't rely on press releases. I'd like you to unsalt the old article so I can look at it, and then I'd like to go ahead and write up a new version for vetting, comments and assistance away from Article space. I hope you can respond favorably. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 04:27, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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Spotted this today, do you remember Alex79818, the guy with a load of sleeper accounts. He created loads, made a few edits, then come back and start a campaign of disruption on Falklands topics using them (a number he created more than 2 years ahead of time). This contribution profile seems vaguely familiar [45]. W C M email 18:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
You may remember the disruptive and POVpushing editor that I've encountered on Somali topics, Middayexpress. He's continuing his POVpushing in all sorts of places, and I'm really exasperated. There's lots of evidence about what he does - talkpages full of it. Could I just simply block him? You may remember the RfC was indecisive, but the other alternative is Arbcom. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 20:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much! - BilCat ( talk) 09:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick,
Thank you for your helpful comments at the JC's Girls FAC. I have altered the article accordingly and have responded in the discussion. If I have not addressed your concerns to your satisfaction, I would be glad to engage with any further comments you are willing to provide.
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No worries mate. I want to put the images up of the dual 25 pounder howitzers and the 2 images I found of the AC4 from queensland up. I was contemplating the repurposed images of the chassis but I'll have a think about it. I suspect there are more chassis out there and possibly some full tanks in private hands. Some of the tanks were sold off and not repurposed. I pretty sure I saw one in Victoria in some private collection. RAAR Razorback ( talk) 09:47, 26 May 2015 (UTC) |
Nick, there is a user who is adding accused sexual offenders to city articles, as per this diff and this one. These people have no WP articles, and the only source being given is a published arrest record. This seems improper to me, but I don't know how to best handle this issue beyond removing it over and over. Any advice?
Hello, Nick-D: I'm suggesting here that you voluntarily cease responding to requests for any action or assistance made of you by editors whom you deem to be or whom you suspect of being WP:Paid editors. I do this on the basis that you have stated not only that "I am strongly opposed to paid editors" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Nick-D&oldid=654599088#Convoy_of_Hope) but also that "I don't provide any assistance at all to paid editors as a matter of principle" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Nick-D&direction=next&oldid=663202270#John_Berardi). Also I note your administrative actions and remarks at User_talk:Cecibell in which you seemed to ignore the principle of good faith with User:Cecibell and in which you made several remarks which a reasonable reader could interpret as prejudice against an editor who affirmed that she was working as a contractor for someone else, calling her articles "spammy," "blatant advertising" and "not serious attempts at developing encyclopaedic articles," even though a good share of her offerings were checked and were retained as valid for inclusion in the encyclopedia. For example: Sandra Maas, Liquid Blue and Daniel Milstein (there are others). You stated that the articles were "written in advertising speak and generally covered topics of questionable notability, so I don't intend to restore them." You also stated that the articles were "blatant spam," and it looks to me like you were referring to all of them, even those that are maintained in Wikipedia to this day, so I don't believe you actually made a reasoned decision about each and every one of them but simply rejected them all without considering each of them individually. If you did, I apologize in advance and I will withdraw my remark. There is a list of Cecibell's articles at this link, so you can check them all to see if they actually are all, as you said, "blatant spam." We all realise that the appearance of prejudicial administrative action is just as important in blackening Wikipedia's reputation as is actual prejudice itself. I seriously question your ability to be impartial in this domain, and I suspect that you will agree with me because you are a knowledgeable and longtime editor. Of course you know that there are hundreds of other WP administrators that can take over from you if you voluntarily cease any action in this sphere. I myself am a contracted editor, but I am not charging anybody for this post. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 23:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
A long running issue involving User:Middayexpress may be just about coming to a culmination. Nick I'd like to ask you to visit this page and give us your thoughts. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:13, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
While the targets and victims were Japanese, the entire article is from the perspective of the American flight crews and the Americans behind the planning of it. The article even uses "United States" before "Japan" is even listed, and the word "American" appears far more than the word "Japanese." I don't want to get into an edit war, so could you please reconsider your position? The article is titled "Atomic Bombings of" which were planned, carried out, and subsequently recorded by the Americans.
Can I get a sanity check. He attacks Luis Vernet, citation bombing it, I add a load of cites. He nitpicks and tries to disqualify them, so I move them around to make 100% they apply to the sentence in question, he is now simply revert warrring to remove all the newly added cites in the guise of WP:BRD. Even for Langus this is seemingly bizarre behaviour. W C M email 20:08, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
[46] I have another one, an editor describing everyone who disagrees with him as "armchair generals", has by his own WP:OR and WP:SYN decided that the British were concerned about the surface threat more than the air threat. He is citing two sentences out of context from one book and claiming the cite supports the change he is making and throwing out the considered analysis of Lawrence Freedman in the Official History of the Falklands War. The actual cite he used stressed the concern over the air threat and the lack of AEW, 180° away from the edit he has made. Cross-posted at WT:MILHIST. W C M email 20:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Good man, why are you deleting legitimate discussion on the B-24 talk page? Moreover, you continue to support milborneone's actions which a)are based on unsubstaniated misconceptions of events that did not occure; or b) caused by he and others multiple reverting of edits without citation request nor talk discussions. you emphasize consensus building then promote irresponsible reverts and deletions that make consensus building impossible. I don t sense you have the accuracy of the articles forefront in your mind when taking the actions you have.
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I think the MA60 affair in Tonga is definitely worth including but I was wondering if it would be best to make a new section called 'Operational Difficulties' or words to that extent. There have been a fair share of problems in Nepal as well, and Fuji banned the plane...
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Nick, you'll remember the problems with Middayexpress we had. Now several of us having been trying to improve articles including the Puntland Maritime Police Force. A potentially very helpful editor has now just thrown up his hands in horror and at least temporarily left us [47] due to the tendentious editing of User:26oo. There's already a thread going at AN/I, but I would kindly ask you to consider taking a look and taking any admin action you think fit. We can't continue to have good editors driven away by POVpushers!! Buckshot06 (talk) 07:37, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D The crux of the matter is that the user in question, User:26oo, systematically undoes, deletes or alters language in support of his POV. While I have no objection to his/her views being represented on the page, where properly sourced and balanced by alternate views, this person is attempting to exercise a veto over material he/she doesn't like. The force described in this article has been deeply controversial and numerous sources challenge its legitimacy, legality, mission and human rights record; it is probably fair to state that this controversy is main reason that the force is noteworthy. Users Buckshot06 and others have succeeded to some extent in raising these issues within the article, User:26oo continues to fight every step of the way to preclude them. For example, User:26oo has been determined to keep any reference to controversy out of the Introductory section. The UAE diff, for example, made reference to the fact that until 2012, the UAE officially denied providing any support to the force; 2013 was the first year that an official acknowledged such support. User:26oo has repeatedly reinserted language stating that the UAE officially provided support to the force, and has removed any reference to UAE denials. The same user also uses tactics similar to WP:WEASEL: where a neutral reference referred to the PMPF as the brainchild of former Blackwater CEO Erick Prince, the user removed it an inserted an alternative reference with a quote from Prince to justify his actions. A quote referring to allegations of abuse of PMPF trainees was altered by the user in order to include deflect the accusation by downplaying it as "Somali on Somali" violence: an opaque and arguably objectionable defence. In sum, the user is determined to project the force in a positive light, to remove -- where possible -- any critical material, and where this is not possible to alter such references in order to mute their impact. As Buckshot06 indicated, I've already spent several hours on trying to improve this page, and am not averse to some robust give and take between editors. But User:26oo is simply wasting everyone's time and pushing the assumption of good faith to the limit.
To keep this discussion in one place (ANI), I'm closing this thread as a procedural matter. Nick-D ( talk) 11:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey Nick, I'm having a bit of tiff with Brianboulton, the TFA coord, over an article of mine that they scheduled. I have other plans, but he refuses to reschedule (I'm not sure when we lost the traditional TFA deference to article writers, but it is what it is). Would you have any articles that you want to run instead? It's for July 2nd. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
"from mid-1943": There is a growing hazy awareness among Americans that this can mean "from mid-1943 on", but "from" usually means other things in AmEng and many Americans miss your meaning entirely. What's the most comfortable work-around for you? I typically pick "from mid-1943 on", "from mid-1943 onwards", "starting in mid-1943", or "from mid-1943 to X" where X is the end date. - Dank ( push to talk) 16:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
One more thing, now that I reread it ... "Air raids on Japan by the Allies in World War II caused extensive destruction and killed between 241,000 and 900,000 people." That makes perfect sense to a historian; you're giving the range of estimates, but I don't think the wide range is going to work for a broader readership ... they're going to wonder what we're trying to say, or if we have any idea at all how many were killed. Reading the article, I see that the USSBS doesn't have much faith in their own estimate of 900k, and it's not often cited. Can we narrow the range? - Dank ( push to talk) 01:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Looks really good today! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:45, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello,
Hope you're doing well. I am currently engaged in a lengthy dispute resolution process over at No Gun Ri Massacre, which has seen a very heated debate between Cjhanley and WeldNeck which has seethed for years.
Part of it revolves around a sourcing dispute, namely, the credibility of the U.S. No Gun Ri Review Report, the initial AP reports (particularly the credibility of certain eyewitnesses), and of historian Robert Bateman. In general, the page has been a battleground, with frequent personal attacks, accusations of POV, bold edits against consensus, and so on, although it has calmed down as of late. It is important to note that Cjhanley is in fact one of the AP reporters who initially broke the No Gun Ri story, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; also, WeldNeck has accused him of a conflict of interest. Both editors have compiled extensive lists of their grievances, and have dragged one another to ANI: [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] WeldNeck also attacked Cjhanley as a sock: [60]. Neither editor is blameless, to say the least.
For some time, I, along with Timothyjosephwood, Wikimedes, and Irondome have attempted to mediate, and we have successfully imposed an unofficial "freeze" on editing the page without prior proposals. While the situation is not urgent, I would appreciate any help an experienced editor such as yourself could offer. If you are interested, I can also provide some sources to provide background, although some can also be found on the page's external links category.
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Dear Nick-D, I am pleased to contact you and ask your help as an admin in recreating the page "Young Living Essential Oils" that was deleted back in August 2011 ( /info/en/?search=Young_Living_Essen... ). A warning said that only an admin can recreate this page for some reason (protection). Would you please take a look at the draft of Young Living Essential Oils that I created ( /info/en/?search=User:Attedread/san... ) and tell me if this is OK. When this is the case, I would be most happy that you recreate this page now. Thank you for your cooperation. Attedread ( talk) 02:21, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick,
Kbog is continuing to insist on forcing his edit into Falklands War again. I have tried to explain that the definitive conclusions he is making aren't supported by the source he is using and he is cherry picking to support his own conclusions. Instead of taking that on board he is trying to use weasel wording instead to force a poorly worded statement that doesn't reflect the weight or range of views in the source. See also Talk:Falklands War#British planning concerns for the battle, lot of passive-aggressive nonsense and twisting what I've said to him. Worse, we have this where he insists I'm not allowed to edit unless I answer him in talk. Really my patience is wearing thin and I would appreciate if you could have a word and try to explain where he is going wrong.
Regards, W C M email 08:39, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
[61] Source is an article published in the Buenos Aires Herald [62], the other source Cawkell was published in 2001, 6 years before Peter Pepper and Dr Graham Pascoe published their paper. I have two editors edit warring to remove sources for opinions they don't like, their reasons are unrelated to the reliability of the source and are solely about the facts presented in the source. See also File:The_Times_-_Argentine_Capture_of_the_Falkland_Islands_1821.jpg and talk where the same two editors fought to keep and have since used a faked newspaper article on es.wikipedia. W C M email 08:47, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
User:Zekenyan wrote that The current ban (on User:Middayexpress) is not effective. I propose the current topic ban be amended to "East African related articles" and include User:AcidSnow and I agree with him. Furthermore I agree with what other users wrote on Middayexpress's external canvassing. But IMHO we have to add even User:26oo and User:Vituzzu (who is a Mafioso probably related/involved in "Operation Martese" [63]), in order to make the ban REALLY effective (as stated above at "POVpusher at Somalia articles"). FYI please go to [64] and click on Manmer2015 ....sincerely, B.
