Thanks for your feedback. Errors fixed as per request, and pinging you here, also as per request. Thanks!
/info/en/?search=Draft:Jofish_Kaye
Dunoon
Hello! Thank you for your message about Dunoon. It's nice to chat and collaborate with Wikipedia editors for the public good! I believe your edit is incorrect - your version reads: Dunoon is covered and operates under two separate central governments, the devolved
Scottish Parliament and
UK Government.
It mentions 'Government' and then links to
Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Parliament is not a Government.
It then continues and
UK Government. Again, UK Parliament constituencies and the UK Government are two different things. The UK Government derives its authority from the UK Parliament (which is made up its constituencies naturally). But again the Parliament is very different to the Government. So the link says it is one thing, and then links you to a completely different article.
Whereas the original version, "Dunoon is covered and operates under two separate central governments, the devolved
Scottish Government and
British Government" says Dunoon has two Governments and then links you to the Wiki articles about the two Governments, not the two Parliaments. That is correct and essentially why that version is more accurate and informative.
Perhaps you would prefer it to read "Dunoon is covered and operates under two separate central Parliaments, the devolved
Scottish Parliament and
British Parliament"? That would also be correct. But the version you prefer is at the end of the day not accurate because a Parliament and a Government are two different institutions.
P.S. Let's chat this over on the Dunoon talk page and I'm sure we can resolve it.
Gaetano Ciancio Article
Thank you for your help the article got approved, however now it has the following comment: "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use". I thought you said you were going to remove this tag
Medkatz (
talk)
18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)reply
On a side note, I smell
meat and
socks in that discussion in case you haven't already. Just FYI I am sure this is one that will get some IP votes and Newbies jumping in on the last day. --
CNMall41 (
talk)
02:13, 8 April 2021 (UTC)reply
NEVER. I hate fish!! In fact, I don't have any issue with the nomination. I have made mistakes in the past and likely will in the future so you are just keeping the flow of Wikipedia alive. I guess I came here to mention that some of the !votes smell a little
meaty to me in case you haven't seen it already. --
CNMall41 (
talk)
22:26, 9 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello @Mr.Creep when you get a chance I would like you to review
Draft:Aaron Duncan please if no-one has looked at it as yet. I submitted it for review. I've been working to get it reviewed. Thanks In Advance.
--
Akim Ernest (
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23:40, 13 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Jack Stauber
Hey! I've recently re-submitted this article, and I know you denied it last time. I have removed the bad refs and added in some better ones. If you could check it out, that would be great :)
SupernaturalAcee (
talk)
18:42, 14 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I've gone through and removed the one external link on the biography for
Alan E. Cober and additionally added some additional citations where they could be found. Mind checking it out and removing that embedded links template, or should I do that? Cober has been deceased for over 20 years.
Rezimmerman (
talk)
19:31, 18 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope creep, hope everything is okay in your world.
In your
notes on the Chris Buzelli page which you moved into draft, you request that the following citation be removed or replaced:
49
Illustrators 54 Medal Winners which refers directly to the original source of the award being mentioned: a post by the Society of Illustrators, and very reputable as a reference by any standard imaginable I would think. They are the society that gave him the award, and the article is simply cited as such.
There are multiple other citations that you request to be removed that are from both very respected organizations and publishers and very similar to the one I've mentioned. Should I list them all for you?
That is ok as a ref. The other references, 18,21, 23,24,26,27,28, 35,36,37, 44 have to come out. They are self-published and not worth a sot. Please remove them. scope_creepTalk08:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your help on this Scope creep! I improved all the citations you suggested.
put some eyes on it as time allows and if it needs more medical attention, I'll be on it like white on rice. Cheers and hang in there!
Rezimmerman (
talk)
15:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Lists of cricketers
Please self-revert these moves to draftspace. They are part of an expansion of team lists by the cricket project in order to facilitate compromise/consensus solutions for articles on cricketers where finding significant coverage is a problem, without having to send them all to AFD. The reference provided in each article is sufficient for verification, especially when combined with the references contained in each of the linked articles. Thanks, wjematherplease leave a message...11:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Wjemather: For months I've been looking at reams of the cricket stubs that are blp's up at
WP:NPP and , with a single profile references or some dodgy sports site. Not addressing is a form of systematic bias that is being organically maintained and it needs to stop. It is wrong for Wikipedia and wrong for people who are supposed to read these rank wee articles. scope_creepTalk12:35, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
They are plainly not unreferenced. Each article contains a reference to a reliable source (paywalled, admittedly). That is sufficient for the purpose of these lists – indeed the ones you moved are essentially indexes of the corresponding categories. Your argument is not helped by painting ESPN Cricinfo and Cricket Archive as "dodgy sports site"s. I suggest you open a centralised discussion before causing further disruption. wjematherplease leave a message...12:52, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I agree with everything
Wjemather has said, these lists are needed
WP:ATDs used as compromise for cricket articles where finding GNG coverage has proved difficult. They are referenced. They are also certainly not "dodgy sports sites" given that CricketArchive is provided by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and CricInfo is provided by ESPN.
Rugbyfan22 (
talk)
13:32, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
If that is the case, then they shouldn't be on Wikipedia if coverage can't be found for them. The core problem here is the 2-state system that is been going on for ages. In one side is sports editors creating the crummiest of BLP article you have ever seen, single line entries, in the thousands, and linking to machine-generated profiles on cricket and other sports site, because they see other sports editors doing the same, with no encyclopedic content, and the other side, is people doing BLP's, have to follow a whole load of policy with a big chunk of genuine reference that satisfy
WP:SECONDARY and
WP:V. Is that fair? scope_creepTalk15:25, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
This is why these lists have been created, so these articles where sourcing only exists in databases or statistical profiles can be redirected to list articles when it is clear and obvious that there is no sourcing, so they don't have to go through the AfD process. There is no guideline currently that you cant create list articles that only have sourcing from these databases or statistical profiles as these articles have all been created under the presumption they pass NCRIC, the cricket SNG. Currently because this SNG is considered weak there's been a large drive to delete/redirect a number of articles that pass the SNG but not GNG as GNG is needed even if an article passes an SNG, and the SNG is in the process of being improved. In these discussions it was decided that list articles are a good alternative to stub article and so some have been created as seen here, although these ones are basic and in need of improving.
Rugbyfan22 (
talk)
15:42, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi. Please stop your massive draftification drive. Even when people disagree you're reverting it as you have done at
Penderel Moon. You're clearly not assuming good faith. If you did this again, I will bring it to WP:ANI.
Störm(talk)15:19, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I noticed a comment you made elsewhere on the above topic. Article Rescue Squadron (I call them Project ARSehole) are dedicated to preserving even the most crap of articles, and canvas others to their cause, and each other to discussion. They routinely remove Speedy and Prod tags without justification and are incredibly arrogant when they do this as there is nothing in the P&G to stop that miserable behaviour.
I note that on one of the deletion pages that are current there are at least two senior members of that group enjoying themselves. IMHO theirs is most definitely not
WP:AGF good faith editing. Just wanted you to know that you are not the only one to note this sort of thing. It is my sincere hope that sooner or later, that sort of behaviour becomes unacceptable. Best, -
Roxy the grumpy dog.wooF18:14, 24 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Yip, Your not kidding. I can't understand why it is being done. Where is the value? If it is a good article, well done, but this is about the fourth article I've seen in this series, and they are all crap. scope_creepTalk18:17, 24 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I think the only thing to do is keep complaining. It has been going on for ages, and we have some terrible articles that the ARSeholes are responsible for. I once threatened to take the train down to London to attend a wikimeet that one of them attended. I wanted to give them a piece of my mind. -
Roxy the grumpy dog.wooF18:21, 24 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the request for references on the Mike Omer article
Hi there! You are 100% right about the references, I'm still working on it. I slistened to a few interviews with him and all the info is jumbled up in my head. I'll make sure to source everything. Please keep letting me know your thoughts!
אמנות או נמות (
talk)
10:05, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Deletion discussion
Hi! I have a couple of questions about what you said
here. I'm always trying to improve as an editor so it'd be great if I understood your reasoning more. Am I not right in saying that what should be included in articles is material based on reliable sources, whether or not Wikipedians believe it to be true or not? If so, why would a belief that only health and taxes motivate people to vote rather than public figures motivating people to vote be a good reason for deleting the article if the material was cited to reliable sources saying that public figures motivated people to vote? For example, a survey was cited for the 2020 election, so it cannot be said that it is impossible to know that figures motivate voters or that it is very rare. Also, why would material about music cited to Rolling Stone, one of the most notable music publications, be considered inappropriate for the article? Even if one thinks these sources are too American-centric and thinks that, say, Asian sources should be used more because the American sources don't know what they're talking about (despite the fact that material quoted was cited to a source from India), why would that be a valid reason to discredit the sources if they're reliable? Thank you.
Bgkc4444 (
talk)
20:28, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Bgkc4444: How goes it? The sources were not strong to support the assertions you were making and effectively the type of sources were the wrong type. When you creating an article that examines the ethnographic effect of a person within a particular culture, then it needs to be an academic article, with academic sources, that provides a balanced view, that is backed by research. When the Rolling Stone editor says that Beyonce has created or revived a particular type of video production, that is a subjective statement. It is an opinion from a fan. He is writing for fans, from one fan to another. He hasn't done the research to prove it, so it is subjective. More so, from an ethnographic viewpoint, he is inside his own knowledge domain, which is specific to fans, and the knowledge that is associated with the domain, may not be amenable to drawing the types of conclusions of the type you're looking for, as may not be rigorous enough to support any particular. So when you're writing an article on these types of cultures, you need academics who tell you want is going on, and will provide research to show that it is true. It a complex subject. Surveys are a strange thing. They are a moment in time when certain conditions exist and after that moment passes, they will not exist again, in that same state. Any number of things can change a person mind. It is so quick, by the time the person (the surveyor) is finished talking to another person (the surveyed) they can change their mind. So it can't be used as a reference. It is Non-RS. When you say they are reliable sources, they are reliable sources, the organisation is reliable, but the sources aren't reliable, they're subjective because they aren't in the domain of cultural ethnography. It is effective fan fiction. Only cultural anthropologists and ethnographers who do the research can say for sure, that something is true, in that domain, unless it is a source, that is so common to everybody that is true. For example, You say could Germans lost the 2nd world war, and it's true, but you also say that a huge number of people believe in QAnon, which is false. It is disinformation. So to be sure that your facts are correct, look at the research. Go back and write the article again. Find researchers, that look at fan culture, and how it behaves in the context of Beyonce. It might not as big an article, but it will absolutely true, it will be an academic article and nobody will be able to say it is not true. Hope that helps! scope_creepTalk20:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry for the delay in replying. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much for taking the time to detail your reasoning - I appreciate it :)
Bgkc4444 (
talk)
21:52, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Joseph Lister
Scope, thank you for your note-- as for a reference that King Edward's appendectomy was in June rather than August 1902, there are many that are reliable and verifiable, but this is one example
[1]. By August 24, his coronation and his surgery were but a memory. I'll see what I can find about a source about Lister getting the Knight's Grand Cross.
Mandsford17:06, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Mandsford: Well done for catching that. External editors seem the ones that are picking up the errors at the moment. It was pretty clear from Gbook references, that it was true. I left that reference in. I think it just covers the statement that that King made explicitly to Lister, thanking him and not for the appendix part. I will need to check it at some point. I don't think it is an academic source, and couldn't immediately see a way of verifying it. If you can find anything on the KCVO, it would be ideal. I would have thought he would have been awarded it as a surgeon to royalty, but for some reason, Godlee, his initial biographers, doesn't mention it. There may be some other reason. scope_creepTalk17:19, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Looking further, there's no mention of the Knight Commander of the Victorian Order in Lister's obituary in The Guardian of February 12, 1912.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76833273/death-of-dr-joseph-lister/ The King of Denmark made him a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog according to a 1918 biography, but I don't see him on lists of the KCVO conferred by Queen Victoria or King Edward VII or George V during his lifetime.
Mandsford17:34, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
That is a good reference, and more or less reflects the awards currently in the article. I wonder why the editor added it in? Possibly it is something to do with the Order of Merit being arranged. That question is definitely answered now. scope_creepTalk17:40, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hi there. You
said here that
Lyanbox782 is a paid editor, right? Since I’m the one who got him blocked for general crazy and disruptive behavior, I was just wondering what proof you have for that and why it isn’t tagged on his talk page because it should be especially if he ever makes the mistake of appealing the block. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk)19:23, 2 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Smuckola: Just by his behaviour. Most editors now are paid. More than 80% of the new articles that come in are paid for. That I think as well as the work on Yahoo articles. It is immensely boring updating the logo on several dozen articles, all for Yahoo. scope_creepTalk20:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Notability of business people
Hi, I don't normally get involved in business related notability discussions, is there any guidance that I should be aware of that means the sources I found for Benjamin Smith are insufficient? I don't want to clutter the deletion discussion unnecessarily.
WP:GNG doesn't go into much detail, but I think the sources I have found should satisfy
Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies), which is stricter than
WP:NBIO. The Financial Times is a national newspaper with a wider audience than a trade paper like Aviation News.
TSventon (
talk)
16:34, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
TSventon: Not really. If they're from a reliable source and they are in-depth, they're comprehensive, not just profiles, or summaries of available information. Company articles are subject to NCorp, sources on those types of articles are subject to
WP:SIRS. I think that article is close to being kept. I think if you found another decent ref, combined with what is there, it would probably be enough to satisfy
WP:THREE. There should be more as KLM flies everywhere. scope_creepTalk20:04, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
My current conclusion is that
WP:NBIO intentionally leaves room for editor opinion. I think that Benjamin Smith's 700 word profile in Les Echos contributes to
WP:THREE, while you don't. Finding in depth sources on line is difficult as the publishers quite reasonably want to be paid for them, e.g. de Telegraaf lists 22 articles "about" him and all but one are paywalled. I also think that the main problem with the article isn't insufficient sources, it is that few or no editors without a COI are interested in contributing to it.
TSventon (
talk)
14:17, 7 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Avalanche (Consensus Protocol)
Hello, Scope_Creep! Thank you for your insight on the draft I’m trying to improve. I re-submitted the draft after making additional corrections.
Per your advice, I removed references 4,9 and 13 and replaced them with more scientific sources found on Google Scholar. Here are the references removed:
Regarding the reference #18 now, can you explain the rationale behind removal of it? You mentioned it was written by the contributor, so I double checked it and found at the bottom of the article that the author is actually a staff writer. I don’t mind to remove it if you still think it is not a good source:
Gregory Barber is a staff writer at WIRED who writes about blockchain, AI, and tech policy. He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and English literature and now lives in San Francisco.
STAFF WRITER
The comment in
this diff ("Please do not post up anywhere again. It is meaningless pap.") seems rather unnecessary, regardless of whether you are correct. I am not trying to single you out here, but I'd be quite happy if stuff like this didn't happen at AfD. jp×g06:34, 10 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
JPxG: The statement he made, made no sense. It designed to fudge the whole thing, and the usual kind of stuff that you get from the
WP:ARS editors. The problem with Afd is it no longer working. It is entirely broken as it favours a specific subgroup at the expense of everybody else. This is supposed to be a global encyclopædia, but at the moment it is not acting like it. scope_creepTalk10:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 02:28:52, 15 May 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by SanJuanHouston
@
SanJuanHouston: How goes it? How about fixing the references next. Currently, they are bare URLs are really not worth anything, as web pages change ever 6 weeks. Take a look at
WP:REFB which will give you a small tutorial on how in-line citations are correctly formatted. This reference, https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/ryan-abbott once it is expanded out to a full cite, doesn't need to be used individually all over the article. In that instance, you would use ref tag. Here is an example:
as well as a solicitor advocate in England and Wales.<ref name="sur">{{cite web....</ref> He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a member of the California and New York State Bars.<ref name="sur"/> It shouldn't take too look to fix the citations. The article is looking better already. Please give me a shout when your finished and I will pass it to mainspace. scope_creepTalk11:14, 15 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Symeon Shimin
I'd appreciate help, not sure why if there is some standard layout there isn't like a form, I did try. if you need ref's please let me know. there was one section I tried to reference but the information got tagged as self-promotion because it leads back to his book, or website about his book that was authored by his daughter.
@
MaddAnna: Look at other biographies of artists to see how they are structured. Take a look at
WP:MOS. I need references. The ones from the book are ok for a very limited number, but not all of them. I need three other sources. Remember to sign your comments with ~~~~. Large chunks of the article will need to be removed if there is no refs. scope_creepTalk00:55, 18 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 02:15:58, 18 May 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by Ltsqrd
@
Ltsqrd: Try and find some good
WP:SECONDARY sources that validate why he is notable, from newspapers ideally. Not PR-generated content. Hopefully, that helps. Try and take out some Youtube references. Newspaper and magazine sources, e.g. reviews from websites that show the program is notable. Half the amount of Youtube video you have at least. Hope that helps. scope_creepTalk11:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Dear Scope creep, thank you very much for the insightful comments and suggestions. I have amended them and I was wondering whether to resubmit the page?
Any additional suggestions and advices are welcomed. Thank you for your time. Appologies for not signing my comment. (
Jpbonardi (
talk)
17:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC))reply
That guy is a tank. No doubt about it. Can you resubmit please. I think you will need to add some more secondary sources to it, once it is promoted. Most of the first block of sources, are article by him. The article wont get nominated for deletion, but it needs secondary sources per
WP:SECONDARY, to flesh out it a bit, otheriwse I'll need to put a tag on it. Resubmit it and I'll promote it now. scope_creepTalk17:42, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Thank you, he is really fascinating person. Do you have any idea where to plug the additional secondary sources? Or maybe preference for them. Additionally, I wanted to ask you whether I have a time limit for adding them? Thank you again for your help.
Jpbonardi (
talk)
18:20, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Jpbonardi: No, there is no time limit, but it would be nice if they were there. Put them anywhere I suppose, wheres suitable. I don't know if you planning to write a new article, or want to expand this one. Every new article goes into the
WP:NPP queue, where it is reviewed and as there are very few secondary sources, it may be sent back to draft, to get some more work on it. It does happen. All you need is three, that maybe discuss his work, per
WP:THREE. scope_creepTalk18:27, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Of course, I was asking because I was wondering if I need to rush for it or I can do proper analysis. I will be expanding this one for now to make sure it reaches satisfactory quality, I am a scientist so I will try to contribute more and more with new articles as time goes on. I appriciate all your help, thank you.
Jpbonardi (
talk)
23:26, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 01:50:15, 20 May 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by Darasmithpr
Hi, my draft was declined because they said there was only mentioned press but I included full features from the highest regarded fashion news outlets more than once. How can I fix this? I have plenty of more reference to add but WWD is a news outlet that should be considered a legitimate news source. And isn’t Forbes as well as Elle?
@
Darasmithpr: That article reads like an advertisement as you well know, with a link to the shop, and forbes is not a reliable source. It is junk. Most of the references are PR, read like PR because they are paid advertising. scope_creepTalk11:01, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I am unsure how it reads like an advertisement? I followed the same format as every other fashion designers page. Nothing was promotional but fact stating. None of the references are paid advertising, that’s not how articles like that work. I removed the website for her brand, although when I look at every other fashion designers pages their website is listed under external. I’m confused as I followed the same format and verbiage as other fashion designers.
Darasmithpr (
talk)
11:14, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply
just passing by, I notice such sentences as "Sadoughi's accessories are favored by many celebrities including..." and "Lele Sadoughi has also collaborated with many fashion brands including" ... DGG (
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04:52, 23 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Your recent comment on the PS draft submission
Thank you, Scope creep for your recent comment. Since last 5 months we have been trying to get input from experienced Wikipedia editors such as yourself. We kept changing the scope of the article until there is not much left besides the ones which can be cited. Also changed the resources and eliminated primary ones. So there is work being done and followed up. For such a short article we have 12 citations but we are happy to hear where do you think we can add more. Please keep in mind this product is being developed as we speak and articles are being written about it as it ages and gains prominence. We are on the lookout for new ones to update the article all the time.
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TO Scope_Creep
Hello Scope_Creep Thanks for your message I'm work in ICICB Group and my manager asked me to create a page for our company like atari and another company. Let me know what I can do to accept the company on Wikipedia.
I added in the websites Names :D thanks again for your help. I just realized, I misspelled your Name in my edits. I'm very sorry for that but I have no clue how to correct it. Please don't take offence.
Tobias Geller (
talk)
23:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Draft:Peter Mostovoy
Dear Scope creep, I added more inline citations, could not be more I guess. Please, can you publish this article, it's very important for the hero of article 83 years old. Thank you
Figelvigel (
talk)
21:35, 25 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Figelvigel: I have fixed those refs in the article. You will need to add at least 3 or 4 others. I removed several which would stopped it passing. Hope that helps. Look for the Citation Needed and put an in-line citation in. scope_creepTalk21:57, 25 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Infobox results are not repeated in the body of the article. I have left only selected most important results in the infobox excluding them from the body of the article.
So asking you to accept the article and finally publish it.
Please let me know on my further steps - should I resubmit the article now?
Dear Scope creep.
Thank you for your suggestions to improve the text of
/info/en/?search=Draft:Sergei_Ipatov.
I finished to make corrections of the draft.
There were small corrections of the text (e.g., two sentences have been moved in a revised form from “Awards” to the end of “Career”). The references have been changed considerably. Former references 14 and 15 have been removed. The reference 1 was changed to the website of the Russian Academy. Only 6 references were left in external links. Some former external links have been deleted, but most of them were transferred to in-line citations. Some in-line citations (mainly to publications) have been added. Now there are in-line citations in different parts of the text. If needed, the in-line citations can be added to the text that you will mention, but now already there are many in-line citations. The reference 42 is the same as 2, and the reference 43 is the same as 1, but I do not know how to combine the references.
Si14360 (
talk)
11:34, 4 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep. What is the "Can you please remove ref 3. It is borderline reliable." issue? When removing it, do you suggest to remove the "There are several formulations in which to measure the network entropy and, as a rule, they all require a particular property of the graph to be focused, such as the adjacency matrix, degree sequence, degree distribution or number of bifurcations, what might lead to values of entropy that aren't invariant to the chosen network description." sentence from the first paragraph, as well? Regards, --
Gryllida (
talk,
e-mail)
06:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Gryllida: Do you think it is a decent paper? There is not a lot hinging on it, so if you can change it, all the better. It is suggested papers from EGU are a better source. The RS folk are not keen on mdpi.com as it often fails higher sourcing requirements, e.g. if the article is updated in the future. It is borderline, so if you can it is probably better. scope_creepTalk09:40, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for your guidance on the article I'm working on. I've added book reviews as suggested. If you could please confirm I've provided what you requested I would appreciate it. I'm still working on your guidance "There is a lot and lots of profile page. Find WP:THREE refs which are WP:SECONDARY and add them in as the first three."
TimHitchings (
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14:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
TimHitchings: Yip, That fact he is into his beer. I'm definitely a fan of craft beer!! For the last decade, it has been a really big thing here in the UK. 20 years ago there used to be only maybe a couple of dozen makes of beers. Now there are hundreds, and the selection is big enough that you can get a different beer every month. Its great. Secondary means people talking to people about the suject who are not related or connected to the subject. I've moved several good sources to the lede and the top of the article. The LA times articles are a good example of him being a writer to pass
WP:NAUTHOR. The podcast stuff I would probably take out, as it seems to be all profile references as opposed to newspapers, eg. like the LA Times. More of that would be ideal, but if you can find more of those types. I moved the reviews up to the top as well. I think there is probably sufficient to pass now. More refs like LA Times to strengthen it, make it an easier pass. scope_creepTalk20:40, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
TimHitchings: I've done quite a lot of work on it, more than half that article. I think it is probably better if somebody else reviews it. Can you resubmit it, to get the process started. scope_creepTalk19:39, 10 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@Scope creep: Of course. My pardon if you thought that was what I was asking. While waiting for another review, if you have time, could you please provide some of your expertise so that if I work on more articles I may do a better job in the future? I note that your early ask was for me to add references such as the LA time articles. I know I added a couple with quotes and then it appears they weren't of quality so they were removed. I'm reading thru your edits on the view history which contains your notes on why the edits were done which is helpful. I'm kind of surprised that podcasts were not helpful as they appear to be very popular these days. Again, my thanks for you doing so many edits.
TimHitchings (
talk)
17:26, 11 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Draft:Jeremy Schwartz
Thanks for watching this article. I have added quality sources as per your recommendation. For example,
The IndependentEvening StandardThe Guardian. Please tell me, my article is worthy of publication an i can Resubmit. Thanks for the help.
Hi @
Schwartz Jeremy: I checked the Evening Standard and the Independent. One of them in the Evening Standard, as an interview is poor to middling, but there is no
WP:SECONDARY sources as such. As a BLP you would need at
WP:THREE of these. Also I see your editing your own article. I know you have a
WP:COI declaration, but usually, the prescribed method is to use
WP:EDITREQ to create it, if your on here anyway. Editing it directly is usually verbotten. Hope that helps!! scope_creepTalk09:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)reply
This had three sources, and I imagine these were missed, so can you please fix the page history for the page that you accidentally moved to draft.
Fleets (
talk)
07:03, 13 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope Creep, thanks for your feedback on the Luke McGarry article. I think I've incorporated all the changes you suggested and tried to remove any "spam" links I came across.
I'm still a little unclear as to your WP:SECONDARY direction, though... I believe that at least 2 or 3 of the articles referenced would appear to meet the requirements (for example, references 31 and 73), but if they don't, any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again for your input.
Jopogigio (
talk) 06:31, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Jopogigio (
talk)
06:31, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Jopogigio: Yip, That is a lot better. The article still has embedded links, however. Remove these. They are not supported by policy. Remove and give me a shout. I have left a comment. scope_creepTalk13:56, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Ahh, that makes perfect sense! I've gone through and removed any external links I could find. If you wouldn't mind taking another look, I think we might be good? Thanks!
Jopogigio (
talk)
18:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep. Can I ask you about your AfC acceptance of
CSX Altenheim Subdivision? I have had this draft on my watchlist for some time, and I was surprised it was accepted. Ignoring the fact that the author is an indef-blocked sockpuppet with a history of unsourced hoaxes, I would not have accepted the article in its current state. Of the three sources, two are dead links to fan sites. The last one is a primary source, which directly contradicts much of the article's contents - the route diagram on page 9 of
[2] is completely different from the information in the article. While I have no doubt an article could be written about the Altenheim subdivision, this one is not it, IMHO. Thoughts?
Laplorfill (
talk)
15:45, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Laplorfill: How goes it? I did notice it was created by a sock. Certainly, at some point, the railway fan guys will come up and update it and keep it in good order. I didn't think it was not something that would be sent to Afd, so was an easy promotion, even without decent refs as it was a historical article and it was a reasonably decent shape for the type but it not a really important article in the scheme of things, i.e. not that contentious, that I needed to worry about. If you think it needs to be moved back to draft, go ahead. I am not too worried about that. I'm sure it will be recreated by somebody else, at some point. The draft needs to be flagged somehow. Perhaps you nominate it for deletion. scope_creepTalk16:13, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
If you could. I've tagged the redirect to be deleted, as I don't have the ability move it back to draft space with the redirect in place. I think draftifying it again is the best next step. Thanks,
Laplorfill (
talk)
16:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for reviewing
this AfC. I really didn't expect it to pass, as I noted on a talk page.
It came about because there is a wlink from
Robert Hooke to his bio article on de.wikipedia (and, I notice, from quite a few other articles on en.wikipedia) and I felt I should try to rectify by creating an en.wp version. He seems to get cited quite a bit but that seems to be as far as it goes, nothing that I could find about him personally. I had hoped that others might be provoked to contribute but nothing. The de.wp article has only the same personal resumé (CV) as its only source. I have no plans to pursue it further. --
John Maynard Friedman (
talk)
20:01, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
John Maynard Friedman: I will try and find a couple of references then. The guy is notable. I wouldn't have posted the message if he wasn't. He is writing for Encyclopaedia Britannica, so I suspect there is coverage. scope_creepTalk20:06, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
July 2021 at Women in Red
Women in Red| July 2021, Volume 7, Issue 7, Numbers 184, 188, 202, 203, 204, 205
I saw you moved again an article to the draft space. In
Ragnhild Andresen is everything referenced and via external links you find secondary newspaper articles about here. So not needed to move to the draft space; like you did with many other articles. If you don’t like it, you can use the maintenance templates or nominate for AfD.
