User talk:Fuhghettaboutit

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If you leave a comment for me here I will likely respond to you here as well, but I might also duplicate my post on your talk page, depending on context or if you request that I do so. Please sign any post by placing ~~~~ at its end and please note that new posts belong at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

Page undeleate ...

Hi ...

I would like to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement ... and Merci ... It is nice to receive your next email soon ...

Thankfully ... Yasir I. Kashgari 00:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

@Ykashgari: – email sent. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:53, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

The future of NPP

Hi Fuhghettaboutit. In view of the huge and sudden backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed since mid 2016, the WMF has begun a dialogue in a quest to examine the situation and possible solutions. Please consider commenting there if you have not already done so. It is highly recommended to read it all before it becomes too long to follow. The project is at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Analysis and proposal, and its talk page, with a lively parallel discussion at Wikipedia talk:The future of NPP and AfC#Moving forward. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:31, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

My English errors

• Thank you very much for explain the errors in it to me.
• An example When we approach a horse, we hide a riding crop, to respect horse's feelings - probabaly should be When we approach a horse, we hide a riding crop, to respect the horse's feelings?Xx236 (talk) 13:22, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
• However lack of freedom of press was only small part of the totalitarian censorship system, which included any printed matter and removal of books from libraries and individual collections. Xx236 (talk) 13:30, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

@Xx236: Yes! that sentence absolutely requires the "the". However, there are some other problems with it as to grammar, syntax and awkward phrasing/non-standard usage.

The tense feels off, especially because "we hide a" in the surrounding context would not be said by a native speaker, whereas "we hid..." works better. But it's still slightly off because it implies each of the persons — plurality having been established by the use of "we" – did the hiding. Only one person would normally hide a single item like this. Again, it's not 'wrong', but when a reader feels something off, even if they cannot pinpoint it, it interrupts the flow.

Likewise, the use of "respect" is not exactly 'wrong', but it would not normally be used like this for a non-human. The first "a" in the sentence should be "the". So I would rewrite this as something like: "When we approached the horse, I hid the riding crop we had brought with us so that the horse would not become spooked." It could end with "by seeing it" (after spooked), but I think it's sufficiently implied.

Regarding the second sentence, I would place a comma after the opening "However"; the institution is usually referred to as "the press", not just "press"; there must be an "a" before "small". Thus → "However, lack of freedom of the press was only a small part of..." The balance of the excerpt reads fine to me. Also, it may have just been a typo, but given the topic we're on: probabaly → probably.

Lastly: yes, you correctly added "it to me" between "explain" and "me", but now your use of the verb explain is in the form of a present participle, and so it must be "explaining". Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:55, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Regarding the horse, I have wanted to use an impersonal form, which should have been you or one, not we. I wanted to say that politicians (including Lenin) don't respect, but they go as far as they are allowed to (can ?), but I failed.

My dictionary doesn't even list hid.

Thank you very much for the lesson. I hope you'll need some day a little help in Polish.Xx236 (talk) 08:52, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Username blocking after warning

It was my understanding that when a user is asked to change a username, as I did with User:EngineHouse16, placing {{uw-username}}, it is normal not to block that user for an improper username until the user has been given some time to act on the request, unless further disruptive or promotional edits are made. Certainly this pause is mandated by the instructions at WP:UAA where it says: Do not warn someone about their name and then immediately report them to UAA. The entire point of a warning is to give someone a chance to stop doing something wrong. Don't ask someone to give up their name willingly if you're going to ask an administrator to block them. Either discuss or report.

Is this convention followed when not going through UAA? Should it perhaps be? Particularly for softblocks where no current harm is in progress? DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 21:47, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Hey David. I know we're not talking about policy per se here, but the instructions at UAA (where they are about names that have promotionally edited already and their names are clear violations, as was the case here, rather than about clear violations but who have not edited yet or promotionally) in my view are about not taking up the time of responders, rather than a mandate not to block. But the reason I blocked was because at the time you noted the username problem, the page had not been discovered to be a copyright violation. After I saw it was, and noted that in the deletion log for the deleted page, I saw this as much more serious violating user, as coupled with the clearly inappropriate name. I feel that if a username block is possible within policy, and the user has posted copyright violations, they should be. But I apologize if this feels like I stepped on your toes.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:19, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Actually you have the sequence slightly incorrect. It was just after I discovered that the deleted page had been a very blatant copyvio (including the copyright notice yet), and posted to that effect on the teahouse, that I issued the warning. My reasoning was that here was a classic clueless but well-intentioned newbie, the kind that warnings and friendly instruction might actually reach.

I quite agree that your block was within policy, nor do I feel my toes in any way stepped on. My concern is entirely with WP:BITE or perhaps we should say the penumbra of bite. If I am correct and this is someone who could be reached by warnings, a block won't help. This is not a sly, deceptive vandal -- posting the copyright notice makes that clear. This is not someone doing as much damage as possible all over the wiki. This is not a corporate promoter. This is someone who wants to draw attention to a beneficial community structure and its uses, and who badly fails to understand how Wikipedia works. That is why i thought a warning the better choice. I did rather expect that this would in effect preempt a block for, say 24-48 hrs, assuming no further negative acts by the user. I do see how you looked at it, and i can't say that you were surely wrong. Can you see how I was thinking and why I acted as i did?

I do patrol UAA quite a bit, and it is common for responders there to say, more or less: "you (or someone else) warned the user and asked for a change of user name, and so our hands are tied until the user has had a reasonable time to act. Report dismissed." I have done very little username blocking outside the UAA context, and so i was seriously asking if the conventions (not the policy) was different in that sequence. (And UAA does get quite a lot of reports about users with zero edits.) DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 22:53, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Db-revise

Template:Db-revise has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Train2104 (t • c) 21:25, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Datone Jones

Hi @Fuhghettaboutit: could you please reply to my message on Talk:Datone Jones. Thanks! --UCLAgirl623 ^{(Whats up!)} 04:02, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Hey UCLAgirl623. I am happy to help out with some things, such as providing the review I did. But when it comes to the nitty gritty of rewriting an article, adding significant content and the like, I have my own interests. I am simply wholly uninterested in football players. Hopefully you can drum up some interest at that talk page or maybe post a message to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League or another related wikiproject. Once you're done, you could ask for a copyedit, and then a peer review. Best regards.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:45, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Aww thank you so much! I am glad you told me. Love you! --UCLAgirl623 ^{(Whats up!)} 15:32, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I have a question about the article Datone Jones.

@Fuhghettaboutit: you told me a couple days ago the article lacks a lead section. Could you explain to me which parts of the article lacks a lead section (like giving me examples of which and how I can fix it)? --UCLAgirl623 ^{(Whats up!)} 17:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Note: Not answering b/c above user was blocked as a sockpuppet (not by me).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)

Tictocdocs

User:Tictocdocs ignored your message on their talk page and edited Eddie Rosenstein again. They obviously were either paid to create that article and to keep it maintained and updated, or they have a close personal connection to Rosenstein. Tictocdoc's user page even says the account is used by "Passionate documentary filmmakers", the industry Rosenstein is in. Also, I don't know if it's allowed, but the ONLY reason the Tictocdocs account exists is to make Eddie Rosenstein edits. Every one of their edits is for him. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:44A2:2F56:E172:3C6 (talk) 13:11, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! Agreed. I have added a second level template to the user's talk page ({{uw-paid2}}). However, I would note that the template messages I left on the article may have had some effect because the user's recent edit reads to me as trying to tone down promotional wording. Regardless, disclosure is easy to place and mandatory.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:45, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

The page quotes mainly IMDB, which isn't relaible, so it's almost unsourced.Xx236 (talk) 08:53, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Your revert on Help:Maintenance template removal

You reverted my edit on that page with the edit summary Not an imporvement.. Aside from the typo, would you mind explaining to me why it is not an improvement? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:12, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Were you aware of these?

Some haven't been blocked:

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Since you seem to be going after them. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 04:41, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

:-) Nihonjoe I was just in special list users (gmta), and had blocked Badri Vishal 3 (created today), and I was looking for others started with Badri created nearby in time. Some of these are so old the person probably doesn't have the password and I'm not sure the name could not be coincidence. But Badri K Vishal is certainly another, created this month plus their one edit is extreme quacking evidence (see User:Badri Krishna Vishal).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:U.S. federal jurisdictions

Template:U.S. federal jurisdictions has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

error in glossary

I've just discovered that the glossary link for "moults" doesn't work from the "Wing bar" entry — I'm guessing it's because it's plural, but I'm unsure how glossary pipes work, so I'll let you do the honors! ;) MeegsC (talk) 17:04, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

As always, thanks for looking! I'll report back.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)

@MeegsC: Yep, I missed it in the moult entry's anchors; as simple as this. Thanks again.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:37, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Petra Pudova

Hello, page Petra Pudova was deleted unreasonably. Someone has tagged this page this page "Speedy deletion nomination of Petra Pudova". So we used "Contest this speedy deletion", have explained that we are the holders of all rights and also send attached permissions by email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org [Ticket#2017070210006526]. I am a creator of this texts and holder of the rights and I would like to grant permission to Wikipedia to use their own previously published work. I am author of all published texts on the website www.petrapudova.com a wiki page Petra Pudova. What we can do more so that the page is restored? Panther PRG (talk) 20:29, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Panther PRG. It was not deleted unreasonably because we need the release first and any release you attempted to provide by assertion on Wikipedia is a waste of time because on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. It sounds like you may have done what you needed to do for the content to be undeleted, once the release is reviewed and accepted by the Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team.

It also may be, though, that you have not, because you use the words: "I would like to grant permission to Wikipedia to use..." You might have just been speaking in shorthand, and your "OTRS email" contained a suitable release (such as by following the Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries), but the wording I excerpt makes it sounds like you may have only provided a one-time license for Wikipedia to use your material here, while retaining its non-free copyright elsewhere, which is also worthless. The way copyright licensing works here, you have to release the content to the world, irrevocably, under a suitably-free copyright license (or into the public domain), which would then allow anyone to reuse the content, even for commercial purposes. Methods of verifiable release include:

i) posting the release of the content at the external website (i.e., replacing the current copyright notice with a suitably-free license notice), or

ii) (as aforesaid) demonstrating you are the owner by sending a suitable release from an email address associated with the domain name and it being archived through the OTRS system.

iii) For more detail on the exact methods you might use and instructions, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, and specifically the subsection of that page known by the shortcut WP:DONATETEXT.

However, please note that clearing up the copyright issue does not necessarily mean the content is appropriate for use here for other reasons (I don't know if it is or isn't; just trying to give you full disclosure). Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:56, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello Fuhghettaboutit, thank you for your response. I sent from official company email to email permissions-commons@wikimedia.org this (attached the copy on the letterhead with signature and stamp) - written according to the pattern (the copy was also sent from the email address listed on the website www.petrapudova.com): I hereby affirm that company Millennium CZ is sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the picture Petra Pudová.jpg and all website petrapudova.com content (image/text/design) – a parts of the text were used on the page Petra Pudova - and have legal authority in my capacity to release the copyright of that work.  I agree to publish the above‐mentioned content under the following free license: Creative Commons Attribution‐Share Alike 4.0 International.  I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work, even in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.  I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.  I am aware that the copyright holder always retains ownership of the copyright as well as the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by the copyright holder.  I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project... I hope this is right and the page will be restored soon. Panther PRG (talk) 21:28, 2 July 2017 (UTC) 

Hey Panther PRG. It looks like you did it correctly. When an OTRS volunteer gets to it, and barring some problem with the form, it should be undeleted then. I have no control over that, nor ability to hurry it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Admiral Edward Middleton

Hi Fuhghettaboutit. I hope I am doing the talk correctly. You made an incorrect comment on [Admiral Edward Middleton]. I can see how you might be confused. However, this content is already in the references. The book you are pointing to is a copy of Edward Middleton's original obituary. This was written by Edward's wife, Elida who is being referenced in your link. I may have done it wrong, but the obituary ran in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin is a source and is already referenced. Thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Edward_Middleton

Hi Leeburbage153. You copied the words without indicating you were quoting, through the use of quote marks. We cite sources to show where we obtain information not words and sentences. If you use someone else's words, you must indicate that. For a public domain source like this, there is a compromise. You can avoid using quote marks by indicating in the references that the article incorporates text from a particular source that is in the public domain. For example, using a filled out {{PD-old-text}} template. By the way, on talk pages like this (but never in articles) you should sign your posts by placing four tildes after the post (~~~~) which will automatically format as your signature with a time stamp when you save. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:54, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, NJMobster person. I think I've cleaned it all up. Have a good one. Leeburbage153 (talk) 13:39, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

OK, I have completed all the asks you had including the photo. Let's show the world. Leeburbage153 (talk) 00:13, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@Leeburbage153: Fuhgedaboudit, whatever the spelling, is an ethnic Italian expression of great commonality. You apparently only know it from introduction through the Sopranos, and assume (incorrectly in this case) that it is my intention to invoke that association, rather than because of its commonality, or that I might have an affinity long predating that show.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:16, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@Leeburbage153: No you did not fix it. You are still listed as the author, and you have listed unknown as the source. The source is not unknown, it's where you got it from. It could be family memorabilia if you're related. It could be some book you took it from. Only you know. If you don't know who took the photograph then the author is unknown.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:33, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

thanks, i also think i fixed all the minor edits you taught me like where the punctuation goes. And added an important missing page number in one of the references (It's a big book). thanks again for your guidance. Leeburbage153 (talk) 14:19, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Should this user be blocked?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/123.119.73.43 made various edits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_district-level_leaders_of_Beijing. Are these edits accurate? Should he be blocked?

User:Aelimian21 block appeal

This user, who you recently blocked indefinitely due to repeated copyright violations, has appealed in UTRS appeal #18688. They were asked to compose a paragraph of original prose to see if they now understand how copyright works on Wikipedia, which they have now done. The text below is what they posted in the ticket. At the moment I'm neither supporting or opposing the appeal, just conveying the message to the blocking admin. Please let me know how you would like to handle this request.

Ok, thank you for the clarification, The Wordsmith

My edit on Sinn F?in:

Sinn F?in believes that Northern Ireland should be given special status within the EU because Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU. Remaining part of the Common Travel Area is also a position Sinn F?in takes believing that border checks on Ireland goes against the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. The party also supports continuation of access to the single market for the North and protection of Northern Ireland's EU access to employment, social security, and healthcare. Sinn F?in also argues that Brexit would cause a loss of an average of ?10,184 per farm in Northern Ireland which could be avoided with designated special status. Due to Brexit, 73 MEPs must be signed to other nation Sinn F?in argues that least 3 more MEPs for Ireland should come from that.

Sources http://www.sinnfein.ie/brexit http://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2016/The_Case_For_The_North_To_Achieve_Special_Designated_Status_Within_The_EU.pdf http://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2017/Brexit_Rural_Doc_May2017.pdf

-The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 16:45, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

• Any opinion on this? The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 15:26, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Hey Wordsmith. I know we do this—ask people to compose some text to demonstrate some understanding of the reason for the block and can avoid falling afoul of the same issue—but I've not seen this used in the context of a user who engaged in serial copyright violations, and I'm not sure it tells us much. This user apparently did not understand the issue despite my explanatory text to him, essentially defended his copyright violations, certainly dissembled, and demonstrated in response to a number of follow-ups and attempts at further explanation that he continued to not understand the issues involved. I can make little out from the above. We have a link to a 24-page, PDF rather than a pinpointed page from it using a well attributed inline citation, placed to show which part of the text comes from which part of which document. So, determining whether this is a proper paraphrase is quite burdensome.

Strike that. I composed the above before looking at the more manageable, 3-page second source, The answer is very clear to me now. The user should remain blocked because he could not have more effectively demonstrated he does not understand, or at least cannot be trusted to paraphrase. That is, in this composed text, in which he would be expected to absolutely make sure he copied nothing word for word:

"...loss of an average of ?10,184 per farm"

and from the second source (first bullet point, page 2):

"...loss of an average of £10,184 per farm"

Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:21, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I wasn't the admin who asked him to write that, just the one who handled the next ticket he filed. I agree that declining the appeal is the right course of action. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 00:11, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Zotezo

Hi @Fuhghettaboutit ! Your review on Zotezo is much appreciated. I am thankful to you for taking time. I would like to inform that Zotezo is a prominent eCommerce company in India, like Amazon, FlipKart, Nykaa, Paytm etc.It is in business since 2014 and has 1500+ brands & 100,000+ products listed with it along with 100s of Small & Medium Business, directly or indirectly promoting it. A couple of independent links/business listing sources are listed below for reference: CashKaro TrickyTime.in Keyursavaliya flipshope CouponRaja CouponDunia BeautyAndHealth

And hundreds of more 3rd party sites are available on which Zotezo has no control. Zotezo is well known and trusted brand in India especially for beauty, personal care, and wellness segment. It has also launched a beauty box for Indian female audience, called Zobag. You can search on Goolge to know about it. I would request you to please reconsider the deletion of Zotezo. Your views, comments, and guidance would be much appreciated. Iwikihero (talk) 08:44, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Iwikihero. Your post above is written in blatant advertising language. I deleted it as blatant advertising as you can see from the deletion summary in the deletion log. So what you're saying about is being prominent, and notable and all that had nothing to do with the basis upon which I deleted it. It had been deleted previously by other admins as failing to assert importance (when it had different content). I did not delete it on that basis (nor did Onel5969 tag it on that basis). You sound exactly like a corporate shill for this company, and probably are, and cannot write about it in a neutral manner, or certainly have not thus far. In that regard you have not complied with mandatory paid editing disclosure.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:16, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Fuhghettaboutit,

Thank you for sending reply. I have tried to put my wordings as per the data, my research report and by following wikipedia pages as mentioned in my above reply. It may be that the wording should be more natural. I have gone through some of your pages and I know that you are a very valuable contributor to Wikipedia. I would like to request you to guide for creating this page. I will try to put a nutral tone in the wording for Zotezo. Waiting for your reply. Iwikihero (talk) 12:31, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Ah good. First comply with paid editing disclosure, linked above. Then please read neutral point of view and WP:PEACOCK. Then in any entry, mercilessly remove anything evaluative, flowery, hawking, etc. ... just the facts, while citing to published, reliable, secondary, independent sources that have written about the topic is substantive detail.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:39, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Request for help completely revamping an article

Hi and thank you in advance for your time! I work for the Zoological Society of Washington (ZSW) which is the governing body (501c(3) non-profit, tax exempt, charitable organization) for Cougar Mountain Zoo. We would like to update the Wikipedia article on Cougar Mountain Zoo. However, when I edited in all the new text (logged in as user CougarMZoo) all of it was removed and switched back to the old text along with postings in the talk page and messages about COI and NPOV. So then I tried posting the entire edit on the talk page attempting to explain that I work for ZSW. Once again denied. I believe you can see all of what I put on the talk page. But if not, I can email you with the proposed new article (less pictures and an updated info box). My email is misty@cougarmountainzoo.org. I realize now that while I am employed by ZSW I was only paid to upload the material, not to come up with the material. The ZSW Board came up with the new text and they do not receive any compensation for their efforts from ZSW or Cougar Mountain Zoo. Can you help? Thanks again. Misty Cougar Mountain Zoo 21:47, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Misty. I am more sympathetic and willing to help a zoo seeking to have a better article, than I am that of a pure commercial venture (which constantly post commercials here), but the prohibition against the misuse of Wikipedia as an advertising platform is in no way limited to commercial organizations, and the edit you posted was a blatant commercial—promotional in tone and content and reading very much like an advertising brochure touting the virtues of the subject and written to convince readers to visit this wonderful place, and very much not like a neutrally-written, encyclopedia article.