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Hello again Nick. If you recall you protected Battle of Hòa Bình a little while back. Unfortunately the sockpuppet seems to have returned (or at least I believe its a sockpuppet). He is currently using the IP 117.5.102.229, although these edits are obviously very similar to those made by IP 113.190.46.130, who is a sockpuppet of MiG29VN (specifically changing the result from "French Union victory" to "Viet Minh victory" and adding "unknown" to the casualties section here [65]). Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MiG29VN/Archive this bloke has used IPs in the 117 range before and a geolocate [66] shows the new IP is from Hanoi just like all the others. Per WP:DUCK I'm requesting a block on the new IP, or at the very least page protection so he is forced to discuss on the talkpage (I've asked several times now). Is this something you would pls be able to assist with? If more evidence is needed I'll dig it up of course. Kind regards. Anotherclown ( talk) 08:27, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, how does this get progressed? Regards Cinderella157 ( talk) 04:22, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm guessing from the message on his talk page, subsequently removed, that Martinvl is contacting other editors to suggest edits in contravention of his block. Is that something I should be bringing up at WP:AN or best leave it? W C M email 21:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
G'day Nick, My apologies for the noobness. I'm currently undertaking some research for an article I am writing about the flags used at the miners rebellion in Ballarat. I normally start at Wikipedia and then branch off from there. Finding that there used to be a page on the Eureka Union Jack, and that you removed it. I was most disheartened as there seem to be very little of this subject to go off. Will you be reinstating it any time soon, or is it gone for good? It would be a great shame for information to be lost. Many kind regards. Grimnar85 ( talk) 01:29, 6 January 2015 (UTC)grimnar85
Hi nick,Im stan,Can you help me please to Unprotection RMAF And List of aircraft of the Malaysian armed forces.Please,We need to update the RMAF.F-5 Tiger II has been retired and Mikoyan Mig-29N Fulcrum also has been retired.Can you Unprotection please. Stan Mcharrison ( talk) 11:43, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
The problem is They think that F-5 Was in service but The end of the year the F-5 Was been retired.Heres the Sorces. http://www.malaysiandefence.com/?p=5217.And Please just I Want to edit the Aircraft Malaysia armed forces.This is Inportant,And MIG-29 Also Reitred ok.Just shut down Protection.I will Look around About The Aircraft. Stan Mcharrison ( talk) 13:54, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
I wrote another review for The Bugle. This time I wrote about Lothar Machtan's controversial book The Hidden Hitler. It's currently placed at my sandbox. I would appreciate if you would glance over it and maybe do some small copy edits if you see the need for it, and upload it to the review page. Cheers and Happy New Year. :) Jonas Vinther ( speak to me!) 17:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I notice that User:MuZemike seems to be on a Wikibreak, and because of your prior involvement I would like to request your assistance with the conversation I just started on their User talk page in User talk:MuZemike#Big Tree (chief), Big Tree (war chief), Maman-ti, User:Scarfaced Charley, User:Giorgio Traverso Coda. I will also be leaving a similar note at User talk:Moonriddengirl. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:55, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick I used that photo because that particular ODA was the very first to go into enemy territory. Task Force 1-41 was the first heavy element into enemy territory. That ODA performed recon for 1-41 in particular. In all there were 10 ODAs. How about reinstating the photo and I will reword it?
Also, don't expect other editors to write good prose for you - do it yourself - Yes, there are limits to every-one's patience, aren't there.
Happy New Year!
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Thanks very much for all the hard work you two are doing on this. But are you confident in going ahead without any reverts - has any action taken place? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:51, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. In regard to the reversion of my recent minor edits, I'd like to say that I believe it legitimate to indicate that Cook was the first "known" European to chart the east Australian coast, due to the significant possibility that others may have done so earlier (see Theory of the Portugese discovery of Australia. I also wish to point to the fact that several other articles on Wikipedia make reference to a place being first "known" to have been discovered by European (insert name here). I look forward to your responce. Aardwolf A380 ( talk) 11:05, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
::Ok, thanks :) Aardwolf A380 ( talk) 11:43, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick! User EyeTruth has involved me in another Administrator's discussion. I mentioned your name at the Adminstrator's Edit Warring page. You don't have to come by, and you don't have to say anything. I did mention your name there though and I wanted to make sure you were made aware. It's just an FYI. Thanks. Gunbirddriver ( talk) 03:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
I came to notify you, but Gunbirddriver already did. I will add that I've started a discussion on the Prokhorovka talkpage. You're welcomed to check it out, thanks. Part of the dispute is very similar to the blitzkrieg one. Sources say xxxxx, but Gunbirddriver disagrees, believing that there must be other sources that say otherwise. Hopefully, he will provide those soon. EyeTruth ( talk) 19:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nick - I've been reading the article on Christmas Island, and I came across a sentence that sounds odd to me. It's the second sentence in the section Christmas Island#Japanese invasion:
I know that the sentence might sound perfectly ordinary to a military person, but to a non-military reader it sounds a little odd. Perhaps a few words could be added after "under"? "Under the command of", or something like that? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:00, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
My book was recently purged from Wikipedia. The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning has been chucked down the memory hole. Of course there were legitimate reasons for its deletion. I asked Wikipedia to explain and they kindly responded:
"I've just removed the material referenced to the book The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy as it does not appear to be a reliable source. The book's publisher Alora Publishing looks like a publisher of WP:FRINGE-type works judging from what it chooses to highlight on its website, and I could not find any reviews of the book in reliable sources, and many of the references to it on the internet are to extremist websites. The author's website is also not typical of that of a neutral historian. Nick-D (talk) 22:41, 11 October 2014 (UTC) Worldcat shows it owned by 1319 libraries, a very substantial number. This of course does not mean it is an authority, but it might appear to be of considerable interest. Google Scholar shows it has been cited 16 times, as follows: [6]. DGG (David Goodman) ( talk ) 20:21, 14 July 2015 (UTC) (I wrote this is response to an OTRS query asking about the removal of the book)."
According to Nick the book is not a reliable source. But he seems to think it was published by Alora Publishing, a publisher of “fringe-type” works. I tried to find Alora Publishing but was not successful. I contacted my publisher and he thought that Nick’s comments may have been a joke. Nick claims that he could not find any reviews of my book in reliable sources. I guess Publishers’ Weekly and Choice magazine (by the American Library Association, for academic libraries) are not considered reliable. Perhaps it was wrong of the BBC to contact me for an interview in Things We Forgot to Remember. My blog is not and has never claimed to be the work of a neutral historian.
Nick raises one troubling point about my book: “many of the references to it on the internet are to extremist websites.” I do not have any control over who references my work. In my research I have run across a great deal of anti-Semitism. This is unfortunate because it is a distraction and it is used to discredit anyone looking for the truth. Many of the key people involved with the Morgenthau Plan were Jewish, however, one of its strongest critics, Victor Gollancz, was also a Jew. I am not aware of any extremist claims in my book although its conclusions are outrageous. We live in interesting times and some even think the Little Sisters of the Poor are extremists.
The bottom line is: Who is more credible? Check the Algora Publishing website. If you believe it is “fringe” you will agree with Nick. If you check it out and wonder what Nick is talking about then you will know why Wikipedia has a bad reputation for veracity. 108.19.156.56 ( talk) 22:21, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Nick,
You have inspired me to write a third edition on the Morgenthau Plan. If you like I will send you a copy of the second edition. You can read it and send me your corrections. If I find them valid I will incorporate them in the third edition and give you the credit. I can not speak for Algora Publishing but I used the term “holocaust” because one of its definitions is: “any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.” I know that Ukrainians got a lot of grief for using that term to describe their famine and eventually switched to using the term Holodomor. Unfortunately this word has not made it into Dictionary.com. If you can suggest another term for reckless destruction of life I would be glad to use it. A writer’s credibility is everything. That is why throughout my work I try not to exaggerate. If I quote a source that appears to exaggerate I let the reader know. I intentionally used the term holocaust because there was an intentional and reckless destruction of life as a result of policies devised by our progressive and oft times Communist bureaucrats. That is a fact Jack. Even the negative review on Amazon does not contest my facts but claims I wrote the book for an “odious cause.” I wrote the book to reveal an uncomfortable truth. In my research I ran into quite a bit of anti-Semitism. I have tried to make it clear that I do not espouse these ideas. The malicious comments made by anti-Semites are used to discredit people like me who are sincerely looking for the truth.
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Hi. Please lock the page again. Thanks. Eugεn S¡m¡on (14) ® 14:19, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Nick, I'm here in my WMF role. Would you be interested in adapting Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/July 2015/Review essay for an external audience and republishing it on the Wikimedia blog? :-) Pieces that explore the background and difficulties behind writing Wikipedia articles are something I've been pushing for more of. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 08:22, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Ed Erhart (WMF): How does the draft at User:Nick-D/reviews look? I've suggested a more snappy title, and would prefer not to use ""You sunk my battleship" given that the main feature of these attacks was the the battleship wasn't sunk ;) Nick-D ( talk) 12:11, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Cliffside Malibu I went to start an article on this subject because I've seen it pop up in a lot of celebrity rehab-related articles, and I noticed you had deleted a previous article about the topic for being blatant advertising. I just want you to be aware that I am working on this article, and that my goal is just to create a reference point for the topic because it has gained prominence enough that someone who is not a celebrity watcher has noticed. If you have any concerns, please let me know. Thanks! Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 18:45, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I'm diagreeing with misleading, unhelpful claims that other participants might be naïve enough to take on face value. Defending the research and efforts of a very serious proposer who has an intimate knowledge the workloads of both Bureaucrats and the Arbitration Committee, from comments based on conjecture is hardly akin to hectoring. Regards, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:14, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
I've just uploaded this file. Is there anything you can suggest to avoid it being deleted? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 04:49, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi user:Nick-D Apologies if the image was unsuitable. I was only trying to illustrate the effect of the blitz on the civilian population, and daily life on the ground. Thanks. Jason.nlw ( talk) 11:53, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Just a heads up, the user Dredernely, who commented about adding Pyrrhic victory to the World War II page is a sock of the indefinitely banned User:HarveyCarter. Calidum T| C 12:16, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on the Royal New Zealand Air Force article. I can never tell if an IP is just throwing out numbers for no reason or are truly trying to make a good faith edit. No heart feelings of past debates, these things can get pretty heated, but with all good intentions - Cheers FOX 52 ( talk) 16:57, 30 July 2015 (UTC) |
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Hi,
I appealed my topic ban ( diff). Taking in consideration that you supported my ban and/or was against its lifting I would like to inform you that I appealed my ban so you could again present your opinion. All the best.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 20:59, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
[70] -I think that was my bad, I did a roll back on Manmountain08 who’d being changing sourced numbers. Didn't realize the total revert reintroduced wrong text- Sorry about that FOX 52 ( talk) 17:27, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Anotherclown ( talk) 05:18, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick. I'm going through checking User:Citadel48's recent contributions (for obvious reasons) at the moment and found Wikipedia:1984 Severomorsk Disaster which he seems to have created then copy and pasted to Severomorsk Disaster (rather than moving it). I've made it a redirect but I wonder if a history merge is req'd (or some such Adminy thing)? Thanks. Anotherclown ( talk) 07:12, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
You reverted my suggestion of the use 'unconfirmed' rather than fictitious. You reason was 'no they are fictitious'.
However if one is to read the article it speaks of actual projects that were known to be planed and some created so ficticiois is I believe a misleading term - what has happened is there is a confusion of terms here because indeed there are ficticiois elements: these are the 'theories' behind understanding why they created such known existing plans and projects not whether they did or not where evidence exists and is in museums in America and germany.
However any seriously insterested in history or historians of this area will know this, but being used by the genral public I think it is important not to encourage sudoscience where it is not.
Kind regards
Ben
Please read into it and you can see for yourself Benjahdrum ( talk) 08:26, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nick. You previously blocked User:86.26.26.107 for one month as a result of the SPI here - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/AnnalesSchool/Archive#4_July_2015 - for being a sockpuppet of the indef blocked User:AnnalesSchool. Since the expiry of their block the IP has returned and is editing the in the same area they previously did (and as AnnalesSchool), indicating that it is the same person attempting to avoid their block by not logging in. For instance on 5 Aug - at Franco-Italian Armistice [71], 7 August Axis occupation of Greece [72], and 15 August Franco-Italian Armistice [73], Axis occupation of Greece [74] and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history [75] [76]. As a result can you pls have a look and see whether a further block for the IP is warranted before this gets disruptive? Pls let me know if a complete report is necessary and I'll file one at SPI. Thanks in advance. Anotherclown ( talk) 20:42, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello nick, User talk:Adnan bogi whom you previously blocked for a week is still engaged in spamming. just wanted to this to your attention. thank you :) Nicky mathew ( talk) 19:17, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Nick, are you able to remove my rollback rights? I have only once used it in anger and mostly I find that I have accidentally rolled back something when using my smart phone because I accidentally touched the rollback link. Usually because of a page redraw just as I'm trying to follow a diff link and the redraw puts the rollback link where the diff was a half second ago. - Nick Thorne talk 22:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nick as contributor to aviation pages, I wondered if you'd chime in on this discussion. I'm trying compromise on some parts of overhauled lists that I've done, or maybe I have it wrong - Regards FOX 52 ( talk) 19:41, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Does this discussion ring any bells in you? Cheers, Jonas Vinther • ( Click here to collect your price!) 09:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick. I just added a little bit to Operation Goodwood (naval). Could you have a look at my addition, and check if it looks okay? Manxruler ( talk) 12:28, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting the troll edit, but he/she did us a favor. You'll see my edit summary probably, but when the article was created the word 'History' was left out of her academic title, so I've put it in with a source. Doug Weller ( talk) 09:14, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I suggest the name FuckfuckUaat violates policy. Rjensen ( talk) 11:17, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Since you wrote an article on the war, you might in interested in knowing that the big-budget TV series 1864 was absolutely horribly received. It had a production cost of 184 million Kroner, the most expensive TV series ever made in Denmark. The cast and historical accuracy was excellent, but the plot, editing and the way the series was presented was ... well, crap. Peace, Jonas Vinther • ( Click here to collect your price!) 18:04, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Dear Nick,
Hope you are alright. I am sorry for interrupting especially when you have already mentioned of being away due to vacations but I had a similar issue before and you helped me through it by your advice. I require your guidance in an issue I am facing currently. I had created an article called Awans of Pakistan [77] and as you may see in the link it outlined the history, origin and lineage of the Awans who currently reside in Pakistan. This article was referenced mostly by books and also by few websites as seen in the 'References' and 'Further reading' section headings. This article, however, was neither intended nor did it duplicate a previous article called Awan (tribe) which contains only "2 sentences" (one is lead section and second in history) apart from two statements by 2 different people.
