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So this is my talk page. I guess you can talk about me or whatever.

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Hallo, thanks for editing the Or disambiguation page. Unfortunately there's a rule that abbreviations etc only get included in disambiguation pages if they are used within the "target" article, the one the entry is leading to (in this case Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire). If you believe that the abbreviation "OR" is used for that game enough to be significant, please add that fact to the article first, and if this is accepted (leave it a couple of days in case anyone disagress with the addition), then that's the time to add it to the disambiguation page. Welcome to Wikipedia, and Happy Editing! PamD 14:25, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, PamD! Benjamin (talk) 15:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Editing talk comments at Bromance Deletion

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Sorry about that, my bad, thanks, SPACKlick. Benjamin (talk) 16:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Students for Rand (January 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:
This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Robert McClenon (talk) 16:39, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Disruptive Edits

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Accidental vandalism

Don't worry, we've all done it, one way or another!  :) ~ P-123 (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Seedr

Hello Benjaminikuta,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Seedr for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Vinod 10:19, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Students for Rand concern

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June 2016

Information icon Hello, I'm MartinZ02. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Liberalism, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. MartinZ02 (talk) 03:45, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

I saw that your userpage says that you are in Riverside.

I am writing to invite you to WikiConference North America in San Diego in early October. I think this is about two hours from you. Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:13, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributions are appreciated. You are very welcome here. However, I have encountered possible copyright violation(s). Some or all of the content you added in recent edits to Talk:Basal metabolic rate and User:Benjaminikuta/todo appears to have been copy pasted from this source and has been removed.

Please remember that you must write in your own words. We cannot copy and paste from other websites. If I have made an error, please accept my apologies.

For further information, please read Wikipedia:Copyright violations. If you have questions, please ask. Best wishes, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:17, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Woah, you completely deleted my userpage?

Could you at least let me make a copy of it before you delete it forever?
Anna Frodesiak
Benjamin (talk) 20:33, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. I just noticed that. I've restored the non-copyvio parts. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:35, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Frodesiak

Thanks.

What did you delete, exactly?

It looks quite a bit different than I remember now... = /

Benjamin (talk) 20:39, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the paragraph that was copypasted from https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-people/
I will check to see if I deleted anything else. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I double checked. I just removed the paragraph "One study[1] noted that one standard.......range of 150-270kcal depending on brand." Everything else remains.
Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anna Frodesiak

Thanks.

I'm still a little bit upset that the edit history is gone though...

If you would have just told me, I would have gladly removed the offending portion...

Benjamin (talk) 20:49, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the whole page was a copyvio. When that happens in userspace, admins usually prefer deletion rather that reversion. Anyhow, no worries. The offending text is now gone. Happy editing. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:54, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Images needing articles

I thought you might be interested in starting one of these articles:

Please let me know if you need any help. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:40, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Frodesiak

Thanks, I added them to my to do list. : )

Benjamin (talk) 20:50, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your refdesk post

It was removed repeatedly. There are several members of the community who consider it trolling or inappropriate. Please, find another place to ask such questions. I am not judging you or the post. I am simply saying that part of the community does not wish it there. That means such a post is disruptive.

Also, what sort of due diligence did you do prior to the post? Did you search lots and lots of academic sites first to find an answer elsewhere?

Please, for the sake of the community, please just edit constructively in the mainspace and forget about asking such questions at the refdesk. We can write an article together if you like. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:23, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Frodesiak
Thank you for your reply.
What about the question is bad, the wording, or the subject matter, or something else?
Benjamin (talk) 07:07, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]