I gather from your talk page and above, you now understand some of these matters, including that article subjects, rather than having control over articles about themselves, are considered to have conflicts of interest in editing articles about themselves, and such edits are scrutinized for self-serving content and the like. That does not mean those with vested interests cannot suggest edits, ask for misinformation to be removed, and so forth – and successfully have their suggestion acted upon – but I think you (and/or the ZSW Board) need to know more to do so effectively. This is actually easier to do for this not-very-well-developed article, than it would otherwise be.

Let me provide a rundown of specific problems with the reverted edits you made, that might help with your/the ZSW Board's next effort. I will get into the procedural aspects of what to do near the end. Up front, please understand that this text was so unsuitable and lacking in certain conditions precedent for inclusion, that there's no easy path from looking at it, to making any changes to the article. You (and/or the ZSW Board) need to put in time to understand what would be needed, and do the work to make suggestions that can be acted upon. The balance of this post is my advice to make that task, if taken on, more likely to succeed.

First one technical issue. Your username is a problem and I would not be surprised if you were blocked soon in the ordinary course, with a note advising you to change it (I will not do so). It is a violation of WP:ORGNAME and WP:ISU. I suggest you change it before doing anything else, so that this is not an issue later. You can create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual, or more formally request a change of username. A name like Misty at CougarMZoo is allowed. On a related note, your signature is also a violation. Sorry. It must contains a link to your user page, talk page, or contributions. Here, I think all you need to do (or will need to do for a new name, if the same issue crops up) is go to your preferences and take the checkmark out of the box for "Treat the above as wiki markup".

• 1) Take a careful tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial. It will teach you some of the things I mention below and others in a guided fashion.
• 2) Probably the most crucial and overarching point to understand, Wikipedia runs on reliable sourcing. Expanding on that:

• Content must be verifiable in reliable sources and we cite sources using inline citations to verify content additions.
• To learn about how to cite sources, see Help:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1, and then seeing Wikipedia:Citing sources for a more involved treatment, noting that each contains see also sections linking to additional help pages, guides and tutorials.
• The 's share of content should be cited to secondary sources that are entirely independent of the subject of an article. Primary sources can be used to verify information, but their use is limited because the content they can be used to verify must not be unduly self-serving, and can only be used for straightforward statements of fact, rather than any analysis, evaluation or synthesis, where secondary sources can be used for those puposes.

• 3) In your edit you cited no sources whatsoever, and also removed some sourced content (this will trigger a near knee jerk revert in many editors).
• 4) Use resources like Google Books to your advantage to hunt down independent reliable sources, e.g., maybe some of those found here. Then write what can be verified from those you locate, rather than writing what you known or what is contained in unpublished sources (which cannot be used).

  This is much easier than trying to back into proposed content you've written first by trying to locate sources for it later, if they even exist. (Remember, do not copy the words, which outside of short quotes, marked as such, would be a copyright violation; sources are used to verify information, that editors write in their own words.) The former approach is what makes writing a suitable Wikipedia article so difficult for many. In short: gather sources first; digest them; and only then put 'pen to paper' (fingers to keyboard).

• 5) As I've already mentioned, the edit was replete with promotional language. It contained touting, empty buzz words and peacock adjectives and puffery. Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. It also contained much evaluative content in Wikipedia's voice. An example: "The manifestation of their deep devotion to all creatures large and small..." This is pure evaluation, appropriate at, say, the Zoo's own website or Facebook page, but never here except possibly as a quote from a secondary and independent source, using quote marks, and cited to the source using an inline citation. (Side note: much of this type of material violates the principle of effective writing, show, don't tell). Anyway, Just. The. Facts... and only those that are verifiable in the right type of reliable sources, depending on what is being verified. Maybe this will help:

• "The Cougar Mountain Zoo is centrally located in the friendly alpine City of Issaquah, Washington. Nestled on the north facing slope of Cougar Mountain, the scenic grounds offer a breathtaking view of Lake Sammamish and the rugged Cascade Mountain Range."

  The Zoo is located in the alpine city of Issaquah, Washington on the north facing slope of Cougar Mountain, providing a view of Lake Sammamish and the Cascade Mountain Range.^{[citing a reliable source]}

• "Visit this magical place where art and the beauty of wildlife merge to speak a common language. Enjoy the view, great photo opportunities, feed the animals, sit and relax and admire the largest bronze animal collection of any Zoo in the Country."

I can't do what I did for the one above b/c almost everything is wrong here not just in its adjective-filled, evaluative wording, but in content. An encyclopedia article does not urge people to visit anything or postulate what enjoyment people might get out of doing proposed activities.

This exhibit _______ and houses the largest bronze animal collection of any zoo in the U.S.^{[citing a reliable source]}

• 6) Some more minor style notes:
   • At the first mention of the subject in the opening sentence it is placed in boldface (by enclosing it in three '''apostrophes''' – which you removed in your edit). BTW, please read WP:LEAD.
   • After the first mention of a subject we do not repeat its full name at every subsequent mention.
   • We generally do not use html markup: ===Magic Forest===, not <b><u>Magic Forest</u></b><br/> (see MOS:SECTIONS).
   • Wikipedia uses sentence case for headlines, so only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized in them: "Notable animals", not "Notable Animals".

PROCEDURE:

• 7) Once you have composed suitable text, open a section at the article's talk page (the article's talk page, Talk:Cougar Mountain Zoo; not your talk page) and lay out your suggestions. If it does not follow what I've advised about citing reliable sources (among other matters), it will surely be rejected.
• 8) Place above your suggestions this template, to draw users to your request: {{Request edit}}. Read that linked template's documentation for other instructions. Please do not expect a response within an hour or a day, and maybe not even within a week. Wikipedia is a slow motion place.

I am going to copy this thread to the article's talk page (so if you're reading this response there, the request edit template, and suggestion for content would go in a new thread at the bottom of that talk page). I think it best if discussion of the article takes place on the page that exists for that purpose. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:01, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Jason Kandybowicz

Hello. Thanks for taking the time to review my submission and also for the helpful feedback. I understanding the issue of sourcing and demonstrating significance/impact in an entry, but am a little confused about how to do it. For my resubmission, I consulted the Wikipedia pages of two linguistics whom I also represent (Mark Baker (linguist) and David Pesetsky) and provided what I thought were comparable sources and citations. Specifically, for the Kandybowicz resubmission I added 1) a link to WorldCat to reference the author's books in libraries and other public holdings (reference #2); 2) an independent peer-reviewed review of Kandybowicz's influential book "The Grammar of Repetition" (reference #5); 3) links to the author's various books by their respective publishers (references #4,6); and 4) a number of Kandybowicz's most influential scholarly journal articles with links to the publisher's web page for proper citation/sourcing/documentation.

If I understand you correctly, these are insufficient sources. This is the point I find myself confused about. As I mentioned, for this edit I consulted the Wikipedia entries for Mark C. Baker (linguist) and David Pesetsky. In the case of Mark C. Baker, there are absolutely zero references. The only piece of citation is a link to his website. How was that entry allowed and Kandybowicz's denied, when Kandybowicz's submission contains far more citations, links, and sources? In the case of the Pesetsky entry, I found two sources (notes 1 & 2 on that page). All other supporting information in that entry consists of citations of scholarly works/papers (as was provided in the Kandybowicz entry) and a link to his works on WorldCat (also as in the Kandybowicz entry).

As a representative of Dr. Kandybowicz, I have been tasked with creating and maintaining a Wikipedia page. I would appreciate any insight you could provide as to how I can revise the submission so that it conforms to Wikipedia's sourcing standards. However, when I look to other similar entries, as mentioned above, I do not find the help I need to adequately address your requirements.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Badwin goodminton (talk • contribs)

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide!

Hi Badwin goodminton, Please read WP:WAX by analogy. In short, you can't generalize from the fact that you can find similarly situated articles that "made it through". Because of the decentralized way material is reviewed, the fact we have bad content that shouldn't have made it through, or should be deleted, or rewritten, or was poorly reviewed, or was written when standards were looser, etc., is no reason to allow new content that does not meet our policies and guidelines. Did you understand the part I wrote about the types of sources being so important? Reliable sources entirely unconnected to him, discussing him or his scholarly impact in substantive detail? Try to find some, add those to the article, with statements they support and resubmit (probably someone else will be the next reviewer upon resubmission). Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:53, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Stephanie Martin (Writer)

Thank you for your review of my submission for Stephanie Martin (writer). I understand that you believed there was a copyright infringement but I own the copyright to all of the materials and was in the process of editing and resubmitting. You deleted my work-in-progress page, so could you please advise if it can be restored so I can continue working on it? It was hours of work and I have no copy. I'd like the opportunity to continue working on it so it does meet all of Wikipedia's standards and guidelines.

Thank you for your response in advance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Skmartin111 (talk • contribs)

The way copyright works at Wikipedia, any material you want to copy and paste and use here would have to have it's copyright irrevocably released not for use here but to the world, under a suitably-free copyright license (or into the public domain), which would then allow anyone to reuse the content, even for commercial purposes. This has to be done in a verifiable manner, Not by your assertion. Methods of verifiable release include:

i) posting the release of the content at the external website (i.e., replacing the current copyright notice with a suitably-free license notice), or

ii) demonstrating you are the owner by sending a suitable release from an email address associated with the domain name and it being archived through the OTRS system.

iii) For more detail on the exact methods you might use and instructions, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, and specifically the subsection of that page known by the shortcut WP:DONATETEXT.

However, please note that clearing up the copyright issue does not necessarily mean the content is appropriate for use here for other reasons (I don't know if it is or isn't; just trying to give you full disclosure). Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:21, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Locking yourself in an ATM

I've deleted User:Fuhghettaboutit/common.js entirely, so now you should be able to leave edit summaries; please restore it as you see fit :-) Nyttend (talk) 23:52, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Much appreciate the help! (Re: your note at WP:AN, the good intent involved is everything; matters not at all whether it resulted from a misunderstanding.:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:00, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

De-orphaning my article

@Fuhghettaboutit, thank you for your explanation of an orphaned article. I have found some articles link to my article. So what do I do with them in order to de-orphan my article Whiteplains British School? Could help me do the de-prphaning it?--Nwachinazo (talk) 00:31, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Nwachinazo. Another user has already taken care of this. For future reference, please read Help:Maintenance template removal. Thanks--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:56, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of article

You deleted my article Professor Valentine Joseph beacuse you said I was violating copyright. I have got the authors permissions and I will re-write it /remove it. Please can you undelete this article so I can amend the violation. Thank you. Heptanitrocubane (talk) 14:30, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

This post is responded to at Wikipedia:Teahouse#How do you improve the tone and neutral point of view of an article?.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:42, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice on the teahouse. I have some questions (apologies if they are slow :) ). Just to confirm, I cited/referenced that pdf in my article, and that needs a suitable free copyright notice (The date 2016/06 marks the time when the article was first created in word). I will add "The text of this document is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)." to the document and try to get that uploaded onto the original link (apologies, mistake - I wrote it). Also, do I need to specify who is releasing the copyright, or can I just write "The text of this..."? However, if I can't get it uploaded on the original link to that website, what should I do? Should I get that article removed and my altered one uploaded instead? Should I follow your second piece of advice? I am confused about what you mean when you say "email from an address associated with the original publication". Thank you very much in advance. Heptanitrocubane (talk) 08:44, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Heptanitrocubane. Since the document is where the material appears, your ability to edit it alone is a verifiable method to demonstrate your authorship. In short, I think adding a suitable release to it, without your name – "The text of this..." – is fine. The other method I went into from Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, indicates that a release should come form an email address associated with the publication, to demonstrate authority. It makes sense right? If content is taken from a website, say, widget.com, and then a person provides a release from JohnDoe@widget.com, that demonstrates the person's association with that entity and is verification of their authority to provide that release. I'm not part of the OTRS team, so I don't know how they view releases where that's not possible. That is, if there's no way to do so here for this PDF's source URL (e.g. Heptanitrocubane@cufsaa.com). But if you post the release in the PDF, I will undelete, as soon as you tell me you have and I then view it. If you can't do any sort of verifiable release, I'm sorry, but you would have to start writing a draft with new text, not copying from your previous writing, that has been posted to the world under as non-free copyright license, and which you can't prove was authored by you. I would, however, be willing to provide to you a "skeleton" from the draft to start that, but not the copied text. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Fuhghettaboutit! I am going to try to update the pdf. However, if I can only upload a second updated pdf, so there is one with the copyright release notice, and one without, would that be sufficient? Or would I have to replace/remove the old version of the pdf? Thanks again, Heptanitrocubane (talk) 13:16, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

@Anish Mariathasan: Ah, very good idea. Smart. I think if you can upload it to the same site, that's also fine. This is not a court of law.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello Fuhghettaboutit. I have managed to get it uploaded and have got the link, you can find it here. Thanks for the help, Heptanitrocubane (talk) 16:43, 1 August 2017 (UTC).

Hey Heptanitrocubane.  Done, Draft:Professor Valentine Joseph restored, with text release noted in log. Cheers--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:58, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Fuhghettaboutit! Heptanitrocubane (talk) 18:55, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry Fuhghettaboutit - I fixed my problem so I removed the previous message that was here. Regards Heptanitrocubane (talk) 20:26, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Weird content at Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion

FYI, that weird stuff about thyroids was added in this edit, years ago. Note the misleading edit summary; that was quite a bit more than a copyedit. Needless to say, I think it should stay gone. Reyk _YO! 14:52, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Reyk! Hmm, added by a very experienced user. Anyway, almost every part made no sense there. Almost by definition, if an article is being nominated at AfD, then the basis for the nomination we would be informing "interested people" of would never be "recommending that [the] article be speedily deleted"! It's sort of alarming that such very obviously incongruous text can persist in a prominent page like that for 8 years.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Your explanation in the Tea house was super. Thanks for taking the time to explain so well. Rhadow (talk) 17:24, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

WHY DID YOU DELET MY ARTIST PAGE??????

Hello Fuhghettaboutit

I'm seattle singer songwriter Jill Cohn and over the 20 years I've been an active touring musician, my fans and other sources have added to my Wikipedia page. Last night, i noticed that it's been entirely deleted and so I reached out to "info @ Wikipedia" and they said that YOU were the responsible party for deleting my page?

here is a COPY of my page and if you would kindly restore it (UNDELETE) I would appreciate this so very much. thank you! Jill Cohn

Here is my page PLEASE RESTORE IT OR TELL ME WHAT IT VIOLATES AND I'LL fix it! Thank you!!!!!!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jillcohn (talk • contribs)

<article text removed; the title is all that's needed to locate and posting it here presents a copyright problem>

​ Hi Jill. The page at Jill Cohn was proposed for deletion because it was a subpar article in many ways. It was nominated by someone else, and I implemented the deletion on January 1, 2015. You can see the deletion log entry here. This is not a reflection on you, but on the poor quality of the write-up on you, which, by the way, is very much not "your artist page" but was a poor attempt at an encyclopedia article about you. That distinction may seem trivial, and of course I'm aware it can just be a manner of speaking (and also, based on context, that you are likely not very familiar with Wikipedia policies, guidelines and jargon), but what that language implies can be important.

Please be aware that Wikipedia is not a social networking site; is not to be used for marketing or promotion; subjects of articles have no control over them; no one is entitled to an article; and because of our policies and guidelines, the nature of an encyclopedia, and the fact that it is impossible for someone to write about themselves or things close to them impartially, we strongly frown on people directly editing any articles that are about themselves, their family and friends, their businesses, or otherwise are on topics they have a personal stake in. See the conflict of interest behavioral guideline.

Getting back to the substance: the basis for the deletion nomination was "unref blp; doesn't meet WP:MUSICBIO or WP:GNG". Let me unpack that for you.

