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:I've been soldiering on trying to make [[Chinese Canadians in British Columbia]] cogent, NPOV ''and readable'' while complaints about me "attacking' the other editor (who attcks me regularly) have once again been made. I'm ignoring the silliness of all that and just plugging at it, though not all-day every-day as it's a massive amount of work to do......and thought it worth noting on CANTALK (even though I've de-watchlisted that page because of the nasty attitude towards me there) but I see that, while there seems to be some interest in getting my comments more readership, I have yet to see any sign of actual useful comment on ''the issues'', only on some technicality as to whether it's a subsection or a section heading...... |
:I've been soldiering on trying to make [[Chinese Canadians in British Columbia]] cogent, NPOV ''and readable'' while complaints about me "attacking' the other editor (who attcks me regularly) have once again been made. I'm ignoring the silliness of all that and just plugging at it, though not all-day every-day as it's a massive amount of work to do......and thought it worth noting on CANTALK (even though I've de-watchlisted that page because of the nasty attitude towards me there) but I see that, while there seems to be some interest in getting my comments more readership, I have yet to see any sign of actual useful comment on ''the issues'', only on some technicality as to whether it's a subsection or a section heading...... |
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:In my view, the "Hongcouver" section as it is deserves deletion, and should not be a subsection-title in the article as UNDUE as it's a long-dead issue and ''never was a nickname''. More like a term that, when used, is used ironically and with distaste. Giving it so much wiki-coverage perpetrates it, and has a POV impact, especially given the still-remaining-though-soon-to-be-cleared-out POV ranting about "white people said nasty things about Chinese people" and "white people were mean to Chinese people |
:In my view, the "Hongcouver" section as it is deserves deletion, and should not be a subsection-title in the article as UNDUE as it's a long-dead issue and ''never was a nickname''. More like a term that, when used, is used ironically and with distaste. Giving it so much wiki-coverage perpetrates it, and has a POV impact, especially given the still-remaining-though-soon-to-be-cleared-out POV ranting about "white people said nasty things about Chinese people" and "white people were mean to Chinese people" [[cant]] of the article-as-compiled by the editor who created that....and is now re-creating it, encouraged by another non-Canadian who seems only interested in format and appearance and doesn't give diddly-squat about the NPOV policy, while pandering to t he other editor's claim that a conflated version of the Verifiability policy ''must'' be resolved first (in other words, I should concede and agree to the conflation, which is about needless page-cites as a way to block sources/information from being included), ''before'' NPOV is dealt with. The other editor claims "there is no NPOV" and "there is no fork"....which given his No. 34 status on the list of top 400 Wikipedians and his 7 years on Wikipedia, indicates that NPOV and POV forking are two policies he's never read or just doesn't care about. |
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:Yes, I'm long-winded, but the issues aren't simple, and informed input rather than complaints and criticisms of so-called "behavioural guidelines" have been being useed to try and get me blocked or banned so that the POV empire-builder can continue on his work bastardizing BC/Canadian history without being "interfered with", as he recently described to TMQ (on the CCinBC talkkpage) my name-change and additions to that article months ago.[[User:Skookum1|Skookum1]] ([[User talk:Skookum1|talk]]) 03:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC) |
:Yes, I'm long-winded, but the issues aren't simple, and informed input rather than complaints and criticisms of so-called "behavioural guidelines" have been being useed to try and get me blocked or banned so that the POV empire-builder can continue on his work bastardizing BC/Canadian history without being "interfered with", as he recently described to TMQ (on the CCinBC talkkpage) my name-change and additions to that article months ago.[[User:Skookum1|Skookum1]] ([[User talk:Skookum1|talk]]) 03:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC) |
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Linda Pinizzotto
Hi there. I see that you nominated Linda Pinizzotto for deletion here. I have nominated it for a second time. Take care. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:13, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Alan Milliken Heisey Sr.