I do not know exactly, but I know they do not like it. Also, the refdesk is a magnet for trolling posts, so posts such as yours are suspect. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:11, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see why I should be removed, if I follow the guidelines.
If I ought to be removed when I'm following the guidelines, perhaps the guidelines should be changed?
Benjamin (talk) 07:14, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There are also guidelines that say editing disruptively is not permitted.
You have made 135 edits to the mainspace and now wish to see guidelines changed so you can post about the size of "assholes" and "vaginas" after such posts were removed by numerous members of the community.
Are you here to help build the encyclopedia or not? If you are, I suggest you start building. Please drop this. It is a waste of keystrokes and my patience is nearing an end. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:20, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't trying to be disruptive. Why was my question disruptive? I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean to suggest that the guidelines should be changed in my favor, but rather, that they should reflect what the community would consider acceptable. If talking about vaginas should be off limits for the reference desk, then it should be stated, so that I know not to ask such questions in the first place.
Benjamin (talk) 07:41, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anna Frodesiak I read the page on disruptive editing, and I don't see how my edits were disruptive. Benjamin (talk) 08:03, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That IP is not me. Thank you for your help rewording my question. Benjamin (talk) 09:15, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If it's not you, then you get the idea about what sort of people usually make that kind of post. Ian.thomson (talk) 09:24, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sex articles

Okay, I checked your userpage and contribs. Hmmmm, male, teenager, a fair number of edits related to sex. Okay, nothing wrong with that. So, why not use that interest constructively. Consider joining:

Post at the talk pages there with something like:

"...Hi. I am interested in starting an article to do with sex. Please suggest one that is notable and has lots of references out there, preferably a list article..."

Why a list article? Those often get really good hits. I started List of sandwiches years ago and it gets around 350,000 hits a year. Imagine a really good sex article you wrote read by that many people. Nice.

Do you know about WP:DYK? Your article can hit the front page and get thousands of hits. Even better is to make an article that gets thousands of hits a month and educates people for decades. Think about it. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:32, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Indent your posts

QUICK TIP

Indent your posts with colons, like this:

I like bunnies.
:Me too.
::So, we both like bunnies?
:::Yep. Looks that way.
::::Pretty stupid conversaton.
:::::Yep.

Did I tell you I'm left handed?
:No kidding? Me too. :)

I like kittens.
:Me too.
::So, we both like kittens.

etc. etc.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:12, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Students for Rand

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January 2017

Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Fat acceptance movement. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Medical information must be referenced with sources adhering to WP:MEDRS. Your edits (restoring an IP editor) do not. EvergreenFir (talk) 20:08, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:EvergreenFir, I posted to the talk page, but you didn't respond. Why do you think the sources are unreliable? They are used on a couple different articles. Please help me make my edits better, rather than just reverting me. Benjamin (talk) 20:52, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I missed your comment on the article talk page. That was my fault. The issue is that medical statements require a different level of source. WP:MEDRS explains it, but maybe someone like Doc James can explain it a bit better. EvergreenFir (talk) 21:16, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Replied here[1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:49, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your help desk questions

You have a response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[2] This one too.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:25, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, quite a while ago... thanks. Benjamin (talk) 01:13, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Click on the green link to find out why it took so long.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:24, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, sorry, reworded it. Benjamin (talk) 03:36, 31 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

unblock

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Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. I'm using hotel wifi now, but I thought that by being logged into my account, it would prevent this sort of thing? No worries, switching to cellular data now, but it's just a bit inconvenient. Benjamin (talk) 07:38, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Without knowing your IP, there is no real way to help you here. I would recommend asking at WP:UTRS in order to keep your IP private. SQLQuery me! 03:19, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Just curious, how is this hotel's wifi different than any other public wifi? Benjamin (talk) 03:50, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Without knowing the IP, I have no way of knowing for sure. As above... SQLQuery me! 03:56, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Students for Rand

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Trouted

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE Benjamin (talk) 07:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Islam

I saw your post on the Islam article being biased

I posted material on the talk page for discussion and it immediately got deleted.

This was about the (Redacted)71.174.130.111 (talk) 17:06, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly has this got to do with my edits? Benjamin (talk) 18:09, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Your comment (Redacted)} 71.174.134.22 (talk) 01:01, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That was not my comment. Benjamin (talk) 01:03, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This seems to be you. (cur | prev) 16:33, 12 December 2017‎ Benjaminikuta (talk | contribs)‎ . . (19,657 bytes) (+183)‎ . . (→‎Not objective article promotes the view of mohammedans) (undo)71.174.134.22 (talk) 01:35, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You should be able to easily see which comments are mine, as I sign my comments. My only two comments in that discussion are "Source?" and "This is not a forum for general discussion about Islam. All content must be sourced." I don't particularly care about the particulars of Islamic theology, for what it's worth. Benjamin (talk) 02:56, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The article talk page doesn't seem to be a good place either as my pointing out the failing in the article was immediately deleted. You pointed out (in your signoff) that the article looked biased so I came here. As for not having any interest in Muslim theology, perhaps you should learn. This article is a good start https://www.rt.com/news/378635-sinkhole-grave-iraq-mass/
Your signoff states "Not objective article promotes the view of (Redacted)
Since you don't seem to want to be bothered I won't be back.71.174.134.22 (talk) 06:43, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Those are not my words, but it's added to the edit summary automatically because it's the title of the section. It's good that you linked to a news article. If you want to edit the Wikipedia article based on that information, you might be able to. Best wishes. Benjamin (talk) 06:47, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