However, an editor to the article Awan (tribe) has come up straight, removed references from Awans of Pakistan [78] and redirected it to Awan (tribe). Then he accused me of using 'fake references' in the article [79]. I did not understand his definition for 'fake references' but I could tell that he was acting as a puppet for an IP [80].
I reverted his edits twice and asked the editor to first discuss the matter as both the articles have separate content and context [81] but he would not listen and redirected again. I gave him a second warning to discuss it as Proposed Merger in detail but I had to explain the differences myself to him on his talk page [82]. I guess he was short of words and realized he did not have sufficient proof to explain his doing. Although, he used a brief explanation on the article's talk page [83] but unable to find a way out, he has placed a tag of sanctions on my talk page [84] to get things his way as he himself said on the article's talk page, "..but only in accordance with our policies".
I have never dealt with sanctions and I am very particular about following Wikipedia policies so I thought it better to first discuss this issue with you that what you think of the entire case. I even asked the editor that I can help him improve his article as his article already had tags and it is already in a poor state but he is bent upon his defensive approach [85]. So what can I possibly do in such a situation? My aim is only to improve the encyclopedic content and Awans of Pakistan was offering that but now the matter has been taken in another direction by the editor. I seek your advice in such a situation.
I will wait for your reply here as the matter seems sensitive. Thank you so much for your time.
Pixarh ( talk) 05:43, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick, you're better acquainted than I am with the various shenanagans, sockpuppets etc that have surrounded the whole 'Philippine Commonwealth Army' issue on wikipedia. I think that this page is one of them - as far as I can tell it has no basis in fact. Can we do a mass delete with this and a number of the other dubious pages? Buckshot06 (talk) 06:23, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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Nick, I don't know if you're checking in, but Chris has scheduled one of yours for the 27th. I'm not really sure what to do with it ... can you compress it down to 1150 characters or less? (Btw, the first link needs to be to the article). If you're not around, no problem, we can schedule it another time. - Dank ( push to talk) 17:08, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick, you recently did not agree my edit on Adolf Hitler page removing "socialist" next to the politician and (in a rude manner) you told me to read about it. Im sorry Nick but obviously you need to do some reading here. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party (National Socialist German Workers' Party) was a socialist from the left side of the political scene. Its only now that some people think that he was from "the right". Anyway, I don't want to write his biography on your page here. Educate yourself or read Mein Kamph maybe. Adolf Hitler was a socialist. Regards
Flushout1999 has added a large amount of material to Robert Conquest that he has copied and pasted or closely paraphrased from other sources. Consider, for example, the section on Conquest's criticism of Ezra Pound, which includes text such as "[Conquest considered Pound] a poseur of the highest order, not to mention a lousy poet who garbled his own allusions to classical mythology and did so without any redeeming ingenuity or creativity. Also, [in Conquest's opinion], Pound’s notorious fascism and egoism only added to his artistic debit" which is copied directly from the cited article by Michael Weiss. None of the material in the section on Pound is original besides the opening sentence. Even the closing line ("Having in passing [attacked] Pound's claim to have rendered Latin classics into verse, Conquest concluded:[...]") is copied almost word for word from Christopher Hitchens, who also provides the following quotation from Conquest (meaning that Flushout1999 is also regurgitating Hitchens' arrangement of the facts). This is not an isolated incident. Most, if not all, of Flushout1999's additions are copyright violations, from "The IRD years" (which includes material like "In 1947–1949, the IRD started to collect materials on the issue of forced labor in Stalin’s Russia and decided to publish pamphlets and prepare news articles and bulletins on the forced labor camps. It had been decided that one or two names of Soviet camps should be hammered into the mind of the public, until these names were as clearly linked with Communist terror as the names “Auschwitz” and “Treblinka” were linked with Nazism. The Soviet camps chosen for the purpose was Karaganda and Vorkuta. Later, Kolyma in the Soviet Far East was added", which is all copied directly (including the grammatical issue with the plural camps) from Lennart Samuelson--and, yes, even the books cited, like Britain's Secret Propaganda War in this section, appear to provide not only the facts but Flushout1999's exact language) to the section on Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow ("The Harvest of Sorrow had a clear moral:[...]" and much else is taken straight from the LA Times). In the "Day of Dupes" section, which is nothing more than an attempt to quote everything Flushout1999 considers important from the article in question (there are no secondary sources to establish the significance of this article and thus why we need to copy so much of it), Flushout1999 did originally add one sentence of his own unsourced commentary ( "Implying that the latter was a good thing.") to Conquest's words ([Conquest wrote that one of the signatories] "has told us how he became interested in politics: on seeing a Right-wing policeman kick a Left-wing girl, he did not conclude, as most of us would have done, that it is a bad thing for a policeman to kick girls, but that it is a bad thing for Right-wingers to kick Left-wingers."), but after I pointed out that it was laughably POV he agreed to drop it. I know you don't have a lot of time right now, but if you could look into this matter and take appropriate action when you get the chance I would greatly appreciate it. Regards, TheTimesAreAChanging ( talk) 18:52, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Brian scheduled this one, but I don't expect the summary itself will be a problem ... look at it and see if you agree. My summary is very close to your lead. - Dank ( push to talk) 22:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
OTOH, I don't know if the article itself needs updating ... let me know. - Dank ( push to talk) 02:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
An IP has been adding a work by Stan Winer, South Africa and the Politics of Risk, [87] to the Further Reading list of History of South Africa Edward321 ( talk) 13:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick-D: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 16 October 2015 for companies, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Companies. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America 1000 16:40, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Celebrate Buckshot06 (talk) 20:36, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 19 October 2015 for Disability-related articles, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disability. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America 1000 18:10, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#Please reinstate my access to the admin tools, if you are going to be traveling a lot (or just want to work from Starbucks - :) ) I can advise you on how to be just as secure on some random WiFi hotspot as you are at home. I am an engineer who works with this sort of thing all the time. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 19:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your corrections. The recent development of that article had me worried. Mr Vinther's user boxes from May (since removed) show where his sympathies lie. Regards, Robby.is.on ( talk) 03:22, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
I concur with your sentiment. I also commented on Schutzstaffel talk page, following your entries. I encourage others to do the same. -- K.e.coffman ( talk) 04:57, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
You used that edit summary here, but in fact, you re-added detail, including the person's full name, which I would be careful about per WP:BLP and WP:RSBREAKING, nevermind the fact that there are >100 victims and i don't think it's appropriate to single out some by name. LjL ( talk) 19:32, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Or mail call as our U.S colleagues say :) Irondome ( talk) 22:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
GAB Hello! 17:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick-D,
Since we both were engaged on the SS article, wanted to address some of my concerns here.
If you look at my edits, about 80% of them were to correct "Nazi apologia" - K.e.coffman edits
Some of the more egregious examples:
Etc., etc.
Is this something to look out for in Wikipedia? And what can be done about it? K.e.coffman ( talk) 18:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. A agree that the exterior picture of Wapping railway station that you replaced with the platform image is very similar to its current appearance but it is those details that matter. It is up to you but I think we should bring it back. Here is what I think:
What do you think? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 11:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Nick, it looks like the socks are back on Sukhoi Superjet 100,with at least two users showing up to revert who created accounts on November 22. Looks like a really large sock/meat farm here attempting to game the system. Normally I don't ascribe to protecting "the right version", but given the bad faith by these socks, it seems necessary here. I don't understand.the sockmaster's opposition to the Featured image, but it it a very odd situation. Thanks for whatever you can do. - BilCat ( talk) 12:54, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
what ever happened before with what you call socks there are a lot more editors who disagree with that picture! it is as simple as that! and there is nobody gaming the system it is just disagreeing with that picture!-- 35deyu4642 ( talk) 13:11, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Nick, can you at least leave a link to the OpenPAT project status on the page. Perhaps something like:
The OpenPAT project status is discussed here.
Thanks, - User:Npcomp ( talk) 07:47, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick. FYI Rupert has contacted Cuprum17 to confirm what he wishes to do with the review. All the best. Anotherclown ( talk) 22:57, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you are one of the administrators on English Wikipedia. Could you please remove (if you have the right to do so) my user page? Im not going to contribute on wikipedia anymore and I would be very grateful if you did it.
Thank you, Muta112 ( talk) 17:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Noticed this on the article I'm working on HIAG as well as other related articles: Nazi crime K.e.coffman ( talk) 05:46, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Pardon the ignorance of a newbie, but I have noticed a rash of changes by 141.215.74.46 . See /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/141.215.74.46 . None have an explanation and they all seem to be pro-Bulgarian or anti-Ottoman. It seemed a better idea to report this, rather than just revert them.
If I am handling this wrong - I probably am - I would be grateful if you could point me towards the correct procedure. Thanks. Gog the Mild ( talk) 21:13, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've been engaged in a discussion with another editor about his revert of my cuts on the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking article. Here's the discussion on my Talk page -- Mass removal of uncited or poorly cited material. Would you mind reviewing the discussion and providing your opinion on how to handle this appropriately? I'm a new editor so I would appreciate your guidance. K.e.coffman ( talk) 05:47, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
global Fire power write, Indonesia have 5 Attack Helicopter that means Mi-35 FDHLWP ( talk) 10:54, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick-D, thank you again for your support on the SS Div. Wiking; the article is in less bad shape now :-)
As I was working on it, I've started compiling a list of dubious unsourced claims and non-NPOV language. I started it mostly for fun, but I ended up quite disturbed by what I was seeing across the Waffen-SS content. You can see the results here: Military History (WWII and Waffen-SS) content issues.
The problems are systemic and widespread. Is there something that perhaps can be done at the MilHist group level? Or is there a way to identify the most trafficked articles and address them first?
As an aside, I posted re: one of the sourcing issues on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard ( Patrick Agte on Jochen Peiper), but I'm not getting a response. Perhaps you could have a look? Not sure if my request here would qualify as 'tag teaming', so if you would rather not post there, that would be fine.
Thank again for your help. K.e.coffman ( talk) 21:16, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, I think your reply works better than a reply from me. Please tell me that didn't actually happen ... do you know if someone is actually mass-emailing everyone who had articles deleted in 2009, including for copyvio and promotionalism? - Dank ( push to talk) 13:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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[88] Nick, would appreciate a sanity check on this revert. Reading the source it doesn't support the edit made and there is a fairly strong POV slant. Regards, W C M email 14:37, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of Labuan you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ceradon -- Ceradon ( talk) 18:41, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I have been going through the Battle of Labuan article that you created recently and I came across this US Navy loss ( USS Salute (AM-294)) during the lead up? Wondering if USS Salute (AM-294) should be written into the article. Regards Newm30 ( talk) 03:44, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I am flummoxed by Wikipedia citation method/style. Can you help me out on citing casualty numbers on battle of Luzon. here is battle of Luzon 205,535 Japanese killed (about 195k to 205k depending on how you count: https://books.google.com/books?id=BSrFX51AGPMC&pg=PA694&lpg=PA694&dq=US+Army+in+World+War+II,+War+in+the+Pacific,+Triumph+in+the+Philippines+appendix+h-2+japanese&source=bl&ots=jeBWkhNo3f&sig=FkinbcGFo3Jv7bEErQwG0Gam28w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tFi1VP-2LMacgwTwx4L4AQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=US%20Army%20in%20World%20War%20II%2C%20War%20in%20the%20Pacific%2C%20Triumph%20in%20the%20Philippines%20appendix%20h-2%20japanese&f=false I have other references on the range of civilian deaths I am working on prviding. 73.212.229.38 ( talk) 17:48, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Lord knows why the box should only include "the three main Allied leaders" considering the war began while Chamberlain was Prime Minister and ended while Truman was President. I think it's rather misleading to only include those three.