Hi Bearcat new to wikipedia so this may not be formatted correctly or responsive I see you nominated Alan Heisey Sr. for deletion I believe some of your comments on the draft were fair and have revised it as it did read like an obituary Alan Heisey Sr. was described on the net in a 1976 newspaper article by a columnist from a major Canadian newspaper the Ottawa Citizen as Canada's leading anti nationalist This was highly controversial at the time as there was no one else in Canada who spoke publicly in favour of free trade with the US in the 1960's-70's His book is cited as a reference by several independent sources on the net and I have now provided 2 citations The old City of North York had 500,000 people and a commercial high density downtown serviced by a subway that connected the old city of Toronto and old North York The old City of Toronto had about 600,000 people before they were amalgamated North York was the second largest of the 6 municipalities amalgamated to form the new city of toronto The two cities shared a long physical boundary and a subway and transit system
They were also both part of the same regional municipality the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto
The former City of North York had one councillor for about every 50,000 people
The new larger city of Toronto has about the same councillor to population ratio as the city of north york did before amalgamation
Ward 8 on the old city of north york is about the same electoral boundaries as Ward 25 Don Valley West in the new amalgamated city of toronto
If you are correct in your approach no councillors from the old City of Toronto would qualify either for inclusion in wikipedia
Will keep trying to find web sources for late 70s city of north york politics not very easy to find for anyone
I have removed the ancestry and publishing stuff and the conservative politics due to lack of leadership role in party
You are correct that he was unsuccessful in most of his political endeavours but his fringe Mayoralty candidacy was sufficiently notable it was written about in the media at that time, A harvard MBA running for Mayor as a fringe candidate is unusual
Unionville(talk)Unionville (talk) 19:22, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
99.231.246.74 (talk) 13:14, 7 January 2015 (UTC)HI Bearcat thanks for your constructive criticism of this original article I have found numerous references and citations to the book he wrote and believe there are now lots of independent third sources I believe is now enough to justify inclusion I was unaware of how serious some take wikipedia and didn't know there were criteria for notability amongst other things {{User talk:Unionville|Unionville]]
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I would like to know why you deleted the carefully written text about Judith Silverthorne. All the text has been cleared by her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oliverfuller (talk • contribs) 14:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
References
References are removed all the time. So I don't know why you say they aren't. If you need references for Murdoch DVDs, then why were seasons 1-6 and season sets references removed? Your reasoning doesn't exactly make sense. 74.58.164.84 (talk) 02:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Dates in publications
Hi again. I am editing List of Canadian Poets etc and I noticed two ways of recording dates of publications:
- 1985: The Captain, HMS Press, ISBN 0-919957-13-7 and
- The Captain, HMS Press, ISBN 0-919957-13-7 (1985) for example
I am changing the second example(s) to the first example order of date and title. is this correct? I have been away for 4 years and have forgotten a few things Haiku Tea (talk) 00:26, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
only a councillor but decidedly a "first in BC" and prob in Canada
Been browsing one of the hometown museum's pages today, looking for this and that; and found Naranjan Singh Grewall whose local record as councillor and community leader is perhaps only notable locally (Fraser Valley/BC) but it would seem his ethnic status as a "first" mandates notability; I don't have time to digest a bio here, and would need more sources (Fraser Valley Record archives, now the Mission Record and to look around province-wide/city papers to see what other cites there would be. Also found William "Bill" Matheson, first reeve of Mission District (the town/village had a mayor; the reeve title lasted until amalgamation in the early '70s. I knew the family name from school, and had never known why a certain little road right-of-way, now a golf course driveway, near our home bore that name. Again, more will be needed to write a bio; but notability in either case is a given, according to what I've gathered from you in recent discussions on other municipal politicians. Correct?Skookum1 (talk) 13:20, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
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CSAs
Hi. I'll help with populating this if I can, but for starters it doesn't look like the digital award categories exactly matches http://www.academy.ca/Canadian-Screen-Awards/2015-Nominees-Winners/Digital-Media ? I think we're missing the top one, Best Original Interactive Production Produced for Digital Media. I'm loathe to muck with your table for fear of completely screwing it up... Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:25, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Robin Esrock
Anamedia (talk) 22:49, 13 January 2015 (UTC) Hi Bearcat, I'm busy adding new sources for travel writer Robin Esrock, as his articles in some of the major media are no longer online. You mention I look suspicious because I have media in my name and have only posted about Robin. I heard Robin speak at my high school many years ago and someone asked him why he didn't have a wikipedia page. He said because nobody had built one yet. So I decided to do it. Never posted about anyone or anything else because I saw it as a project and have tried to keep it updated over the years. My apologies if it looks like a puff piece, I'm still learning! I also noticed you're from Canada. You should definitely check out his book The Great Canadian Bucket List about the best experiences in Canada. He loves the prairies![1] [1] Thanks so much!