SportsOlympic (
talk)
18:54, 22 June 2021 (UTC)reply
scope creep, can you back off on moving SportsOlympic's articles to Draft space? It seems to have resulted in move wars with pages going back and forth. Let another editor take action rather than focusing so much of your attention on SportsOlympic since your efforts are clearly unwanted (though you seem to have made peace in the discussion below this one). It's SportsOlympic's right to move articles back to main space if they object to the move and if you feel strongly about it, you can PROD an article or nominate it for AFD. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!01:38, 23 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Liz: I am not focusing soley on SportsOlympic, I was reviewing the page one at at a time, one by one in sorted womens list at NPP. I started at the top of the list and my my way down the bottom. There wasn't any focus on any person. Following the process is what you get. The editor just happens to have a load of non-sourced BLP's that naturally need to be draft for futher work. I'm suprised your telling me to this, particularly when that is the process. All that is doing is leaving work for some other editor that they should be doing himself. Lastly external links aren't references. It is just lazy way of doing it, again leaving it to somebody else. scope_creepTalk09:25, 23 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope creep, I think I have addressed all your concerns. Can you please review and let me know? I took out the Career section because most of the content couldn't be cited. I updated the citations; I think correctly? You were the first editor to mention the citations, so please forgive me if they still need work. I updated some of the content to make sure that Eberhard was the subject of most of the sentences per recommendation from the Libera Chat folks.
Baeber (
tadlk)
19:16, 26 June 2021 (UTC)Baeberreply
Hi @
Baeber: The article has barely any biographical information on the guy, and need some information, perhaps 5k to say who he is. Ref 5 and 6 are pretty useless as sources and ref 11 and 12 are promotional as they are linked to a shop. These should be proper book cites. Remove the url to amazon. Lastly the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), if it is notable it should probably be in its own article. scope_creepTalk11:18, 27 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Scope creep:. I put back in some biographical information and a career section. I took out the YouTube references and the Amazon URLs. ANFA does have a Wikipedia page; I just hadn't put the reference in correctly.
@
Baeber: That is much better looking and you can tell for sure that the guy is notable. That is much better. You provide references for those bits that are unref'd. I have created a education section for the article as education doesn't go in the lede. Career section, add more refs and one being a sloane fellow. scope_creepTalk15:44, 27 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Baeber: Can you add in some more refs where I posted the citation needed template. Don't copy or take anything more from:
[3] If I'd have seen that copyvio I wouldn't have promoted it. The main career section needs rewritten, not copied directly from the other article. scope_creepTalk19:28, 27 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: I'm not sure about the copyright issue since I'm the one who wrote the obit that all the others used, including the ANFA obit. But I have rewritten the language. I'm also not sure how to provide citations for work that was done long before the internet existed and didn't publish anything. For example, for Creative Buildings, I found an obit from someone who worked for Creative Buildings, which would show the company existed, but not that Dad founded it. Would that work? Or do you have another suggestion for where to find information about companies/organizations from the '50s and '60s?
Baeber (
talk)
13:06, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Baeberreply
Hi @
Baeber: That is better. The copyvio score is down to the mid 30% indicating it is only the names of building and places that it is picking up as being the same. Good work. scope_creepTalk23:04, 28 June 2021 (UTC)reply
I have edited the entry "Richard Owens (poet)" as indicated (some content removed and references updated, formatted, and removed as needed). Please, when you have a moment, have a look and, if suitable, pass on to mainspace as mentioned. And thank you! — Preceding
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14:53, 28 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Page Review
Hi! Thank you for your outstanding contribution to the Wikipedia community. Can you review
that article, if you will be able to? It just stalled all my work. I would highly appreciate this. Thanks!
A small note. The past reviewer said that the article has no relevance, but I disagree, since the concept of "Handicraft production" was highly important within the framework of Soviet ideology, which led to industrialization and collectivization. This is written in the article. Links are fine too.
MarcusTraianus (
talk)
16:29, 29 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
MarcusTraianus: Thanks for that, but I think its yersel that's got the maximum effeciency of any editor on Wikipedia. Can you expand the first few refs to full cites and give me a shout. There is not one thing wrong with that article, apart from that. scope_creepTalk18:36, 29 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello Scope creep:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2900 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Unfortunately, I cannot tell what the article is.
203.81.240.232, you have not made an account to identify yourself, and under your current i.p. address I see no deleted articles; you or your phone service provider must have been using some other i.p at the time. If you can tell. me on my user talk page the exact title of the article (and it would help if you can figure out when it was deleted), I can take a look at the article or draft and advise your further. I became an admin to do exactly this sort of thing, but I need some information. DGG (
talk )
15:40, 9 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope creep. I hope you remember me. I am Ken. We met at
WT:NPP/R on 22th on June this year. You were ready to be my mentor for teaching me more about AfC, as I had some flaws in some of my reviews. While we were going on, you said you were going on a vacation and give me a shout after two weeks. So, I'm here for that. Will you continue to teach me as you did till 26th of June? You can have any decision of whether to resume or to stop. Eagerly waiting for your reply. Regards. KenTonyShall we discuss?13:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Ken Tony:, I was back from holiday yesterday, although I did a lot of work on the Joseph Lister article in the interim, as I took my laptop with me. Yip, we can do a couple more. I saw that comment by DGG. Really good editor. Good advice. If you need an admin, he is ideal. How about starting tommorrow, then. If you can find some more drafts. Those others are perhaps done by now, if they are not, we can take a look at them. scope_creepTalk13:56, 11 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello. You left a note on this article saying you were interested in seeing it published. I took a run at cleaning up the most egregious problems. I haven't moved it to article space as it needs a bit more work. I'm also not entirely convinced on the notability side. There's the Justice building mural, a study for the same mural held in the Smithsonian, the fact he illustrated many children's books, and finally the movie posters and murals. I guess together those all add up to notable, but I'm not sure. Anyway, just a heads up. ---
Possibly☎02:07, 13 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Possibly: Coolio!! He is a major film artist of the mid 20th century. Those big backdrops he did, some were instantly recognisable. I hoping to update it with help with the draft editor but she dissapeared. Thanks for that Possibly. That is a lot better. Please promote it, if you can. Well done and thanks for that. scope_creepTalk08:05, 13 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I went ahead and accepted the AFC article for
Marc Gruber, an article you previously declined. I was wondering if you could check and see if the references added are sufficient. At least one of them was good, but two were not. Thank you for your time. You asked the author to ping you when they improved the article, but they did not.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
00:36, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Scorpions13256: The references on it are terrible. You will need to go back to draft. They are all
WP:PRIMARY and you can't establish notability with primary refs. Which ones were suggesting that were good. Can you give me the ref numbers so I can check them? It is a BLP so all the profile refs will need to come out. They are very low quality. scope_creepTalk12:22, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I figured. I must have misinterpreted your earlier comment. It seemed a little off when you said not much was required. I would have never accepted it if I hadn't seen your comment. I guess you were trying to say that the references needed to be replaced (which I agree with). Anyway, it has been moved back into the draftspace. Thanks.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
12:31, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scorpions13256:, Aye, somebody will delete it, in the state its in. The guy is notable, but I think the originating editor needs to put several to a half a dozen secondary sources as the first 6 refs, in, to prove he's notable. Either that, or get one or two decent refs and cut the whole article right down, stubify it, until an experienced editor can come in a research some decent sources. There is bound to be stuff out there. Thanks for moving it back. I will try and find some some sources for it, over the next few weeks. I'll add it to my todo list, so I don't forget it. scope_creepTalk12:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I could do it myself (I have written about living people before), but it is hard for me to search through non-English sources. I typically use books and news sources.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
12:45, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scorpions13256: You could give me a hand or vice versa, if you want to make a start I'll join you later. I know what you mean. It takes a lot of work to translate stuff. DeepL is pretty good to translate blocks of text. Google Translate is good for full websites. Bing Translate used to be good, or is good around gender translations, e.g. French but they reduced the size of the text block you can translate, making it less useful. I would start by getting rid of all the bare mention refs and the profiles, and then go from there. scope_creepTalk13:23, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
August Editathons with Women in Red
Women in Red| August 2021, Volume 7, Issue 8, Numbers 184, 188, 204, 205, 206, 207
Dear Scope creep. Sorry, only yesterday I paid attention to your suggestion made about 2 months ago. As it was suggested by you, I deleted the references 18 – 22. You mentioned 18-21, but as I understand, the reference 22 is similar to the above references. In the sentence “Four of these asteroids got names” four was changed by five. In half an hour after submission of the new version, Z1720 wrote: “Please cite your sources using footnotes. There should be a reference at the end of every paragraph, minimum, since this is a WP:BLP.” Today I transferred the external links to footnotes. Now there are no external links. Some references to the published biography were duplicated to a few places, and now there are references in all paragraphs, and also at the end of these paragraphs.
@
Si14360: It is a
WP:BLP, so the career section needs a reference per sentence. Stating something like He is an author[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] isn't a good idea. It is much better to put his 2 or 3 papers, e.g. the one he wrote that won him the prize in the bibliography section. And removed at the references 12-16 as it is a case of
WP:CITEKILL. The Main scientific interests and achievements is really decent. Take this out There are Wikipedia pages devoted to Sergei Ipatov in Russian, German, French, Italian, and Esperanto. Put this The biography of S.I. Ipatov has been published in several biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias, e.g. by Marquis Who's Who[3][7][18] and by Russians editions[4][19][20][21][22]. in the biliography section and 19-22 can be used to populate the career section with refs with additional refs added. It looks a lot better. Give me a shout when its done. Hope that helps. I think the guy is notable with the award. scope_creepTalk20:23, 30 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Dear Scope creep. Thank you for your comments. I deleted the sentence about Wikipedia pages in other languages and former references 10, 12-14, 16 for list of publications (only two were left). You suggested to remove the references 12-16. Z1720 suggested to remove references 10, 11, and 12 (different references). Former references 19-22 we used to populate other sentences. Most sentences in early life and career now have references. May be it is not needed to put a citation to every similar sentence? For example, in
/info/en/?search=Alan_Boss there are no citations in career section. Former ref 8 (to Wiki data) was removed. I hope that editing of the sections, other than achievements, are close to the end.
May be it is possible not to delete the Section “Main scientific interests and achievements”? I suppose that achievements are much more important and interesting for inclusion in Wikipedia than the list of institutions were a person worked. For example, in
/info/en/?search=Eric_Walter_Elst , the main attention is paid to his discoveries, not to his career. In
/info/en/?search=Alan_Stern information about scientific results of Alan Stern is much greater than the information about his career. I suppose that small information about scientific results for some scientists may be only caused by that their biographers did not write about them. As to me, I prefer to read biographies with detailed achievements, but not those short biographies that sometimes can be found in wikipedia. Z1720 wrote about secondary references and noted that there are only primary references to Ipatov’s publications. May be the awards, the inclusion of the biography in dictionaries and encyclopedias, the published papers in Web of Science and Scopus journals can be considered as independent secondary sources? In the first draft of the Ipatov’s bio there were no references to his papers (only text about his achievements), but then there were remarks that all text must be supported by citations. So the citations of Ipatov’s papers have been added. Such citations can be deleted, but probably it will not make the text better. In order to add secondary references to Ipatov’s achievements, the following sentence have been added just now to the beginning of the section “Main scientific interests and achievements”: Information about Ipatov’s main scientific interests and achievements is presented on [8, 9]. Information for you (not for the draft): These websites include similar Russian text about achievements, but without references to Ipatov’s papers. It is possible to add links to the papers which cited Ipatov’s papers, but I do not think that it is good.
Si14360 (
talk)
14:55, 31 July 2021 (UTC)reply
@
BartlebytheScrivener: I understand what your trying to do and its fair enough. But its uncool to change section names, even during a good copyedit, its not done. Your putting in a American mannerism, when the article wasn't written that way. The policy is to you preserve the structure. You can copyedit it, but preserve the structure. Send it to GA if you want. But that is the third time that somebody had tried to completly change it and take
WP:OWN, because it is American article. Three times I heard same phrase. If you want, I'll all have the history revdel done on it and all my content removed from it and then you write an American English article. scope_creepTalk01:37, 2 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Would be great if you could stop engaging in harassment. Read the
Talk:Alexander Repenning pages. Is this the new Wikipedia practice: shoot first, ask questions later? You are making Wikipedia a really unwelcoming place. It makes no sense to provide reference for each sentence. This is not how Wikipedia works. If you find information that is wrong or misleading feel free to point that out. Deleting without knowing something is wrong or misleading is harassment. Please stop!
What does any of this have to do with the fact that you are harassing me? I asked for constructive support. You did not provide reasonable suggestions. How would somebody who received a Purple Hart provide "references?" If every sentence needs to have a reference then 90% of the Wikipedia needs to be deleted. Must feel great to just delete stuff and block people. What have you contributed to society that gives you the right to engage in harassment? What suddenly urged you to delete content that you cannot show to be wrong or misleading and that was there for many years? What is your angle other than harassment?
147.86.223.240 (
talk)
10:48, 6 August 2021 (UTC)reply
It is absolutely harassment. Of course you think your actions are fine. But, harassment is not about what the harasser perceives it to be. It is, and that is all it is, about the perception of the harassed. I asked you for help. You did not provide it. Just deleting is not helping. Yes, you suggested that "every sentence needs a reference." Other BLPs, by and large, don't do that for the simple reason that many recognitions have no official form of reference. Why did you not provide an example or make a helpful suggestion? You are justifying your harassment by interpreting vague policies. How do you "reference" if somebody can present his/her work in the White House? This is not a paper. And why are you paying attention to this page and content that has been up for many years? How is this content promotional and how is it puffy? If you are not offering concrete advise and engage in deleting you are harassing.
What is happening to Wikpedia? Why is it getting so hostile towards academic content? Are you only reading the delete-stuff policies? Did you ever read the how to welcome academic content Wikpedia guidelines? They suggest an approach to engage in dialog. Is Wikipedia paying you? Who is your boss?
2A02:AA14:4581:6B00:DC1F:FAB7:19E2:FEA7 (
talk)
16:40, 9 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Mario Kleff
Hello, I noticed that you deleted something in the Mario Kleff article. Was there something wrong? If the reason was the writing style, I'd like to improve this to a better and more valued version. Please advise. Thank you
Meow2021 (
talk)
12:49, 9 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Meow2021:, I completed a copyedit on the article that had sections that were full of
WP:PEACOCK terms which are unacceptable for
WP:BLP. This is an example: Mario Kleff creates buildings with an extension of his personality and lives an uncompromised lifestyle determined by his interest in exotic wildlife and
automotive design It is junk. It needs to be encyclopaedic and balanced. I also removed the supposed fact he is an artist. He is not artist and there is no evidence he is an artist. scope_creepTalk13:02, 9 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the quick response and feedback. I wrote down what I read and linked it accordingly. Apparently the criteria were not met. What do I have to consider, can I even edit this article for the better?
You asked that I give you a shout after I made revisions. Consider this that shout (I just figured out how to contact you directly).
cheers,
Bluepencil13
Hi @
Bluepencil13:, How goes it? Yip, that looks better, however, the NLP Board section has no references in it. It is is definently better looks and less and advert. It might be worth removing the past presidents. If you don't, they need to be referenced. I hope that helps. Remember to sign your posts with the four tildes ~~~~. scope_creepTalk09:43, 11 August 2021 (UTC)reply
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Histiocytoma. The World Health Organization reclassified myxofibrosarcoma as a distinct entity, not in any way a form of the histiocytomas. I am currently making a page for Myxofibrosarcoma. Can you remove this erroneous linkage or instruct me how to do so. It may be a simple task: the View history page indicates that the myxofibrosarcoma-histiocytoma linkage was made sometime after the page was created. Thank you for your help. OK--
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
23:23, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Joflaher: How are you today? The way it would be done, would be to make a request at
WP:RFD, explaining why it needs to go. I can do that now, if you want? You will probably need to chime at some point with the evidence, of why it needs to be deleted. I will nominate it now. scope_creepTalk15:53, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Joflaher: It should take no more than a couple of days to remove the redirect, perhaps sooner, and then page can be recreated using the contents from your sandbox (a silly name). scope_creepTalk15:58, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Joflaher: Yip, its nomination notice. Give me a shout when your ready to create the page. I have page mover rights and assuming the redirect is gone, I can move your sandbox along with its history into the new article. scope_creepTalk16:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: What I have been doing since the previous difficulties that I caused is to write part of the page in WordPerfect or my sandbox (without ever saving in in sandbox) and transferring it a Wikipedia page that I just made. I edit if further on the newly made page. Is that OK? Thank you for helping me with all the trouble that I have caused.
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
18:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Joflaher: Yes, that sounds fine. There is a lot of folk who edit outside Wikipedia and then copy/paste into an article, in exactly that manner, when they're ready. All you need to do, is create the link e.g.
Myxofibrosarcoma (Assuming the redirect page has been deleted), then click on to create the empty article then copy your stuff in. Do it that ensures your not creating some off area, as the link always defaults to article namespace. scope_creepTalk18:41, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Earlier today, the linkage of Myxofibrosarcoma to the Histiocytoma page was deleted: when I sought for Myxofibrosarcoma the create page came up. Now when a seek this page a strange page comes up stating "The purpose of this redirect is currently being discussed by the Wikipedia community." If I follow the instructions on this page, it looks to me that it will retitle the Histiocytoma page as Myxofibrosarcoma and give the info on Myxofibrosarcoma that I supply. Also, I have no idea where to put my info when I click on the arrow directing me to a page to do so. I do not want to remove the Histiocytoma page (I plan to later update and expand the Histiocytoma page). What do I do now? Again, thanks.
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
19:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Joflaher: The Histiocytoma article will stay where it. I nominated the
Myxofibrosarcoma redirect page for deletion, so that it would a fresh revision history. But you can keep the page, delete the redirect information and paste your stuff in on top if it. scope_creepTalk21:33, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: My myxofibrosarcoma page will be ready for publication in 1-2 days or so. I have no idea how to publish it...your instructions do not seem to work for me. When I go to the myxofibrosarcoma page now, I just do not see how to proceed. It's confusing. Again and again, thanks.
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
21:54, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi
joflaher, I've been talking with scope creep at the redirect discussion page. The link from myxofibrosarcoma to the histiocytoma page at least explains to readers that myxofibrosarcoma has been reclassified, which (I think) is better than having no information at all, so I've argued that it should stay until your draft is ready. If you would like, once your draft is ready you can paste it into
Draft:Myxofibrosarcoma, click on the red link to take you to the draft creation page. You might be warned that the article already exists, but you can ignore that, that's because of the redirect. Once it's there, scope creep can remove the redirect and replace it with your article, with the history intact. Cheers, and thanks for your contributions.
@
Scope creep: My Myxofibrosarcoma info is now a Draft:Myxofibrosarcoma page. I'm hoping that it will quickly be accepted as a regular page so that I can go forward in updating and expanding the Histiocytoma page which incorrectly included myxofibrosarcoma as a type of histiocytoma. In all events, I thank everyone who helped me on this. OK--
joflaher (
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13:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Would it be worth creating a template to link all these instruction set articles. Perhaps one for the original X86 set, one form simd instructions, one sse1 and so on.
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Just want to let you know that I reverted content removals on
LEVC VN5 since
WP:CRYSTAL does not apply to the
LEVC e-Camper section, as it is confirmed with a source and is not a prediction, and upcoming vehicles can have Wikipedia articles or be sections/content within. As for the latter edits, I reverted those since it is typical and almost a standard to note the starting price, trims, and basic/notable features in automobile-related articles when properly sourced.
As for
Ferrari Purosangue - and all is good and I fixed it with the click of two buttons - you may have restored the wrong revision because the categories I added and typos I fixed were reverted. Nonetheless, thank you for not undoing the article and reverting it back to redirect and reverting your edit when you did. Waddles🗩🖉18:25, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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WaddlesJP13: How goes it. They're definently notable, but can you please cut down on the advertising. Putting list price information is strictly against Wikipedia Terms of Use and it is deeply uncool. Its plain advertising and endangers Wikipedia freedom and licence. It also will likely to get you blocked in the short term for promotion and spamming. Good articles apart from that. scope_creepTalk18:29, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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WaddlesJP13: If it is standard, then it is wrong and that is not the consensus. It clearly against Wikipedia Terms of Use and I will need post a advertising tag on and start trying to article removed. scope_creepTalk18:32, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: I will clarify that I'm not promoting the car, I've been writing and editing car articles since before I even had a Wikipedia account as an IP user. I'm a page patroller and am experienced with the vast majority of Wikipedia guidelines, and as long as content is encyclopedically stated with proper sources, it is not advertising. I've never seen anywhere that you cannot state the base price of a vehicle on Wikipedia. The great majority of car articles do state the starting price and it's how I've been writing them since day one and this is the first issue I've had with it.
On Wikipedia, advertising generally is adding unsourced or loosely-covered promotional content as or to articles. Here's the difference between encyclopedic vs. promotional:
An example of encyclopedic content: The [car] has a starting price of [value].[refs]
An example of promotional content: The [car] only costs [value], which is a very great deal. The [car] is perfect for anyone on a [value] budget.
I can see what your getting at, but I think probably standard 10 years. Folk are a bit more aware of the dangers of now. Make up you mind I guess, but have real think about. scope_creepTalk18:46, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Harry Partridge.
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01:35, 15 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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101.50.250.88: The article was reviewed as part of the
WP:NPP process and there is leeway there for the editor reviewing an article to revert it back to a redirect if an article is not warranted. The references on the article were entirely junk. I intend to attend the Afd. scope_creepTalk
Hi @
Iflaq: Unfortunately not, Wikipedia is not a referable source. Can you not try the Kashmari Wikipedia site, to see if there is anything on their description of the site, that is not Wikipedia created. They're maybe some third-party reports. Apart from that I can't give you much help. The help desk at [{WP:HELP]] or somebody at the reference desk may help. scope_creepTalk17:17, 15 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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WSJZ-LD
Why do you keep reverting referenced/cited content with a redirect to another TV station? They are not the same TV station, just the same owner.
Bwave (
talk)
18:37, 16 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Bwave: How goes it? Well I think the redirect is a better proposition than the article at the moment. Can you not add proper references to it. Otherwise it is just a listing. scope_creepTalk18:58, 16 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Bwave I'm going to redirect the WSJZ-LD and WRUE-LD pages. I have also added a table to WRDE-LD and WBOC-LD that explains the setup, since NBC and Telemundo are on all four of the involved transmitters.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
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05:38, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Article payal radhakrishna
I am payal radhakrishna fan as a contributor i am contributing what ever i know request you not to delete the draft
70mmreels (
talk)
Hi @
Vitaium: Yip, I've created a few ship articles myself. The reason I reverted it, was due to the poor reference and the lack of them. It really need a couple more of better quality. scope_creepTalk10:29, 18 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Gunnar Larsson: Thanks for that. But it is worth noting it is not 2005 now, not even 2010, where you could get away with a posting a non-sourced article. There is two areas to develop articles offline, one is sandboxes and other draft. Any one of them could be used to create it, source it and then post it. Please do so the next time. And adding bare urls just adds work for somebody else. Please take a look at
WP:REFB. scope_creepTalk08:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep. I am not planning to start a long discussion, just highlighting that people (like me:-)) are more likely to get annoyed with a revert than with a template.
Gunnar Larsson (
talk)
09:00, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Agnihothri Sharath: The films perhaps won the Kerala State Film Awards. The references you provided are all
WP:PRIMARY and you can't use primary references to establish notability. Please add
WP:SECONDARY sources into the article. Currently its looks like the editor or director is a common demoninator, but until some who is not associated with him, start commenting on him, in some journal or newspapers, or he wins an award, or becomes notable in his own right. But currently being a common demonitator is likely non-notable. Find and add secondary sources and resubmit it for review. If the person is truly notable, there should plenty of coverage out there to support your case. That would be the approach I would take. I hope that helps. scope_creepTalk11:26, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Agnihothri Sharath: I had a look at the sources again. Please references the awards and provide some additional secondary sources and resubmit. It all relies on the award and whether it is notable. scope_creepTalk
File:Praun Russian Campaign 1941-1942 Chart 9.png listed for discussion
"Really duff refs"? What is this meant to mean? The articles has references to two standard textbooks, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the official Kentucky state election returns; what's so "duff" about it?
FieldOfWheat (
talk)
08:05, 22 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I just note now that those references were added back by someone only a month after you reverted them out. The article is perfectly well sourced.
FieldOfWheat (
talk)
14:18, 31 August 2022 (UTC)reply
So I've took my time to add more references to this specific article that you had recently moved into draftspace and I've added more so I was wondering if you could promote or even it to mainspace again?
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 21:55 22 September 2021 (GMT-4)
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SuperSkaterDude45: It is a lot better, but the first section is not referenced at all. You can't have a block of text like that without it being referenced. Its not 2010. Large bits of large sections are unsourced. On top of that, your first reference is to a blog. That is a
WP:SPS source. You have that first ref all the way through the article. It will need to come out. Give me a shout when your finish and I will promote. Google books is a good location to find information. scope_creepTalk09:47, 23 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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SuperSkaterDude45: I know how difficult it is to source these soldiers articles. I've done a couple myself. The English Wikipedia sourcing requirement are higher that the French Wikipedia. I notice the article on there is largely unsourced. There is quite a lot on Gbooks on him. scope_creepTalk09:53, 23 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately, most references I could find were in mention to his military service in Le Bourget and only 2 contained other info. Would the article still be acceptable enough for mainspace?
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 23:28 23 September 2021 (GMT-4)
Hi @
SuperSkaterDude45: I found a bunch of references in Google Books, mostly for the battles. I'll try and add some references. Csn you take reference 1. It is a
WP:SPS and is pretty low-quality. I'm not sure where the information is coming from. If the biography section can't be vertified, take it out. It will be put back in, by a military historian at some point in the future. I found sources on Google Books, I will add in what I can find, over the next several days, and see how it looks then. scope_creepTalk06:24, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
It can be published with sections that are missing, but it it better to pull them out for the moment. It is not a BLP where every sentence needs a ref. The article will be develop over time and expand as its military history article. That has given me a thought. Could you post a request for help at the Military Histoy Wikiproject? They are very active. I exapnded a couple of archive references, look a bit better now. It coming on. I can post a help request up at the noticeboard, if you require it. Generally what happens in these situations, is somebody will come in an cut everything out, have a basic stub. scope_creepTalk06:46, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I've moved the first reference back to the bibliography section and you can certainly post a help request as I personally don't know how to file one myself. Also which parts of the biography would you want me to remove as the entire text is the biography.
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 09:09 24 September 2021 (GMT-4)
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SuperSkaterDude45: I posted that last night, but it usually several days for everybody to eventually visit the board. If nothing comes from it, I'll spend a couple of days looking for sourcing, particularly for the early military career section. The biography section can be removed and added later, if we need to take into mainspace without improvement. Generally speaking, when you post an article, google is cognizant of it, via an strategic agreement with WMF, of its presence on Wikipedia. What google does, is reorganises its graph to support the existance of the article. Sometimes its only takes a couple of weeks, other times several months. When its completed, you tend to find many more sources are available in your search, that didn't exist beforehand, or rather they existed, but you couldn't see them, now they just there, is if by magic. It great. When I create I create a wee stub and leave it for 2-3 weeks, that its. If it can't be sourced, we can take out the first section and I'll promote with what there. We have done our best to source it. scope_creepTalk10:29, 25 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Oh alright then, thanks for your help, I really do appreciate it!
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 11:10 25 September 2021 (GMT-4)
Hi @
SuperSkaterDude45: Well that is two full days now and nobody has made a dent in it. I thought somebody would have helped. I think the best thing to do, for you to submit it for review and I'll promote it back to mainspace, clean it up, as we described. Give me a shout when you finished. Best time is do it tommorrow, or tomorrow night, as I'm goosed at the moment. scope_creepTalk
Hello, I've sent it for mainspace submission recently as you said. Just thought I'd let you know about it.