LGBTQ acronym

Hello. An additional source I found on the LGBTQ acronym was in the Washington Post. Maybe it could be useful for you as well as the encylopedia source i originally found. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:54, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Benjamin (talk) 04:02, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Resource Request:Santa Cruz County In-Queery

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Curious if you had some input on the poverty discussion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_common_misconceptions — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squatch347 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message. I appreciate your contributions. I'm currently busy irl, but let me know in a couple days if you'd like me to comment further. Benjamin (talk) 00:05, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It seems the conversation has stalled a bit. Perhaps I'm biased, but I really feel this section should be reverted to the last consensus point. I feel our newest contributor wants to make the entry into a huge discussion about poverty nuances rather than addressing the simple misconception. I'm probably reading into it, but I'm also worried that this particular correction has some baggage for many people, so they have a harder time accepting a correction. Squatch347 (talk) 11:26, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. Thanks for the message, and thanks for participating in the discussion. Yes, as I've said, I think it should be kept short and to the point. It should focus on the misconception itself, because that's the subject of this article. The controversy should be mentioned when it falls within the scope of the other articles. And yes, it is obvious that people have a hard time accepting it because of the political implications. Benjamin (talk) 00:30, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Copying within Wikipedia

Please review Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

When you copy-paste content from one article to another, as you did a number of times on List of common misconceptions: [3][4][5][6][7][8], it violates the basic attribution rules of Wikipedia. You have to at least link back to the diff you got the content from. However, List of common misconceptions is written in a terse style different from most articles, and so it doesn't work well to copy-paste entire paragraphs anyway. Entries need to be much shorter, and so you should rewrite it in the briefest possible way, avoiding copyright problems and bloating the list.

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Thanks. Benjamin (talk) 23:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Economic inequality

Hi Benjaminikuta, why don't you help me clean up Economic inequality. Here are two links: WP:SPLIT and WP:SUMMARY. I split the page because it was about 5x the recommended size. Now, I think doing a nice summary style would be helpful. I say over the next month maybe we can clean it up. Seahawk01 (talk) 06:35, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

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Category:Wikipedians who wish Jytdog would come back has been nominated for discussion

Category:Wikipedians who wish Jytdog would come back, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 20:32, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a WP:POINT Legacypac (talk) 20:50, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Happy holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Benjaminikuta, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019.
Happy editing,
Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 21:35, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Thanks! Benjamin (talk) 22:04, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
  • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
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Thank for the holiday greetings.

I hope you had a good holiday and hopefully break! Squatch347 (talk) 14:52, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I hope you get broken too. = P Benjamin (talk) 20:17, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN.

  1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
  2. Then click on "templates",
  3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
  4. If the article is available in Pubmed Central, you have to add the pmc parameter manually -- click on "show additional fields" in the template and you will see the "pmc" field. Please add just the number and don't include "PMC".

We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:19, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Trouted

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: MY BIRTHDAY IS NOTABLE 198.105.83.50 (talk) 14:50, 15 January 2019 (UTC) Sincerely, Chanel[reply]

Thanks for the trout. Are you open to constructive criticism? Benjamin (talk) 15:06, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Suspension

Thanks for the kind note. It was rather discouraging at first. After all, it seems clearly to have been started by an editor who is attempting to suppress dissenting opinion on an AFD page for Tabiti. When reviewed in depth a lot of the accusations were nonsensical and the similarities not in style, but in substance (which other editors had also agreed with). I did get a great response from the Admin who initially reviewed it and he seems to have come around to my point of view. I'd like to get him to update the post to a no finding, but the guy is pretty swamped with work so it will probably be slow.