- ^ METRO News: Travel writer Robin Esrock includes Saskatchewan visits in ‘Bucket List’ book
Why not add the categories yourself?
Hi .
Instead of adding {{Uncategorized|date=January 2015}} and so on, why don't you simply just go ahead and add categories yourself?
Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:43, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- Bearcat, thank you for taking the time to reply to this. I now fully understand your reasons for the occasional "uncategorized" category. I also now understand that this was a misguided question to start with, and indicated a lack of research on my part. I apologize, and hope I to mend my ways in future. Thank you again for replying, and for your patience with me. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 08:58, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hindaun
Yesterday you fully protected Hindaun. I came across an almost blanked Hindaun City-Rural, reverted the blanking, but looked into the revision history and reverted deeper; I have apologized to Kushus for warning him, I believe his blanking in the first place was done in good faith. A Google search does not suggest that there are any sources on "Hindaun City-Rural". Comparing Previous revision of Hindaun City-Rural with Hindaun it looks like a a fork with the added element of endless bulleted lists of all kinds of things. I believe both Hindaun City-Rural and Hindaun city medi are implausible redirects, but would like to hear your opinion. Sam Sing! (please WP:PING when replying) 11:33, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
- Tulshi Pandey (t c) returned on the 26th, but did not reply on WP:IN, he just did this.
- When I filed three redirects at RFD he showed up, this time to hijack the redirect Hindaun City-Rural again, which got him blocked.
- I looked into his edits and noticed yet another hijack:
- 5 October 2013 revision of Ibrahimpur was a village in Azamgarh district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
- Cf. two edits later by Tulshi Pandey:
- 15 December 2014 revision of Ibrahimpur, a village in Hindaun in the Indian state of Rajasthan. -- Sam Sing! 02:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
- He is back and it's the same editing style. I have filled at AIV. Garhi, Kaurali needs to be moved to Garhi, Karauli. -- Sam Sing! 00:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- You made a small edit to Medi, India on 8 Nov 2014. Notice that Tulshi Pandey's previous edits were yet another blatant hijacking. The Banner restored to last decent in December. -- Sam Sing! 00:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hindaun Subdristict has now been recreated by a new user. I have tagged it with G4. -- Sam Sing! 12:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- They are socking in Suroth, would you care to comment on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tulshi Pandey? -- Sam Sing! 09:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Deletion discussion about Whatever, Linda
Hello, Bearcat,
I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Whatever, Linda should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whatever, Linda .
If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.
Thanks, Deunanknute (talk) 18:24, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Delete of "Who's Paying? The Answer to Leadership" and "Square Cow"
Hi Bearcat,
If possible, I like to get your help on this… it looks like you have delete the page with reference to the book “Who’s Paying? The Answer to Leadership. And also the corresponding page on the author, Square Cow and on both page, the reason for deletion is “G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)”.
Honestly, I personally have read the book and quite a few of my friends have read this book and we believe this is truly something worthy of being noted to the world. The fact that these were true stories in an attempt to help others and the authors do not want to claim fame or credits publicly is an act of genuine nobility. We are not here to promote the book but I think the world of encyclopedia would have the openness to contain such act and help plant the seeds for the next rounds of books from the authors. Don’t you agree?
Also, the book has the isbn# listed for authenticity. It is also available at Amazon: http://amzn.com/1503160742 . So this is an something real and I did not make it up…
This is also very similar to the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Dysfunctions_of_a_Team
on the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni which also have an author wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lencioni which have been around for quite sometime...
How about this?…if I may mail you a copy of the book for your review… and you can help gauge how the book may help others and is worthy of noting to the world?
Although my contributions are very small now, but i do need to start from somewhere...My intention is to help build a better wiki and like book, to help others...
Please let me know how best to message you in private so that I can get one and mail a copy to you.
