This Wikipedian is deceased. Respectful comments of remembrance may be left below. Remembering Jeff Rosenbaum. |
Hi Rosencomet, and welcome back. I archived your page for you since it was getting quite cluttered. If that's not what you want, let me know, or if you want something from the archive restored to this page, contact me. For more information bout archiving talk pages, see the link above your talk archive. — Viriditas | Talk 08:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
With regard to your comments on Starwood: Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Please stop your personal attacks on me. It is against wikipedia policy to continue to attack me as you do. This is a warning. Mattisse 12:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Rosencomet, I have asked Mattisse to ignore you, and I expect you to do the same to him. Please do not engage Mattisse in any way, because if you do, I will guarantee that once again you will find yourself blocked. Please listen to me on this. After having an extensive discussion with Mattisse, I realize that Mattisse is only interested in trying to block you and will continue to attempt to bait you at every level. Do not fall for it. Pretend that Mattisse does not exist no matter what Mattisse says or does. This will only make Mattisse look bad, and you will be able to file a harassment report. — Viriditas | Talk 14:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind my posting this. If you wish me to not post on your talk page, just say so and I will certainly respect your wishes. I saw your post to User:Viriditas. And I'm watching his talk page because I've been in conversation with him about something else entirely, not because of you.
Although Whpq ( talk · contribs) is not an admin, uncontroversial closings of AfDs (such as the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Abelson one) can be made by anyone. Because I withdrew my nomination of the article for deletion, this is considered uncontroversial and the result is to keep the article. When articles are kept after an AfD, it is normal to put a notice on the talk page of the article saying that it had previously gone through an AfD with a link to the discussion so later editors can see the information and arguments made in the AfD. [1] There is nothing sinister or unusual about this action. See point 7 on this Deletion Process page link to confirm this.
As to User:Whpq being a sockpuppet, I personally think this is very unlikely. The account appears to have a steady, active, and consistent editing history since early 2006. Look here. I hope this information helps you understand this particular situation. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 21:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Again, I apologize in advance if I'm imposing by posting this but a recent comment of yours indicated to me you still do not have a firm grasp of why I (and others) say you are violating Wikipedia conflict of interest guidelines. At the risk of boring you with material you may already have read, I'd like to post a relevant section here for your consideration.
- Self-promotion
Conflict of interest often presents itself in the form of self-promotion, including advertising links, personal website links, personal or semi-personal photos, or other material that appears to promote the private or commercial interests of the editor, or their associates.
Examples of these types of material include:
- Links that appear to promote products by pointing to obscure or not particularly relevant commercial sites (commercial links).
- Links that appear to promote otherwise obscure individuals by pointing to their personal pages.
- Biographical material that does not significantly add to the clarity or quality of the article.
- Autobiography
It is not recommended to write an article about yourself. If you are notable, someone else will notice you and write the article. In some cases, Wikipedia users write articles about themselves when the more appropriate action would be to create a user page. In these cases, the article is normally moved into the user namespace rather than deleted. If you believe you may be notable enough, make your case on the appropriate talk pages, and seek consensus first, both with the notability and any proposed autobiography.(all bold emphasis mine)
There is more that is applicable to your situation but these are definitely central to the issue. Financial interests are not the sole criteria for COI by any means. If your work advances the profile of an organization you are a part of, that is COI. If you write articles about your friends when no verifiable sources exists, that is COI. And when such writing contains almost nothing but your own knowledge with little in the way of supporting and verifiable sources, that is original research. I don't know why I keep posting this sort of info on your talk page. It seems I've done this several times over the last 16 months. I think I have an ideal that if the information offered and understood, of course you will do the right thing, will address the issues and alter your behaviour. Pigman ☿ 23:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
1. I will say now, and again, and as many times as it takes: All the work I do, and that anyone else does for ACE, is on a voluntary basis, and we profit not a penny by it. I know it is YOUR opinion that this makes no difference, but that is just your opinion. If someone does volunteer work for Muscular Dystrophy or Habitat for Humanity, that does not exclude them from creating or editing an article about those organizations. I do NOT accept the broad interpretation that if any work you do as a volunteer for an organization helps that organization, you are FORBIDDEN to edit that article in any way. I do not consider a link to the website of an organization's program for an event with classes placed solely as a CITATION to support a fact, such as whether the subject of that article actually did perform or lecture at that event, to be improper, even if somewhere ELSE in that website a catalog exists (as many, many organization's websites have). I particularly find it hard to accept that interpretation from one of a group of three editors who act as one posting requirements for citations next to these facts. However, how about if I delete the citation needed tag with a "see talk page" note, and place the external link on the talk page? All I want is for the facts to stop being challenged, because I fear the next step will be to delete the facts, then delete the whole article as "too thin" or "lacking support for notability". I don't consider the ACE website to be commercial, because they pay no employees and all funds generated go back into programming. They provide a public service.
2. The Jeff Rosenbaum article was NOT written by me (nor Starwood Festival, nor Association for Consciousness Exploration for that matter). I have added a bit of information to it, mostly when someone required a citation to support information in it. I have also added references occasionally to make it a better article, more supported, and more accurate. I do not believe this is forbidden; as in, not that there is some guideline saying that it is not best practice, or "not recommended", or "one should avoid it", but FORBIDDEN. I would appreciate it if neither of you would treat guidelines and recommendations as laws. I have seen many, many cases of biographical articles where the subject or someone associated with them has provided information, or objected to information included in the article. (And I'm not impressed with "Other stuff exists"; precedent has to count for something, or all guidelines and rules will be applied unevenly and unjustly.) As for the other articles, I consider Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism to be the posterboy for COI, POV, etc, etc,... but I ignore these issues because I think that in general you two have been contributing to the article being better, even if it does advance the interests of organizations and a movement you are totally involved with from it's very formation. (It's also the posterboy for being WP:OWNy, as Kathryn would say.)
3. I also don't agree that the moment an organization might hire a band, for instance, that means that no one who donates his time to that organization is allowed to either create or edit an article about that band. First, these are not regular employees of the organization, but either self-employed individuals or ones working for/with agencies or their own organizations, engaged on individual instances, and in many cases they are not paid at all. It's like saying that if I ever had UPS deliver a package for me, Domino's sell me a pizza, hired Roto-Rooter, or have phone service from AT&T, I am forbidden to write or edit an article about them. Worse, it's like saying that if I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and THEY paid UPS, Domino's, Roto-Rooter or AT&T for a service, I can't edit those articles. Lets say I OWNED a store, totally commercial, and PAID AT&T for phone service, or UPS, or rented a U-Haul Van! Or if you worked with any of the Woodstock concerts, or Comic Relief, or Band Aid, or the Grammys, or Lillith Faire, or Lalapaloosa, well, there's a couple hundred people you can never edit an article about. The same goes for all the personnel that go into making a movie, if you were one of them. It is absurd on the face of it. I don't "hire them for my event", ACE chooses them by committee and ACE hires them. I don't HAVE events.
4. ACE has a lot of different functions, and different people have taken on different ones. There are several directors. One person is the primary financial director, another handles virtually all research, another handles the website, another the graphic arts and mailings, another all recording both audio and video, another all data-base related work (like the mailing list), and so on and so forth. I am not in charge of any of the above. When it comes down to it, my main deal is handling communications - the phones, the e-mail, the travel and other arrangements for events, the information inquiries and shunting them where they need to go: if you have questions about event details, product content, how to apply to perform or speak, how to contact someone in the group, ask me and I'll either answer them or get you in contact with someone who does. That's what all the stuff you talked about above means; I handle inquiries and communication with the public. I also USED to assemble our tapes and CDs, but frankly we just let the CD house do that nowadays (and we haven't produced tapes in many years); I should really tell the webmaster to change that. I don't manufacture the discs or boxes, don't record the original, don't duplicate them, don't assemble them...; I used to do it all back in the eighties. Now, however, I still often write jacket notes and sit in on the making of the inserts; but I don't know Photoshop or In Access or whatever the ACE graphics guys use. I also help edit by reviewing raw footage and making notes. But it's all a group effort, and all the money (when there is some, which is rare) goes back into programming. Except for the CD House, no one makes a penny. As far as sales, I'm the guy who takes the phone orders. I don't fill them, and I don't get anything out of it. I don't handle the on-line or catalog orders, just the phone ones, and they are rare indeed. Almost all sales nowadays are through ebay or paypal, and I never even see them. And truth to tell, they're hardly worth the work; we do it mostly so more people get the benefit of music and lectures by people we happen to think are cool. That's the Goddess-honest truth.
I am not paid to, or hired to, edit Wikipedia. I did it all by myself, the moment I understood that you can, and I did it because I was aware of a lot of people and things that I thought should have articles about them, and qualified for them, and I saw a lot of articles I thought I could contribute to. I did not do it to promote myself or anyone else, and a good deal of the articles I have written are about authors and artists who have never been to any event I have been associated with or even people I've met. I've been cranking out articles about occult authors for months based solely on information I researched, like Nicholas R. Mann, Al G. Manning, Vivianne Crowley, Ed Fitch, Prem Das, Laura Huxley, Sally Morningstar, Gabrielle Roth, Dorothy Morrison, Luisah Teish, etc, etc. I've done it almost entirely with only friendly and/or civil interaction with other editors, until you and your group showed up again. I've edited or continued to protect the articles of people I admire who are dead, like Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and Baba Raul Canizares. I don't consider that to be self-promotion. I get nothing out of it.
You two and your friend have NEVER "assumed good faith" with me, and continue to watch everything I do and try to provoke me. I know there are some who say I shouldn't stand up for myself and shouldn't react, but there it is. I know you have the experience and the ability to bury me under mis-applied guidelines you can pretend are rules carved in stone, and I know you can keep poking at me until I respond with frustration, gather the responses and call them "hostile" or "agressive", even on my own talk page. Like when you say I'm attacking you for saying you're stalking me, when you maintain a User:Pigman/Starwood-Rosencomet Watchlist, and comment minutes later when I edit.
I think my work falls into normal parameters of other editors working here (at least now that I have become somewhat used to Wikipedia; I'll readily admit that when I started out, I made a lot of mistakes). I think it has value, and involves a unique set of subjects that might otherwise not be addressed, or not for a long time. I don't think my work has been commercial or promotional, no matter how much you twist your definitions. I wish to continue working with REASONABLE editors who want to guide and improve my work, but I really doubt that you want to help me, having seen your discussions about me to others over the last week, and knowing our history. I would rather see a truly objective administrator with a sense of proportion work with me, and let me discuss the propriety of anything I do that he/she thinks is controversial, and have you guys leave me alone; because I believe you are prejudiced against me and no fair judge of my editing. I don't know what your real issues are with me, but I do believe you have some, and it makes you pursue me obsessively and treat me unfairly. Rosencomet ( talk) 05:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
The MfD discussion on your user subpage has closed as keep. Best wishes, Xoloz ( talk) 15:57, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Here's a snapshot of the work I've done since the arbitration. I can expand this, but I am very sick and must go home now. You can see that hardly any have edits since the arbitration, and the few there are not controversial ones, and there is neither agressive aditing nor edit warring. Out of 39 articles picked alphabetically from my userpage, ten had edits by mesince the arbitration, mostly non-controversial (fix link, new headings, an additional cD, etc). Only one revert; from an unamed editor with only complaints on his userpage.
Please don't characterize me as someone who has "learned nothing", or who has been displaying the same behavior since the arbitration. It just isn't true. I'll expand this list to include EVERY article I've edited since then if necessary. By far the majority of my edits were either to articles with no Starwood etc reference, or the edits I did had nothing to do with Starwood etc, and in that case it was usually to respond to a request for a citation or something. Rosencomet ( talk) 19:21, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Have you ever had any business relationship (non-profit, for-profit or mutual exchange) with Llewellyn Worldwide? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 03:22, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated WinterStar Symposium, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WinterStar Symposium. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 02:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Jeff Rosenbaum, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Rosenbaum (2nd nomination). Thank you. Pigman ☿ 06:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
WARNING - You are engaging in WP:CANVASSing, specifically of the Wikipedia:CANVASS#Campaigning and Wikipedia:CANVASS#Votestacking sort, as you are only posting to people that have supported your position in past AfDs or content disputes: User:Viriditas, User:Septegram, User:Modemac, User:Dave Null. Rosencomet, if you continue after this warning, what you are doing is a blockable offense, especially as you have done it multiple times before. This is your only warning. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 20:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Also, canvassing off-wiki for new users to come and "vote" is against policy as well. Stop doing it. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 20:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Fred, I don't know if you are aware of this, but I hoped you might comment on a big problem I have been having. For six months since the arbitration, I have been editing with very little conflict, and mostly creating new non-Starwood-related articles. I have added to and improved a lot of the other articles, mostly in non-controversial ways (like adding books and/or ISBN numbers to bibliographies and info to discographies of people who happened to have appeared at an ACE event), or to satisfy requests for citations. Perhaps I put some of this info under the wrong headings, calling something a reference when it should have been a note or put under "further reading", or whatever. But I have sincerely been trying to support the work I have done, do new work unrelated to the articles that were controversial, and avoid any conflicts.