It is discouraging that we have so many editors who really want to own a page and will take any effort necessary to get other editors removed who disagree with them. Squatch347 (talk) 17:37, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Best wishes. Benjamin (talk) 17:48, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

hh... hey... :-)))

Thanks for telling me
I literally just started wikipedia... I'm not even sure if this is how I should contact you... Thanks for the info. I added sources. Ephraim Cullen (talk) 05:58, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to Wikipedia! You may contact me in this way. Please, do so, if you have any questions. I hope you will become a Wikipedia editor like the rest of us! I would like to help you! Benjamin (talk) 06:15, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

added Enterprisey • JJMC89
readded BorgQueen
removed Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes

removedEnterprisey

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
  • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.
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February 2019

Information icon Please do not add or change content, as you did at Soybean, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please review WP:MEDRS for sourcing on medical topics. Zefr (talk) 04:18, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Sorry, I didn't notice right away that you had reverted me. I'll reply on the talk page. Benjamin (talk)

Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Soybean. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Please stop trying to add this; your source is not useful in the prostate cancer section. Zefr (talk) 20:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

My edit is sourced. Please discuss on the talk page, not here. Benjamin (talk) 20:47, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sex differences in human physiology

Hi, please see my comment on the talk page of that article before considering any reversion of my last edit. Thank you. Oska (talk) 21:28, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the... thanks

Hey! Shortly after I made my recent edit to List of common misconceptions, I received a notification that you thanked me for the edit! That has never happened to me before. So, thank you for thanking me! And you're welcome. I've heard that misconception about Curiosity several times, so I figured it would be good to have on the list. That page is one of the best and most important on Wikipedia, in my opinion. --ϟᴇɴsᴏʀꜰɪʀᴇ (✎|‽) 00:59, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you continue to contribute. (^.^) Benjamin (talk) 01:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Musk/Grimes

I don't know if this is the right way to respond, but here I am.

I didn't navigate the talk page for Elon Musk, I usually don't look at them as they can be at times hard to navigate and sometimes unhelpful (at least in my limited experiences). I only saw that both his article and Grimes' article said they were dating under their "Personal Life" sections with nothing noting their separation, as had been done for any other relationship. When I searched for sources about an ending of their relationship, I didn't find any. I was just trying to make the page consistent with itself so readers would not get confused.

If you or anyone else thinks my edit is misleading/uninformed, you have my permission to remove it. I didn't mean to mislead anyone. My apologies if anyone thought this was improper. Thanks for the heads up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbeier (talk • contribs) 23:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you taking the time to edit. If you happen across a source that says they're still dating, feel free to add it. Benjamin (talk) 23:39, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 February 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

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Congratulations

Best Wikipedia profile so far in 2019
This image made me laugh, thank you for that. Apollon1779 (talk) 12:56, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! (^.^) Your kind words mean a lot to me. This is also the first award I've ever received. Benjamin (talk) 23:09, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Did you make an account just to give this to me? Benjamin (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

March 2019

Information icon Please do not add or change content, as you did at Milk, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please don't use primary sources from unreliable journals to edit medical content. Review WP:MEDRS for the quality of sources needed to discuss foods and cancer. Zefr (talk) 16:09, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I cited a literature review, which is not a primary source. Benjamin (talk) 16:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
  • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
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Trouted

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Reverting my edit on antidepressants. Sorry to delete your edit, but that particular study you posted is not relevant to the STAR*D trial section you posted it under. Additionally, on medical pages we prefer to summaries the existing state of evidence than just cite and explain individual studies. While we may sometimes cite and explain individual studies, this is the exception rather than the rule. I know that the page on antidepressants does this often (which may help to explain why it lost it's good article status), but I'm trying to clean things up. Therefor I'm going to revert the change. Thanks-- Wikiman2718 (talk) 23:04, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You removed quite a bit of content. I'll post on the talk page. Benjamin (talk) 23:28, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, looks like it's been restored already. Ping me on the talk page if you'd like to discuss it further. Benjamin (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

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Marx and Labor Theory

Hey, I made a change to the wording of your last addition. Can you let me know if it makes sense? Happy to talk it through (though I'm off for the weekend) Squatch347 (talk) 14:01, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's all good! Benjamin (talk) 14:23, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

UC Irvine edit-a-thon on May 17, 2019

UC Irvine edit-a-thon on May 17, 2019

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

You are cordially invited to an edit-a-thon this Friday in Orange County, focused on gender equity. The event is a collaboration between UCI and Women in Red.