"Unref"=Unreferenced. This refers to the fact that this article did not meet Wikipedia's most basic standards for an article: it was not corroborated by citations to any reliable sources that verified the content it contained;

"blp"=biography of a living person – for which sourcing standards are stricter than for other types of topics: we cannot have articles on living persons with just unsupported, anecdotal content. Please read that policy. It is actually there to protect people like you; and

The two links, WP:MUSICBIO and WP:GNG are both notability guidelines. The first is specific to musical artists and the second is the general guideline. In short, not every topic in the world is suitable for an encyclopedia article, and the notability guidelines attempt to set forth standards to determine which topics do (far too permissively in my view).

Sometimes notability issues comes down not to whether a topic actually warrants an article, but rather, whether the current write-up demonstrates that they do. Once again we're back to reliable sourcing, the lifeblood of a Wikipedia article. You might be notable, but the write-up did not demonstrate that by citing 1) published, 2) reliable 3) secondary, 4) entirely independent sources, that 5) discuss you in substantive detail (not just mere mentions), in order to demonstrate that an article is warranted.

That being said, because this was deleted through a PROD for which undeletion is usually granted fairly freely, I will restore the article. But it needs a lot of work, and this does not mean it will not be deleted on the merits upon a deletion discussion, e.g., at article for deletion. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:37, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Reliability of the Daily Caller and other opinionated sources

This is a continuation of our discussion at the Teahouse on this topic.

I totally agree with you about right-wing "alternative facts", and about confusing fact with opinion, but the reliability of the Daily Caller is a separate question. After posting to the Teahouse, I looked around, and found the Reliable sources noticeboard. A search on "daily caller" there revealed this discussion, which concludes that "At best, it's reliable but should be avoided in favor of more neutral media whenever possible, just like with any other blatantly partisan source." On the other hand, the topic appears to have been highly contentious, with repeated, lengthy Noticeboard discussions.

To me, the critical question for any opinionated source is whether or not it can itself keep opinion separate from fact. This question affects far more than just right-wing sources; I see it as a fundamental problem for Wikipedia's current policies and guidelines. For example, I don't see why WP:RS would say that editorials and opinion pieces are "rarely reliable for statements of fact", or why WP:NOR (in a footnote!) would classify them as primary rather than secondary sources. An editorial or op-ed in an otherwise reliable source is not much more likely to get away with misstating basic facts than a news story in the same publication, no matter what inferences it tries to draw from them.

To be concrete: My current draft on Documenting Hate cites this opinion piece. Under present policy and guideline regime, it would probably be disqualified as an unreliable primary source, useless for establishing notability, rather than a reliable secondary source, simply because it argues for a conclusion as a matter of opinion. But it appears to me to be meticulous in its separation of fact from opinion, and I would trust its factual assertions no less than if it were purely descriptive reporting. I feel it ought to be classified as a clear-cut case of secondary-source analysis of the primary sources it links to — not even a gray area. If Wikipedia's current policies and guidelines dictate otherwise, then they need to change.

The present policy and guideline regime appears to make it nearly impossible to classify news sources, other than very lengthy ones that approach the status of scholarly sources, as reliable secondary sources. If they stick to the facts, they're primary, even if reliable, because they do no analysis or synthesis. If they do engage in inferential analysis or synthesis, then they're supposedly unreliable opinion pieces — and, as such, again they're primary sources. Heads I win, tails you lose.

I feel this has to change.

—Syrenka V (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Misty at Cougar Mountain Zoo here

First, a heartfelt thank you for your detailed notes! I have been occupied with other pressing projects and am now getting back to the Zoo's Wikipedia page.

I have requested a change to the username CougarMZoo to Misty@CougarMountainZoo. Waiting on that before I attempt to do anything else. I have also sent in an email to try to get the jpg of our new logo uploaded. That was also deleted. Once I hear back on these two things then hoping to try suggesting some edits to the Infobox as a start to fix incorrect info. and add a couple of things. Also have your notes on what to do once the username has changed to also help try to avoid issues.

In reading through some of the articles I have come across it seems once the username has changed I need to create my user page. And it also sounds like I need a paragraph there outlining my relationship with the Zoological Society of Washington (ZSW) and Cougar Mountain Zoo. Or is just this enough on my userpage;

This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Cougar Mountain Zoo.

When I request an edit on the Zoo's talk page I'm trying to understand how to best disclose my COI. I'm not paid to come up with the information; just try to get it on there. So would I use the connected contributor (paid) template as follows:

The ZSW Board has gone through and re-written everything based on your comments and example to remove NPOV. Still severely lacking sources (don't seem to be any out there, even in Google books as you suggested) other than the Zoo's website. Those are used in the current accepted Wikipedia article. But per my research that normally isn't allowed, right? Or am I mis-interpreting something? Are Yelp and TripAdvisor reviews allowed as sources? Guessing no, but it never hurts to ask :)

Two more questions; 1) Do you think it is better to try to get everything in all at once or a section at a time? Can you point me in the right direction to find the Zoo Infobox template so I can see the list of allowed parameters in there?

Thanks again for your continued help!

Misty Misty@CougarMountainZoo (talk) 21:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey Misty. Yes, simply posting the filled-out {{Paid}} template and {{UserboxCOI}} to your user page (once the name change goes through) will take care of mandatory dislcosure. Really nice to work with someone willing to read and comply with these simple matters. (You can probably hear my frustration; I spend a lot of time dealing with people unwilling or incapable of complying.) Thank you. However, you need to repost your name change request. It was rejected, and you were advised to choose a different name because while I said you can use a name like "Misty at CougarMZoo", you translated this into a request for a name with the actual at symbol @, which can't be part of a username (an actual technical restriction of the software; it's not possible).

Most templates have documentation with all parameters given and explained at the template page itself – here Template:Infobox zoo – {{Infobox zoo}}. You might also visit, say Bronx Zoo, and look at the template's display there, and also click edit to see the code resulting in the display.

Regarding use of the zoo's website: please read the policy at WP:PRIMARY and the supplementary essay at WP:PRIMARYCARE. In short, I think you'll be glad to know that it is not correct that the Zoo's website cannot be used. However the use of primary sources like this are limited in a few ways. They do not provide evidence of notability which is not really germane here), but what is highly relevant is that they can only be used for straightforward statements of fact, and cannot be used for any evaluation, synthesis, interpretation, and, especially with a primary source that is completely connected to the subject of an article (i.e., non-independent), use will be scrutinized for clearly self-serving purposes. Primary, connected sources are not bad, and often are needed to fill in fact gaps that only a connected source will have, they just must be used with these restrictions in mind. (I don't want you to hamstring yourself bending over backwards. You're doing great so far and are the rare person actually following-up; I am glad to help).

In that regard, while I told you the procedure for posting at the article's talk page, placing the requested edit templates there and the like, I am offering to handle this directly, so no need. Once you think the sandbox is ready for a final look, drop me a message here. (There's also no need to start a new thread; you can just post within this thread--and I will receive a notification for any messages you leave me on this talk page [just as you've probably noticed you get informed whenever anyone posts to your talk page].) Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:44, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit Duh on me about the name change; request resubmitted. At least I got the new zoo logo uploaded. Once step forward, two step backs :) I've been doing doing the revamp on the CougarMZoo sandbox page; should I move it over to the Cougar Mountain Zoo sandbox page instead? Having trouble referencing a previous reference; supposed to be able to from everything I've read but nothing shows up in "Named references". This would be for both the History page of the Zoo's website and the book. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Andy ideas? Google Books doesn't show the page numbers for referencing. Will that be a problem? And many thanks for your continued help and your kind words of encouragement and support! Misty@CougarMountainZoo (talk) 20:28, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

@CougarMZoo: You never defined the reference name at its first use, and then tried to use it with a name that had never been defined. You also you gave it a name that included spaces but without quote marks (which won't work; you can only avoid quote marks in the cite name if there's no spaces).

Here's an example of first use of a cite, giving it a name, that I added to the draft as an example of a source I found through this simple Google News search (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

The next time you wanted to use that cite (though here, it probably wouldn't be useful to cite again), you'd just type <ref name=Pattycake /> and if you wanted to name it Patty cake, with the space, you'd have to have named it <ref name="Patty cake">...

Page numbers are important for transparency of references. You can only do what you can though. Usually, when you can see any text through Google Books, even through its "snippet view", you can see the page number. Sometimes, it's an e-book, though, and there is no true page number. I'd have to know exactly which you're referring to to advise further. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:17, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit, Thanks for the tips on citing refs. I think I'm getting the hang of it now. Have it all fleshed out with Wiki and external links and refs to Zoos website. Starting to look for more refs that could be added. Now if those refs have text that is not NPOV, is it still best to avoid using any of that? And thanks for finding that online "patty-cake" article. We knew the picture went viral on Facebook thanks to George Takei. Not sure if anyone knew about the article though. Misty@CougarMountainZoo (talk) 00:14, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit, Name change has gone through. I have created the userpage for Misty at CougarMountainZoo and added in the Paid and UserboxCOI to it. Can you take a look and see if I did them correctly? Still researching more references. Yes, one of the books that comes up in Google Books is only an ebook. Weird, today it's not showing up.... So in your opinion do I have enough references to try this yet? Thanks!!! Misty at CougarMountainZoo (talk) 21:43, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, someone named Eagledj has been editing the "old" article the last couple of days. Nice of them to find me a new source :) What they have done and their reasoning makes sense. Sounds like the section on Hours may be objectionable to seem even though we don't have it explicit like what was removed from the "old" article. Misty at CougarMountainZoo (talk) 22:58, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey Misty. I am going to look very soon. I have a lot going on right now (in the real world).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:30, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Dear Misty, Since the Cougar Mountain Zoo is a nonprofit, and it's mission and motives are fairly clear, it is getting a huge pass for an article that otherwise would have been deleted as being promotional, being written by an employee of the subject of the article, at the request its board of directors. I have tried to help the article by discarding promotional language, and adding some references. I too am a pupil of Fuhghettaboutit, who has been a patient mentor to me, as he is now being to you. It would be helpful to state the number of individual animals the zoo has, and the number of species; also the annual attendance and whether or not the zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, etc.. An example is Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, and, of course the Bronx Zoo as suggested. As yet, I have not found those facts about CMZ in any published source. Surely the Seattle papers must have more articles about the zoo. Please look at my contributions on the "old" article HERE before trying to paste an entirely new one over it. Fughettaboutit can guide you here. We welcome you to Wiki, happy editing !. --Eagledj (talk) 00:13, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit, One of your pupils has done a lot of editing on the Zoo's page (his name appears in the paragraph above). He introduced some typos and incorrect information. And of course I did everything totally wrong in trying to fix them. You can find more information about all of this on his talk page and the talk page of the Zoo. Subsequently I asked him to add/change/fix a couple of and not all of them got done. So there are still a couple of things in the article that are wrong or mis-leading and still some things missing from the infobox. Since the items I asked him to add to the infobox (website; was there and now isn't and list of major exhibits) are in just about every other Zoo infobox that I have looked at this seems a little discriminatory to me. Am I being overly sensitive? I was planning on combining several of the sections into the lead paragraph like he did. And overall I like most of what he did. But the last sentence of the lead paragraph is to me very mis-leading. One might think Peter Rittler had nothing to do with the Zoo between 1990 and 2009. It would sure be nice to get that sentence deleted. When I asked he revised it instead of deleting it. But then maybe my request to him was not clear. Anyway, thanks for listening and any further advice you might have! Hope you aren't anywhere adversely affected by the nasty weather.... Misty at CougarMountainZoo (talk) 21:34, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

I did request a couple of edits on the talk page today. Hopefully it won't tick off anyone. I think I did it correctly other than had a couple of things wrong and had to go back in and edit them. Sigh... so many little details. I really admire everyone who can do things correctly on their first effort in Wikipedia! Misty at CougarMountainZoo (talk) 23:27, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Dear Fughettaboutit, Please refer to the article's talk page HERE for my responses to Misty's comments. Regards,--Eagledj (talk) 17:44, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Second opinion

Hello Fuhghettaboutit. I would really appreciate it if you could give me your opinion on my article Draft:Professor Valentine Joseph. Thanks in advance, Heptanitrocubane (talk) 21:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Heptanitrocubane. You have it in the review queue on re-submission. I am not going to jump the queue and I don't generally do AfC reviewing.

I will say though, without having done an analysis of whether the sourcing is suitable to demonstrate notability—that is, whether Joseph is the subject of substantive treatment in published, reliable, secondary and independent sources, without which no amount of editing will result in a suitable article—that though you've added content since the last review, including inline citations, large parts of the draft remain unsourced.

Any parts that you cannot source should be removed. Any parts that are cited to primary sources must not contain evaluation, synthesis or interpretation and should only be used for straightforward statements of fact, and every single fact in the draft should be verifiable in a source, and best actually cited to a source. The proper way to write a Wikipedia article is to gather sources first and then write (in your own words) only what they verify, citing the sources as you go for the information. Writing what you know and then. later, trying to back into sources ends up with content like we see in this draft, which was written first and possibly with original research included. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:06, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much Fuhghettaboutit for improving the bottom of the article. I have removed the material which cannot be verified in the Early life part, is this suitable? I thought I have seen some Wikipedia articles without references in the Early life part.

I have cited links to blogs, but they are blogs of respected people, lecturers at Colombo University and the CUFSAA-NA. Thanks, Heptanitrocubane (talk) 16:57, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Glossary of bird terms to FL

Nice work. • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

@Pbsouthwood: Thanks! Your criticism was invaluable. It certainly is the article I'm most proud of (and which taught me the most in writing)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Orange bar script

@Writ Keeper: Per our discussion I'm just noting here that it's still not working. In the past three messages here, only one produced the orange bar. Not sure there's anything you can do, not expecting miracles, and thanks for looking the last time.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:33, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Kendra Timmins

I understand your thinking here, in terms of creating a redirect and then protecting it, in order to prevent article creation again. My only concern here is the target – while Timmins was on Wingin' It for 3 seasons apparently, I'd argue that she's better known for Ride (TV series), as she was the lead actor on the latter as opposed to just a second-lead, and the latter show aired internationally whereas I don't think Wingin' It did (or, at least, not to the same extent...).

Thus, I'd ask you to consider changing the target of that protected redirect to Ride (TV series). FWIW... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:25, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey IJBall. Done.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:29, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Logo Re: THQ

I... Don't myself even really begin to understand the legal series of flooded basements that is copyright law. But... "link plz" is usually sufficient to get the conversation started. Half of these logos don't meet COM:TOO anyway. TimothyJosephWood 01:29, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

My attempt in response to most questions is to try to give maximum information that I think the person might be able to take in. This user was given incorrect and way oversimplified information, and was making guesses based on that that were all over the place. I gave them a bit of the copyright playing field that I thought was relevant in an area in which I am heavily involved. Sure, it's possible this doesn't meet TOO; I didn't want to get too far afield, trying to balance information with understanding. I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I'm reading your post as a chastisement, and an attempt to stifle and unless I'm reading that wrong, it's not appreciated.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:09, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

LawzGrid

Hello Fuhghettaboutit, the article LawzGrid is corporate spam and has been created twice in the last week. Could you salt it to block any further re-creation? Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 12:20, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

@Loopy30: Done. It was also a copyright violation. I have cleaned up elsewhere, including Draft:First Article, which was also spam for the same company (and also a copyvio). I have left a final warning for the user here. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)

added info on pancreatic cancer

I don´t really understand why my additions (both text and links) were reverted on the pancreatic cancer page?? It is not copy-paste from the corresponding webpage on pancreatic cancer at the Human Protein Atlas. It does add important information. Wrong format? wrong place on the wiki page? wrongly positioned links?? Please advise me so that I can add important information and relevant links to wiki pages dealing with the most common forms of human cancer!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Figgep (talk • contribs)

Hi Figgep. Having further edits also reverted, or good changes included with edits that also added copyvios, is a risk that is run when copying. When I see a clear pattern of copying, all from the same source, and have confirmed for 5 of say 15 similar edits that copying is taking place, I am going to use that sample as evidence of the whole. But, regardless, this too included a copy-paste. Source:

"...genes are suggested as prognostic based on transcriptomics data from 176 patients..."

Your edit:

"...genes are suggested as prognostic based on transcriptomics data from 176 patients..."

References

You seem like you have a lot of knowledge to contribute to medical topics. I don't want to discourage you and am glad you've acknowledged you understand the issue and seem to be taking this in stride. Best regards.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:25, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Much appreciated Fuhghettaboutit, thanks! I am getting a bit more for every try + feedback, so please continue so that in the end my contributions will be of high quality and stick. Guess my early problem was that I am also the main author of all medical texts on the Human Protein Atlas, and thought that since we adhere to the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" for all copyrightable parts of our database, I was quite free to just take out parts of sentences from the sight and only slightly modify. Clearly related is the allowing of direct copied text from other sources such as RefSeq?? Example from Caspase 14: In wiki: "The CASP14 gene encodes a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This caspase has been shown to be processed and activated by caspase 8 and caspase 10 in vitro, and by anti-Fas agonist antibody or TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand in vivo. The expression and processing of this caspase may be involved in keratinocyte terminal differentiation, which is important for the formation of the skin barrier."

In Entrez gene (NCBI): "This gene encodes a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This caspase has been shown to be processed and activated by caspase 8 and caspase 10 in vitro, and by anti-Fas agonist antibody or TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand in vivo. The expression and processing of this caspase may be involved in keratinocyte terminal differentiation, which is important for the formation of the skin barrier. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]"

Some redundancy with texts on other databases is apparently allowed, should also be possible with the Human Protein Atlas database!?!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Figgep (talk • contribs)

@Figgep: First let me just note that I am focused upon the copyright/plagiarism issue, and have not thought about or approached any of these edits from other viewpoints. What I mean by that is that sometimes text people want to use is okay to copy and paste here from a copyright/plagiarism view, if done in a particular manner, but does not belong for other reasons of encyclopedic judgment; conflict of interest; promotion; is placed in the wrong place; is not edited to fit here in a seamless manner, etc.