Thank you so much for your time and any thoughts will be deeply appreciated.
Andy--Andy Yuhas (talk) 14:56, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Request regarding Deletion of Article on Soumya Jain
Hi Bearcat
This is with reference to your comments on the deletion of article Soumya Jain. I really appreciate your comments, specially since, yes, I am a new contributor and working my way around Wikipedia. So I might have unknowingly made some errors in the article. It would be great if you could give me a little more detailed insight on how I could improve or validate the article. Thanks! --Ag.gautam (talk) 20:45, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Request for clarification regarding Deletion of Article on The Weather Station (musician)
Hi Bearcat – thanks for replying to my entry for The Weather Station the musical side project of Tamara Lindeman. In your response, you stated the following as justification for the article's removal:
- If The Weather Station were a band of which she were a member, then a separate article would be warranted — but it's just her working with a rotating lineup of session musicians, not a band per se, so it needs to be discussed in the same article as her acting. :
In response, please see existing article for Coconut Records, which states it is a "musical solo project by" actor Jason Schwartzman, and proceeds to list the rotating lineup of musicians. Would you please clarify why this example does not violate Wikipedia's guidelines?Patrick outside (talk) 20:21, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Request / Thanks
Bearcat thank you for the categories on 26 Nosler page. Would you mind providing categories on the 28 Nosler page as well? Thank you! .28 Nosler Nosler Info (talk) 23:16, 28 January 2015 (UTC) Nosler Info
Naomi Klein
I was not aware of such as rule. Can you provide a link for me? Bonewah (talk) 20:11, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (5th most active!), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:18, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hey Bearcat, any chance you could help me out with this? Few more responses would really be very valuable to me. As the 5th most active Wikipedian, your input really does matter. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:17, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
TV stations by channel number categories
You'll probably see that this CfD - for the Canadian stations at least - has been closed in favour of listifying the categories. I've prepped some of the U.S. ones in my userspace, anticipating that this was going to be the result, so I think I have a handle on what they could look like (see User:Mlaffs/Channel 44 virtual TV stations in the United States for an example) and I'd be happy to start pecking away at them.
I know how to validate what should be in the U.S. versions and what the appropriate references links are to include, but I'm not as close to the Canadian sources (odd, since I'm in Canada). I know that Canadian broadcasting is kind of your bag, so just wondering if you can suggest what the best resource is to use for this, either to validate the content or to include as a reference? Mlaffs (talk) 05:50, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Oof. Well, that's not going to make this process easy by any means. I looked at the CRTC's site, which is where I figured the TV stuff would be, but I can't find anything beyond a bare record - no type of detail similar to the FCC at all. I couldn't find anything at Industry Canada period; thought that was for radio only, but I guess I'm looking in the wrong spot. Thanks for the info. Mlaffs (talk) 06:04, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Ken Wiwa
The article Ken Wiwa has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Unsourced BLP
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
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Better now, or no? Schmidt, Michael Q. 20:20, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for the withdrawal. My modified comment at the AFD was intended toward User:Ilyacadiz's dismissiveness of an actor and entire film genre simply because they were prolific... and to whomsoever might later weigh in, and not toward you.
- I also made it a point to welcome the article's three-edit author when I sa his talk page was a redlink, and to post the notice of the AFD of his work. I also cautioned him to be award of relevant guidelines when writing articles.
- What would you think of my now moving the article to its more easily sourcable Miss Hanifi? Schmidt, Michael Q. 07:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- And toward your reply to me at the AFD... WP:NUKEANDPAVE is essay quite easiy to disprove when an article is rewritten without being deleted. And flagging a weak and improvable article is perfectly fine, and cleanup/improve-this flags are preferred over sending something to AFD without allowing a "potential flag" to be addressed. Schmidt, Michael Q. 08:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing the move. Good job. Schmidt, Michael Q. 08:06, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'm also very happy with the new version. Can't feel guilty, though, about voting Delete for an unreadable entry where not even the year of shooting was given. But thanks, of course. Ilyacadiz (talk) 18:22, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing the move. Good job. Schmidt, Michael Q. 08:06, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Verifiability of Joseph Bridge
Hi Bearcat,
As the administrator who deleted the page I had created at Joseph Bridge, I wanted to query what would constitute verifiability of the claim that the song 'Mr. Waterpump' entered rotation on Radio Caroline. Though I suspect it isn't enough evidence on its own, the last track of Joseph Bridge's debut album is actually a clip from the radio station playing and discussing his song: available to listen to at http://open.spotify.com/track/0DGGmVvk3r4a7SlvMKobhy .