However, two weeks ago Mattisse, Pigman and Kathryn suddenly appeared, and proceeded on what I can only call a campaign to eliminate as much mention of ACE and it's events as possible. They began with a tagging spree reminiscent of the one by Mattisse and her sock puppets that started my problems before. My immediate response was to ask Thatcher for help and advice, but for some reason he would not respond to me for nearly a week. During that time, it turned out, he was talking to the three of them here [6] without even telling me this conversation was happening. I had asked him if there was still an advocate system, but he never answered me. (I'm not trying to slam Thatcher, I'm just pointing out that I've tried to deal with this without revert wars or other unpleasantness). Since then Pigman has opened discussions here [7] and elsewhere, all with no one telling me so I could respond, and he has a watchlist devoted just to my work.
In the past two weeks he and Kathryn have deleted material from at least thirty articles I've created or regularly edit, nominated five for deletion (two successfully, one not, two pending), and have made some frankly bizzare interpretations of Wikipedia rules. For instance, Pigman deleted mention of the Starwood Festival appearances from Paul Krassner's article, even though he has written two articles about Starwood, been quoted in High Times about it, and appeared at six out of the last ten. He claims that the event must not be important to Krassner because he doesn't mention it by name on his official bio, just as "a Neo-Pagan festival". Even when Paul Krassner himself wrote in to the talk page that it was important to him and why, Pigman has not returned this data. I believe he is hoping I will engage in a revert war, so he can call it aggressive editing and a violation of the arbitration. In fact, he has ALREADY accused me of that; I thnk it is clear that these three want to drive me and my work out of Wikipedia by any means. Another strange rule: Kathryn claims that since in the eighties ACE got permission to re-issue a handful of cassette tapes from Llewellyn, I am not allowed to edit ANY article by ANY author who has ever had a book published by Llewellyn, America's oldest occult publisher, even though I have never worked for nor received a penny from Llewellyn, and my work with ACE is totally voluntary and unpaid. They have changed the copy on the Jeff Rosenbaum article, too, so instead of "he has produced over 100 tapes and CDs" they say "produced and sold" although this is not true, and added "Through ACE, Rosenbaum produces cassette tapes and CDs of the artists who appear at ACE events, and markets them through the ACE website" as if they belong to and are marketed by Rosenbaum who merely takes advantage of the website to make money for himself. This is a lie, and IMO a violation of WP:Bio, and I have said so several times.
In spite of the failed attempts several months ago, which you commented on at the time, to merge the articles Starwood Festival, WinnterStar Symposium, Association for Consciousness Exploration and Jeff Rosenbaum, and even though the articles are expanded since then, they are trying to do it again. Worse, they delete the citations and references for paltry reasons, then delete the facts as uncited, then say the article isn't notable.
I don't know what to do. It's a gang-up of three against one, and I don't have the cadre they do to bully their way to whatever they want. On top of that, I'm afraid to do anything because of the accusations of violating the arbitration. I don't know what I can or can't do, and they claim I can't do anything at all. I desperately need some help. They've already deleted some articles, and they seem to be visiting every article I have ever created or edited, and consider ANY reference to these events no matter how well supported as undue weight or trivial. And any editor who says anything in my support gets confronted. What can I do? Rosencomet ( talk) 21:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
It is severely frowned upon to canvass users for an AfD. I have reverted your recent canvassing. Please don't do this again. ➔ REDVEЯS says: at the third stroke the time will be 22:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Rosencomet, you may have trouble hearing this from me, as you appear to think I have some sort of agenda towards you. However, your editing is getting even more disruptive. You really, really need to treat other Wikipedians with respect if you intend to remain here. I'm referring to your comments about Pigman here: [8], though those are just the most recent in a long history of accusing others of "harrassing" and "stalking" you (I'll provide diffs if you need your memory refreshed). I know that you know this is wrong, as many other editors have tried to talk to you about this during your time here. If you cannot stop insulting people and making personal attacks, you're going to wind up blocked again. That's not a threat, it's just a statement about how WP and the WP community works. You are not an exception to the rules we all have to follow here. You need to take this seriously and stop it. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 23:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Jeff, as you have created an alternate account, Jeff Rosenbaum, [9] and now used it to comment on an AfD in which you had already commented as Rosencomet, you need to familiarize yourself with the policies at WP:SOCK. Participating in an AfD under two different accounts is not permitted. Also, an alternate account needs to be indicated as such on your userpages if you are using the account in good faith. I have flagged the accounts as alternates. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 05:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Nah, it's OK. My edits should have been reverted (only now I'm realizing that I've made a good faith vandalism), Your reverts were completely justified. And by the way, we have the same surname...! what are the odds? -- ~Magnolia Fen ( talk) 09:05, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Could you comment on my plan as presented here? I feel that you have some expertise in this area, and can shed some guiding light. — Viriditas | Talk 23:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet, and thanks for your kind words about John Bassette. I was also a fan, and found it very strange that the entry's notability was questioned (and on ridiculous grounds, too -- the original comment line was "notability questioned - few Google hits excluding this article" which has nothing whatever to do with the Wikipedia's stated criteria for notability. When, on one of the linked sites, I saw a citation from the Providence Journal about John's performance at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival, I figured I could do my part, as my college library has a full run of the "ProJo" on microfilm; turned out to be quite a find! It was amazing to see the impact John made in a year dominated by Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacreee," and in a newspaper column which erroneously mentioned the then-unknown "Joanie Mitchell" and mis-named her songs, commenting only on her yellow miniskirt! I will try to keep making improvements as I can, and I share your wish that John's orginal recordings be re-issued some day! Best regards, Clevelander96 ( talk) 15:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
You may not want to disclose your alternate account but, due to the fact that you have used it on some of the same pages, the only way you can do this and not be blocked for sockpuppetry is to disclose it. Therefore I have reverted your removal of the disclosure notice from your userpage. You can remove it again if you really want to, but I wouldn't recommend it. I am also concerned that you are once again back to editing WP:COI articles of people whom you have hired to perform at the Starwood Festival, such as Gavin Frost, ArcheDream [10], Isaac Bonewits [11], Dagmar Braun Celeste, Jeff McBride (where you also added a Starwood link [12]) as well as the many people in the Gnosticon page you started, [13]. Gnosticon was also an enterprise of Llewellyn Worldwide, with whom you have a past business arrangement (selling the "ACE/Llewllyn" line of tapes and CDs), and whose stable of authors are basically the same crowd you hire for Starwood. I am stunned that you are back to violating these policies that have been thoroughly and routinely explained to you. Do you really want to go there again? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 06:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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You are welcome to edit any article, including articles about associates, provided you cite reliable sources. It is best to not rely on personal knowledge. Fred Talk 00:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Pamela J. Ball, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pamela J. Ball. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Guy ( Help!) 22:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Philip H. Farber, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip H. Farber (2nd nomination). Thank you.
Some of your recent talk page comments have been rather incivil and verged into the territory of personal attacks. [17] Please try to keep your temper. I'd particularly urge you to focus more on the present and current edits to articles rather than the past. I'd also gently remind you that arguing over reinstating mentions of Starwood in various articles deleted by other editors is probably not a good idea. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] This hasn't reached the level of edit warring but your argumentative tone still concerns me as does your continuing aggressive advocacy for Starwood/ACE related info/mentions in articles. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 02:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Sally Morningstar, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sally Morningstar. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 03:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Are you "Sally Morningstar"? Don't remove deletion tags from AfD articles. It's vandalism. Qworty ( talk) 18:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Halley DeVestern, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halley DeVestern. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 06:20, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Dennis Chernin, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dennis Chernin. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 03:31, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Nicki Scully, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicki Scully. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 04:14, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I thought your comments on Talk:Nevill Drury weren't entirely on topic so I'm moving the discussion here.
While of course you don't need to provide footnotes for a talk page discussion, if you make assertions about how often Drury is quoted compared to other authors, I think it appropriate that you provide some proof or source for this claim. In other words, neither I nor other editors can just take your word that this is true.
As to your accusation that I'm just targeting for deletion articles you've written or contributed to, I think my contribs show otherwise. You continue to be unclear about both notability for people and verifiable sources. I really suggest you look at those a little more closely. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 18:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Jeff, I just saw your e-mail to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart which asked him to forward around your request for people to open new Wikipedia editor accounts in order to vote for your position in edit and deletion disputes. Tacky, to say the least.
I suggested to you before that your inappropriate promotion of Starwood, etc., in Wikipedia wasn't doing you any good as the audience you were reaching here already knew of it anyway. Look, to use some ad-speak, you're not reaching new eyeballs, and you're pissing off the old ones, to put it bluntly. You're going to get banned if you keep this up.
I have nothing against you. From what I've heard over the years, outside of Wikipedia you're a fairly cool guy -- but you're being self-destructive over this. I hate for good people to be their own enemy. With all respect, you need to change your behavior with regard to Wikipedia. -- Davidkevin ( talk) 22:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I have opened an WP:ANI discussion on your canvassing off-wiki for people to participate in AfDs. Here is the diff and here is a link to the specific section. Please come and participate in the discussion. Pigman ☿ 05:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I can understand your concerns, but the language of your letter does seem a bit worrisome. We've got a lot of POV warriors trying to stack the decks, and any advice which seems to counsel stealth rather than openness on the part of new editors you recruit is going to set off alarms (see the current CAMERA controversy). (My userpage, for example, is bedizened with blatant declarations of my interests and opinions, so that nobody can claim that I have a concealed interest or POV on much of anything.) You have to be conscious of the fact that you are perceived as a POV pusher trying to get more attention for your community without acknowledging notability concerns of other editors not part of that community. -- Orange Mike | Talk 16:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey Rosencomet, I hope you are well.
I intend to stay out of this situation, as I don't think I have anything to add, unless something particularly catches my eye or someone asks me to comment. However, I would like to give you one piece of advice that I hope you will follow:
Never put anything in writing that you do not want the whole world to know. As regards Internet -- and that includes e-mail and instant messaging -- never put anything in writing that you do not want the whole world to know tomorrow.
Many, many people I know have learned this the hard way. Your time on Wikipedia is not going to get any easier if you make comments about Wikipedia other places that you wouldn't want repeated here.
Regards - Revolving Bugbear 20:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
What the heck were you thinking? I suggest you get on your knees and start begging for forgiveness because the future isn't looking too good. I'm pretty upset that I spent all that time mediating for you and arguing your side of things, only to find that you haven't learned anything. I would say that now is a good time to apologize to the community for your actions and take a new step in the right direction. The patience of the community is exhausted, and you are one step closer to an indefinite block. I suspect that wasn't the result you wanted; It's never too late to change. You know, it's really ironic. Everything you are attempting to do and being called out for, can be done legitimately onwiki using skillful means. Did you ever once stop to consider that the resources of Wikipedia:WikiProject Neopaganism are meant to be used for this purpose? Please, take a moment to think before you act. Viriditas ( talk) 00:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Rosencomet, per NPA and CIV policies this is not acceptable and I suggest you remove it. To an outside observer, it appears to be an attack upon Kathryn and Mattisse. I don't care if you think you are defending yourself, it is simply not allowed per Wikipedia:User_pages#What_may_I_not_have_on_my_user_page.3F. You may be able to get away with rewording it on a subpage dedicated to dispute resolution, but I would suggest you show some good faith and start a new chapter on Wikipedia. Viriditas ( talk) 22:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
And try to remember, when you write stuff like "Pigman, Kathryn & Mattisse just can't accept it" - that also reads like a personal attack, even though you are trying to make a point about your situation. Your best strategy is to explain yourself in relation to your edits, not other editors. From now on, do not make any negative comments about any other editors. You are just giving your enemies ammunition to shoot you down - permanently. If you want to stay here, you are going to need to make some radical changes. Viriditas ( talk) 22:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Rosencoment, a bit of advice: the less you say, the more people are willing to take you seriously. When you leave long screeds on the AN/I board and user talk pages, most people will just ignore it. The cardinal rule is, remember your audience. Wikipedians want information quickly and have very little time for long messages. That's just the nature of the culture. So, I suggest keeping all your future comments extremely brief and to the point if you want people to listen to you. Viriditas ( talk) 22:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
The impression being given by Mattisse, Pigman and Kathryn is that I have not changed my editing since the close of the Arbcom that ended Mar. 29th, 2007. Here is a snapshot of my editing since then. It is alphabetical and presently includes just the articles I originated, but I will gladly continue it until it includes every article I've written or edited, so anyone can see that starting from the first edit I've done and dragging us through the entire Mattisse - Ekajati/999/Hanuman Das thing in this one-sided way is unfair. My editing has not been contentious since the Arbcom, though I have IMO been provoked by tagging sprees, and I have restrained myself in almost all cases while asking for help from Arbitrators like Fred Bauder, Thatcher and Newyorkbrad. Fred Bauder has stated that I was free to edit any articles I choose as long as the edits themselves are cited and not Original research, so the frequent accusation that I am violating COI policy by editing them is not true.
The truth is, my editing has improved a great deal since the Arbcom. This was even stated as part of the Arbcom's findings. I have been mostly writing articles about people that have NEVER been to one of the events I've worked on, I have NOT been adding even internal Starwood links to articles much less the external ones that the Arbcom was about (I've even occasionally deleted some existing ones myself, like on Sally Eaton and Children of Earthmaker), have NOT reverted anything more than once (not just once in a day, but at all, and that rarely), and except for vigorous support on discussion and nomination for deletion pages I have stood by and watched as work I've done has been deleted without opposing it, even when I thought the motivation was personal or the basis was flimsy.
