User talk:Barry Wom/Archive 2

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Archive 1

Archive 2

Help needed

There is an abusive user constantly edit-warring on The Pandemic Special by inserting piped links to redirects. I’ve already got a complaint filed but I also need to stop my edit warring. Can you please review the edits and assist as needed? Thanks. - SanAnMan (talk) 12:23, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Done. Normally I'd report them for edit warring but I suspect in this case you might also get sanctioned. Let me know if I can be of further help. Barry Wom (talk) 12:43, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

If so it will be for fighting in what I believe is right. - SanAnMan (talk) 15:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024

Your recent editing history at South Park shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. QuestFour (talk) 14:53, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

I’m not a sockpuppet

Ok, I didn’t realize that the article I tried to create was originally created by a sockpuppet. Perfectcheck373 (talk) 15:45, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

I tried to submit it 3 times, but was rejected immediately and I’m desperately needed some advice on improving the article. Perfectcheck373 (talk) 15:45, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

RE: Argylle

I am disheartened to see the casting information removed. I can add citations if needed. It seemed self-explanatory that the actors were in both films by means of the link to the original Kingsman film. Starlighsky (talk) 13:14, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, they're playing different characters in Argylle. In any case, such information does not belong in the Cast section. Barry Wom (talk) 14:20, 1 September 2024 (UTC)—

They are actually characters with different names, even though they are the same actors in both films. I can add it to the Talk Section. Starlighsky (talk) 16:01, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

If you're talking about raising the subject at the article's Talk page, please do so. I can't see the purpose of pointing out that two of the actors played different characters in the previous film. Barry Wom (talk) 16:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Without going into too much detail, it was a clever implication that the villains in the 1st Kingsman were actually the protagonists in "Argylle". In "Argylle", the gait of the "Keeper of Secrets" in the castle-type of building went along with this implication...to explain would take more details from the films to explain. I can bring it up in the Talk page, because a published review may have noticed this. Starlighsky (talk) 17:20, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Supermansion/Robot Chicken connection

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SuperMansion&diff=prev&oldid=1243589563

I'd like you to look at the images from both shows, one at the top, the other in trivia. https://robotchicken.fandom.com/wiki/Holy_O's

Both shows have an identical box of Holy O's. Why do you say they're not related at all? 2600:4808:8852:7300:886E:3D6C:E1E8:8398 (talk) 06:05, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

The "Related" field in the infobox is solely for remakes, spin-offs, adaptations and such. Barry Wom (talk) 10:46, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Transformers Prime

This show isn't on Discovery Family anymore. Don't revert my edit again. Jonghyunchung (talk) 01:22, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

How many times have I told you: Stop reverting my edit on this page! Jonghyunchung (talk) 02:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Plot edit warring

If the edit warring resumes after the blocks expire, please report each IP block involved to WP:ANEW with sufficient examples for someone to make a longer term block. Also, please try to use more detailed edit summaries. Terse explanations like Rv plot creep are more likely to result in a repeated edit. While user talk page explanations definitely help, it's good to use both more detailed edit summaries and user talk page explanations, especially for repeated issues. Finally, please be more cautious about edit warring and WP:3RR. You don't need to be the only person reverting an subpar edit. Thanks. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 16:09, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Die Hard films worth

Re: your revert of the inflated worth. Actually, you can apply currency conversion. I took each film from their years of release, and then took a tally from that. Dollar amounts for Hollywood films (e.g. Gone With the Wind) get the nominal and inflated treatment on their respective pages, Die Hard should be no different. 184.166.97.71 (talk) 19:41, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

The Gone with the Wind article gives two inflation adjusted figures, both of which are attributed to reliable sources. You'll need to find a similar source for the Die Hard series. Barry Wom (talk) 08:44, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Genre bloat

You reverted some genre bloat(diff) and generously described it as a good faith edit. It wasn't a good faith edit, as the editor in question has been pushing his preferred version since at least 2021, per the talk page.

Thanks though for checking the bloat. -- 109.77.199.28 (talk) 22:24, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Duly noted. Barry Wom (talk) 10:43, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Wild Speed

I was surprised that you reverted my edit(diff)

• You yourself reverted a very similar change from the article for the first Fast and Furious film (diff) and I was surprised that you had not also reverted those same changes by that same anon IP across the rest of the franchise.
• English language Wikipedia film articles do not normally include foreign versions of the film title (the native name of the film is often included for non English language films but international translations of an American title are almost never included)
• The WP:LEAD section supposed to summarize not supplant what is already in the article body. There was no mention in the article body of the Japanese title and nothing to suggest that it was of any special importance.
• WP:TRIVIA I was unaware that the foreign title of this series was of any significance to English language audiences
• Also tangentially, it's weird that the lead section is using Amazon as a reference WP:RSPAMAZON, why is that even there?

The Japanese titles were added without any explanation but Special:Contributions/206.123.191.8 one anon IP and apparently without any discussion. Again the fact that the article body and Infobox do not even mention the Japanese title strongly suggests to me that it doesn't belong in the lead section. It seems strange to exclude the foreign title from the first film in the series but include it in any of the others, and to be consist with your change I do not think the foreign titles belong in any of them (not Chinese co-produced ones, or the Spanish co-produced films either).

Whatever needs to be done I think it should be consistent. -- 109.79.165.199 (talk) 16:05, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Also it seems someone else asked the same question almost a month ago Talk:Fast_&_Furious#These_films'_names_in_Japan -- 109.79.165.199 (talk) 16:07, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Per the edit summary, the film was a Japanese co-production, so it seems reasonable to include the Japanese title. Barry Wom (talk) 16:10, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

That one film happens to be a Japanese co-production but the others are not (eg Fast 7). Even if Fast 4 is exceptional, the inconsistency would remain a problem.

Reading the documentation, Template:Infobox_name_module (and ultimately WP:COMMONNAME) tell us again that the foreign titles should not be included: Infobox name module is used to add a film's original native title (along with the romanized equivalent if necessary) to the infobox on film articles in cases where the WP:COMMONNAME title of the film is different. It is NOT for adding general purpose translations to the infobox, even in cases where the film was a co-production between several different countries. Any title besides the original native copyrighted title should be removed.

WP:INFOBOXPURPOSE The Infobox itself is merely summarizing "the key facts that appear in an article."

I understand this was all added in good faith but I think the common practice of not including foreign titles has not been clearly enough explained in the documentation to avoid such problems happening.

TL:DR I think including the Japanese translated title fails WP:COMMONNAME. -- 109.79.165.199 (talk) 16:20, 5 November 2024 (UTC)