Hey Nick-D, back quite some time ago, you deleted a page about a Tasmanian soccer club - Nelson Eastern Suburbs FC. While I'm not questioning the lack of notoriety mentioned, or quality of the previous article, I intend to write up a new version of it, as they're now in the Tasmanian Championships. I'm more than happy to do the hard work and chase up sources and stuff, I was just hoping that you'd be able to unlock access to this and I could utilise what used to exist as a template for a newer, fresher page? If so, that would be really helpful. Cheers! - J man708 ( talk) 10:45, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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On 26 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Labuan, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that almost all of the buildings on Labuan island were destroyed by the bombardment which preceded its invasion by Australian forces during the Battle of North Borneo in June 1945? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Labuan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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The article Battle of Labuan you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Labuan for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Happy editing! -- ceradon ( talk • contribs) 02:37, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
You left a redundant message on my talkpage. And I just wanted to let you know that the only reason I readded that what you removed was because you didn't explain it properly as to why you removed the other two sources. I did not understand "don't need 3 refs for a simple statement". Your recent reason as to why you removed it again made perfect sense. So I did not add it again. Also, please do not leave silly messages like you did. There is no real reason to tell me you removed it again. It is not really necessary to do so. Please carry on with your business and have a good day...
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Nick, I have to say I'm becoming increasingly concerned at the way our minds are synching -- no sooner do I begin reading Ulysses S. Grant with a view to commenting than I find you've completed a review yourself...! No matter, it's bound to have saved me some work, and I might be able to focus more on his political than his military career. If you're in a reviewing mood, though, be happy to get your thoughts on the Les Holden FAC, as you weren't able to get to the ACR... :-) Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 14:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Is there a noticeboard to ask for advice on notability?
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matilde Vernet y Sáez
By my interpretation of policy this person would never be considered notable, she is only known because of who her father is, its a stub and an orphan. W C M email 18:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
"Central Readiness Force" is the special operations command of japanese SF units combined of: Special Forces Group, 1st Helicopter Brigade, 1st Airborne Brigade, 101st NBC Protection Unit. It is similar to U.S Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
The "1st Helicopter Brigade" is the special aviation unit supporting special operation units of CRF. It is similar to U.S 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment .
The "Central Readiness Regiment" is a regiment ground combat unit of CRF, the main mission of which is to carry out operations on battlefields abroad as an advance force. As of now it is deployed in (DAPE base) in Djibouti, Horn of Africa, first overseas permanent military base of JSDF. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keijhae ( talk • contribs) 03:52, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Japanese Special Forces Group, 1st Helicopter Brigade, 1st Airborne Brigade and 101st NBC Protection Unit is under the command of "Central Readiness Force", which is the joint special operations command of JGSDF. (ref: Japan Ministry of Defence, GSDF Central Readiness Force, Japan Defence Focus, accessed February 2015.) Keijhae ( talk) 05:20, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
It is the writer opinion, but we must considered that the Central Readiness Force command the special operations units of JGSDF. It is the 1st joint special operations command of JGSDF which command special forces units in it. Only the japanese pacifist constitution article 9 limits the role of its forces, but not its capabilities. Anyway, the Central Readiness Regiment of CRF are already deployed in DAPE base in Djibouti, Horn of Africa since 2011, the first overseas permanent full pledged military base of JSDF. Keijhae ( talk) 05:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jonas Vinther -- Jonas Vinther ( talk) 16:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Do you think the historic Newspoll released this morning warrants a mention in the article? Timeshift ( talk) 05:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
You might want to respond to accusations/POV tag here. Timeshift ( talk) 00:08, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
OK what is going on. Longstanding AUSPOL convention is that opinion pieces are not WP:RS. Using an opinion piece to reference a pundit's opinion is WP:OR. You should find an WP:RS quoting the pundit's opinion to establish that the opinion is actually important. Or do you really want people quoting Andrew Bolt articles everywhere? -- Surturz ( talk) 06:06, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
The article Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jonas Vinther -- Jonas Vinther ( talk) 21:21, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
[8] Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 08:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
You asked for a detailed review and therefore I did my very best. But still, I was unable to find any serious flaws or any suggestions for improvement—other than the small edits I made along the way. I hope your still satisfied. Jonas Vinther ( speak to me!) 21:29, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Do you think there's any reason, based on this user's recent contributions, why he shouldn't be blocked for disruptive editing? JUst asking you for a second opinion. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
I've just spot checked a source for the contentious material:
The tendentious conduct on talk pages and ANI is also entirely unacceptable, and not in line with the conduct of a good faith editor. @ Buckshot06:, I'd support a block. Nick-D ( talk) 09:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D, same issue as with Bird occurred with a book by Geoffrey Roberts. See this discussion. Here is the source in gbooks [14]. So Bird isn't the only source which YMB29 misrepresented. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 14:23, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
From comparing this with the source, it's also clear to me that the source is being misrepresented. Roberts does indeed state that it's difficult to judge how many rapes took place and argues that estimates have been exaggerated to partially exonerate Germany. However, he also states that "hundreds of thousands of rapes in Germany" took place (and endorses the views of historian who estimates that the number may have been as high as 2 million), with this being much higher than the number which would be "normal" [his word] for a force of this size, and the focus of his analysis is what lead to such conduct. I can see no good reason for omitting this when discussing his analysis. This earlier edit was much worse - saying only that "Roberts concludes that, given the scale of the conlfict and the size of the territory involved, probably tens of thousands of rapes were normal for such a conquering force as the Red Army" deliberately misrepresents his argument that the Red Army's conduct was much worse than "normal" conduct for such a force. Again, I can't see any way that this could have been the result of a good faith mistake, especially given the agenda being advanced. I have blocked YMB29 for a week. Nick-D ( talk) 22:03, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
[17] Gaba has been editing in contravention of his topic ban and it is basically the same as before. [18] The topic ban violation has already been reported and I was pinged about it. I really don't want to get dragged back into the drama boards again, so I would rather not comment. Is that a sensible thing to do?
Also per WP:DENY should that edit be reverted? Regards, W C M email 10:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I was just hoping you could explain the revert you did on SkyCity Auckland as I'm a bit confused. Who's engaged in block evasion? To my eyes, there seems to be some useful material there which has got cut. Thanks! Ballofstring ( talk) 01:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
I question why you did not take advantage of the WP:ARBEE DS and issue a topic ban, rather than raising the block-level to indefinite. Would that not've been the more effective approach? RGloucester — ☎ 06:33, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nick-D. I am writing because I suspect that self-described "Guatemalan history buff" Nerdoguate might be the latest Horhey420 sockpuppet. Although there may not be enough evidence to be conclusive, in looking over their contributions it is obvious that they edited prior to creating the account. The massive size of edits like this is also a red flag, particularly considering (as with Horhey) the citations are formatted in several different ways due to the obvious copying-and-pasting. It might be wise to examine this accounts' actions more closely in the future. Regards, TheTimesAreAChanging ( talk) 20:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Nick - have added note about archaic spelling. regards Richard Bruce Bradford ( talk) 07:26, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I have noticed that you recently blocked LupinoJacky, I guess for his behaviour on Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Reporting_Illegitimate_Reversions and related articles. Now QTeuta tried to start the whole discussion all over again (the case is closed by now). He got already the interest from another user, culminating in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LupinoJacky/Archive. But there are to much coincidences on the way.
Could you take a look at this? Please, pretty please?
Thanks in advance. The Banner talk 02:09, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
A former soldier is adding edits that are not supported by references. So far the info he provides is of little or no value, imo. Thought I would let you know. Don Brunett ( talk) 20:41, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett
Nick I took it upon myself to remove the information. I felt it was written with personal motive and it did not add any value to the article. You can look and determine if I was in error. Thanks. Don Brunett ( talk) 21:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett
Yes I will, just as soon as I figure out whats wring with my machine (shes an old xp model that turned seven a few months back, but shes been having problems the last few days and I'm growing concerned that it may be something serious. TomStar81 ( Talk) 20:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
A new user, Suneditor, has just popped up and is editing the same articles as our friend User:Keijhae. Making the same reverts too. Is it possible to request a checkuser? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 07:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick, User:Thandieu123 has made recent edits at Battle of Hòa Bình and a number of other pages that were the usual / similar haunts of User:MiG29VN and his socks, which makes me believe they are one and the same. This edit in particular at Hoa Binh changing "French Union Victory" to "Viet Minh strategic victory" here [19] is almost identical to that made by User:113.186.112.119 here [20] who is blocked as a MiG29VN sock. Pls also consider Thandieu123's interest in both Eastern Front (e.g Operation Bagration), weaponry (e.g. 5.56×45mm NATO), and Vietnam War topics which is a very similar editing pattern to MiG29VN and all his socks. His addition of "U.S. body count" to Operation Allen Brook with this edit [21] and the edit warring after it was disputed is also similar to the usual editing pattern of the MiG29VN socks which fixate on body count. If you could pls look at this when you get a chance that would be appreciated. To be clear I think a block of Thandieu123 as a sockpuppet is needed. Given that they are a logged in user as opposed to an IP is a different process req'd (i.e. sock puppet investigation and check user)? I imagine I will be able to dig up more evidence if its req'd so pls let me know. Regards. Anotherclown ( talk) 22:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello again Nick. User:Chimtuhu looks like the latest sockpuppet of MiG29VN to me. Their latest edits are:
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Hi. RE: [28] I think in the future it would be more constructive to either consult with the person who added the POV tag, or explicitly obtain talkpage consensus before removing a POV tag. That said, I am much happier with the text at Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill motion, 2015 so I'm happy to let the tag removal stand. There is a polite way and an impolite way to resolve POV disputes, and you (uncharacteristically) chose the latter this time round. Peace. -- Surturz ( talk) 02:40, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I filed for a block review over at ANI in regards to the block of User:Thewolfchild. Caden cool 22:32, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I thought I'd check this with an admin, and as WCM's mentor I thought you might be a good choice. Would you mind reviewing this, in reference to this Commons deletion request? Thanks, Kahastok talk 20:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Did you look at the thing on the top? Says "about a week"... I think your speedy close was a little abrupt. It's OK, I have listed at [[WT:MILHIST], but I think you were a bit trigger happy to close it, when I have never seen you before. That gives you the same right as I do... we all come here voluntarily, and I thank you for it, but that was a bit trigger happy I think... I said so on the forum but it is better I say to you personally. I will probably get in trouble for this, now. Si Trew ( talk) 04:10, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Never seen you swear on the wiki before, hope everything is OK. W C M email 09:59, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Our company recently had an article written for us by a third party called writersforhire. I show the draft was deleted by you on February 5, 2015. Our company is the Living Scriptures. Reading the article that was submitted we are confused as to why this draft was deleted. What do we need to do to get this fixed?