Friday, May 17, 2019
10:00 am – 4:00 pm PDT (UTC-7)
Langson Library, Room 228, at University of California, Irvine

Points of contact:

For more details, including the registration link, please see the meetup page. Everyone is welcome! We hope to see you there.

--Rosiestep (talk) 00:36, 14 May 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012
The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons
Links for participation

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue.

Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos.

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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Merger discussion for Doom loop

An article that you have been involved in editing—Doom loop—has been proposed for merging with Economic collapse. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. — Newslinger talk 05:29, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

removed Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

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Curt Doolittle listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Curt Doolittle. Since you had some involvement with the Curt Doolittle redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. signed, Rosguill talk 18:58, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Poem

A banned editor was upset with me deleting the work he'd done under his sock accounts, so he filed for the poem's deletion; I don't know how valid his arguments really were, but one chooses one's battles, and at least this way the poem is still easily accessible. DS (talk) 12:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. That is unfortunate. Thanks for the reply. Benjamin (talk) 19:59, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sum of all knowledge

Hi Benjaminikuta, I read this comment you made a while ago: I am constantly distressed and disappointed to see "sum of all knowledge" interpreted in an increasingly narrow sense. If you want to understand why this happens, I recommend this long(!) read: The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. --Ondertitel (talk) 22:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ondertitel: Thank you for this. I really appreciate you taking the time to write me a message. Benjamin (talk) 00:18, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

RE:

Replied on Jimbo's page. Promethean (talk) 08:43, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! By the way, you can ping me. Benjamin (talk) 08:49, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hah. Yeah... Honestly, I only came back from an extremely long wiki break (Since about 2010) and so there's all these new features that I'm not in the routine of using! Promethean (talk) 08:51, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Floq

Benjamin, your question in itself is probably appropriate. But since Floq is not really in the mood, this probably makes your question inappropriate. Anyone resigning their tools must be quite devastated and shaken in their will to contribute to the project. This is one thing Floq posted in the drama over the incident that started by me: I don't believe you are uninvolved either; that didn't stop you from making a draconian block. I am just so demoralized and disillusioned; I give up. This is absolutely the wrong time for you to ask such a thing - it doesn't really matter at all. starship.paint (talk) 07:16, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Benjamin (talk) 07:27, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The June 2019 Signpost is out!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

removed 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

  • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

Technical news

  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

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Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

  • Partnerships
  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
Read the full newsletter

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Your draft article, Draft:Dr. Wen Chen

Hello, Benjaminikuta. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Dr. Wen Chen".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 07:49, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How unfortunate. Don't you have better things to do than go around deleting drafts that aren't causing anyone any harm? Benjamin (talk) 07:50, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 July 2019

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Southern California Wiknic & Bonfire invitation

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@Squatch347: Go ahead and try. 75.191.40.148 (talk) 14:38, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Squatch347: Thanks for the message. I certainly share your frustration. However, as someone who has been assused of trolling myself, I'm particularly sympathetic to those faced with such accusations. Also, a good rule of thumb is that WP:CESSPIT should be avoided at all costs. I doubt the IP would warrant a ban, anyway. Let's just keep editing, assuming good faith even if it's hard, and don't get too caught up in arguments. It's okay to stop replying after you've made your point, and that doesn't mean you've conceded. Benjamin (talk) 23:18, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I forgot about that. What was it? It's kinda frustrating that I can't even see what it was now, so I don't even know if it's worth restoring. Benjamin (talk) 01:23, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Cloudflare in DDoS mitigation