Alternatively, were I to contact the radio station themselves, would a written reply affirming that 'Mr. Waterpump' entered rotation as stated in the article be sufficient evidence to establish verifiability?
Finally, would it be possible to transcribe me a copy of the content of the page as it appeared before deletion - to my sandbox, in order to save me time and effort should I have enough evidence to reestablish the article?
Thanks, --Jonie148 (talk) 09:53, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the clarification, I guess I'll have to make the page's restoration a long-term project then. It's always refreshing to communicate with someone helpful on Wikipedia too. Cheers :) --Jonie148 (talk) 19:17, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
User talk:Fatemi127
Hi Bearcat, I saw you in this discussion and wondered if you believe the problem has been solved. I do not have the technical know-how to do anything about it, but I notice the core behavior has not changed: Type "User talk" into the Wikipedia search box and the Javascript pulls this guy up as a suggestion and no one else, probably for the reason you pointed out. Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 February 4#User talk:Fatemi127. Thanks. Prhartcom (talk) 19:41, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
This wiki-kitten is here to thank you for taking part in my survey!
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 00:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Valentine Greets!!!
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Protection of Kyle Seeback
Are you sure your indefinite full protection of Kyle Seeback was proper? Wouldn't simple temporary semi-protection have done the job? Are you sure your protection was justified by policy? Cheers, --L235 (talk) As a courtesy, please ping me when replying. 00:19, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble article editing
Dear member, I think your edit 14.02.2015 is not quite correct. The Pokrovsky Ensemble is known not as a folk or world music group only. It performs music of modern and old composers (Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Raskatov etc.) The best-known ensemble disc is ”Les Noces“. The Ensemble has worked with many academic genre musicians. I think that should be reсovery contemporary music category. ThanksCordo11 (talk) 14:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
clear thank youCordo11 (talk) 18:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Merger discussion for Rhizobium Inoculants
An article that you have been involved in editing, Rhizobium Inoculants, has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Haruth (talk) 16:33, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Follow up on Canadian TV stations by channel number
I've listified and deleted all of those numerical sub-categories (*wipes brow*), but I just had one thing I wanted to check. It was only the sub-categories that you were intending on nominating, right, and not the parent Category:Canadian TV stations by channel number? I ask because all the resulting pages need a home, and that seems like the right place for them. It has the deletion tag on it, but it wasn't listed in the body of the nomination, so I wasn't sure. Mlaffs (talk) 03:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
1995 Quebec referendum
Thanks for your addition, I've been trying to get some overview/more additions to my recent work there, sadly most of the Quebec political community here seems to have left in 2008/09. Would appreciate any feedback.Knoper (talk) 19:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Ontario Ombudsman
Hi Bearcat, Thanks for your note. I noticed a large amount of mostly erroneous, highly subjective information posted on the Ontario Ombudsman page in the last few weeks. I removed it because it appeared to be one-sided, not written from a neutral point of view, and not in good faith, which I understand are Wikipedia's terms of service. My intent was not to 'sanitize' anything; my understanding was that material like this should be removed immediately. Who would I contact if I felt an anonymous user was posting maliciously and not respecting Wikipedia's rules for evidence-based, neutral content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abursey (talk • contribs) 22:30, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Staff "managing" a political figure's wikipage
FriendlyBillingsgate (talk) 22:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC) Hello Bearcat,
I have been in a back and forth with two Wikipedians on the following pages: Ontario Ombudsman, Andre Marin, and David Paciocco. My additions of relevant and properly sourced material is constantly being deleted wholesale. Only due to the fact that both work for Mr. Marin in his communications department. The deletions attempt to wipe out incidents that actually occurred and were actually covered in the media. I'm newer to Wikipedia, so I am not sure how to handle this. Ideas?