If you aren't aware, and you very well might be, plagiarism is an ethics concern, where copyright involves the law. To give an example, public domain text is by definition free of copyright. That means that you can copy and paste it anywhere and copyright is simply uninvolved. However, this can still constitute plagiarism, if you use a PD source's text without suitably acknowledging it is someone else's words (e.g., by the use of quote marks or set off coupled with citing the source, or a notice of incorporation of PD text in the references section). Citing the source alone is not enough, as it does not disclose copying. One has to acknowledge the words copied as someone else's.

This gets us to another issue: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. What I am referring to is that you have said above that the content from the database was actually written by you. It's true that it is not possible to plagiarize yourself. If you are the author, none of your use, even without quote marks, etc., is actually plagiarism. The problem is that we are all anonymous people sitting behind keyboards, so while I believe you, it's simply not enough for anyone to assert it is their words. The same is true of copyright. For example, when someone says "but the content is mine and I release it!!!", we tell them, 'that's nice, now provide the release in a verifiable manner—by a method that evidences you actually own the copyright, and so have authority to provide the release (and to the world, not just for use here – into the public domain, or under a compatibly free copyright license" (such as by a method suggested at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials).

Now, sorry, but some bad news about the copyright. I do see that the content of THPA is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This license is not compatible (for text; it is okay for images) with our (mostly) dual copyright licensing scheme (that is, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License and the GFDL). You asked about RefSeq. By contrast, the parts of RefSeq that are actually written by employees of the U.S. Federal government, as part of their official duties (as opposed to content of others hosted there, work of contractors, or quotes used there), are in the public domain – see 17 U.S. Code § 105. This gets us back to the plagiarism issue though. To use such public domain works, they need to be quoted and cited, or a notice provided when used (see, e.g., Category:United States government attribution templates).

P.S. in all the posts above and below I have signed for you, using the unsigned template. For future reference, all posts to talk pages and other behind-the-scenes forums should be signed (as opposed to additions to articles, which should never be signed). Please read Wikipedia:Signatures.

I hope some of this is helpful. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:57, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much for explanatory text on copyright and likewise! Also thanks for teaching me how to write, e.g. sign on talk pages etc. (will take some time to learn all tricks when writing on edit source pages)

The copyright/plagiarism ethical codes are as such interesting and how grey zones should be interpreted. I experience similar things as part of my work when approving student´s thesis, writing scientific papers, texts for the internet etc. Each community has a bit of its own flavor and I am trying to understand how I can contribute to wiki, and first hurdle appears to be copyright related issues. I can also feel that there are lots of more hurdles ahead regarding the things you mention, e.g. encyclopedic judgment; conflict of interest; promotion; is placed in the wrong place; is not edited to fit here in a seamless manner, etc. However, I think wikipedia is a great resource and as I have understood it is a community-based resource dependent on contributions from people that have time and knowledge to spend on creating this educational resource. As always, there are politics and one needs to learn how to interact to convey new and important knowledge into the correct format. What I know for a fact is that these last additions I have made, have been written off the top of my head without any copy-paste.

The background for why I am willing to spend time on this is that I have the last 15 years worked in an non-comercial academic project supported by a non-profit organisation. Over 1200 man years have been spent on this project and the outcome is made publically available without any restrictions at our web portal: www.proteinatlas.org. Aside from scientific data and interpretations of results, there is also vast descriptions of background, validation, organisation, downloadable data, licenses etc. etc. We receive up to 200,000 visits per month and the site is becomming one of the most used databases within the biomedical field. As for questions regarding validity of the scientific knowledge that I try to add, all given data has been published in absolute top, peer reviewed scientific journals, justifying qualification as knowledge that can be presented on a wiki page!

So, how does this relate to wiki.....well, I strongly think that the basic results presented at the Human Protein Atlas should be of common interest and importance. The summarized knowledge, with relevant links for deeper information, regarding the gene expression landscape in our normal organs and tissues provides the fundament for what makes a certain tissue type just that tissue type. It is the differences in global gene expression patterns that underlie the differences in anatomic appearence, histological composition and cellular functions, between different organs ind tissue types in our bodies. Moreover, this provides a basis to understand the different diseases that effect different organs. I will try to comment on all other comments I have received as others omit what I write. Not sure how to best proceed though....

Figgep (talk) 09:09, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violations based on other edits by user

Why was my new text reverted from the REEP2 page? If this is a copyright violation, I need to know what more exact what in these 5 sentences that I added is considered as a copyright violation? For genes and proteins lacking much information as to function and expression patterns, I believe that descriptive sentences should be kept short and concise, which also means that there is a degree of redundancy with other databases. I can rewrite lengthy sentences, but this appears as a contra-productive strategy to avoid being reverted due to alleged copyright violations. Please advise— Preceding unsigned comment added by Figgep (talk • contribs)

See above. But also, the moment I drop a snippet into Google in quotes...

"...ability to enhance cell surface expression of a subset of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)..."

Your edit:

"...the ability to enhance cell surface expression of a subset of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)s..."

References

Caspase 14 text

The descriptive text I had added with relevant references under "Caspase 14" were removed. Why? I do not understand what was wrong with the added information. There was no copy paste. However, the only text that is now present on the reverted page is a precise copy from the text provided by RefSeq in July 2008. I think it is OK with this redundancy in the form of short descriptive sentences. I need to understand why my added text was omitted!?!?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Figgep (talk • contribs)

Again see above. This one, alone, I did not see copying when googling, so I'll revert.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:47, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

A nice soothing cup of tea for you!

It seemed like you could use this. Rest, relax, refresh... then back into the breach! GrammarFascist contribstalk 01:08, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

​ :-) Thanks! The entitlement in posts like that gets to me. "I'm here to promote... how dare you stop me from my improper purpose"--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:46, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

I feel you, my friend, I feel you. We've had too many editors like that at the Teahouse recently. That one poster really crossed the line, too. Some people there's just no getting through to. —GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 17:56, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

ACTRIAL

Hi. When I think about it, I'm not sure that this is a good idea. First-time users wouldn't even know there was an old rule, so they shouldn't be bothered with the new one. This is why we decided to take down the watchlist notice too. In fact feedback going back a while from new users tends to demonstrate that they always already thought this was the case. Even some admins were convinced that ACTRIAL had been permanently implemented back in 2011. I think this is probably due to the fact that when voters saw the huge consensus, they assumed it would be rolled out and never knew that the WMF had refused it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:59, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey Kudpung. Maybe the information could be integrated into the page better but why would something that will actually affect large numbers of users' ability to create new articles, on a page dedicated to that subject, not be highly relevant if not vital information to include on that page?

To give you an example, we constantly get questions at the Teahouse from not-yet autoconfirmed users trying to move a page about the inability to do so that they come up against. Without this information, I would expect to leave lots of users in that same boat. Is there some underlying concern you aren't saying—like maybe that it would be good for us, for some unarticulated reason, to leave people ignorant on this?

I can postulate such an argument. For example, I could see someone arguing that by providing this notice, we inform users how to "get around" autoconfirmation (but by telling them what it is). They would still have to wait out the four days though, and find ten edits to make. And this is swimming upstream against our openness ethos.

Anyway, it it's something like that, you haven't said what it is, and I don't see why we wouldn't include something like this otherwise. The fact that some subset of users were confused about new users' ability to create articles immediately seems neither here nor there. Certainly, newpages itself shows us that that lots of new users created articles on their first edits.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:40, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey, I didn't expect you to shoot me down! I think you misunderstood my motivation. I've gone ahead and edited it to what I think is sufficient for new users to know. It reflects the current situation. As you and I both know only too well, people don't read instructions anyway. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:52, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Ah, Total misunderstanding (though I think if you read your post, you'll likely see what I misunderstood). With the context of the edit you made, you meant that including the information about it being part of an ACTRIAL trial, was unneeded (rather than that the main information about autoconfirmation being needed to create articles, was unneeded which is what I read your post as saying). No, I have no problem at all with the edit you made to remove the trial information!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:04, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Junopolo

Good work. Glad to get a second opinion on that, as their not-beginner editing proficiency is all I had to go on that I'm not WP:BITEing them. Are admins now being more proactive about paid? Your response impressed me. Widefox; talk 14:26, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey Widefox. No, unfortunately, only me. I think it's the greatest failing of the community (after not having a pragmatic verifiability deletion process for all new unsourced articles, and not just for BLPs through sticky prod, and by allowing WP:COI to be a fangless, recommendation guideline). We finally have a way to actually enforce curbing promotion through mandatory paid editing disclosure (telling people "you have a COI, which does not prohibit anything, but we strongly recommend..." has done nothing) and yet we have not taken advantage of it.

That template series (I posted the first one at the talk page) was created for this purpose and no one is using it, because it's not in Twinkle, and not shown at WP:PAID, as rejected from both, resulting from the elevation of not biting and assuming good faith (principles I actually believe in, but not to the exclusion of any pragmatism) to such heights of near religion, that we are cutting off our nose to spite our face. I fear there's not much that can be done at this point.

We have all but given free reign to the promoters, and so hundreds of promotional articles actually make it into the encyclopedia every week (probably half of them copyvios), which I believe is ultimately a great driving force in the inability to get the numbers of new users we need to write and improve real encyclopedia articles, or to man new pages to keep out the dreck; a viscious circle. People who would be inspired and start to care about the encyclopedia for its noble mission never arrive and get hooked because we no longer resemble the aspiration of what we said we were building. People see commercialpedia because we are quite a ways down the road of becoming that. And the hole is so deep now... I'm not sure we can fashion a shovel that will save us.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel as strongly as I do about it when the consensus seems to be stuck on acquiescence. Views seem polarised and fundamental, plug my essay WP:BOGOF. Worth pushing for paid & Twinkle again? Regards Widefox; talk 21:29, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

I started an ANI about Junopolo, and thought best to mentioned you, so obligatory notice...

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Widefox; talk 22:29, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

changing license

Hi, if we change our copyright license in the Human protein Atlas to CC-BY-SA 3.0 for all copyrightable parts of our database, would that enable use of images, tables, figures and text to be displayed on wiki pages without infringment of any copyright restrictions? Figgep (talk) 09:09, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Figgep. In a word, yes! You still have to disclose the copying. Here, probably by a notice placed in the references each times you used a page from the site. For example:

{{CC-notice|cc=bysa3|url=http://www.proteinatlas.org/humanpathology/pancreatic+cancer|author(s)=[[Human Protein Atlas]]}}

Which would format as:

 This article incorporates text by Human Protein Atlas available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

Again, none of this has anything to do with integration of the text or others' views of its use for other reasons, but that would take care of the copyright issue.

On a side note: we see so much problematic copying that sometimes, if the license is not clear, a site that really is licensed under a suitable free license or is PD will be tagged as a copyvio if the notice is not easily seen. What I mean by this is that at the HPA site, the only way to see what license the content bears is by noticing and clicking on the link for "LICENCE & CITATION". If each page in the Atlas, instead bore the notice, this problem I foresee would likely go away or be much rarer. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:46, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi and thanks again for valuable information! I will pass this on and we will have it in mind when we get to that part of our ambition to incorporate basic knowledge into gene/protein pages on wiki. Figgep (talk) 09:00, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs

Hello Fuhghettaboutit, the CCPA article was recently edited with material lifted directly off their website. I have deleted the offending material as copyvio, but could you erase the page history to remove the traces? 'Cheers Loopy30 (talk) 11:58, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey Loopy30. Done. Ask me anytime.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:04, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Because the community has failed...

...to forbid people like you from creating crap like that...

I'm not gonna lie. I got a chuckle out of that one. GMG^talk 18:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

​:-) But in all seriousness, it is a predicament of huge scope, and may be our downfall.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:14, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Eh, ACTRIAL seems to be working out okay on some fronts, and frankly I was getting tired of so much NPP. So I'll mark it up as a small victory. GMG^talk 18:17, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: Agreed. In fact—imagine this—I've actually seen CAT:CSD being entirely empty more than once the past few weeks.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:31, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey, after probably a five week uninterrupted string of doing little else but NPP prior to ACTRIAL, I've actually managed to make it back over to AfD for a change. I'm not complaining. GMG^talk 16:37, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Visualbash

Greetings Fuhghettaboutit,

I am the developer of VisualBash, and I am afraid I do not know as much about media wiki as you do.

I would like to get a small article on Wikipedia about VisualBash, but I am afraid I do not even know how to contact you correctly much less successfully submit an article.

My email address is flint@flint.com. I am very comfortable with ASCII email.

Sincerely,

Paul Flint Flintiii (talk) 11:57, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Flintiii. The links I provided at your talk page are the places to learn about what is needed to make a suitable article, if that is possibly for this topic (sorry, but I suspect it's not possible, because no amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability; the sources that are needed to demonstrate that a topic is notable and warrants an encyclopedia article either exist, or they do not). Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:31, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Cigniti

Hi Fuhghettaboutit,

I am the developer of Cigniti page. A few years earlier, I believe someone tried to create a page with the same title Cigniti and it was deleted.

I have researched thoroughly about publicly available credible information and wanted to get a small article on Cigniti published in wiki. It would be great if you can review the page so that I can publish a correctly drafted wiki article which is of use to readers.

Sincerely,

Subhendu Pattnaik Subhendupattnaik

Nomination for deletion of Template:Current-HCOTM

Template:Current-HCOTM has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 07:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Template talk:Uw-paid1

It's a bit strong isn't it, when a paid editor not only has autopatrolled and New Page Reviewer rights, and believe it or not, also OTRS, starts wanting to rewrite the paid editing rules. And then people wonder why I sometimes have steam coming out of my ears... Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Wow. I had no idea, thanks for the heads up, and I'm... uh... not quite neutral on the issue.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:31, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Air India Flight 182

Hello Fuhghettaboutit, could you hide this edit? I have restored it to NPOV but figure the racism part should be stricken completely from the history. 'Cheers, Loopy30 (talk) 21:59, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

@Loopy30:  Done. I didn't think of this as something I would have on my own thought of as grave enough for redaction, but I also don't think its outside the bounds, so no problem doing so.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:30, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Fuhghettaboutit, allowing unreferenced statements claiming that a specific group of people have a higher rate of illegal activity than the general population feeds into the perception that the group is a detriment to society and not welcome. This in turn supports a climate where racism against the group can thrive. I appreciate your understanding and assessment of this. 'Cheers, Loopy30 (talk) 15:06, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

@Loopy30: There's nothing in your post I disagree with. I just think of this as registering as "obvious crank with agenda is obvious crank with agenda", and no targeted and named individual is tarred (which always elevates such filth to potentially actionable defamation).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:36, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

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Asian Workers Development Institute, Rourkela

Another set of copyvios to remove from the history. All edits from 11 Oct (today) are directly lifted from the institute's own website. Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 15:48, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

OCTA Innovation

Hi, I am wondering if you could return this page or send me the page content, so I can fix the parts which caused the article deletion. I now that I have made a mistake by posting this unedited content, and it will never happen again. I hope you could help me, thanks. --Semso98 (talk) 13:17, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Non-constructive edits

Hi Fuhghettaboutit, An editor named Billhpike appears to have edited scores of articles about U.S. schools inserting negative racial remarks such as "...established as a segregation academy" and other inflammatory statements HERE. The edits predictably involve insertion of a racially themed sentence, often out of context. Such statements do not appear to be good-faith constructive efforts to improve the articles, but rather to promote some sort of agenda to shock and to inflict shame on these schools. One of my articles, Harpeth Hall School, has been affected by his edits as have those of many schools in my city and elsewhere. I have read his cited sources, and I believe his conclusions are not entirely accurate or balanced. I have reverted his edits only to have him restore them so I am asking you to weigh in on the matter. Best,--Eagledj (talk) 16:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

My edits are part of WP:DISCRIMINATION. The fact that some schools systemically excluded a substantial portion of the population is a significant part of the school’s history.

If you think my sources are inaccurate, please WP:BB and revert my edits. Please note any issues on the talk page, and I will reply and address your concerns. I may add additional sources or more detailed quotes to the article, such as I did with Harpeth Hall School.

Please also keep in mind WP:OWN and WP:NOTCENSORED.

Billhpike (talk) 18:41, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Fuhghettaboutit, Billhpike and I have found somewhat of a compromise— I've added a new section heading to Harpeth Hall School entitled "diversity" which addresses the issue of racial imbalance at the school. This time it is told from a NPOV. It's interesting that Billhpike and I used essentially the same citations to come up with markedly different versions. He complimented what I did, which I appreciate, and helped me by pointing out that I don't "own" the article; but what about the many other school articles on which his edits were used like a blunt instrument, without context, using pejorative terms like "segregation academy"? Billhpike regularly blanks his talk page, making dialogue less transparent. I do think we need some guidance from an administrator. Check his block log. I looked at WP:Wikiproject schools but did not find any help. Regards,--Eagledj (talk) 18:12, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day

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Potential replacement for {{Rp}}

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Reduce protection for Jio Pagla

Hello Fuhghettaboutit, in October 2017, you have added create protection for a film topic Jio Pagla (redlinked). As the movie has been released and new sources has been came out, so please remove protection from creating article, so that the article can be created. A sandbox draft has drawn by me here.

AnkurWiki (talk) 07:49, 2 June 2018

Peer review newsletter #1

Introduction

Hello to all! I do not intend to write a regular peer review newsletter but there does occasionally come a time when those interested in contributing to peer review should be contacted, and now is one. I've mailed this out to everyone on the peer review volunteers list, and some editors that have contributed to past discussions. Apologies if I've left you off or contacted you and you didn't want it. Next time there is a newsletter / mass message it will be opt in (here), I'll talk about this below - but first:

• THANK YOU! I want to thank you for your contributions and for volunteering on the list to help out at peer review. Thank you!
• Peer review is useful! It's good to have an active peer review process. This is often the way that we help new or developing editors understand our ways, and improve the quality of their editing - so it fills an important and necessary gap between the teahouse (kindly introduction to our Wikiways) and GA and FA reviews (specific standards uphelp according to a set of quality criteria). And we should try and improve this process where possible (automate, simplify) so it can be used and maintained easily.

