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tedder (
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21:39, 11 February 2020 (UTC)reply
Oldandgood, I wanted to give you a welcome before placing this warning, but it's also important- you've made a series of edits and marked all of them as minor. It's defininitely not true in your case, as it's an addition of substance that might be considered controversial. Some people filter changes to pages to ignore minor edits, so ticking the 'minor' box makes it appear you are sneaking the edit in. Just FYI to stop doing so. Thanks for your contributions.
tedder (
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21:41, 11 February 2020 (UTC)reply
Thank you much for the recommendation. I guess I considered "minor" something that was short and to the point. Given the seriousness of the content, I will not mark "minor" moving forward. Thank you much.
OldandGood2876 (
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21:46, 11 February 2020 (UTC)reply
This is primarily to get your attention and stop you reposting - again - the changes that have been challenged or reverted by others. The sole source for the section you have added to a very large number of articles is a single listicle at CNBC. That is unlikely to be seen as sufficient by editors of most, if not all, those articles. Guy (
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20:01, 12 February 2020 (UTC)reply
Guy and OhNoItsJamie are correct that you should not post this to any more articles without consensus to do so. When an edit like this is challenged, the onus is on the person wanting to add the info to gain consensus to add it. I suspect you'll have a hard time getting that consensus - probably a lot of people are going to think this is
undue weight, or will disagree that this is "avoidance" or a "controversy", or will think that one source is insufficient - but you can try. However, I'm unblocking this account, because no one actually ever told you what was wrong with what you were adding, and you stopped doing so as soon as OhNoItsJamie posted the note above. I'll note that the IP who reverted you was mistakenly blocked for vandalism, but what they were doing wasn't vandalism. Still, I can see how their block could have made you think it was OK to re-add that info. So, in summary, I'm unblocking so you can discuss this somewhere if you want, but please don't add or re-add it anywhere without a consensus to do so. --
Floquenbeam (
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20:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)reply
I understand completely. Since this is a very volatile topic in the US at the moment, I thought it would make sense to add it to each corresponding business in a factual manner as to avoid any chance it would be misinterpreted as canvassing. I get more consensus. TY
OldandGood2876 (
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21:07, 12 February 2020 (UTC)reply
To be honest, I'm not sure where to recommend you go to ask about this. We generally don't discuss content-related issues at
WP:ANI. I don't think you want to have this same conversation 58 times on 58 talk pages. A good first stop might be
WT:BUSINESS, the Business Wikiproject. --
Floquenbeam (
talk)
21:10, 12 February 2020 (UTC)reply
I see the
WP:EXISTING template and I am in the process of adding pages for certain entries. However, there are quite a few templates that are indeed "list" lacking existing entries.
Template:Al_Di_Meola,
Template:Michael Brecker and
Template:Larry Coryell to name a few. It would make life much easier to leave the listings at least unlinked and then they can be linked when the pages have been created, rather than do a blanket mass edit without discussing first (something Wikipedians seem to love doing).
OldandGood2876 (
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20:17, 9 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Sweet.
WP:WTAF, and make sure they either meet
WP:GNG or
WP:NALBUM before creating them. I'm not watching articles with those other "list" nav templates. The community has discussed this concept already and have decided that it is not better to leave the redlinks in navigation templates, but they can be left in discography articles or the subject's own articles (in a discography section). If you want to provide me with some of them using the {{tl}} template, I can correctly apply the NAV MoS to them as well.
Walter Görlitz (
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20:26, 9 March 2020 (UTC)reply
"The community has discussed this concept already and have decided that it is not better to leave the redlinks in navigation templates" - Ok. I can get behind that. Thank you for explaining.
OldandGood2876 (
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13:02, 10 March 2020 (UTC)reply
I know, I know. Please feel free to beat me over the head on this one. I promise I will get better with that. I still have to learn what constitutes a "major" v. "minor" edit.
OldandGood2876 (
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13:02, 10 March 2020 (UTC)reply
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