DYK for Go Set a Watchman
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:32, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Abuse of Protection Ability
I noticed you protected The Phone Call (2013 film) with the summary "repeated addition of a bullshit plot summary by an anon IP ([Edit:Allow only autoconfirmed users] (expires 03:07, 24 February 2015 (UTC)) [Move:Allow only autoconfirmed users]"
. I feel as this was incorrect use of protection as semi-protection is for pages with large amounts of vandalism by multiple IP's when dealing with each IP individually would be tedious. (WP:SEMI & WP:Rough guide to semi-protection) I notice you didn't even bother to leave a message on the IP editors TP or the article TP to resolve the issue, instead jumping straight to abuse of admin powers. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 03:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Ted Cruz/Category:Politicians from Calgary
Hi Bearcat, I need your help on the article Ted Cruz. I have created the category called Category:Politicians from Calgary and I went to article titled Ted Cruz. I replace the old category from Category:People from Calgary to a specific Category:Politicians from Calgary. Please note that Ted Cruz is a American politician. Any politician is from or outside Calgary will be replaced into Category:Politicians from Calgary. On the Ted Cruz article. A user has named User:MaverickLittle has reverted my edits into Category:People from Calgary. Could you go to the Ted Cruz article and revert it back. And talk to the user named User:MaverickLittle never revert to Category:People from Calgary because any politician is from or outside Calgary should be kept as Category:Politicians from Calgary. Thanks for your help and don't forget to talk to User:MaverickLittle OK? Steam5 (talk) 21:19, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Oliver Gannon
Hi Bearcat, Thanks for helping me out with my first article. I find the category system for people very confusing. I've read the guidelines/FAQ for categories, but it's not much clearer. If a person belongs in the lowest sub category that they fit in to, what is the rule of thumb if they belong in two or more of the lowest sub categories? Like in this case when they're an arranger, composer, guitarist etc? As a general comment, it seems to me that the categories for musicians get confusing when they combine instrument, nationality and genre. On reread of the guidelines, do you think that People from Winnipeg even belongs, since it doesn't speak to why this person is notable? I'd appreciate your thoughts. Bugcrusher (talk) 01:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015
How to pick up more women... | |
Hi Bearcat! Victuallers and I have developed a proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women... -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. Examples include the Edit-a-thon blitz during WikiWomen's History Month and the "new articles" work underway by WikiProject Women Writers. The Wikimania talk proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that our proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review it and, if you wish, give us feedback on the submission's talkpage or my talkpage (vs. your talkpage). Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you'd be interested in the talk if you were attending it (it does not commit you to attending Wikimania). Thank you! Rosiestep (talk) 04:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC) |
Richardson family murders
Based on this I reduced the protection on the article. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 03:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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Why did you remove the biographical information page I put up for a living musician Kita Klane? It took me 4 hours to source all the references that were added and to make the page. Google her and see if she's real, this was not an advertisement. Please restore the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slicenic (talk • contribs) 08:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Marissa Roberto
Hey Bearcat, would you be able to send me the page for Marissa Roberto so I can work on it and make sure it fits the proper standards? MrRee333 (talk) 05:53, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Senior editor with POV/COI issues on Andre Marin page
I am struggling with a senior editor (User talk:InedibleHulk), on the Andre Marin wiki-page. Basically, I believe he has a COI and is now writing POV for the two Ombudsman communications staff, (User talk:Abursey) and (User talk:Eljaydubya) who have admitted their COIs. There was a war over this page as well as the Ontario Ombudsman page, which Jytdog was able to quell. However, InedibleHulk has used his seniority as an editor to do everything he has accused my husband, (User talk:FriendlyBillingsate)and myself of doing. Her is an example of the latest edits where he removes the entire purpose of the entry (Marin is WIDELY known for his controversial use of Twitter and using it as a weapon), then adds fluff that has nothing to do with the current statement, except to make Marin look better, the woman he attacked worse. On top of that. InedibleHulk does this by mis-citing the source. The source says Marin “says Fiona Crean...,”(para) IendibleHulk changes it to “Fiona Crean did....” (para).