Here is a record of all my edits since the Arbcom on articles I've written. It contains 69 articles, 5 of which have been deleted (4 recently), and two deleted and re-directed: WinterStar Symposium to the ACE article, and Grey School of Wizardry to the Oberon Zell-Ravenheart article.
Twenty-seven of them have been created since the Arbcom, and only 5 of those had any connection to ACE or Starwood. Of those 5, two had Starwood mentions in them which were deleted by Pigman with no comment or reverting from me; the other three have not, and I think at least two are not controversial even to him (In Amber Wolfe, a discography link to ACE due to 3 Llewellyn Worldwide meditation tapes re-issued by ACE in the eighties with no connection to Starwood; and in Fred Schrier, a link to an obituary of longtime partner Dave Sheridan by Schrier published exclusively in an ACE periodical in 1982 with no Starwood connection. Neither Wolfe, Schrier nor Sheridan have ever been to an ACE event.). Also, the article WinterStar Symposium was deleted and re-directed to the ACE article.
I not only do want to improve, I HAVE worked to that end. But some editors who IMO have their own problems with me, ACE and Starwood simply won't recognize this, and insist on instigating conflict in the hope of pushing me to do something blockable... and I must admit they are very good at it.
P.S. I've begun reviewing the 170 articles I've edited but not originated. Of the first 65, 56 either had no connection to Starwood etc or no Starwood-related edits by me since the Arbcom. Some of the remaining nine had non-controversial ACE-related edits, like discography links, or edits on the ACE article itself.
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Rosencomet ( talk) 21:24, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm really not sure what you're trying to demonstrate with this essay. The argument is not that you should be blocked because you have never done anything positive on Wikipedia. The argument is that you should be blocked because you have done something which is extremely harmful. That is undoubtedly true. Additionally, attempting to cast Pigman and Kathryn as out to get you is not likely to get you anywhere -- Pigman and Kathryn are known and respected on Wikipedia, so you will lose that battle.
You have a reputation for conflict of interest and abusing the process on Wikipedia, and I honestly can't say I disagree. Trying to argue that these things are not true, or at least overstated, is not a tactic that is likely to get you anywhere. If you want to have any sort of future options on Wikipedia, you need to demonstrate -- not just say, but demonstrate -- that you accept and understand not only what you have done wrong but also why it was wrong. People's patience is wearing extremely thin, and you need to demonstrate that, if they give you another chance, you're not going to make the same mistakes again.
Also, I don't know whether you know this anonymous IP or not, but if you do, you might want to let him know that he isn't helping you at all. - Revolving Bugbear 15:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Rosencomet,
I have to say, I think your apparent decision to take some chill time off from Wikipedia was probably a good one. Hopefully you will return with a clearer head about things.
However, as you will notice, you are not blocked. The conversation went stale. That being said, I think you will agree that the discussion turned up some points that you should work on if you want to integrate yourself successfully into Wikipedia.
I am volunteering myself to you for this purpose. If you are interested, I will work with you on the various fine points of Wikipedia until such a time as you can operate as comfortably and productively as possible. This decision isn't mandated by community decision or anything; I am offering this because I believe it will help you.
Please let me know what you think.
Regards - Revolving Bugbear 19:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
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Dear Revolving Bugbear,
I'd like to try to beef up some of the articles that were deleted earlier this year and see if they can be brought up to Wikipedia standards. I'd like to access the text of the last version that was up, and I don't know how to do that. Could you tell me how to retrieve them, or do it for me (preferably the former).
The one's I'm most interested in right now are Philip H. Farber (who now has a new book out from Red Wheel, a Samuel Weiser imprint), and Nicki Scully (I think it would have been kept if not for the controversy about me). I'd also like to retry Grey School of Wizardry, but for that one I'd also have to deal with a redirect page presently up to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.
Also, how do I enable an e-mail address for my Username? Thanks for your time.Rosencomet (talk) 19:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
I just started a thread on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard about the Muruga Booker article that you're continuing to use as a source. I did mention your name in my post so I wanted you to be aware of it. I'm hoping that the discussion might be of benefit to you. I may learn something as well. Here's a link to it: WP:RSN#Unattributed website article as RS. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 00:47, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
That was a valiant attempt to clarify, but I fear the section in question remains as opaque as ever:
"The legendary drinking, feasting and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Dyn Eidyn (modern day
Edinburgh), and in the epic poem
Y Gododdin, both dated around AD 700".
Thanks for any further light you can shine
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Thanks for your edit, I had absolutely no idea that it still existed. It seems that the matter is quite complicated, so I have proposed to create a new section on the article just to describe The Farm. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 21:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
You should take your evidence to WP:SSP. - Revolving Bugbear 00:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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I opposed the first Greenfield article early on because it was merely a self-promotional piece written by Allen Greenfield himself, one intended to sell his books and promote his home-brewed religious movement, "Congregational Illuminism." That is NOT why WikiPedia is here!
Since the deletion of the first article a second article was created. This article has since been edited, modified, and mutated and is fast begining to look like the first article. The section I deleted contained a list of unverified and dubious achievements which were in dire need of citations. Beyond Mr. Greenfield's own, personal promotion web site there was no verification for these achievements.
I'll be honest here. I have known Allen Greenfield for 20 years and the man is a shameless self promoter and began his authoring career through a press that he was part owner of at one point. It seems that the current Greenfield article is fast turning into an advertisement for Greenfield's books, metaphysical services, and religious sect. Eyes down, human. ( talk) 17:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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I see you're back at it: [24] Do you really want to continue down this road? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 20:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Any kind of link to the organization and festival which ArbComm has determined you have COI on, is astroturfing. Doesn't matter if it's a Wikilink or an external. Now I see you are willing to edit war over it: [25]. I am reverting it. It seems to me you do want to go down this road. Also note that it's inappropriate for you to try to circumvent ArbComm. Fred's opinion is only Fred's opinion - it does not substitute for an ArbComm ruling. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 21:29, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
What follows is substantially what I said on the Nemeton talk page about your conflict of interest (COI) concerning Starwood references but I wanted to make sure you read it and had a chance to look at the linked articles.
Given your COI re: Brushwood and Starwood, it's hard to ignore your continued violations of COI guidelines. Arbcom did find that you have a conflict of interest.
You continue to insert references to Starwood despite the caution by Arbcom to refrain from this. This is practically textbook Astroturfing. Please refresh your understanding of the policies and guidelines around COI by looking at the following links:
I strongly recommend you discard your belief that you are somehow exempt from these policies/guidelines. Really. Your tendentious editing around Starwood remains strong and obvious. Please don't continue this behavior. Cheers, Pigman ☿/talk 22:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Looking towards the definition of disruptive editing, I don't engage in "disruptive cite-tagging" (though it's been done to me a lot), I strive for verifiability at all times, I maintain a neutral voice, I always respond to editors inquiries about my sources and discuss them at length, I appeal to arbitrators when there's a sign of impending conflict rather than engage in contentious editing, and I do not ignore the opinions of impartial editors, or even those who are NOT impartial. Rosencomet ( talk) 16:16, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed the current drastic revisions of this article and brought it up at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#LaSara_FireFox to get some feedback and more eyes on the article. You might like to participate in the discussion. Cheers, Pigman ☿/talk 23:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
The edits were done at the request of Ann-Marie herself. I am her partner. She did not know that there was an entry for her and asked me to remove the errors. The books that she did not contribute to and does not want to be associated with were the ones removed. She does not live with her three children, they are all grown up and live with their own partners. I don't know who you are but I think Ann-Marie and myself are more qualified to to write an entry for her. Stevil54 ( talk) 11:16, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've edited the Bob Wilson page from time to time, and have seen your work there. Nice. Yesterday I added, and then removed, lists and a template concerning occult (List of occult writers, for example) but then wondered if Wilson considered himself an occultist. Would you think these would be appropriate for the page? See Template:Occult navigation, which I added and removed. Thanks Randy Kryn ( talk) 11:22, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, and I don't recall seeing anywhere where RAW called himself an occultist either. I probably added the link because he may be seen by others as one, and because links are fun to add, and it is such a loose and "mysterious" term to use. Now if you'd ssk him, he'd probably say, "What second? At 11:03 p.m. on May 4th of last year I considered myself an occultist, as I was reading an old copy of Fate Magazine, but that's all I can recall." So of course, let's remove those references. Good catch. Wanna help with the section on Sch. Cat and Historical Illuminatus? The other '81 novel sits right there in the middle of those, standing alone, shining, one of his masterpieces in my h. opinion. Thanks, and Happy Sanhain Halloween. Randy Kryn ( talk) 22:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rosencoment,
I have written some new articles
Postmodern Neopaganism Postmodern Wicca
I did not write this one but it exists - Postmodern Christianity
I am trying to include the term Jewitch or Jewitchery in the article Postmodern Neopaganism - I think it is reclaiming and positive but reverts are say delete and that I should refer to semitic neopaganism.
My one concern is that the average user searching online may use the term jewitchery rather than semitic neopaganism!
I want a page to link to Jewitchery and I want to make the connection between Wicca and this tradition.
I noticed you made a comment on the talk page and I was wondering if you would consider the term Jewitchery inappropriate or demeaning?? I think it is a positive term?
It seems that I get reverted whenever I attempt to include the keyword WICCA??
I would like to establish that wicca, witchcraft, jewitchery etc. forms a strong part of the postmodern interpretation/perspective
Do you feel that the article on jewitchery was redirected because the argument was that it was demeaning? Some perspective would be great as I don't want to use the wrong language choices.
-- Kary247 ( talk) 10:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet. I have created a new article: biography of the Wiccan priestesses
Murry Hope. I consider you very indicated to analyze the right now discussion for keeping or delete the article: (
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Murry_Hope#Murry_Hope). The issue has been around the references, there are secondary source references, but nobody gave much importance. Personally I agree the references and article should be improved but not deleted. Murry Hope was a celebrity in New Age (30 books distributed around the word), and still opera singer in London. Seems more than enough, no? I already argued that but apparently made little effect (incomprehensible). The five pillars of Jimmy Whales have changed? Now an article has to be born perfect? The article fits enough rules to keep in Wikipedia, but if even all rules failed, that should be a part of the judgment (again the 5 pillars) and not the verdict, or else Wikipedia will be just a bureaucrat dead encyclopedia. Thus may I ask you to give your opinion and call another specialists in the subject? Thanks. Best,
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My apologies. Extensive bibliographies with no third-party sources to demonstrate notability tend to be indicative of a vanity page, but, as you've shown, there are always exceptions. I've nominated the article for deletion here. Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 04:06, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion about these edits going on at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Church_of_the_SubGenius. For what it's worth, I absolutely agree with the removal of the information: the information was a blatant violation of our BLP policy, and I hope you will not reinstate the material. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 20:15, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
While I see this article survived an AfD, there are serious problems with it.
First, it appears that you copied whole sentence from the sources you cited, such as Writers.net and Songworks.net, with little or no changes. This is plagiarism and copyright violation. You must absorb the information from the sources and then write it in your own words. Really, given the amount of plagiarism the article should be deleted and should be started again.
Second, the sources used are not reliable because they are affiliated with the subject. Songworks.net is a site owned by the subject. Writers.net accepts user submitted profiles and the page you used as a source was clearly written by the subject herself. We cannot source degrees, awards, or any other self-serving claims solely to websites created by or controlled by the subject.
You really should start the article completely over, using sources not affiliated with the subject. I will give you some time to do this, otherwise I intend to gut the article and base it on whatever third-party sources are available. Yworo ( talk) 22:15, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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I was asking for credit citations. What role did the subject play in the creation of the video? How are they listed on the official credits for the production. I don't understand how you could cite something billed as a television production to a podcast page. Also, you can't cite to the subject's own self-published website. That's not reliable, people can claim whatever they want on their websites. Yworo ( talk) 17:17, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
A bare link looks like this [26]. A citation looks like this: "Different Worlds Publications - DW#37-47". Diffworlds.com. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
That is, a citation includes as many fields as possible such as the author's name, the text title of the work, the publisher, the date, etc. What you are doing is lazy and only makes work for other editors. Stop making bare citations. Disingenously claiming you don't know what a citation is is simply unbelievable. Click on the link, WP:CITE, if you are really ignorant of citation style on Wikipedia. And read it. Yworo ( talk) 17:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Event announcements are made on behalf of the subject by an organization with a financial interest in the event. The speaker blurbs are usually written by the speaker themselves and are self-promoting. Yes, they are third-party but they are not independent. And they do not help establish notability. That requires a independent third-party report or review of the lecture or lecturer. Yworo ( talk) Yworo ( talk) 17:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I've clearly explained in the section just above what you need to support that statement.
