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Knightswood page & newbie user

Thanks for flagging up an issue I thought would resolve itself, but obviously didn't. The issue with user:66ric is that they seem to be using the Knightswood article as a noticeboard for their own hobby. I had hoped that with encouragement, they could be persuaded to read up on how to contribute to Wikipedia and be helpful in adding to the article, as they must be a local resident. A year has passed and they have obviously not read their user talk page or followed any of the advice. They have also not contributed in any meaningful way to Wikipedia since that time.

Would you be happy for me to tidy up the article, removing the COI tag? Would there be any benefit in asking for the user to be blocked? I don't believe they are knowingly vandalising the article, but acting out of ignorance. Wikiwayman (talk) 11:51, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say do cleanup, leave a message on ric's talk page, then see how it goes. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:04, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Understanding false positives?

I saw edits in the micro inverter article some time ago by a user named "green nose". There was an edit by this user on the "false positives" list, but when I look at the history it seems to point to you. See this version.

But what exactly is this list, and how do entries end up here? The user in question has re-added the content, and I'm trying to figure all of this out.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:21, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An actual false positive is when an edit is blocked by software filters, when it should not have been. In the case of the edits by green nose, the block was not the result of a "false positive", but rather a successful thwarting of an effort to add advertisements for a particular product to the article. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:30, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ahhh, very interesting. The bot side of the wiki continues to impress me. So, if the material is re-added again, what would be the next step? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Revert again. Warn 'em, using one of the relevant templates such as may be found at WP:WARN. If they persist, report 'em at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:41, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think we have a sockpuppet of the one you blocked start editing Whittingham's article..... Bgwhite (talk) 05:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Frank Collin

I am unable to view the source which makes the claim his father was Jewish, would you be so kind as to post the full quotes on the talk page, thank you. The Last Angry Man (talk) 08:30, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore the above, I found some sources on G books, I will add a source to the article later. The Last Angry Man (talk) 11:11, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since the article is about the party, not about Collin, I don't think it's really all that necessary; but no big. It's possibly the most known fact about Collin to some people, so demanding a citation just struck me as POINTy. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:16, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Strange thing, whilst looking for a source I found one which says the whole Jewish father thing was a smear job by the FBI, I posted on the talk page about it. The Last Angry Man (talk) 14:22, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Umm...

Can't we just say Fan Fiction's category us Fiction and Fictional. It's a lie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.68.59.76 (talk) 10:28, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1. Fan fiction actually exists; it is not "fictional", a category used for things which exist only within a fictional universe (like psiprints in Steven Brust's Taltos novels).
2. When a subject belongs to a more specific category, we list it in the more specific category, which is in turn a subset of the broader category: i.e., "American schoolteachers" is a subset of both "Americans" and "schoolteachers", so you don't need to add an American schoolteacher to all three categories, but just to the more specific one. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:13, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the questions

Thank you for your boisterous commentary here Mike but it did not answer my questions. What I am looking for, still looking for, is the location of the relevent policies on the subjects which I had outlined. I have no intention of building any database anywhere let alone on Wikipedia - you are jumping to conclusions - but thanks anyway for your attempt to respond. Newwhist (talk) 16:00, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Jersey Future is a leading policy group focusing on smart growth and urban and suburban sprawl issues. In their case, focused on the nation's most densely populated state. In review of the existing links, New Jersey Future is very similar to the Greenbelt Alliance which is linked and New Jersey Future is closely aligned with Smart Growth America, whose link, by the way is an incorrect spammy link to a site in China. So, for full disclosure, I am not employed by New Jersey Future, but do help them with interactive communications. I also have extensive knowledge of growth, conservation and sustainability issues in New Jersey and other states. So, are the objections to link because I added it or because you reviewed New Jersey Future's policy documents on smart growth, transit oriented development, anti-sprawl issues, etc and don't believe it's an appropriate resource? If it's the latter, then I would recommend removing every link under the External Links section with the exception of Smart Growth America whose link should be fixed. In addition, you should carefully review the "SprawlCity" link to NumbersUSA, which is an anti-immigration site started by Roy Beck (You can learn more about Roy Beck at the Southern Poverty Law Center website. I won't make these edits as I'm concerned how my contributions are currently characterized. If you believe New Jersey Future is an appropriate resource, feel free to add it back to the page.

