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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.
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Please point out where I have said you do not understand anything? The note you removed was not mine. MOS:INFOBOX does recommend that infobox titles use common names. In this specific case the name "Endeavour" is hardly used in any of the books or TV programmes - this is a fictional character, not a real person, and I do not think that name belongs anywhere in the lead. I might suggest a little more co-operation and a less combative approach - we're all trying to improve the encyclopedia. Ian Dalziel ( talk) 23:25, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Agreed, if you mean the nom. But one edit doesn't give much of a pattern to go from. Any ideas on a drawer to put it in? UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 12:07, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Technically, you didn't have the !votes to do this swap, as Maunus' was supporting the removal of Brooks, but not the addition of S&G. 6-2 = 67%, not the 70% we need. I'll go ahead and undo this now. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 01:37, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I feel a little awkward pbp, if you look at my talk page, I had been talking with gabe, and written loads as usual, basically gabe and I have different views and we had started to bicker a bit. He thought I was opposing threads because they were his, and if I'm honest I thought the same about him (although there are many of mine where he agrees but many of them are already loads of support anyway) I tried to be nice and wrote a huge passage saying just by coincidence we just happen to have different views on what is vital and as adults we should be able to interact with others who have different views lets just vote and wait for consensus and not bicker. I thought we had moved on. Today After leaving a comment about me and you always seem to agree, which he dislikes, he has gone over the whole talk page and changed his mind on many of my young threads and changed to oppose, on some of these threads he had already changed his mind once already. All can be seen in the page history. Although he is fully within his rights to vote any way he wants and it could be a complete coincidence, it looks like some kind of "revenge voting" I am not enjoying being here at the moment, I am not sure what I should do if anything, just accept it I suppose. Gabe and I really do just disagree on a lot, I thought we could still collaborate even with different views everyone has one vote per thread, consensus will decide, we have all for want of a better term "won" and "lost" threads, I tried to give gabe the opportunity to be adult, I would like it if he could be. I am not sure where this is going? Any ideas? what is your view? I am fully aware gabe and everyone can see this, and any replies. I really tried to make peace with him and I am genuinely put of voting on his threads of his for fear of backlash. Carlwev ( talk) 21:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata ( submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa ( submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth ( submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.
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Your interpretation of "finding something else to do" is rather interesting. I meant "find something else to do that doesn't involve Joefromrandb". Of course, this is just a suggestion and you've obviously decided not to listen, but filing an edit warring report against Joefromrandb when you're not even involved is only going to escalate your conflict with him. -- Laser brain (talk) 18:57, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
I was just suggesting that the others be reviewed. The comments made in the discussion seemed to be opposed to considering the ones nominated as being part of a series. One point made was to upmerge everything. So there is an open question for that series of categories which is, how small does a subcategory have to be to be viewed as requiring an upmerge? I suppose that the follow on question would be, if more categories are deleted, does any of the tree need to exist? Please understand that I don't have an opinion here just trying to determine consensus and suggest followup for questions that were not answered in the discussion or did not gain a consensus. Hope this helps. Vegaswikian ( talk) 20:48, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
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I agree with you. There is a WP:CIR issue with this user. Should you ever want to take him to AN/I please let me know, as I don't watch the page. Cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 02:21, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Interesting, I still haven't gotten to reading the Oz novels so I didn't know about the Dorothy takeover. It mentions that Glinda (or Ozma?) taught OZPINHEAD some real magic later on, it makes me wonder if Dorothy also got taught magic and if so, if this would actually make Dorothy a new "Good Witch of the East". If that's the case I'm thinking this would influence the eastern isle of Caldea in Marchen Awakens Romance to some degree. Ranze ( talk) 15:51, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
She is notable as the founder of the PTA, not as a member. No doubt, the other folks who joined after she founded it aren't notable for their having joined. There is a major distinction between people who found notable organizations and those who merely join them. Do you have an example of a mere joiner, not a founder or a leader of such an organization notable solely for being a member rather than a leader or founder? I'm curious, because I still think my statement is correct. But feel free to prove me wrong. :-) Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 18:50, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
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This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:
We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus ( submissions), Figureskatingfan ( submissions), ThaddeusB ( submissions), Dana boomer ( submissions), Status ( submissions), Ed! ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.