Example of edits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr%C3%A9_Marin&diff=649544097&oldid=649529934
This has been going on for a few days now and this page is slowly being whitewashed of the actual controversies that have been widely reported in the media and have dogged Andre Marin for years. However, because InedibleHulk has apparently no knowledge of them, he thinks they are not “widespread” and he has said so. My position is that he has bullied my husband and myself from editing, and now has taken over editing the page with direction from paid Ombudsman editors. He also has accused us a few times now as the author’s of a twitter account even after we have both said we are not. My husband has left wiki over this, but here is what he posted o the COI board, if you could take a look, that would be great, none of which was addressed. I hope you can help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thissilladia (talk • contribs) 16:01, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
- It's not that I have no knowledge of them, it's that we have a synthesis rule. You can't look at six (or seventy) sources, then use your own brain to decide Wikipedia says that counts as "widespread". But if you have one good source (not a blog, thanks) that says the complaints are widespread, you're good to go. Any bias (real or imagined) is just accurately reflecting the source's bias then.
- I didn't say you were the authors of the account (I didn't read anyone deny it, either), I said you were "involved". If you in any way know Robby Redpaw, ask him to clarify which side the pretty lady and lawyers are on. Ambiguous here.
- As for Crean, the source notes she apologized, so I figured it was fair to assume she's not debating the heckle happened. She's not really debating anything, which makes labeling this a controversy seem weird to an outside observer. InedibleHulk (talk) 17:09, March 3, 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the clarity, Robby. InedibleHulk (talk) 18:22, March 3, 2015 (UTC)
Notability (music)
I have made a proposal for a change to the opening paragraph of Wikipedia:Notability (music). You have discussed similar issues on the article's talk page and would appreciate your input. Please see Wikipedia talk:Notability (music)#Do all of these guidelines imply GNG or are they stand-alone?. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Humour in translation
Hello, Bearcat,
Regarding the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour_in_translation
I think it has some issues,
(1) At 16:23, 17 October 2014, user Kira Xinyi added that when General Motors introduced the Chevy Nova in South America, it had to rename it as "The Caribe":
" General Motors first introduced the Chevy Nova in South America. However, it was not aware that "No Va" means "it won't go."
" When it finally realised the reason why it was not able to sell any cars, it renamed the car in its Spanish markets to “The Caribe”. "
Two errors/mistakes here: (A) Firstly, the article "The" in the name "The Caribe" is unnecessary, (B) The Caribe was made by Volkswagen! (it was known as Rabbit in the U.S.A.), in fact, in Argentina* the Chevy Nova was sold as Chevrolet Chevy —in Mexico we are less fussy or "clownish" regarding brands/names, so it was sold as Chevy Nova, just as in the United States of America. (I remember its antenna was strange, like a "two-filament" antenna, it seemed two hairs embedded inside the windshield; a very good car.)
In this article, under the photograph of a blue Chevy Nova, there is a caption which reads:
Chevrolet Nova, modelo vendido en Argentina como Chevrolet Chevy. (Chevrolet Nova, a model sold in Argentina as Chevrolet Chevy.)
(2) Under the subheading "Lexical gaps", the young Chinese student Kira Xinyi wrote:
For example, it is difficult to find a Spanish word that worked as a translation for funny. [No source cited.]
Well, that is untrue: since the times of yore, the Spanish word for "funny" is "divertido, divertida", in Mexico, in Spain, et cetera.
(3) Also below the above-mentioned sentence, at 17:15, 17 October 2014, Kira Xinyi added that the German word Torschlusspanik is an "untranslatable" word, but she "forgot" to make it clear that some German words are built upon juxtapositions, so, one just has to separate that word into "Torschluss" and "panik" and enter the "phrase" Torschluss panik in the appropriate space or rectangle in https://translate.google.com and presto!, the Google's translation machine delivers: gate closures panic.
——
And, I would like to know... We in Mexico sometimes use the name Unión Americana as a synonym of United States of America, which is right in Spanish; do Americans use the name American Union or a similar one, I mean, besides the official name United States of America?
Heterotrofo (talk) 07:06, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
I apologize
Please excuse me, Bearcat,
It was just that I read your username under the heading "Revision history", but did not know that I was missing something, id est, you usually edit on other topics. I got lost somewhere, and because I consider the article's talk page so poor and lacking authority, I shall address my concerns or doubts to someone else.