Hello nick, can you ban the user Alaney2k also known as nirgensburg/grisuu_29 on youtube which was deleted yesterday, and this account will be on the ban community. 2600:1006:B10D:2F12:1D33:9AC3:5F5A:2325 ( talk) 03:43, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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Tony1 suggested I could create an article on Rowley Richards. I would just like a second opinion on whether he is notable. (Richards, not Tony). Hawkeye7 ( talk) 05:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
It's perhaps one of the most iconic quotes about Australia and its economy to come out of the 20th century. It still generates discussion today, all you have to do is paste it into Google. That's what's "so what". Is it more to do with you not wanting any kind of quote that tarnishes or smears Australia's reputation or credibility on Wikipedia? Because I think it should be there. Ashton 29 ( talk) 09:52, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
It looks Buckshot06 does seemingly not have a suggest wording, so I propose we implement yours as the majority is already in favor of that. Thoughts? Jonas Vinther • ( speak to me!) 23:44, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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I have been asked to do a new article for the above title, which you deleted on 5 February. This will be a Paid Edit, and of course I will follow all the rules and guidelines and declare that I'm being recompensed. Can you resurrect the piece and put it in a Sandbox somewhere so I can see what had been done before? Thanks so much. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 19:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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Gday Nick. Recently I came across Draft:Queensland University Active Citizens Air Force Squadron. I've been attempting to assist a new / inexperienced editor with getting this one up to standard, and in the process I came to realize that the editor that submitted it hasn't had much luck with the system to date (the draft has bounced around since 2013). There are of cse quite a number of issues with the article which I will try and work through but I was wondering if you might assist in another way. Specifically the editor's username is "QUSRAAFCAF" which is contrary to our username guidelines. He was blocked a little while ago as a result and has now submitted a request to change his username - here: Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple - so that he can continue to work on the article. Unfortunately there isn't much detail in the renaming request he submitted so I'm just a little concerned that a volunteer that comes across his request without some background knowledge might not understand what he requires and decline. As an Admin are you able to action such requests? If so would it be possible to ask you to have a look at his request and if you agree that its all above board make the required change for him? The background can be found at User talk:QUSRAAFCAF. Unfortunately its a bit of a saga and I was hoping to try to not chase off a new user that might be able to contribute something of value (he has also contributed some interesting images to Commons which I hope are legit...). Thanks again. Anotherclown ( talk) 14:21, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello again. This one might interest you - User talk:AWMOfficialRecords. I seem to recall a little while back you were involved in a project to engage with the AWM, was that right? I wonder if this might be a useful lead. Of cse I understand why the account was block (i.e. due to our username policy) but I wonder if this bloke might be salvaged as a contributor somehow? Anyway just thought I'd mention it to you whilst I was here. All the best. Anotherclown ( talk) 14:26, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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Please join in with an opinion regarding a new edit conflict. Cheers, and have a nice weekend, Jonas Vinther • ( speak to me!) 12:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick. In my enthusiasm last week I created Queensland University Squadron as a redirect to RAAF University Squadrons. Unfortunately (for me) I'm now of the opinion that Draft:Queensland University Active Citizens Air Force Squadron is now ready to be moved in to mainspace but I can't move it over the redirect. I've requested deletion of the redirect but I'm not having any luck with getting someone to blow it away. Just wondering if you had the time to have a look at my request and action if you agree with my assertion that it is non-controversial. Thanks again. Anotherclown ( talk) 12:27, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
This this article deserves a bit of watching. As the last talkpage note said, too much about unreadable sections of the army, and equipment, and not enough about its history, human rights abuses etc. Please keep an eye, because the equipment fanboy division will be back pretty quickly, I very much guess... Buckshot06 (talk) 10:08, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, any chance you could protect the above article which is under attack at the moment? Regards Denisarona ( talk) 11:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick. You recently deleted an article for a food industry executive (Thomas F. Olin, Jr.) on the basis that the person was not notable. Apparently, we are getting mixed signals here, as Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink have been soliciting articles regarding chief/top executives of large national food corporations. Is it possible that you are not aware of this or perhaps there is a certain threshold of corporate size that 'qualifies' the company or the person for an article? Archway Cookies was the third largest cookie company in the United States, with retail brand sales exceeding $300,000,000 per year. Please compare to similar executive article listings: James Jenness-Kellog, John A. Bryant, Paul C. P. McIlhenny-Tobasco sauce. C. Joseph Genster-Diet drinks. John F. Grundhofer-BJs Restaurants, Michael W. Rice-Utz Foods, Thomas A. Garrett-Arbys, Sally J. Smith-Buffalo Wild Wings, Edmund A. Gann-Seafood, James B. Adamson, Dan Bane-Trader Joes, Lee Bickmore-Nabisco, Salli Setta-Red Lobster, Bernard D. Rubin-Tootsie Roll, Robert Holland (executive)-Ben & Jerry's ... and many other executives of varying importance and notoriety ... /info/en/?search=Category:American_chief_executives_of_food_industry_companies
Hi Nick, not sure if you remember this discussion some years ago, which you contributed to. I've been slowly consolidating 'Military facilities' and 'Military bases' across a whole range of the subcategories. Now there is an opposed move of about three of the subcategories at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Opposed_nominations. Would you kindly consider giving your views there? Regards Buckshot06 (talk) 10:14, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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Nick, could you do me a favour and move User:Hawkeye7/Sandbox6 to Kinsella v. Krueger, a redirect, and delete User talk:Hawkeye7/Sandbox6. The move template says to do it myself, but I cannot. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 12:27, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for that move! Much appreciated! Hawkeye7 ( talk) 12:33, 26 April 2015 (UTC) |
Paul B explained the situation in the article of Adolf Hitler very clearly, taking out the "Austrian-born" from the sentence was probably pointless from the start, I apologize for the inconvenience. ( N0n3up ( talk) 15:42, 26 April 2015 (UTC))
Gday Nick. Would it be possible to request semi-protection for Landing at Anzac Cove pls? I've asked the IP that is making changes to discuss on the talkpage on a couple of occasions but haven't had any luck so far. Thanks in advance. Anotherclown ( talk) 06:24, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Gday again. Sorry in advance for the long post. As you have probably seen there have been a number of very similar edits made to the Battle of Singapore article that follow the line of highlighting reports of the poor performance of Australian forces during this battle (alleged or otherwise). Of course the information may be legitimate (even if I would say it is probably undue weight to include it in such detail and without probably historical analysis and comment, while the sources are also not of the highest quality and the referencing is of poor quality). Regardless, I think there may be some cause for concern here as it could be the work of one or a number of sock puppets. Without going in depth I think there is some evidence to support this concern (and more could be found if req’d).
Firstly, consider the IP recently making the edits at Battle of Singapore - User:121.44.135.48. According to Geolocate [33] this belongs to iiNet Limited and is located in Sydney, New South Wales. Now consider an IP that has recently been editing at Operation Compass - User:121.44.136.27. According to Geolocate [34] this also belongs to iiNet Limited and is located in Sydney, New South Wales. An established editor, User:100menonmars, recently admitted to being IP 121.44.136.27 here (they forgot to logon apparently), so given that the IPs are clearly the same person I'd say it is 100menonmars editing the Battle of Singapore article whilst logged out (at the least they have forgotten to log in again or for some reason it seems they do not want their identity to be known whilst making these edits).
Secondly, I am concerned that there may also be a connection between User:TimSala (who also recently made edits to Battle of Singapore) and User:100menonmars (who has apparently never edited the article - expect probably as an IP). Neither seem to have edited the same article (recently at least that I could see); however, one similarity I have noticed is that both have used a similar citation method on occasion (specifically being the inclusion of a question mark (?) next to a missing page number, presumably the result of a Google Book preview. Consider here [35] for User:100menonmars at Operation Compass and here [36] for User:TimSala at Battle of Singapore. This doesn’t seem like it is likely to be coincidental (and I’m fairly sure I can dig up other examples). At the very least it may be cause for a Check User.
Further to this the contributions of User:TimSala and IP User:121.44.135.48 are also similar in places, suggesting a connection between them, and reinforcing the possibility of a connection between User:100menonmars and User:TimSala by association. Consider TimSala inserted information about the defeatist attitude of Maxwell here [37], the two days later IP 121.44.135.48 makes this edit [38] with the edit summary “More on defeatist attitude of Maxwell.” Whilst it is possible that this is a coincidence, or a case of one editor’s work inspiring that of another to expand etc, I am dubious given the other similarities.
Lastly, my suspicion extends to User:Makesenseofit, who has also made edits to Battle of Singapore recently. Interestingly TimSala inserted the same SMH ref to a Peter Stanley article at Battle of Muar here [39] as Makesenseofit did at Battle of Singapore here [40]. Again possibility a case of one editor inspiring another but I doubt it.
Indeed these accounts, the IPs, 100menonmars, TimSala, and Makesenseofit seem to edit in some similar areas: for instance Battle of Greece, Battle of Singapore, Battle of Crete, Battle of Muar and a number of other North African campaign articles (although not so much TimSala admittedly) and they all seem to include similar information (i.e. to do with Australian military history, but more specifically information that might be seen to either be critical of the performance of Australian forces, or at least highlighting losses / failures). There is of cse some value in this, but I'd be very surprised if the isn't a connection between some or all of these accounts. TimSala has been around the longest (since Oct 10); however, pretty much stopped editing in 2013 and only resumed again in Apr 15, while 100menonmars and Makesenseofit were created in May 14 and Mar 15 respectively.
The pro Italian aspect to some of 100menonmars' edits at Greco-Italian War (and their temporary block in Feb 15) leads me to hold suspicions of possible connections to other editors working / disrupting work in that field but I really have no evidence of that at all (on taking a closer look some of the correspondence 100menonmars' talk page suggests they seem to be in contact by email so it is probably just a genuine shared interest there rather than the same editor – might be best to chalk this last one up to my natural over-suspicion). Anyway I’m interested in your take of my reasoning, and whether this should be pursued (and if so how) as I don't want to sling mud needlessly. I'm also fairly sick of WikiDrama but I'm concerned about possible motives here so I feel compelled to at least mention it. Thoughts? Anotherclown ( talk) 11:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
FWIW I have started an SPI here - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TimSala. I've only had limited involvement in this area so hopefully I haven't muffed it. P.S. Nick sorry to here you are unwell, all the best. Anotherclown ( talk) 12:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello again. A couple more at Battle of Ia Drang - User:113.190.46.130 and User:113.190.46.114. One was previously blocked but the block expired. Also another at Massacre at Huế - User:113.22.115.149. Would you pls be able to have a look at some point? The disruption seems low level and has so far mostly been detected and reverted so its not urgent at this stage. Thanks again. Anotherclown ( talk) 11:26, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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Why do you think the category on countries in the Southern Hemisphere is not very useful? I think it is very useful in geography. Thebuck093 ( talk) 15:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D. Thanks for all the work you to do keep Wikipedia such an amazing community. I contributed to the CourseHorse page that looks like you deleted 2.25.15 (G11; unambiguous promotion). Intent here was not to be promotional and would like to help fit within guidelines. Could you please help me understand what changes would be needed to be made to make compliant? Thank you! -- Emf1111 ( talk) 20:54, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
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I need your urgent opinion on the recent talk entries: I will remove Bias / Opinion could you please jump in?
Myself, I've an overcoming feeling that such approach, is a bad way to try improve the article. It seems that User: Pensiveneko is engaging in multiple sites, with the commonly tenor to remove all the paragraphs and sentence who might not fit his POV in less than one week; See: 1, 2, 3.
Also Pensiveneko is name-calling serious and reputable publications of scholars into an inappropriate magnitude. Such behavior is unacceptable. Please have a look. Thank you. LikePancakes ( talk) 13:37, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello Nick-D, I wanted to inform you that I've created an account and going to replace the ip-sign. Regards, Ben. LikePancakes ( talk) 14:59, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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Could you take a look at Dr. Stephen Bilbrey, DVM? You recently blocked its creator, DCL2015 ( talk · contribs · logs), after s/he created promotional bios on three other non-notable veterinarians from the same group. This last one is equally promotional, equally non-notable, and a total copyvio of the single cited source to boot. I would tag it for speedy, and/or blank it and tag it as copyvio, but it's already at AFD...and...my brain hurts. Maralia ( talk) 04:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
You're probably already aware but the editor at Australia has a disturbingly high percentage of edits marked as minor (63.75%). He definitely needs "coaching" in what is a minor edit and what isn't. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 08:17, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
[43] IP editor insists on adding what I presume is his own website. Is that an exception from a 1RR limitation? W C M email 15:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry for my inserting the Miller/Commager reference without putting any text in. I meant to do it earlier; I'll do it now.
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I've penned a reply. I'd take a wait and see approach at the moment; if annals school does not reply in a way that suggests an openness to work with others then I would forward the matter to arbcom to ensure that the editor, the articles, and the subject material are all dealt with simultaneously. In this manner, any future attempt to deal with the articles without regards for the policies and guidelines here will result on immediate sanctions against the editor and protection for the articles. This will also demonstrate good faith by tossing a life line to or wayward editor, at which point he can either reel himself back from the abyss or hang himself with the rope. Since it will be his choice, it should spare us any longer term issue with editor resentment. TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:15, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Nick, thanks for cleaning up my idiotic spelling errors. My brain isn't fully awake yet. Facepalm It seems the talk page from Talk:City of Canberra (Boeing 747-400) got lost somewhere in the move fiasco, because Talk:City of Canberra (aircraft) is blank. Could you find it? Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 11:28, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Mr.,
I had posted last month a comment about the 80th Infantry... I think that it was misunderstood and you answered in a very offensive way... I chose not to answer you but I found a work that can explain more what I am talking about... See 80th Division (United States) and you will understand what I had exactly meant... I think that the 80th Infantry Division of the United States has quite the same function as the 80th Infantry Division of the United Kingdom... However, you had not developed your work as the one for the US 80th Infantry Division... I advise you not to underestimate people and accept critics next time... If you could understand what a person says to you, do not offense him... However, I invite you to work more until you develop all works about UK Infantry Divisions...-- Csisc ( talk) 15:41, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Just a request for help Nick, an IP editor has been making changes to the Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress articles. They insert and change text without providing new citations and although they make an effort to communicate on the talk page, they refuse to sign edits and also comment on old threads. They appear not to understand how wikipedia works, I have reverted the recent changes they made on the articles as they are getting into a mess where the text does not relate to the current references. I would have protected the articles but could be seen as involved so I am looking for some outside eyes to have a look please, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 10:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Just looking at the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and North American B-25 Mitchell articles, the recent revisions were at first being treated as legitimate AGF edits. I initially tried to correct grammar and spelling but noted that wholesale changes were being made that tended to challenge authoritative and long-standing reference sources. The edit commentary at times referred to out-of-date or inaccurate references being "corrected". After awhile, I noticed that major changes were not accompanied by verifiable sources and the persistent use of poorly written, grammatically incorrect submissions were rife with minor spelling errors, an indication that the editor may not be a native English speaker. All this aside, on the appropriate talk pages, bouts of "wiki-lawyering" and a series of combative and hostile assertions that the editors revising the latest submissions were vandals, was even more troubling. Does this type of activity warrant some other type of intervention, as I see that the articles have had some protection applied? FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:26, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
The North American B-25 Mitchell article was left unprotected and it appears to be the only place where the disruptive edits continue. I really don't care about the content edits, except that most of the time the writing needs attention, it's the comments on the talk page that really are a concern. I'm done with trying to help here. Adding polite expressions of don't be "incivil" make no difference. An admin needs to look at this type of behaviour. 20:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
See Boeing B-29 Superfortress. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 21:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
This MOD is now extending to the North American P-51 Mustang. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 12:02, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I have been retained by The Writers for Hire to once again attempt to write an article about the above person for Wikipedia. (Articles about him have been deleted twice.) Before I took the contract, I looked at the sources about him, and I found that he may indeed be "significant, interesting or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded." I don't know the exact failings of the previous two articles, but I'm looking at one or two sources in which he has been interviewed in depth by a neutral reporter and also some multiple independent sources concerning him in combination. I will not use any refs that are not on target. I'm thinking the piece will be short, but in my opinion the fellow is Notable: He's founded a process in bodybuilding that has gained independent attention that doesn't rely on press releases. I'd like you to unsalt the old article so I can look at it, and then I'd like to go ahead and write up a new version for vetting, comments and assistance away from Article space. I hope you can respond favorably. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 04:27, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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Spotted this today, do you remember Alex79818, the guy with a load of sleeper accounts. He created loads, made a few edits, then come back and start a campaign of disruption on Falklands topics using them (a number he created more than 2 years ahead of time). This contribution profile seems vaguely familiar [45]. W C M email 18:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
You may remember the disruptive and POVpushing editor that I've encountered on Somali topics, Middayexpress. He's continuing his POVpushing in all sorts of places, and I'm really exasperated. There's lots of evidence about what he does - talkpages full of it. Could I just simply block him? You may remember the RfC was indecisive, but the other alternative is Arbcom. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 20:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much! - BilCat ( talk) 09:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick,
Thank you for your helpful comments at the JC's Girls FAC. I have altered the article accordingly and have responded in the discussion. If I have not addressed your concerns to your satisfaction, I would be glad to engage with any further comments you are willing to provide.