While I recognize and appreciate that you have extensive experience as a Wikipedia administrator, I find the presumption of spam to be onerous. I'm one of few (it seems) contributors that doesn't mask my identity with a fake user name. I have nothing to hide and I've never contributed a link or content that was not a quality online resource that would add to the quality of content on the Wikipedia page. I've never contributed a link because I was paid to do so or for search engine optimization reasons as I've always understood the "no follow" rule. I've read the external links policy and also the repeated message that Wikipedia is not a collection of links. I would suggested, however, that the external links sections of Wikipedia pages are very important to readers and should not be neglected. Not lecturing; just sharing my opinion. Thank you for your time and I welcome any feedback.Ktsparkman (talk) 18:28, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1. New Jersey Future is a specific local group, whose website is not peculiarly relevant to the article in question.
2. However you euphemize it, you clearly have a very definite conflict of interest in this matter.
3. If other inappropriate links exist, the solution is not to permit additional ones, but to scrutinize the existing ones. I will pay particular note, obviously, to your concerns about NumbersUSA being treated as if it were a reliable source.
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You have recently made a change at the article Hart of Dixie that was a point of contention and currently part of a current discussion and RfC. (1) Why did you make the change? (2) Why would you make the change when consensus so far says to keep the section the way it was (before you changed it)? (3) Why make the change rather than make a comment at the RfC? (4) Why haven't you commented at the RfC? (5) Why were you there and made such a change when you've never edited there before? Your action of changing the order of reviews (along with your edit summary) almost seems like you are either thumbing your nose at the current process in place, being intentionally inconsiderate or disrupting the current process to make a point (maybe all three). Care to explain? (either here or on the article talk page). Please bear in mind that I'm not trying to accuse you of being these things, I'm just pointing out what your edit looks like sans a more detailed explanation from you. Lhb1239 (talk) 16:14, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There was no formal RfC under way. I saw no consensus, and thus merely put things in a more standard order, subject to further contribution by other editors (besides you and Kugelmass). --Orange Mike | Talk 16:18, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Although not formal, there is an RfC underway, and there have been three editors weighing in (two of us have said to keep it the way it was). It's easy to see from the edit history that there have been issues there. Look again, please. And - you have yet to explain why you would suddenly appear to disrupt an already contentious situation at an article you've never edited previously. Lhb1239 (talk) 16:24, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
just checked Wikipedia:Requests for comment/All: there's nothing there about this subject. I don't see what I did as disruptive, merely housekeeping. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:28, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It was my response, as an uninvolved third party, to the comments by both of you at Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Biased presentation of the critical response to Hart of Dixie. I found his reasoning sound, and yours not; so I attempted to perform the requested cleanup by a neutral. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:36, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If that's your reasoning behind the edit, then your "response" was being intentionally inconsiderate and disrupting the current process to make a point. The consensus was to keep it the way it was, the discussion had not yet concluded, and if you really wanted to help, you should have added your voice on the matter at the talk page, not in making a disruptive edit. Really unbecoming behavior for an administrator as well as a Quaker, in my opinion. Lhb1239 (talk) 16:46, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It is a bit unsettling for me to share a spot so close to Republican. Orange Mike, I see why you felt you had to delete the top hat reference I added. But good God! Do you not notice the steampunks wearing them?! And if the top hats go, why do the other things remain? I see no references or especial fondness for those things that supersedes the top hats! I found the term steampunk whilst searching for a new top hat! Really, do you have to be so difficult!75.21.113.40 (talk) 20:48, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The steampunks are also wearing solar topees, deerstalkers, bowlers, motoring hats with veils, and all sorts of gallimaufry. If we are to mark a particular item as distinctive, we must source the assertion, not back it up with our own personal claims. --165.189.32.4 (talk) 20:54, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for jumping in, IP, but there is no "personal claim" in it. My contributions were removed because I may not have sourced one correctly - the rest was pure spite. So, what is there to tell me your mention of headgear is any better than mine? Deerstalkers over top hats?!75.21.113.40 (talk) 22:10, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

University at Buffalo help

Hi Orange Mike, you have helped me in the past. Right now I am being harassed by another administrator.

On the page, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, I am trying to write on the page that it is a University Center of the SUNY system. I have multiple valid sources for this yet he denies every source I throw at him. Before I placed "Flagship", and had it placed because the University calls themselves a flagship institution (this source here says it: http://www.buffalo.edu/about_ub/ub_at_a_glance.html) yet he denied it again.

There's another problem that's going on as well. I'm trying to place pictures and media onto the page, but he not only removes my pictures off the page, but proceeds to delete my own media. This is simply corrupt and not right. I have done many things to validate my pictures, yet he still deletes it.