This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.
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Sorry to have to tell you, but the references you are adding to User:Purplebackpack89/TrimetRoutes are not nearly good enough to meet Wikipedia policies, and I'm concerned that you are wasting your time adding these. Since this is not currently an article (having been deleted), it's not possible for me to add clean-up tags to it, and it also has no article talk page, so your talk page is the only place I can leave a message like this. (And you already made it clear that you are hoping to make this into an article that won't be deleted again.) There are at least two major problems with the citations you've been adding in recent days from TriMet's 1978 Ride Atlas (which I own a copy of): The biggest problem is that that source has no information indicating the year in which the route started, the year the route ended, and whether the route ran continuously from year X to year Y. All the 1978 Atlas says is that a route with that name/destinations existed in 1978. It doesn't support the other date data stated for that route, and therefore it's not a sufficient source. (The same is true for individual route schedules, which only indicate that a given bus route existed at that date.) Second, those old TriMet schedules are not archived on TriMet's site (and there's really not reason to believe they ever will be) or the Internet Archive, only on the website of a private individual. If Jason M's site goes down, or if he takes off that content, suddenly all of those scanned pages you are citing are no longer available online. Unlike newspapers, TriMet route schedules are not archived at any public library, so if they are not available online, then there is no way for them to satisfy Wikipedia's policy of WP:Verifiability; not everything that is "published" meets WP:V.
Some of this was previously discussed on the TriMet article's talk page (as well as on the talk page for the deleted article, which is no longer viewable). This message is not a threat, but it is a polite warning that, in my opinion, you are wasting your time. The only way a list like this, with start and end dates (even just years), can meet Wikipedia policies and avoid deletion is if a book or magazine article has been published giving all of these details (including a table making it clear that route N ran from year X to year Y, etc.) – and I don't mean self-published (like a website), as that would not meet WP:RS. It's very unlikely any such book or article will be published, and even though I am a Portland transit fan myself, I don't believe an all-time route list like this will ever be able to meet Wikipedia's policies about sources and access to sources. And I care more about the quality of WP than about how much personal interest I have in its content. There are plenty of other outlets for transit-fan type material. Here is one that you might consider, a transit-fan wiki where you could create such a list: http://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=TriMet (I am not registered there.) – SJ Morg ( talk) 09:31, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
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Purplebackpack! How are you. Listen, I have some advice for you; freely packaged with it is a threat of sorts, and a note on tactics. Let's do tactics first: the person who is perceived to have a grudge against an editor (rightly or wrongly) should not be filing the ANI threads etc--not because it's wrong, but because they're usually unsuccessful, as the latest ANI venture has showed.
Now the threat, and I am not making this with pleasure, or lightly. Stop tailing him. I don't know if you're actually hounding him or not, but if you persist (after the RfC and an ANI thread--and there may have been more) then I or someone else will block you for it. An interaction ban could be proposed and all that, but that's paperwork, and admins have it within their discretion to block an editor for hounding, so there. It's a much simpler solution to what is clearly perceived as a problem, by a number of editors and admins in the recent thread.