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Richard Kaczynski, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Yworo ( talk) 18:33, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been thinking, the best way to source this might be from an interview. Surely some interviewer has brought up his lecturing, and there would be nothing wrong with something like "In an interview with so-and-so or such-and-such publication, Kaczynski stated that he has been lecturing on magic since 19xx. Yworo ( talk) 16:18, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
I've opened a thread on the reliable sources noticeboard, Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Richard Kaczynski. I've not mentioned you by name there, because this is a sourcing issue, not a personal one. Feel free to just wait for the answer to my question or present your arguments there, as you will. Yworo ( talk) 19:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hallo, I see you've added some facts to Bernie Siegel, but without supporting evidence. Since evidence is what the AfD discussion is/will be about, could you possibly add citations to show the sources for the facts you've added? Otherwise, the new material constitutes forbidden WP:OR ("Original Research") which will actually hasten the article's deletion.
More to the point, what is needed is proof of WP:Notability, which again means evidence via reliable independent sources that Siegel is worth including. Additional biographical detail makes the article more readable but establishing notability is key. For what it's worth, it seems clear to me that he is well-known in new age circles, but that fact needs to be proven with specific citations.
with best wishes Chiswick Chap ( talk) 10:08, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Take a look at WP:NBOOK. If a book is a best seller and you can also find two mainstream reviews of it, it is notable enough for its own article. Then take a look at WP:AUTHOR: an author of notable books is himself notable. Yworo ( talk) 00:51, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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You clearly are very familiar with our guidelines on COI, and yet you continue to make edits, such as those at David Jay Brown, which are clearly COI. Consider this a formal warning. Dougweller ( talk) 21:55, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Although I agree that not editing articles that present a COI is something that you need to be careful of, it does seem to me that Qworty is being a little too overzealous with his "deleting". Using the David Jay Brown article and looking at this history Qworty deleted a section of books and things that the person wrote as unsourced. There is not nor has their ever been a requirement to provide a "source" for a book the individual wrote that is clearly visible with the individuals name in it. Come on lets show some common sense. Thats like requiring a citaton for a citation. Although I do think that Rosencomet needs to adjust their editing a bit it does seem like they are trying to ask for help. Let's try and provide it please. Also, I would not that, although Qworty appears to be doing these changes in good faith, its possible given the very systematic approach and limited scope of the articles they are reviewing that there may be a COI issue with that user as well. That might be something that someone might want to look into before we assume that Rosencomet is trying to pursue their own agenda, which has been inferred in at least 2 different places now. Kumioko ( talk) 01:12, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Rosencomet. The pattern I've seen emerge in your contributions is your inability to add reliable sources. This is especially true for unsourced biographical stubs. I think you could eliminate 90% of your conflicts if you focus on adding good sources to contested content. You've been informed of this many times now, and I'm concerned that your simple refusal to add sources will end up with another block. Please don't let it come to that. I should note, that this has happened so many times now, that it appears to others that you refuse to follow the sourcing guidelines. It's no longer 2004 but 2012 going on 2013. We are heading into Wikipedia 2.0 now, where every statement or paragraph is attributed to an inline reliable source. I realize that this might be difficult if you are still editing like it was the early 2000s, but times have changed. Viriditas ( talk) 07:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Here are just a few examples of Qworty's deletion of bibliographies, discographies and similar material as "unsourced", including whole sections of references. I will add more. In some cases, Qworty then nominates the article for deletion, usuallu as non-notable.
Qworty removed filmography from David Jay Brown as “unsourced” [28] Qworty removed foreign translations bibliography from David Jay Brown as “unsourced” [29] Qworty removed Contributions to Other Books and Publications from David Jay Brown as “unsourced” [30]
Qworty deletes reference section of Michael T. Gilbert, [32]
Qworty deletes bibliography, discography, and all data about works of Nicki Scully as “unsourced” [34]
It appears that there is a concerted effort to remove this article from Wikipedia and this man is a published author whose work is well known to people dealing with psychedelics. Perhaps a mediator or senior editor needs to review this edit war. It is out of control and Qworty appears to be incredibly aggressive. It seems almost personal. Canticle ( talk) 06:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I feel it necessary to make a statement here: I have been accuse of COI in a number of cases by Qworty; in fact, I have been accused of creating no articles except those of "friends who have attended my non-notable event", and of promoting them because I make my living via this event. These are flat-out lies. I can show you over thirty articles I have created that have nothing to do with the Starwood Festival or the organization that runs it; MANY more that I have contributed to. Furthermore, I derive absolutely NO income from either; in fact, my purely voluntary involvement with them costs me thousands of dollars a year.
Also, the notion that just because someone once spoke at or performed at Starwood means I should not be allowed to edit that article is faulty logic at best, and was NOT the decision of the 2007 arbcom. For instance, Michael T. Gilbert came to Starwood for free and talked about his comic book Mr. Monster in 1984. Since then, I have had no contact with him, nor has he appeared at any event I was involved in or attended. I liked his work before and after that appearance, and created his article; since then many editors have contributed to it. What possible benefit can I derive from his article? I am a comic fan, and also created Fred Schrier, who has never been to Starwood, Dr. Strange (1978 film), List of Marvel Comics mutants, and Sequoia (comics), and contributed to many more comics-oriented articles.
There are other similar examples. John Bassette appeared at Starwood in the 1980s. He died in 2006. Raymond Buckland appeared there over thirty years ago; I've had no contact with him since. What is the conflict of interest?
I think that the issue is the actual edits, and I believe the administrators expressed the same belief. Qworty (who I firmly believe has a problem with me personally and is probably someone I've locked horns with in the past under a different name) has been posting very nasty messages about me, using 5 year old material, and terms like WP:RATSASS, and "notorious wiki-spammer", calling my editing an "atrocity". Meanwhile, Qworty has been deleting whole sections of perfectly good references and properly-constructed bibliographies as "unsourced", and slapping COI and Non-notable all over the place. I urge you to look over my relatively meager contributions over the last, say, two years and judge for yourself based on content, not personalities. Rosencomet ( talk) 19:28, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Articles heavily deleted by Qworty include (* indicates no connection to any event I am involved with.) - COI & Notability tags have been removed.: Amampondo, Badi Assad*, Association for Consciousness Exploration, John Bassette, Phyllis Curott, Sally Eaton, Selena Fox, Michael T. Gilbert, Jesse Wolf Hardin, Anodea Judith, Stephen Kent (musician), Liquid Soul*, Patricia Telesco and Harvey Wasserman
These articles have tags for citations and other issues, but not COI or Notability: Raymond Buckland, Laurence Galian
These also contain tags for notability, but no nomination for deletion: Armor & Sturtevant, Gavin Bone, Muruga Booker, Vivianne Crowley*, Prem Das*, Jim Donovan (musician), Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison, Ed Fitch*, Yvonne Frost, George R. Harker, Owain Phyfe, Lauren Raine, Red Dog Experience*, Nicki Scully, Chas Smith, Starwood Festival, Jay Stevens, Stratospheerius, Telesma, and Amber Wolfe*.
These Qworty nominated articles have had their discussions ended.: Matthew Abelson - Keep, David Jay Brown - Deleted, Brushwood Folklore Center-Deleted, Baba Raul Canizares - Keep, Ian Corrigan - Deleted, Jim Donovan (musician) - Keep, LaSara FireFox - Keep, Kenny Klein - Keep, Donald Michael Kraig - Keep, Louis Martinie - Keep, Patricia Monaghan - Keep, M. Macha Nightmare - Keep, Luisah Teish* - Keep, and Trance Mission - Keep.
Association for Consciousness Exploration has been redirected to Starwood Festival with no opportunity for community to discuss the proposal. Reverted by D. Rosencomet ( talk) 19:22, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Qworty took up deleting massive amounts of article information and then declaring that there are no reliable sources associated with them again in April 2013 (it appears to have started around April 2, 2013). Articles include, but are not limited to Andrew Helm and Roberta Brown. When s/he finally creates a page suggesting deletion, s/he becomes verbally abusive claiminh s/he has the right to delete all knowledge placed on a page by others because of "policy." Taram Taram ( talk) 14:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:AFD mutual combat. Thank you. Mangoe ( talk) 06:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
At first I thought this was only about me and Starwood and someone who wanted to re-litigate the 5 year old arbcom, and I didn't agree with those who saw it as an attack on magickal and Neo-Pagan article subjects, even after seeing this:
She's a witch, LOL. Fails WP:AUTHOR, WP:BK, and WP:GNG. Article was created by an arbcommed wikispammer who has written dozens of articles about people who've attended a "witch festival" that he hosts. Qworty (talk) 22:31, 12 November 2012 (UTC) at [37]
and this: Non-notable campground used occasionally for nude body-painting, and New Age arts and craft shows, and witchcraft seminars, and open-air sorcery conventions, and non-notable music festivities, and outdoor dosing stations, and sparsely attended Wicca coordinations, and often featuring a line of porta-potties for visiting high-level Druids. I wish I was making this stuff up. Anyway, it's not notable. Fails WP:GNG, WP:RS, etc. Qworty (talk) 07:34, 14 November 2012 (UTC) at [38]
But THIS puts a whole new light on Qworty's editing. [39] I fear this campaign may be one of religious prejudice and an attack on other people's world-view, which should have NO place on Wikipedia, and would certainly IMO be reason for an indefinite block. It should be noted that this widespread attack on the articles of so many notable figures in the Neo-Pagan community has attracted attention in and outside of Wikipedia, and issues of WP:Bias have been brought up. Rosencomet ( talk) 18:18, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
I've created User:Rosencomet/Starwood Festival. I'm hoping you can get started on implementing task #1 on this subpage, which in your words, involves restoring the 40+ references. Once you've restored them to the subpage, you can then attempt to restore the material here and yes, you will need to add inline references. But do the work on the subpage and I'll lend a helping hand. If you want you can address the other tasks you've listed here as well. When all is said and done, we can work on merging these changes into the current article in mainspace. But you've got to do the hard work before we get to that point. The less you focus on Qworty et al. and the more you focus on improving the actual content, the faster you can move on to the next article. Viriditas ( talk) 10:51, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet,
I was not ignoring you, I assure you. I have not been active on Wikipedia recently. I will get back to you if I can find the time to assist. In the meantime, if you have an issue with another user, you should try some of the avenues at WP:DR.
Cheers - Revolving Bugbear 16:56, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
I came across this page as a result of someone else placing a {{ close paraphrasing}} tag on it which listed it at WP:CP. I removed a paragraph as a likely copyright violation which was also overly promotional for an encyclopaedia. While doing this I noticed that the page appeared to be eligible for deletion under our A7 speedy delete criteria as it did not give any indication of how this person might meet out notability guidelines. I also did a quick search myself and could find no indication of them being notable. Hence I deleted the page. Dpmuk ( talk) 01:42, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
While I agree with your efforts to restore content removed by Qworty, you will still need to add inline sources, especially for the material you are adding to BLPs. Viriditas ( talk) 03:44, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Please see the current discussion at User_talk:Spinningspark#Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Jay Brown. Thank you. Viriditas ( talk) 11:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I just read the news article about the Qworty's campaign against articles about paganism, especially yours. I know we've not always agreed about things, but back when we last interacted I found some of the content of your talk page to be interesting reading (though also kind of annoyed that it's so long due to never being archived). So I am wondering, do you think your problems with Qworty at all related to your previous problems with Mattisse?
Yworo ( talk) 03:54, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Qworty clean-up. Viriditas ( talk) 01:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Restored to User:Rosencomet/Amber Wolfe. Yes, that was the paragraph that I was most concerned about but I have enough concerns about the other paragraph that I don't want to restore it. Dpmuk ( talk) 22:08, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet: I saw your as a member of the Project Qworty effort.
I would like to invite you to come to the Erica Andrews article to give your thoughts and wisdom to what has gone on. I was one of the main editors of the article. I researched a lot about Andrews' life and career and placed most of the information on the page. One day in comes Qworty, Little Green Rosetta and Coffeepusher. To cut a long story short, it became very ugly between me and them as Qworty, LGR were deleting information out of the article. They would claim there citation source was weak and even when I would prove to them that the information was factual through sources, it was never enough. The article became a hot battleground for them and me. It got ugly. Very ugly. I stepped away for a while as I really have no desire to fight on Wikipedia with anyone. Then I was very surprised to see Qworty being exposed for what he did and got banned. Shortly after that LGR got banned. So as part of Project Qworty, I returned to the Andrews article and replaced the information that they had deleted. However, now I'm running into yet the same arguments with Coffeepusher and Howicus. So I would really like to invite you to review my edits and what they've reverted back to. My edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Erica_Andrews&oldid=557673661.
