User talk:Kevin
If I posted on your talk page, I have it watched so you can reply there. It just makes for easier reading. Thanks.
|
|||||||
|
This page has archives. Sections older than 7 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III. |
Are you certain?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions#Kevin.40enwiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avraham (talk • contribs)
John Avlon marketing his book.
Hi,
So I noticed a sentence in the "radical center" wiki with no citation.
The definitive history of "Centrism" in America, and probably the best-selling radical centrist book to date[citation needed], is John Avlon's Independent Nation (2004, pbk. 2005).
I was unaware that sales figures were kept for "radical centrist" publications, so I did some searching for a top 10 list of radical centrists books by various years (2009, 2008, 2007 etc..). Unfortunately, I was unable to find such a list.
So, I removed the sentence. Then I went to John Avlon's wiki to remove the following sentence, which cites as its source the sentence in the "radical center" wiki that has no citation!
Independent Nation has been called, "the definitive history of 'Centrism' in America, and probably the best-selling radical centrist book to date."
Unfortunately, I'm a newbie so I can't change the page. I imagine there were some "angry" edits made in the past few months which is why the page is protected. Nevertheless, the above sentence strikes me as pure unsupported marketing which shouldn't have a place on a factual bio page.
Cheers!
POINTy behaviour
This is getting very close to the line of disrupting Wikipedia to make a point. Please don't do that, especially given that you're an admin. Prioryman (talk) 23:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
- THIS is "Pointy"? Now, if someone tried to run a gazillion "Wikipedia controversy" DYKs on the front page over a prolonged period of time, which may or may not be related to private commercial interests to the extent that THAT would be pointy. You've got it flipped.Volunteer Marek 23:14, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, it's pointy. Trying to run a DYK that is blatantly noncompliant with WP:BLP, as you yourself have pointed out, is very bad form. Prioryman (talk) 23:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
- Is there some part of it that is untrue? Kevin (talk) 00:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- The subject of the DYK hook is not a public figure and does not use that name on the English Wikipedia. If even Volunteer Marek can see the problems with it, you should be able to as well, and frankly I would expect you to given that you hold a sysop bit. Prioryman (talk) 00:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- If even Volunteer Marek can see the problems with it - Prioryman, cut out the personal attacks. I'm pretty sure I have a much better grasp of WP:BLP than you.Volunteer Marek 00:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- The subject of the DYK hook is not a public figure and does not use that name on the English Wikipedia. If even Volunteer Marek can see the problems with it, you should be able to as well, and frankly I would expect you to given that you hold a sysop bit. Prioryman (talk) 00:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- The article is in compliance with WP:BLP, which you are probably well aware of. It was the original proposed hook which ran afoul of WP:BLP. I fixed that. You could have, but didn't.Volunteer Marek 00:08, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- Is there some part of it that is untrue? Kevin (talk) 00:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, it's pointy. Trying to run a DYK that is blatantly noncompliant with WP:BLP, as you yourself have pointed out, is very bad form. Prioryman (talk) 23:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
- Who is this Prioryman and why is he so frenetically whinging? Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Prioryman may explain a little. — Hex (❝?!❞) 12:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- My user page says everything you need to know, and is certainly a lot more useful than the maunderings of off-wiki nutters. Prioryman (talk) 19:22, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know. There's some interesting stuff there on Google. I do think that if one obsesses over off-wiki nutters then some of the nuttery does tend to rub off. Kevin (talk) 22:13, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, quite. <looks meaningfully at Kevin's off-wiki forum membership> Prioryman (talk) 22:21, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know. There's some interesting stuff there on Google. I do think that if one obsesses over off-wiki nutters then some of the nuttery does tend to rub off. Kevin (talk) 22:13, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- My user page says everything you need to know, and is certainly a lot more useful than the maunderings of off-wiki nutters. Prioryman (talk) 19:22, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Prioryman may explain a little. — Hex (❝?!❞) 12:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
resurrecting an article
Hi Kevin.
I've recently learned a bit about the field of Core Energetics, and I'm excited to finally find a topic where I have some knowledge to give back to Wikipedia after all these years. So I'd like to resurrect and clean up this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Meco/sandbox
I've read the history of the page, but I'm unclear why you removed it.
What needs to be cleaned up, and what's the process for this?
Regards,
Harvest316 (talk) 06:09, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
I've never seen this article before, User:Jimfbleak moved it, you might ask him what the reason was. Kevin (talk) 22:19, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Block tags for Meco
I have put a block template on both the user page and talk page of Meco. (User contribution indicates that he has been blocked, which is unfortunate for the article about Jonas Gahr Støre since Meco contributed to the section about the conflict of interest parliamentary hearing in 2012.) --Ship owner symposium (talk) 10:30, 16 August 2013 (UTC)