Updates

It can get quite lonely tinkering with peer review...

With a bit of effort we can renovate the place to look like this!

Update #1: the peer review volunteers list is changing

The list is here in case you've forgotten: WP:PRV. Kadane has kindly offered to create a bot that will ping editors on the volunteers list with unanswered reviews in their chosen subject areas every so often. You can choose the time interval by changing the "contact" parameter. Options are "never", "monthly", "quarterly", "halfyearly", and "annually". For example:

• {{PRV|JohnSmith|History of engineering|contact=monthly}} - if placed in the "History" section, JohnSmith will receive an automatic update every month about unanswered peer reviews relating to history.
• {{PRV|JaneSmith|Mesopotamian geography, Norwegian fjords|contact=annually}} - if placed in the "Geography" section, JaneSmith will receive an automatic update every yearly about unanswered peer reviews in the geography area.

We can at this stage only use the broad peer review section titles to guide what reviews you'd like, but that's better than nothing! You can also set an interest in multiple separate subject areas that will be updated at different times.

Update #2: a (lean) WikiProject Peer review

I don't think we need a WikiProject with a giant bureaucracy nor all sorts of whiz-bang features. However over the last few years I've found there are times when it would have been useful to have a list of editors that would like to contribute to discussions about the peer review process (e.g. instructions, layout, automation, simplification etc.). Also, it can get kind of lonely on the talk page as I am (correct me if I'm wrong) the only regular contributor, with most editors moving on after 6 - 12 months.

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Update #3: advertising

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'Shewawm Lynam'deletion

Hi. You deleted the draft page 'Shewam Lynam' for breach of copyright, which certainly was not intended, and which to my knowledge did not occur. The main text is original, written by me, not borrowed from any other source, and it is backed up by references, as follows: -"Joan (Shevawn) Lynam". Obituary. 'The Irish Times' online, 19 November 1998, n.p.. -Shevawn Lynam correspondence with RTE. RTE. 'RTE Radio Scripts: Scripts of Radio Talks and Features in English', P260, Descriptive Catalogue. UCD Archives online. https://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/p0260-rte-radio-talk%20-scripts-in-english-descriptive-catalogue.pdf Accessed 9 July 2018 -Shevawn Lynam, 'Humanity Dick Martin 'King of Connemara' 1754-1834', Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1989. -Shevawn Lynam, 'The Spirit and the Clay', Boston: Little Brown, 1954 -Shevawn Lynam, 'L'arbre de Guernica', Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1956.

The main source for the biographical information in the draft is Lyman's Obituary in The Irish Times, which is acknowledged carefully whenever relevant.

Your explanation for the deletion is that the material has been taken from an unacknowledged source, such as a website or an article. This Irish writer is not widely known, and there is not a substantial website or essay on her work anywhere that I am aware of. Indeed, if such a source exists, I would be grateful if you could point out where it is, as I would be only too happy to add a reference to it in the draft.

If there is any specific section/sentence/data which you think is insufficiently referenced, I am keen to correct it. Shewam Lynam was a very interesting writer, and her contribution was important enough to warrant a wikipedia entry. I am certain that the draft could be improved, rather than deleted.

F. Squid (talk) 09:37, 14 January 2019 (UTC)F.Squid

Hi F. Squid. I did not delete Draft:Shevawn Lynam as a copyright violation, or at all. Rather, that draft was deleted by another admin last week under CSD G13 as abandoned, and per your request at WP:REFUND, undeleted today. What I deleted was your userpage, at User:F.Squid. You can see in its deletion log entry, here, the external sites I referred to as it being a copyright violation of.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:44, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Request for future translation help

I would be available for translation help if needed. Although French being my native tongue, I might come short in my hold of English.Sadenar40000 (talk) 19:35, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

WP:CSD

Fussy, aren't we? --Bbb23 (talk) 02:25, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Hey man, it's a writing project!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:30, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

deletion advice.

Dear Fuhghettaboutit I don't know what correct protocol might be in this daunting maze. But I just figure that politeness is always a good fallback. Thank you for your advice on registering a delete. It was an interesting lesson. I managed to get it done. Thanks Tony HER KNIGHT (talk) 18:47, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

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Crystal L Mackall

Apologies for missing the copyright violation, well caught. Theroadislong (talk) 11:49, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

@Theroadislong: Don't sweat it. It's hard to catch them all, and easy to miss if there's been surface modification and the number of them... it's just relentless. (Tip: copy from the interior of sentences – it's usually good to omit the start [as that is most likely to be changed if there is surface modification]; copy as short a portion of the text as possible while still leaving it unique; don't copy across periods [b/c sentences get moved around, but also b/c optical character recognition in PDFs often misunderstands periods].) Meanwhile, have you noticed that we have an entire category that shouldn't exist? I have been considering what to do about that.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:35, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I am new to this and looked at the current projects and considered contributing about female scientists which is a topic I am passionate about. I would love to continue publishing this bio because of the research I did into this person and their work. I looked up their NCCN etc... Do you think it would be a good idea for me to reword to remove all copyrighted text but create a bio for these scientists? Thanks in advance for your response. Jjhasacar (talk) 16:21, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

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Languages about pages excluded from G8

Re my removal of "and" and your readdition of "and", see after your edit that I was reading it differently than you. I read it as "pages that are useful" was a separate item along with "user talk pages" and the like, with "deletion discussions" being a particular example of a useful page. I think your reading, that all such pages are useful and the "in particular" was meant to apply to all the following, is both better and historically accurate: it was added in 2007 back when G8 only applied to talk pages, but used a colon at the time. I think actually a return to a colon would be good, might you? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:25, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: Aha! Indeed I agree. One thing that becomes absolutely clear from this: the state of the punctuation, as both of us separately, peculiarly interpreted it, made the passage ambiguous. I was going to ask you if you wanted the honors of trouting the user who changed it in the first place but he or she is long since untroutable.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:59, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Good find! I've made the change, much clearer this way, thanks. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:23, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Discussion about the talk in tea house

I have read the link and know that I can delete what I was wanting to delete on my talk page but I don’t know how I should do it? Should I do it just as I would any other edit or should I request to do it BigRed606 (talk) 04:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Click edit; add or remove whatever you want; click save – just like any other edit.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:07, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

help

bro i am looking for someone who writes n create wikipedia pages? can i have your email adress or something to get in touch? looking forward to hear from you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.223.216.63 (talk • contribs)

Ola. Whatever this is about, ask me right here.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 08:48, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

My draft related to Bishar village

I noted that it is deleted for copyright violations. Actually the place from where it was copied was my own writing only.

Anyway I understand that it is still a violation.

So just to inform you, I have taken a note of it and assure you that such mistakes will not be repeated in future.

Thanks for pointing out the legalities in this matter.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhattuc (talk • contribs)

deeply puzzled

kia ora F So many questions. But I haven't done my due diligence on most of them. (So many rabbit holes.) So how about this: Is there a way to put a specific section of the Teahouse on my watchlist? So I wouldn't be confused/distracted by the unwanted ton of stuff unrelated to my specific point of interest? cheers--Tarkiwi25 (talk) 21:27, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

@Tarkiwi25: Nope, there's no way to watchlist a specific section of a page. What are you puzzled about? Watchlists are simple.

• Let's take as an example this talk page. I have it watchlisted, and let's say that you were to watchlist it also.
• Now, first, you should know that there are two major settings for a watchlist (which are set at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist).
• If you have checked there "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent", then when you look at your watchlist, and because you have this page watchlisted, you will see in it every edit made to this page, within the time span your watchist goes back to.
• If you don't have that checked (which most users don't and I recommend you don't; it's too cluttered otherwise), then when you look at your watchlist, you will see there just the last edit made to this talk page by anyone.
• It is in no way specific to you or me.
• In other words, if we both have a page watchlisted, like this one, and we look at our watchlists at the same time, we will see exactly the same entry.
• A watchlist is nothing more than a log of public edits made to any page you have added to your wathclist; that's all—not, as you seemed to think before, a log of edits involving you, or that you made, or that others made in response to you.

Does that help at all?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 07:14, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Not deeply puzzled by Watchlists, but by how much infrastructure there is to the back side of Wikipedia's public face. As it happens, I have not checked the "expand, etc." option. And nope, I'm not taking everything personally.

I asked you a simple question first. A more complex question, for example, would be about working through the fact that someone previously attempted to set up a page but was rejected, so now when I try to set up a page for that topic the process is not straightforward. At the moment I don't know what questions to ask you.

So I thought I'd start with a simpler question because the more I practice with the simpler stuff, the more familiar the whole thing becomes. (I have only recently figured out how to create what used to be called a "hard carriage return" for a Facebook post. Btw, how do I do it for right now, in this message?)

Like, just now, I went back to my preferences page because you sent me there--and it all makes more sense than before. I also decreased the size for the "Maximum number of changes to show in watchlist:" option. But much of it is still not sense, i.e., nonsense, to me and therefore more of a distraction and confusing than helpful.

Erm, because I went through language wars early in my professional life, I won't use the word "jargon," but ... from one of your pages (and I don't have the proper name for it) that provides a sort of bio of your work with Wikipedia I gather that you are a senior sort of person with excellent qualifications. So I'd like to thank you for bothering to assist me. But I do hope you can understand that all that Wikipedia language, including abbreviations, that is so familiar to you is not yet familiar to me.

I also see from your (whatever it's called) page that you have an interest in film directors. The Wikipedia entry I'm trying to set up involves a film director. (Working on the Ann B. Ross article is something of a practice session.) I hope that goal will encourage you to continue to tolerate my questions and help me find my answers. cheers--Tarkiwi25 (talk) 03:39, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

@Tarkiwi25: As I said, before, feel free to ask me anything anytime. One request though: if there is something specific underlying your questions, disclose the specifics rather than posing your question in the hypthetical. I say this because when you say that you are seeing the process of writing about an unnamed film director as not being straighforward because the title has been rejected before, without telling me what page it's actually about or the form the rejection took, that makes it very difficult to provide any kind of tailored advice – without you telling me which film director, I can think of about ten things that might be making such matter not straightforward. (For example, maybe the title has been salted, so there's a technical impediment to creating it; maybe the page was deleted at WP:AFD [making any recreation on the same individual possibly subject to CSD G4]; maybe it has been redirected and you don't know how to access the redirect page to turn it into an article [as many new users have been baffled by]; etc.)

Clearing up some other matter: you've proved you already figured out how to add the equivalent of a "carriage return", since you added lines between your paragraphs above. The "bio" page is my "userpage"; yours is at User:Tarkiwi25; given your interests, you might find something of interest/useful at Wikipedia:WikiProject Film and Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, though I think one of the most educational things people can do here is looking at top quality articles on the same area they are looking to work in – featured articles; those on film directors include ... wow ... I just went to look to link a few here and was surprised to find there aren't a slew; I can only find one, Aaron Sorkin, and he's not even known primarily as a director. Maybe for my next featured article effort I'll try my hand at a film director. By the way, I'm still waiting for you to tell me what you thought the giant radish was. A cabbage?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 07:40, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for your thorough and thoughtful reply to my question at the Teahouse! (my query about pronouns in the service awards). <3 SunnyBoi (talk) 11:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

My pleasure.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:56, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

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Preload?

Howdy! Question for you, before I XfD, I saw you created a number of preload templates that are now unused (Template:Hangon preload A1 for example). Do they still serve some purpose I'm missing or are they relics of yesteryear? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Hey Zackmann08 They're all in use, every day. The pass through manner of their use only makes them look unused; → go to {{db-a1}} → click on the contest button → see the "preloaded" text in the edit field? That's passed through from this template, through the switch at {{db-meta}}:

preload=Template:Hangon preload {{#switch:{{uc:{{{criterion|NA}}}}}|G3|G10|G11|G12|G14|A1|A2|A3|A7|A9|A10|A11|R3|F1|F2|F3|F4|F5|F6|F7|F8|F9|F10|F11|C1|T2|T3={{uc:{{{criterion}}}}}|#default=generic}}

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Awesome

Ten years!

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... and again! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:08, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

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Template:Alternating rows table section

You applied template editor protection to {{Alternating rows table section}}, but the protection seems rather preemptive for a template that only has 310 transclusions. Could you lower it to semi-protection? e^πi (talk | contribs) 03:09, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

urgent help needed with my Wiki page - query

Dear Fuhghettaboutit:

I need help with my Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings

I myself did not create the article. In 2010 or so, a librarian in a West Virginia public school did. She is deceased. Since, editors of journals having published my short stories and a former literary agent added to the page.

Recently, I made changes to the page, specifically uploading two photos of my book covers. But I did not follow protocol. Tags at the top of the page appeared, one after another, each worse.

I myself have not touched the actual article since this incident started six weeks ago, but have instead remained markedly earnest and cooperative and forthcoming on the User Talk page.

On my USER TALK, page you will see extensive dialogue between me and who seems to be only Wiki editor involved "Bonadea." She's well-informed and reasonable.

A few weeks back, she redrafted the page to sound encyclopedic, but she removed too much, I think. I had thought at the time, she was ready to remove the tags. Not so. She still feels the page is "autobiographical," even though I have dug up many links to reliable sources for her. Today, she's less and less available to help, as she is a teacher with a heavy class load.

I so much want the page to exist at its best. It would make me very proud, and I honestly feel who I am as a writer and what accomplishments I have made are of note.

But the paragraphs about my article become scant as the descend, and the entire page is lacking my most important accomplishments.

Again, I have available all links to the entirety of my USER TALK page.

My first novel won The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People 2009 (Grade 7-12), with a link to a reliable source. This a great award. But it is not listed.

I want acknowledgement of my receiving an Honorable Mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007, again a great accomplishment, with a link available.

I want acknowledgement being nominated for The Pushcart Prize - a fabulous achievement not listed.

I want all my 75 plus published short stories listed, not just a handful as shown on my page. All stories are reputably published is good university journals and commercial magazines. I want them presented in columns and set off my the lines of a box around them, as I seen on many sites.

I'v spent thirty years of my life - every day devoted - to becoming a writer of accomplishment. I sacrificed income and the great life experience of having a family I could support.

A few questions:

How quickly can you get to work on the Wiki page?

Do other editors get involved with you?

Will you willingly communicate with me here on your email page, rather on the USER TALK for all the world to see. I think "Bonadea" would prefer not seeing my comments, as I am the subject of the article, and would prefer working only with a professional Wiki editor.

I look forward to a prompt reply.

Thank you very much.

LankyKeller (talk) 12:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

If yer around.....

why not take a squiz at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2018 World Snooker Championship/archive2. Not many aficionados of the cue sports around..... Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:13, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

still learning, still need help, pls

Something from a while ago, before I figured out how to send you a message via your Talk Page. Still not sure I get it, but I've removed this from where it probably got lost (in someone else's post).

==Circular sourcing ... Hi, I'm back, one sprained wrist later. Got lost in the I. F. Stone page doing minor copyediting and found what looks like a writer's using a source that itself was based on Wikipedia material. Could you look at my edits and the edit summary to see if this is a problem for the page that needs to be notified?

Also, I'm nearly done with the Ann B. Ross page. It has a notice at the top about needing more citations. I've put in a gracious plenty of citations, and will probably put in a few more. Legit citations, bien sure. I'd like to take down the notice, but not sure if I have the authority to do so. Nor how to go about it. cheers Tarkiwi25 (talk) 06:54, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Solved second problemTarkiwi25 (talk) 07:09, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

I solved everything above except the I. F. Stone issue.

Now follows a more current question hence the title of this item: In my sandbox I have a significant chunk of writing and research on a living person whom I hope my research thus far proves deserves her own Wikipedia page. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it.

I have plenty more sources to work through for further citations and information, plus I have a photo that can go into the WikiCommons/whatever for use on the page once I figure out how to deal with that.

I also haven't figured out how to add the Categories section at the bottom.

But I'm beginning to think it may be time to put what I've got out there for review.

Before doing this, though, I'd like to know what happens once I take that step.

Who actually reviews it? Could someone be requested? (For example, someone from the same country as the person being written about?)

Any/All advice (well, the constructive sort) appreciated.

Cheers, Tarkiwi25 (talk) 07:48, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Union of India. Since you had some involvement with the Union of India redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. DrKay (talk) 13:55, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

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NLPG

Thanks for finding a better source at Glossary of bird terms. I understand the concerns you expressed in the edit summary and sometimes do, but in most cases another source was also used to support the text. There's also a lot of work to do and I wanted to welcome you to help if you'd like, there is a related thread at the reliable sources noticeboard. As for tracking the original editor, I sometimes did, in most cases it was not refspam and inserted by now inactive accounts, sometimes socks. Sometimes I'll leave a note on the talk page and in at least one instance the editor was still active and participated to a discussion on the article's talk page (good faith with the source generally better than this particular one, easy to confuse with an RS). There of course also are cases where the sources can remain, like for some Balfour imprint autobiographies when used in the article of the subject, or considered due in another article for that author's reflection... Many thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 15:05, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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username

Given you chose Brooklyn's motto, are you really from Brooklyn, NY? MightyKid (talk) 21:14, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Keith Whittlestone

I had wanted to create a tribute page to my previous headteacher Keith Whittlestone born 1948 - 2020 Bmwsaredope2020 (talk) 16:27, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Eight years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

204.83.241.140

user:204.83.241.140 is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 21:01, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Sign?