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 17:42 27 September 2021 (GMT-4)
Please do not redirect this article
Mirza Abad, Chakri . If there is an error in the article, let me know and I will correct it or remove it. Thanks.
Hi @
Haseebmirza306: Your article was checked via
WP:NPP, a review process. Articles on Wikipedia needs references. Your article doesn't have that. It is really important that the article is verifiable. Currently your using a third site, fallingrain.com. I'm not sure it is valid source. I would suggest adding proper references, for example governmet sources that veryify the village exist. That fallingrain.com is likely not a reliable source. Also please sign your comments with the four tildes, ~~~~, so folk can known who you are. scope_creepTalk06:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 12:14:07, 24 September 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by AmirahBreen
Thank you for reviewing the article. I find your feedback very useful and will not attempt to publish the article before the matter is addressed. For future reference so I will know how to identify 'clickbait' please explain which references are clickbait and how do you know that they are?
Hi @
AmirahBreen: Howdy. The sources on your
WP:BLP article all the same, the man loves our food and speaks our language, and that its. Its known for one event article. I would suggest you try and find better sources. scope_creepTalk10:34, 25 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you, I do understand what you are saying. I had thought that involvement with Malay TV may also add to notability. I'll look for some better sources as you suggest.
Amirahtalk10:49, 25 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I have removed some of the sources which I think may be the clickbait ones you are referring to and I have also added some new sources. I have added coverage of fasting and practicing Ramadam which is additional to Malay cuisine and linguistic skills. I am also a little confused as to why you see Malay cuisine and linguistic skills as one event. Please see the essay
BLP2. The article is actually quite similar to that of another expat in Malaysia
Mat Dan. I am not quite sure why that article is acceptable for notability yet the Rhys William one was not. Could you help me to understand this please?
Amirahtalk11:53, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello!
I searched about
Khaled Koubaa and the paid editor you told in RFD in my opinion is totally wrong thing, I know about paid content for example
Samuel Kwame Boadu - This must be delete! is full of paid content!!! included vents magazine can be find on
fiverr for $50,
mid-day for $100 and ... but for some languages it's really hard to find sources or media didn't covered them because of some policies in some countries for example
Mehran Modiri is the legend of Iran cinema, but his article only have one sources! I just want tell you let's decide about the people by what they do! of course GNG is important thing but in WP not written how manny sources required. you're more experienced than me and I know that. I just tried to tell in my opinion that guy is really worked hard to get that position in technology and let's search more about him to find more sources ("خالد قوبعة").
ZEP55 (
talk)
19:08, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the fixes for missing citations where needed, and fixes and other additions to refs; nicely done. As for "fast", thanks but it did take from May till August to get it out of draft, and there are still a few empty sections that need doing (hint, hint
...) Good luck with Lister,
Hey, I have just seen you reverted my edit and work on the Tony Elumelu page and also a suggested COI & paid advocacy. This is entirely wrong as I do not receive, solicit or have any paid relationship with the subject. I did my research on the subject and wrote based on this. Please revert back to my edits
Wikistarnigeria (
talk)
22:25, 26 September 2021 (UTC)reply
October 2021 at Women in Red
Women in Red| October 2021, Volume 7, Issue 10, Numbers 184, 188, 209, 210, 211
His album reached #3 on the Oricon charts, which more than satisfies
WP:NMUSIC. I was also able to find an article about one of his solo performances at
https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000176883. Keep in mind that sourcing articles like this is quite difficult, as I'm not fluent in Japanese; there are probably plenty of good sources that I haven't found because I don't know the proper search terms.
Mlb96 (
talk)
03:35, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
No, dude. I'm not taking them to Afd. They are effectively unsourced. What I will do, is take you to Ani, and suggest all of them go through Afc like FloridaArmy. Producing BLP's with one reference is 2021 is unacceptable. Producing BLP's with one source, to a machine generated profile was unacceptable in 2008. So source them, like everybody else has to. scope_creepTalk10:36, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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SportsOlympic: I was thinking, there must more sources out there for each one of these folks. Everyone of the them must be famous, with sources in the Guardian, Telegraph, Baltimore Sun, Japan Times and so on. Surely you can add more sources, slow down a bit, so that each sentence has a reference? One article I noticed, the references were out of order. One girl who had cancer. The references that were there, were out of order. That is not cool. scope_creepTalk10:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi scope_creep, I don’t like your tone as you sound like you are in the attack mode. You are talking about BLP, while those people died about 100 years ago. It also looks like you are very generalizing. These are just some articles about important cyclist I created “on the go”. Sometimes I created a few stubs ad they deserve a page, and can easily be expanded. (The essence of a stub). Have you also seen other articles I created this month? Probably not.. see for instance the 60 most recent September created at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/204, almost all created by me. Imagine how much time I invested to create the pages of the earliest Paralympic athletes of the Netherlands? Untill a few weeks ago their names were not even known (!!) (
1964,
1968,
1972) … So please do a bit of research before taking down someone by generalization. And a question: were can I see creating a page with a database source is “unacceptable”? (And I don’t know with you mean with a girl with cancer?)
SportsOlympic (
talk)
20:17, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
SportsOlympic: No attacks. Discussion. They don't get expanded. There is simply too many articles that are stubs and not enough folk to do it. It is much better to expand them, with sufficient sources at the moment of creation, so at least you know they're valid. Essentially what your doing is duplicating on wikipedia what is aleady on the dashboard site. What is the point of that? It is easier for the reader to go to the site where the information already located than it is coming here. Readers don't look at these wee 1 and 2 lines article. That is well known. That Netherlands article is decent. Really decent. This is an example of what I really dodgy:
Rie Odajima. The information that is pulled together on the article has been take from news sites. It looks like a Wikipedia article without the associated acedmic rigour of policies and procedures that are instrinsic to Wikipedia. it is low quality. scope_creepTalk22:02, 1 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 12:14:07, 24 September 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by AmirahBreen
I have removed some of the sources which I think may be the clickbait ones you are referring to and I have also added some new sources. I have added coverage of fasting and practicing Ramadam which is additional to Malay cuisine and linguistic skills. The article is actually quite similar to that of another expat in Malaysia
Mat Dan. I am not quite sure why that article is acceptable for notability yet the Rhys William one was not. Could you help me to understand this please?</nowiki>
Amirahtalk11:53, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you, but I don't understand why you treat it is a new entry as it is part of the same conversation. Could you tell me what section of
WP:TALK gives the rationale for this.
Please could you also see the original conversation and answer my questions above.
Amirahtalk22:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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AmirahBreen: If there has been significant gap, it is common practice to put it at the bottom the page. It take too much valuable time to search for the entry you have made above. I have to check the page version history to find your comment. scope_creepTalk06:05, 30 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I would not normally consider 4 days to be a significant gap, but I do notice your talk page is unusually busy. Please answer my questions above about why you refused the article.
Amirahtalk06:25, 30 September 2021 (UTC)reply
At least, not until you learn to tell the difference between UPE and simply being a fan. Because guess what? If fans weren't allowed to edit Wikipedia pages, there would not be any Wikipedia pages. Jackass.
Mlb96 (
talk)
17:15, 1 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi, you just incubated a new article of mine. I've not had that experience before and so would like some guidance, please. The comment after review was "Dodgy sources. Wrong type." Was the latter phrase a comment on the type of sources? So far as the section on themes goes, there are three works cited, all by fairly respected scholars, so I don't understand how they can be described as 'dodgy'. Could it be the sources on publishing that are substandard? I'm never sure where to locate good sources for such information.
Sweetpool50 (
talk)
09:46, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Thanks. I was thinking that contemporary reviews might be hard to find, although I did discover the one in the Sewanee Review cited. But I've come across at least five scholarly works with a whole chapter - or section - devoted to the novel. Arguably, that is also a sign of notability.
Sweetpool50 (
talk)
20:52, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Both articles are sourced. There was further sourcing and information available on the Chinese Wikipedia, but I left out bits that I couldn't translate correctly or where the sources were inaccessible. You can also verify the existence of these stations with Google Earth and the
Chinese Rail Map website.
NemesisAT (
talk)
11:53, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
NemesisAT: The first one has a raw search url and and architects/photographs that are very poor. They're must be better references than that. Is that all they need for a station to prove they exist? scope_creepTalk11:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope creep,
on September 16th you moved my article about Hellmut Fleckseder to my draftspace (
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Hager_Irene#Hellmut_Fleckseder_moved_to_draftspace), stating that it is not suitable as written to remain published because it needs more citations. Could you please provide me with detailed information in which areas citations are still missing? I consider the article to have sufficient citations and it has already been reviewed and released once by user Olaf Kosinsky (on 20 August 2021, 13:44), as far as I could read as a B-calss article. Thank you for further, timely information.
Hager Irene (
talk)
15:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Hager Irene: How goes it? Olaf Kosinsky was blocked for abusing the account. He managed to get into Afc and passed a whole bunch of articles that shouldn't have been in mainspaces. All of them are getting sent back to Afc when they're being independently reviwed. The article subject is only an associate professor and has only obit, instead of 2 which would be normal. I would suggest submitting the article and letting somebody look at it. It shouldn't take long. scope_creepTalk19:12, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Scope creep: for your review of Ofer Strichman's article. Regarding the "research" section: I see your point that the sentences on the research are too close to his bio. I can rewrite them. But I'm not sure what you meant by "section shouldn't be here". Can you explain?--
Adig-pt (
talk)
07:33, 5 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Adig-pt: About two-thirds of it was copyvio. Copied from somewhere else. You can't copy stuff from somwhere unless it is public domain and marked as such with a tag. The NPP utility indicated it was copyvio and I tested it on earwig, that showed a good chunk of it copyvio, so it was removed. I can be put back, but rewritten in your words, not paraphrased or copied verbatim. scope_creepTalk08:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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Adig-pt: Also the bit about patents, is not needed. They are not talked about on Wikipedia. And the bit about h-index, should be tag in ext links. He is either notable or he is not and he is. The selected patents sections needs to go. I actually missed. They are non-rs on Wikipedia. I hope that helps. scope_creepTalk08:11, 5 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Bluepencil13: It much better, but you will need to reduce the Programs and Resources down to a single sentence. Things like Checkology is available at no charge to educators, That is close to advertising. The The Sift® I think the R sign is explicity not allowed on Wikipedia per policy. Somebody mentioned it years ago. Please remove them. It looks too much like a brochure. Wikipedia article are to inform and learn, not to sell. I can promoted to mainspace with a single sentence stating you offer virtual classrooms, a free email letter for educators and workshops. scope_creepTalk09:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Fan Unknown Devian Devjoshi: Your article at draft was reviewed six times by six editors in good standing over four months, and everyone of them declined the article before I rejected. I urge you not to recreate it. Wikipedia is not a social media site, where you can create non-notable articles like this. There is a behavioural policy known as
WP:NOTHERE, where editors can be blocked as they not here to build the encyclopaedia. So please, do not recreate it. scope_creepTalk09:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you, - and more pics if you click on songs. By chance - looking for material on
Elizabeth Reiter whom I heard yesterday - I found a video (linked from my talk, look for Liz Reiter), a living room concert of the soprano from April 2020 when all opera houses were closed (and she was pregnant with twins): all love songs, and she saying that she felt just then the world needed more love. - Did you see who created the DYK article? --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
13:47, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: Louis Alain. Yes. I'm assuming the editor will come back at some point. The short termist approach is killing Wikipedia. Removing these highly creative people is just destructive and disruptive. I'll take a look. Often, if you create wee seed article, Google creates a new knowledge graph for that subject and often sources that were difficult to find before, seem to be immediately available. It does take a bit of time. It does help for difficult and obscure articles. I did notice the
Karl-Heinz Petzinka that is up for Dyk hasn't got a completed sentence in the lede. It just stops......... He converted historic industrial buildings, and was responsible for thescope_creepTalk14:14, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
The last bit: when you see such a thing, please check edit history and remove the vandalism, - that's faster than copying it to here. (In this case, I did it already, two of them.) Tell me, why should LouisAlain return, to the unloving and unforgiving community a certain AN thread stands for? He now adds to the German Wikipedia. I wish him better luck there. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
14:33, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm really happy he is working there. That is a hard question to answer, probably as he was a net positive to Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia to a certain extent is run by fundamentalists who don't know or don't care about promulgating creativity and the people who are part of it. I see the most creative people removed and don't know what to do about it. I had to leave the thread because I was so angry, and would have been blocked myself. They level of stupidy exhibited on here, gets me down. Ultimately, it is question of alternatives. Years ago in corporate land, my manager told me, you can't leave because the job market was cold. It had all these cliques. It's the same here in a way. If there was alternative to Wikipedia today, I would be gone tomorrow. scope_creepTalk15:02, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Can we do something together, perhaps, writing with the readers in mind? My plans are on my user page.
Max Creutz, another translation by LouisAlain, was just approved for DYK. I'd never known about these creative people without him. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
15:08, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
I would certainly be interested as you produce excellent high-quality articles. I will take a look at where I can help, where I can, but I'm still working on the
Red Orchestra article that has about six months work left, at the moment and a Glagow University academic asked to get the
Joseph Lister article done, which is quite big on its own. I really appreciate you asking me. Count me in. scope_creepTalk15:30, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta,
Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - updated. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
14:12, 20 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Help removing a title linkage (i.e. Ischemic fasciitis) to the Fasciitis page
Sorry to bother you again. The page
Fasciitis, which merely lists the names of a few fasciitis disorders including Ischemic fasciitis, is evoked when a try to publish a new page termed Ischemic fasciitis. I tried to remove this linkage by deleting Ischemic fasciitis from the list of disorders but this did nothing to alter the linkage of Ischemic fasciitis to the Fasciitis page. Can you please help me remove this linkage so that I can publish the fasciitis page. Thank you. --
joflaher (
talk)
16:47, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
scope_creep, when I tried to publish Ischemic fasciitis by putting in the title, I expected to get "Create page" but what I got was the Fasciitis page. I Followed you instructions and the page has been published. Again, Thank you, thank you --
joflaher (
talk)
17:02, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope_creep, there remains two small problems with the
Ischemic fasciitis page: 1) when seeking this page, two Ischemic fasciitis choices come up, one correctly brings up Ischemic fasciitis the other brings up the Fasciitis page; and 2) the
Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors page's Ischemic fasciitis linkage brings up the Fasciitis page. How can I correct these two issues? Again, Thank you. --
joflaher (
talk)
21:18, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Timetrent: Thank you for correcting the linkage on fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors. However, when I ask for the Ischemic fasciitis page, two pages come up, one to Ischemic fasciitis the other to Fasciitis. How can I correct this? --
joflaher (
talk)
14:48, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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The draft submission for "Sennay Ghebreab" has been declined again. The reason this time: "H-index is not sufficiently, only two papers over a 100 citations. The entry in Aethiopica may be notable." This is mind boggling given the fact that Sennay Ghebreab is one of the few AI researchers that for over a decade have been warning that the focus on h-index to measure science impact is leading to unethical and non-inclusive AI science outcomes. In the last decade Sennay Ghebreab has been at the forfront of 1) promoting engaged AI scholarship, 2) interdisciplinary and inclusive approaches to AI technology development and education, 3) science communication and education. He has received national recognized for this by amongst other The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been named one of the 200 most influential persons in the Netherlands in 2020 (of which only 5 are black like Sennay). This makes the reason for declining the draft submission very questionable, certainly in light of the recent criticism toward Wikipedia for having a systemic racial bias in its coverage. Mind you that many scientist, including one of the most famous Dutch professors in science communication, have lower H-index and no papers with more than 100 citations. Yet they have a Wikipedia entry.
Hi @
Noaghebreab:. Yip, I see your point. I'm only now just back in. We are aware of it and trying to address it. I find it hard to judge if a academic is notable, usually I coun't the papers citation. Generally if they are involved or known in other areas, the notability criteria may be covered by
WP:SIGCOV, not
WP:NPROF and sigcov is generally easier to pass. I agree that h-index as a measure of notability is really poor. I read about it recently. I really only use it as a indication, not as an actual measure. Generally in borderline cases, or when I don't really know I ask for a second opinion; visit the talk page of
User:David Eppstein, and leave a note. He is an academic and will tell you immediately if he is notable or not, from experience. scope_creepTalk11:24, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
For Sennay Ghebreab, the publication record is too light (in a high-citation field) and the subject appears to have moved to non-research positions, so this looks like a case for
WP:GNG rather than
WP:PROF to me, if there is notability to be found at all. —
David Eppstein (
talk)
16:21, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Coming from
here, I just want to offer a few tips, first of all, thank you for your work at anti spam / upe and also want to note that
Phil Bridger is apt when they state that if a move is objected it shouldn’t be re-drafitified, it’s mentioned somewhere in WP:DRAFTIFY, tbh, that’s a mistake I too struggle with, having said, your works against possible undisclosed paid editing are very much appreciated.
As someone who has been in your current predicament in the past, it took the advice of
Beeblebrox ,
Ritchie333,
Kudpung and a host of other editors to teach how to tackle unethical editing efficiently and with little to no confrontation. You see, regardless of what is being said at the ANI, when you optimize the {{
UPE}} tag you aren’t wrong, it is in no way an accusation, it is a question & neither is it against policy if it were, it wouldn’t exist, anyone saying otherwise speaks that which is not true, on my UP I explain this with more detail, having said, if it is used frequently without a cogent concern it can be disruptive, generally speaking. To avoid the drama boards, there are other effective methods used when curbing unethical practices, for example, if it involves just one article, or perhaps two, then COIN does the trick. if you uncover a history of possible UPE by an editor who has been here for long, rather than use the UPE tag, just report them straight to
WP:ANI, with relevant proof(s), honestly there isn’t any need discussing anything with them, if you have damning evidence that may lead to
outing just report straight to ArbCOM. To be honest by doing the aforementioned you are skipping the drama. Infact, one of the most efficient manner of curbing upe as stated to me by
Bradv some months ago is just by nominating shady looking articles out of mainspace and in due time they by themselves would quit altogether. Hang in there, insofar as your motives & intentions are clearly for the benefit of the collaborative project, you need not be fazed by drama boards. Just read what is being said, offer your explanation, answer questions directly meant for you (or when pinged) un-watch it if you have it on your watchlist and go about your business. Celestina007 (
talk)
22:53, 14 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Considering both
user:2A00:1851:8004:A55:FCF7:5239:864C:9BC5 and
user:Bidoon have been blocked, the ANI case is moot.
Celestina007 makes excellent points. Keep up the good work both of you so that I can rest easy in my semi-retirement and eventually not have to bother editing Wikipedia at all - the so called 'collaborative' project has become just too nasty and will remain so as long as IP editing is still allowed.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk)
01:05, 15 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello. Please also pay attention to this information: «... part of the AnastasiaDate online dating chain»; «The dating.com group appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database». The Dating Group includes not only this service, what's the point of specifying it? Regarding the second sentence, this information is insignificant in this article and raises great doubts.
2A00:1FA1:401C:72FA:D5D5:7434:8F38:901B (
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14:50, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited
Joseph Lister, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page
Archibald Primrose.
Hey Scope_creep. In the future, please don't draftify articles like you did
here. If they are unsourced, you can tag them as {{unreferenced}}. That page was published since 2005, and generally you are only supposed to
draftify if the page is a recent creation per
WP:ATD-I. Cheers! –MJL‐Talk‐☖19:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
MJL: Yip, I see it is a mainstream article, probably done in haste. I wouldn't normally move something like that, more than 5-6 months old, which is the length of the NPP queque. I found a couple of references, so it should be easily referenced. scope_creepTalk19:18, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hello, I saw you have removed the references to discogs. I don't understand why, their entries most often are written based off details found within the physical CD. What source do you suggest I use instead?
Obama gaming (
talk)
21:24, 2 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Obama gaming:. They are non-RS. Not a reliable source. They're are
WP:SPS source and can't be used on Wikipedia. If you relying on that kind of source, essentially copied by people from one medium to another, then your really wide of the mark. scope_creepTalk21:27, 2 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry to butt-in, but just a heads up @
Obama gaming: and @
Scope creep: Discogs CAN be used as a source actually; however, you have to directly link to the images of the release. And there must be something more than just artwork (credits, tracklisting, actual liner notes, etc.). Please see
this discussion. Simply use the
AV media template when doing so.
Xanarki (
talk)
17:32, 4 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Xanarki:, @
Obama gaming: That problem is it's ambigious and obscure, which leads to vast amount of unecessary work as most people ignore it anyway. They're is no method to determine what is the best approach, with the results that people use what they know. scope_creepTalk17:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Yeah I didn't know they had it as an automatic flag. I'll take a look around and see if anything can be done. Maybe they can add a script exception, if "/images" is in the cited Discogs URL. Or something similar to that. Since it'a technically the media itself being cited, and Discogs is just a host.
Xanarki (
talk)
18:10, 4 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Obama gaming: This is just my opinion, but, you can source to Discogs so long as it's directly to the images that has useful content. Also, use it kind-of as a last resort. Search for another website that may have the liner notes/credits/times instead. If you really honestly can't find another source, then falling back on the pictures is okay because it'd be better than nothing at all.
Xanarki (
talk)
00:05, 5 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Xanarki: Do you think music review websites/official website press releases are better? For example on
The Perfect Cult many of the recording details were shared on an announcement on their official website, but things like graphic artist copyright were still listen on discogs. Appreciate it
Obama gaming (
talk)
00:31, 5 November 2021 (UTC)reply
If an editor disagrees with you moving a page into Draft space, do not "move war" and move it back to Draft space a second time. Editors are allowed to disagree with draftifying and are encouraged to move articles back to main space rather than cut-and-pasting a second version of the article in main space. If you think an article is in bad shape, please nominate it at
AFD or
PROD the page rather than insisting that an article be in Draft space against the wishes of the page creator. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!01:35, 3 November 2021 (UTC)reply
You BLAR'd it again, with your only edit summary being Redirect.
So that's one editor BLARing for referencing reasons, and one (you) restoring that redirect for unspecified reasons, not three restoring a preëxisting redirect for notability reasons.
Secondly, I don't know what about
this is "completely non-notable" on its face. If you have an argument for why it's non-notable despite references to reliable sources and existing on two sister wikis, the place to make that is in your edit summary. Especially since, as noted, you appear to be the first reviewer to look at this article and conclude that it's not notable.
Furthermore, as a new pages reviewer you should know that NPRs have no special power to BLAR articles. You, a new page reviewer in good standing, made a judgment that it is not suitable as an article. I, also a new page reviewer in good standing, made a judgment that it might be, or at least that you'd provided no reason to BLAR it. Per
BLAR, the appropriate next step is not to revert me (especially not with a line like "Don't revert"), but rather to discuss on talk or take the article to
AfD.
@
Tamzin: Thanks for that, but I don't need a lesson in notability. It is always the references, in all cases for redirecting, or Afd or Prod. Always the referencing. Here they are chronically bad and the subject doesn't deserve an article. All you have done is give space to non-electable, never elected non-notable non-entity of a party member, who fails
WP:NPOL, by a wide major. The Green has never been elected in their 45 year existance and top that the guy is the co-chair, meaning he is the junior member. scope_creepTalk16:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC)reply
All [I] have done is revert the unexplained and under-explained blankings of an article. I see the point you're making. It seems like a good point for an AfD to consider; it doesn't seem like strong grounds to blank and redirect. I note that the article has now been reviewed by
Pichpich. --
Tamzincetacean needed (she/they)05:38, 6 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi, @
117.237.249.79: The page can come back, if it is notable and you can prove it is notable. Each sentence needs a reference. It can't just be a block of text. It needs proper references and not something that has been written by somebody on their own. That is why I removed those references, one was a blog reference. It is was reviewed as part of
WP:NPP. If you want revert the redirect and have a go at adding some valid sources. Please take a look at
WP:REFB, which explains how to create them. scope_creepTalk18:31, 6 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I cannot understand why the article Manuel B Garcia Alvarez has been deleted. First, a 7-day period was set for adding new sources. It's only been 4 days and it's already been deleted, this is not serious.
Secondly, the article contained sources from newspapers of worldwide importance such as: "El Pais" and "ABC" of Spain and "Izvestia" of Russia and others from newspapers of international importance such as "Diario de León" of Spain and "Komuna" of Russia.
I have not had time to add more sources since they have deleted the article in breach of the 7-day deadline they had given me.
Please give me an explanation of what has happened. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Morseo (
talk •
contribs) 11:08, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi @
Morseo: Sorry I thought this was sent to Afd. It at draft here:
Draft:Manuel B. García Álvarez. I requested it be moved to draft as it source dubious at best and don't prove he is notable. scope_creepTalk12:08, 7 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Morseo: Don't put your name at the end of your signature. It is non-standard. I have seen several new editors doing that recently and it's likely to peeve people off. Regarding the article, I value scientists, artists, sculptures, poets, inventors, physicians, playwrights, authors much much higher than I do any sports people. I can assure you of that. The articles references doesn't accurately reflect the
WP:NPROF notability guideline which is one most, if not thee most, easy notability guidelines to apply, you either meet it, or you dont. There is no halfway ground. I will help you get this article up to speed. The first thing you should do in the article, in create a bibliography section, listing the books he has written, the most important ones, and look for reviews of the books. That will help him pass
WP:NAUTHOR. Do that first, give me a should. Two or better book reviews would pass him. I have not heard about dialnet. If he created it, please find a reference, put it in the article and I will check it. Find a reference for the position in the council of Europe, assuming it is established/important position, not a member or apparatchik. Any 2 or 3 book reviews combined with council of europe ref would move it out of draft today. I really hope that helps. I'm sure with the correct concomitant application of collaboration, the article will be out of draft today or tommorrow. scope_creepTalk13:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I updated the article, I added some new references and external links to the draft-
Morseo (
talk) 20:56, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
I have moved the article, I do not know if this is correct, if it is wrong, please let me know. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Morseo (
talk •
contribs)
10:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Stephen Hogan DRV
Hi there, hope you had a good weekend and all is well. Since you helped review the
Stephen Hogan page 2 months ago. Could you please comment on the DRV? Don't feel bad if you are also piling on. I appreciate your time and consideration. Thanks.
Supermann (
talk)
01:27, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Insane Clown Posse
There is an interview
here where they talk about being a part of hip hop. Sources discussing the group's music classify them under multiple genres, with hip hop being the most cited, followed by rap rock and a few others.
RockabillyRaccoon (
talk)
11:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
RockabillyRaccoon: Yip. I think your right. I think I was confusing the album cover with
Jazmin Bean which I reviewed last night. It is the same purple colouring and body shape. I listened to the music on Spotify last night. It isn't hip hop, for sure. I don't know what is is. She was notable. scope_creepTalk11:53, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
joflaher locked himself out of Wikipedia...Help, help, help me please
Scope crepe: I typically make Wikipedia edits though another computer. I am now working on my home computer in order to reach you. While editing Infantile digital fibromatosis just a bit ago, I held down some key too long, got a message, clicked on the wrong tag, and now cannot type anything into this other computer. I'm not sure what I did wrong but can you help me get back to my other computer. the email address for computer that I am now using is: 5oxoflaher@gmail.com Please rescue me...I may not be able to read you messages, but certainly can't answer them, through my normal work computer. Thank you. [User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk)
11:27, 10 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope Creep: I am away from my other computer and cannot turn it on and off. I also can't message you from that computer. I am using my other compputer to message you. What next and...thank you for all your help. User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk)
11:49, 10 November 2021 (UTC)reply
joflaher, trying to turn it on and off to see if that clear's the problems. Did you happen to see the message?
There could be a number of problems with it, including the disk, it could be the software itself, malware possibly, any number of things. Until you can get access to, to install remote support software, it is impossible to do anything. The best idea, is once you get access to it, try and turn it on and off and see if you see anything on the screen? How old is the computer? scope_creepTalk22:56, 10 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope creep; I will try turning the other (remote) computer on and off tomorrow when I am in front of it. The remote computer is a good one; not buts there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to message you from that computer unles on/off corrects the problem. Again, thank you for your help. User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk) 6:07, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
Scope creep: I got someone to turn my remote on and then off. It worked. I am now typing you this through my remote computer. Thank you...What a relief.User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk) 6:15, 10 November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
152.11.97.87 (
talk)
@
Telephone man123: Just passing by on this page, so I took a quick look at the draft. IIRC a good rule of thumb is that there should be 3 references to independent, reliable, secondary sources. The best source I see is independent and reliable, but is a primary source. The Stafford community group refs may not be reliable (I'd have to check further). The rest of the refs look usable, at first glance, but wouldn't count toward notability.