Advice? Well, I think that's clear: leave him alone. I'm not saying that he's not wrong, and I have some serious issues with all that jive about drivel and admin abuse and whatnot, but at this point (really, at an earlier point) this is not something you should tackle. It's not. The only thing you can do is make things worse--possibly for Joe, but most likely for yourself. If he is perceived to break boundaries with his commentary, he'll know it, from others. I'm sure you think you are doing a Good Thing but you're not, and as one person to another I am asking you to move on. I hope you receive this in the spirit in which it is intended: the spirit of cooperation for the betterment of the project. Best, Drmies ( talk) 19:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
I think if you were in the situation I am, you'd feel at least a little the way I do. p b p 19:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
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Please stop going after Joefromrandb. Nothing is gained by it. Everytime you bring him up, the community gets desensitized to it. Please just place yourself under a self-imposed interaction ban. Joeframrandb will eventually be forced to face his behavior but at this point it is not going to be at your hand.--v/r - T P 03:22, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) Hi. You don't know me, but aside from the RFC/U, I am remaining uninvolved in this matter because I don't wish to get involved in heated discussions on Wikipedia and real life in general. FYI, Joefromrandb has been blocked for a week by JamesBWatson ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 15:56, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Request reason:
To give me and Joe equal punishment is redonkulous. One of us attacks editors and the other doesn't. To call applying boilerplate warnings for repeated misdeeds "harassment" is a bit much. If an editor does something wrong, it's perfectly acceptable for anyone to call him out. The problem here is that Joe will edit-war or attack people on cue, not me. The block should be reduced to 48 hours or less, and the possiblity of indeff in the future needs to be taken off the table. p b p 17:19, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Did you take the advice to read the guide to appealing blocks before posting this unblock request? If so, you will have realised that the request had virtually no chance of success. A couple of years ago, an editor called Gerardw wrote It's important to realize WP does not have a justice system. It "has a most of us just want to edit and if someone causes too much aggravation they're going get blocked because no one wants to deal with it" system. Maybe the exact wording of that is not the best possible to apply to the present case, but the essential point is valid. Never mind how long someone else has been blocked for, or whether their disruption has been even worse than yours: the question is "does your editing justify a week's block?" and the answer is "yes". Quite apart from all the other aspects of the case, Wikipedia has no place for people with the openly declared intention of pursuing another editor until they are indefinitely blocked, no matter what the shortcomings of that other editor. Also, I wonder what on earth you mean by "the possiblity [sic] of indeff in the future needs to be taken off the table". It sort of looks as though you mean that you should be told "no matter how much more of the same sort of disruption you cause, we promise you won't be indefinitely blocked", but surely you can't mean that. No editor is immune from the possibility of an indefinite block if they continue the same pattern of disruptive editing after advice, warnings, and limited-time blocks. JamesBWatson ( talk) 18:46, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Blocking somebody for more than 48 hours where the primary reason is warning an editor for well-documented personal attacks is a bit much p b p 03:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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I'm declining your unblock request as I have seen no evidence/assurances from you that you would not continue the same disruption if you were to be unblocked, and you are continuing to make disparaging comments regarding Joefromrandb even while blocked. At this point, maintaining the block is preventing further disruption. Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 20:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Proposed Indefinite Block of Joefromrandb. Thank you. Automatic Strikeout ( ₵) 15:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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Purplebackpack89, when someone attacks you it's generally better just to ignore them. See Wikipedia:Civility#Dealing_with_incivility. RockMagnetist ( talk) 15:30, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, PBP! I noticed that no one notified you, as the original author, that the article Northwest Los Angeles has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwest Los Angeles. -- MelanieN ( talk) 18:20, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hey, PbP. I noticed that you closed this thread as added, but I'm not seeing where you added the article. I just want to make sure that you don't close a thread as passed, but forget to add the entry. I apologize ahead of time if I missed something. Cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 16:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Considering a clear majority of UN members and world population recognize the sovereign state of Palestine, at a similar level to Israel's recognition, do you have any reason for your revert of my edits? Also, your unfounded personal attacks are not necessary please act civil in the future. Sepsis II ( talk) 12:53, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Purplebackpack89. I was wondering what is going on with the archiving of talk pages on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded. According to what I am seeing, the first three archives take up over five whole years, while the remaining fourteen are from just this year. In addition, do you think you can look at the mess of Archives 3 to 7 and see if they can be repaired? It looks like the discussion just got thrown in at random times. -- Super Goku V ( talk) 05:26, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for working on that page again (I'm on a self-imposed break from that project and am just lurking). Just noticed you may have removed the National Autonomous University of Mexico even though it didn't get enough votes. Can you double check please? Cheers, Cobblet ( talk) 18:23, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.