Is the sign on your user page real, or was the "Fuhgettaboudit" edited in? Hilarious. (Pinging c:User:Dschwen) —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 19:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Ha! No really; greetings from Brookyln.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:27, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse comments, re: " whitewashing information "

Your commentary here: [3] was so perceptive. You characterized yourself as a "leftist liberal godless asshole" who has been "brain washed by too many years of education" and made me chuckle. Well, count me in. (Despite my inability to create a proper diff.)

I recently posted this quote at the top of my talkpage: "You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) Sad, but true, as demonstrated in the US 2016-2020 and the OP's "question" at the Teahouse. Best wishes, Tribe of Tiger ^{Let's Purrfect!} 23:59, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey Tribe of Tiger. Thanks for the kind words! Great quote! I wish it wasn't true, but the willful blindness by so many after four years of daily evidence has actually changed my worldview. Not that I didn't already know that intellectual laziness was rampant, but how people can... ah, let's not get me started.

Maybe I shouldn't bite on these types of posts.

I know it's not a lot of use. I mean think about how much compartmentalization, willful ignorance, blind adherence, ability to ignore the obvious, etc. the person who posted the thread (in one of the links in the last sentence) must have, to actually come to the earnest conclusion that Trump has done a wonderful and brilliant job in protecting us from the virus. Wow!

By the way, huge Heinlein fan (though its been many years – I first read all his books in my teens). A recommendation of one of his lesser known and shorter works, as underappreciated. If you've never read it: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. I remember thinking that (though it did have some really dated material, and certainly isn't his most polished), it always struck me as so unique and worth a read.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:27, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

This is my short (?) answer to "don't get me started". Your first link: wonderful & paragraph three really speaks to me, and Moxy made a good comment. Second link, Nick's post pointed out the illogic re COVID-19, and your observation is spot on. Your posts at link three addresses the true horror of the situation, as many people are voting against their best interests. Link/post four...full cup of Koolaid, oh yeah! Absolutely terrifying that we have almost 1/2 a nation of Koolaid drinkers.

Per these links. For those who may feel that they are a lone logical person, attempting to edit/live amongst the one thousand, it is comforting to know that we are not a lone Voice in the Wilderness . Logical editors need the support of their fellows. If one editor feels supported or another reader reconsiders, then a post is worthwhile.

Although I recently discovered this excellent quotation, I have read few of Heinlein's works, sorry to say. I did read Frank Herbert's first three Dune books in my teens. When I re-read them as more educated adult, I could better appreciate the political, philosophical and environmental substance of his works. Will read The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, just discovered that I can borrow it online! Thanks for the good conversation.... Best wishes, Tribe of Tiger ^{Let's Purrfect!} 02:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

no edit summary and revert ? hullo?

please explain JarrahTree 00:42, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

What?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:42, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

it happens to us all, some even quit wikipedia in response to things like this, cheers JarrahTree 00:46, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

(e/c) @JarrahTree: Yep. I was writing to you "Okay, now I know what you're talking about. See here..." <snip irrelevant add'l content> Anyway, sorry but that! By the way, I think I've maybe made 15 edits ever without an edit summary (out of nearly 90K), so you can almost guarantee if you see one from me without one, it's probably a mistake:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:52, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

rofl - hahaha - things have been so quiet, its nice to get the attention, hahaha - mitch's talk page is well archived as I have constantly harrangued, abused and outright blasphemed at some of his delightful editing over the years (we also irregularly meet in real life as well) - its funny to get a level headed non abusive message to be the one reverted... JarrahTree 00:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Ha! I'm not even sure why it's on my watchlist, hmm, I never edited the talk page nor the userpage... logs don't include me either... I'm going to have to figure this one out.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:03, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Not that it matters but I figured it out: Category talk:Wikipedia files requiring renaming#Request rename of ANZAC biscuits.jpg. I must have decided to watch for a while for more issues.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:27, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

intriguing, that is such an old issue... thats what I like - things that never go away, no statue (sic) of limitations there JarrahTree 01:38, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Well, it's not so strange when you consider what my watchlist is like—as I actually posted about earlier today, it's the ultimate dumping ground; I'm approaching 20K pages!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:06, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

That's nothing- I once got to 60k - but no one is slightest interested in helping the problems to access oversize watch lists -

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Watchlists/Large_watchlist_access - I have had very disparaging unsympathetic responses privately - quite unhelpful... JarrahTree 04:27, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Just looked at your talk page; I'm suprised we haven't interacted before – you're an old timer like me. Holy shit, 60K. That's extreme. Yeah, even with my paltry, wimpy, tiny little 20K, I always get a timeout when I click edit at my watchlist, and can only remove pages using the raw watchlist link at my preferences. I've supported at the wishlist, for what it's worth. By the way, after I visited a link through your userpage, I decided to add a bit, so I'm about to pop up on your watchlist. See if you notice.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse comment on paid contributors

Thank you for your forthright statement on the state of Wikipedia. You are absolutely correct. WP is a mishmash of good reasearch backed by RSs and blatant promotional BS. The best we can do now is to try to bar the gates against any further incursions and take potshots at the pile of dung already ensconced here. Good luck to us with that!--Quisqualis (talk) 16:56, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey Quisqualis. Thanks for stopping by! Yeah, the problem is so massive now. I believe there are three things we ought to do to take steps in the right direction to fix it:

1) Enforce verification with teeth. We have never put in place any mechanism to impel citations. In my view, in order to do this, we need to do two main things. i) Change the verifiability policy to require actual sourcing for all statements that are not sky is blue type material – in place of requiring citations only for material challenged or likely to be challenged. That shift in emphasis is not a minor matter; and ii) start a prod-like process for articles that don't cite any sources (to make it manageable, with something like a six-month expiration instead of a seven-day expiration, and use a bot to place that processes taggings in place of {{unreferenced}}, with a maximum of say 200,000 articles per six month period;

2) Make the COI policy's strong recommendations, into mandatory requirements. (Right now many editors, even at the Teahouse, incorrectly advise users that because they have a COI, they can only make suggestions on the talk page, and so forth. Absolutely untrue. Despite verily washing the COI policy actually said these things, it simply does not.

It always bothers me when I see users being advised in this way. Every time I see it, I fight my urge to correct such posts; it's some bent in my personality—I dislike misrepresentations of policy or guideline, even when I agree with the direction of advice given.

But nope, they're just recommendations. No matter how strongly worded, a suggestion is a suggestion);

3) Make actual use of the only tool we have that provides direct policy/guideline to act in the COI arena. Specifically, the update to the Terms of Use a few years ago, that made paid editing disclosure a requirement. Until then, we had no way within policy/guideline to enforce anything in the COI arena directly.

Yet, despite its seeming potential in this area we've done next to nothing with it. It was to exploit that potential that I created {{uw-paid1}}, {{uw-paid2}}, {{uw-paid3}}, {{uw-paid4}} – and was hoping that for the first time we could use that as the point of the spear; the mechanism for enforcing compliance as to COI editors—by reference to an actual requirement and not a milquetoast recommendation—but they barely get used:-(--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:58, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Looks like #2 is less work overall, though getting a recommendation to become a requirement would probably take 6 months of negotiations. Have you thought about acting on it?--Quisqualis (talk) 22:09, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@Quisqualis: As I indicated (lower on the page), I have been mulling actually coming up with an involved proposal (my post above was just my extemporized natterings). I have procrastinated. I may at some time, but I can't right now seem get ahold of the motivation to put in the work and thought involved in order to do what I know would be needed to have any chance of success. I have also been using up a lot of mental effort for RL issues. And I don't do "general suggestions" (which wouuld be easy, but pointless; almost inevitably doomed to failure in my experience). Rather, I always aspire to "complete" proposals—to corner every issue I see and can predict after ruminating; identify address every affected page; compose the exact proposed language and describe whatever changes seem in order; attempt to granularly compose the new guideline/help page/what have you, if one seems in order; pre-develop such template or series as seem necessary to implementation, etc.

The current of the stream I predict this would need to fight against is also a bit daunting and thus de-motivating. Whenever I've brought up or seen others propose any form of the above in the past, it has seemed like it would be a massive lift, with consensus unlikely to be achieved – or even diametrically opposed. (As you note, even No. 2 would "probably take 6 months of negotiations", but I don't think it's the most important of them). In this area, some of the community seem to have deified civility/not-biting to such an extent... (precepts I believe in strongly, but not as a suicide pact, at the expense of any pragmatism and in sacrifice of enforcing verifiability, which does deserve to be "deified").

Also there is a built-in culture (given our origins) of viewing with great misgivings anything that might seem to restrain/chill freedom of article creation (resulting in knee-jerk opposition in many; any content, the moment it is created is treated as somewhat sacrosanct; all deletions, no matter the context are "necessary evils"). This is all despite the fact we have to zap approx. 1,700 mainspace articles a day—which still misses a shocking number that would be deleted if we had all the time in the world—and that we can't even begin to groom those that shouldn't be deleted entirely, but need gobs of work to come up to standards, that swell the ranks of the few million articles in that same leaking, overloaded boat. Oh ... wait, I'm ranting again. Oil can, oil can.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:11, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Copywrite

Hello!!! You left me a message in my talk page about articles.I need to get this thing clear. So if I get a proof, like a document that says I can copywrite the content with the client and some what upload in Wikipedia, can I submit my article for review then?? Thank You!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by George Maverick (talk • contribs) 01:04, December 26, 2020 (UTC)

No. Your client's permission to use it here is irrelevant. Your client would have to release the copyright (not copywrite) to the world, under a suitably free and compatible copyright license (or into the public domain), for all purpose, irrevocably, such that anyone else could use that content (even for commercial purposes), and the only requirement would be to provide attribution under the terms of the free copyright license chosen. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted material.

By the way, just because such a release is properly given, does not mean that the content would be suitable for use here. For example, if the content reads as promotional, it might be unsuitable for use here, unmodified, for other reasons, such as because it violates the neutral point of view policy – it just would no longer be a copyright violation, and would no longer subject the draft to deletion as a blatant copyright infringement (in that regard, please note that we also delete pages for being unsalvageably promotional. See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion). The content taken from a person or organization's website press releases, linkedin page, etc. is almost never suitable without a significant rewrite for use in an encyclopedia article because of its promotional tone.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank You Sir!!!

Thanks for Unblocking Me. I am so thankful to you. Thanking you, George Maverick

Re:wikimedia commons

Hi Fuhghettaboutit. I was talking about this. Source number 2 uses wikimedia commons as inline citation so I was urged to ask that question. Anyways, thank you for your response at the teahouse. It was helpful. SpiritGirl809 (talk) 10:34, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

@SpiritGirl809: Great! Glad to be of help. Good to see my "exception to the general rule" post, was exactly what you were looking to do. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:39, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Any words on my question?

Hate to bother you, but I'm wondering if you had any response to my inquiry. It was a serious question, though not with the intention of forcing you to commit to the cause.--Quisqualis (talk) 00:52, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

@Quisqualis: I hadn't responded because I was thinking about drafting an involved, groomed proposal, and pinging you when I actually did it! I will respond soon either way:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:04, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Teahouse Hosts

I see that sometime ago you changed protection level for the teahouse hosts. Many of us have been editing wikipedia for many months, and have made many edits, but recently have created our accounts. Please allow creation of host accounts in teahouse

RandomAmerican115 (talk) 20:03, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Glad you are eager to host at the TH, RandomAmerican115. Your editing history so far shows you are making the "new editor mistakes" at a rate typical for new users. I have yet to find one edit your account has made to article space which has not been, either manually or automatically, reverted. Why not give it six months, while you demonstrate your progress in mastering the rudiments of Wikipedia? The same thing applies to wanting to be extended-confirmed at this time. Reverting your work takes time and effort on the part of your fellow volunteer editors, which could be better spent elsewhere on Wikipedia.--Quisqualis (talk) 21:30, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi RandomAmerican115. First of all, a few highlights for context. While the Teahouse does not have rigid rules, a person who is designated a "host" has been granted some imprimatur of formality in answering, which really must be reserved for users who have a bare modicum of experience. Wikipedia is vast and in order to become suitably experienced requires at least a few thousands edits, coupled with lots of time working in a variety of areas, steeped in process, policy and guideline, and the ins and outs of aspects of editing both the mainspace and the behind-the-scenes of Wikipedia. 30/500 protection places a bare minimum threshold. It should not keep out anyone suitable, since it does not come near the threshold needed, while stopping the obviously too new.

Another relevant detail is that at the time this protection level was placed, I removed about 140 inappropriate host designations. Some of these users were blocked. Some were paid editors. Some were people who obviously came from other countries, and, while maybe they could write well in their native language, could barely communicate in English. Quite often, users would also disqualify themselves immediately, by using a fair use image from an article they liked in their host profile (that then then went on display at the top of the Teahouse), i.e., users so inexperienced, they did not know this utterly basic prohibition and were blatantly violating copyright by their host profile itself.

The largest portion of them, though, were brand new users (at the time they signed up), who had asked a basic question and then immediately designated themselves as hosts. Before that dedicated cleanup, we were pretty constantly getting these same types of unsuitable hosts designations, but that were being removed in dribs and drabs, so the 140 number is just scraping the surface.

Now, I agree that there could be the extremely rare exception of a person who has consistently edited by an IP address—enough to become experienced enough to be a host. When that uber rare situation arises, if ever, the user can be granted extended confirmed editing rights by any administrator. That would be the appropriate change, rather than un-protecting the Host landing page so that we returned to the prior situation.

Finally turning to your specific request above, given that the only formality really is suitable experience that we trust users to self-regulate after 30/500 has been reached (only removing some hosts after the fact when they disqualify themselves by their edits), if, all things being equal, I saw nothing concerning in your edits, I would simply take you at your word that you have sufficiently edited before your current signup, in order to be a host, and would grant you extended confirmed editing rights. But I'm sorry, as Quisqualis has already indicated, your edits show me that you are (still) too inexperienced to act as a Teahouse Host. This edit is an example for multiple reasons. There is no deadline and waiting 30 days and making 500 edits is again, a bare minimum. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:59, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Edited Article: Sumit Mishra

Hi Sir, You have made some edits in the draft: Sumit Mishra and have mentioned my name in it.So, I have some doubts. Is the article now ready to get published? Or is it published already? What should be my next step? Please answer my questions. I need some personal Assistance.Desmond Maverick (talk) 02:14, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

No sorry, I am cleaning up the terrible copyright violation mess you left with your edits. Sorry to be curt but I am in the midst of the cleanup which is involved.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Teahouse answer

Hello, I don't understand why my answer was incorrect. The user asked whether he needed to credit work from Wikipedia if he re-wrote it in this own words. Per his question it was only text, and according to WP:FREECONTENT, it says you can use the content freely. Please could you explain this? Thank you for your time. SenatorLEVI 04:18, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Have you read the page I linked, Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content? Credit must be given, in the manner I have indicated, and the page expands upon. You wrote "You are not required to credit Wikipedia for any content you use..." Sorry, but that's just wrong. I hate contradicting other people at the Teahouse. Sorry. This is also very important because the only thing we own is our contributions (that meet threshold of originality). The free copyright licenses we agree we release our content under require attribution and that credit is our absolute and sole right, as owners of what we write. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:23, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Yes I did, after you wrote your message. I understand now. Thank you for your comprehension. SenatorLEVI 05:31, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Just FYI...

...since you blocked the first editor and have been cleaning up after the second one: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/George Maverick. --bonadea contributions talk 10:28, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea: Thanks! and "d'oh" – I hadn't even noticed the same "surname" of the two users. Unfortunately (being convinced you are right they are the same person), I believe this goes beyond just avoidance/sockpuppetry. This user is here for the "lulz", because this is the second time they've created various copyright messes requiring lots of cleanup and have alerted their bad edits through Teahouse posts so that they were discovered (to, I am also now convinced, watch the ensuing time sink unfold).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be nice if there were so few sockpuppets that it would be a simple matter to remember them? And I think you're right about the lulz. It's enough to make you (or me, anyway) into a crusty old curmudgeon. --bonadea contributions talk 11:30, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea: Ah, halcyon days! A sockpuppet free Wikipedia; all its editors competent, civil, non-financially connected, policy/guideline/MOS-heeding and all having RTFM – their only interest being intellectual satisfaction in spreading knowledge; we retire ANI as historical and unneeded!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:07, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

And between the rigorous and respectful discussions we all hang out at Bishonen's talk page and have cake. (Well, at least that is something we can do.) Oh well. Thanks for being one of the good 'uns :-) --bonadea contributions talk 17:51, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea: Right back at ya!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:37, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Best wishes

I'm knitting you something as I type this.--Quisqualis (talk) 17:58, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Ooh... Do you take requests? I've always wanted a scarf that said "Beware of dogma" with a Darwin Fish tsk, tsking in a thought bubble.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:07, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Alix Popham

Thank you for your help with the Alix Popham wiki entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Popham. I have revised my proposed entry and would like to publish it, having avoided plagiarism, cited my edits, and used the correct format for references. Happy to share my work with you if helpful? I can't publish it currently because of my past misdemeanours. Can you assist? Thanks. JoelV1973 (talk) 21:09, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Hey JoelV1973. Glad to see you now understand the copyright issue. You haven't identified in your above post where I could view the proposed addition – and looking at your edits, I don't see that you posted it anywhere elsewhere, on-site. You can post the exact text here, below, or to the talk page of the article (but in that case, please ping me there, e.g., by starting that post with {{Yo|Fuhghettaboutit}} and make sure to sign it), and I'll be glad to take a look. (Of course, if I end up adding the suggested change to the article for you, I will provide copyright attribution credit to you in the edit summary.) Please advise.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:38, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you!

