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Thanks, news to me. Chienlit (talk) 09:29, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 12:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sultan992 (10:09, 1 December 2022)

Hi, How are you doing? I need to make 2 pages for my company's digital presence on Wikipedia, Can you please guide the process? --Sultan992 (talk) 10:09, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sultan992, and welcome to Wikipedia. To be honest, I wouldn't recommend trying to create a page for your company because you will probably find that it is difficult to neutrally and verifiably write about things that you are personally associated with. If you decide to proceed, please read the conflict of interest guideline carefully, provide the necessary disclosures, and then see Help:Your first article. Please be mindful that promotion is not allowed on Wikipedia and that articles need to have reliable and independent sources to establish notability. Thanks! DanCherek (talk) 12:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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George F. Baker

Please note this page is full of inaccuracies and outdated information.

George F. Baker High School

When I try to update it, it reverts back to this page.


GFBGGM (talk) 13:50, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

HI GFBGGM, your edits are being reverted because you keep adding text copied from other websites to the article. It sounds like you have a conflict of interest, in which case you should first disclose it per WP:COI. Regardless of the copyright status, Wikipedia is primarily interested in what reliable, independent secondary sources have to say about a particular subject, and so basing an entire article on the official website is generally not appropriate either. DanCherek (talk) 14:54, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I disclosed it in the talk section of the post. So maybe you can help me, what is the best way for the school district to have an accurate up to date page if all the information is sourced from the school itself? GFBGGM (talk) 14:56, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a disclosure at George F. Baker High School or at Talk:George F. Baker High School, so it would be best to follow the steps at WP:COI (or WP:PAID) and add it to your user page. Because of the conflict of interest, you should instead propose changes to the article on the talk page, using an edit request. DanCherek (talk) 14:59, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To answer the question ...

... that you asked in this edit summary, just look at the first three letters of the username (which is also why I've blocked the account indefinitely). Daniel Case (talk) 19:10, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case: Good point! I thought at first it might have been related to the Korean surname Seo, after going to the website they linked to, but you're right – that kind of URL-adding is pretty much always spam. Thanks. DanCherek (talk) 19:15, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, when the bot at UAA flags a username with this string, there's an appended reminder that in some languages (mainly Indic) that's a naturally occurring string in real names, so make sure it's being used promotionally. Daniel Case (talk) 19:16, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello DanCherek! Just wanted to make sure, when I reported this user, did I do something wrong there? I know I pinged Drmies, and saw that it was redacted. Should I have not pinged them? Just want to make sure so I don't do the same thing again if I shouldn't have. Thanks!! SPF121188 (talk this way) (my edits) 17:52, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spf121188, it's all good. I wouldn't say you did anything wrong. These attack-username cases are definitely tricky to deal with, and I saw this one as bad enough to redact from the page history, which is why I performed those revision deletions. It's a gray area and not a big deal to handle it this way, but in the future if you happen to have a feeling that it shouldn't be visible publicly, don't hesitate to report it using one of the ways listed at WP:REVDELREQUEST. DanCherek (talk) 17:59, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh okay! Got it :) I'll do that moving forward! Thanks for the help, just want to make sure I know how to handle egregious cases like that in the future. Cheers! SPF121188 (talk this way) (my edits) 18:03, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No problem and thanks for the speedy report/reverts. DanCherek (talk) 18:04, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

86.8.115.13 (talk · contribs)

Hi, that IP you blocked is vandalizing their talk page. Could you revoke their TPA? LilianaUwU (talk / contribs) 16:31, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, thanks for reporting. DanCherek (talk) 16:32, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dan, this is Louis J horvitz and I'm trying to update my wiki page. You keep rejecting my submissions.Can you help me as I do not understand what the issue is. They are just facts of the programs I have directed. Best LJH

HI Dan, I'm trying to compose an addition for my wikipedia page. I obviously am new as the edits keep getting rejected . Can you help me. I'm trying to add facts of programs I have directed and for how man years


this is what I would like to add. But if it is bias vs factual maybe you can help me adjust.