The Andrews talk page contains my comments on my replacement of content per Project Qworty. They have claimed the content I have placed back is contentious. I have asked just what part of actual career achievements is contentious? Andrews really did win her titles, really did act in 2 movies, really did perform on stage, really did appear in music videos, and really did host shows and performed. Nothing I have placed there is malicious lies. I have not made up anything. I will agree that sometimes the source is not from a mainstream outlet like NY Times, Washington Post but it does not mean the information is erroneous. The information has weight and carries value for a reader who is seeking to learn more about Andrews in her bio. I hope you can chime in and make some sense. Thank you for your help. Lightspeedx ( talk) 01:11, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Okay, the Ted Andrews biography has been rewritten with scholarly cites. I consider the present article to be a solid core upon which more detail may be (and should be) draped. Please add to the biography as you see fit. Binksternet ( talk) 19:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
I rewrote the Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart biography based mostly on encyclopedia entries. I think it is much better now, with notability firmly fixed and problems with sourcing totally eliminated. Binksternet ( talk) 19:35, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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I don't understand the post you placed on my talk page. I have not edited pseudoscience or fringe science. I don't see how this DS applies to me. I DID change your flat statements that the scientific community considers his theories to be pseudoscience to "some members of the scientific community", as I don't believe anyone speaks for the entire community, or that it is a unified entity for that matter. It seems to me that you are slapping a refutation or critique after every idea of his contained in the article, and what looks to me like an attempt to create a "chilling effect" by this ominous mention of a DS on articles I haven't even edited. I see a similar treatment of Rupert Sheldrake. I wonder if you have some sort of an agenda. IMO, such critiques belong in a section of their own with the heading "Criticism" rather than accompanying each idea. You, of course, may disagree. However, I do consider the post on my talk page to appear to be a warning, even a threat, as if there might be consequences for disagreeing with you. That should not be. Rosencomet ( talk) 02:41, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Rosencomet, and welcome back. I archived your page for you since it was getting quite cluttered. If that's not what you want, let me know, or if you want something from the archive restored to this page, contact me. For more information bout archiving talk pages, see the link above your talk archive. — Viriditas | Talk 08:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
With regard to your comments on Starwood: Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Please stop your personal attacks on me. It is against wikipedia policy to continue to attack me as you do. This is a warning. Mattisse 12:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Rosencomet, I have asked Mattisse to ignore you, and I expect you to do the same to him. Please do not engage Mattisse in any way, because if you do, I will guarantee that once again you will find yourself blocked. Please listen to me on this. After having an extensive discussion with Mattisse, I realize that Mattisse is only interested in trying to block you and will continue to attempt to bait you at every level. Do not fall for it. Pretend that Mattisse does not exist no matter what Mattisse says or does. This will only make Mattisse look bad, and you will be able to file a harassment report. — Viriditas | Talk 14:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind my posting this. If you wish me to not post on your talk page, just say so and I will certainly respect your wishes. I saw your post to User:Viriditas. And I'm watching his talk page because I've been in conversation with him about something else entirely, not because of you.
Although Whpq ( talk · contribs) is not an admin, uncontroversial closings of AfDs (such as the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Abelson one) can be made by anyone. Because I withdrew my nomination of the article for deletion, this is considered uncontroversial and the result is to keep the article. When articles are kept after an AfD, it is normal to put a notice on the talk page of the article saying that it had previously gone through an AfD with a link to the discussion so later editors can see the information and arguments made in the AfD. [1] There is nothing sinister or unusual about this action. See point 7 on this Deletion Process page link to confirm this.
As to User:Whpq being a sockpuppet, I personally think this is very unlikely. The account appears to have a steady, active, and consistent editing history since early 2006. Look here. I hope this information helps you understand this particular situation. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 21:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Again, I apologize in advance if I'm imposing by posting this but a recent comment of yours indicated to me you still do not have a firm grasp of why I (and others) say you are violating Wikipedia conflict of interest guidelines. At the risk of boring you with material you may already have read, I'd like to post a relevant section here for your consideration.
- Self-promotion
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It is not recommended to write an article about yourself. If you are notable, someone else will notice you and write the article. In some cases, Wikipedia users write articles about themselves when the more appropriate action would be to create a user page. In these cases, the article is normally moved into the user namespace rather than deleted. If you believe you may be notable enough, make your case on the appropriate talk pages, and seek consensus first, both with the notability and any proposed autobiography.(all bold emphasis mine)
There is more that is applicable to your situation but these are definitely central to the issue. Financial interests are not the sole criteria for COI by any means. If your work advances the profile of an organization you are a part of, that is COI. If you write articles about your friends when no verifiable sources exists, that is COI. And when such writing contains almost nothing but your own knowledge with little in the way of supporting and verifiable sources, that is original research. I don't know why I keep posting this sort of info on your talk page. It seems I've done this several times over the last 16 months. I think I have an ideal that if the information offered and understood, of course you will do the right thing, will address the issues and alter your behaviour. Pigman ☿ 23:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
1. I will say now, and again, and as many times as it takes: All the work I do, and that anyone else does for ACE, is on a voluntary basis, and we profit not a penny by it. I know it is YOUR opinion that this makes no difference, but that is just your opinion. If someone does volunteer work for Muscular Dystrophy or Habitat for Humanity, that does not exclude them from creating or editing an article about those organizations. I do NOT accept the broad interpretation that if any work you do as a volunteer for an organization helps that organization, you are FORBIDDEN to edit that article in any way. I do not consider a link to the website of an organization's program for an event with classes placed solely as a CITATION to support a fact, such as whether the subject of that article actually did perform or lecture at that event, to be improper, even if somewhere ELSE in that website a catalog exists (as many, many organization's websites have). I particularly find it hard to accept that interpretation from one of a group of three editors who act as one posting requirements for citations next to these facts. However, how about if I delete the citation needed tag with a "see talk page" note, and place the external link on the talk page? All I want is for the facts to stop being challenged, because I fear the next step will be to delete the facts, then delete the whole article as "too thin" or "lacking support for notability". I don't consider the ACE website to be commercial, because they pay no employees and all funds generated go back into programming. They provide a public service.
2. The Jeff Rosenbaum article was NOT written by me (nor Starwood Festival, nor Association for Consciousness Exploration for that matter). I have added a bit of information to it, mostly when someone required a citation to support information in it. I have also added references occasionally to make it a better article, more supported, and more accurate. I do not believe this is forbidden; as in, not that there is some guideline saying that it is not best practice, or "not recommended", or "one should avoid it", but FORBIDDEN. I would appreciate it if neither of you would treat guidelines and recommendations as laws. I have seen many, many cases of biographical articles where the subject or someone associated with them has provided information, or objected to information included in the article. (And I'm not impressed with "Other stuff exists"; precedent has to count for something, or all guidelines and rules will be applied unevenly and unjustly.) As for the other articles, I consider Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism to be the posterboy for COI, POV, etc, etc,... but I ignore these issues because I think that in general you two have been contributing to the article being better, even if it does advance the interests of organizations and a movement you are totally involved with from it's very formation. (It's also the posterboy for being WP:OWNy, as Kathryn would say.)
3. I also don't agree that the moment an organization might hire a band, for instance, that means that no one who donates his time to that organization is allowed to either create or edit an article about that band. First, these are not regular employees of the organization, but either self-employed individuals or ones working for/with agencies or their own organizations, engaged on individual instances, and in many cases they are not paid at all. It's like saying that if I ever had UPS deliver a package for me, Domino's sell me a pizza, hired Roto-Rooter, or have phone service from AT&T, I am forbidden to write or edit an article about them. Worse, it's like saying that if I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and THEY paid UPS, Domino's, Roto-Rooter or AT&T for a service, I can't edit those articles. Lets say I OWNED a store, totally commercial, and PAID AT&T for phone service, or UPS, or rented a U-Haul Van! Or if you worked with any of the Woodstock concerts, or Comic Relief, or Band Aid, or the Grammys, or Lillith Faire, or Lalapaloosa, well, there's a couple hundred people you can never edit an article about. The same goes for all the personnel that go into making a movie, if you were one of them. It is absurd on the face of it. I don't "hire them for my event", ACE chooses them by committee and ACE hires them. I don't HAVE events.
4. ACE has a lot of different functions, and different people have taken on different ones. There are several directors. One person is the primary financial director, another handles virtually all research, another handles the website, another the graphic arts and mailings, another all recording both audio and video, another all data-base related work (like the mailing list), and so on and so forth. I am not in charge of any of the above. When it comes down to it, my main deal is handling communications - the phones, the e-mail, the travel and other arrangements for events, the information inquiries and shunting them where they need to go: if you have questions about event details, product content, how to apply to perform or speak, how to contact someone in the group, ask me and I'll either answer them or get you in contact with someone who does. That's what all the stuff you talked about above means; I handle inquiries and communication with the public. I also USED to assemble our tapes and CDs, but frankly we just let the CD house do that nowadays (and we haven't produced tapes in many years); I should really tell the webmaster to change that. I don't manufacture the discs or boxes, don't record the original, don't duplicate them, don't assemble them...; I used to do it all back in the eighties. Now, however, I still often write jacket notes and sit in on the making of the inserts; but I don't know Photoshop or In Access or whatever the ACE graphics guys use. I also help edit by reviewing raw footage and making notes. But it's all a group effort, and all the money (when there is some, which is rare) goes back into programming. Except for the CD House, no one makes a penny. As far as sales, I'm the guy who takes the phone orders. I don't fill them, and I don't get anything out of it. I don't handle the on-line or catalog orders, just the phone ones, and they are rare indeed. Almost all sales nowadays are through ebay or paypal, and I never even see them. And truth to tell, they're hardly worth the work; we do it mostly so more people get the benefit of music and lectures by people we happen to think are cool. That's the Goddess-honest truth.
I am not paid to, or hired to, edit Wikipedia. I did it all by myself, the moment I understood that you can, and I did it because I was aware of a lot of people and things that I thought should have articles about them, and qualified for them, and I saw a lot of articles I thought I could contribute to. I did not do it to promote myself or anyone else, and a good deal of the articles I have written are about authors and artists who have never been to any event I have been associated with or even people I've met. I've been cranking out articles about occult authors for months based solely on information I researched, like Nicholas R. Mann, Al G. Manning, Vivianne Crowley, Ed Fitch, Prem Das, Laura Huxley, Sally Morningstar, Gabrielle Roth, Dorothy Morrison, Luisah Teish, etc, etc. I've done it almost entirely with only friendly and/or civil interaction with other editors, until you and your group showed up again. I've edited or continued to protect the articles of people I admire who are dead, like Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and Baba Raul Canizares. I don't consider that to be self-promotion. I get nothing out of it.
You two and your friend have NEVER "assumed good faith" with me, and continue to watch everything I do and try to provoke me. I know there are some who say I shouldn't stand up for myself and shouldn't react, but there it is. I know you have the experience and the ability to bury me under mis-applied guidelines you can pretend are rules carved in stone, and I know you can keep poking at me until I respond with frustration, gather the responses and call them "hostile" or "agressive", even on my own talk page. Like when you say I'm attacking you for saying you're stalking me, when you maintain a User:Pigman/Starwood-Rosencomet Watchlist, and comment minutes later when I edit.
I think my work falls into normal parameters of other editors working here (at least now that I have become somewhat used to Wikipedia; I'll readily admit that when I started out, I made a lot of mistakes). I think it has value, and involves a unique set of subjects that might otherwise not be addressed, or not for a long time. I don't think my work has been commercial or promotional, no matter how much you twist your definitions. I wish to continue working with REASONABLE editors who want to guide and improve my work, but I really doubt that you want to help me, having seen your discussions about me to others over the last week, and knowing our history. I would rather see a truly objective administrator with a sense of proportion work with me, and let me discuss the propriety of anything I do that he/she thinks is controversial, and have you guys leave me alone; because I believe you are prejudiced against me and no fair judge of my editing. I don't know what your real issues are with me, but I do believe you have some, and it makes you pursue me obsessively and treat me unfairly. Rosencomet ( talk) 05:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
The MfD discussion on your user subpage has closed as keep. Best wishes, Xoloz ( talk) 15:57, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Here's a snapshot of the work I've done since the arbitration. I can expand this, but I am very sick and must go home now. You can see that hardly any have edits since the arbitration, and the few there are not controversial ones, and there is neither agressive aditing nor edit warring. Out of 39 articles picked alphabetically from my userpage, ten had edits by mesince the arbitration, mostly non-controversial (fix link, new headings, an additional cD, etc). Only one revert; from an unamed editor with only complaints on his userpage.
Please don't characterize me as someone who has "learned nothing", or who has been displaying the same behavior since the arbitration. It just isn't true. I'll expand this list to include EVERY article I've edited since then if necessary. By far the majority of my edits were either to articles with no Starwood etc reference, or the edits I did had nothing to do with Starwood etc, and in that case it was usually to respond to a request for a citation or something. Rosencomet ( talk) 19:21, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Have you ever had any business relationship (non-profit, for-profit or mutual exchange) with Llewellyn Worldwide? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 03:22, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated WinterStar Symposium, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WinterStar Symposium. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 02:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Jeff Rosenbaum, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Rosenbaum (2nd nomination). Thank you. Pigman ☿ 06:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
WARNING - You are engaging in WP:CANVASSing, specifically of the Wikipedia:CANVASS#Campaigning and Wikipedia:CANVASS#Votestacking sort, as you are only posting to people that have supported your position in past AfDs or content disputes: User:Viriditas, User:Septegram, User:Modemac, User:Dave Null. Rosencomet, if you continue after this warning, what you are doing is a blockable offense, especially as you have done it multiple times before. This is your only warning. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 20:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Also, canvassing off-wiki for new users to come and "vote" is against policy as well. Stop doing it. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 20:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Fred, I don't know if you are aware of this, but I hoped you might comment on a big problem I have been having. For six months since the arbitration, I have been editing with very little conflict, and mostly creating new non-Starwood-related articles. I have added to and improved a lot of the other articles, mostly in non-controversial ways (like adding books and/or ISBN numbers to bibliographies and info to discographies of people who happened to have appeared at an ACE event), or to satisfy requests for citations. Perhaps I put some of this info under the wrong headings, calling something a reference when it should have been a note or put under "further reading", or whatever. But I have sincerely been trying to support the work I have done, do new work unrelated to the articles that were controversial, and avoid any conflicts.