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		Many thanks for approving my first article and for the prompt response to my question in the Teahouse! Midnight713 (talk) 08:04, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

READshirts Advocacy

I would like to ask what part of the content is violated for copyright? Everything comes from me

Shin default (talk) 04:34, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Except that you posted this as non-free content already on the internet, on more than one page of Facebook. We cannot host copyrighted material. If you are the author, you would have to release the content, and do so in a verifiable way. You would have the follow WP:DONATETEXT. To clarify, as this is often misunderstood, we cannot use material that you own, under your license for us to use it here. It has to be released to the world, irrevocably under a suitably free and compatible copyright license that allows others to use it very liberally, even for commercial purposes. So you cannot keep it on Facebook, claimed as copyrighted, and use it here.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:40, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

READshirts Advocacy Permission to Revise the Page

Hi.

This is my first time doing this very complicated wikipedia article. I humbly ask you if I can take back my sandbox page for revisions.

I'm sorry, No. Did you you read my post above? Copyright is not some minor concern we can just ignore. When this type of thing happens, I feel some ambivalence. I can sympathize with the annoyance and hurt you may be feeling, try to put myself in your shoes, as someone who did not understand this issue and put in time and effort, but at the same time, I also feel righteous, because I know I am donating my time to help the encyclopedia for no promotional reasons, unlike you, i.e., not here to promote my own subject, which is a misuse of this place, and on a larger level I am actually protecting you, your copyright, though I am supposing that is not well understood.

In any event, you can restart, using none of the language that you used at Facebook or other elsewhere online, but I must tell you, this draft strikes me as unlikely to ever be accepted. Do multiple reliable, secondary, independent treat this topic in substantive detail? Mainstream publications, entirley unconnected to it, writing about it? The draft did not indicate that was the case. Without those sources existing, the draft would never have been accepted.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:43, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your explanation at the Teahouse of how textual artifacts in the original version of an article could be used to estimate the risk that it is a copyright violation.

Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 21:57, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dieter.Meinertzhagen: You're most welcome! By the way, if you're after more information in the area of that post, please see WP:NPPCV (which I mostly composed).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:38, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Article I wrote- Tracksthegeneral

Hi @Fuhghettaboutit. I have recreated Draft:Savanna Karmue again. I am asking you to please look over it to see if I have violated any of the copyright rules. Apologies for the mishap earlier, but I fixed the problem and hopefully everything is fine now. Thanks for your input, I appreciate it!

Tracksthegeneral (talk) 03:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)Tracksthegeneral

Copyright barnstar

		The Copyright Barnstar
		Thanks for the extraordinary copyright analysis here. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 17:02, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Alan! Much appreciated. "It's a thankless job" ... until it's not:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:00, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Request to provide deleted page --TomRoad-1 (talk) 10:07, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, my first page draft (Draft:Domotocz) failed to make it into an article. It was deleted for copyright problems, and my sandbox versions as well (User:TomRoad-1/sandbox/Domoticz). The deleted items contain several contributions of my own which took a lot of effort to create. I'd like to reuse them, fix the copyright issues and resubmit the draft. Can you please provide the deleted material so I can use it to improve the article? Thanks! --TomRoad-1 (talk) 10:07, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi TomRoad-1. This content cannot be posted anywhere on Wikipedia. The only way it could be provided to you is by email, but you don't have any email provided as part of your profile. See Wikipedia:Emailing users. Regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:43, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Fuhghettaboutit, oh, I forgot to confirm my E-Mail Address. It is now confirmed. Thanks for sending me the content. Regards --TomRoad-1 (talk) 14:22, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

I sent you a mail because it did not work out. Please check it out! Thanks --TomRoad-1 (talk)

Thanks for your advice at the helpdesk.

I posted my idea at the village pump that you linked to.Arctic Gazelle (talk) 19:04, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

@Arctic Gazelle: Great! Glad to help--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:41, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Evasion?

Hi. Not sure what's going on here, but it doesn't look good. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 21:24, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Took a surface look. Certainly competence comes to mind; "not here" and all that. Edits are mostly just inane prattle in project space and talk pages. Yeah, that category is a bizarre creation that makes you wonder if there's a connection. The editing patterns/language are a mismatch though (which, of course, could be intentional) but the sock wrote in whole sentences, where this user ostensibly does not. Aha, just found that the evasion concerns are already being addressed; user has been added to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DB547!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:33, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Pectoral tuft

Hi Fuhghettaboutit: I've added an entry for pectoral tuft. Please have a look and make sure it meets with your approval! ;) I'll work on the maintenance behaviour one this weekend. MeegsC (talk) 21:49, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Just wanted you to know how much I appreciate the input related to my neophyte efforts. Thank you. Barrychoward (talk) 16:44, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, and you're most welcome!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Quick Glance Over

Greeting Fuhgettaboutit:

Wanted to make sure I was on track, and not violating any protocols. I've tried to align with what I understand to be the guidelines, but I know they are very specific. I am moving through the process and thought I would ask for you to have a look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hereditary_Society_Community_of_the_United_States_of_America

Also, I cannot seem to upload our logo, as an image to the article/prose. How do I get permission to do so....seems that others have their 2-3 photos per article up quite prolifically....I assume they all must have to demonstrate ownership somehow? Or can you approve it? Not sure on that front. Thnx again.

With regards to Tess Onwueme's wiki page

Much Thanks. I do really appreciate your kind understanding and clarification which has given me better insights on how your process works.

And just to be sure to avoid future errors, please, let me know if it is acceptable to insert the <tessosonwueme.com> to the "External Link" of segment of the Wiki page.

With much regards.

Thank you. Ginger Weird Man (talk) 01:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

• The same question is asked again at User talk:Ginger Weird Man#Copyright. Cabayi (talk) 09:49, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know (responded there).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:13, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Maintenance behaviour

Hi Fuhghettaboutit: I've added an entry for maintenance behaviour. Can you please have a look—and work your magic if any is needed? Thanks! MeegsC (talk) 16:09, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@MeegsC: "Work my magic". Blushing! Great entry. I did make some changes. Please take a look and fix, modify, revert or advise any concerns.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:05, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Looks great! Thanks. :) MeegsC (talk) 17:24, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Jalgaon housing scam

Hi , You look interested in editing articles about India. I want you to take a look Draft : Jalgaon housing scam and help to make that article better and bigger by adding new info.And I first time ever wrote on this type of article. Can you make that GA by looking world class article about Scams and Confidence tricks.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.220.85.12 (talk • contribs)

Hi. Sorry, but I'm a bit confused by your post, given the context. I have essentially completely rewritten the draft article to make it acceptable – every sentence and paragraph, from (sorry, but broken English) into what I think is a form ready for the article mainpace. You must have noticed my edits—because they have to be what alerted you, in order for you write your post to me here—but your post seems to be asking me about taking a first look at that draft, as if I had only made some minor edit! Maybe you didn't review what I actually did? Please go take a look.

By the way, new posts to talk pages like this are posted at the bottom of the page; should be given a section header, as I have added for you above; and should be signed. Signing posts is done by adding four tildes (~~~~) at the end (you can place them automatically by clicking on the signature button that looks like this: , located above the edit window). Upon saving, the tildes add your signature and a time stamp. If you sign up for an account, the name signed will be the username you choose; until then, it displays as your IP address. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:21, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Namaste ,I want your suggestions and advice on few new deafts I created.Take a look them Draft: North Maharashtra, [[Draft: Kothadi][,Draft: Jalgaon District Court , Draft: Ghodasgaon,Draft: Maroti Temple of Shirsada all these articles are about notable topics and I want to suggest you while editing keep in mind that these articles are about India's palaces.Readers from India going to read them , so write in simple British English. Don't use heavy words.Many articles about India have template - Write in Indian English. If you can , write in Indian Eng. 27.57.240.37 (talk) 16:47, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

I have (again) moved your post to the bottom of the page from the top and responded to the content at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Help to resolve copy-editing issue.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:28, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Blocking of Abhimathpati

In this edit you point on that Abhimathpati not been warned, and decline to block. You also suggest that I read Wikipedia guidelines on warning. However, Wikipedia blocking guidelines say that warns are not necessary for accounts used solely for spamming. Can you explain why you do not consider Abhimathpati to be a spam-only account? -drt1245 (talk) 17:04, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Drt1245. See WP:WARNVAND (and WP:AGF and WP:BITE). You have no idea if the user is solely here for spamming, because they're brand new, have only edited four articles, and because you haven't seen their response to being warned. The purpose of warnings is to inform users of problematic conduct. We can then assess their response. The mere fact a new user has only done one thing does not tell you that's all they will ever do. Sometimes the response is "oh, sorry, didn't know..." and then (rarely, but I'm making a point) "...okay, now I'm going to try to write an article on the Bespectacled Grouse, since I'm an ornithologist". Note that I would not have declined your block if the user's edits were on-their-face vandalism – an intent to harm, that could be assessed from the edits themselves. Merely inappropriate edits that could be in good faith are not manifest vandalism. Continuing to do so, once the user has been informed of policies they are violating, is. Regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:23, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

HSC Article Review

Greetings Fuhghettaboutit. Would you mind taking a look at my current work on the HSC page? I have read through the Wiki guide links regarding notability and verifiablity. It seems like I've cleared out the fluff, and have gone heavy on relevant citations. I will admit that there are not a huge amount of 'secondary' sources that are unrelated to the sector that reference HSC....but the corpus of what is there, is hopefully indicative of a real an viable entity deserving its place on wikipedia. As I've examined other, smaller organizations throughout wiki, many are younger, less established and less "notable" than HSC (subjective analysis of course...but pretty clear in many cases), and somehow they were approved. Many do not have nearly the citations that are in my article (even if the HSC site citations were completely removed), and I do see that many, many organizations cite their own website pages in their article...though of course, always with some other sources justifying their presence otherwise...which I think is the case with HSC. I appreciate any further advice you can give, or if I am ready for a possible publication review. Barrychoward (talk) 17:20, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Barrychoward. I am not really an AfC reviewer. I will take a look and provide some comment, but I am headed out, and will not be back for quite some time. Maybe tomorrow. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:30, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

No worries and completely understand. If you cannot do it, or don't have time, that's not a problem.Barrychoward (talk) 17:52, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

@Barrychoward: Regarding your observations above about other content, please read WP:OTHERSTUFF. In short, the mere fact that other articles exist in the mainspace has vert little precedential value.

As an overarching point of focus, the two chief things most reviewers look for is to be able to quickly assess notability, and they want to see a lack of promotional content. Sorry to say, in my view the draft is likely to be declined on both bases (although often reviewers quickly decline on one, without mentioning the other. I have many times seen drafts declined for "reading like and advertisement", and the person tries hard to address that and then gets a subsequent decline on notability grounds—and then feels as if the goalposts have shifted.) I am not saying it's impossible it could be accepted right now, nor telling you not to submit it in its current state, just offering my opinion on what I think is likely. (A stub, with the most dry, just-the-facts statements, no adjectives, and three or four of the right types of sources and no others, would have a much better chance.)

Let me mention something that is not itself a decline basis – that in my view, the lead section is not really functioning as a proper lead. (It's not a decline basis itself because reviewers' focus is compliance with major content inclusion policy and guidelines to pass a threshold for having an article – notability, verifiability, neutral point of view, no original research, not perfect layout and similar.) But, fixing the lead might have a salutory effect at fixing the other issues I see. The lead section is an overview of the topic, that introduces it, and summarizes what's already in the body, in more detail. Essentially, there should be nothing in the lead that isn't in the body. (As such, often lead sections have no citations [but of course for material mandated to have them by policy such as quotations], because the material is already cited in the body and nothing is being said that's not there.) Here, the lead gives a bad start, and is where I focused.

As I indicated, it reads as quite promotional. Here's an example: "...catalyzes, consolidates, curates, and conveys the public interface..." Sounds like ad-speak, that I would expect to read at an organization's website, not in an article.

Then there's the "citation overkill". If a reviewer gets past the language, then you've made trying to assess notability very difficult, and in a manner that has hallmarks that shout to most who have done a million reviews: "here be a likely non-notable topic". A reviewer is going to want to be able to see that the topic is supported by reliable, secondary, independent sources that treat the topic in substantive detail, and not have to struggle mightily to do so. Think about that pragmatically. Do you think they're going to wade through the six citations attached to (just one example, among others): "...accurate public listing of contact data;[10][11][12][13][14][15]"? They're more likely going to look at that and shake their head, and think "ugh, typical promotional draft that is written in a way where I have to have to spend an hour trying to find if there are any good citations hiding among a million". As I wrote at Wikipedia:Common sourcing mistakes (notability):

"Moreover, citation overkill to sources containing mere passing mentions of the topic is a badge of a non-notable topic and, if good sources are actually present in the mix, they will be hidden among these others from those seeking to assess a topic's demonstration of notability."

Part and parcel of that is that these citations are not being used in a normal manner. An article states a fact, and then there's a citation to a source that verifies that detail, directly, and to boot, is a reliable, secondary, independent source that, along with other sources used throughout for the function of verifying the content they are cited in relation to, also demonstrate the notability of the topic. Having looked at a first three of those six sources, none of them verify what they're cited to verify. They don't contain the information directly.

Instead of being sources that say words to the effect of "HSC is an organization that presents accurate public listing of contact data", they're websites of societies that merely refer to HSC, and so it appears that you're using them as a unit to say, in effect: "see, all these other genealogical societies refer to HSC!"; that you're trying to use the gestalt of these citations to cause someone to deduce, from their mere mentions, that HSC conveys accurate information, rather than a cite that actually says that.

This practice is a "badge of a non-notable topic" because we see it over and over, usually for topics ultimately found to be non-notable. Where one has been correctly told that sourcing is absolutely key to writing an acceptable article, it is so tempting to do this type of bundling, but it actually has the opposite effect – people usually do this to compensate for the fact that the right types of sources don't exist, and so that will be the take away for most when they see it.

So I recommend working hard to make this read more neutrally; think about what someone who has never heard of this topic might write if they were assigned the task and only had to work from what they could find after doing research, with the mandate to use reliable, secondary, independent sources for nearly everything; look for adjectives and language containing assessment and remove/prune ruthlessly; try to employ a show, don't tell methodology; and get rid of every citation that is not directly verifying material, and doesn't contribute toward demonstrating notability. I still don't know whether those sources exist, but I know that doing that assessment is very difficult given the current state of the draft. Lastly, if those sources don't exist, don't bother. There are plenty of websites that will accept whatever content one wants to post. An encyclopedia is a different animal. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

This is incredibly helpful, and informs some things I misunderstood. Thanks for taking the time to write this analysis. I truly appreciate it and will work to incorporate your suggestions, with the understanding that it may simply not be justifiable in the end.Barrychoward (talk) 18:27, 7 March 2021 (UTC) I chopped the first paragraph down to the bare bones description of what is included in the body of the article. Reduced the number of citations, removing anything that was referenced in minor way, or by a lineage society, or with HSC's own website (except for 2 later in the body). Added a governance section because it was removed from the opening paragraph, but is a factual element of the entity. Further reduced anything in the body seemed "advertisement" or self serving. For some reason it will not let me publish the changes and I keep getting an error message "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)" Not sure what's going on.Barrychoward (talk) 02:20, 9 March 2021 (UTC) NVM, I had to relog in and copy and paste my changes. Feel free to review when you have time. Thanks so much.Barrychoward (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Incoming traffic to your FA

Hi Fuhghettaboutit! I was super psyched to see that the Google doodle honoree today, Masako Katsura, is an FA. It looks like you were the nominator when it passed FAC back in 2010, so just wanted to give you a heads up that it'll be receiving a bunch of traffic today and might need some monitoring for vandalism/etc. Congrats on the high-impact work! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:56, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

@Sdkb: Wow! Awesome. Who knows – maybe Google would not have done that if I hadn't written the article (and made it an FA). In fact, I'd bet that's the case. It's so interconnected, with our articles always the first results in most searches; certainly her profile was way upped in the English world by my biography. So cool. Again, thanks for the heads up. I had so much trouble when writing that article with trying to decipher and look at Japanese sources. It might be that given this worldwide exposure, some great Japanese sources could be unearthed.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:31, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:THQ § Follow-up to Digitics247

 You are invited to join the discussion at WP:THQ § Follow-up to Digitics247. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:29, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Fuhghettaboutit. Would you mind taking a look at this? You already deleted Draft:Digitics247 once and the recreated version needs to go as well. Perhaps this is just a newbie who means well, but just has know idea about WP:42, WP:NORG and WP:NOT. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:33, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey Marchjuly. Done. Deleted; posted at Teahouse; message left at user's talk page (where I think I let my frustration show a little bit ("it's a waste of time because there is no chance of that succeeding ... Nevertheless"). We really need a more robust set of policies to keep out advertising and curb paid editing and to replace COI's "strong recommendations" with fangs. Ah well. The dude abides.-Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 06:44, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at this, and yes the dude does indeed abide. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:36, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Help with Draft

Hello User:Fuhghettaboutit ! I hope you don’t mind me coming to you for a little bit more insight on my draft that you accidentally gave tips on! I’m sitting here trying to reconstruct the introduction to reflect your analysis of what I should change. This has been one of the best tips I have gotten yet I’m falling short trying to think of the best way to summarize the contents in an appropriate way without sounding too redundant and with keeping up with citing. Should I find another source to explain the body in a slightly different way? For example finding a similar yet different definition of the history of the acting style which I dive into? Wondering if you had any immediate sentences that came to your mind! Let me know your thoughts !  Thanks Elvisisalive95 (talk) 00:47, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Nouveau Shamanic Elvisisalive95 (talk) 00:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

I just gave the intro a change, see what you think Elvisisalive95 (talk) 01:22, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

"IndustrialHydraulis" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect IndustrialHydraulis. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 10#IndustrialHydraulis until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 13:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank You!