Revert me back if you disagree with my point, you seem well-intentioned. However, I still don't think we should start listing companies there. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 23:02, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on article talk. Thanks for assuming good faith, by the way. I really appreciate it. Benjamin (talk) 23:54, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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@Kirbanzo: Could you not? Benjamin (talk) 03:39, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Champion moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Ed Champion, does not have enough content and citations as written to remain published. It needs more content and citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Schazjmd (talk) 23:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Schazjmd: Is the subject notable? Benjamin (talk) 02:04, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well, he isn't clearly not-notable, which is why I moved it to draft rather than suggest it for deletion. I didn't dig through all of the sources that you put on the Talk page, so I don't really know whether the coverage is due to a single event (WP:BLP1E) or more general. Schazjmd (talk) 13:38, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Schazjmd: It would be a real shame to go through the trouble of writing the article only for it to be deleted. Would you have a look? Benjamin (talk) 19:56, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If we discount the Gould controversy, I don't find much on him. A paragraph in a New York Times article: (The site Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant also bears down on The New York Times Book Review and its editor, Sam Tanenhaus. Each week the site posts The Sam Tanenhaus Brownie Watch. It is an act of counting. It compares, among other things, the number of pages devoted to fiction versus nonfiction and the number of women assigned to review nonfiction, promising that if there are enough fiction pages or enough women Mr. Tanenhaus will be sent a brownie. Otherwise, the brownie will be denied.[1] A parenthetical mention in a journal article: (A similar literary pilgrimage-the project of New York City blogger Ed Champion, who planned to walk from Brooklyn to San Francisco while writing essays-was recently canceled after its Indiegogo campaign failed to meet its fund-raising goal.)[2] And his blog is quoted in a Guardian article about Mailer's death (the article is entirely quotes from various blogs about Mailer's death).[3] (I couldn't link to any of those because I access them through my library's database proxy.)
He (or at least his blog) is notable enough to be mentioned in major news sources. But none of it is really significant coverage. Without better non-Gould coverage, and with him being a blogger and thus people suspecting promotional motivation, my gut feeling is that an article on him probably wouldn't be kept if someone nominated it for deletion. I'm not an AFD expert though. Schazjmd (talk) 23:40, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Benjamin (talk) 23:56, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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  2. ^ Neill, Carrie (Aug 2013). "The Poetry Pilgrim Presses On". Poets & Writers. 41 (4).
  3. ^ Crown, Sarah (17 Nov 2007). "Review: From the blogs". The Guardian.

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You made a draft page. It hasn’t been edited in six months so it has been deleted. ~riley (talk) 22:20, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@~riley: Yes, I know, but why did I make the page? What were the contents? Who edited it, and why? Benjamin (talk) 22:22, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You made the page, no one else edited it. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you why you made it... Contents were minimal, I believe one sentence or less. ~riley (talk) 23:27, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
How odd... I'm curious now, what did it say? Benjamin (talk) 23:29, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Alabama Department of Revenue

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I am a firm believer in the principle of actually adding content to an article before publishing it. You seem to have created a string of empty articles, and I doubt if any of these regional offices is actally notable. As for the category, words fail me.TheLongTone (talk) 16:33, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Arizona Department of Revenue

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Speedy deletion nomination of Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration

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@TheLongTone: Thanks for redirecting and leaving the page history intact, rather than outright deleting. Benjamin (talk) 23:32, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The thanks are misplaced, some other well intentioned soul is responsible.(I am generally well intentioned, but rather curmudgeonly)TheLongTone (talk) 14:02, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ost316: Thanks for redirecting and leaving the page history intact, rather than outright deleting. Benjamin (talk) 23:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I saw your comment on Monetary policy article and I agree with you - an expert should elaborate on the impact of the political aspects on monetary policies. I know there is a huge impact, but I am not the one to write about it. What should we do? --Factspro (talk) 12:48, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"The Economist, page 14" is not the proper way to cite a reference, especially for a controversial statement such as the one you added, about the lockdown being criticised. If the web version of the article isn't available, at least the article title is important. Please also see WP:CITE. Thanks. SerChevalerie (talk) 03:26, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"While you should try to write citations correctly, what matters most is that you provide enough information to identify the source. Others will improve the formatting if needed." With the date and page number, I did include enough information to identify the source. Also, that's just a guideline, whereas WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM is policy. If you would like to help, I would greatly appreciate it, but simply reverting is not helpful. If you think the the source is unreliable, or the mention is undue, feel free to open a discussion on the article talk page. I'm not particularly interested in squabbling over the details of citation formatting. Benjamin (talk) 04:06, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Have found the online version of the article and added it to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India § Reception, but have removed it from the main article on the pandemic (considering WP:SUMMARY and WP:DUE). Best regards, SerChevalerie (talk) 05:20, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the help! I notice that section doesn't include any negative perspective at all, so I think it would be reasonable to include something, if perhaps not that. Benjamin (talk) 05:57, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Corbyn talk page - Malign