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No worries mate. I want to put the images up of the dual 25 pounder howitzers and the 2 images I found of the AC4 from queensland up. I was contemplating the repurposed images of the chassis but I'll have a think about it. I suspect there are more chassis out there and possibly some full tanks in private hands. Some of the tanks were sold off and not repurposed. I pretty sure I saw one in Victoria in some private collection. RAAR Razorback ( talk) 09:47, 26 May 2015 (UTC) |
Nick, there is a user who is adding accused sexual offenders to city articles, as per this diff and this one. These people have no WP articles, and the only source being given is a published arrest record. This seems improper to me, but I don't know how to best handle this issue beyond removing it over and over. Any advice?
Hello, Nick-D: I'm suggesting here that you voluntarily cease responding to requests for any action or assistance made of you by editors whom you deem to be or whom you suspect of being WP:Paid editors. I do this on the basis that you have stated not only that "I am strongly opposed to paid editors" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Nick-D&oldid=654599088#Convoy_of_Hope) but also that "I don't provide any assistance at all to paid editors as a matter of principle" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Nick-D&direction=next&oldid=663202270#John_Berardi). Also I note your administrative actions and remarks at User_talk:Cecibell in which you seemed to ignore the principle of good faith with User:Cecibell and in which you made several remarks which a reasonable reader could interpret as prejudice against an editor who affirmed that she was working as a contractor for someone else, calling her articles "spammy," "blatant advertising" and "not serious attempts at developing encyclopaedic articles," even though a good share of her offerings were checked and were retained as valid for inclusion in the encyclopedia. For example: Sandra Maas, Liquid Blue and Daniel Milstein (there are others). You stated that the articles were "written in advertising speak and generally covered topics of questionable notability, so I don't intend to restore them." You also stated that the articles were "blatant spam," and it looks to me like you were referring to all of them, even those that are maintained in Wikipedia to this day, so I don't believe you actually made a reasoned decision about each and every one of them but simply rejected them all without considering each of them individually. If you did, I apologize in advance and I will withdraw my remark. There is a list of Cecibell's articles at this link, so you can check them all to see if they actually are all, as you said, "blatant spam." We all realise that the appearance of prejudicial administrative action is just as important in blackening Wikipedia's reputation as is actual prejudice itself. I seriously question your ability to be impartial in this domain, and I suspect that you will agree with me because you are a knowledgeable and longtime editor. Of course you know that there are hundreds of other WP administrators that can take over from you if you voluntarily cease any action in this sphere. I myself am a contracted editor, but I am not charging anybody for this post. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 23:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
A long running issue involving User:Middayexpress may be just about coming to a culmination. Nick I'd like to ask you to visit this page and give us your thoughts. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:13, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
While the targets and victims were Japanese, the entire article is from the perspective of the American flight crews and the Americans behind the planning of it. The article even uses "United States" before "Japan" is even listed, and the word "American" appears far more than the word "Japanese." I don't want to get into an edit war, so could you please reconsider your position? The article is titled "Atomic Bombings of" which were planned, carried out, and subsequently recorded by the Americans.
Can I get a sanity check. He attacks Luis Vernet, citation bombing it, I add a load of cites. He nitpicks and tries to disqualify them, so I move them around to make 100% they apply to the sentence in question, he is now simply revert warrring to remove all the newly added cites in the guise of WP:BRD. Even for Langus this is seemingly bizarre behaviour. W C M email 20:08, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
[46] I have another one, an editor describing everyone who disagrees with him as "armchair generals", has by his own WP:OR and WP:SYN decided that the British were concerned about the surface threat more than the air threat. He is citing two sentences out of context from one book and claiming the cite supports the change he is making and throwing out the considered analysis of Lawrence Freedman in the Official History of the Falklands War. The actual cite he used stressed the concern over the air threat and the lack of AEW, 180° away from the edit he has made. Cross-posted at WT:MILHIST. W C M email 20:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Good man, why are you deleting legitimate discussion on the B-24 talk page? Moreover, you continue to support milborneone's actions which a)are based on unsubstaniated misconceptions of events that did not occure; or b) caused by he and others multiple reverting of edits without citation request nor talk discussions. you emphasize consensus building then promote irresponsible reverts and deletions that make consensus building impossible. I don t sense you have the accuracy of the articles forefront in your mind when taking the actions you have.
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I think the MA60 affair in Tonga is definitely worth including but I was wondering if it would be best to make a new section called 'Operational Difficulties' or words to that extent. There have been a fair share of problems in Nepal as well, and Fuji banned the plane...
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Nick, you'll remember the problems with Middayexpress we had. Now several of us having been trying to improve articles including the Puntland Maritime Police Force. A potentially very helpful editor has now just thrown up his hands in horror and at least temporarily left us [47] due to the tendentious editing of User:26oo. There's already a thread going at AN/I, but I would kindly ask you to consider taking a look and taking any admin action you think fit. We can't continue to have good editors driven away by POVpushers!! Buckshot06 (talk) 07:37, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D The crux of the matter is that the user in question, User:26oo, systematically undoes, deletes or alters language in support of his POV. While I have no objection to his/her views being represented on the page, where properly sourced and balanced by alternate views, this person is attempting to exercise a veto over material he/she doesn't like. The force described in this article has been deeply controversial and numerous sources challenge its legitimacy, legality, mission and human rights record; it is probably fair to state that this controversy is main reason that the force is noteworthy. Users Buckshot06 and others have succeeded to some extent in raising these issues within the article, User:26oo continues to fight every step of the way to preclude them. For example, User:26oo has been determined to keep any reference to controversy out of the Introductory section. The UAE diff, for example, made reference to the fact that until 2012, the UAE officially denied providing any support to the force; 2013 was the first year that an official acknowledged such support. User:26oo has repeatedly reinserted language stating that the UAE officially provided support to the force, and has removed any reference to UAE denials. The same user also uses tactics similar to WP:WEASEL: where a neutral reference referred to the PMPF as the brainchild of former Blackwater CEO Erick Prince, the user removed it an inserted an alternative reference with a quote from Prince to justify his actions. A quote referring to allegations of abuse of PMPF trainees was altered by the user in order to include deflect the accusation by downplaying it as "Somali on Somali" violence: an opaque and arguably objectionable defence. In sum, the user is determined to project the force in a positive light, to remove -- where possible -- any critical material, and where this is not possible to alter such references in order to mute their impact. As Buckshot06 indicated, I've already spent several hours on trying to improve this page, and am not averse to some robust give and take between editors. But User:26oo is simply wasting everyone's time and pushing the assumption of good faith to the limit.
To keep this discussion in one place (ANI), I'm closing this thread as a procedural matter. Nick-D ( talk) 11:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey Nick, I'm having a bit of tiff with Brianboulton, the TFA coord, over an article of mine that they scheduled. I have other plans, but he refuses to reschedule (I'm not sure when we lost the traditional TFA deference to article writers, but it is what it is). Would you have any articles that you want to run instead? It's for July 2nd. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
"from mid-1943": There is a growing hazy awareness among Americans that this can mean "from mid-1943 on", but "from" usually means other things in AmEng and many Americans miss your meaning entirely. What's the most comfortable work-around for you? I typically pick "from mid-1943 on", "from mid-1943 onwards", "starting in mid-1943", or "from mid-1943 to X" where X is the end date. - Dank ( push to talk) 16:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
One more thing, now that I reread it ... "Air raids on Japan by the Allies in World War II caused extensive destruction and killed between 241,000 and 900,000 people." That makes perfect sense to a historian; you're giving the range of estimates, but I don't think the wide range is going to work for a broader readership ... they're going to wonder what we're trying to say, or if we have any idea at all how many were killed. Reading the article, I see that the USSBS doesn't have much faith in their own estimate of 900k, and it's not often cited. Can we narrow the range? - Dank ( push to talk) 01:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Looks really good today! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:45, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello,
Hope you're doing well. I am currently engaged in a lengthy dispute resolution process over at No Gun Ri Massacre, which has seen a very heated debate between Cjhanley and WeldNeck which has seethed for years.
Part of it revolves around a sourcing dispute, namely, the credibility of the U.S. No Gun Ri Review Report, the initial AP reports (particularly the credibility of certain eyewitnesses), and of historian Robert Bateman. In general, the page has been a battleground, with frequent personal attacks, accusations of POV, bold edits against consensus, and so on, although it has calmed down as of late. It is important to note that Cjhanley is in fact one of the AP reporters who initially broke the No Gun Ri story, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; also, WeldNeck has accused him of a conflict of interest. Both editors have compiled extensive lists of their grievances, and have dragged one another to ANI: [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] WeldNeck also attacked Cjhanley as a sock: [60]. Neither editor is blameless, to say the least.
For some time, I, along with Timothyjosephwood, Wikimedes, and Irondome have attempted to mediate, and we have successfully imposed an unofficial "freeze" on editing the page without prior proposals. While the situation is not urgent, I would appreciate any help an experienced editor such as yourself could offer. If you are interested, I can also provide some sources to provide background, although some can also be found on the page's external links category.
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Dear Nick-D, I am pleased to contact you and ask your help as an admin in recreating the page "Young Living Essential Oils" that was deleted back in August 2011 ( /info/en/?search=Young_Living_Essen... ). A warning said that only an admin can recreate this page for some reason (protection). Would you please take a look at the draft of Young Living Essential Oils that I created ( /info/en/?search=User:Attedread/san... ) and tell me if this is OK. When this is the case, I would be most happy that you recreate this page now. Thank you for your cooperation. Attedread ( talk) 02:21, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick,
Kbog is continuing to insist on forcing his edit into Falklands War again. I have tried to explain that the definitive conclusions he is making aren't supported by the source he is using and he is cherry picking to support his own conclusions. Instead of taking that on board he is trying to use weasel wording instead to force a poorly worded statement that doesn't reflect the weight or range of views in the source. See also Talk:Falklands War#British planning concerns for the battle, lot of passive-aggressive nonsense and twisting what I've said to him. Worse, we have this where he insists I'm not allowed to edit unless I answer him in talk. Really my patience is wearing thin and I would appreciate if you could have a word and try to explain where he is going wrong.
Regards, W C M email 08:39, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
[61] Source is an article published in the Buenos Aires Herald [62], the other source Cawkell was published in 2001, 6 years before Peter Pepper and Dr Graham Pascoe published their paper. I have two editors edit warring to remove sources for opinions they don't like, their reasons are unrelated to the reliability of the source and are solely about the facts presented in the source. See also File:The_Times_-_Argentine_Capture_of_the_Falkland_Islands_1821.jpg and talk where the same two editors fought to keep and have since used a faked newspaper article on es.wikipedia. W C M email 08:47, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
User:Zekenyan wrote that The current ban (on User:Middayexpress) is not effective. I propose the current topic ban be amended to "East African related articles" and include User:AcidSnow and I agree with him. Furthermore I agree with what other users wrote on Middayexpress's external canvassing. But IMHO we have to add even User:26oo and User:Vituzzu (who is a Mafioso probably related/involved in "Operation Martese" [63]), in order to make the ban REALLY effective (as stated above at "POVpusher at Somalia articles"). FYI please go to [64] and click on Manmer2015 ....sincerely, B.