Can you help resolve these issues? I am not trying to be an ass and I believe I am acting in a rightful manner.

Thank you,

-David

Davidhar (talk) 01:08, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Reply from the other editor who is not doing any thing of the sort :
  1. I am not an administrator
  2. The content "University Center" or "Flagship" is not sourced to a WP:RS there is no consensus for it's inclusion.
  3. The images being added are of questionable copyright status, it is not clear that the up loader has the consent of the uni to upload them with the licence he uses.
  4. Even if correctly licensed they are just there to make the article look good, they do not add to the understanding of the topic.
  5. as a student he has a clear WP:COI.
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Battlefield 3 Main Theme

Hi there im the user that uploaded the .ogg audio files that was removed today. Im not sure if you removed the file in terms of cypright terms or lack of source. Well im giving you an link to Amazon wesbsite that sell the official soundtracks and give users an audio sample available for try out. <link to gigantic predatory corporation website removed> ThisUserNameAgain (talk) 19:13, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Amazon as a vendor may have been licensed to use that sound; that doesn't mean the copyright holder is waiving their copyright in a way which permits its use here in Wikipedia (where we have to be really very hardnosed about copyright violations). --Orange Mike | Talk 19:20, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Your comment on potential conflict of interest for Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance draft page

Hi Mike, thank you for you comment and of course, you are quite right that there is a potential conflict of interest. Unfortunately, there is always a trade-off between those involved being best informed and those involved having an axe to grind. The danger is that external contributions are simply rehashes of web pages that fail to discriminate between significant and insignificant information. In this case, we are being very careful to ensure that the article does not express opinions on the success/failures/performance of SICSA but simply presents verifiable information about SICSA. We are working slowly on this with the aim of ensuring that all statements are verifiable and would certainly appreciate a review that highlighted subjectivity in the piece. Iansommerville (talk) 15:52, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Nazis declared themselves officially syncretic as being neither left nor right, I put "(official)" beside it to say that was there position, but that scholars view it as far right.

There is nothing controversial about including the syncretic (neither left nor right) official political position of the Nazis that is backed up by two sources, one of which is from an interviewer who is intervewing Hitler in 1934. This was the Nazis' official position and Hitler in propaganda attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany. As I said, I put in the official position, while not claiming it is necessarily true, as I retained the position claimed by scholars that identify it as far-right. I have the sources to back it up, they can be examined via Google Books, there is no controversy.--R-41 (talk) 19:53, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Given that they were the very epitome of the Big Lie, I see no reason to give any space whatsoever to what they claimed to be in the infobox. You could put a line or two in the body of the article. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:40, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Yesterday you blocked The99declaration for being a promotional account. I'd previously warned them about WP:COI editing, but hadn't taken them off my watchlist, and this morning, I noted a threat of legal action posted to the account Talk page, ostensibly written by an attorney representing the group. You, or another admin, may wish to review and/or modify the block reason to reflect the WP:NLT violation. I did take the liberty of directing them to the NLT policy and advised them that until and unless the legal threat was retracted, the account would remain blocked. Cheers, Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 14:32, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The threat seems to have been withdrawn properly. Now we've just got the name problem, the COI problem, the NPOV problem, and the repeated BLP violations. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:09, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Baby steps... Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 20:29, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

UK Independence Party

The information on that article is false, and was only tring to improve the article which I will continue to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UKIPteen (talkcontribs) 00:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC) UKIPteen (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Then discuss it on the article's talk page. An edit by somebody with your username is unlikely to go unreverted. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:12, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category talk:Anti-abortion violence#RFC on supercategory was reopened after a review at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#RFC close review: Category:Anti-abortion violence.

I am notifying all editors who participated in these two discussions or Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 26#"Christian terrorism" supercategory at Cat:Anti-abortion violence. to ensure all editors are aware of the reopened discussion. Cunard (talk) 03:57, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deletions

Why do you want ANAT technology and Robotics Design deleted, even though the first improves education and the latter has been here for years, and improves Western society in regards to health, the environment and industry?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Canadiansteve (talkcontribs) Canadiansteve (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Please sign your comments, Canadiansteve. New editors with a conflict of interest such as yours almost always have a hard time understanding key Wikipedia concepts like notability and the neutral point of view and the absolute importance of reliable, independent sources. The bottom line is that you have, so far, failed to demonstrate that your technology and your company are notable by Wikipedia's standards. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:55, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Mississippi Democrat Page