However, two weeks ago Mattisse, Pigman and Kathryn suddenly appeared, and proceeded on what I can only call a campaign to eliminate as much mention of ACE and it's events as possible. They began with a tagging spree reminiscent of the one by Mattisse and her sock puppets that started my problems before. My immediate response was to ask Thatcher for help and advice, but for some reason he would not respond to me for nearly a week. During that time, it turned out, he was talking to the three of them here [6] without even telling me this conversation was happening. I had asked him if there was still an advocate system, but he never answered me. (I'm not trying to slam Thatcher, I'm just pointing out that I've tried to deal with this without revert wars or other unpleasantness). Since then Pigman has opened discussions here [7] and elsewhere, all with no one telling me so I could respond, and he has a watchlist devoted just to my work.
In the past two weeks he and Kathryn have deleted material from at least thirty articles I've created or regularly edit, nominated five for deletion (two successfully, one not, two pending), and have made some frankly bizzare interpretations of Wikipedia rules. For instance, Pigman deleted mention of the Starwood Festival appearances from Paul Krassner's article, even though he has written two articles about Starwood, been quoted in High Times about it, and appeared at six out of the last ten. He claims that the event must not be important to Krassner because he doesn't mention it by name on his official bio, just as "a Neo-Pagan festival". Even when Paul Krassner himself wrote in to the talk page that it was important to him and why, Pigman has not returned this data. I believe he is hoping I will engage in a revert war, so he can call it aggressive editing and a violation of the arbitration. In fact, he has ALREADY accused me of that; I thnk it is clear that these three want to drive me and my work out of Wikipedia by any means. Another strange rule: Kathryn claims that since in the eighties ACE got permission to re-issue a handful of cassette tapes from Llewellyn, I am not allowed to edit ANY article by ANY author who has ever had a book published by Llewellyn, America's oldest occult publisher, even though I have never worked for nor received a penny from Llewellyn, and my work with ACE is totally voluntary and unpaid. They have changed the copy on the Jeff Rosenbaum article, too, so instead of "he has produced over 100 tapes and CDs" they say "produced and sold" although this is not true, and added "Through ACE, Rosenbaum produces cassette tapes and CDs of the artists who appear at ACE events, and markets them through the ACE website" as if they belong to and are marketed by Rosenbaum who merely takes advantage of the website to make money for himself. This is a lie, and IMO a violation of WP:Bio, and I have said so several times.
In spite of the failed attempts several months ago, which you commented on at the time, to merge the articles Starwood Festival, WinnterStar Symposium, Association for Consciousness Exploration and Jeff Rosenbaum, and even though the articles are expanded since then, they are trying to do it again. Worse, they delete the citations and references for paltry reasons, then delete the facts as uncited, then say the article isn't notable.
I don't know what to do. It's a gang-up of three against one, and I don't have the cadre they do to bully their way to whatever they want. On top of that, I'm afraid to do anything because of the accusations of violating the arbitration. I don't know what I can or can't do, and they claim I can't do anything at all. I desperately need some help. They've already deleted some articles, and they seem to be visiting every article I have ever created or edited, and consider ANY reference to these events no matter how well supported as undue weight or trivial. And any editor who says anything in my support gets confronted. What can I do? Rosencomet ( talk) 21:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
It is severely frowned upon to canvass users for an AfD. I have reverted your recent canvassing. Please don't do this again. ➔ REDVEЯS says: at the third stroke the time will be 22:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Rosencomet, you may have trouble hearing this from me, as you appear to think I have some sort of agenda towards you. However, your editing is getting even more disruptive. You really, really need to treat other Wikipedians with respect if you intend to remain here. I'm referring to your comments about Pigman here: [8], though those are just the most recent in a long history of accusing others of "harrassing" and "stalking" you (I'll provide diffs if you need your memory refreshed). I know that you know this is wrong, as many other editors have tried to talk to you about this during your time here. If you cannot stop insulting people and making personal attacks, you're going to wind up blocked again. That's not a threat, it's just a statement about how WP and the WP community works. You are not an exception to the rules we all have to follow here. You need to take this seriously and stop it. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 23:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Jeff, as you have created an alternate account, Jeff Rosenbaum, [9] and now used it to comment on an AfD in which you had already commented as Rosencomet, you need to familiarize yourself with the policies at WP:SOCK. Participating in an AfD under two different accounts is not permitted. Also, an alternate account needs to be indicated as such on your userpages if you are using the account in good faith. I have flagged the accounts as alternates. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 05:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Nah, it's OK. My edits should have been reverted (only now I'm realizing that I've made a good faith vandalism), Your reverts were completely justified. And by the way, we have the same surname...! what are the odds? -- ~Magnolia Fen ( talk) 09:05, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Could you comment on my plan as presented here? I feel that you have some expertise in this area, and can shed some guiding light. — Viriditas | Talk 23:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet, and thanks for your kind words about John Bassette. I was also a fan, and found it very strange that the entry's notability was questioned (and on ridiculous grounds, too -- the original comment line was "notability questioned - few Google hits excluding this article" which has nothing whatever to do with the Wikipedia's stated criteria for notability. When, on one of the linked sites, I saw a citation from the Providence Journal about John's performance at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival, I figured I could do my part, as my college library has a full run of the "ProJo" on microfilm; turned out to be quite a find! It was amazing to see the impact John made in a year dominated by Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacreee," and in a newspaper column which erroneously mentioned the then-unknown "Joanie Mitchell" and mis-named her songs, commenting only on her yellow miniskirt! I will try to keep making improvements as I can, and I share your wish that John's orginal recordings be re-issued some day! Best regards, Clevelander96 ( talk) 15:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
You may not want to disclose your alternate account but, due to the fact that you have used it on some of the same pages, the only way you can do this and not be blocked for sockpuppetry is to disclose it. Therefore I have reverted your removal of the disclosure notice from your userpage. You can remove it again if you really want to, but I wouldn't recommend it. I am also concerned that you are once again back to editing WP:COI articles of people whom you have hired to perform at the Starwood Festival, such as Gavin Frost, ArcheDream [10], Isaac Bonewits [11], Dagmar Braun Celeste, Jeff McBride (where you also added a Starwood link [12]) as well as the many people in the Gnosticon page you started, [13]. Gnosticon was also an enterprise of Llewellyn Worldwide, with whom you have a past business arrangement (selling the "ACE/Llewllyn" line of tapes and CDs), and whose stable of authors are basically the same crowd you hire for Starwood. I am stunned that you are back to violating these policies that have been thoroughly and routinely explained to you. Do you really want to go there again? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 06:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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You are welcome to edit any article, including articles about associates, provided you cite reliable sources. It is best to not rely on personal knowledge. Fred Talk 00:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Pamela J. Ball, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pamela J. Ball. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Guy ( Help!) 22:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Philip H. Farber, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip H. Farber (2nd nomination). Thank you.
Some of your recent talk page comments have been rather incivil and verged into the territory of personal attacks. [17] Please try to keep your temper. I'd particularly urge you to focus more on the present and current edits to articles rather than the past. I'd also gently remind you that arguing over reinstating mentions of Starwood in various articles deleted by other editors is probably not a good idea. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] This hasn't reached the level of edit warring but your argumentative tone still concerns me as does your continuing aggressive advocacy for Starwood/ACE related info/mentions in articles. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 02:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Sally Morningstar, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sally Morningstar. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 03:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Are you "Sally Morningstar"? Don't remove deletion tags from AfD articles. It's vandalism. Qworty ( talk) 18:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Halley DeVestern, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halley DeVestern. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 06:20, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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An article that you have been involved in editing, Nicki Scully, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicki Scully. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pigman ☿ 04:14, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I thought your comments on Talk:Nevill Drury weren't entirely on topic so I'm moving the discussion here.
While of course you don't need to provide footnotes for a talk page discussion, if you make assertions about how often Drury is quoted compared to other authors, I think it appropriate that you provide some proof or source for this claim. In other words, neither I nor other editors can just take your word that this is true.
As to your accusation that I'm just targeting for deletion articles you've written or contributed to, I think my contribs show otherwise. You continue to be unclear about both notability for people and verifiable sources. I really suggest you look at those a little more closely. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 18:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Jeff, I just saw your e-mail to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart which asked him to forward around your request for people to open new Wikipedia editor accounts in order to vote for your position in edit and deletion disputes. Tacky, to say the least.
I suggested to you before that your inappropriate promotion of Starwood, etc., in Wikipedia wasn't doing you any good as the audience you were reaching here already knew of it anyway. Look, to use some ad-speak, you're not reaching new eyeballs, and you're pissing off the old ones, to put it bluntly. You're going to get banned if you keep this up.
I have nothing against you. From what I've heard over the years, outside of Wikipedia you're a fairly cool guy -- but you're being self-destructive over this. I hate for good people to be their own enemy. With all respect, you need to change your behavior with regard to Wikipedia. -- Davidkevin ( talk) 22:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I have opened an WP:ANI discussion on your canvassing off-wiki for people to participate in AfDs. Here is the diff and here is a link to the specific section. Please come and participate in the discussion. Pigman ☿ 05:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I can understand your concerns, but the language of your letter does seem a bit worrisome. We've got a lot of POV warriors trying to stack the decks, and any advice which seems to counsel stealth rather than openness on the part of new editors you recruit is going to set off alarms (see the current CAMERA controversy). (My userpage, for example, is bedizened with blatant declarations of my interests and opinions, so that nobody can claim that I have a concealed interest or POV on much of anything.) You have to be conscious of the fact that you are perceived as a POV pusher trying to get more attention for your community without acknowledging notability concerns of other editors not part of that community. -- Orange Mike | Talk 16:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey Rosencomet, I hope you are well.
I intend to stay out of this situation, as I don't think I have anything to add, unless something particularly catches my eye or someone asks me to comment. However, I would like to give you one piece of advice that I hope you will follow:
Never put anything in writing that you do not want the whole world to know. As regards Internet -- and that includes e-mail and instant messaging -- never put anything in writing that you do not want the whole world to know tomorrow.
Many, many people I know have learned this the hard way. Your time on Wikipedia is not going to get any easier if you make comments about Wikipedia other places that you wouldn't want repeated here.
Regards - Revolving Bugbear 20:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
What the heck were you thinking? I suggest you get on your knees and start begging for forgiveness because the future isn't looking too good. I'm pretty upset that I spent all that time mediating for you and arguing your side of things, only to find that you haven't learned anything. I would say that now is a good time to apologize to the community for your actions and take a new step in the right direction. The patience of the community is exhausted, and you are one step closer to an indefinite block. I suspect that wasn't the result you wanted; It's never too late to change. You know, it's really ironic. Everything you are attempting to do and being called out for, can be done legitimately onwiki using skillful means. Did you ever once stop to consider that the resources of Wikipedia:WikiProject Neopaganism are meant to be used for this purpose? Please, take a moment to think before you act. Viriditas ( talk) 00:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Rosencomet, per NPA and CIV policies this is not acceptable and I suggest you remove it. To an outside observer, it appears to be an attack upon Kathryn and Mattisse. I don't care if you think you are defending yourself, it is simply not allowed per Wikipedia:User_pages#What_may_I_not_have_on_my_user_page.3F. You may be able to get away with rewording it on a subpage dedicated to dispute resolution, but I would suggest you show some good faith and start a new chapter on Wikipedia. Viriditas ( talk) 22:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
And try to remember, when you write stuff like "Pigman, Kathryn & Mattisse just can't accept it" - that also reads like a personal attack, even though you are trying to make a point about your situation. Your best strategy is to explain yourself in relation to your edits, not other editors. From now on, do not make any negative comments about any other editors. You are just giving your enemies ammunition to shoot you down - permanently. If you want to stay here, you are going to need to make some radical changes. Viriditas ( talk) 22:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Rosencoment, a bit of advice: the less you say, the more people are willing to take you seriously. When you leave long screeds on the AN/I board and user talk pages, most people will just ignore it. The cardinal rule is, remember your audience. Wikipedians want information quickly and have very little time for long messages. That's just the nature of the culture. So, I suggest keeping all your future comments extremely brief and to the point if you want people to listen to you. Viriditas ( talk) 22:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
The impression being given by Mattisse, Pigman and Kathryn is that I have not changed my editing since the close of the Arbcom that ended Mar. 29th, 2007. Here is a snapshot of my editing since then. It is alphabetical and presently includes just the articles I originated, but I will gladly continue it until it includes every article I've written or edited, so anyone can see that starting from the first edit I've done and dragging us through the entire Mattisse - Ekajati/999/Hanuman Das thing in this one-sided way is unfair. My editing has not been contentious since the Arbcom, though I have IMO been provoked by tagging sprees, and I have restrained myself in almost all cases while asking for help from Arbitrators like Fred Bauder, Thatcher and Newyorkbrad. Fred Bauder has stated that I was free to edit any articles I choose as long as the edits themselves are cited and not Original research, so the frequent accusation that I am violating COI policy by editing them is not true.