Smallbones(
smalltalk)17:42, 11 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Telephone man123:@
Smallbones: Reference 1,2,3,4,5, 6, 7 is dead, 8 don't count towards notability in any manner. They are either primary, not about the subject i.e. website front pages, dead links or self-published sources that
WP:SPS. The first block of reference should establish notability immediately. They're is simply nothing here to defines the lady as being notable. scope_creepTalk14:02, 12 November 2021 (UTC)reply
You say this album has been very successful, so it's very notable. But there's no evidence at all of its supposed success. I don't understand your statement.
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I mean, I don't understand how you can say it's been very successful when the only evidence of notability that I can find is that it made no. 14 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. I'd actually say it's been a very unsuccessful album. Every source currently in the article only says "this album was released, and the singles were also released".
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:16, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
What European charts and Chinese charts? I'm all for adding non-Billboard charts, but I can't find any evidence of these charts at all, there's nothing on Billboard's website or on a Google search – that's what I'm asking for, someone to add some evidence to the article to show notability.
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:38, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Richard3120: You really need to search out and ask. I would suggest asking at the reference desk for help. You really need to build intelligence on it. Google is great in the west, but non-existant in china. My poker mate, whose Chinese, recognised him. He has been seconded here for a wee while. He recognised him right away as they were leaving. But is a one off for this band ,off the cuff, what's really needed is a coordinated approach and i'm no longer fan type. scope_creepTalk23:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Well, I'm not denying Lil Gotit himself is notable, he certainly is. But I can't find any notability for this particular album of his. And really, it's up to the person claiming that this album is notable to provide the proof, per
WP:BURDEN.
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:54, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
He is notable as well. Very much an established star type, I guess. The album is notable. Just because you can't state it is notable in Europe or China, is not a execuse to delete it. You need to find tools that can give you that type of information. It is absurd saying is doesn't seem to be notable in the United States with 4% of the worlds population, having never checked the other 97%, that a lot of artists seems to use and like it. It is non-argument. I'm a technical type, I would discover how to overcome that hurdle. I actually don't like the fact, that I can't access that info right now, but
WP:AGF applies at that level. scope_creepTalk00:06, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I think you have misunderstood me, because to be honest, that is a very strange answer. I know Lil Gotit is notable, I am not questioning that. But it does not mean that all his albums are notable. And your suggestion is the exact opposite of how Wikipedia works - you do not assume that an album is notable and tell other editors to go and find the information, it is your responsibility to find that information to show that the other editor is wrong. But I don't want to argue about this any more... I will wait to see if anyone adds some information that shows notability for the album, and if not, I will take it to AfD. By the way, I'm not American, so I don't think the USA is the only important place in the world.
Richard3120 (
talk)
02:32, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Richard3120: Yip, I understand. This was a one-off. I took a look at your user page. I'm from Scotland. I think if you took it to Afd I wouldn't vote on it. I do think we need to crack this problem of non-access to info problem. You see it all the time at
WP:NPP, even in cultural and historical articles, where the references can't be checked, in sports, celebs and pop folk as well, very recently. It seems to be the case you assume AGF on them, that leaves it open to abuse. I read yesterday that China is slowing closing itself off, not just the borders, but the great firewall is being upgraded, making it more difficult to find the facts, not only there but countries that are following China's lead. scope_creepTalk13:00, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I do agree with you that there is a problem that music articles are very centred on artists and records from North America and Europe, and sometimes you see articles from countries like Iran, or Estonia, or Indonesia go to AfD, simply because the nominator can't read the language or doesn't know where to find reliable sources from the country. But this is a much wider issue of access, that affects all articles, and it needs to be addressed at a higher level on Wikipedia.
Richard3120 (
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13:54, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep
Just so I understand the issue in relation to my own editing elsewhere can you explain the rationale behind
this change, bearing in mind that they both (I think) produce the same result. Cheers.
Davidships (
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03:27, 19 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks, Sc. I believe that gobbledy-gook is invented by Google and encodes the search route and other stuff that they want for their own tracking purposes.
Davidships (
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21:28, 19 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Lotje: They are christian symbols that the Germany Wikipedia uses quite extensively, but they are not used on here. When I do a translation I used to put them in, if they were on the German article, as they indication the person was Christian. As it was mostly German resistance fighters, who invariably were shot or hung after being caught by the Nazis, I sawit as a kind of memorial on my part. But they are definently not allowed per policy on this Wikipedia, unfortunately. Hope that helps!! scope_creepTalk12:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Lotje: What do you think of Annie Krauss yourself. She owned a huge paint supplier, yet was a clairvoyant. She used to use here powers to squeeze information out her customers. It shows you the depths that people go to, to satisfy a need. I could have wrote reams on here, as she was very interesting. scope_creepTalk12:08, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Lotje: I had to take that image off. That is a Gestapo picture. Can't have that on there. That is her after interrogation. There is a whole load of these images take up, because they are public domain, but they can't be used. scope_creepTalk12:22, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Lotje: That is not really a factor, I don't think. A historian I used to work with, sent me some Gestapo photographs about 2.5-3 years ago, and they shocked me to the core. I really wasn't prepared for them and had to sent them back. I think he was wanting me to know, that these were real people, it wasn't just some intellectual exercise of writing an article, and moving on. These images are either immediately taken after they were interrogated, or immediately before they were executed. In every one of them, the individual looks gubbed. It was only when I was told about it, that I noticed. They is a whole series of them and they are unsuitable for Wikipedia. I've replaced all of the
Red Orchestra folks images, for example
Harro Schulze-Boysen or
Libertas Schulze-Boysen (still getting worked on). They are really unsuitable for inclusion. scope_creepTalk13:07, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment Thanks for that ill link. @
Lotje:. At the bottom of the
Harro Schulze-Boysen there is a template that links all the biographies. There is an article here:
Leopold Trepper which is also has a template which links them. Any help there is appreciated, particularly those ill links. They are really handy. scope_creepTalk14:46, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Lotje: Yip, she travelled as
Sarah Orschitzer amongst other names, and as the CIA didn't have her real name, so they used here alias in
[5]] p.318 as Sarah Orschitzer.There is enough for a wee article. She is mentioned in several placed in Wikipedia, so that would tie that up. She could be added to the template as well. Are you up for doing it? There is an image available as well. scope_creepTalk16:12, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Not that image, but I'm glad you found that one. Geez that's been there for three years, never knew. The one I was thinking about was when she presented herself as a character witness, to help her husband move from Poland to Isreal. But unfortunately it is of an archive site which charges. There will be more, when she was much younger. If not, we can use this one. It is ideal. Its great you found that. I've changed the Trepper article, to Luba and moved the Sarah Orschitzer as an alias, further up the sentence. Orschitzer may have been her family name, but not sure. Are you talk about the Template names? They are in order of importance and/or use. scope_creepTalk16:27, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Iffy: Fair enough but no. The question of why not list it at Afd is an execuse to create articles without references and that is now an unacceptable view . This is going on for 2022, not 2005 or even 2010, when it was largly acceptable. It is the view of
WP:NPP that an article needs to be sourced if it is in mainspace. There is no need for half completed articles to be there when there is both offline draft and sandboxes available that can be used to complete it. Use one of them to do. If you can't references for it, then there is no need for article to be in mainspace. It can sit in draft until it is referenced correctly. scope_creepTalk10:55, 1 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Notification for Draft:Enock "Nox" Guni Zimbabwean Urban Grooves Artiste improvements
Good day, would like to notify you that i did some work on an article that you moved to draft, it was a disaster but i worked on it, arranged it in proper Wiki format, you can do more on it if you like.
Draft:Nox GuniGwatakwata (
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10:16, 2 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Gwatakwata: Yip that looks better better structured. But, please take a look at
WP:REFB and provide proper full. references instead of bare urls. These urls only have 6-16 week lifespan and after a couple of year become very difficult to identify. Give me a shout when your finished and I will mainspace it. scope_creepTalk11:25, 2 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Victory Brinker
Your latest reversion does not have an explanation, despite me explaining my reasoning in the edit prior. As I don't want to violate the three-revert rule, please restore and nominate the article for deletion if you feel strongly about this. Thanks.
NemesisAT (
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14:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: Can you stop edit warring to restore that redirect. There was a prod on the article and it was deleted and nobody contested it. You also seem to be following me around, while not illegal it is unethical and dodgy to the extreme. Removing prods all the time, without a good reason and not even leaving a rationale isn't cool. Your severely peeving me off. There is only really one outcome of these strong inclusionist tendencies you seem have, and that is visit to AN. There is strong consensus up there, Arbcom has a good understanding of the problem now as well. Dude, if had left a proper rationale on the article and explained it, but they are ISP's. They are one of the most common companies in the world. The Victory Brinker article was already prodded. You didn't even check that. Anybody who suggests to me to take it to Afd, after removing the prod on a crap article is going to AN. scope_creepTalk14:36, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Regarding
Victory Brinker, another editor PRODed it on 21 September 2021 and I subsequently contested it. Today the article was redirected by Onel5969. This showed up in my watchlist and I challenged the revert. You then came in after and reverted me twice, the first time claiming the PROD wasn't contested (it was, by me), and the second time without an explanation). I don't feel I'm edit warring here.
Concerning me "following you around", I'm not. I use
User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary. Today, between 13:50 and 14:04 I contested four PRODs, two of them placed by yourself and two by other users. Following that, you reverted my edit to Victory Brinker at 14:03, nominated
Interlake Maritime Services (which you had never edited before) for deletion at 14:05, got involved at
Talk:Edinburgh at 14:12 and moved an article I created to draft at 14:15. This evidence speaks for itself, I contested two PRODS during a routine review of a log, and you made four retaliatory edits against me within 15 minutes.
Removing prods all the time, without a good reason and not even leaving a rationale isn't cool. I generally do leave a rationale when contesting a PROD, though note that per
WP:PROD, I am not required to do so.
Dude, if had left a proper rationale on the article and explained it, but they are ISP's. They are one of the most common companies in the world. This sentence doesn't make sense sorry I think you've made a typo.
There is only really one outcome of these strong inclusionist tendencies you seem have, and that is visit to AN. There is strong consensus up there, Arbcom has a good understanding of the problem now as well. Empty threats aren't cool either. I'm still confused as to what I've done wrong. Anybody who suggested to me to take it to Afd after removing the prod on a crap article is going to AN. Why? That's the whole point of PROD. Easy to PROD, easy to remove a PROD. Another vague threat, but I don't believe contesting a PROD is breaking any rule.
NemesisAT (
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15:01, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Sometimes I feel they already pass guidelines, or could pass them with some improvement. Sometimes its an old article with a lot of content or a lot of contributions, and I feel it should go through the deletions process so more eyes are on it and there is more time for people to find sources. Now could you please address the contents of my message above?
NemesisAT (
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15:12, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: You are not a reviewer in NPP or APC, you don't write large articles that are well referenced, and your judgement doesnt seem to be particularly sound when your deprodding these articles that have been reviewed by experienced NPP/AFC editors, who found them to be junk. So why are you doing it? Why are you using a script to find articles to deprod, which itself is breaking the consensus for the design of the guidelines. You don't even leave a rationale. scope_creepTalk15:19, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I left a summary on all three of my edits to
Victory Brinker. Your first summary, Restore. prod wasn't contested, was false, and the second, Restore., did not provide any reasoning at all.
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NemesisAT: Simply put, that editor is a page reviewer and writes large articles over a sustained period, so has a excellent judgement on what constitutes notability. They have been reviewing for donkey's. scope_creepTalk16:04, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I don't think that's an adequate answer to be honest. Regardless, if you're not going to raise this at
WP:AN could you please repeat here what you were going to write? You've accused me of various things so I'd like a specific answer on what I'm doing wrong and what rules I'm breaking. Thanks.
NemesisAT (
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16:09, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: Your not breaking any rules, but that doesn't make it right. The prod mechanism was created about 2006-2007 and it has been updated continuosly but it's mostly the same. It has made very easy to remove the tag, but the other side of the coin, you have some idea of what your doing and a rationale behind it. You don't seem to be. Articles with a lot of content or a lot of contribtions are really nothing to do with it. It is the quality of the references that count and whether they indicate that it is notable. Structure only comes into when it is well referenced and is notable. You get lots of article that are paid that have 10's of editor to 100's of editor putting their wee bit in. I really don't trust your judgement, or think you know what your talking about. unless it is celebrity stuff or the companues, which I guess it is the reason you went for these prods, and the reason I'm trying to delete them.
Victory Brinker doesn't have existance outside the show, no coverage. scope_creepTalk16:29, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
You don't like my reasoning or rationales, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Per
WP:ATD-R and
WP:BLAR, you should not have redirected the article again. You should have discussed, or nominated for deletion. You threatened to take me to AN because I asked you to take something to AfD, yet that's literally one of the options
WP:BLAR says to pursue.
NemesisAT (
talk)
16:43, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I have read the guidelines, but that is also the same line from that inclusionist group
WP:ARS members used to take, that was up at AN, several weeks ago and that you voted on first. I wouldn't mind your reasoning if was balanced and rational but is not. scope_creepTalk16:51, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
If you've read those guidelines, why didn't you follow them? Instead, you reverted my edit without explanation. And now you're questioning my reasoning?
NemesisAT (
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17:27, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: Since this insn't an Afd, please tell me why you think they are notable enough not to be prodded, as there is no assumption they should automatically go Afd, since I may be wrong. Why do you think they are notable enough not to be prodded. scope_creepTalk17:59, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I wrote in the history "add ref, decline PROD. Has had more than one appearance on different programs, so I feel she may be notable". I'm sorry, I don't need to provide any more reasoning than that. What "line" where you referring to in your comment at 16:51?
NemesisAT (
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19:31, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope Creep,
You do so much great work for this encyclopedia. Thank you.
It is sad to see the frustration in some of your writings recently, so it seems like some folks are getting you down. I don't have any specific advice to offer (you would have a much better idea than me of what to do), but I just hope that you can spend your time here doing things that give you satisfaction.
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:JK Llamera
Can you please not just randomly strike comments as you did there.
WP:SOCKSTRIKE only applies if the author is a sock, which I am rather obviously not, the fact that the originating IP is an open proxy is irrelevant as per
policy: While this may affect legitimate users, they are not the intended targets and may freely use proxies until those are blocked. Yes due to the app I'm using my IP is currently hopping randomly all over eastern europe, yes some of those probably are proxies, I have absolutely no control over this but I never cast more than 1 !vote, and my style is painfully obvious. Bottom line this app is fast, it's free, and I don't feel like taking 15-30 minutes to test out a few dozen other ones to find one that's better. Granted there's nothing stopping LTAs from also using the app, but english monoglots will be completely unable to use it and it may well not even be available in the countries that have the majority of editors. Don't get me wrong it's not like eastern europe has any shortage of LTAs some of whom do not like me, but the density is lower. And given that like me they would have almost a hundred other apps to choose from the odds are against any issues occurring.
Incidentally I'm still not seeing any
WP:DMFD reason to delete, as Liz pointed out there's about two to three dozen unsourced blps dumped into draftspace on any given day, mostly self-promo junk, but g13 handles that without wasting everyone's time. MFD is actually terrible idea in these cases because the draft will get more views in those 7 days than it would otherwise get in 6 months (cf.
Streissand effect); further we allow unsourced blps to go 7 days in mainspace where they are actually indexed and can be found through searches. To the extent unsourced bios are a probelem, and I'm not convinced that self-promo autobios that 1 edit users place in drafts or on their userpage really are, community efforts should be focused on
Category:All BLP articles lacking sources which as of this writing includes over 90,000 articles with a backlog going back years, those are indexed and can potentially do real harm. If the bio is unsourced and negative speedy it as a g10, if not, we can safely ignore it along with all the other draftspace junk.
If you're really insistent I can actually ping an SPI clerk here who is familiar with my MO, and will confirm my statements, obviously I can't stop you from filing an SPI but there's still enough people around who recognise me that there's a fair chance you'll be laughed out of the room. And no I am not creating an account regardless of how many problems it would solve,
meatball:LoginsAreEvil. Regards,
188.232.146.110 (
talk)
15:55, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Fine, but why not create an account, like any other normal person if you have access to the page? Regarding that LoginAreEvil page, it is total bullshit of the lowest kind, for a number of reasons. It makes zero sense. scope_creepTalk16:04, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
This doesn't happen super often, but it does happen, the mfd regulars have probably seen it often enough where they will shrug and move on, it's all about strength of argument anyway, and I try to ground my !votes thoroughly in the PAGs as !votes from IPs tend to be ignored otherwise anyway. I disagree the page is BS, but hey you can change it, meatball is also a wiki, just don't be surprised if you get reverted by the community members there. If you want some other reasons stored locally,
WP:WNCAA while tagged humourous has a solid arguement,
User:69.145.123.171/registering is also worth reading even all these years later. Regards,
188.232.146.110 (
talk)
16:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
It is an unsourced BLP and seems to be worthless as an article and will be deleted, in due course. I will not be editing anything that called Meatball, humorous or otherwise. You haven't answered my question, why not create and account? scope_creepTalk16:32, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
We both agree it is worthless and will never become an article, but
WP:Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity and
WP:RAGPICKING is a waste of time. The difference is I prefer these be quietly deleted through g13, and supporting deletion in those mfds only encourages more of them while dramatically increasing the number of pageviews the drafts will receive over their lifetime. The additionally 20-40 daily draft mfds would also overwhelm mfd. If the someone is really dead set against these, and it is a tricky issue because draftspace is supposed to be a place to safely develop topics away from the normal notability standards (in theory anyway, in practice it's mostly a holding area for junk until g13 automatically cleans it away, but it reduces the time that would otherwise be needed to afd/prod/csd the stuff in mainspace, see also
WP:DUD) then they should go to
WT:CSD and get consensus for a new one to enable quiet deletion to take place without taking up any community time the way mfds do.In fact essentially everything that is brought to mfd is going to be deleted eventually, it's just preferable that g13 be used so mfd can focus on the rare cases outlined in
WP:NMFD where a discussion is actually necessary rather then being flooded with crap that could just as easily have been ignored and deleted per g13. The silliest noms are the ones that take place less than a week prior to when the draft would've otherwise been g13 eligible, no matter what deletion ends up delayed.I think it's best if we just agree to disagree on registering for now. At present I really only have time to edit between some other tasks, and I should really commit to a wikibreak anyway, maybe in a few months when I'm less busy a random IP will pop back onto your talk page to explore the issue in further detail. Regards,
188.232.146.110 (
talk)
17:09, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Yip, yip, that seems sensible. I've heard folk complain to Mfd about using it that way. It seems to be the way for some reason, for some articles. If you are coming back, create an account will you. That way, folk can see you, you can become part of the firmament and we can send you thanks and whatnot. You seem to know the guidelines backwards, so your an definently an asset to Wikipedia, unless there is a specific reason your not doing it, of course. scope_creepTalk17:21, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Marcelo Claure
Hi, I wanted to ask the reason behind reverting some of the edits made to
Marcelo Claure, as these edits have been agreed on the article's talk page, and you ignored my proposal of discussing this issue there. Thanks,
AtomsRavelAztalk17:56, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: Thanks for letting me know, could you please provide me with the link. I did state on
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard that I was paid for some of my contributions, but not for the majority of them. Frankly, like I said before, I kept postponing it because I assumed it would be a very time consuming matter which I somewhat dreaded, but now that the issue has finally caught up with me I'm more than willing to defend myself if necessary, and act in accordance with
Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
AtomsRavelAztalk18:10, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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AtomsRavelAz: I see it is controversies section your looking to add. So your being paid? Where is your paid disclosure on the your user page. I notice there is 13 mention of the word Britghtstar in a relatively short BLP article, that worries somewhat re: the NLP crowd. If you are paid, you should make a edit request per
WP:EDITREQ, which is the standard way a coi edit's an article, on the talk, not by 6k to 30k article. The article being relatively short for successful businessman, doesn't mean that more than 80% of the content needs descriptions of the companies. A person's life is more than his work, obviously. So it needs to be slimmed, by quite a bit. The brightstar stuff is covered in its own article. It doesn't need any extraneous information on it, if it has its own article. Make a declaration will you, otherwise I will need to try and get you blocked, for breaking Wikipedia Terms of Use. scope_creepTalk18:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: Ok, thanks a lot. I'll make all the necessary arrangements. I'm not looking to cause trouble for anyone, I'd really appreciate if you could comment on
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Paid work discovery, where someone pointed out my paid contributions. Like I said, I hadn't gotten to it because I believed it would be a time consuming matter which was going to stress me out. Let me know if there is anything else I should do, I'm willing to collaborate 100%. Thanks,
AtomsRavelAztalk18:25, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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AtomsRavelAz: I found out this morning that your weren't informed of your entry up at Coin. That was a bit crass by the posting editor. It is not normal practice. Sorry about springing it on you. scope_creepTalk12:55, 18 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: Yes, the whole thing seemed kind of odd, I really want to assume good faith and move on, but there's a paranoid side of me that thinks there was some sort of agenda pushing against my person, especially if you take into consideration that that user has no previous contributions, no talk page, no user page, and then all of a sudden they go on an editing frenzy of all of the articles I declared being paid for, he added this template that says "It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view" when even himself said at COIN that "your articles are well-written and neutral so no action required", so if they are well written and neutral why is he still adding the template to all of them?, especially when you consider that
Wikipedia:CONFLICT states that "There are three venues to do this" and not that all three venues are mandatory, and I had already disclosed my paid contributions on my user page. His account was created on December 17 of this year, how is he so familiarized with Wikipedia's jargon and technicalities in such a short time?, either he is remarkably savvy or there is something else going on of which I have not been informed.
AtomsRavelAztalk13:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Merry Christmas Scope creep!
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MerryChristmas! This greeting (and season) promotes
WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{
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SVTCobra: They are two UPE's and the IP is probably related to one of them. Yip. That got ugly quickly. Smoke and mirrors, what they used to called FUD, trying to get fear, uncetainty and doubt going to obfuscate the issue. scope_creepTalk17:26, 20 December 2021 (UTC)reply
One of them claimed to be the IP and actually very early in the responses. Since my post to your talk page, there was rev-del for copyright. Cheers, --SVTCobra17:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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SVTCobra: Yip, I noticed that. They are UPE's. I've no doubt about it. Just need to convince an coin admin to block them. It is clear as day, and all obsfucation is just part of the playbook. scope_creepTalk17:35, 20 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Happy holidays
Everlasting Fireworks looped
Bring on the cheer!
Hi Scope creep, May you have a bright and beautiful holiday season. Thank you for all your work on the encyclopedia. Have a happy and healthy 2022!
Thankyou for your contribution to ANI. I have been doing these edits to try and bring article leads into compliance with the Wikipedia manual of style guidelines that says use William Henry Gates not William Henry "Bill" Gates. I thought I was making sure that I was not stepping into religious figure ones when I came across them. I can think of at least 2 religious figures that I saw similar issues with and made sure to move on. With articles that have a religious figure title in parentheses, I only click on them because of wanting the whole birth year category to go from blue to purple so I can easily tell I have gone through all articles, and click back off before I even see anything. I guess I was so focused on making the changes in these cases that I got careless and did not check to make sure they were in no way a religious leader, broadly construed. I am very sorry about this. I was not at all trying to evade the topic ban. The other 2 were the fact that if we have a name given as say J. Edgar Hoover we in the opening say John Edgar Hoover and do not further than that explain the common name form. That was the issue involved in the second edit, if you look at
J. Edgar Hoover] you will see we just give his name, and do not bother further saying in the lead he was commonly known as J. Edgar Hoover, because it is the article title. That is the issue involved in the second case, and it had no relevance to who the person was, so I unwisely and rashly did not even both trying to figure out, which I am sincerely sorry for. In the last case it is standard practice to put (1915-1996) or whatever exact years someone lived in parentheses after the name. In that case I saw that the person was a state legislator, and I knew their birth date because of the category, and quickly saw the death date in the categories as well. I probably quickly glanced through the article to ensure that the birth and death years were in the article, but I failed to read it in detail because the lead only said they were a member of the a state legislature and all the categories identified them as a politician, or were bare bio facts categories, there were no categories that at all related to religion. In the imposing of the topic ban in part it said 'There was some concern that such a topic ban would be over-reaching, which was addressed with one comment "This should be apparent from categories, and if John finds out a topic he thought had no religious involvement is not religiously involved, he could play it very safe and revert his edits."' All 3 of these were rushed edits focused on very specific things. I am very sorry that I did them, and will try my hardest to not do them in the future. The only one that involved ever looking beyond the very opening name, into any actual content was the state legislator, and that is what is emphasized both by categories and by the lead. Well, I should say that is all about the person that is included in categories or the lead.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
14:24, 21 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia, –
Davey2010Talk17:48, 23 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry for the inconvenience. The message was about the article on Manuel B Garcia Alvarez.
I updated the article, I added some new references and external links to the draft-Morseo (talk) 20:56, 19 December 2021 (UTC) I have moved the article, I do not know if this is correct, if it is wrong, please let me know and i will erase it.
Merry Christmas!
Morseo (
talk) 10:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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Morseo: Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great New Year. scope_creepTalk11:12, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Pfizer and the British Medical Journal
Are you saying that the BMJ is junk?
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Klimt.1980: No the BMJ isn't junk, it speaks truth and is a high-end academic source, but the site your quoting is putting a spin on it, which is incorrect and asserts a Wikipedia policy
WP:NPOV. That site is absolute junk. Also, that article is read by millions of people, and dumping a bare url in the wrong area isn't cool. I will post a welcome message, so you can learn to edit correctly but don't post that link again, please. Also please don't write on the user page. Only talk page please. scope_creepTalk12:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I hope you're doing well! I wrote a Wikipedia article about Tony Coles in the past and it was nominated for deletion, and soon later, deleted because it failed “
WP:BIO and
WP:SIGCOV.”
It seems that based off what you had taught me in that experience about
WP:SIGCOV and
WP:MOS, this article on
Vladimir Torchilin has some similar issues. Can you take a look at the article and tell me your thoughts on it? I feel like this article is lacking in
WP:BIO and
WP:NOTE, as well as
WP:SIGCOV and
WP:MOS; and based off what you had explained to me in our previous experience, should potentially be nominated deletion (or if possible, completely rewritten with secondary sources). --
RealPharmer3 (
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02:21, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
RealPharmer3: How goes it. It is a slightly different case. Completely rewritten with secondary sources. Looking at Google Scholar
[6], he passes
WP:NPROF. He is a very intelligent and sucessful academic. It is very hard to find Russian sources, due to the language and translation problems. I see what you mean by lack of sources and it sure needs rewritten. It will be very hard going. I think that is reason the way it looks. Its been taken directly off the CV, as its the easiest way. I will put it on my todo list. Any help on it is appreciated. I will try and get the Russian Wikiproject going on it, if there is one. There is one. Cool. That will make it easier. Thanks for posting it up. Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great 2022. scope_creepTalk11:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Scope creep: Oh alright, sounds good to me. I'm happy to get involved in rewriting it! Just getting a hold of some good sources would be beneficial. Let's stay in touch, and we can make some solid strides with the article! Have a wonderful holiday! --
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15:37, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants)
ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.
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This is the final update with no further talk page messages planned.
First of all happy new year Scope creep. Secondly, feel free to ignore the IP editor, they are 99.9% the paid sockpuppet abuser who created the article in the first place. -
Kevo327 (
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00:26, 1 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your feedback. Errors fixed as per request, and pinging you here, also as per request. Thanks!
/info/en/?search=Draft:Jofish_Kaye
Dunoon
Hello! Thank you for your message about Dunoon. It's nice to chat and collaborate with Wikipedia editors for the public good! I believe your edit is incorrect - your version reads: Dunoon is covered and operates under two separate central governments, the devolved
Scottish Parliament and
UK Government.