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Please point out where I have said you do not understand anything? The note you removed was not mine. MOS:INFOBOX does recommend that infobox titles use common names. In this specific case the name "Endeavour" is hardly used in any of the books or TV programmes - this is a fictional character, not a real person, and I do not think that name belongs anywhere in the lead. I might suggest a little more co-operation and a less combative approach - we're all trying to improve the encyclopedia. Ian Dalziel ( talk) 23:25, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Agreed, if you mean the nom. But one edit doesn't give much of a pattern to go from. Any ideas on a drawer to put it in? UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 12:07, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Technically, you didn't have the !votes to do this swap, as Maunus' was supporting the removal of Brooks, but not the addition of S&G. 6-2 = 67%, not the 70% we need. I'll go ahead and undo this now. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 01:37, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I feel a little awkward pbp, if you look at my talk page, I had been talking with gabe, and written loads as usual, basically gabe and I have different views and we had started to bicker a bit. He thought I was opposing threads because they were his, and if I'm honest I thought the same about him (although there are many of mine where he agrees but many of them are already loads of support anyway) I tried to be nice and wrote a huge passage saying just by coincidence we just happen to have different views on what is vital and as adults we should be able to interact with others who have different views lets just vote and wait for consensus and not bicker. I thought we had moved on. Today After leaving a comment about me and you always seem to agree, which he dislikes, he has gone over the whole talk page and changed his mind on many of my young threads and changed to oppose, on some of these threads he had already changed his mind once already. All can be seen in the page history. Although he is fully within his rights to vote any way he wants and it could be a complete coincidence, it looks like some kind of "revenge voting" I am not enjoying being here at the moment, I am not sure what I should do if anything, just accept it I suppose. Gabe and I really do just disagree on a lot, I thought we could still collaborate even with different views everyone has one vote per thread, consensus will decide, we have all for want of a better term "won" and "lost" threads, I tried to give gabe the opportunity to be adult, I would like it if he could be. I am not sure where this is going? Any ideas? what is your view? I am fully aware gabe and everyone can see this, and any replies. I really tried to make peace with him and I am genuinely put of voting on his threads of his for fear of backlash. Carlwev ( talk) 21:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Your interpretation of "finding something else to do" is rather interesting. I meant "find something else to do that doesn't involve Joefromrandb". Of course, this is just a suggestion and you've obviously decided not to listen, but filing an edit warring report against Joefromrandb when you're not even involved is only going to escalate your conflict with him. -- Laser brain (talk) 18:57, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
I was just suggesting that the others be reviewed. The comments made in the discussion seemed to be opposed to considering the ones nominated as being part of a series. One point made was to upmerge everything. So there is an open question for that series of categories which is, how small does a subcategory have to be to be viewed as requiring an upmerge? I suppose that the follow on question would be, if more categories are deleted, does any of the tree need to exist? Please understand that I don't have an opinion here just trying to determine consensus and suggest followup for questions that were not answered in the discussion or did not gain a consensus. Hope this helps. Vegaswikian ( talk) 20:48, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
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I agree with you. There is a WP:CIR issue with this user. Should you ever want to take him to AN/I please let me know, as I don't watch the page. Cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 02:21, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Interesting, I still haven't gotten to reading the Oz novels so I didn't know about the Dorothy takeover. It mentions that Glinda (or Ozma?) taught OZPINHEAD some real magic later on, it makes me wonder if Dorothy also got taught magic and if so, if this would actually make Dorothy a new "Good Witch of the East". If that's the case I'm thinking this would influence the eastern isle of Caldea in Marchen Awakens Romance to some degree. Ranze ( talk) 15:51, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
She is notable as the founder of the PTA, not as a member. No doubt, the other folks who joined after she founded it aren't notable for their having joined. There is a major distinction between people who found notable organizations and those who merely join them. Do you have an example of a mere joiner, not a founder or a leader of such an organization notable solely for being a member rather than a leader or founder? I'm curious, because I still think my statement is correct. But feel free to prove me wrong. :-) Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 18:50, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
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Sorry to have to tell you, but the references you are adding to User:Purplebackpack89/TrimetRoutes are not nearly good enough to meet Wikipedia policies, and I'm concerned that you are wasting your time adding these. Since this is not currently an article (having been deleted), it's not possible for me to add clean-up tags to it, and it also has no article talk page, so your talk page is the only place I can leave a message like this. (And you already made it clear that you are hoping to make this into an article that won't be deleted again.) There are at least two major problems with the citations you've been adding in recent days from TriMet's 1978 Ride Atlas (which I own a copy of): The biggest problem is that that source has no information indicating the year in which the route started, the year the route ended, and whether the route ran continuously from year X to year Y. All the 1978 Atlas says is that a route with that name/destinations existed in 1978. It doesn't support the other date data stated for that route, and therefore it's not a sufficient source. (The same is true for individual route schedules, which only indicate that a given bus route existed at that date.) Second, those old TriMet schedules are not archived on TriMet's site (and there's really not reason to believe they ever will be) or the Internet Archive, only on the website of a private individual. If Jason M's site goes down, or if he takes off that content, suddenly all of those scanned pages you are citing are no longer available online. Unlike newspapers, TriMet route schedules are not archived at any public library, so if they are not available online, then there is no way for them to satisfy Wikipedia's policy of WP:Verifiability; not everything that is "published" meets WP:V.