At long last, I've been able to respond to your comments on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Russian battleship Oslyabya. Whenever you get a chance, I'd appreciate your thoughts as to how well they satisfy.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 16:03, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello again Nick. If you recall you protected Battle of Hòa Bình a little while back. Unfortunately the sockpuppet seems to have returned (or at least I believe its a sockpuppet). He is currently using the IP 117.5.102.229, although these edits are obviously very similar to those made by IP 113.190.46.130, who is a sockpuppet of MiG29VN (specifically changing the result from "French Union victory" to "Viet Minh victory" and adding "unknown" to the casualties section here [65]). Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MiG29VN/Archive this bloke has used IPs in the 117 range before and a geolocate [66] shows the new IP is from Hanoi just like all the others. Per WP:DUCK I'm requesting a block on the new IP, or at the very least page protection so he is forced to discuss on the talkpage (I've asked several times now). Is this something you would pls be able to assist with? If more evidence is needed I'll dig it up of course. Kind regards. Anotherclown ( talk) 08:27, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick-D,
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Hi, how does this get progressed? Regards Cinderella157 ( talk) 04:22, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm guessing from the message on his talk page, subsequently removed, that Martinvl is contacting other editors to suggest edits in contravention of his block. Is that something I should be bringing up at WP:AN or best leave it? W C M email 21:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
G'day Nick, My apologies for the noobness. I'm currently undertaking some research for an article I am writing about the flags used at the miners rebellion in Ballarat. I normally start at Wikipedia and then branch off from there. Finding that there used to be a page on the Eureka Union Jack, and that you removed it. I was most disheartened as there seem to be very little of this subject to go off. Will you be reinstating it any time soon, or is it gone for good? It would be a great shame for information to be lost. Many kind regards. Grimnar85 ( talk) 01:29, 6 January 2015 (UTC)grimnar85
Hi nick,Im stan,Can you help me please to Unprotection RMAF And List of aircraft of the Malaysian armed forces.Please,We need to update the RMAF.F-5 Tiger II has been retired and Mikoyan Mig-29N Fulcrum also has been retired.Can you Unprotection please. Stan Mcharrison ( talk) 11:43, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
The problem is They think that F-5 Was in service but The end of the year the F-5 Was been retired.Heres the Sorces. http://www.malaysiandefence.com/?p=5217.And Please just I Want to edit the Aircraft Malaysia armed forces.This is Inportant,And MIG-29 Also Reitred ok.Just shut down Protection.I will Look around About The Aircraft. Stan Mcharrison ( talk) 13:54, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
I wrote another review for The Bugle. This time I wrote about Lothar Machtan's controversial book The Hidden Hitler. It's currently placed at my sandbox. I would appreciate if you would glance over it and maybe do some small copy edits if you see the need for it, and upload it to the review page. Cheers and Happy New Year. :) Jonas Vinther ( speak to me!) 17:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I notice that User:MuZemike seems to be on a Wikibreak, and because of your prior involvement I would like to request your assistance with the conversation I just started on their User talk page in User talk:MuZemike#Big Tree (chief), Big Tree (war chief), Maman-ti, User:Scarfaced Charley, User:Giorgio Traverso Coda. I will also be leaving a similar note at User talk:Moonriddengirl. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:55, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Nick I used that photo because that particular ODA was the very first to go into enemy territory. Task Force 1-41 was the first heavy element into enemy territory. That ODA performed recon for 1-41 in particular. In all there were 10 ODAs. How about reinstating the photo and I will reword it?
Also, don't expect other editors to write good prose for you - do it yourself - Yes, there are limits to every-one's patience, aren't there.
Happy New Year!
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Thanks very much for all the hard work you two are doing on this. But are you confident in going ahead without any reverts - has any action taken place? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:51, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. In regard to the reversion of my recent minor edits, I'd like to say that I believe it legitimate to indicate that Cook was the first "known" European to chart the east Australian coast, due to the significant possibility that others may have done so earlier (see Theory of the Portugese discovery of Australia. I also wish to point to the fact that several other articles on Wikipedia make reference to a place being first "known" to have been discovered by European (insert name here). I look forward to your responce. Aardwolf A380 ( talk) 11:05, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
::Ok, thanks :) Aardwolf A380 ( talk) 11:43, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick! User EyeTruth has involved me in another Administrator's discussion. I mentioned your name at the Adminstrator's Edit Warring page. You don't have to come by, and you don't have to say anything. I did mention your name there though and I wanted to make sure you were made aware. It's just an FYI. Thanks. Gunbirddriver ( talk) 03:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
I came to notify you, but Gunbirddriver already did. I will add that I've started a discussion on the Prokhorovka talkpage. You're welcomed to check it out, thanks. Part of the dispute is very similar to the blitzkrieg one. Sources say xxxxx, but Gunbirddriver disagrees, believing that there must be other sources that say otherwise. Hopefully, he will provide those soon. EyeTruth ( talk) 19:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nick - I've been reading the article on Christmas Island, and I came across a sentence that sounds odd to me. It's the second sentence in the section Christmas Island#Japanese invasion:
I know that the sentence might sound perfectly ordinary to a military person, but to a non-military reader it sounds a little odd. Perhaps a few words could be added after "under"? "Under the command of", or something like that? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:00, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
My book was recently purged from Wikipedia. The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning has been chucked down the memory hole. Of course there were legitimate reasons for its deletion. I asked Wikipedia to explain and they kindly responded:
"I've just removed the material referenced to the book The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy as it does not appear to be a reliable source. The book's publisher Alora Publishing looks like a publisher of WP:FRINGE-type works judging from what it chooses to highlight on its website, and I could not find any reviews of the book in reliable sources, and many of the references to it on the internet are to extremist websites. The author's website is also not typical of that of a neutral historian. Nick-D (talk) 22:41, 11 October 2014 (UTC) Worldcat shows it owned by 1319 libraries, a very substantial number. This of course does not mean it is an authority, but it might appear to be of considerable interest. Google Scholar shows it has been cited 16 times, as follows: [6]. DGG (David Goodman) ( talk ) 20:21, 14 July 2015 (UTC) (I wrote this is response to an OTRS query asking about the removal of the book)."
According to Nick the book is not a reliable source. But he seems to think it was published by Alora Publishing, a publisher of “fringe-type” works. I tried to find Alora Publishing but was not successful. I contacted my publisher and he thought that Nick’s comments may have been a joke. Nick claims that he could not find any reviews of my book in reliable sources. I guess Publishers’ Weekly and Choice magazine (by the American Library Association, for academic libraries) are not considered reliable. Perhaps it was wrong of the BBC to contact me for an interview in Things We Forgot to Remember. My blog is not and has never claimed to be the work of a neutral historian.
Nick raises one troubling point about my book: “many of the references to it on the internet are to extremist websites.” I do not have any control over who references my work. In my research I have run across a great deal of anti-Semitism. This is unfortunate because it is a distraction and it is used to discredit anyone looking for the truth. Many of the key people involved with the Morgenthau Plan were Jewish, however, one of its strongest critics, Victor Gollancz, was also a Jew. I am not aware of any extremist claims in my book although its conclusions are outrageous. We live in interesting times and some even think the Little Sisters of the Poor are extremists.
The bottom line is: Who is more credible? Check the Algora Publishing website. If you believe it is “fringe” you will agree with Nick. If you check it out and wonder what Nick is talking about then you will know why Wikipedia has a bad reputation for veracity. 108.19.156.56 ( talk) 22:21, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Nick,
You have inspired me to write a third edition on the Morgenthau Plan. If you like I will send you a copy of the second edition. You can read it and send me your corrections. If I find them valid I will incorporate them in the third edition and give you the credit. I can not speak for Algora Publishing but I used the term “holocaust” because one of its definitions is: “any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.” I know that Ukrainians got a lot of grief for using that term to describe their famine and eventually switched to using the term Holodomor. Unfortunately this word has not made it into Dictionary.com. If you can suggest another term for reckless destruction of life I would be glad to use it. A writer’s credibility is everything. That is why throughout my work I try not to exaggerate. If I quote a source that appears to exaggerate I let the reader know. I intentionally used the term holocaust because there was an intentional and reckless destruction of life as a result of policies devised by our progressive and oft times Communist bureaucrats. That is a fact Jack. Even the negative review on Amazon does not contest my facts but claims I wrote the book for an “odious cause.” I wrote the book to reveal an uncomfortable truth. In my research I ran into quite a bit of anti-Semitism. I have tried to make it clear that I do not espouse these ideas. The malicious comments made by anti-Semites are used to discredit people like me who are sincerely looking for the truth.
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Hi. Please lock the page again. Thanks. Eugεn S¡m¡on (14) ® 14:19, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Nick, I'm here in my WMF role. Would you be interested in adapting Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/July 2015/Review essay for an external audience and republishing it on the Wikimedia blog? :-) Pieces that explore the background and difficulties behind writing Wikipedia articles are something I've been pushing for more of. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 08:22, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Ed Erhart (WMF): How does the draft at User:Nick-D/reviews look? I've suggested a more snappy title, and would prefer not to use ""You sunk my battleship" given that the main feature of these attacks was the the battleship wasn't sunk ;) Nick-D ( talk) 12:11, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Cliffside Malibu I went to start an article on this subject because I've seen it pop up in a lot of celebrity rehab-related articles, and I noticed you had deleted a previous article about the topic for being blatant advertising. I just want you to be aware that I am working on this article, and that my goal is just to create a reference point for the topic because it has gained prominence enough that someone who is not a celebrity watcher has noticed. If you have any concerns, please let me know. Thanks! Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 18:45, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Nick, I'm diagreeing with misleading, unhelpful claims that other participants might be naïve enough to take on face value. Defending the research and efforts of a very serious proposer who has an intimate knowledge the workloads of both Bureaucrats and the Arbitration Committee, from comments based on conjecture is hardly akin to hectoring. Regards, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:14, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
I've just uploaded this file. Is there anything you can suggest to avoid it being deleted? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 04:49, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi user:Nick-D Apologies if the image was unsuitable. I was only trying to illustrate the effect of the blitz on the civilian population, and daily life on the ground. Thanks. Jason.nlw ( talk) 11:53, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Just a heads up, the user Dredernely, who commented about adding Pyrrhic victory to the World War II page is a sock of the indefinitely banned User:HarveyCarter. Calidum T| C 12:16, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on the Royal New Zealand Air Force article. I can never tell if an IP is just throwing out numbers for no reason or are truly trying to make a good faith edit. No heart feelings of past debates, these things can get pretty heated, but with all good intentions - Cheers FOX 52 ( talk) 16:57, 30 July 2015 (UTC) |
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Hi,
I appealed my topic ban ( diff). Taking in consideration that you supported my ban and/or was against its lifting I would like to inform you that I appealed my ban so you could again present your opinion. All the best.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 20:59, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
[70] -I think that was my bad, I did a roll back on Manmountain08 who’d being changing sourced numbers. Didn't realize the total revert reintroduced wrong text- Sorry about that FOX 52 ( talk) 17:27, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Anotherclown ( talk) 05:18, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick. I'm going through checking User:Citadel48's recent contributions (for obvious reasons) at the moment and found Wikipedia:1984 Severomorsk Disaster which he seems to have created then copy and pasted to Severomorsk Disaster (rather than moving it). I've made it a redirect but I wonder if a history merge is req'd (or some such Adminy thing)? Thanks. Anotherclown ( talk) 07:12, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
You reverted my suggestion of the use 'unconfirmed' rather than fictitious. You reason was 'no they are fictitious'.
However if one is to read the article it speaks of actual projects that were known to be planed and some created so ficticiois is I believe a misleading term - what has happened is there is a confusion of terms here because indeed there are ficticiois elements: these are the 'theories' behind understanding why they created such known existing plans and projects not whether they did or not where evidence exists and is in museums in America and germany.
However any seriously insterested in history or historians of this area will know this, but being used by the genral public I think it is important not to encourage sudoscience where it is not.