It mentions 'Government' and then links to
Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Parliament is not a Government.
It then continues and
UK Government. Again, UK Parliament constituencies and the UK Government are two different things. The UK Government derives its authority from the UK Parliament (which is made up its constituencies naturally). But again the Parliament is very different to the Government. So the link says it is one thing, and then links you to a completely different article.
Whereas the original version, "Dunoon is covered and operates under two separate central governments, the devolved
Scottish Government and
British Government" says Dunoon has two Governments and then links you to the Wiki articles about the two Governments, not the two Parliaments. That is correct and essentially why that version is more accurate and informative.
Perhaps you would prefer it to read "Dunoon is covered and operates under two separate central Parliaments, the devolved
Scottish Parliament and
British Parliament"? That would also be correct. But the version you prefer is at the end of the day not accurate because a Parliament and a Government are two different institutions.
P.S. Let's chat this over on the Dunoon talk page and I'm sure we can resolve it.
Gaetano Ciancio Article
Thank you for your help the article got approved, however now it has the following comment: "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use". I thought you said you were going to remove this tag
Medkatz (
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18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)reply
On a side note, I smell
meat and
socks in that discussion in case you haven't already. Just FYI I am sure this is one that will get some IP votes and Newbies jumping in on the last day. --
CNMall41 (
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02:13, 8 April 2021 (UTC)reply
NEVER. I hate fish!! In fact, I don't have any issue with the nomination. I have made mistakes in the past and likely will in the future so you are just keeping the flow of Wikipedia alive. I guess I came here to mention that some of the !votes smell a little
meaty to me in case you haven't seen it already. --
CNMall41 (
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22:26, 9 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello @Mr.Creep when you get a chance I would like you to review
Draft:Aaron Duncan please if no-one has looked at it as yet. I submitted it for review. I've been working to get it reviewed. Thanks In Advance.
--
Akim Ernest (
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23:40, 13 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Jack Stauber
Hey! I've recently re-submitted this article, and I know you denied it last time. I have removed the bad refs and added in some better ones. If you could check it out, that would be great :)
SupernaturalAcee (
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18:42, 14 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I've gone through and removed the one external link on the biography for
Alan E. Cober and additionally added some additional citations where they could be found. Mind checking it out and removing that embedded links template, or should I do that? Cober has been deceased for over 20 years.
Rezimmerman (
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19:31, 18 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope creep, hope everything is okay in your world.
In your
notes on the Chris Buzelli page which you moved into draft, you request that the following citation be removed or replaced:
49
Illustrators 54 Medal Winners which refers directly to the original source of the award being mentioned: a post by the Society of Illustrators, and very reputable as a reference by any standard imaginable I would think. They are the society that gave him the award, and the article is simply cited as such.
There are multiple other citations that you request to be removed that are from both very respected organizations and publishers and very similar to the one I've mentioned. Should I list them all for you?
That is ok as a ref. The other references, 18,21, 23,24,26,27,28, 35,36,37, 44 have to come out. They are self-published and not worth a sot. Please remove them. scope_creepTalk08:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your help on this Scope creep! I improved all the citations you suggested.
put some eyes on it as time allows and if it needs more medical attention, I'll be on it like white on rice. Cheers and hang in there!
Rezimmerman (
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15:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Lists of cricketers
Please self-revert these moves to draftspace. They are part of an expansion of team lists by the cricket project in order to facilitate compromise/consensus solutions for articles on cricketers where finding significant coverage is a problem, without having to send them all to AFD. The reference provided in each article is sufficient for verification, especially when combined with the references contained in each of the linked articles. Thanks, wjematherplease leave a message...11:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Wjemather: For months I've been looking at reams of the cricket stubs that are blp's up at
WP:NPP and , with a single profile references or some dodgy sports site. Not addressing is a form of systematic bias that is being organically maintained and it needs to stop. It is wrong for Wikipedia and wrong for people who are supposed to read these rank wee articles. scope_creepTalk12:35, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
They are plainly not unreferenced. Each article contains a reference to a reliable source (paywalled, admittedly). That is sufficient for the purpose of these lists – indeed the ones you moved are essentially indexes of the corresponding categories. Your argument is not helped by painting ESPN Cricinfo and Cricket Archive as "dodgy sports site"s. I suggest you open a centralised discussion before causing further disruption. wjematherplease leave a message...12:52, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I agree with everything
Wjemather has said, these lists are needed
WP:ATDs used as compromise for cricket articles where finding GNG coverage has proved difficult. They are referenced. They are also certainly not "dodgy sports sites" given that CricketArchive is provided by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and CricInfo is provided by ESPN.
Rugbyfan22 (
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13:32, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
If that is the case, then they shouldn't be on Wikipedia if coverage can't be found for them. The core problem here is the 2-state system that is been going on for ages. In one side is sports editors creating the crummiest of BLP article you have ever seen, single line entries, in the thousands, and linking to machine-generated profiles on cricket and other sports site, because they see other sports editors doing the same, with no encyclopedic content, and the other side, is people doing BLP's, have to follow a whole load of policy with a big chunk of genuine reference that satisfy
WP:SECONDARY and
WP:V. Is that fair? scope_creepTalk15:25, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
This is why these lists have been created, so these articles where sourcing only exists in databases or statistical profiles can be redirected to list articles when it is clear and obvious that there is no sourcing, so they don't have to go through the AfD process. There is no guideline currently that you cant create list articles that only have sourcing from these databases or statistical profiles as these articles have all been created under the presumption they pass NCRIC, the cricket SNG. Currently because this SNG is considered weak there's been a large drive to delete/redirect a number of articles that pass the SNG but not GNG as GNG is needed even if an article passes an SNG, and the SNG is in the process of being improved. In these discussions it was decided that list articles are a good alternative to stub article and so some have been created as seen here, although these ones are basic and in need of improving.
Rugbyfan22 (
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15:42, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi. Please stop your massive draftification drive. Even when people disagree you're reverting it as you have done at
Penderel Moon. You're clearly not assuming good faith. If you did this again, I will bring it to WP:ANI.
Störm(talk)15:19, 19 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I noticed a comment you made elsewhere on the above topic. Article Rescue Squadron (I call them Project ARSehole) are dedicated to preserving even the most crap of articles, and canvas others to their cause, and each other to discussion. They routinely remove Speedy and Prod tags without justification and are incredibly arrogant when they do this as there is nothing in the P&G to stop that miserable behaviour.
I note that on one of the deletion pages that are current there are at least two senior members of that group enjoying themselves. IMHO theirs is most definitely not
WP:AGF good faith editing. Just wanted you to know that you are not the only one to note this sort of thing. It is my sincere hope that sooner or later, that sort of behaviour becomes unacceptable. Best, -
Roxy the grumpy dog.wooF18:14, 24 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Yip, Your not kidding. I can't understand why it is being done. Where is the value? If it is a good article, well done, but this is about the fourth article I've seen in this series, and they are all crap. scope_creepTalk18:17, 24 April 2021 (UTC)reply
I think the only thing to do is keep complaining. It has been going on for ages, and we have some terrible articles that the ARSeholes are responsible for. I once threatened to take the train down to London to attend a wikimeet that one of them attended. I wanted to give them a piece of my mind. -
Roxy the grumpy dog.wooF18:21, 24 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the request for references on the Mike Omer article
Hi there! You are 100% right about the references, I'm still working on it. I slistened to a few interviews with him and all the info is jumbled up in my head. I'll make sure to source everything. Please keep letting me know your thoughts!
אמנות או נמות (
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10:05, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Deletion discussion
Hi! I have a couple of questions about what you said
here. I'm always trying to improve as an editor so it'd be great if I understood your reasoning more. Am I not right in saying that what should be included in articles is material based on reliable sources, whether or not Wikipedians believe it to be true or not? If so, why would a belief that only health and taxes motivate people to vote rather than public figures motivating people to vote be a good reason for deleting the article if the material was cited to reliable sources saying that public figures motivated people to vote? For example, a survey was cited for the 2020 election, so it cannot be said that it is impossible to know that figures motivate voters or that it is very rare. Also, why would material about music cited to Rolling Stone, one of the most notable music publications, be considered inappropriate for the article? Even if one thinks these sources are too American-centric and thinks that, say, Asian sources should be used more because the American sources don't know what they're talking about (despite the fact that material quoted was cited to a source from India), why would that be a valid reason to discredit the sources if they're reliable? Thank you.
Bgkc4444 (
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20:28, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Bgkc4444: How goes it? The sources were not strong to support the assertions you were making and effectively the type of sources were the wrong type. When you creating an article that examines the ethnographic effect of a person within a particular culture, then it needs to be an academic article, with academic sources, that provides a balanced view, that is backed by research. When the Rolling Stone editor says that Beyonce has created or revived a particular type of video production, that is a subjective statement. It is an opinion from a fan. He is writing for fans, from one fan to another. He hasn't done the research to prove it, so it is subjective. More so, from an ethnographic viewpoint, he is inside his own knowledge domain, which is specific to fans, and the knowledge that is associated with the domain, may not be amenable to drawing the types of conclusions of the type you're looking for, as may not be rigorous enough to support any particular. So when you're writing an article on these types of cultures, you need academics who tell you want is going on, and will provide research to show that it is true. It a complex subject. Surveys are a strange thing. They are a moment in time when certain conditions exist and after that moment passes, they will not exist again, in that same state. Any number of things can change a person mind. It is so quick, by the time the person (the surveyor) is finished talking to another person (the surveyed) they can change their mind. So it can't be used as a reference. It is Non-RS. When you say they are reliable sources, they are reliable sources, the organisation is reliable, but the sources aren't reliable, they're subjective because they aren't in the domain of cultural ethnography. It is effective fan fiction. Only cultural anthropologists and ethnographers who do the research can say for sure, that something is true, in that domain, unless it is a source, that is so common to everybody that is true. For example, You say could Germans lost the 2nd world war, and it's true, but you also say that a huge number of people believe in QAnon, which is false. It is disinformation. So to be sure that your facts are correct, look at the research. Go back and write the article again. Find researchers, that look at fan culture, and how it behaves in the context of Beyonce. It might not as big an article, but it will absolutely true, it will be an academic article and nobody will be able to say it is not true. Hope that helps! scope_creepTalk20:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry for the delay in replying. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much for taking the time to detail your reasoning - I appreciate it :)
Bgkc4444 (
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21:52, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Joseph Lister
Scope, thank you for your note-- as for a reference that King Edward's appendectomy was in June rather than August 1902, there are many that are reliable and verifiable, but this is one example
[8]. By August 24, his coronation and his surgery were but a memory. I'll see what I can find about a source about Lister getting the Knight's Grand Cross.
Mandsford17:06, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Mandsford: Well done for catching that. External editors seem the ones that are picking up the errors at the moment. It was pretty clear from Gbook references, that it was true. I left that reference in. I think it just covers the statement that that King made explicitly to Lister, thanking him and not for the appendix part. I will need to check it at some point. I don't think it is an academic source, and couldn't immediately see a way of verifying it. If you can find anything on the KCVO, it would be ideal. I would have thought he would have been awarded it as a surgeon to royalty, but for some reason, Godlee, his initial biographers, doesn't mention it. There may be some other reason. scope_creepTalk17:19, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Looking further, there's no mention of the Knight Commander of the Victorian Order in Lister's obituary in The Guardian of February 12, 1912.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76833273/death-of-dr-joseph-lister/ The King of Denmark made him a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog according to a 1918 biography, but I don't see him on lists of the KCVO conferred by Queen Victoria or King Edward VII or George V during his lifetime.
Mandsford17:34, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
That is a good reference, and more or less reflects the awards currently in the article. I wonder why the editor added it in? Possibly it is something to do with the Order of Merit being arranged. That question is definitely answered now. scope_creepTalk17:40, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hi there. You
said here that
Lyanbox782 is a paid editor, right? Since I’m the one who got him blocked for general crazy and disruptive behavior, I was just wondering what proof you have for that and why it isn’t tagged on his talk page because it should be especially if he ever makes the mistake of appealing the block. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk)19:23, 2 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Smuckola: Just by his behaviour. Most editors now are paid. More than 80% of the new articles that come in are paid for. That I think as well as the work on Yahoo articles. It is immensely boring updating the logo on several dozen articles, all for Yahoo. scope_creepTalk20:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Notability of business people
Hi, I don't normally get involved in business related notability discussions, is there any guidance that I should be aware of that means the sources I found for Benjamin Smith are insufficient? I don't want to clutter the deletion discussion unnecessarily.
WP:GNG doesn't go into much detail, but I think the sources I have found should satisfy
Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies), which is stricter than
WP:NBIO. The Financial Times is a national newspaper with a wider audience than a trade paper like Aviation News.
TSventon (
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16:34, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
TSventon: Not really. If they're from a reliable source and they are in-depth, they're comprehensive, not just profiles, or summaries of available information. Company articles are subject to NCorp, sources on those types of articles are subject to
WP:SIRS. I think that article is close to being kept. I think if you found another decent ref, combined with what is there, it would probably be enough to satisfy
WP:THREE. There should be more as KLM flies everywhere. scope_creepTalk20:04, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
My current conclusion is that
WP:NBIO intentionally leaves room for editor opinion. I think that Benjamin Smith's 700 word profile in Les Echos contributes to
WP:THREE, while you don't. Finding in depth sources on line is difficult as the publishers quite reasonably want to be paid for them, e.g. de Telegraaf lists 22 articles "about" him and all but one are paywalled. I also think that the main problem with the article isn't insufficient sources, it is that few or no editors without a COI are interested in contributing to it.
TSventon (
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14:17, 7 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Avalanche (Consensus Protocol)
Hello, Scope_Creep! Thank you for your insight on the draft I’m trying to improve. I re-submitted the draft after making additional corrections.
Per your advice, I removed references 4,9 and 13 and replaced them with more scientific sources found on Google Scholar. Here are the references removed:
Regarding the reference #18 now, can you explain the rationale behind removal of it? You mentioned it was written by the contributor, so I double checked it and found at the bottom of the article that the author is actually a staff writer. I don’t mind to remove it if you still think it is not a good source:
Gregory Barber is a staff writer at WIRED who writes about blockchain, AI, and tech policy. He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and English literature and now lives in San Francisco.
STAFF WRITER
The comment in
this diff ("Please do not post up anywhere again. It is meaningless pap.") seems rather unnecessary, regardless of whether you are correct. I am not trying to single you out here, but I'd be quite happy if stuff like this didn't happen at AfD. jp×g06:34, 10 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
JPxG: The statement he made, made no sense. It designed to fudge the whole thing, and the usual kind of stuff that you get from the
WP:ARS editors. The problem with Afd is it no longer working. It is entirely broken as it favours a specific subgroup at the expense of everybody else. This is supposed to be a global encyclopædia, but at the moment it is not acting like it. scope_creepTalk10:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 02:28:52, 15 May 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by SanJuanHouston
@
SanJuanHouston: How goes it? How about fixing the references next. Currently, they are bare URLs are really not worth anything, as web pages change ever 6 weeks. Take a look at
WP:REFB which will give you a small tutorial on how in-line citations are correctly formatted. This reference, https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/ryan-abbott once it is expanded out to a full cite, doesn't need to be used individually all over the article. In that instance, you would use ref tag. Here is an example:
as well as a solicitor advocate in England and Wales.<ref name="sur">{{cite web....</ref> He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a member of the California and New York State Bars.<ref name="sur"/> It shouldn't take too look to fix the citations. The article is looking better already. Please give me a shout when your finished and I will pass it to mainspace. scope_creepTalk11:14, 15 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Symeon Shimin
I'd appreciate help, not sure why if there is some standard layout there isn't like a form, I did try. if you need ref's please let me know. there was one section I tried to reference but the information got tagged as self-promotion because it leads back to his book, or website about his book that was authored by his daughter.
@
MaddAnna: Look at other biographies of artists to see how they are structured. Take a look at
WP:MOS. I need references. The ones from the book are ok for a very limited number, but not all of them. I need three other sources. Remember to sign your comments with ~~~~. Large chunks of the article will need to be removed if there is no refs. scope_creepTalk00:55, 18 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 02:15:58, 18 May 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by Ltsqrd
@
Ltsqrd: Try and find some good
WP:SECONDARY sources that validate why he is notable, from newspapers ideally. Not PR-generated content. Hopefully, that helps. Try and take out some Youtube references. Newspaper and magazine sources, e.g. reviews from websites that show the program is notable. Half the amount of Youtube video you have at least. Hope that helps. scope_creepTalk11:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Dear Scope creep, thank you very much for the insightful comments and suggestions. I have amended them and I was wondering whether to resubmit the page?
Any additional suggestions and advices are welcomed. Thank you for your time. Appologies for not signing my comment. (
Jpbonardi (
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17:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC))reply
That guy is a tank. No doubt about it. Can you resubmit please. I think you will need to add some more secondary sources to it, once it is promoted. Most of the first block of sources, are article by him. The article wont get nominated for deletion, but it needs secondary sources per
WP:SECONDARY, to flesh out it a bit, otheriwse I'll need to put a tag on it. Resubmit it and I'll promote it now. scope_creepTalk17:42, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Thank you, he is really fascinating person. Do you have any idea where to plug the additional secondary sources? Or maybe preference for them. Additionally, I wanted to ask you whether I have a time limit for adding them? Thank you again for your help.
Jpbonardi (
talk)
18:20, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Jpbonardi: No, there is no time limit, but it would be nice if they were there. Put them anywhere I suppose, wheres suitable. I don't know if you planning to write a new article, or want to expand this one. Every new article goes into the
WP:NPP queue, where it is reviewed and as there are very few secondary sources, it may be sent back to draft, to get some more work on it. It does happen. All you need is three, that maybe discuss his work, per
WP:THREE. scope_creepTalk18:27, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Of course, I was asking because I was wondering if I need to rush for it or I can do proper analysis. I will be expanding this one for now to make sure it reaches satisfactory quality, I am a scientist so I will try to contribute more and more with new articles as time goes on. I appriciate all your help, thank you.
Jpbonardi (
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23:26, 19 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 01:50:15, 20 May 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by Darasmithpr
Hi, my draft was declined because they said there was only mentioned press but I included full features from the highest regarded fashion news outlets more than once. How can I fix this? I have plenty of more reference to add but WWD is a news outlet that should be considered a legitimate news source. And isn’t Forbes as well as Elle?
@
Darasmithpr: That article reads like an advertisement as you well know, with a link to the shop, and forbes is not a reliable source. It is junk. Most of the references are PR, read like PR because they are paid advertising. scope_creepTalk11:01, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I am unsure how it reads like an advertisement? I followed the same format as every other fashion designers page. Nothing was promotional but fact stating. None of the references are paid advertising, that’s not how articles like that work. I removed the website for her brand, although when I look at every other fashion designers pages their website is listed under external. I’m confused as I followed the same format and verbiage as other fashion designers.
Darasmithpr (
talk)
11:14, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply
just passing by, I notice such sentences as "Sadoughi's accessories are favored by many celebrities including..." and "Lele Sadoughi has also collaborated with many fashion brands including" ... DGG (
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04:52, 23 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Your recent comment on the PS draft submission
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Hello Scope_Creep Thanks for your message I'm work in ICICB Group and my manager asked me to create a page for our company like atari and another company. Let me know what I can do to accept the company on Wikipedia.
I added in the websites Names :D thanks again for your help. I just realized, I misspelled your Name in my edits. I'm very sorry for that but I have no clue how to correct it. Please don't take offence.
Tobias Geller (
talk)
23:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Draft:Peter Mostovoy
Dear Scope creep, I added more inline citations, could not be more I guess. Please, can you publish this article, it's very important for the hero of article 83 years old. Thank you
Figelvigel (
talk)
21:35, 25 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Figelvigel: I have fixed those refs in the article. You will need to add at least 3 or 4 others. I removed several which would stopped it passing. Hope that helps. Look for the Citation Needed and put an in-line citation in. scope_creepTalk21:57, 25 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Infobox results are not repeated in the body of the article. I have left only selected most important results in the infobox excluding them from the body of the article.
So asking you to accept the article and finally publish it.
Please let me know on my further steps - should I resubmit the article now?
Dear Scope creep.
Thank you for your suggestions to improve the text of
/info/en/?search=Draft:Sergei_Ipatov.
I finished to make corrections of the draft.
There were small corrections of the text (e.g., two sentences have been moved in a revised form from “Awards” to the end of “Career”). The references have been changed considerably. Former references 14 and 15 have been removed. The reference 1 was changed to the website of the Russian Academy. Only 6 references were left in external links. Some former external links have been deleted, but most of them were transferred to in-line citations. Some in-line citations (mainly to publications) have been added. Now there are in-line citations in different parts of the text. If needed, the in-line citations can be added to the text that you will mention, but now already there are many in-line citations. The reference 42 is the same as 2, and the reference 43 is the same as 1, but I do not know how to combine the references.
Si14360 (
talk)
11:34, 4 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep. What is the "Can you please remove ref 3. It is borderline reliable." issue? When removing it, do you suggest to remove the "There are several formulations in which to measure the network entropy and, as a rule, they all require a particular property of the graph to be focused, such as the adjacency matrix, degree sequence, degree distribution or number of bifurcations, what might lead to values of entropy that aren't invariant to the chosen network description." sentence from the first paragraph, as well? Regards, --
Gryllida (
talk,
e-mail)
06:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Gryllida: Do you think it is a decent paper? There is not a lot hinging on it, so if you can change it, all the better. It is suggested papers from EGU are a better source. The RS folk are not keen on mdpi.com as it often fails higher sourcing requirements, e.g. if the article is updated in the future. It is borderline, so if you can it is probably better. scope_creepTalk09:40, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for your guidance on the article I'm working on. I've added book reviews as suggested. If you could please confirm I've provided what you requested I would appreciate it. I'm still working on your guidance "There is a lot and lots of profile page. Find WP:THREE refs which are WP:SECONDARY and add them in as the first three."
TimHitchings (
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14:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
TimHitchings: Yip, That fact he is into his beer. I'm definitely a fan of craft beer!! For the last decade, it has been a really big thing here in the UK. 20 years ago there used to be only maybe a couple of dozen makes of beers. Now there are hundreds, and the selection is big enough that you can get a different beer every month. Its great. Secondary means people talking to people about the suject who are not related or connected to the subject. I've moved several good sources to the lede and the top of the article. The LA times articles are a good example of him being a writer to pass
WP:NAUTHOR. The podcast stuff I would probably take out, as it seems to be all profile references as opposed to newspapers, eg. like the LA Times. More of that would be ideal, but if you can find more of those types. I moved the reviews up to the top as well. I think there is probably sufficient to pass now. More refs like LA Times to strengthen it, make it an easier pass. scope_creepTalk20:40, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
TimHitchings: I've done quite a lot of work on it, more than half that article. I think it is probably better if somebody else reviews it. Can you resubmit it, to get the process started. scope_creepTalk19:39, 10 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@Scope creep: Of course. My pardon if you thought that was what I was asking. While waiting for another review, if you have time, could you please provide some of your expertise so that if I work on more articles I may do a better job in the future? I note that your early ask was for me to add references such as the LA time articles. I know I added a couple with quotes and then it appears they weren't of quality so they were removed. I'm reading thru your edits on the view history which contains your notes on why the edits were done which is helpful. I'm kind of surprised that podcasts were not helpful as they appear to be very popular these days. Again, my thanks for you doing so many edits.
TimHitchings (
talk)
17:26, 11 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Draft:Jeremy Schwartz
Thanks for watching this article. I have added quality sources as per your recommendation. For example,
The IndependentEvening StandardThe Guardian. Please tell me, my article is worthy of publication an i can Resubmit. Thanks for the help.
Hi @
Schwartz Jeremy: I checked the Evening Standard and the Independent. One of them in the Evening Standard, as an interview is poor to middling, but there is no
WP:SECONDARY sources as such. As a BLP you would need at
WP:THREE of these. Also I see your editing your own article. I know you have a
WP:COI declaration, but usually, the prescribed method is to use
WP:EDITREQ to create it, if your on here anyway. Editing it directly is usually verbotten. Hope that helps!! scope_creepTalk09:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)reply
This had three sources, and I imagine these were missed, so can you please fix the page history for the page that you accidentally moved to draft.
Fleets (
talk)
07:03, 13 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope Creep, thanks for your feedback on the Luke McGarry article. I think I've incorporated all the changes you suggested and tried to remove any "spam" links I came across.
I'm still a little unclear as to your WP:SECONDARY direction, though... I believe that at least 2 or 3 of the articles referenced would appear to meet the requirements (for example, references 31 and 73), but if they don't, any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again for your input.
Jopogigio (
talk) 06:31, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Jopogigio (
talk)
06:31, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Jopogigio: Yip, That is a lot better. The article still has embedded links, however. Remove these. They are not supported by policy. Remove and give me a shout. I have left a comment. scope_creepTalk13:56, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Ahh, that makes perfect sense! I've gone through and removed any external links I could find. If you wouldn't mind taking another look, I think we might be good? Thanks!
Jopogigio (
talk)
18:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep. Can I ask you about your AfC acceptance of
CSX Altenheim Subdivision? I have had this draft on my watchlist for some time, and I was surprised it was accepted. Ignoring the fact that the author is an indef-blocked sockpuppet with a history of unsourced hoaxes, I would not have accepted the article in its current state. Of the three sources, two are dead links to fan sites. The last one is a primary source, which directly contradicts much of the article's contents - the route diagram on page 9 of
[9] is completely different from the information in the article. While I have no doubt an article could be written about the Altenheim subdivision, this one is not it, IMHO. Thoughts?
Laplorfill (
talk)
15:45, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Laplorfill: How goes it? I did notice it was created by a sock. Certainly, at some point, the railway fan guys will come up and update it and keep it in good order. I didn't think it was not something that would be sent to Afd, so was an easy promotion, even without decent refs as it was a historical article and it was a reasonably decent shape for the type but it not a really important article in the scheme of things, i.e. not that contentious, that I needed to worry about. If you think it needs to be moved back to draft, go ahead. I am not too worried about that. I'm sure it will be recreated by somebody else, at some point. The draft needs to be flagged somehow. Perhaps you nominate it for deletion. scope_creepTalk16:13, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
If you could. I've tagged the redirect to be deleted, as I don't have the ability move it back to draft space with the redirect in place. I think draftifying it again is the best next step. Thanks,
Laplorfill (
talk)
16:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for reviewing
this AfC. I really didn't expect it to pass, as I noted on a talk page.
It came about because there is a wlink from
Robert Hooke to his bio article on de.wikipedia (and, I notice, from quite a few other articles on en.wikipedia) and I felt I should try to rectify by creating an en.wp version. He seems to get cited quite a bit but that seems to be as far as it goes, nothing that I could find about him personally. I had hoped that others might be provoked to contribute but nothing. The de.wp article has only the same personal resumé (CV) as its only source. I have no plans to pursue it further. --
John Maynard Friedman (
talk)
20:01, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
John Maynard Friedman: I will try and find a couple of references then. The guy is notable. I wouldn't have posted the message if he wasn't. He is writing for Encyclopaedia Britannica, so I suspect there is coverage. scope_creepTalk20:06, 17 June 2021 (UTC)reply
July 2021 at Women in Red
Women in Red| July 2021, Volume 7, Issue 7, Numbers 184, 188, 202, 203, 204, 205
I saw you moved again an article to the draft space. In
Ragnhild Andresen is everything referenced and via external links you find secondary newspaper articles about here. So not needed to move to the draft space; like you did with many other articles. If you don’t like it, you can use the maintenance templates or nominate for AfD.