Just wanted to say thanks so much for your guidance on my draft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Roy_S._Herbst). I updated the citations using the template and hopefully that will help the article's chances of acceptance! Have a great day! Jcollinsycc (talk) 16:39, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Please see

Google Ngram Viewer and [4]

I added 2 comparisons Seth Kinman, a 2009 GA, and "Jimbo Wales". I wrote most of Kinman, and "know for a fact" that he was almost unknown in 2009, but is pretty well-known now. Ditto Jimbo Wales in 2000 and now, ("Jimmy Wales" nearly goes off the chart from 0 to ??? so I tried Jimbo)

Congrats!

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:02, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

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Smallbones_(smalltalk) 02:13, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Relative frequency of the terms "encyclopedia". "Britannica", "Encarta", and "Wikipedia" in a large corpus of books (Google Ngram Viewer)

• Here's a possible model to work from to produce ngram graphs
  • I just used a screen grab and cropped it
  • Uploaded it to Commons, with the categories and license as given in the file.
  • The only trick is to get the lines thicker (more visible)
    • before the screen grab, click on one of the lines to make it thicker, if there are more lines to emphasize, left click on them.
• If you can figure out a better way, please lrt me know. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 00:19, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@Smallbones: Thanks for the suggestions! I've got a draft in progress (offline) that I've been developing over the past few days in dribs and drabs (I haven't had a lot of time but I have some free time over the next two days). I haven't yet worked on the research portion but I have the scaffold somewhat built; I might post a draft somewhere in my userspace tonight or tomorrow; I'll advise at that time and maybe you can take a look. Thanks--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi need your help.

A man from India nominated a article made by me for speedy deletion. Nahata college want your suggestions. Should I delete this article.It is not notable. I think I warned his fellow Indian for stop using Malyalam in WP thats why they're trolling me. user:Kashmorwiki ,user:AARYA SANJAYAN writing rubbish on my talk page. I want to stop them accessing my talk page please help. Research Voltas (talk) 16:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Jalgaon housing page

Hi Fuhghettaboutit, Thanks for leaving the message in the article history. I'm sorry for my rash conclusions that didn't take into account the fact that other users might have made restorative edits. I definitely should have checked the page history. Thanks you for your excellent work on fixing the page. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 ^(TALK) 14:43, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey GreaterPonce665. Thanks for your message! I do a lot of copyright violation-related work and well understand that feeling of copyvio uncertainty – you've just reverted some blatant copy-paste, or deleted (or tagged under G12) a new article entirely copied from somewhere and then get a sinking feeling when you realize the user's never been warned for copyright violations before and has created 20 other articles, over five years... "uh oh". Anyway, sorry if I was a bit terse in the edit summary. It's just that the work to turn that article into "English" was enormous. It was so bad at many points, like bad machine translation, that I couldn't even tell what was intended (once I decided to just "own" it, I visited the sources myself).

Have you ever picked up some discarded item from a pile while walking down the street – "what's this?" – and then after you realize it's nothing that you want, you don't feel right about throwing it back in the litter pile; now that you've picked it up, you're obligated to dispose of it properly? That's sort of what happened here. I happened upon the first draft and decided to spend a few minutes turning it into English. But then the user kept adding more, just as bad, and since I'd already fixed the prior content... so I'd fix that, and then they'd add more, and more and more. So I resigned myself to the process, and took over the draft. By the way, not that I've looked at any length, but the sockmaster's edits were bad in a variety of ways (including a lack of competence in English but nevertheless, persistently adding incoherent content), but doesn't seem to have been chiefly related to text copyvios. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:40, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

I completely get it; have spent time on similar cases. (Un?)fortunately Sunk cost bias decides it for us. Having noticed the sock for sometime, I was sure it wasn't they who wrote the article, and thus had my (unfounded) suspicions of copyvio. Have a nice weekend. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 ^(TALK) 15:57, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

I refered you and you are invited

Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I am ExclusiveEditor and I am making a huge list of Basic and notable questions with simple and reliable answers which will help new editors on Wikipedia. Actually I have started it just now and it contains only one page. I have named this lists as ExclusiveHelp. You can find its index here. And the most important thing is that I have included a question in it which I asked to you in the teahouse (this,if you can't see it that means it is archived). You could find the page on which I included it here, it is Q.4. If you have any problem regarding the dusplay of your answer to ExclusiveHelp then please tell me I will remove it. Also you are invited to add more questions with reliable answers to ExclusiveHelp Every page contains 10 Questions. Please reply. ExclusiveEditor (talk) 05:20, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi ExclusiveEditor. I have actually just barely started something like that for my own years of entries at the Teahouse. See User talk:Fuhghettaboutit/Teahouse posts, which is about 0.01% done. Please note that every single time you import an entry to the project page you've started, you MUST comply with copyright by providing attribution in the edit summary. It's good that you didn't get far in copying entries across to that page, because then you would have a big job of fixing the copyright attribution, or have the page deleted. See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Please do not ignore this – I'm not sure if what you've started will blossom, but it will just deletion fodder if you start copying across numerous people's post without proper copyright attribution credit in the edit summary. Anyway, the key to making any such list is finding excellent, comprehensive entries and knowing which ones meet that character is something I think requiring some experience. I've answered "what contributions should I make as a new user" umpteen times; sometimes I've given a much more expansive, thoughtful answer than just "see the task center", as you've copied across to there; I don't think that's much of an answer. That's just an example.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:59, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Product key woes return

The addition of promotional(?) material by IPs to product key has started up again. Weird. I reverted it - is there anything else I should do? Wikignome Wintergreen^talk 15:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

@Wikignome Wintergreen: Hey, thanks for the heads up. I have semi-protected for one month.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:13, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Question

I wanna know if you could delete the draft Prende TV? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Prende_TV

 Done--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

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Oops. Sorry 'bout that... slight senior moment there. And I was just wisely nodding to myself about someone saying at AN that dealing with CSDs is such unrewarding work, because the majority of the nominations are bollocks. I'll go boil my head now. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:02, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

@Elmidae: Sorry for taking so long to get back to you; the edit that pinged you was just before I was going out. No worries. The never ending stream of pages needing deletion means we all end up needing a trout slap occasionally to keep up!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:04, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

User:Arun prasath Business Coach

User:Arun prasath Business Coach restored the deleted User page. And added a youtube link, which I deleted. David notMD (talk) 17:55, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Maproom just deleted all the content. And I, his photo (which I doubt he took of himself). And left an anti-advertising warning on Talk page. David notMD (talk) 17:57, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Mention about guessing on questions

Hi! I noticed that you mentioned me and told me to try not to guess. This is something I attempt to not do however it is something I do struggle on. I usually just speak from my own experience which does sometimes lead to me guessing. In my opinion guessing isn't necessarily always a bad thing (for example, sometimes you do have to guess on some of the questions because they are occasionally very vaguely worded) but in that situation it was. I only guessed there because, while I wasn't completely sure on the answer, I felt sure enough that my answer could at least be somewhat useful. (also, might I ask why the box in the bottom right corner of my screen takes me to the balkline article?) Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:59, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Hey Blaze The Wolf. That's a cube of billiards chalk, that links to an obscure article I wrote (that's been bowdlerized in great part by some very poor and uninformed, tone deaf splitting of content) on a sport that I love.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but just ask to you be more to be careful, not guessing is in my view the most minimal request for anyone answering Teahouse posts that people are apt to rely on, where proper due diligence requires much more. Answering posts at help fora like the Teahouse is an activity that calls to having a fair amount of experience, in order to give not just the best advice, but to to not end up actively steering people the wrong way. Wikipedia is vast. As a user with less than 900 edits (and of those, more than half typo corrections), you're very, very new here. That means that you simply don't have the experience to know what the right advice is for many questions without doing some due diligence studying for any answer, and never guessing.

Giving someone wrong advice, on something they're seeking an answer to so that they can act on the advice (which is much of what we get), can really have lots of bad consequences. If your answer gets corrected by more experienced users before the questioner sees your answer (and it doesn't muddy the waters), maybe there's no harm done. But what about if your answer is the only one, or isn't corrected, or (as I've anecdotally found to be common), is looked at before later correction, and the person acts on it immediately or never returns to see any later posts?

Yes, of course we all make mistakes. But guessing, when some research would inform your answer, is entirely within your control. Almost every question I have regretted answering at the Teahouse and elsewhere, that I felt I didn't give really good advice on, or otherwise felt was wanting in some way, was some combination of posting too quickly, in an area I didn't have a firm background in, and where I didn't research my answer thoroughly enough. Despite my experience (and I've been here over 15 years and have nearly 100K edits), I still conduct research for answers all the time (and learn much by doing so). Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:37, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Alright. And on questions I'm partially sure on but would like confirmation, I do usually recommend that the person whose question I answered wait for another host to confirm or deny my response. Sometimes I'm honestly just too lazy to go doing the research so I try and answer it in the best way I can (which honestly, I should try to not be lazy) which is probably why I end up guessing. Other times I actually state that after I finish typing my answer I will look up the answer to make sure they get the best help they can. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 01:19, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

double, double, toil & trouble

Wikipedia:Teahouse#Is Soroka good enough to GA? --Respectfully submitted, Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody, Editor and Proofreader A.k.a. Thnidu (talk) 03:39, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Help?

Per your helpful assistance at the Teahouse, I'll just be blunt and say that the article I am trying to repair is U.S._Army_Esports. The article is plagued with controversies, and I am trying to improve the article, but I'm getting shut down by a user who said I was vandalizing the article. I was hoping to point to an essay or policy... Any way you can help? I know your time is precious. PerpetuityGrat (talk) 01:16, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Changing article to suit an upload

Hi there. Thanks for looking over my article. I just wanted to know what you think I should do to change it. The game it is about has picked up popularity, mainly from YouTubers such as Markiplier and 8-BitRyan. I have found reviews if that helps.

TheBCPlayer TheBCPlayer (talk) 09:01, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi TheBCPlayer. I have no idea if the suitable sources exist to sustain an article for this subject but I suspect they simply do not. I can suggest one resource that might be helpful though. Maybe take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library. You also might ask for someone to take a look a Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games. But, you may just have to be prepared to cut your losses here. This is not uncommon, unfortunately – plenty of drafts are created on things too new or too unknown to have received enough coverage in reliable, secondary, independent sources from which an encyclopedia article can be written. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:46, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Right, thank you. Just to clarify, do you mean reviews from external sources. If so, how many; 2 or more? If not, should I try to link to content creator channels?

TheBCPlayer TheBCPlayer (talk) 16:22, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Just to clarify, do you mean reviews from external sources? If so, how many; 2, or more? If not, should I try to add references to the content creator channels?

TheBCPlayer TheBCPlayer (talk) 16:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi again TheBCPlayer. Please note that while your first post was correctly posted to the bottom of my page, your second (doubled) post above was added in the middle of someone else's post. in the middle of this talk page – I have moved it to here.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I understand quite what you mean above, but it sounds like you might not really underestand how sourcing works here and how important it is. It is everything. Every word of an article needs to be verifable in a reliable source – the information able to be corroborated by pre-exosting publicaiton (withouyt copying the words used, except for short quotes, marked as such). We don't write what we know in our heads. We don't announce new things.

An encyclopedia is a very specific type of reference work, properly containing only entries on subjects of existing knowledge. If the wider world has not already written about the subject, and each piece of information used to dscribe that subject, then it is not a suitable encycvlopedia article topic, and no article is possible. There is no exact number of sources, and some reviews (in sources of questionable reliability) are not likely to take you home.

Remember, it's not just sources in general, it's the right types of sources, with the right depth of treatment (again linking the detailed policies: reliable, secondary, independent sources ). You need to show that the subject has received substantive treatment in those types of sources to demonstrate the topic is notable, which sources, at the same time, verify the information.

I don't think they exist for this subject, but if you want to spend more time on this, you need to find those sources. Does any of that help?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:30, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Little Alchemy (video game)/Rejectitis

Yes, I've read your decline. But I do not think it is fair. Other articles, like Zain Group, have only 5 references or something. How come you reject it again even after my hard work at my draft?

I know you think it is right, but it isn't. I have already been rejected at almost many times. So if you are dumb enough to reject once again, I might consider leaving Wikipedia.

Please, do not do this again. I have already suffered rejectitis. Thank you.

Doctorine Dark (talk) 05:53, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Doctorine Dark. I rejected based on its merits. Your appeal here is based on sympathy, like "this deserves an article, because I worked hard" (even though it doesn't come close to meeting our standards for inclusion). What you need to so is either stop working on it, because it can't meet our standards (and so you're wasting your time on a subject that dosn't merit an encyclopedia article), or work hard to understand the concept of notability – including that topics must be supported by reliable, secondary, independent sources that treat the topic in substantive detail – and verifiability and provide much better sourcing. Those sources probably don't exist, which is why you're having this difficulty. If true, there's nothing you can do to make an acceptable article, which is not my fault, nor your fault. But putting in more effort will not help. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:14, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Deletion: Ishwar Puri

The page Ishwar Puri was deleted. I would like to work on it to improve it. How may I do so? Could it be undeleted and I be given an opportunity to clean it up as per your policy? Thank you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aprilsola (talk • contribs) 15:02, May 8, 2021 (UTC)

No, sorry, it is unsalvageably tainted with illegal copyright violations, from its first revision and continuing through your numerous separate additions of infringing content. At best, I could provide you with the infobox and the citations (let me know), but the content is unusable and needs to be built from scratch.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:10, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

@Aprilsola: I have spent the time to draftify the article, hide the history and retain the structure to work from. It is now at Draft:Ishwar Puri. There is a template at the top allowing submission of the draft for review, once re-populated with (non-infringing) content.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:02, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

@Fuhghettaboutit: Thank you very much! I will work on it. Regards.

@Fuhghettaboutit: Thanks again for the guidance. I have rebuilt the page and resumitted it for review.

GA review ?

Hi, Fuhghettaboutit. I have missed you for a while. It's good to see you back and I hope you are doing well. I have an article lap steel guitar which has been in the queue for a couple of months awaiting GA review. Just wondering if you'd be willing to take it on. --best always, Eagledj (talk) 16:46, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks as always for your encouragement and copyediting help. It represents a lot of time and work on your part and I learn so much from it. I'll try to pay it forward. Best always, Eagledj (talk) 23:42, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Discussion

Sorry if this seems moot, but are there any edits made that show they are “paid editors” or just COI editors/editing? I would have done the digging myself but I’m not feeling so well Atm. Celestina007 (talk) 22:46, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey Celestina007. Being a paid editor merely means that the person must comply with disclosure under the Terms of Use. Wow is that an easy lift. Here, they are compensated by the organization about which they are writing, and work directly for the organization (not in a secondary role, like teacher, professor). Despite the back and forth the user has engaged in, it's straightforward; it is not the flaming scarlet letter the user has apparently ascribed to it, and nothing more is needed but that relationship to exist, which admittedly does here. There is no need to look at any edits. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:21, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for replying, as I stated I was unwell and just returning from a hospital and was too weak both physically and mentally to read their wall of text, if they are receiving financial reward from the organization than that’s blatantly paid editing that requires disclosure why on earth were they contesting that at all? Sigh, thanks for your time. Celestina007 (talk) 17:33, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

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Question

I wanna know if you could delete the draft Univision Now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Univision_Now ItsJustdancefan (talk) 23:41, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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FYI.....

See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Snooker/archive2....felt familiar XD Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:05, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

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It's just... floating there... MENACINGLY!

You've started a trend: 1 2

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	Just letting you know, the Blue nuthatch that you've worked on before finally became GA, props on you for working on most of the content. Upcoming Chestnut-vented nuthatch, Yunnan nuthatch while Krüper's nuthatch needs help on sourcing thou. Merry Christmas! 2001:4455:1A9:E100:453A:3DFE:95F4:380 (talk) 02:07, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:13, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Contested technical RM

Template:Contested technical RM has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – MaterialWorks (contribs) 12:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

"Talk:Michael Jackson and Bubbles/Archive 1" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Talk:Michael Jackson and Bubbles/Archive 1 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 1 § Talk:Michael Jackson and Bubbles/Archive 1 until a consensus is reached. Sawol (talk) 21:49, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

amogus

sus Cbradac13327 (talk) 20:25, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, Fuhghettaboutit, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Ezra Cricket (talk) 03:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Slender Man

Slender Man has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~ A412 ^talk! 16:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Hadji Ali scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 27 October 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 27, 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 2024. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. – SchroCat (talk) 14:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you today for this 2011 article, intoduced: "I am nominating this for featured article because there's presently not enough coverage of regurgitation among our FAs, much less an article on a professional regurgitator. I say "very little" as a hedge: It is possible that there have been others, but I really do think this is the first one. This oversight should not stand. Regarding content, two gaps you may note is that there is little on his personal life and little on his years in Europe and elsewhere before he came to the U.S. This is not for lack of trying. I have exhausted every source I could find using every variation of his name's spelling, misspelling, reversal of order, his stage names in both English and in other languages. etc. This was mostly built from newspaper articles – hundreds I looked at using Newspaperarchive.com. Very few sources go beyond variations on the same two or three paragraph patter about what his vaudeville act consisted of. I've included every pertinent detail I came across and I traveled down every path to locate reliable sources I could think of, including (after the usual Google News archive and book suspects, and magazines with archives such as Time, Life & Variety) looking at German sources such as Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, Italian newspaper archives, expat asian newspapers, etc., as well as asking for help at the Russian Wikiproject (since he performed for the Tsar). Obviously, I am trying to gird against a comprehensiveness objection I foresee as a possibility, but I don't think this can be made significantly more comprehensive."

We miss you and your diligence and dedication! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:45, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Always precious

Twelve years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. - It was a difficult time for me, when I felt strongly that I wasn't part of the community, - a feeling overcome by people like you. Thank you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Bottle pool

Bottle pool has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 01:01, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

"The Human Aquarium" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect The Human Aquarium has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 31 § The Human Aquarium until a consensus is reached. Paul_012 (talk) 19:42, 31 October 2024 (UTC)