Horvitz specializes in directing live event television. He directed The Academy Awards for twelve years. Additionally, he directed The Grammy Awards eleven times, the Golden Globes eleven times, The Kennedy Center Honors thirty-one times, The American Film Institute Life Achievement Award thirty times , and The Prime-Time Emmy Awards a total of seventeen times,

I am at ljh@louisjhorvitz.com

Thank you Louis J Horvitz 142.129.115.137 (talk) 23:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the text you added because it was copied from https://www.emmys.com/bios/louis-j-horvitz (© Television Academy) without evidence that it is compatibly licensed with Wikipedia. It was also very promotionally worded. To propose an addition or change to the article, you should open an edit request at Talk:Louis J. Horvitz, but please be sure to include reliable, independent sources that support the proposed change(s). DanCherek (talk) 03:13, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Former administrators and extended-confirmed

Hiya. I saw you in the rights log, granting extendedconfirmed to a few former administrators (Pathoschild et al). This is just to note that it generally isn't necessary to do so – MediaWiki will grant it on their next edit if they haven't held it before. Given that it was rolled out in 2016 and quite a lot of the administrators being desysopped had their RfAs before then, they don't need to have their rights manually changed to add it. See Special:UserRights/Atama for an example of the automatic grant; for examples where manual grants are needed, see Special:UserRights/Athaenara and Special:UserRights/Eddie891 (the former because they were automatically granted it in 2019 after a resignation, and the latter because they held it prior to RfA). Hope this helps . Sdrqaz (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I got confused by Eddie's case and then realized my mistake soon after I granted a few. DanCherek (talk) 04:35, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lisa Matomola article deletion

Hi Dan. The information cited in the article Lisa Matomola was taken from a trusted website and various local newspapers, and this were properly referenced. And this article was still in the draft form. Can you post it back so we can finish with the editing work. We created the article with article Wizard platform for beginners. Also, the claim that there is information from Twitter, haven't used information from Twitter, if there is match, is just that that information came from the sources I used. Kindly advise further. Martin Hipangwa (talk) 15:08, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Martin! The page was deleted because it was almost entirely copied verbatim from the cited websites, mostly this article and this one. You're welcome to recreate the draft, but when adding information to Wikipedia, it needs to be written in your own words. I sometimes find it helpful to read the source material, then try to summarize it without directly referring to it (of course you can look at it afterwards, but this might help avoid the temptation of using the same or substantially similar phrasing). DanCherek (talk) 16:06, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do not remove section you have no clue about- it shows your ignorance and eurocentrism

Per your words: “I've never really worked on Wikipedia articles about my field of expertise, though. Instead, I like to branch out and work on articles about unfamiliar and interesting people, places, and things – the ones where you can learn a lot as you look for sources or read related articles.” Thus according to your logic and its impact on the legitimacy of Wikipedia’s editing, I would urge you to quit editing/removing content that you are not familiar with. I urge you to do so because you are removing content from users who are personally familiar/have extensive education about the topics they are editing. I am referring about Nizar Qabbani’s section. I am aware there were copyrights issues which must be fixed. However, further removal of well-referenced information is a covert biased and discriminatory gesture that I will reported and according to Wikipedia’s rules, will disqualify you from future editing privileges. Editorqueenofnubia (talk) 16:00, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're right that there were significant "copyrights issues which must be fixed" – my actions at that article were done to remedy those issues, not for any other content-based reason (and no conspiracy theories alleging covert biases, please). When adding information to Wikipedia, it needs to be written in your own words. Please don't copy text from other websites. DanCherek (talk) 16:09, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

10 books

See my comment on the talk page. This is political. Doug Weller talk 21:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Doug Weller – I didn’t look too closely, but I’m also out so won’t have a chance to do so right now, so feel free to reverse my decline if you’d like. DanCherek (talk) 21:47, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Offl to sleep in 10 minutes so can’t do it now. Doug Weller talk 21:54, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like it's at CfD now. DanCherek (talk) 23:49, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@DanCherek Yes, I've !voted there. Doug Weller talk 12:30, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Does this edit need a rev/del?

[1] (see the part of the edit about low iq of sub-saharan Africans) Thanks, Knitsey (talk) 00:54, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Knitsey, I don't think it rises to the level of needing revision deletion, but thank you for checking (and for the speedy revert of the vandalism). DanCherek (talk) 00:56, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Knitsey (talk) 00:57, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Dear Dan,

the article I reverted due to vandalism had the following issues, the time period is irrelevant as it was mostly done by one controversial user with about 9 edits.