The truth is, my editing has improved a great deal since the Arbcom. This was even stated as part of the Arbcom's findings. I have been mostly writing articles about people that have NEVER been to one of the events I've worked on, I have NOT been adding even internal Starwood links to articles much less the external ones that the Arbcom was about (I've even occasionally deleted some existing ones myself, like on Sally Eaton and Children of Earthmaker), have NOT reverted anything more than once (not just once in a day, but at all, and that rarely), and except for vigorous support on discussion and nomination for deletion pages I have stood by and watched as work I've done has been deleted without opposing it, even when I thought the motivation was personal or the basis was flimsy.
Here is a record of all my edits since the Arbcom on articles I've written. It contains 69 articles, 5 of which have been deleted (4 recently), and two deleted and re-directed: WinterStar Symposium to the ACE article, and Grey School of Wizardry to the Oberon Zell-Ravenheart article.
Twenty-seven of them have been created since the Arbcom, and only 5 of those had any connection to ACE or Starwood. Of those 5, two had Starwood mentions in them which were deleted by Pigman with no comment or reverting from me; the other three have not, and I think at least two are not controversial even to him (In Amber Wolfe, a discography link to ACE due to 3 Llewellyn Worldwide meditation tapes re-issued by ACE in the eighties with no connection to Starwood; and in Fred Schrier, a link to an obituary of longtime partner Dave Sheridan by Schrier published exclusively in an ACE periodical in 1982 with no Starwood connection. Neither Wolfe, Schrier nor Sheridan have ever been to an ACE event.). Also, the article WinterStar Symposium was deleted and re-directed to the ACE article.
I not only do want to improve, I HAVE worked to that end. But some editors who IMO have their own problems with me, ACE and Starwood simply won't recognize this, and insist on instigating conflict in the hope of pushing me to do something blockable... and I must admit they are very good at it.
P.S. I've begun reviewing the 170 articles I've edited but not originated. Of the first 65, 56 either had no connection to Starwood etc or no Starwood-related edits by me since the Arbcom. Some of the remaining nine had non-controversial ACE-related edits, like discography links, or edits on the ACE article itself.
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Rosencomet ( talk) 21:24, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm really not sure what you're trying to demonstrate with this essay. The argument is not that you should be blocked because you have never done anything positive on Wikipedia. The argument is that you should be blocked because you have done something which is extremely harmful. That is undoubtedly true. Additionally, attempting to cast Pigman and Kathryn as out to get you is not likely to get you anywhere -- Pigman and Kathryn are known and respected on Wikipedia, so you will lose that battle.
You have a reputation for conflict of interest and abusing the process on Wikipedia, and I honestly can't say I disagree. Trying to argue that these things are not true, or at least overstated, is not a tactic that is likely to get you anywhere. If you want to have any sort of future options on Wikipedia, you need to demonstrate -- not just say, but demonstrate -- that you accept and understand not only what you have done wrong but also why it was wrong. People's patience is wearing extremely thin, and you need to demonstrate that, if they give you another chance, you're not going to make the same mistakes again.
Also, I don't know whether you know this anonymous IP or not, but if you do, you might want to let him know that he isn't helping you at all. - Revolving Bugbear 15:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Rosencomet,
I have to say, I think your apparent decision to take some chill time off from Wikipedia was probably a good one. Hopefully you will return with a clearer head about things.
However, as you will notice, you are not blocked. The conversation went stale. That being said, I think you will agree that the discussion turned up some points that you should work on if you want to integrate yourself successfully into Wikipedia.
I am volunteering myself to you for this purpose. If you are interested, I will work with you on the various fine points of Wikipedia until such a time as you can operate as comfortably and productively as possible. This decision isn't mandated by community decision or anything; I am offering this because I believe it will help you.
Please let me know what you think.
Regards - Revolving Bugbear 19:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
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Dear Revolving Bugbear,
I'd like to try to beef up some of the articles that were deleted earlier this year and see if they can be brought up to Wikipedia standards. I'd like to access the text of the last version that was up, and I don't know how to do that. Could you tell me how to retrieve them, or do it for me (preferably the former).
The one's I'm most interested in right now are Philip H. Farber (who now has a new book out from Red Wheel, a Samuel Weiser imprint), and Nicki Scully (I think it would have been kept if not for the controversy about me). I'd also like to retry Grey School of Wizardry, but for that one I'd also have to deal with a redirect page presently up to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.
Also, how do I enable an e-mail address for my Username? Thanks for your time.Rosencomet (talk) 19:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
I just started a thread on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard about the Muruga Booker article that you're continuing to use as a source. I did mention your name in my post so I wanted you to be aware of it. I'm hoping that the discussion might be of benefit to you. I may learn something as well. Here's a link to it: WP:RSN#Unattributed website article as RS. Cheers, Pigman ☿ 00:47, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
That was a valiant attempt to clarify, but I fear the section in question remains as opaque as ever:
"The legendary drinking, feasting and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Dyn Eidyn (modern day
Edinburgh), and in the epic poem
Y Gododdin, both dated around AD 700".
Thanks for any further light you can shine
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Thanks for your edit, I had absolutely no idea that it still existed. It seems that the matter is quite complicated, so I have proposed to create a new section on the article just to describe The Farm. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 21:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
You should take your evidence to WP:SSP. - Revolving Bugbear 00:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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I opposed the first Greenfield article early on because it was merely a self-promotional piece written by Allen Greenfield himself, one intended to sell his books and promote his home-brewed religious movement, "Congregational Illuminism." That is NOT why WikiPedia is here!
Since the deletion of the first article a second article was created. This article has since been edited, modified, and mutated and is fast begining to look like the first article. The section I deleted contained a list of unverified and dubious achievements which were in dire need of citations. Beyond Mr. Greenfield's own, personal promotion web site there was no verification for these achievements.
I'll be honest here. I have known Allen Greenfield for 20 years and the man is a shameless self promoter and began his authoring career through a press that he was part owner of at one point. It seems that the current Greenfield article is fast turning into an advertisement for Greenfield's books, metaphysical services, and religious sect. Eyes down, human. ( talk) 17:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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I see you're back at it: [24] Do you really want to continue down this road? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 20:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Any kind of link to the organization and festival which ArbComm has determined you have COI on, is astroturfing. Doesn't matter if it's a Wikilink or an external. Now I see you are willing to edit war over it: [25]. I am reverting it. It seems to me you do want to go down this road. Also note that it's inappropriate for you to try to circumvent ArbComm. Fred's opinion is only Fred's opinion - it does not substitute for an ArbComm ruling. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦ ♫ 21:29, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
What follows is substantially what I said on the Nemeton talk page about your conflict of interest (COI) concerning Starwood references but I wanted to make sure you read it and had a chance to look at the linked articles.
Given your COI re: Brushwood and Starwood, it's hard to ignore your continued violations of COI guidelines. Arbcom did find that you have a conflict of interest.
You continue to insert references to Starwood despite the caution by Arbcom to refrain from this. This is practically textbook Astroturfing. Please refresh your understanding of the policies and guidelines around COI by looking at the following links:
I strongly recommend you discard your belief that you are somehow exempt from these policies/guidelines. Really. Your tendentious editing around Starwood remains strong and obvious. Please don't continue this behavior. Cheers, Pigman ☿/talk 22:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Looking towards the definition of disruptive editing, I don't engage in "disruptive cite-tagging" (though it's been done to me a lot), I strive for verifiability at all times, I maintain a neutral voice, I always respond to editors inquiries about my sources and discuss them at length, I appeal to arbitrators when there's a sign of impending conflict rather than engage in contentious editing, and I do not ignore the opinions of impartial editors, or even those who are NOT impartial. Rosencomet ( talk) 16:16, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed the current drastic revisions of this article and brought it up at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#LaSara_FireFox to get some feedback and more eyes on the article. You might like to participate in the discussion. Cheers, Pigman ☿/talk 23:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
The edits were done at the request of Ann-Marie herself. I am her partner. She did not know that there was an entry for her and asked me to remove the errors. The books that she did not contribute to and does not want to be associated with were the ones removed. She does not live with her three children, they are all grown up and live with their own partners. I don't know who you are but I think Ann-Marie and myself are more qualified to to write an entry for her. Stevil54 ( talk) 11:16, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've edited the Bob Wilson page from time to time, and have seen your work there. Nice. Yesterday I added, and then removed, lists and a template concerning occult (List of occult writers, for example) but then wondered if Wilson considered himself an occultist. Would you think these would be appropriate for the page? See Template:Occult navigation, which I added and removed. Thanks Randy Kryn ( talk) 11:22, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, and I don't recall seeing anywhere where RAW called himself an occultist either. I probably added the link because he may be seen by others as one, and because links are fun to add, and it is such a loose and "mysterious" term to use. Now if you'd ssk him, he'd probably say, "What second? At 11:03 p.m. on May 4th of last year I considered myself an occultist, as I was reading an old copy of Fate Magazine, but that's all I can recall." So of course, let's remove those references. Good catch. Wanna help with the section on Sch. Cat and Historical Illuminatus? The other '81 novel sits right there in the middle of those, standing alone, shining, one of his masterpieces in my h. opinion. Thanks, and Happy Sanhain Halloween. Randy Kryn ( talk) 22:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rosencoment,
I have written some new articles
Postmodern Neopaganism Postmodern Wicca
I did not write this one but it exists - Postmodern Christianity
I am trying to include the term Jewitch or Jewitchery in the article Postmodern Neopaganism - I think it is reclaiming and positive but reverts are say delete and that I should refer to semitic neopaganism.
My one concern is that the average user searching online may use the term jewitchery rather than semitic neopaganism!
I want a page to link to Jewitchery and I want to make the connection between Wicca and this tradition.
I noticed you made a comment on the talk page and I was wondering if you would consider the term Jewitchery inappropriate or demeaning?? I think it is a positive term?
It seems that I get reverted whenever I attempt to include the keyword WICCA??
I would like to establish that wicca, witchcraft, jewitchery etc. forms a strong part of the postmodern interpretation/perspective
Do you feel that the article on jewitchery was redirected because the argument was that it was demeaning? Some perspective would be great as I don't want to use the wrong language choices.
-- Kary247 ( talk) 10:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet. I have created a new article: biography of the Wiccan priestesses
Murry Hope. I consider you very indicated to analyze the right now discussion for keeping or delete the article: (
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Murry_Hope#Murry_Hope). The issue has been around the references, there are secondary source references, but nobody gave much importance. Personally I agree the references and article should be improved but not deleted. Murry Hope was a celebrity in New Age (30 books distributed around the word), and still opera singer in London. Seems more than enough, no? I already argued that but apparently made little effect (incomprehensible). The five pillars of Jimmy Whales have changed? Now an article has to be born perfect? The article fits enough rules to keep in Wikipedia, but if even all rules failed, that should be a part of the judgment (again the 5 pillars) and not the verdict, or else Wikipedia will be just a bureaucrat dead encyclopedia. Thus may I ask you to give your opinion and call another specialists in the subject? Thanks. Best,
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My apologies. Extensive bibliographies with no third-party sources to demonstrate notability tend to be indicative of a vanity page, but, as you've shown, there are always exceptions. I've nominated the article for deletion here. Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 04:06, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion about these edits going on at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Church_of_the_SubGenius. For what it's worth, I absolutely agree with the removal of the information: the information was a blatant violation of our BLP policy, and I hope you will not reinstate the material. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 20:15, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
While I see this article survived an AfD, there are serious problems with it.
First, it appears that you copied whole sentence from the sources you cited, such as Writers.net and Songworks.net, with little or no changes. This is plagiarism and copyright violation. You must absorb the information from the sources and then write it in your own words. Really, given the amount of plagiarism the article should be deleted and should be started again.
Second, the sources used are not reliable because they are affiliated with the subject. Songworks.net is a site owned by the subject. Writers.net accepts user submitted profiles and the page you used as a source was clearly written by the subject herself. We cannot source degrees, awards, or any other self-serving claims solely to websites created by or controlled by the subject.
You really should start the article completely over, using sources not affiliated with the subject. I will give you some time to do this, otherwise I intend to gut the article and base it on whatever third-party sources are available. Yworo ( talk) 22:15, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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I was asking for credit citations. What role did the subject play in the creation of the video? How are they listed on the official credits for the production. I don't understand how you could cite something billed as a television production to a podcast page. Also, you can't cite to the subject's own self-published website. That's not reliable, people can claim whatever they want on their websites. Yworo ( talk) 17:17, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
A bare link looks like this [26]. A citation looks like this: "Different Worlds Publications - DW#37-47". Diffworlds.com. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
That is, a citation includes as many fields as possible such as the author's name, the text title of the work, the publisher, the date, etc. What you are doing is lazy and only makes work for other editors. Stop making bare citations. Disingenously claiming you don't know what a citation is is simply unbelievable. Click on the link, WP:CITE, if you are really ignorant of citation style on Wikipedia. And read it. Yworo ( talk) 17:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Event announcements are made on behalf of the subject by an organization with a financial interest in the event. The speaker blurbs are usually written by the speaker themselves and are self-promoting. Yes, they are third-party but they are not independent. And they do not help establish notability. That requires a independent third-party report or review of the lecture or lecturer. Yworo ( talk) Yworo ( talk) 17:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I've clearly explained in the section just above what you need to support that statement.