Some of this was previously discussed on the TriMet article's talk page (as well as on the talk page for the deleted article, which is no longer viewable). This message is not a threat, but it is a polite warning that, in my opinion, you are wasting your time. The only way a list like this, with start and end dates (even just years), can meet Wikipedia policies and avoid deletion is if a book or magazine article has been published giving all of these details (including a table making it clear that route N ran from year X to year Y, etc.) – and I don't mean self-published (like a website), as that would not meet WP:RS. It's very unlikely any such book or article will be published, and even though I am a Portland transit fan myself, I don't believe an all-time route list like this will ever be able to meet Wikipedia's policies about sources and access to sources. And I care more about the quality of WP than about how much personal interest I have in its content. There are plenty of other outlets for transit-fan type material. Here is one that you might consider, a transit-fan wiki where you could create such a list: http://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=TriMet (I am not registered there.) – SJ Morg ( talk) 09:31, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
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Purplebackpack! How are you. Listen, I have some advice for you; freely packaged with it is a threat of sorts, and a note on tactics. Let's do tactics first: the person who is perceived to have a grudge against an editor (rightly or wrongly) should not be filing the ANI threads etc--not because it's wrong, but because they're usually unsuccessful, as the latest ANI venture has showed.
Now the threat, and I am not making this with pleasure, or lightly. Stop tailing him. I don't know if you're actually hounding him or not, but if you persist (after the RfC and an ANI thread--and there may have been more) then I or someone else will block you for it. An interaction ban could be proposed and all that, but that's paperwork, and admins have it within their discretion to block an editor for hounding, so there. It's a much simpler solution to what is clearly perceived as a problem, by a number of editors and admins in the recent thread.