SportsOlympic (
talk)
18:54, 22 June 2021 (UTC)reply
scope creep, can you back off on moving SportsOlympic's articles to Draft space? It seems to have resulted in move wars with pages going back and forth. Let another editor take action rather than focusing so much of your attention on SportsOlympic since your efforts are clearly unwanted (though you seem to have made peace in the discussion below this one). It's SportsOlympic's right to move articles back to main space if they object to the move and if you feel strongly about it, you can PROD an article or nominate it for AFD. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!01:38, 23 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Liz: I am not focusing soley on SportsOlympic, I was reviewing the page one at at a time, one by one in sorted womens list at NPP. I started at the top of the list and my my way down the bottom. There wasn't any focus on any person. Following the process is what you get. The editor just happens to have a load of non-sourced BLP's that naturally need to be draft for futher work. I'm suprised your telling me to this, particularly when that is the process. All that is doing is leaving work for some other editor that they should be doing himself. Lastly external links aren't references. It is just lazy way of doing it, again leaving it to somebody else. scope_creepTalk09:25, 23 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope creep, I think I have addressed all your concerns. Can you please review and let me know? I took out the Career section because most of the content couldn't be cited. I updated the citations; I think correctly? You were the first editor to mention the citations, so please forgive me if they still need work. I updated some of the content to make sure that Eberhard was the subject of most of the sentences per recommendation from the Libera Chat folks.
Baeber (
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19:16, 26 June 2021 (UTC)Baeberreply
Hi @
Baeber: The article has barely any biographical information on the guy, and need some information, perhaps 5k to say who he is. Ref 5 and 6 are pretty useless as sources and ref 11 and 12 are promotional as they are linked to a shop. These should be proper book cites. Remove the url to amazon. Lastly the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), if it is notable it should probably be in its own article. scope_creepTalk11:18, 27 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Scope creep:. I put back in some biographical information and a career section. I took out the YouTube references and the Amazon URLs. ANFA does have a Wikipedia page; I just hadn't put the reference in correctly.
@
Baeber: That is much better looking and you can tell for sure that the guy is notable. That is much better. You provide references for those bits that are unref'd. I have created a education section for the article as education doesn't go in the lede. Career section, add more refs and one being a sloane fellow. scope_creepTalk15:44, 27 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Baeber: Can you add in some more refs where I posted the citation needed template. Don't copy or take anything more from:
[10] If I'd have seen that copyvio I wouldn't have promoted it. The main career section needs rewritten, not copied directly from the other article. scope_creepTalk19:28, 27 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: I'm not sure about the copyright issue since I'm the one who wrote the obit that all the others used, including the ANFA obit. But I have rewritten the language. I'm also not sure how to provide citations for work that was done long before the internet existed and didn't publish anything. For example, for Creative Buildings, I found an obit from someone who worked for Creative Buildings, which would show the company existed, but not that Dad founded it. Would that work? Or do you have another suggestion for where to find information about companies/organizations from the '50s and '60s?
Baeber (
talk)
13:06, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Baeberreply
Hi @
Baeber: That is better. The copyvio score is down to the mid 30% indicating it is only the names of building and places that it is picking up as being the same. Good work. scope_creepTalk23:04, 28 June 2021 (UTC)reply
I have edited the entry "Richard Owens (poet)" as indicated (some content removed and references updated, formatted, and removed as needed). Please, when you have a moment, have a look and, if suitable, pass on to mainspace as mentioned. And thank you! — Preceding
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Page Review
Hi! Thank you for your outstanding contribution to the Wikipedia community. Can you review
that article, if you will be able to? It just stalled all my work. I would highly appreciate this. Thanks!
A small note. The past reviewer said that the article has no relevance, but I disagree, since the concept of "Handicraft production" was highly important within the framework of Soviet ideology, which led to industrialization and collectivization. This is written in the article. Links are fine too.
MarcusTraianus (
talk)
16:29, 29 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
MarcusTraianus: Thanks for that, but I think its yersel that's got the maximum effeciency of any editor on Wikipedia. Can you expand the first few refs to full cites and give me a shout. There is not one thing wrong with that article, apart from that. scope_creepTalk18:36, 29 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello Scope creep:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2900 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Unfortunately, I cannot tell what the article is.
203.81.240.232, you have not made an account to identify yourself, and under your current i.p. address I see no deleted articles; you or your phone service provider must have been using some other i.p at the time. If you can tell. me on my user talk page the exact title of the article (and it would help if you can figure out when it was deleted), I can take a look at the article or draft and advise your further. I became an admin to do exactly this sort of thing, but I need some information. DGG (
talk )
15:40, 9 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope creep. I hope you remember me. I am Ken. We met at
WT:NPP/R on 22th on June this year. You were ready to be my mentor for teaching me more about AfC, as I had some flaws in some of my reviews. While we were going on, you said you were going on a vacation and give me a shout after two weeks. So, I'm here for that. Will you continue to teach me as you did till 26th of June? You can have any decision of whether to resume or to stop. Eagerly waiting for your reply. Regards. KenTonyShall we discuss?13:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Ken Tony:, I was back from holiday yesterday, although I did a lot of work on the Joseph Lister article in the interim, as I took my laptop with me. Yip, we can do a couple more. I saw that comment by DGG. Really good editor. Good advice. If you need an admin, he is ideal. How about starting tommorrow, then. If you can find some more drafts. Those others are perhaps done by now, if they are not, we can take a look at them. scope_creepTalk13:56, 11 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello. You left a note on this article saying you were interested in seeing it published. I took a run at cleaning up the most egregious problems. I haven't moved it to article space as it needs a bit more work. I'm also not entirely convinced on the notability side. There's the Justice building mural, a study for the same mural held in the Smithsonian, the fact he illustrated many children's books, and finally the movie posters and murals. I guess together those all add up to notable, but I'm not sure. Anyway, just a heads up. ---
Possibly☎02:07, 13 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Possibly: Coolio!! He is a major film artist of the mid 20th century. Those big backdrops he did, some were instantly recognisable. I hoping to update it with help with the draft editor but she dissapeared. Thanks for that Possibly. That is a lot better. Please promote it, if you can. Well done and thanks for that. scope_creepTalk08:05, 13 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I went ahead and accepted the AFC article for
Marc Gruber, an article you previously declined. I was wondering if you could check and see if the references added are sufficient. At least one of them was good, but two were not. Thank you for your time. You asked the author to ping you when they improved the article, but they did not.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
00:36, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Scorpions13256: The references on it are terrible. You will need to go back to draft. They are all
WP:PRIMARY and you can't establish notability with primary refs. Which ones were suggesting that were good. Can you give me the ref numbers so I can check them? It is a BLP so all the profile refs will need to come out. They are very low quality. scope_creepTalk12:22, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I figured. I must have misinterpreted your earlier comment. It seemed a little off when you said not much was required. I would have never accepted it if I hadn't seen your comment. I guess you were trying to say that the references needed to be replaced (which I agree with). Anyway, it has been moved back into the draftspace. Thanks.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
12:31, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scorpions13256:, Aye, somebody will delete it, in the state its in. The guy is notable, but I think the originating editor needs to put several to a half a dozen secondary sources as the first 6 refs, in, to prove he's notable. Either that, or get one or two decent refs and cut the whole article right down, stubify it, until an experienced editor can come in a research some decent sources. There is bound to be stuff out there. Thanks for moving it back. I will try and find some some sources for it, over the next few weeks. I'll add it to my todo list, so I don't forget it. scope_creepTalk12:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I could do it myself (I have written about living people before), but it is hard for me to search through non-English sources. I typically use books and news sources.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
12:45, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scorpions13256: You could give me a hand or vice versa, if you want to make a start I'll join you later. I know what you mean. It takes a lot of work to translate stuff. DeepL is pretty good to translate blocks of text. Google Translate is good for full websites. Bing Translate used to be good, or is good around gender translations, e.g. French but they reduced the size of the text block you can translate, making it less useful. I would start by getting rid of all the bare mention refs and the profiles, and then go from there. scope_creepTalk13:23, 20 July 2021 (UTC)reply
August Editathons with Women in Red
Women in Red| August 2021, Volume 7, Issue 8, Numbers 184, 188, 204, 205, 206, 207
Dear Scope creep. Sorry, only yesterday I paid attention to your suggestion made about 2 months ago. As it was suggested by you, I deleted the references 18 – 22. You mentioned 18-21, but as I understand, the reference 22 is similar to the above references. In the sentence “Four of these asteroids got names” four was changed by five. In half an hour after submission of the new version, Z1720 wrote: “Please cite your sources using footnotes. There should be a reference at the end of every paragraph, minimum, since this is a WP:BLP.” Today I transferred the external links to footnotes. Now there are no external links. Some references to the published biography were duplicated to a few places, and now there are references in all paragraphs, and also at the end of these paragraphs.
@
Si14360: It is a
WP:BLP, so the career section needs a reference per sentence. Stating something like He is an author[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] isn't a good idea. It is much better to put his 2 or 3 papers, e.g. the one he wrote that won him the prize in the bibliography section. And removed at the references 12-16 as it is a case of
WP:CITEKILL. The Main scientific interests and achievements is really decent. Take this out There are Wikipedia pages devoted to Sergei Ipatov in Russian, German, French, Italian, and Esperanto. Put this The biography of S.I. Ipatov has been published in several biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias, e.g. by Marquis Who's Who[3][7][18] and by Russians editions[4][19][20][21][22]. in the biliography section and 19-22 can be used to populate the career section with refs with additional refs added. It looks a lot better. Give me a shout when its done. Hope that helps. I think the guy is notable with the award. scope_creepTalk20:23, 30 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Dear Scope creep. Thank you for your comments. I deleted the sentence about Wikipedia pages in other languages and former references 10, 12-14, 16 for list of publications (only two were left). You suggested to remove the references 12-16. Z1720 suggested to remove references 10, 11, and 12 (different references). Former references 19-22 we used to populate other sentences. Most sentences in early life and career now have references. May be it is not needed to put a citation to every similar sentence? For example, in
/info/en/?search=Alan_Boss there are no citations in career section. Former ref 8 (to Wiki data) was removed. I hope that editing of the sections, other than achievements, are close to the end.
May be it is possible not to delete the Section “Main scientific interests and achievements”? I suppose that achievements are much more important and interesting for inclusion in Wikipedia than the list of institutions were a person worked. For example, in
/info/en/?search=Eric_Walter_Elst , the main attention is paid to his discoveries, not to his career. In
/info/en/?search=Alan_Stern information about scientific results of Alan Stern is much greater than the information about his career. I suppose that small information about scientific results for some scientists may be only caused by that their biographers did not write about them. As to me, I prefer to read biographies with detailed achievements, but not those short biographies that sometimes can be found in wikipedia. Z1720 wrote about secondary references and noted that there are only primary references to Ipatov’s publications. May be the awards, the inclusion of the biography in dictionaries and encyclopedias, the published papers in Web of Science and Scopus journals can be considered as independent secondary sources? In the first draft of the Ipatov’s bio there were no references to his papers (only text about his achievements), but then there were remarks that all text must be supported by citations. So the citations of Ipatov’s papers have been added. Such citations can be deleted, but probably it will not make the text better. In order to add secondary references to Ipatov’s achievements, the following sentence have been added just now to the beginning of the section “Main scientific interests and achievements”: Information about Ipatov’s main scientific interests and achievements is presented on [8, 9]. Information for you (not for the draft): These websites include similar Russian text about achievements, but without references to Ipatov’s papers. It is possible to add links to the papers which cited Ipatov’s papers, but I do not think that it is good.
Si14360 (
talk)
14:55, 31 July 2021 (UTC)reply
@
BartlebytheScrivener: I understand what your trying to do and its fair enough. But its uncool to change section names, even during a good copyedit, its not done. Your putting in a American mannerism, when the article wasn't written that way. The policy is to you preserve the structure. You can copyedit it, but preserve the structure. Send it to GA if you want. But that is the third time that somebody had tried to completly change it and take
WP:OWN, because it is American article. Three times I heard same phrase. If you want, I'll all have the history revdel done on it and all my content removed from it and then you write an American English article. scope_creepTalk01:37, 2 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Would be great if you could stop engaging in harassment. Read the
Talk:Alexander Repenning pages. Is this the new Wikipedia practice: shoot first, ask questions later? You are making Wikipedia a really unwelcoming place. It makes no sense to provide reference for each sentence. This is not how Wikipedia works. If you find information that is wrong or misleading feel free to point that out. Deleting without knowing something is wrong or misleading is harassment. Please stop!
What does any of this have to do with the fact that you are harassing me? I asked for constructive support. You did not provide reasonable suggestions. How would somebody who received a Purple Hart provide "references?" If every sentence needs to have a reference then 90% of the Wikipedia needs to be deleted. Must feel great to just delete stuff and block people. What have you contributed to society that gives you the right to engage in harassment? What suddenly urged you to delete content that you cannot show to be wrong or misleading and that was there for many years? What is your angle other than harassment?
147.86.223.240 (
talk)
10:48, 6 August 2021 (UTC)reply
It is absolutely harassment. Of course you think your actions are fine. But, harassment is not about what the harasser perceives it to be. It is, and that is all it is, about the perception of the harassed. I asked you for help. You did not provide it. Just deleting is not helping. Yes, you suggested that "every sentence needs a reference." Other BLPs, by and large, don't do that for the simple reason that many recognitions have no official form of reference. Why did you not provide an example or make a helpful suggestion? You are justifying your harassment by interpreting vague policies. How do you "reference" if somebody can present his/her work in the White House? This is not a paper. And why are you paying attention to this page and content that has been up for many years? How is this content promotional and how is it puffy? If you are not offering concrete advise and engage in deleting you are harassing.
What is happening to Wikpedia? Why is it getting so hostile towards academic content? Are you only reading the delete-stuff policies? Did you ever read the how to welcome academic content Wikpedia guidelines? They suggest an approach to engage in dialog. Is Wikipedia paying you? Who is your boss?
2A02:AA14:4581:6B00:DC1F:FAB7:19E2:FEA7 (
talk)
16:40, 9 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Mario Kleff
Hello, I noticed that you deleted something in the Mario Kleff article. Was there something wrong? If the reason was the writing style, I'd like to improve this to a better and more valued version. Please advise. Thank you
Meow2021 (
talk)
12:49, 9 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Meow2021:, I completed a copyedit on the article that had sections that were full of
WP:PEACOCK terms which are unacceptable for
WP:BLP. This is an example: Mario Kleff creates buildings with an extension of his personality and lives an uncompromised lifestyle determined by his interest in exotic wildlife and
automotive design It is junk. It needs to be encyclopaedic and balanced. I also removed the supposed fact he is an artist. He is not artist and there is no evidence he is an artist. scope_creepTalk13:02, 9 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the quick response and feedback. I wrote down what I read and linked it accordingly. Apparently the criteria were not met. What do I have to consider, can I even edit this article for the better?
You asked that I give you a shout after I made revisions. Consider this that shout (I just figured out how to contact you directly).
cheers,
Bluepencil13
Hi @
Bluepencil13:, How goes it? Yip, that looks better, however, the NLP Board section has no references in it. It is is definently better looks and less and advert. It might be worth removing the past presidents. If you don't, they need to be referenced. I hope that helps. Remember to sign your posts with the four tildes ~~~~. scope_creepTalk09:43, 11 August 2021 (UTC)reply
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Madeleine Chaumont, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page
Lycée Jules-Ferry.
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Myxofibrosarcoma link to the Wikipedia page
Histiocytoma. The World Health Organization reclassified myxofibrosarcoma as a distinct entity, not in any way a form of the histiocytomas. I am currently making a page for Myxofibrosarcoma. Can you remove this erroneous linkage or instruct me how to do so. It may be a simple task: the View history page indicates that the myxofibrosarcoma-histiocytoma linkage was made sometime after the page was created. Thank you for your help. OK--
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
23:23, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Joflaher: How are you today? The way it would be done, would be to make a request at
WP:RFD, explaining why it needs to go. I can do that now, if you want? You will probably need to chime at some point with the evidence, of why it needs to be deleted. I will nominate it now. scope_creepTalk15:53, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Joflaher: It should take no more than a couple of days to remove the redirect, perhaps sooner, and then page can be recreated using the contents from your sandbox (a silly name). scope_creepTalk15:58, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Joflaher: Yip, its nomination notice. Give me a shout when your ready to create the page. I have page mover rights and assuming the redirect is gone, I can move your sandbox along with its history into the new article. scope_creepTalk16:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: What I have been doing since the previous difficulties that I caused is to write part of the page in WordPerfect or my sandbox (without ever saving in in sandbox) and transferring it a Wikipedia page that I just made. I edit if further on the newly made page. Is that OK? Thank you for helping me with all the trouble that I have caused.
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
18:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Joflaher: Yes, that sounds fine. There is a lot of folk who edit outside Wikipedia and then copy/paste into an article, in exactly that manner, when they're ready. All you need to do, is create the link e.g.
Myxofibrosarcoma (Assuming the redirect page has been deleted), then click on to create the empty article then copy your stuff in. Do it that ensures your not creating some off area, as the link always defaults to article namespace. scope_creepTalk18:41, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Earlier today, the linkage of Myxofibrosarcoma to the Histiocytoma page was deleted: when I sought for Myxofibrosarcoma the create page came up. Now when a seek this page a strange page comes up stating "The purpose of this redirect is currently being discussed by the Wikipedia community." If I follow the instructions on this page, it looks to me that it will retitle the Histiocytoma page as Myxofibrosarcoma and give the info on Myxofibrosarcoma that I supply. Also, I have no idea where to put my info when I click on the arrow directing me to a page to do so. I do not want to remove the Histiocytoma page (I plan to later update and expand the Histiocytoma page). What do I do now? Again, thanks.
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
19:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Joflaher: The Histiocytoma article will stay where it. I nominated the
Myxofibrosarcoma redirect page for deletion, so that it would a fresh revision history. But you can keep the page, delete the redirect information and paste your stuff in on top if it. scope_creepTalk21:33, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: My myxofibrosarcoma page will be ready for publication in 1-2 days or so. I have no idea how to publish it...your instructions do not seem to work for me. When I go to the myxofibrosarcoma page now, I just do not see how to proceed. It's confusing. Again and again, thanks.
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
21:54, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi
joflaher, I've been talking with scope creep at the redirect discussion page. The link from myxofibrosarcoma to the histiocytoma page at least explains to readers that myxofibrosarcoma has been reclassified, which (I think) is better than having no information at all, so I've argued that it should stay until your draft is ready. If you would like, once your draft is ready you can paste it into
Draft:Myxofibrosarcoma, click on the red link to take you to the draft creation page. You might be warned that the article already exists, but you can ignore that, that's because of the redirect. Once it's there, scope creep can remove the redirect and replace it with your article, with the history intact. Cheers, and thanks for your contributions.
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Scope creep: My Myxofibrosarcoma info is now a Draft:Myxofibrosarcoma page. I'm hoping that it will quickly be accepted as a regular page so that I can go forward in updating and expanding the Histiocytoma page which incorrectly included myxofibrosarcoma as a type of histiocytoma. In all events, I thank everyone who helped me on this. OK--
joflaher (
User talk:joflaher)
13:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Milt's Stop & Eat. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to
collaborate with others, to avoid editing
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try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Points to note:
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Would it be worth creating a template to link all these instruction set articles. Perhaps one for the original X86 set, one form simd instructions, one sse1 and so on.
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Just want to let you know that I reverted content removals on
LEVC VN5 since
WP:CRYSTAL does not apply to the
LEVC e-Camper section, as it is confirmed with a source and is not a prediction, and upcoming vehicles can have Wikipedia articles or be sections/content within. As for the latter edits, I reverted those since it is typical and almost a standard to note the starting price, trims, and basic/notable features in automobile-related articles when properly sourced.
As for
Ferrari Purosangue - and all is good and I fixed it with the click of two buttons - you may have restored the wrong revision because the categories I added and typos I fixed were reverted. Nonetheless, thank you for not undoing the article and reverting it back to redirect and reverting your edit when you did. Waddles🗩🖉18:25, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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WaddlesJP13: How goes it. They're definently notable, but can you please cut down on the advertising. Putting list price information is strictly against Wikipedia Terms of Use and it is deeply uncool. Its plain advertising and endangers Wikipedia freedom and licence. It also will likely to get you blocked in the short term for promotion and spamming. Good articles apart from that. scope_creepTalk18:29, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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WaddlesJP13: If it is standard, then it is wrong and that is not the consensus. It clearly against Wikipedia Terms of Use and I will need post a advertising tag on and start trying to article removed. scope_creepTalk18:32, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: I will clarify that I'm not promoting the car, I've been writing and editing car articles since before I even had a Wikipedia account as an IP user. I'm a page patroller and am experienced with the vast majority of Wikipedia guidelines, and as long as content is encyclopedically stated with proper sources, it is not advertising. I've never seen anywhere that you cannot state the base price of a vehicle on Wikipedia. The great majority of car articles do state the starting price and it's how I've been writing them since day one and this is the first issue I've had with it.
On Wikipedia, advertising generally is adding unsourced or loosely-covered promotional content as or to articles. Here's the difference between encyclopedic vs. promotional:
An example of encyclopedic content: The [car] has a starting price of [value].[refs]
An example of promotional content: The [car] only costs [value], which is a very great deal. The [car] is perfect for anyone on a [value] budget.
I can see what your getting at, but I think probably standard 10 years. Folk are a bit more aware of the dangers of now. Make up you mind I guess, but have real think about. scope_creepTalk18:46, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello, I'm
101.50.250.88. I noticed that you recently removed all content from
Harry Partridge.
Please do not do this. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please
redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been
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sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
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01:35, 15 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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101.50.250.88: The article was reviewed as part of the
WP:NPP process and there is leeway there for the editor reviewing an article to revert it back to a redirect if an article is not warranted. The references on the article were entirely junk. I intend to attend the Afd. scope_creepTalk
Hi @
Iflaq: Unfortunately not, Wikipedia is not a referable source. Can you not try the Kashmari Wikipedia site, to see if there is anything on their description of the site, that is not Wikipedia created. They're maybe some third-party reports. Apart from that I can't give you much help. The help desk at [{WP:HELP]] or somebody at the reference desk may help. scope_creepTalk17:17, 15 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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WSJZ-LD
Why do you keep reverting referenced/cited content with a redirect to another TV station? They are not the same TV station, just the same owner.
Bwave (
talk)
18:37, 16 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Bwave: How goes it? Well I think the redirect is a better proposition than the article at the moment. Can you not add proper references to it. Otherwise it is just a listing. scope_creepTalk18:58, 16 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Bwave I'm going to redirect the WSJZ-LD and WRUE-LD pages. I have also added a table to WRDE-LD and WBOC-LD that explains the setup, since NBC and Telemundo are on all four of the involved transmitters.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
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05:38, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Article payal radhakrishna
I am payal radhakrishna fan as a contributor i am contributing what ever i know request you not to delete the draft
70mmreels (
talk)
Hi @
Vitaium: Yip, I've created a few ship articles myself. The reason I reverted it, was due to the poor reference and the lack of them. It really need a couple more of better quality. scope_creepTalk10:29, 18 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Gunnar Larsson: Thanks for that. But it is worth noting it is not 2005 now, not even 2010, where you could get away with a posting a non-sourced article. There is two areas to develop articles offline, one is sandboxes and other draft. Any one of them could be used to create it, source it and then post it. Please do so the next time. And adding bare urls just adds work for somebody else. Please take a look at
WP:REFB. scope_creepTalk08:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep. I am not planning to start a long discussion, just highlighting that people (like me:-)) are more likely to get annoyed with a revert than with a template.
Gunnar Larsson (
talk)
09:00, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Agnihothri Sharath: The films perhaps won the Kerala State Film Awards. The references you provided are all
WP:PRIMARY and you can't use primary references to establish notability. Please add
WP:SECONDARY sources into the article. Currently its looks like the editor or director is a common demoninator, but until some who is not associated with him, start commenting on him, in some journal or newspapers, or he wins an award, or becomes notable in his own right. But currently being a common demonitator is likely non-notable. Find and add secondary sources and resubmit it for review. If the person is truly notable, there should plenty of coverage out there to support your case. That would be the approach I would take. I hope that helps. scope_creepTalk11:26, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Agnihothri Sharath: I had a look at the sources again. Please references the awards and provide some additional secondary sources and resubmit. It all relies on the award and whether it is notable. scope_creepTalk
File:Praun Russian Campaign 1941-1942 Chart 9.png listed for discussion
"Really duff refs"? What is this meant to mean? The articles has references to two standard textbooks, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the official Kentucky state election returns; what's so "duff" about it?
FieldOfWheat (
talk)
08:05, 22 September 2021 (UTC)reply
So I've took my time to add more references to this specific article that you had recently moved into draftspace and I've added more so I was wondering if you could promote or even it to mainspace again?
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 21:55 22 September 2021 (GMT-4)
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SuperSkaterDude45: It is a lot better, but the first section is not referenced at all. You can't have a block of text like that without it being referenced. Its not 2010. Large bits of large sections are unsourced. On top of that, your first reference is to a blog. That is a
WP:SPS source. You have that first ref all the way through the article. It will need to come out. Give me a shout when your finish and I will promote. Google books is a good location to find information. scope_creepTalk09:47, 23 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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SuperSkaterDude45: I know how difficult it is to source these soldiers articles. I've done a couple myself. The English Wikipedia sourcing requirement are higher that the French Wikipedia. I notice the article on there is largely unsourced. There is quite a lot on Gbooks on him. scope_creepTalk09:53, 23 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately, most references I could find were in mention to his military service in Le Bourget and only 2 contained other info. Would the article still be acceptable enough for mainspace?
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 23:28 23 September 2021 (GMT-4)
Hi @
SuperSkaterDude45: I found a bunch of references in Google Books, mostly for the battles. I'll try and add some references. Csn you take reference 1. It is a
WP:SPS and is pretty low-quality. I'm not sure where the information is coming from. If the biography section can't be vertified, take it out. It will be put back in, by a military historian at some point in the future. I found sources on Google Books, I will add in what I can find, over the next several days, and see how it looks then. scope_creepTalk06:24, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
It can be published with sections that are missing, but it it better to pull them out for the moment. It is not a BLP where every sentence needs a ref. The article will be develop over time and expand as its military history article. That has given me a thought. Could you post a request for help at the Military Histoy Wikiproject? They are very active. I exapnded a couple of archive references, look a bit better now. It coming on. I can post a help request up at the noticeboard, if you require it. Generally what happens in these situations, is somebody will come in an cut everything out, have a basic stub. scope_creepTalk06:46, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I've moved the first reference back to the bibliography section and you can certainly post a help request as I personally don't know how to file one myself. Also which parts of the biography would you want me to remove as the entire text is the biography.
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 09:09 24 September 2021 (GMT-4)
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SuperSkaterDude45: I posted that last night, but it usually several days for everybody to eventually visit the board. If nothing comes from it, I'll spend a couple of days looking for sourcing, particularly for the early military career section. The biography section can be removed and added later, if we need to take into mainspace without improvement. Generally speaking, when you post an article, google is cognizant of it, via an strategic agreement with WMF, of its presence on Wikipedia. What google does, is reorganises its graph to support the existance of the article. Sometimes its only takes a couple of weeks, other times several months. When its completed, you tend to find many more sources are available in your search, that didn't exist beforehand, or rather they existed, but you couldn't see them, now they just there, is if by magic. It great. When I create I create a wee stub and leave it for 2-3 weeks, that its. If it can't be sourced, we can take out the first section and I'll promote with what there. We have done our best to source it. scope_creepTalk10:29, 25 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Oh alright then, thanks for your help, I really do appreciate it!
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 11:10 25 September 2021 (GMT-4)
Hi @
SuperSkaterDude45: Well that is two full days now and nobody has made a dent in it. I thought somebody would have helped. I think the best thing to do, for you to submit it for review and I'll promote it back to mainspace, clean it up, as we described. Give me a shout when you finished. Best time is do it tommorrow, or tomorrow night, as I'm goosed at the moment. scope_creepTalk
Hello, I've sent it for mainspace submission recently as you said. Just thought I'd let you know about it.
SuperSkaterDude45 (
talk) 17:42 27 September 2021 (GMT-4)
Please do not redirect this article
Mirza Abad, Chakri . If there is an error in the article, let me know and I will correct it or remove it. Thanks.