Kind regards
Ben
Please read into it and you can see for yourself Benjahdrum ( talk) 08:26, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
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For your contributions and scrutiny to the betterment of military, Third Reich and World War II related articles, I award you this Barnstar. Kierzek ( talk) 17:13, 15 August 2015 (UTC) |
Hello Nick. You previously blocked User:86.26.26.107 for one month as a result of the SPI here - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/AnnalesSchool/Archive#4_July_2015 - for being a sockpuppet of the indef blocked User:AnnalesSchool. Since the expiry of their block the IP has returned and is editing the in the same area they previously did (and as AnnalesSchool), indicating that it is the same person attempting to avoid their block by not logging in. For instance on 5 Aug - at Franco-Italian Armistice [71], 7 August Axis occupation of Greece [72], and 15 August Franco-Italian Armistice [73], Axis occupation of Greece [74] and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history [75] [76]. As a result can you pls have a look and see whether a further block for the IP is warranted before this gets disruptive? Pls let me know if a complete report is necessary and I'll file one at SPI. Thanks in advance. Anotherclown ( talk) 20:42, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello nick, User talk:Adnan bogi whom you previously blocked for a week is still engaged in spamming. just wanted to this to your attention. thank you :) Nicky mathew ( talk) 19:17, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Nick, are you able to remove my rollback rights? I have only once used it in anger and mostly I find that I have accidentally rolled back something when using my smart phone because I accidentally touched the rollback link. Usually because of a page redraw just as I'm trying to follow a diff link and the redraw puts the rollback link where the diff was a half second ago. - Nick Thorne talk 22:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nick as contributor to aviation pages, I wondered if you'd chime in on this discussion. I'm trying compromise on some parts of overhauled lists that I've done, or maybe I have it wrong - Regards FOX 52 ( talk) 19:41, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Does this discussion ring any bells in you? Cheers, Jonas Vinther • ( Click here to collect your price!) 09:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick. I just added a little bit to Operation Goodwood (naval). Could you have a look at my addition, and check if it looks okay? Manxruler ( talk) 12:28, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting the troll edit, but he/she did us a favor. You'll see my edit summary probably, but when the article was created the word 'History' was left out of her academic title, so I've put it in with a source. Doug Weller ( talk) 09:14, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I suggest the name FuckfuckUaat violates policy. Rjensen ( talk) 11:17, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Since you wrote an article on the war, you might in interested in knowing that the big-budget TV series 1864 was absolutely horribly received. It had a production cost of 184 million Kroner, the most expensive TV series ever made in Denmark. The cast and historical accuracy was excellent, but the plot, editing and the way the series was presented was ... well, crap. Peace, Jonas Vinther • ( Click here to collect your price!) 18:04, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Dear Nick,
Hope you are alright. I am sorry for interrupting especially when you have already mentioned of being away due to vacations but I had a similar issue before and you helped me through it by your advice. I require your guidance in an issue I am facing currently. I had created an article called Awans of Pakistan [77] and as you may see in the link it outlined the history, origin and lineage of the Awans who currently reside in Pakistan. This article was referenced mostly by books and also by few websites as seen in the 'References' and 'Further reading' section headings. This article, however, was neither intended nor did it duplicate a previous article called Awan (tribe) which contains only "2 sentences" (one is lead section and second in history) apart from two statements by 2 different people.
However, an editor to the article Awan (tribe) has come up straight, removed references from Awans of Pakistan [78] and redirected it to Awan (tribe). Then he accused me of using 'fake references' in the article [79]. I did not understand his definition for 'fake references' but I could tell that he was acting as a puppet for an IP [80].
I reverted his edits twice and asked the editor to first discuss the matter as both the articles have separate content and context [81] but he would not listen and redirected again. I gave him a second warning to discuss it as Proposed Merger in detail but I had to explain the differences myself to him on his talk page [82]. I guess he was short of words and realized he did not have sufficient proof to explain his doing. Although, he used a brief explanation on the article's talk page [83] but unable to find a way out, he has placed a tag of sanctions on my talk page [84] to get things his way as he himself said on the article's talk page, "..but only in accordance with our policies".
I have never dealt with sanctions and I am very particular about following Wikipedia policies so I thought it better to first discuss this issue with you that what you think of the entire case. I even asked the editor that I can help him improve his article as his article already had tags and it is already in a poor state but he is bent upon his defensive approach [85]. So what can I possibly do in such a situation? My aim is only to improve the encyclopedic content and Awans of Pakistan was offering that but now the matter has been taken in another direction by the editor. I seek your advice in such a situation.
I will wait for your reply here as the matter seems sensitive. Thank you so much for your time.
Pixarh ( talk) 05:43, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick, you're better acquainted than I am with the various shenanagans, sockpuppets etc that have surrounded the whole 'Philippine Commonwealth Army' issue on wikipedia. I think that this page is one of them - as far as I can tell it has no basis in fact. Can we do a mass delete with this and a number of the other dubious pages? Buckshot06 (talk) 06:23, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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Nick, I don't know if you're checking in, but Chris has scheduled one of yours for the 27th. I'm not really sure what to do with it ... can you compress it down to 1150 characters or less? (Btw, the first link needs to be to the article). If you're not around, no problem, we can schedule it another time. - Dank ( push to talk) 17:08, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick, you recently did not agree my edit on Adolf Hitler page removing "socialist" next to the politician and (in a rude manner) you told me to read about it. Im sorry Nick but obviously you need to do some reading here. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party (National Socialist German Workers' Party) was a socialist from the left side of the political scene. Its only now that some people think that he was from "the right". Anyway, I don't want to write his biography on your page here. Educate yourself or read Mein Kamph maybe. Adolf Hitler was a socialist. Regards
Flushout1999 has added a large amount of material to Robert Conquest that he has copied and pasted or closely paraphrased from other sources. Consider, for example, the section on Conquest's criticism of Ezra Pound, which includes text such as "[Conquest considered Pound] a poseur of the highest order, not to mention a lousy poet who garbled his own allusions to classical mythology and did so without any redeeming ingenuity or creativity. Also, [in Conquest's opinion], Pound’s notorious fascism and egoism only added to his artistic debit" which is copied directly from the cited article by Michael Weiss. None of the material in the section on Pound is original besides the opening sentence. Even the closing line ("Having in passing [attacked] Pound's claim to have rendered Latin classics into verse, Conquest concluded:[...]") is copied almost word for word from Christopher Hitchens, who also provides the following quotation from Conquest (meaning that Flushout1999 is also regurgitating Hitchens' arrangement of the facts). This is not an isolated incident. Most, if not all, of Flushout1999's additions are copyright violations, from "The IRD years" (which includes material like "In 1947–1949, the IRD started to collect materials on the issue of forced labor in Stalin’s Russia and decided to publish pamphlets and prepare news articles and bulletins on the forced labor camps. It had been decided that one or two names of Soviet camps should be hammered into the mind of the public, until these names were as clearly linked with Communist terror as the names “Auschwitz” and “Treblinka” were linked with Nazism. The Soviet camps chosen for the purpose was Karaganda and Vorkuta. Later, Kolyma in the Soviet Far East was added", which is all copied directly (including the grammatical issue with the plural camps) from Lennart Samuelson--and, yes, even the books cited, like Britain's Secret Propaganda War in this section, appear to provide not only the facts but Flushout1999's exact language) to the section on Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow ("The Harvest of Sorrow had a clear moral:[...]" and much else is taken straight from the LA Times). In the "Day of Dupes" section, which is nothing more than an attempt to quote everything Flushout1999 considers important from the article in question (there are no secondary sources to establish the significance of this article and thus why we need to copy so much of it), Flushout1999 did originally add one sentence of his own unsourced commentary ( "Implying that the latter was a good thing.") to Conquest's words ([Conquest wrote that one of the signatories] "has told us how he became interested in politics: on seeing a Right-wing policeman kick a Left-wing girl, he did not conclude, as most of us would have done, that it is a bad thing for a policeman to kick girls, but that it is a bad thing for Right-wingers to kick Left-wingers."), but after I pointed out that it was laughably POV he agreed to drop it. I know you don't have a lot of time right now, but if you could look into this matter and take appropriate action when you get the chance I would greatly appreciate it. Regards, TheTimesAreAChanging ( talk) 18:52, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Brian scheduled this one, but I don't expect the summary itself will be a problem ... look at it and see if you agree. My summary is very close to your lead. - Dank ( push to talk) 22:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
OTOH, I don't know if the article itself needs updating ... let me know. - Dank ( push to talk) 02:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
An IP has been adding a work by Stan Winer, South Africa and the Politics of Risk, [87] to the Further Reading list of History of South Africa Edward321 ( talk) 13:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick-D: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 16 October 2015 for companies, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Companies. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America 1000 16:40, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Celebrate Buckshot06 (talk) 20:36, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 19 October 2015 for Disability-related articles, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disability. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America 1000 18:10, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#Please reinstate my access to the admin tools, if you are going to be traveling a lot (or just want to work from Starbucks - :) ) I can advise you on how to be just as secure on some random WiFi hotspot as you are at home. I am an engineer who works with this sort of thing all the time. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 19:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your corrections. The recent development of that article had me worried. Mr Vinther's user boxes from May (since removed) show where his sympathies lie. Regards, Robby.is.on ( talk) 03:22, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
I concur with your sentiment. I also commented on Schutzstaffel talk page, following your entries. I encourage others to do the same. -- K.e.coffman ( talk) 04:57, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
You used that edit summary here, but in fact, you re-added detail, including the person's full name, which I would be careful about per WP:BLP and WP:RSBREAKING, nevermind the fact that there are >100 victims and i don't think it's appropriate to single out some by name. LjL ( talk) 19:32, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Or mail call as our U.S colleagues say :) Irondome ( talk) 22:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
GAB Hello! 17:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick-D,
Since we both were engaged on the SS article, wanted to address some of my concerns here.
If you look at my edits, about 80% of them were to correct "Nazi apologia" - K.e.coffman edits
Some of the more egregious examples:
Etc., etc.
Is this something to look out for in Wikipedia? And what can be done about it? K.e.coffman ( talk) 18:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. A agree that the exterior picture of Wapping railway station that you replaced with the platform image is very similar to its current appearance but it is those details that matter. It is up to you but I think we should bring it back. Here is what I think:
What do you think? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 11:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Nick, it looks like the socks are back on Sukhoi Superjet 100,with at least two users showing up to revert who created accounts on November 22. Looks like a really large sock/meat farm here attempting to game the system. Normally I don't ascribe to protecting "the right version", but given the bad faith by these socks, it seems necessary here. I don't understand.the sockmaster's opposition to the Featured image, but it it a very odd situation. Thanks for whatever you can do. - BilCat ( talk) 12:54, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
what ever happened before with what you call socks there are a lot more editors who disagree with that picture! it is as simple as that! and there is nobody gaming the system it is just disagreeing with that picture!-- 35deyu4642 ( talk) 13:11, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Nick, can you at least leave a link to the OpenPAT project status on the page. Perhaps something like:
The OpenPAT project status is discussed here.
Thanks, - User:Npcomp ( talk) 07:47, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Gday Nick. FYI Rupert has contacted Cuprum17 to confirm what he wishes to do with the review. All the best. Anotherclown ( talk) 22:57, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you are one of the administrators on English Wikipedia. Could you please remove (if you have the right to do so) my user page? Im not going to contribute on wikipedia anymore and I would be very grateful if you did it.
Thank you, Muta112 ( talk) 17:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Noticed this on the article I'm working on HIAG as well as other related articles: Nazi crime K.e.coffman ( talk) 05:46, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Pardon the ignorance of a newbie, but I have noticed a rash of changes by 141.215.74.46 . See /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/141.215.74.46 . None have an explanation and they all seem to be pro-Bulgarian or anti-Ottoman. It seemed a better idea to report this, rather than just revert them.
If I am handling this wrong - I probably am - I would be grateful if you could point me towards the correct procedure. Thanks. Gog the Mild ( talk) 21:13, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've been engaged in a discussion with another editor about his revert of my cuts on the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking article. Here's the discussion on my Talk page -- Mass removal of uncited or poorly cited material. Would you mind reviewing the discussion and providing your opinion on how to handle this appropriately? I'm a new editor so I would appreciate your guidance. K.e.coffman ( talk) 05:47, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
global Fire power write, Indonesia have 5 Attack Helicopter that means Mi-35 FDHLWP ( talk) 10:54, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nick-D, thank you again for your support on the SS Div. Wiking; the article is in less bad shape now :-)
As I was working on it, I've started compiling a list of dubious unsourced claims and non-NPOV language. I started it mostly for fun, but I ended up quite disturbed by what I was seeing across the Waffen-SS content. You can see the results here: Military History (WWII and Waffen-SS) content issues.
The problems are systemic and widespread. Is there something that perhaps can be done at the MilHist group level? Or is there a way to identify the most trafficked articles and address them first?
As an aside, I posted re: one of the sourcing issues on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard ( Patrick Agte on Jochen Peiper), but I'm not getting a response. Perhaps you could have a look? Not sure if my request here would qualify as 'tag teaming', so if you would rather not post there, that would be fine.
Thank again for your help. K.e.coffman ( talk) 21:16, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, I think your reply works better than a reply from me. Please tell me that didn't actually happen ... do you know if someone is actually mass-emailing everyone who had articles deleted in 2009, including for copyvio and promotionalism? - Dank ( push to talk) 13:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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[88] Nick, would appreciate a sanity check on this revert. Reading the source it doesn't support the edit made and there is a fairly strong POV slant. Regards, W C M email 14:37, 28 December 2015 (UTC)