You mentioned "false claims" of vandalism, please explain how the following is not vandalism:

- Actively removed the association between Kurdish history and the Baban family, even with the latter being an important historical entity of the former.

- Actively removed the map of the Kurdish principalities crafted by Kurdoloigst Dr. Michael Izady, and well sourced, the claim of removal was based on that it was "made by a kurdologist" who has been critiqued by an iranologist, this was made my an Iranian user.

- Actively removed notable descendants, most of which well sourced, I removed some of them as they weren't sourced, a prime minister of iraq is a notable descendant to be mentioned.

Could you explain how is that not vandalism? how is removing a 2 century lasting principality from the Wikipedia collection of Kurdish articles not vandalism? I will revert the changes if you do not explain, as these pages should not be edited due to political reasons.

Best wishes. 109.175.196.210 (talk) 09:33, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Correction, 19 edits not 9, by one user. 109.175.196.210 (talk) 09:37, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Because we define vandalism as "editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose" (see this policy and specifically Wikipedia:Vandalism § What is not vandalism). It seems like a standard content dispute, actually, one that can be discussed on the talk page of the article without accusations of vandalism. By the way, please stay logged-in when you edit; mixing logged-in and logged-out edits within a single article or topic is generally frowned upon. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 18:13, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issue resolved, please allow me to publish my page again.

Hello,

My name is Omika and I am trying to publish my degradome sequencing page. I had originally put paragraphs from the original sources to block out and organize my page and must've instinctively hit publish prematurely to save my work. I'm new here and I apologize. I rewrote every paragraph but am still unable to publish. Please allow me to publish my page. Thank you. Omikamerchant (talk) 04:47, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, what do you mean by "unable to publish"? The page is not currently protected and you aren't blocked, so there shouldn't be anything preventing you from editing the page again. DanCherek (talk) 04:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Civility Barnstar
Thanks for the help! I won't forget to ask more soon, haha :). 9was6ik (talk) 14:33, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! DanCherek (talk) 15:21, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RevDel

I inadvertently restored some of the content that you RevDeled it (it must have happened at the same time since it was a copy and paste job). Would you mind deleting it again? Thanks. M.Bitton (talk) 15:42, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, done! Thanks for letting me know. DanCherek (talk) 15:42, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

December music

December songs

Today, a hymn for a Marian feast, I learned that Yvonne Ciannella died, the soprano who impressed me in my first night at the opera, and as she died in March, sadly no Main page reverence is possible, - at least she had a good DYK, at a time when opera singers were considered interesting. I'm proud today that Christiane Hörbiger made it to that corner, and happy that we celebrate the birthday of Jean Sibelius again. Please check out Volodymyr Kozhukhar whom I nominated for it. - I heard an excellent Christmas concert yesterday, by Tenebrae, and a short excerpt of them singing "Deo gracias" is also linked from my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy December! I hope you are enjoying Paris. I've been itching to return since I last visited five years ago. How was Carmen? Thanks as always for the updates, articles, and photos. DanCherek (talk) 23:48, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It was great. (Just that the train home was cancelled due to a strike was a bit of a challenge.) - Today was a day rich in music, with two new pictures, and also rich in WP:QAI contributions on the Main page: the TFA, 2 DYK and 2 RD with members as principal editors. The church pictured there (not by me, nice snow dust and tall evergreen) comes with memories, detailed on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled message from Jubi265

Hello I submitted my own biography. But not accepted. Could you assist me Jubi265 (talk) 19:02, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Jobairul Islam was deleted back in August as "unambiguous advertising or promotion". Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged — see our guideline on writing autobiographies. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site, so if you'd like to stick around, I would recommend looking for a subject that you're interested in and going from there. I see that another editor has put some useful welcome links on your talk page that can help you get started. Let me know if you have any additional questions. DanCherek (talk) 20:37, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy holidays!

Hello DanCherek: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:11, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:11, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, happy holidays! DanCherek (talk) 00:06, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Killer866 on Contactless payment (10:52, 14 December 2022)

Szia segitenel --Killer866 (talk) 10:52, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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