Hi @
Haseebmirza306: Your article was checked via
WP:NPP, a review process. Articles on Wikipedia needs references. Your article doesn't have that. It is really important that the article is verifiable. Currently your using a third site, fallingrain.com. I'm not sure it is valid source. I would suggest adding proper references, for example governmet sources that veryify the village exist. That fallingrain.com is likely not a reliable source. Also please sign your comments with the four tildes, ~~~~, so folk can known who you are. scope_creepTalk06:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 12:14:07, 24 September 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by AmirahBreen
Thank you for reviewing the article. I find your feedback very useful and will not attempt to publish the article before the matter is addressed. For future reference so I will know how to identify 'clickbait' please explain which references are clickbait and how do you know that they are?
Hi @
AmirahBreen: Howdy. The sources on your
WP:BLP article all the same, the man loves our food and speaks our language, and that its. Its known for one event article. I would suggest you try and find better sources. scope_creepTalk10:34, 25 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you, I do understand what you are saying. I had thought that involvement with Malay TV may also add to notability. I'll look for some better sources as you suggest.
Amirahtalk10:49, 25 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I have removed some of the sources which I think may be the clickbait ones you are referring to and I have also added some new sources. I have added coverage of fasting and practicing Ramadam which is additional to Malay cuisine and linguistic skills. I am also a little confused as to why you see Malay cuisine and linguistic skills as one event. Please see the essay
BLP2. The article is actually quite similar to that of another expat in Malaysia
Mat Dan. I am not quite sure why that article is acceptable for notability yet the Rhys William one was not. Could you help me to understand this please?
Amirahtalk11:53, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello!
I searched about
Khaled Koubaa and the paid editor you told in RFD in my opinion is totally wrong thing, I know about paid content for example
Samuel Kwame Boadu - This must be delete! is full of paid content!!! included vents magazine can be find on
fiverr for $50,
mid-day for $100 and ... but for some languages it's really hard to find sources or media didn't covered them because of some policies in some countries for example
Mehran Modiri is the legend of Iran cinema, but his article only have one sources! I just want tell you let's decide about the people by what they do! of course GNG is important thing but in WP not written how manny sources required. you're more experienced than me and I know that. I just tried to tell in my opinion that guy is really worked hard to get that position in technology and let's search more about him to find more sources ("خالد قوبعة").
ZEP55 (
talk)
19:08, 24 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the fixes for missing citations where needed, and fixes and other additions to refs; nicely done. As for "fast", thanks but it did take from May till August to get it out of draft, and there are still a few empty sections that need doing (hint, hint
...) Good luck with Lister,
Hey, I have just seen you reverted my edit and work on the Tony Elumelu page and also a suggested COI & paid advocacy. This is entirely wrong as I do not receive, solicit or have any paid relationship with the subject. I did my research on the subject and wrote based on this. Please revert back to my edits
Wikistarnigeria (
talk)
22:25, 26 September 2021 (UTC)reply
October 2021 at Women in Red
Women in Red| October 2021, Volume 7, Issue 10, Numbers 184, 188, 209, 210, 211
His album reached #3 on the Oricon charts, which more than satisfies
WP:NMUSIC. I was also able to find an article about one of his solo performances at
https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000176883. Keep in mind that sourcing articles like this is quite difficult, as I'm not fluent in Japanese; there are probably plenty of good sources that I haven't found because I don't know the proper search terms.
Mlb96 (
talk)
03:35, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
No, dude. I'm not taking them to Afd. They are effectively unsourced. What I will do, is take you to Ani, and suggest all of them go through Afc like FloridaArmy. Producing BLP's with one reference is 2021 is unacceptable. Producing BLP's with one source, to a machine generated profile was unacceptable in 2008. So source them, like everybody else has to. scope_creepTalk10:36, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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SportsOlympic: I was thinking, there must more sources out there for each one of these folks. Everyone of the them must be famous, with sources in the Guardian, Telegraph, Baltimore Sun, Japan Times and so on. Surely you can add more sources, slow down a bit, so that each sentence has a reference? One article I noticed, the references were out of order. One girl who had cancer. The references that were there, were out of order. That is not cool. scope_creepTalk10:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi scope_creep, I don’t like your tone as you sound like you are in the attack mode. You are talking about BLP, while those people died about 100 years ago. It also looks like you are very generalizing. These are just some articles about important cyclist I created “on the go”. Sometimes I created a few stubs ad they deserve a page, and can easily be expanded. (The essence of a stub). Have you also seen other articles I created this month? Probably not.. see for instance the 60 most recent September created at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/204, almost all created by me. Imagine how much time I invested to create the pages of the earliest Paralympic athletes of the Netherlands? Untill a few weeks ago their names were not even known (!!) (
1964,
1968,
1972) … So please do a bit of research before taking down someone by generalization. And a question: were can I see creating a page with a database source is “unacceptable”? (And I don’t know with you mean with a girl with cancer?)
SportsOlympic (
talk)
20:17, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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SportsOlympic: No attacks. Discussion. They don't get expanded. There is simply too many articles that are stubs and not enough folk to do it. It is much better to expand them, with sufficient sources at the moment of creation, so at least you know they're valid. Essentially what your doing is duplicating on wikipedia what is aleady on the dashboard site. What is the point of that? It is easier for the reader to go to the site where the information already located than it is coming here. Readers don't look at these wee 1 and 2 lines article. That is well known. That Netherlands article is decent. Really decent. This is an example of what I really dodgy:
Rie Odajima. The information that is pulled together on the article has been take from news sites. It looks like a Wikipedia article without the associated acedmic rigour of policies and procedures that are instrinsic to Wikipedia. it is low quality. scope_creepTalk22:02, 1 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Request on 12:14:07, 24 September 2021 for assistance on
AfC submission by AmirahBreen
I have removed some of the sources which I think may be the clickbait ones you are referring to and I have also added some new sources. I have added coverage of fasting and practicing Ramadam which is additional to Malay cuisine and linguistic skills. The article is actually quite similar to that of another expat in Malaysia
Mat Dan. I am not quite sure why that article is acceptable for notability yet the Rhys William one was not. Could you help me to understand this please?</nowiki>
Amirahtalk11:53, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you, but I don't understand why you treat it is a new entry as it is part of the same conversation. Could you tell me what section of
WP:TALK gives the rationale for this.
Please could you also see the original conversation and answer my questions above.
Amirahtalk22:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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AmirahBreen: If there has been significant gap, it is common practice to put it at the bottom the page. It take too much valuable time to search for the entry you have made above. I have to check the page version history to find your comment. scope_creepTalk06:05, 30 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I would not normally consider 4 days to be a significant gap, but I do notice your talk page is unusually busy. Please answer my questions above about why you refused the article.
Amirahtalk06:25, 30 September 2021 (UTC)reply
At least, not until you learn to tell the difference between UPE and simply being a fan. Because guess what? If fans weren't allowed to edit Wikipedia pages, there would not be any Wikipedia pages. Jackass.
Mlb96 (
talk)
17:15, 1 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi, you just incubated a new article of mine. I've not had that experience before and so would like some guidance, please. The comment after review was "Dodgy sources. Wrong type." Was the latter phrase a comment on the type of sources? So far as the section on themes goes, there are three works cited, all by fairly respected scholars, so I don't understand how they can be described as 'dodgy'. Could it be the sources on publishing that are substandard? I'm never sure where to locate good sources for such information.
Sweetpool50 (
talk)
09:46, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: Thanks. I was thinking that contemporary reviews might be hard to find, although I did discover the one in the Sewanee Review cited. But I've come across at least five scholarly works with a whole chapter - or section - devoted to the novel. Arguably, that is also a sign of notability.
Sweetpool50 (
talk)
20:52, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Both articles are sourced. There was further sourcing and information available on the Chinese Wikipedia, but I left out bits that I couldn't translate correctly or where the sources were inaccessible. You can also verify the existence of these stations with Google Earth and the
Chinese Rail Map website.
NemesisAT (
talk)
11:53, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
NemesisAT: The first one has a raw search url and and architects/photographs that are very poor. They're must be better references than that. Is that all they need for a station to prove they exist? scope_creepTalk11:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello Scope creep,
on September 16th you moved my article about Hellmut Fleckseder to my draftspace (
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Hager_Irene#Hellmut_Fleckseder_moved_to_draftspace), stating that it is not suitable as written to remain published because it needs more citations. Could you please provide me with detailed information in which areas citations are still missing? I consider the article to have sufficient citations and it has already been reviewed and released once by user Olaf Kosinsky (on 20 August 2021, 13:44), as far as I could read as a B-calss article. Thank you for further, timely information.
Hager Irene (
talk)
15:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Hager Irene: How goes it? Olaf Kosinsky was blocked for abusing the account. He managed to get into Afc and passed a whole bunch of articles that shouldn't have been in mainspaces. All of them are getting sent back to Afc when they're being independently reviwed. The article subject is only an associate professor and has only obit, instead of 2 which would be normal. I would suggest submitting the article and letting somebody look at it. It shouldn't take long. scope_creepTalk19:12, 4 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Scope creep: for your review of Ofer Strichman's article. Regarding the "research" section: I see your point that the sentences on the research are too close to his bio. I can rewrite them. But I'm not sure what you meant by "section shouldn't be here". Can you explain?--
Adig-pt (
talk)
07:33, 5 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Adig-pt: About two-thirds of it was copyvio. Copied from somewhere else. You can't copy stuff from somwhere unless it is public domain and marked as such with a tag. The NPP utility indicated it was copyvio and I tested it on earwig, that showed a good chunk of it copyvio, so it was removed. I can be put back, but rewritten in your words, not paraphrased or copied verbatim. scope_creepTalk08:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Adig-pt: Also the bit about patents, is not needed. They are not talked about on Wikipedia. And the bit about h-index, should be tag in ext links. He is either notable or he is not and he is. The selected patents sections needs to go. I actually missed. They are non-rs on Wikipedia. I hope that helps. scope_creepTalk08:11, 5 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Bluepencil13: It much better, but you will need to reduce the Programs and Resources down to a single sentence. Things like Checkology is available at no charge to educators, That is close to advertising. The The Sift® I think the R sign is explicity not allowed on Wikipedia per policy. Somebody mentioned it years ago. Please remove them. It looks too much like a brochure. Wikipedia article are to inform and learn, not to sell. I can promoted to mainspace with a single sentence stating you offer virtual classrooms, a free email letter for educators and workshops. scope_creepTalk09:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Fan Unknown Devian Devjoshi: Your article at draft was reviewed six times by six editors in good standing over four months, and everyone of them declined the article before I rejected. I urge you not to recreate it. Wikipedia is not a social media site, where you can create non-notable articles like this. There is a behavioural policy known as
WP:NOTHERE, where editors can be blocked as they not here to build the encyclopaedia. So please, do not recreate it. scope_creepTalk09:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Thank you, - and more pics if you click on songs. By chance - looking for material on
Elizabeth Reiter whom I heard yesterday - I found a video (linked from my talk, look for Liz Reiter), a living room concert of the soprano from April 2020 when all opera houses were closed (and she was pregnant with twins): all love songs, and she saying that she felt just then the world needed more love. - Did you see who created the DYK article? --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
13:47, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: Louis Alain. Yes. I'm assuming the editor will come back at some point. The short termist approach is killing Wikipedia. Removing these highly creative people is just destructive and disruptive. I'll take a look. Often, if you create wee seed article, Google creates a new knowledge graph for that subject and often sources that were difficult to find before, seem to be immediately available. It does take a bit of time. It does help for difficult and obscure articles. I did notice the
Karl-Heinz Petzinka that is up for Dyk hasn't got a completed sentence in the lede. It just stops......... He converted historic industrial buildings, and was responsible for thescope_creepTalk14:14, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
The last bit: when you see such a thing, please check edit history and remove the vandalism, - that's faster than copying it to here. (In this case, I did it already, two of them.) Tell me, why should LouisAlain return, to the unloving and unforgiving community a certain AN thread stands for? He now adds to the German Wikipedia. I wish him better luck there. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
14:33, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm really happy he is working there. That is a hard question to answer, probably as he was a net positive to Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia to a certain extent is run by fundamentalists who don't know or don't care about promulgating creativity and the people who are part of it. I see the most creative people removed and don't know what to do about it. I had to leave the thread because I was so angry, and would have been blocked myself. They level of stupidy exhibited on here, gets me down. Ultimately, it is question of alternatives. Years ago in corporate land, my manager told me, you can't leave because the job market was cold. It had all these cliques. It's the same here in a way. If there was alternative to Wikipedia today, I would be gone tomorrow. scope_creepTalk15:02, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Can we do something together, perhaps, writing with the readers in mind? My plans are on my user page.
Max Creutz, another translation by LouisAlain, was just approved for DYK. I'd never known about these creative people without him. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
15:08, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
I would certainly be interested as you produce excellent high-quality articles. I will take a look at where I can help, where I can, but I'm still working on the
Red Orchestra article that has about six months work left, at the moment and a Glagow University academic asked to get the
Joseph Lister article done, which is quite big on its own. I really appreciate you asking me. Count me in. scope_creepTalk15:30, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta,
Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - updated. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
14:12, 20 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Help removing a title linkage (i.e. Ischemic fasciitis) to the Fasciitis page
Sorry to bother you again. The page
Fasciitis, which merely lists the names of a few fasciitis disorders including Ischemic fasciitis, is evoked when a try to publish a new page termed Ischemic fasciitis. I tried to remove this linkage by deleting Ischemic fasciitis from the list of disorders but this did nothing to alter the linkage of Ischemic fasciitis to the Fasciitis page. Can you please help me remove this linkage so that I can publish the fasciitis page. Thank you. --
joflaher (
talk)
16:47, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
scope_creep, when I tried to publish Ischemic fasciitis by putting in the title, I expected to get "Create page" but what I got was the Fasciitis page. I Followed you instructions and the page has been published. Again, Thank you, thank you --
joflaher (
talk)
17:02, 8 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope_creep, there remains two small problems with the
Ischemic fasciitis page: 1) when seeking this page, two Ischemic fasciitis choices come up, one correctly brings up Ischemic fasciitis the other brings up the Fasciitis page; and 2) the
Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors page's Ischemic fasciitis linkage brings up the Fasciitis page. How can I correct these two issues? Again, Thank you. --
joflaher (
talk)
21:18, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Timetrent: Thank you for correcting the linkage on fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors. However, when I ask for the Ischemic fasciitis page, two pages come up, one to Ischemic fasciitis the other to Fasciitis. How can I correct this? --
joflaher (
talk)
14:48, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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The draft submission for "Sennay Ghebreab" has been declined again. The reason this time: "H-index is not sufficiently, only two papers over a 100 citations. The entry in Aethiopica may be notable." This is mind boggling given the fact that Sennay Ghebreab is one of the few AI researchers that for over a decade have been warning that the focus on h-index to measure science impact is leading to unethical and non-inclusive AI science outcomes. In the last decade Sennay Ghebreab has been at the forfront of 1) promoting engaged AI scholarship, 2) interdisciplinary and inclusive approaches to AI technology development and education, 3) science communication and education. He has received national recognized for this by amongst other The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been named one of the 200 most influential persons in the Netherlands in 2020 (of which only 5 are black like Sennay). This makes the reason for declining the draft submission very questionable, certainly in light of the recent criticism toward Wikipedia for having a systemic racial bias in its coverage. Mind you that many scientist, including one of the most famous Dutch professors in science communication, have lower H-index and no papers with more than 100 citations. Yet they have a Wikipedia entry.
Hi @
Noaghebreab:. Yip, I see your point. I'm only now just back in. We are aware of it and trying to address it. I find it hard to judge if a academic is notable, usually I coun't the papers citation. Generally if they are involved or known in other areas, the notability criteria may be covered by
WP:SIGCOV, not
WP:NPROF and sigcov is generally easier to pass. I agree that h-index as a measure of notability is really poor. I read about it recently. I really only use it as a indication, not as an actual measure. Generally in borderline cases, or when I don't really know I ask for a second opinion; visit the talk page of
User:David Eppstein, and leave a note. He is an academic and will tell you immediately if he is notable or not, from experience. scope_creepTalk11:24, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
For Sennay Ghebreab, the publication record is too light (in a high-citation field) and the subject appears to have moved to non-research positions, so this looks like a case for
WP:GNG rather than
WP:PROF to me, if there is notability to be found at all. —
David Eppstein (
talk)
16:21, 12 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Coming from
here, I just want to offer a few tips, first of all, thank you for your work at anti spam / upe and also want to note that
Phil Bridger is apt when they state that if a move is objected it shouldn’t be re-drafitified, it’s mentioned somewhere in WP:DRAFTIFY, tbh, that’s a mistake I too struggle with, having said, your works against possible undisclosed paid editing are very much appreciated.
As someone who has been in your current predicament in the past, it took the advice of
Beeblebrox ,
Ritchie333,
Kudpung and a host of other editors to teach how to tackle unethical editing efficiently and with little to no confrontation. You see, regardless of what is being said at the ANI, when you optimize the {{
UPE}} tag you aren’t wrong, it is in no way an accusation, it is a question & neither is it against policy if it were, it wouldn’t exist, anyone saying otherwise speaks that which is not true, on my UP I explain this with more detail, having said, if it is used frequently without a cogent concern it can be disruptive, generally speaking. To avoid the drama boards, there are other effective methods used when curbing unethical practices, for example, if it involves just one article, or perhaps two, then COIN does the trick. if you uncover a history of possible UPE by an editor who has been here for long, rather than use the UPE tag, just report them straight to
WP:ANI, with relevant proof(s), honestly there isn’t any need discussing anything with them, if you have damning evidence that may lead to
outing just report straight to ArbCOM. To be honest by doing the aforementioned you are skipping the drama. Infact, one of the most efficient manner of curbing upe as stated to me by
Bradv some months ago is just by nominating shady looking articles out of mainspace and in due time they by themselves would quit altogether. Hang in there, insofar as your motives & intentions are clearly for the benefit of the collaborative project, you need not be fazed by drama boards. Just read what is being said, offer your explanation, answer questions directly meant for you (or when pinged) un-watch it if you have it on your watchlist and go about your business. Celestina007 (
talk)
22:53, 14 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Considering both
user:2A00:1851:8004:A55:FCF7:5239:864C:9BC5 and
user:Bidoon have been blocked, the ANI case is moot.
Celestina007 makes excellent points. Keep up the good work both of you so that I can rest easy in my semi-retirement and eventually not have to bother editing Wikipedia at all - the so called 'collaborative' project has become just too nasty and will remain so as long as IP editing is still allowed.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk)
01:05, 15 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hello. Please also pay attention to this information: «... part of the AnastasiaDate online dating chain»; «The dating.com group appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database». The Dating Group includes not only this service, what's the point of specifying it? Regarding the second sentence, this information is insignificant in this article and raises great doubts.
2A00:1FA1:401C:72FA:D5D5:7434:8F38:901B (
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14:50, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited
Joseph Lister, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page
Archibald Primrose.
Hey Scope_creep. In the future, please don't draftify articles like you did
here. If they are unsourced, you can tag them as {{unreferenced}}. That page was published since 2005, and generally you are only supposed to
draftify if the page is a recent creation per
WP:ATD-I. Cheers! –MJL‐Talk‐☖19:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
MJL: Yip, I see it is a mainstream article, probably done in haste. I wouldn't normally move something like that, more than 5-6 months old, which is the length of the NPP queque. I found a couple of references, so it should be easily referenced. scope_creepTalk19:18, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hello, I saw you have removed the references to discogs. I don't understand why, their entries most often are written based off details found within the physical CD. What source do you suggest I use instead?
Obama gaming (
talk)
21:24, 2 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Obama gaming:. They are non-RS. Not a reliable source. They're are
WP:SPS source and can't be used on Wikipedia. If you relying on that kind of source, essentially copied by people from one medium to another, then your really wide of the mark. scope_creepTalk21:27, 2 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry to butt-in, but just a heads up @
Obama gaming: and @
Scope creep: Discogs CAN be used as a source actually; however, you have to directly link to the images of the release. And there must be something more than just artwork (credits, tracklisting, actual liner notes, etc.). Please see
this discussion. Simply use the
AV media template when doing so.
Xanarki (
talk)
17:32, 4 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Xanarki:, @
Obama gaming: That problem is it's ambigious and obscure, which leads to vast amount of unecessary work as most people ignore it anyway. They're is no method to determine what is the best approach, with the results that people use what they know. scope_creepTalk17:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Yeah I didn't know they had it as an automatic flag. I'll take a look around and see if anything can be done. Maybe they can add a script exception, if "/images" is in the cited Discogs URL. Or something similar to that. Since it'a technically the media itself being cited, and Discogs is just a host.
Xanarki (
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18:10, 4 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Obama gaming: This is just my opinion, but, you can source to Discogs so long as it's directly to the images that has useful content. Also, use it kind-of as a last resort. Search for another website that may have the liner notes/credits/times instead. If you really honestly can't find another source, then falling back on the pictures is okay because it'd be better than nothing at all.
Xanarki (
talk)
00:05, 5 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Xanarki: Do you think music review websites/official website press releases are better? For example on
The Perfect Cult many of the recording details were shared on an announcement on their official website, but things like graphic artist copyright were still listen on discogs. Appreciate it
Obama gaming (
talk)
00:31, 5 November 2021 (UTC)reply
If an editor disagrees with you moving a page into Draft space, do not "move war" and move it back to Draft space a second time. Editors are allowed to disagree with draftifying and are encouraged to move articles back to main space rather than cut-and-pasting a second version of the article in main space. If you think an article is in bad shape, please nominate it at
AFD or
PROD the page rather than insisting that an article be in Draft space against the wishes of the page creator. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!01:35, 3 November 2021 (UTC)reply
You BLAR'd it again, with your only edit summary being Redirect.
So that's one editor BLARing for referencing reasons, and one (you) restoring that redirect for unspecified reasons, not three restoring a preëxisting redirect for notability reasons.
Secondly, I don't know what about
this is "completely non-notable" on its face. If you have an argument for why it's non-notable despite references to reliable sources and existing on two sister wikis, the place to make that is in your edit summary. Especially since, as noted, you appear to be the first reviewer to look at this article and conclude that it's not notable.
Furthermore, as a new pages reviewer you should know that NPRs have no special power to BLAR articles. You, a new page reviewer in good standing, made a judgment that it is not suitable as an article. I, also a new page reviewer in good standing, made a judgment that it might be, or at least that you'd provided no reason to BLAR it. Per
BLAR, the appropriate next step is not to revert me (especially not with a line like "Don't revert"), but rather to discuss on talk or take the article to
AfD.
@
Tamzin: Thanks for that, but I don't need a lesson in notability. It is always the references, in all cases for redirecting, or Afd or Prod. Always the referencing. Here they are chronically bad and the subject doesn't deserve an article. All you have done is give space to non-electable, never elected non-notable non-entity of a party member, who fails
WP:NPOL, by a wide major. The Green has never been elected in their 45 year existance and top that the guy is the co-chair, meaning he is the junior member. scope_creepTalk16:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC)reply
All [I] have done is revert the unexplained and under-explained blankings of an article. I see the point you're making. It seems like a good point for an AfD to consider; it doesn't seem like strong grounds to blank and redirect. I note that the article has now been reviewed by
Pichpich. --
Tamzincetacean needed (she/they)05:38, 6 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi, @
117.237.249.79: The page can come back, if it is notable and you can prove it is notable. Each sentence needs a reference. It can't just be a block of text. It needs proper references and not something that has been written by somebody on their own. That is why I removed those references, one was a blog reference. It is was reviewed as part of
WP:NPP. If you want revert the redirect and have a go at adding some valid sources. Please take a look at
WP:REFB, which explains how to create them. scope_creepTalk18:31, 6 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I cannot understand why the article Manuel B Garcia Alvarez has been deleted. First, a 7-day period was set for adding new sources. It's only been 4 days and it's already been deleted, this is not serious.
Secondly, the article contained sources from newspapers of worldwide importance such as: "El Pais" and "ABC" of Spain and "Izvestia" of Russia and others from newspapers of international importance such as "Diario de León" of Spain and "Komuna" of Russia.
I have not had time to add more sources since they have deleted the article in breach of the 7-day deadline they had given me.
Please give me an explanation of what has happened. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Morseo (
talk •
contribs) 11:08, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi @
Morseo: Sorry I thought this was sent to Afd. It at draft here:
Draft:Manuel B. García Álvarez. I requested it be moved to draft as it source dubious at best and don't prove he is notable. scope_creepTalk12:08, 7 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Morseo: Don't put your name at the end of your signature. It is non-standard. I have seen several new editors doing that recently and it's likely to peeve people off. Regarding the article, I value scientists, artists, sculptures, poets, inventors, physicians, playwrights, authors much much higher than I do any sports people. I can assure you of that. The articles references doesn't accurately reflect the
WP:NPROF notability guideline which is one most, if not thee most, easy notability guidelines to apply, you either meet it, or you dont. There is no halfway ground. I will help you get this article up to speed. The first thing you should do in the article, in create a bibliography section, listing the books he has written, the most important ones, and look for reviews of the books. That will help him pass
WP:NAUTHOR. Do that first, give me a should. Two or better book reviews would pass him. I have not heard about dialnet. If he created it, please find a reference, put it in the article and I will check it. Find a reference for the position in the council of Europe, assuming it is established/important position, not a member or apparatchik. Any 2 or 3 book reviews combined with council of europe ref would move it out of draft today. I really hope that helps. I'm sure with the correct concomitant application of collaboration, the article will be out of draft today or tommorrow. scope_creepTalk13:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I updated the article, I added some new references and external links to the draft-
Morseo (
talk) 20:56, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
I have moved the article, I do not know if this is correct, if it is wrong, please let me know. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Morseo (
talk •
contribs)
10:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Stephen Hogan DRV
Hi there, hope you had a good weekend and all is well. Since you helped review the
Stephen Hogan page 2 months ago. Could you please comment on the DRV? Don't feel bad if you are also piling on. I appreciate your time and consideration. Thanks.
Supermann (
talk)
01:27, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Insane Clown Posse
There is an interview
here where they talk about being a part of hip hop. Sources discussing the group's music classify them under multiple genres, with hip hop being the most cited, followed by rap rock and a few others.
RockabillyRaccoon (
talk)
11:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
RockabillyRaccoon: Yip. I think your right. I think I was confusing the album cover with
Jazmin Bean which I reviewed last night. It is the same purple colouring and body shape. I listened to the music on Spotify last night. It isn't hip hop, for sure. I don't know what is is. She was notable. scope_creepTalk11:53, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
joflaher locked himself out of Wikipedia...Help, help, help me please
Scope crepe: I typically make Wikipedia edits though another computer. I am now working on my home computer in order to reach you. While editing Infantile digital fibromatosis just a bit ago, I held down some key too long, got a message, clicked on the wrong tag, and now cannot type anything into this other computer. I'm not sure what I did wrong but can you help me get back to my other computer. the email address for computer that I am now using is: 5oxoflaher@gmail.com Please rescue me...I may not be able to read you messages, but certainly can't answer them, through my normal work computer. Thank you. [User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk)
11:27, 10 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope Creep: I am away from my other computer and cannot turn it on and off. I also can't message you from that computer. I am using my other compputer to message you. What next and...thank you for all your help. User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk)
11:49, 10 November 2021 (UTC)reply
joflaher, trying to turn it on and off to see if that clear's the problems. Did you happen to see the message?
There could be a number of problems with it, including the disk, it could be the software itself, malware possibly, any number of things. Until you can get access to, to install remote support software, it is impossible to do anything. The best idea, is once you get access to it, try and turn it on and off and see if you see anything on the screen? How old is the computer? scope_creepTalk22:56, 10 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Scope creep; I will try turning the other (remote) computer on and off tomorrow when I am in front of it. The remote computer is a good one; not buts there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to message you from that computer unles on/off corrects the problem. Again, thank you for your help. User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk) 6:07, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
Scope creep: I got someone to turn my remote on and then off. It worked. I am now typing you this through my remote computer. Thank you...What a relief.User:joflaher|joflaher]] (
talk) 6:15, 10 November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
152.11.97.87 (
talk)
@
Telephone man123: Just passing by on this page, so I took a quick look at the draft. IIRC a good rule of thumb is that there should be 3 references to independent, reliable, secondary sources. The best source I see is independent and reliable, but is a primary source. The Stafford community group refs may not be reliable (I'd have to check further). The rest of the refs look usable, at first glance, but wouldn't count toward notability.