Hi, you recently commented on my talk page about the MS Democratic Party article. I am in a U.S. Political Parties class at Illinois State University and it is our semester project to edit various state party pages. I had included the platform from the party website because it was part of my project, and intended to edit it to make it less of a copyright violation. Is there a way I can properly include this important party information? Masuhi (talk) 22:06, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Within the context of a party which has existed for over 160 years, this year's platform (see WP:UNDUE) is not important information; it's just another primary source document. Wikipedia articles do not contain vast undigested chunks of primary sources. What is there in the literature about the evolution of the party's platform? Has anybody compared and contrasted, say, the 2011 platform with the 1961 (defiantly segregationist, I suspect) platform, or the secessionist 1860 platform? --Orange Mike | Talk 22:16, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AfD not added to log

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outside Bozeman was not added to the AfD log.[1] I see you used Twinkle so I don't know what happened. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 November 4 had been created [2] but had no listings yet. Four days have passed so I suggest you add it to today's log. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:52, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback on StevensRE Talk Page

Thank you for your feedback on the StevensRE Talk page. I have created a new, individual account. I apologize as I was not aware of the group rule. Also, thank you for the pointer about the No Legal Threats policy - that was not at all my intention and I will be sensitive to how I word things moving forward. Quick follow up question - I had created a proposed section for an entry on the StevensRE userspace page for review because of COI and have a Request Edit tag for that change. Given the status of the StevensRE account, do I need to resubmit that COI edit request and post it to a new userspace page, or is it still OK as is for review? Thanks again for the assistance and feedback.QueenCity11 (talk) 04:17, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Jill Billings

Hi-I started an article about Jill Billings. She won a special election for the 95th Assembly District seat that Jennifer Shilling held prior to moving to the Wisconsin Senate. If you can make any improvements to the article this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you-RFD (talk) 12:46, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Better? --Orange Mike | Talk 14:55, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I'm an anti-deletionist who thinks the world is intelligent just the way it is. That pretty much makes us extremists on the opposite ends, action wise. Therefore I think your approach is intelligent and important. Please use the talk page on Nirvana, for me, your perfect opposite, for the next few days OK? Please? BTW, I hope to learn lots from you there (or here). Thank you. — CpiralCpiral 20:40, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's currently being discussed at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard#Nirvana. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:55, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

which public goods were sold to the koch bro?

have any US public assets been sold off in the past 3 years, if so to who, and were they somehow connected to whitehouse or "ruling party". Did you know blackwater aka xe is the state dept 3rd largest supplier, do you consider the current ruling party right? for-profit school operators, do you mean havard or yale? Darkstar1st (talk) 22:09, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Economics Department of Florida State University, for example.
Yes, the sell-offs continue quietly, to the highest bidder. Blackwater is still out there, did you think that was secret? The current ruling party is moderately conservative with a progressive veneer. By for-profit school operators, I mean Apollo, K12, Strayer, Corinthian, Kaplan, and all the voracious rest of 'em. (Oddly enough, my public schools taught me how to spell and to use capital letters.) --Orange Mike | Talk 22:32, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
what is your source for fsu selling the econ dept to koch? in fact the exact opposite of what you said is happening, the nationalization of private business like GM. i dont use capital letters because they are not needed, example, did my use of lower case letters confuse your comprehension of this post? you capitalize Mike in the font, but not in your username the mike is lowercase? Darkstar1st (talk) 23:09, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
do you think health care should be local, national or global? if global, should the people in the usa get by with a lower standard of health care and donate resources to countries with a far lower standard? Darkstar1st (talk) 23:18, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of tea for you!

Thank you for helping me with my user page. I typed up a few scant details about myself. I need to think about how I can improve that on page St. Boniface (Milwaukee). I'm inexperienced in Wikipedia so I'm not sure this is the best way to express my gratitude. - Citizn65 Citizn65 (talk) 01:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mike, I wonder if you saw the info you requested? I posted it user verifiability, and someone copied it to Talk, but I can't tell if it's in the right place because all the recent comments...the ones I can figure out anyway, don't seem to have seen anything at all. I was super specific as you suggested, but maybe didn't submit it in the right place ....If I need to post it differently, please let me know. Thanks. Juniper99 (talk) 09:22, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All that information needed to be posted to Talk:Elisa Gabrielli. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:35, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

HI, OK....it's there. thank you. Is that linked to my page so people who are assesssing see it? Anyway, thanks for your guidance in this matter. All the best, Juniper99 (talk) 16:45, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]