Advice? Well, I think that's clear: leave him alone. I'm not saying that he's not wrong, and I have some serious issues with all that jive about drivel and admin abuse and whatnot, but at this point (really, at an earlier point) this is not something you should tackle. It's not. The only thing you can do is make things worse--possibly for Joe, but most likely for yourself. If he is perceived to break boundaries with his commentary, he'll know it, from others. I'm sure you think you are doing a Good Thing but you're not, and as one person to another I am asking you to move on. I hope you receive this in the spirit in which it is intended: the spirit of cooperation for the betterment of the project. Best, Drmies ( talk) 19:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
I think if you were in the situation I am, you'd feel at least a little the way I do. p b p 19:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
As you should be aware, there was considerable support, just not a consensus, for an interaction ban between you and User:Joefromrandb. Drmies has said that a block is easier than formally imposing an interaction ban, but be aware that if your continued harassment of a hostile editor with whom you are hostile continues, the admins might do the necessary paperwork. Robert McClenon ( talk) 23:08, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
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This is an special invitation for experienced editors to the discussion in WikiProject Volleyball about the proposal for Notability Guide for Volleyball Players. Your wise and kind participation will be highly appreciated. Osplace 20:39, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Please stop going after Joefromrandb. Nothing is gained by it. Everytime you bring him up, the community gets desensitized to it. Please just place yourself under a self-imposed interaction ban. Joeframrandb will eventually be forced to face his behavior but at this point it is not going to be at your hand.--v/r - T P 03:22, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) Hi. You don't know me, but aside from the RFC/U, I am remaining uninvolved in this matter because I don't wish to get involved in heated discussions on Wikipedia and real life in general. FYI, Joefromrandb has been blocked for a week by JamesBWatson ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 15:56, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Purplebackpack89 ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
To give me and Joe equal punishment is redonkulous. One of us attacks editors and the other doesn't. To call applying boilerplate warnings for repeated misdeeds "harassment" is a bit much. If an editor does something wrong, it's perfectly acceptable for anyone to call him out. The problem here is that Joe will edit-war or attack people on cue, not me. The block should be reduced to 48 hours or less, and the possiblity of indeff in the future needs to be taken off the table. p b p 17:19, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Did you take the advice to read the guide to appealing blocks before posting this unblock request? If so, you will have realised that the request had virtually no chance of success. A couple of years ago, an editor called Gerardw wrote It's important to realize WP does not have a justice system. It "has a most of us just want to edit and if someone causes too much aggravation they're going get blocked because no one wants to deal with it" system. Maybe the exact wording of that is not the best possible to apply to the present case, but the essential point is valid. Never mind how long someone else has been blocked for, or whether their disruption has been even worse than yours: the question is "does your editing justify a week's block?" and the answer is "yes". Quite apart from all the other aspects of the case, Wikipedia has no place for people with the openly declared intention of pursuing another editor until they are indefinitely blocked, no matter what the shortcomings of that other editor. Also, I wonder what on earth you mean by "the possiblity [sic] of indeff in the future needs to be taken off the table". It sort of looks as though you mean that you should be told "no matter how much more of the same sort of disruption you cause, we promise you won't be indefinitely blocked", but surely you can't mean that. No editor is immune from the possibility of an indefinite block if they continue the same pattern of disruptive editing after advice, warnings, and limited-time blocks. JamesBWatson ( talk) 18:46, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Blocking somebody for more than 48 hours where the primary reason is warning an editor for well-documented personal attacks is a bit much p b p 03:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Decline reason:
I'm declining your unblock request as I have seen no evidence/assurances from you that you would not continue the same disruption if you were to be unblocked, and you are continuing to make disparaging comments regarding Joefromrandb even while blocked. At this point, maintaining the block is preventing further disruption. Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 20:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Proposed Indefinite Block of Joefromrandb. Thank you. Automatic Strikeout ( ₵) 15:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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Purplebackpack89, when someone attacks you it's generally better just to ignore them. See Wikipedia:Civility#Dealing_with_incivility. RockMagnetist ( talk) 15:30, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, PBP! I noticed that no one notified you, as the original author, that the article Northwest Los Angeles has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwest Los Angeles. -- MelanieN ( talk) 18:20, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hey, PbP. I noticed that you closed this thread as added, but I'm not seeing where you added the article. I just want to make sure that you don't close a thread as passed, but forget to add the entry. I apologize ahead of time if I missed something. Cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 16:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Considering a clear majority of UN members and world population recognize the sovereign state of Palestine, at a similar level to Israel's recognition, do you have any reason for your revert of my edits? Also, your unfounded personal attacks are not necessary please act civil in the future. Sepsis II ( talk) 12:53, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Purplebackpack89. I was wondering what is going on with the archiving of talk pages on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded. According to what I am seeing, the first three archives take up over five whole years, while the remaining fourteen are from just this year. In addition, do you think you can look at the mess of Archives 3 to 7 and see if they can be repaired? It looks like the discussion just got thrown in at random times. -- Super Goku V ( talk) 05:26, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for working on that page again (I'm on a self-imposed break from that project and am just lurking). Just noticed you may have removed the National Autonomous University of Mexico even though it didn't get enough votes. Can you double check please? Cheers, Cobblet ( talk) 18:23, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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