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Anyone with Lexis/Nexis access?

Since I started editing Wikipedia in 2006, I'd been mulling writing an article about the company that invented all those delta-shaped "bat" kites I enjoyed flying as a child. Finally, last October I got started on Draft:Gayla Industries and kinda got stuck, so the draft just sits there. I made some minor changes today.

Gayla is an old, established company that sells worldwide, and I'm sure most Wikipedia editors would be familiar with their products. If you see a keel-guided delta kite, it's likely made by Gayla. I find it difficult to believe it isn't notable.

The problem is, the company doesn't make the news, at least not online. I expect the pre-internet print media had some significant coverage. I just can't find anything nowadays, except things like blogs that shouldn't be cited.

When I was in college (before Wikipedia), I had a Lexis/Nexis account, and I was thrilled to be able to search all manner of print media. I'm wondering if any significant coverage would turn up if someone who has access would try a search for "Gayla Industries" or "Gayla kites". ~Anachronist (talk) 00:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Anachronist: I took a look at Nexis and, to be honest, I didn't find much that I wold consider "significant". To give you an idea, this was one of the better search results: "Kite festival planned Sunday", The Record, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, June 11, 1994: "Either bring your own kites, or decorate a free kite. About 300 free kits from Gayla Kites will be given away, said Ed Hummel of the Optimist club." There's a couple of stories about Gayla licensing some IP property, two from 1997 about the self-sealing aircraft fuel tanks they also apparently make (or made), some participation in industry conferences, etc. Nothing really. Sorry. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 03:21, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. Too bad. A long-standing venerable company with highly familiar products, that nevertheless slips under the radar of the print media. I was hoping there would at least be a trade magazine or hobby magazine with a review.

I wonder what to do with the draft? I think it wouldn't qualify for WP:A7 speedy deletion, but probably wouldn't survive AFD without more sources. I guess just let it expire. I even wrote to the company a few months ago asking for examples of coverage, but got no acknowledgment. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:03, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Max Holloway

Hey guy's, Max isn't dead! https://www.google.com/search?q=Max+Holloway&oq=Max+Holloway&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Please revise! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:C9A0:4F00:8C89:287:2EC4:595C (talk) 19:35, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for pointing this out. But on Wikipedia a previous vandalism has already been fixed in Max Holloway. The (probably cached) information displayed by Google in a separate application is Google's responsibility to fix, but you can report such errors with the "Feedback" link under the short Google biography. GermanJoe (talk) 20:33, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New logo

{ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_and_Napier } Hello, new to Wiki and noticed that the Partners + Napier company page has an old logo. Would like to respectfully work through an editor and follow proper process to have this updated. Here is link to the website where new logo can be found. http://www.partnersandnapier.com/ Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreggDinino (talk • contribs) 19:40, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GreggDinino: I have uploaded File:Partners and Napier logo.svg and added it to Partners and Napier. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nakula Samanta Sinhara

What do you do if on a article that is non well-written at all and is possibly actually completely made up, the author won't stop removing the maintenance templates?--SkyGazer 512 ^{talk / contributions / subpages} 17:52, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Garnaik won't stop removing the maintenance templates, despite several warnings on their talk page. Is reverting the removal of maintenance templates when it's very obvious that they're needed an exception to the 3RR?--SkyGazer 512 ^{talk / contributions / subpages} 18:03, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ow, that's a mess. I cleaned it up a bit - now we need to see if there's any merit to the article. JohnInDC (talk) 18:56, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Addition to one of your city descriptions

I hope this works, this is confusing, don't know if this is where I need to say this but here goes. I read most of what you have written on Minneapolis, the city in which I have resided in for over thirty years. There is one big omission that I think deserves to be added in the media section. It is the inclusion of The Circle newspaper; this newspaper is the oldest Native American newspaper in the country and it is housed right here in South Minneapolis. You can look it up on the internet but it has won numerous awards and has always been printed here. I hope you can add it to the media names and companies that publish or practice here in Minneapolis. It is important and shows the diversity of this community and the fact that the twin cities houses one of the largest Native American populations in the country. Thank you. Ruth Denny — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zbdenny (talk • contribs) 18:52, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Zbdenny: the best place to discuss this will be Talk:Minneapolis. Maproom (talk) 06:55, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A removal of a post i made

On the wiki page for THE MONKEY KING 3...in the receptions section...a reference to a western criticism made to the chinese movie was made indicating that western identity ideology should be made on a chinese film as a fair and responsible criticism...i posted ..."Western gender identity politics is not part and party to chinese philosophical ideology, therefore,it is unfair to judge chinese silverscreen artwork by western ideology. It should be further noted that not all western citizenry agrees with western identity political ideology. The "Variety" criticism concerning western identity political ideology lacking in the chinese film should be directed at western movie goers who partake in western identity political ideology."