Smallbones(
smalltalk)17:42, 11 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Telephone man123:@
Smallbones: Reference 1,2,3,4,5, 6, 7 is dead, 8 don't count towards notability in any manner. They are either primary, not about the subject i.e. website front pages, dead links or self-published sources that
WP:SPS. The first block of reference should establish notability immediately. They're is simply nothing here to defines the lady as being notable. scope_creepTalk14:02, 12 November 2021 (UTC)reply
You say this album has been very successful, so it's very notable. But there's no evidence at all of its supposed success. I don't understand your statement.
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I mean, I don't understand how you can say it's been very successful when the only evidence of notability that I can find is that it made no. 14 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. I'd actually say it's been a very unsuccessful album. Every source currently in the article only says "this album was released, and the singles were also released".
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:16, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
What European charts and Chinese charts? I'm all for adding non-Billboard charts, but I can't find any evidence of these charts at all, there's nothing on Billboard's website or on a Google search – that's what I'm asking for, someone to add some evidence to the article to show notability.
Richard3120 (
talk)
23:38, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Richard3120: You really need to search out and ask. I would suggest asking at the reference desk for help. You really need to build intelligence on it. Google is great in the west, but non-existant in china. My poker mate, whose Chinese, recognised him. He has been seconded here for a wee while. He recognised him right away as they were leaving. But is a one off for this band ,off the cuff, what's really needed is a coordinated approach and i'm no longer fan type. scope_creepTalk23:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Well, I'm not denying Lil Gotit himself is notable, he certainly is. But I can't find any notability for this particular album of his. And really, it's up to the person claiming that this album is notable to provide the proof, per
WP:BURDEN.
Richard3120 (
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23:54, 17 November 2021 (UTC)reply
He is notable as well. Very much an established star type, I guess. The album is notable. Just because you can't state it is notable in Europe or China, is not a execuse to delete it. You need to find tools that can give you that type of information. It is absurd saying is doesn't seem to be notable in the United States with 4% of the worlds population, having never checked the other 97%, that a lot of artists seems to use and like it. It is non-argument. I'm a technical type, I would discover how to overcome that hurdle. I actually don't like the fact, that I can't access that info right now, but
WP:AGF applies at that level. scope_creepTalk00:06, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I think you have misunderstood me, because to be honest, that is a very strange answer. I know Lil Gotit is notable, I am not questioning that. But it does not mean that all his albums are notable. And your suggestion is the exact opposite of how Wikipedia works - you do not assume that an album is notable and tell other editors to go and find the information, it is your responsibility to find that information to show that the other editor is wrong. But I don't want to argue about this any more... I will wait to see if anyone adds some information that shows notability for the album, and if not, I will take it to AfD. By the way, I'm not American, so I don't think the USA is the only important place in the world.
Richard3120 (
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02:32, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Richard3120: Yip, I understand. This was a one-off. I took a look at your user page. I'm from Scotland. I think if you took it to Afd I wouldn't vote on it. I do think we need to crack this problem of non-access to info problem. You see it all the time at
WP:NPP, even in cultural and historical articles, where the references can't be checked, in sports, celebs and pop folk as well, very recently. It seems to be the case you assume AGF on them, that leaves it open to abuse. I read yesterday that China is slowing closing itself off, not just the borders, but the great firewall is being upgraded, making it more difficult to find the facts, not only there but countries that are following China's lead. scope_creepTalk13:00, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
I do agree with you that there is a problem that music articles are very centred on artists and records from North America and Europe, and sometimes you see articles from countries like Iran, or Estonia, or Indonesia go to AfD, simply because the nominator can't read the language or doesn't know where to find reliable sources from the country. But this is a much wider issue of access, that affects all articles, and it needs to be addressed at a higher level on Wikipedia.
Richard3120 (
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13:54, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep
Just so I understand the issue in relation to my own editing elsewhere can you explain the rationale behind
this change, bearing in mind that they both (I think) produce the same result. Cheers.
Davidships (
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03:27, 19 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks, Sc. I believe that gobbledy-gook is invented by Google and encodes the search route and other stuff that they want for their own tracking purposes.
Davidships (
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21:28, 19 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hi @
Lotje: They are christian symbols that the Germany Wikipedia uses quite extensively, but they are not used on here. When I do a translation I used to put them in, if they were on the German article, as they indication the person was Christian. As it was mostly German resistance fighters, who invariably were shot or hung after being caught by the Nazis, I sawit as a kind of memorial on my part. But they are definently not allowed per policy on this Wikipedia, unfortunately. Hope that helps!! scope_creepTalk12:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Lotje: What do you think of Annie Krauss yourself. She owned a huge paint supplier, yet was a clairvoyant. She used to use here powers to squeeze information out her customers. It shows you the depths that people go to, to satisfy a need. I could have wrote reams on here, as she was very interesting. scope_creepTalk12:08, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Lotje: I had to take that image off. That is a Gestapo picture. Can't have that on there. That is her after interrogation. There is a whole load of these images take up, because they are public domain, but they can't be used. scope_creepTalk12:22, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Lotje: That is not really a factor, I don't think. A historian I used to work with, sent me some Gestapo photographs about 2.5-3 years ago, and they shocked me to the core. I really wasn't prepared for them and had to sent them back. I think he was wanting me to know, that these were real people, it wasn't just some intellectual exercise of writing an article, and moving on. These images are either immediately taken after they were interrogated, or immediately before they were executed. In every one of them, the individual looks gubbed. It was only when I was told about it, that I noticed. They is a whole series of them and they are unsuitable for Wikipedia. I've replaced all of the
Red Orchestra folks images, for example
Harro Schulze-Boysen or
Libertas Schulze-Boysen (still getting worked on). They are really unsuitable for inclusion. scope_creepTalk13:07, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment Thanks for that ill link. @
Lotje:. At the bottom of the
Harro Schulze-Boysen there is a template that links all the biographies. There is an article here:
Leopold Trepper which is also has a template which links them. Any help there is appreciated, particularly those ill links. They are really handy. scope_creepTalk14:46, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Lotje: Yip, she travelled as
Sarah Orschitzer amongst other names, and as the CIA didn't have her real name, so they used here alias in
[12]] p.318 as Sarah Orschitzer.There is enough for a wee article. She is mentioned in several placed in Wikipedia, so that would tie that up. She could be added to the template as well. Are you up for doing it? There is an image available as well. scope_creepTalk16:12, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Not that image, but I'm glad you found that one. Geez that's been there for three years, never knew. The one I was thinking about was when she presented herself as a character witness, to help her husband move from Poland to Isreal. But unfortunately it is of an archive site which charges. There will be more, when she was much younger. If not, we can use this one. It is ideal. Its great you found that. I've changed the Trepper article, to Luba and moved the Sarah Orschitzer as an alias, further up the sentence. Orschitzer may have been her family name, but not sure. Are you talk about the Template names? They are in order of importance and/or use. scope_creepTalk16:27, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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Iffy: Fair enough but no. The question of why not list it at Afd is an execuse to create articles without references and that is now an unacceptable view . This is going on for 2022, not 2005 or even 2010, when it was largly acceptable. It is the view of
WP:NPP that an article needs to be sourced if it is in mainspace. There is no need for half completed articles to be there when there is both offline draft and sandboxes available that can be used to complete it. Use one of them to do. If you can't references for it, then there is no need for article to be in mainspace. It can sit in draft until it is referenced correctly. scope_creepTalk10:55, 1 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Notification for Draft:Enock "Nox" Guni Zimbabwean Urban Grooves Artiste improvements
Good day, would like to notify you that i did some work on an article that you moved to draft, it was a disaster but i worked on it, arranged it in proper Wiki format, you can do more on it if you like.
Draft:Nox GuniGwatakwata (
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10:16, 2 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Gwatakwata: Yip that looks better better structured. But, please take a look at
WP:REFB and provide proper full. references instead of bare urls. These urls only have 6-16 week lifespan and after a couple of year become very difficult to identify. Give me a shout when your finished and I will mainspace it. scope_creepTalk11:25, 2 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Victory Brinker
Your latest reversion does not have an explanation, despite me explaining my reasoning in the edit prior. As I don't want to violate the three-revert rule, please restore and nominate the article for deletion if you feel strongly about this. Thanks.
NemesisAT (
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14:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: Can you stop edit warring to restore that redirect. There was a prod on the article and it was deleted and nobody contested it. You also seem to be following me around, while not illegal it is unethical and dodgy to the extreme. Removing prods all the time, without a good reason and not even leaving a rationale isn't cool. Your severely peeving me off. There is only really one outcome of these strong inclusionist tendencies you seem have, and that is visit to AN. There is strong consensus up there, Arbcom has a good understanding of the problem now as well. Dude, if had left a proper rationale on the article and explained it, but they are ISP's. They are one of the most common companies in the world. The Victory Brinker article was already prodded. You didn't even check that. Anybody who suggests to me to take it to Afd, after removing the prod on a crap article is going to AN. scope_creepTalk14:36, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Regarding
Victory Brinker, another editor PRODed it on 21 September 2021 and I subsequently contested it. Today the article was redirected by Onel5969. This showed up in my watchlist and I challenged the revert. You then came in after and reverted me twice, the first time claiming the PROD wasn't contested (it was, by me), and the second time without an explanation). I don't feel I'm edit warring here.
Concerning me "following you around", I'm not. I use
User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary. Today, between 13:50 and 14:04 I contested four PRODs, two of them placed by yourself and two by other users. Following that, you reverted my edit to Victory Brinker at 14:03, nominated
Interlake Maritime Services (which you had never edited before) for deletion at 14:05, got involved at
Talk:Edinburgh at 14:12 and moved an article I created to draft at 14:15. This evidence speaks for itself, I contested two PRODS during a routine review of a log, and you made four retaliatory edits against me within 15 minutes.
Removing prods all the time, without a good reason and not even leaving a rationale isn't cool. I generally do leave a rationale when contesting a PROD, though note that per
WP:PROD, I am not required to do so.
Dude, if had left a proper rationale on the article and explained it, but they are ISP's. They are one of the most common companies in the world. This sentence doesn't make sense sorry I think you've made a typo.
There is only really one outcome of these strong inclusionist tendencies you seem have, and that is visit to AN. There is strong consensus up there, Arbcom has a good understanding of the problem now as well. Empty threats aren't cool either. I'm still confused as to what I've done wrong. Anybody who suggested to me to take it to Afd after removing the prod on a crap article is going to AN. Why? That's the whole point of PROD. Easy to PROD, easy to remove a PROD. Another vague threat, but I don't believe contesting a PROD is breaking any rule.
NemesisAT (
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15:01, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Sometimes I feel they already pass guidelines, or could pass them with some improvement. Sometimes its an old article with a lot of content or a lot of contributions, and I feel it should go through the deletions process so more eyes are on it and there is more time for people to find sources. Now could you please address the contents of my message above?
NemesisAT (
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15:12, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: You are not a reviewer in NPP or APC, you don't write large articles that are well referenced, and your judgement doesnt seem to be particularly sound when your deprodding these articles that have been reviewed by experienced NPP/AFC editors, who found them to be junk. So why are you doing it? Why are you using a script to find articles to deprod, which itself is breaking the consensus for the design of the guidelines. You don't even leave a rationale. scope_creepTalk15:19, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I left a summary on all three of my edits to
Victory Brinker. Your first summary, Restore. prod wasn't contested, was false, and the second, Restore., did not provide any reasoning at all.
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NemesisAT: Simply put, that editor is a page reviewer and writes large articles over a sustained period, so has a excellent judgement on what constitutes notability. They have been reviewing for donkey's. scope_creepTalk16:04, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I don't think that's an adequate answer to be honest. Regardless, if you're not going to raise this at
WP:AN could you please repeat here what you were going to write? You've accused me of various things so I'd like a specific answer on what I'm doing wrong and what rules I'm breaking. Thanks.
NemesisAT (
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16:09, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: Your not breaking any rules, but that doesn't make it right. The prod mechanism was created about 2006-2007 and it has been updated continuosly but it's mostly the same. It has made very easy to remove the tag, but the other side of the coin, you have some idea of what your doing and a rationale behind it. You don't seem to be. Articles with a lot of content or a lot of contribtions are really nothing to do with it. It is the quality of the references that count and whether they indicate that it is notable. Structure only comes into when it is well referenced and is notable. You get lots of article that are paid that have 10's of editor to 100's of editor putting their wee bit in. I really don't trust your judgement, or think you know what your talking about. unless it is celebrity stuff or the companues, which I guess it is the reason you went for these prods, and the reason I'm trying to delete them.
Victory Brinker doesn't have existance outside the show, no coverage. scope_creepTalk16:29, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
You don't like my reasoning or rationales, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Per
WP:ATD-R and
WP:BLAR, you should not have redirected the article again. You should have discussed, or nominated for deletion. You threatened to take me to AN because I asked you to take something to AfD, yet that's literally one of the options
WP:BLAR says to pursue.
NemesisAT (
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16:43, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I have read the guidelines, but that is also the same line from that inclusionist group
WP:ARS members used to take, that was up at AN, several weeks ago and that you voted on first. I wouldn't mind your reasoning if was balanced and rational but is not. scope_creepTalk16:51, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
If you've read those guidelines, why didn't you follow them? Instead, you reverted my edit without explanation. And now you're questioning my reasoning?
NemesisAT (
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17:27, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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NemesisAT: Since this insn't an Afd, please tell me why you think they are notable enough not to be prodded, as there is no assumption they should automatically go Afd, since I may be wrong. Why do you think they are notable enough not to be prodded. scope_creepTalk17:59, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I wrote in the history "add ref, decline PROD. Has had more than one appearance on different programs, so I feel she may be notable". I'm sorry, I don't need to provide any more reasoning than that. What "line" where you referring to in your comment at 16:51?
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19:31, 6 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hello Scope Creep,
You do so much great work for this encyclopedia. Thank you.
It is sad to see the frustration in some of your writings recently, so it seems like some folks are getting you down. I don't have any specific advice to offer (you would have a much better idea than me of what to do), but I just hope that you can spend your time here doing things that give you satisfaction.
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:JK Llamera
Can you please not just randomly strike comments as you did there.
WP:SOCKSTRIKE only applies if the author is a sock, which I am rather obviously not, the fact that the originating IP is an open proxy is irrelevant as per
policy: While this may affect legitimate users, they are not the intended targets and may freely use proxies until those are blocked. Yes due to the app I'm using my IP is currently hopping randomly all over eastern europe, yes some of those probably are proxies, I have absolutely no control over this but I never cast more than 1 !vote, and my style is painfully obvious. Bottom line this app is fast, it's free, and I don't feel like taking 15-30 minutes to test out a few dozen other ones to find one that's better. Granted there's nothing stopping LTAs from also using the app, but english monoglots will be completely unable to use it and it may well not even be available in the countries that have the majority of editors. Don't get me wrong it's not like eastern europe has any shortage of LTAs some of whom do not like me, but the density is lower. And given that like me they would have almost a hundred other apps to choose from the odds are against any issues occurring.
Incidentally I'm still not seeing any
WP:DMFD reason to delete, as Liz pointed out there's about two to three dozen unsourced blps dumped into draftspace on any given day, mostly self-promo junk, but g13 handles that without wasting everyone's time. MFD is actually terrible idea in these cases because the draft will get more views in those 7 days than it would otherwise get in 6 months (cf.
Streissand effect); further we allow unsourced blps to go 7 days in mainspace where they are actually indexed and can be found through searches. To the extent unsourced bios are a probelem, and I'm not convinced that self-promo autobios that 1 edit users place in drafts or on their userpage really are, community efforts should be focused on
Category:All BLP articles lacking sources which as of this writing includes over 90,000 articles with a backlog going back years, those are indexed and can potentially do real harm. If the bio is unsourced and negative speedy it as a g10, if not, we can safely ignore it along with all the other draftspace junk.
If you're really insistent I can actually ping an SPI clerk here who is familiar with my MO, and will confirm my statements, obviously I can't stop you from filing an SPI but there's still enough people around who recognise me that there's a fair chance you'll be laughed out of the room. And no I am not creating an account regardless of how many problems it would solve,
meatball:LoginsAreEvil. Regards,
188.232.146.110 (
talk)
15:55, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Fine, but why not create an account, like any other normal person if you have access to the page? Regarding that LoginAreEvil page, it is total bullshit of the lowest kind, for a number of reasons. It makes zero sense. scope_creepTalk16:04, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
This doesn't happen super often, but it does happen, the mfd regulars have probably seen it often enough where they will shrug and move on, it's all about strength of argument anyway, and I try to ground my !votes thoroughly in the PAGs as !votes from IPs tend to be ignored otherwise anyway. I disagree the page is BS, but hey you can change it, meatball is also a wiki, just don't be surprised if you get reverted by the community members there. If you want some other reasons stored locally,
WP:WNCAA while tagged humourous has a solid arguement,
User:69.145.123.171/registering is also worth reading even all these years later. Regards,
188.232.146.110 (
talk)
16:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
It is an unsourced BLP and seems to be worthless as an article and will be deleted, in due course. I will not be editing anything that called Meatball, humorous or otherwise. You haven't answered my question, why not create and account? scope_creepTalk16:32, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
We both agree it is worthless and will never become an article, but
WP:Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity and
WP:RAGPICKING is a waste of time. The difference is I prefer these be quietly deleted through g13, and supporting deletion in those mfds only encourages more of them while dramatically increasing the number of pageviews the drafts will receive over their lifetime. The additionally 20-40 daily draft mfds would also overwhelm mfd. If the someone is really dead set against these, and it is a tricky issue because draftspace is supposed to be a place to safely develop topics away from the normal notability standards (in theory anyway, in practice it's mostly a holding area for junk until g13 automatically cleans it away, but it reduces the time that would otherwise be needed to afd/prod/csd the stuff in mainspace, see also
WP:DUD) then they should go to
WT:CSD and get consensus for a new one to enable quiet deletion to take place without taking up any community time the way mfds do.In fact essentially everything that is brought to mfd is going to be deleted eventually, it's just preferable that g13 be used so mfd can focus on the rare cases outlined in
WP:NMFD where a discussion is actually necessary rather then being flooded with crap that could just as easily have been ignored and deleted per g13. The silliest noms are the ones that take place less than a week prior to when the draft would've otherwise been g13 eligible, no matter what deletion ends up delayed.I think it's best if we just agree to disagree on registering for now. At present I really only have time to edit between some other tasks, and I should really commit to a wikibreak anyway, maybe in a few months when I'm less busy a random IP will pop back onto your talk page to explore the issue in further detail. Regards,
188.232.146.110 (
talk)
17:09, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Yip, yip, that seems sensible. I've heard folk complain to Mfd about using it that way. It seems to be the way for some reason, for some articles. If you are coming back, create an account will you. That way, folk can see you, you can become part of the firmament and we can send you thanks and whatnot. You seem to know the guidelines backwards, so your an definently an asset to Wikipedia, unless there is a specific reason your not doing it, of course. scope_creepTalk17:21, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Marcelo Claure
Hi, I wanted to ask the reason behind reverting some of the edits made to
Marcelo Claure, as these edits have been agreed on the article's talk page, and you ignored my proposal of discussing this issue there. Thanks,
AtomsRavelAztalk17:56, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Scope creep: Thanks for letting me know, could you please provide me with the link. I did state on
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard that I was paid for some of my contributions, but not for the majority of them. Frankly, like I said before, I kept postponing it because I assumed it would be a very time consuming matter which I somewhat dreaded, but now that the issue has finally caught up with me I'm more than willing to defend myself if necessary, and act in accordance with
Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
AtomsRavelAztalk18:10, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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AtomsRavelAz: I see it is controversies section your looking to add. So your being paid? Where is your paid disclosure on the your user page. I notice there is 13 mention of the word Britghtstar in a relatively short BLP article, that worries somewhat re: the NLP crowd. If you are paid, you should make a edit request per
WP:EDITREQ, which is the standard way a coi edit's an article, on the talk, not by 6k to 30k article. The article being relatively short for successful businessman, doesn't mean that more than 80% of the content needs descriptions of the companies. A person's life is more than his work, obviously. So it needs to be slimmed, by quite a bit. The brightstar stuff is covered in its own article. It doesn't need any extraneous information on it, if it has its own article. Make a declaration will you, otherwise I will need to try and get you blocked, for breaking Wikipedia Terms of Use. scope_creepTalk18:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: Ok, thanks a lot. I'll make all the necessary arrangements. I'm not looking to cause trouble for anyone, I'd really appreciate if you could comment on
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Paid work discovery, where someone pointed out my paid contributions. Like I said, I hadn't gotten to it because I believed it would be a time consuming matter which was going to stress me out. Let me know if there is anything else I should do, I'm willing to collaborate 100%. Thanks,
AtomsRavelAztalk18:25, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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AtomsRavelAz: I found out this morning that your weren't informed of your entry up at Coin. That was a bit crass by the posting editor. It is not normal practice. Sorry about springing it on you. scope_creepTalk12:55, 18 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Scope creep: Yes, the whole thing seemed kind of odd, I really want to assume good faith and move on, but there's a paranoid side of me that thinks there was some sort of agenda pushing against my person, especially if you take into consideration that that user has no previous contributions, no talk page, no user page, and then all of a sudden they go on an editing frenzy of all of the articles I declared being paid for, he added this template that says "It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view" when even himself said at COIN that "your articles are well-written and neutral so no action required", so if they are well written and neutral why is he still adding the template to all of them?, especially when you consider that
Wikipedia:CONFLICT states that "There are three venues to do this" and not that all three venues are mandatory, and I had already disclosed my paid contributions on my user page. His account was created on December 17 of this year, how is he so familiarized with Wikipedia's jargon and technicalities in such a short time?, either he is remarkably savvy or there is something else going on of which I have not been informed.
AtomsRavelAztalk13:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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SVTCobra: They are two UPE's and the IP is probably related to one of them. Yip. That got ugly quickly. Smoke and mirrors, what they used to called FUD, trying to get fear, uncetainty and doubt going to obfuscate the issue. scope_creepTalk17:26, 20 December 2021 (UTC)reply
One of them claimed to be the IP and actually very early in the responses. Since my post to your talk page, there was rev-del for copyright. Cheers, --SVTCobra17:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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SVTCobra: Yip, I noticed that. They are UPE's. I've no doubt about it. Just need to convince an coin admin to block them. It is clear as day, and all obsfucation is just part of the playbook. scope_creepTalk17:35, 20 December 2021 (UTC)reply
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Hi Scope creep, May you have a bright and beautiful holiday season. Thank you for all your work on the encyclopedia. Have a happy and healthy 2022!
Thankyou for your contribution to ANI. I have been doing these edits to try and bring article leads into compliance with the Wikipedia manual of style guidelines that says use William Henry Gates not William Henry "Bill" Gates. I thought I was making sure that I was not stepping into religious figure ones when I came across them. I can think of at least 2 religious figures that I saw similar issues with and made sure to move on. With articles that have a religious figure title in parentheses, I only click on them because of wanting the whole birth year category to go from blue to purple so I can easily tell I have gone through all articles, and click back off before I even see anything. I guess I was so focused on making the changes in these cases that I got careless and did not check to make sure they were in no way a religious leader, broadly construed. I am very sorry about this. I was not at all trying to evade the topic ban. The other 2 were the fact that if we have a name given as say J. Edgar Hoover we in the opening say John Edgar Hoover and do not further than that explain the common name form. That was the issue involved in the second edit, if you look at
J. Edgar Hoover] you will see we just give his name, and do not bother further saying in the lead he was commonly known as J. Edgar Hoover, because it is the article title. That is the issue involved in the second case, and it had no relevance to who the person was, so I unwisely and rashly did not even both trying to figure out, which I am sincerely sorry for. In the last case it is standard practice to put (1915-1996) or whatever exact years someone lived in parentheses after the name. In that case I saw that the person was a state legislator, and I knew their birth date because of the category, and quickly saw the death date in the categories as well. I probably quickly glanced through the article to ensure that the birth and death years were in the article, but I failed to read it in detail because the lead only said they were a member of the a state legislature and all the categories identified them as a politician, or were bare bio facts categories, there were no categories that at all related to religion. In the imposing of the topic ban in part it said 'There was some concern that such a topic ban would be over-reaching, which was addressed with one comment "This should be apparent from categories, and if John finds out a topic he thought had no religious involvement is not religiously involved, he could play it very safe and revert his edits."' All 3 of these were rushed edits focused on very specific things. I am very sorry that I did them, and will try my hardest to not do them in the future. The only one that involved ever looking beyond the very opening name, into any actual content was the state legislator, and that is what is emphasized both by categories and by the lead. Well, I should say that is all about the person that is included in categories or the lead.
John Pack Lambert (
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14:24, 21 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi Scope creep, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia, –
Davey2010Talk17:48, 23 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Sorry for the inconvenience. The message was about the article on Manuel B Garcia Alvarez.
I updated the article, I added some new references and external links to the draft-Morseo (talk) 20:56, 19 December 2021 (UTC) I have moved the article, I do not know if this is correct, if it is wrong, please let me know and i will erase it.
Merry Christmas!
Morseo (
talk) 10:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
@
Morseo: Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great New Year. scope_creepTalk11:12, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Pfizer and the British Medical Journal
Are you saying that the BMJ is junk?
@
Klimt.1980: No the BMJ isn't junk, it speaks truth and is a high-end academic source, but the site your quoting is putting a spin on it, which is incorrect and asserts a Wikipedia policy
WP:NPOV. That site is absolute junk. Also, that article is read by millions of people, and dumping a bare url in the wrong area isn't cool. I will post a welcome message, so you can learn to edit correctly but don't post that link again, please. Also please don't write on the user page. Only talk page please. scope_creepTalk12:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I hope you're doing well! I wrote a Wikipedia article about Tony Coles in the past and it was nominated for deletion, and soon later, deleted because it failed “
WP:BIO and
WP:SIGCOV.”
It seems that based off what you had taught me in that experience about
WP:SIGCOV and
WP:MOS, this article on
Vladimir Torchilin has some similar issues. Can you take a look at the article and tell me your thoughts on it? I feel like this article is lacking in
WP:BIO and
WP:NOTE, as well as
WP:SIGCOV and
WP:MOS; and based off what you had explained to me in our previous experience, should potentially be nominated deletion (or if possible, completely rewritten with secondary sources). --
RealPharmer3 (
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02:21, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
RealPharmer3: How goes it. It is a slightly different case. Completely rewritten with secondary sources. Looking at Google Scholar
[13], he passes
WP:NPROF. He is a very intelligent and sucessful academic. It is very hard to find Russian sources, due to the language and translation problems. I see what you mean by lack of sources and it sure needs rewritten. It will be very hard going. I think that is reason the way it looks. Its been taken directly off the CV, as its the easiest way. I will put it on my todo list. Any help on it is appreciated. I will try and get the Russian Wikiproject going on it, if there is one. There is one. Cool. That will make it easier. Thanks for posting it up. Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great 2022. scope_creepTalk11:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Scope creep: Oh alright, sounds good to me. I'm happy to get involved in rewriting it! Just getting a hold of some good sources would be beneficial. Let's stay in touch, and we can make some solid strides with the article! Have a wonderful holiday! --
RealPharmer3 (
talk)
15:37, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Your recent article submission to
Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
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Hello, Scope creep!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Theroadislong (
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11:10, 26 December 2021 (UTC)reply
The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants)
ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.
The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:
Revision of standard question 1 to Why are you interested in becoming an administrator? Special thanks to xaosflux for help with implementation.
A new process,
Administrative Action Review (XRV) designed to review if an editor's specific use of an advanced permission, including the admin tools, is consistent with policy in a process similar to that of
deletion review and
move review. Thanks to all the editors who contributed (and are continuing to contribute) to the discussion of how to implement this proposal.
Removal of
autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to Wugapodes and Seddon for their help with implementation.
The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:
Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at
RFA's talk page or an appropriate
village pump.
A final and huge thanks all those who participated in this effort to improve our RFA process over the last 4 months.
This is the final update with no further talk page messages planned.
First of all happy new year Scope creep. Secondly, feel free to ignore the IP editor, they are 99.9% the paid sockpuppet abuser who created the article in the first place. -
Kevo327 (
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00:26, 1 January 2022 (UTC)reply