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Richard Kaczynski, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Yworo ( talk) 18:33, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been thinking, the best way to source this might be from an interview. Surely some interviewer has brought up his lecturing, and there would be nothing wrong with something like "In an interview with so-and-so or such-and-such publication, Kaczynski stated that he has been lecturing on magic since 19xx. Yworo ( talk) 16:18, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
I've opened a thread on the reliable sources noticeboard, Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Richard Kaczynski. I've not mentioned you by name there, because this is a sourcing issue, not a personal one. Feel free to just wait for the answer to my question or present your arguments there, as you will. Yworo ( talk) 19:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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More to the point, what is needed is proof of WP:Notability, which again means evidence via reliable independent sources that Siegel is worth including. Additional biographical detail makes the article more readable but establishing notability is key. For what it's worth, it seems clear to me that he is well-known in new age circles, but that fact needs to be proven with specific citations.
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Take a look at WP:NBOOK. If a book is a best seller and you can also find two mainstream reviews of it, it is notable enough for its own article. Then take a look at WP:AUTHOR: an author of notable books is himself notable. Yworo ( talk) 00:51, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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You clearly are very familiar with our guidelines on COI, and yet you continue to make edits, such as those at David Jay Brown, which are clearly COI. Consider this a formal warning. Dougweller ( talk) 21:55, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Although I agree that not editing articles that present a COI is something that you need to be careful of, it does seem to me that Qworty is being a little too overzealous with his "deleting". Using the David Jay Brown article and looking at this history Qworty deleted a section of books and things that the person wrote as unsourced. There is not nor has their ever been a requirement to provide a "source" for a book the individual wrote that is clearly visible with the individuals name in it. Come on lets show some common sense. Thats like requiring a citaton for a citation. Although I do think that Rosencomet needs to adjust their editing a bit it does seem like they are trying to ask for help. Let's try and provide it please. Also, I would not that, although Qworty appears to be doing these changes in good faith, its possible given the very systematic approach and limited scope of the articles they are reviewing that there may be a COI issue with that user as well. That might be something that someone might want to look into before we assume that Rosencomet is trying to pursue their own agenda, which has been inferred in at least 2 different places now. Kumioko ( talk) 01:12, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Rosencomet. The pattern I've seen emerge in your contributions is your inability to add reliable sources. This is especially true for unsourced biographical stubs. I think you could eliminate 90% of your conflicts if you focus on adding good sources to contested content. You've been informed of this many times now, and I'm concerned that your simple refusal to add sources will end up with another block. Please don't let it come to that. I should note, that this has happened so many times now, that it appears to others that you refuse to follow the sourcing guidelines. It's no longer 2004 but 2012 going on 2013. We are heading into Wikipedia 2.0 now, where every statement or paragraph is attributed to an inline reliable source. I realize that this might be difficult if you are still editing like it was the early 2000s, but times have changed. Viriditas ( talk) 07:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Here are just a few examples of Qworty's deletion of bibliographies, discographies and similar material as "unsourced", including whole sections of references. I will add more. In some cases, Qworty then nominates the article for deletion, usuallu as non-notable.
Qworty removed filmography from David Jay Brown as “unsourced” [28] Qworty removed foreign translations bibliography from David Jay Brown as “unsourced” [29] Qworty removed Contributions to Other Books and Publications from David Jay Brown as “unsourced” [30]
Qworty deletes reference section of Michael T. Gilbert, [32]
Qworty deletes bibliography, discography, and all data about works of Nicki Scully as “unsourced” [34]
It appears that there is a concerted effort to remove this article from Wikipedia and this man is a published author whose work is well known to people dealing with psychedelics. Perhaps a mediator or senior editor needs to review this edit war. It is out of control and Qworty appears to be incredibly aggressive. It seems almost personal. Canticle ( talk) 06:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I feel it necessary to make a statement here: I have been accuse of COI in a number of cases by Qworty; in fact, I have been accused of creating no articles except those of "friends who have attended my non-notable event", and of promoting them because I make my living via this event. These are flat-out lies. I can show you over thirty articles I have created that have nothing to do with the Starwood Festival or the organization that runs it; MANY more that I have contributed to. Furthermore, I derive absolutely NO income from either; in fact, my purely voluntary involvement with them costs me thousands of dollars a year.
Also, the notion that just because someone once spoke at or performed at Starwood means I should not be allowed to edit that article is faulty logic at best, and was NOT the decision of the 2007 arbcom. For instance, Michael T. Gilbert came to Starwood for free and talked about his comic book Mr. Monster in 1984. Since then, I have had no contact with him, nor has he appeared at any event I was involved in or attended. I liked his work before and after that appearance, and created his article; since then many editors have contributed to it. What possible benefit can I derive from his article? I am a comic fan, and also created Fred Schrier, who has never been to Starwood, Dr. Strange (1978 film), List of Marvel Comics mutants, and Sequoia (comics), and contributed to many more comics-oriented articles.
There are other similar examples. John Bassette appeared at Starwood in the 1980s. He died in 2006. Raymond Buckland appeared there over thirty years ago; I've had no contact with him since. What is the conflict of interest?
I think that the issue is the actual edits, and I believe the administrators expressed the same belief. Qworty (who I firmly believe has a problem with me personally and is probably someone I've locked horns with in the past under a different name) has been posting very nasty messages about me, using 5 year old material, and terms like WP:RATSASS, and "notorious wiki-spammer", calling my editing an "atrocity". Meanwhile, Qworty has been deleting whole sections of perfectly good references and properly-constructed bibliographies as "unsourced", and slapping COI and Non-notable all over the place. I urge you to look over my relatively meager contributions over the last, say, two years and judge for yourself based on content, not personalities. Rosencomet ( talk) 19:28, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Articles heavily deleted by Qworty include (* indicates no connection to any event I am involved with.) - COI & Notability tags have been removed.: Amampondo, Badi Assad*, Association for Consciousness Exploration, John Bassette, Phyllis Curott, Sally Eaton, Selena Fox, Michael T. Gilbert, Jesse Wolf Hardin, Anodea Judith, Stephen Kent (musician), Liquid Soul*, Patricia Telesco and Harvey Wasserman
These articles have tags for citations and other issues, but not COI or Notability: Raymond Buckland, Laurence Galian
These also contain tags for notability, but no nomination for deletion: Armor & Sturtevant, Gavin Bone, Muruga Booker, Vivianne Crowley*, Prem Das*, Jim Donovan (musician), Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison, Ed Fitch*, Yvonne Frost, George R. Harker, Owain Phyfe, Lauren Raine, Red Dog Experience*, Nicki Scully, Chas Smith, Starwood Festival, Jay Stevens, Stratospheerius, Telesma, and Amber Wolfe*.
These Qworty nominated articles have had their discussions ended.: Matthew Abelson - Keep, David Jay Brown - Deleted, Brushwood Folklore Center-Deleted, Baba Raul Canizares - Keep, Ian Corrigan - Deleted, Jim Donovan (musician) - Keep, LaSara FireFox - Keep, Kenny Klein - Keep, Donald Michael Kraig - Keep, Louis Martinie - Keep, Patricia Monaghan - Keep, M. Macha Nightmare - Keep, Luisah Teish* - Keep, and Trance Mission - Keep.
Association for Consciousness Exploration has been redirected to Starwood Festival with no opportunity for community to discuss the proposal. Reverted by D. Rosencomet ( talk) 19:22, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Qworty took up deleting massive amounts of article information and then declaring that there are no reliable sources associated with them again in April 2013 (it appears to have started around April 2, 2013). Articles include, but are not limited to Andrew Helm and Roberta Brown. When s/he finally creates a page suggesting deletion, s/he becomes verbally abusive claiminh s/he has the right to delete all knowledge placed on a page by others because of "policy." Taram Taram ( talk) 14:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:AFD mutual combat. Thank you. Mangoe ( talk) 06:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
At first I thought this was only about me and Starwood and someone who wanted to re-litigate the 5 year old arbcom, and I didn't agree with those who saw it as an attack on magickal and Neo-Pagan article subjects, even after seeing this:
She's a witch, LOL. Fails WP:AUTHOR, WP:BK, and WP:GNG. Article was created by an arbcommed wikispammer who has written dozens of articles about people who've attended a "witch festival" that he hosts. Qworty (talk) 22:31, 12 November 2012 (UTC) at [37]
and this: Non-notable campground used occasionally for nude body-painting, and New Age arts and craft shows, and witchcraft seminars, and open-air sorcery conventions, and non-notable music festivities, and outdoor dosing stations, and sparsely attended Wicca coordinations, and often featuring a line of porta-potties for visiting high-level Druids. I wish I was making this stuff up. Anyway, it's not notable. Fails WP:GNG, WP:RS, etc. Qworty (talk) 07:34, 14 November 2012 (UTC) at [38]
But THIS puts a whole new light on Qworty's editing. [39] I fear this campaign may be one of religious prejudice and an attack on other people's world-view, which should have NO place on Wikipedia, and would certainly IMO be reason for an indefinite block. It should be noted that this widespread attack on the articles of so many notable figures in the Neo-Pagan community has attracted attention in and outside of Wikipedia, and issues of WP:Bias have been brought up. Rosencomet ( talk) 18:18, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
I've created User:Rosencomet/Starwood Festival. I'm hoping you can get started on implementing task #1 on this subpage, which in your words, involves restoring the 40+ references. Once you've restored them to the subpage, you can then attempt to restore the material here and yes, you will need to add inline references. But do the work on the subpage and I'll lend a helping hand. If you want you can address the other tasks you've listed here as well. When all is said and done, we can work on merging these changes into the current article in mainspace. But you've got to do the hard work before we get to that point. The less you focus on Qworty et al. and the more you focus on improving the actual content, the faster you can move on to the next article. Viriditas ( talk) 10:51, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet,
I was not ignoring you, I assure you. I have not been active on Wikipedia recently. I will get back to you if I can find the time to assist. In the meantime, if you have an issue with another user, you should try some of the avenues at WP:DR.
Cheers - Revolving Bugbear 16:56, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
I came across this page as a result of someone else placing a {{ close paraphrasing}} tag on it which listed it at WP:CP. I removed a paragraph as a likely copyright violation which was also overly promotional for an encyclopaedia. While doing this I noticed that the page appeared to be eligible for deletion under our A7 speedy delete criteria as it did not give any indication of how this person might meet out notability guidelines. I also did a quick search myself and could find no indication of them being notable. Hence I deleted the page. Dpmuk ( talk) 01:42, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
While I agree with your efforts to restore content removed by Qworty, you will still need to add inline sources, especially for the material you are adding to BLPs. Viriditas ( talk) 03:44, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Please see the current discussion at User_talk:Spinningspark#Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Jay Brown. Thank you. Viriditas ( talk) 11:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I just read the news article about the Qworty's campaign against articles about paganism, especially yours. I know we've not always agreed about things, but back when we last interacted I found some of the content of your talk page to be interesting reading (though also kind of annoyed that it's so long due to never being archived). So I am wondering, do you think your problems with Qworty at all related to your previous problems with Mattisse?
Yworo ( talk) 03:54, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Qworty clean-up. Viriditas ( talk) 01:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Restored to User:Rosencomet/Amber Wolfe. Yes, that was the paragraph that I was most concerned about but I have enough concerns about the other paragraph that I don't want to restore it. Dpmuk ( talk) 22:08, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rosencomet: I saw your as a member of the Project Qworty effort.
I would like to invite you to come to the Erica Andrews article to give your thoughts and wisdom to what has gone on. I was one of the main editors of the article. I researched a lot about Andrews' life and career and placed most of the information on the page. One day in comes Qworty, Little Green Rosetta and Coffeepusher. To cut a long story short, it became very ugly between me and them as Qworty, LGR were deleting information out of the article. They would claim there citation source was weak and even when I would prove to them that the information was factual through sources, it was never enough. The article became a hot battleground for them and me. It got ugly. Very ugly. I stepped away for a while as I really have no desire to fight on Wikipedia with anyone. Then I was very surprised to see Qworty being exposed for what he did and got banned. Shortly after that LGR got banned. So as part of Project Qworty, I returned to the Andrews article and replaced the information that they had deleted. However, now I'm running into yet the same arguments with Coffeepusher and Howicus. So I would really like to invite you to review my edits and what they've reverted back to. My edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Erica_Andrews&oldid=557673661.
The Andrews talk page contains my comments on my replacement of content per Project Qworty. They have claimed the content I have placed back is contentious. I have asked just what part of actual career achievements is contentious? Andrews really did win her titles, really did act in 2 movies, really did perform on stage, really did appear in music videos, and really did host shows and performed. Nothing I have placed there is malicious lies. I have not made up anything. I will agree that sometimes the source is not from a mainstream outlet like NY Times, Washington Post but it does not mean the information is erroneous. The information has weight and carries value for a reader who is seeking to learn more about Andrews in her bio. I hope you can chime in and make some sense. Thank you for your help. Lightspeedx ( talk) 01:11, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Okay, the Ted Andrews biography has been rewritten with scholarly cites. I consider the present article to be a solid core upon which more detail may be (and should be) draped. Please add to the biography as you see fit. Binksternet ( talk) 19:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
I rewrote the Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart biography based mostly on encyclopedia entries. I think it is much better now, with notability firmly fixed and problems with sourcing totally eliminated. Binksternet ( talk) 19:35, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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