Fact...THE MONKEY KING 3 is a chinese film

Fact...vanitey criticism using western idenitiy politics on an obvious chinese film IS unfair

Fact....my post respectfully stated facts....1...identity politics IS a western ideology...2...it IS unfair to make judgements on chinese movies using western ideology...3...it IS a fact that not all in the western world agree with identity politics....4...removing my post of opposing views that was made respectfully is a blatant act of free speech suppression....and is exactly why facebook founder and twitter are in hot water with congress...

I respectfully request my post be placed back in its place and "vermont" be reprimanded

Thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luvvvbug (talk • contribs) 02:33, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. Wikipedia is not a venue for your semi-literate analysis and garbled personal opinions. If reliable sources (Chinese or otherwise) have made such criticisms, then properly-sourced references to such critiques would be appropriate. But Wikipedia is not a venue for original research. --Orange Mike | Talk 03:31, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Death Battle weird un-redirect followed by self-revert behavior

Death Battle (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I'm coming across a rather strange editing behavior on Death Battle. Every few weeks, a user is undoing the redirect on Death Battle, which restores an old copy of the article prior to AFD, and then self-reverts within a minute or two. Because it's every few weeks, it's not enough to spring AIV on them, or not frequent enough to ask for RFPP. This results in the redirect being placed in the New Pages Feed every time. I've placed a user warning on their talk page to stop that, but are there any suggestions in case the person continues to do this? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 02:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@AngusWOOF: The page history shows they don't restore a former version exactly. Each time they update it, e.g. [1], before reverting to the redirect. I don't know the purpose but maybe they would be OK with working on a userspace copy instead. It would certainly be easier. If it continues then I would simply ask them why they do it and mention the userspace option. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:00, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure whether these paragraphs on Tituba are too essay-like?

Hello!

So last year I removed some pretty large parts of the Tituba page because they were written completely like an essay. Just now I noticed a notification that someone just reverted my edits because More public history is better than a lack of information, this revert was done by Jconnollycepurac. I went back and looked at the edits for the page and they were also the person that wrote most of the essay-like paragraphs that I removed. I honestly don't know enough about wikipedia guidelines to know whether they are right or not. For now I've put a tag on the page, but I do honestly believe those paragraphs are not suited for wikipedia. Could someone more experienced with the guidelines take a look at them and advice on further steps? Is just putting the tag on it enough for now or should (parts of) it be removed?

Thanks a lot. Romeowth (talk) 10:37, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Romeowth, I'm inclined to agree with you. The sentence "One of the beauties of history is its ability to be virtually applicable to future events and explains how our society is what it is today" tells me nothing at all about the subject of the article; and the rest of the added material is little better. But the right place to discuss it is Talk:Tituba. Maproom (talk) 18:53, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Right, thanks! The thing is that I'm unsure as to whether anyone even checks that talk page as it's not a frequently visited article, I didn't get any reply to my earlier comment on the talk page. So that's why I wondered whether I could actually get an external editor to look at it. Romeowth (talk) 21:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

contacting a contributor

I'm a novice at this, so excuse what is probably a simple question. I'm trying to contact someone who has contributed to an article. How do I do that? Thanks.Researchguy (talk) 22:09, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Researchguy: The usual way of doing it is to post a comment on their user talk page. It will be at User talk:Theirusername. For example, if you were trying to contact me, you'd leave me a message at User talk:Seraphimblade. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 22:14, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Again, to be daft, I can get to his User talk page easily--but how do I post a question? I see nothing about contact or post, or anything.Researchguy (talk) 23:29, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Researchguy, click the new section button at the top of the page (or click here, put in the "subject/headline" slot the title of your post (it doesn't really matter that much), and then in the box below that what you actually want to tell the user.--SkyGazer 512 ^{talk / contributions / subpages} 23:35, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just do the exact same thing you did to start a new conversation here. Start a new section at the bottom of that talk page and put your comments in it. There's nothing special about it, it's done the exact same way. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 00:06, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks!Researchguy (talk) 00:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]