And, thanks a lot for your explanation about American Union.
Heterotrofo (talk) 05:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
—
Okay, Bearcat, thank you.
Heterotrofo (talk) 19:26, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Section v. subsection
Hi Bearcat, your edit summary here was cut off. It was my opinion that this good faith subsection addition was sufficiently off-topic from the discussion being about city nicknames in infoboxes, not specifically about one particular disparaging nickname applied to one city. I also thought the editor may get more traffic if it was elevated to its own section. Just some thoughts to explain why I did it. Feel free to drop me a line to elaborate on your edit summary if you recall what the balance of it was. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 22:58, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- If it was going to be elevated to its own section, it should have been placed/moved to the bottom of the page; I put it in the section titled "city nicknames" as "further to previous" on the same subject i.e. Vancouver's nicknames, rather than start a new one; if it does get more traffic/readership it should be because it's an important topic that needs dealing with (and how). If you'd rather I move it to its own section, you could have just asked me to do so; though I know none of you give a fig for anything I think/know is important. NPOV is paramount, and what is there is entirely SYNTH/SOAPBOX and belies the fact that the term was never in wide use by "white" British Columbians, nor anyone else; it has most currency in academic studies (which repeat each other's so-called findings) and in foreign media either out of innocence, or as in the case of the South China Morning Post, actual adoption and hyping/pushing of the term.
- The core question underlying that section (which is being rebuilt in a sandbox, without my additions/corrections and with its POV SYNTH intact) is whether Canadian editors will stand by when Canadian history and society are being over-written and politicized by "scholarly" contributors from other countries with clear political/ethnic bias; and whether or not Canadian editors will continue to condemn the one Canadian editor who has been trying to take this ongoing problem head-on as a community, or shrug it off by condemniing me for my "tone" and "combativeness". the other editors' ongoing AGF/tone and combativeness have never once been addressed (other than by me).
- I've been soldiering on trying to make Chinese Canadians in British Columbia cogent, NPOV and readable while complaints about me "attacking' the other editor (who attcks me regularly) have once again been made. I'm ignoring the silliness of all that and just plugging at it, though not all-day every-day as it's a massive amount of work to do......and thought it worth noting on CANTALK (even though I've de-watchlisted that page because of the nasty attitude towards me there) but I see that, while there seems to be some interest in getting my comments more readership, I have yet to see any sign of actual useful comment on the issues, only on some technicality as to whether it's a subsection or a section heading......
- In my view, the "Hongcouver" section as it is deserves deletion, and should not be a subsection-title in the article as UNDUE as it's a long-dead issue and never was a nickname. More like a term that, when used, is used ironically and with distaste. Giving it so much wiki-coverage perpetrates it, and has a POV impact, especially given the still-remaining-though-soon-to-be-cleared-out POV ranting about "white people said nasty things about Chinese people" and "white people were mean to Chinese people" cant of the article-as-compiled by the editor who created that....and is now re-creating it, encouraged by another non-Canadian who seems only interested in format and appearance and doesn't give diddly-squat about the NPOV policy, while pandering to t he other editor's claim that a conflated version of the Verifiability policy must be resolved first (in other words, I should concede and agree to the conflation, which is about needless page-cites as a way to block sources/information from being included), before NPOV is dealt with. The other editor claims "there is no NPOV" and "there is no fork"....which given his No. 34 status on the list of top 400 Wikipedians and his 7 years on Wikipedia, indicates that NPOV and POV forking are two policies he's never read or just doesn't care about.
- Yes, I'm long-winded, but the issues aren't simple, and informed input rather than complaints and criticisms of so-called "behavioural guidelines" have been being useed to try and get me blocked or banned so that the POV empire-builder can continue on his work bastardizing BC/Canadian history without being "interfered with", as he recently described to TMQ (on the CCinBC talkkpage) my name-change and additions to that article months ago.Skookum1 (talk) 03:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
- Better to have something to say, rather than nothing at all, or allow a bunch of bafflegab to "stand" just because it has page-cites from obscure source cherry-picking negatives to condemn white prejudice with.Skookum1 (talk) 03:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC)