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New Page Patrol?

Hi Adavidb,

I've recently been looking for editors to invite to join New Page Patrol, and after reviewing your editing history, I think you would be a good candidate. Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; we could use some additional help from an experienced user like yourself.

Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. If you choose to apply, you can drop an application over at WP:PERM/NPR.

Cheers, and hope to see you around, — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 21:23, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Sourcing

I noticed your helpful edits to the post I'd made regarding the GRU's hacking last fall. I went to see if any other sources had the news and those which did, i.e., Vox, Slate, had also credited the Daily Beast's coverage. I'd made a similar post to the article covering the 2018 U.S. Missouri Senate election, so I reworded that latter more thoughtfully. Clearly, the Beast reporter took the initiative to review the evidence in the John Doe case and discovered what Microsoft either chose not to publicize or might have missed, the specific race involving what is thought by some to be the most vulnerable Democratic Senate incumbent. The reporter was not able to identify the other two targeted (House?) candidates. Anyway, here's my modified post to the 2018 election article, in case you might want to incorporate some of it into your standing edits: On July 26, 2018, the Daily Beast reported that Microsoft had discovered that in September 2017, that GRU “Fancy Bear” hackers, who had interfered in the 2016 presidential election, had launched pfishing attacks against three presumed Democratic 2018 candidates. A "screen shot" that Microsoft had filed as documentary evidence in a "John Doe"-defendant court case was analyzed by a Daily Beast reporter. It showed that a McCaskill staff aide's email had been targeted in an apparent scheme to defeat her reelection efforts. Activist (talk) 19:14, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Brian Evans (singer)

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am Brian Evans. I was never married, I am still a singer, and “Horrorscope” was never a graphic novel, but a novel. The sourced articles had misinformation. I have never been married in my life. I have a concert coming up in November, and Horrorscope 3 is a trilogy of novel. Your sourced review calls it a graphic novel, but the article you are sourcing was a paid review by the publisher and not an actual Kirkus review (it was a sponsored and paid review). TQ112 (talk) 07:59, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. As the subject of the article, you should familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline. —ADavidB 08:09, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Keep an eye on your "minor" edits flag.

You just did a couple edits to Ralph Shortey, and while one was indeed minor, one of them added both information and a source, so it doesn't qualify as minor, and should not have been flagged as such. Please try to avoid that in the future. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:30, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Acknowledged —ADavidB 13:43, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Since your recent edits to Mazie Hirono have involved a gender-related dispute or controversy, GamerGate discretionary sanctions may apply as well. Probably do, in fact. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 01:36, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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The Orville

Hi Adavidb,

I am wondering why I was reverted [1]. I was just putting in the final ratings with the same reliable source as other final ratings. — YoungForever^(talk) 17:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

My apologies. It was accidental without my realization. Thanks for undoing my mistake. —ADavidB 17:42, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Mt Rushmore photos - Thanks

Thanks for going in and adjusting those photos on Mount Rushmore. That was my first attempt at using the multiple-photo template and I struggled with it. Tried to make it look nice, but you came in and really finished it. Looks great, thanks! StarHOG (Talk) 20:02, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. It involved some experimentation on my part as well. —ADavidB 21:16, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Red Links

Hello, I appreciate the work you've done on the articles we've both edited. I am curious about the red link removals you've made citing WP:WTAF. My understanding is that those guidelines specifically identify templates, lists, and navigation pages as inappropriate for red links, and that WP:RED supports links for topics such as Caliburn International within the context of an article. Lastchapter (talk) 16:03, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

You're correct that the WTAF essay applies specifically to navigation and lists. I believe its supporting ideas also apply elsewhere. Unless such a red link exists in multiple articles, suggesting a larger demand for its own article (or link to a section of an article), I believe it does little to bring about an intended access to more information. We may simply differ on whether the subject in question has the notability to "plausibly sustain an article", to quote from the RED guideline. —ADavidB 16:54, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Caltort.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you.  ★  Bigr Tex 18:56, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

For any curious about the status of this file, the above poster replaced it with File:California Tortilla Logo.svg, which includes a transparent background. It's thus appropriate that Caltort.jpg be deleted. —ADavidB 00:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Very nice work on the Gov. Bevin article. I think I fell asleep in front of my PC though the bare citations weren't mine. Activist (talk) 00:12, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome and thanks for expressing appreciation! —ADavidB 00:15, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Iowa Straw Poll (1979-2011) page

@Adavidb (Also, attn: Zzyzx11) Somehow we seem to have lost the page that had the contents. All I see now is a redirect at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Straw_Poll_(1979-2011). Humanengr (talk) 06:01, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

The old name with a hyphen in it is a redirect and when going to it directly as above does show the redirect, with a link to the new name; the current article with the en dash in its name is alive and well. —ADavidB 06:21, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

I removed a 'short description' template from the redirect page which may also have caused a problem.—ADavidB 06:26, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Thx, looks fixed now. Humanengr (talk) 16:15, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Need a disambiguation page for “T. J. Berry”

Only "T. J. Berry" Wiki entry today is for a male American politician but there are at least two current published female authors using that name. Pictures suggest the two authors are not the same.

• T. J. Berry (AKA T. Jane Berry) is a fantasy author with web pages at

- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?T._J._Berry

- http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/berry_t_j

- https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/t-j-berry/

- https://tjberrywrites.com/

• TJ Berry is a young-adult author with web pages at

- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?TJ_Berry

- https://www.facebook.com/FoxFirePub

- https://www.facebook.com/TheTJBerry

John from Cincinnati -- 162.154.249.230 (talk) 22:12, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, though until such time as Wikipedia has articles for these or other notable "T. J. Berry" subjects, I don't believe it's appropriate to add a disambiguation page. See MOS:DABRED, which includes, "A link to a non-existent article (a "red link") should only be included on a disambiguation page when a linked article (not just other disambiguation pages) also includes that red link." If there were significant 'mention' of the other T.J. Berry individuals in other articles, a disambiguation page would be appropriate, but I don't see such mention elsewhere. —ADavidB 07:23, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Evans Marriage

Your change was reverted by Bbb23 but I did notice your concern and I have added an additional source with spouse name. See [[2]]. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 23:53, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. —ADavidB 23:56, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

AWB and dab pages

AWB suggests wrong edits for some disambiguation pages, as it doesn't seem to recognise {{station disambiguation}} or {{geodis}} as identifying disambiguation pages, so suggests that you tag them as orphans and stubs. At least for "geodis" this is a known bug and has been reported to be being fixed in the next version of AWB for many months. But in any case, the edits you do with AWB are your responsibility, so if it suggests something wrong you should ignore that suggestion. As you see, I fixed Kawamura Station - that's the first time I've seen this problem on a station dab page, only ever seen it on place name dabs before now. Happy Editing! PamD 10:48, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I visually review AWB's suggested edits, but miss some of the incorrect ones sometimes. I'm glad you caught and fixed the edit mentioned above. —ADavidB 11:03, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

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