Hi Benjamin,

It is not clear why you added this. Talk page guidelines are: 'Talk pages are for discussing the article, not for general conversation about the article's subject... Keep discussions focused on how to improve the article.' WP:TALK#TOPIC. You should include an explicit statement about whether you are making a suggestion or question or comment about the article, or just providing background information. If the latter, it is not particularly helpful as it is just an anonymous opinion and is behind a paywall. Thanks. Jontel (talk) 05:34, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am suggesting the article incorporate the information. If you assume I'm competent and acting in good faith, then I would think that would be implied. Benjamin (talk) 06:04, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for coming back. Not necessarily, as some people share material on talk pages as background information or, as another editor assumed, to prompt discussion of the topic, which is not allowed. Most people will simply add material to the article directly, particularly if they are competent. You are quite entitled to make the suggestion in the Talk page instead, but you can see that it will save you time to be explicit about your purpose in future. Hope this is helpful. Jontel (talk) 19:44, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
By competent I mean aware of that rule. I thought it appropriate to post to the talk page first because it's a BLP and I expected it to be controversial, but I would be perfectly happy to just go ahead and make the edit if you support that. Benjamin (talk) 21:59, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It's all about communication and persuading other editors. Whether you post it to the talk page first, and I understand your reason for doing so, or add it directly to the article, it is better to give reasons. As an edit to the article, that would of course be in the edit summary. As an addition to the talk page, you could say e.g.: 'I am thinking of adding this to (state section) of the article because (state reason). What do you think?' That just makes it easy for everyone, who vary a lot. Jontel (talk) 04:44, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello there. I've checked the pages of recent Economist issues that you've been referencing, and haven't been able to verify the material. In future, you need to provide a full citation, including an article title, but could you perhaps shed some light on why I can't find any mention of migration from Africa to Europe on page 6 of the 28 March issue, for instance? Cordless Larry (talk) 19:26, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I am suggesting the content be added to the article. Benjamin (talk) 02:02, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, former mod of /r/meanwhileonwikipedia here. Hope you're doing fine.

A BLP article (ends with a fancy name; not linking it here for now because they could find out through "what links here", searches and so on - hint: my previous edit on a timeline) is the center of a Reddit thread you linked in your user page. Even though the Redditor had passed away IMO, the deletionists he feared seems to at it again. This time they want to "trim" or rewriting it so badly perhaps putting it at another risk of AfD. If you can figure out the name of the article then you can go into its talk space to see what's going on.

Unclear of their intentions, maybe Russia or Chinese influence operation at play given the situation today. Modus operandi could be whitewashing, historical denialism or so on. Either way they had gamed all processes with the sole defending editor banned through "no proxies policy".

Can't believe they'll stop at that. If you want them to be kept in check and Wikipedia stays verdant, the time is now. Best way is to assemble some cabal, play dirty on them so much they'll simply back off. Unless it happens, cloak and dagger secrecy can be best in prevent geting foiled. Good nite. 84.54.13.148 (talk) 04:26, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Trouted

Whack!

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Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

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Could you do me a favour?

Hi Benjamin, I've timed pressing edit on LOCM and being able to type and it takes 17 seconds. Which seems crazy, and is on top of the 7 seconds it take for the page to load. My computer is pretty good but I don't want to wade into the discussion making this point if my computer/experience is very unusual. Could you do the same and share it here? It should take at most 17 seconds of your time. Thankyou, Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 00:20, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About two seconds, on an almost ten year old laptop. Benjamin (talk) 04:03, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thankyou so much. I have no idea why this is so bad on my computer, confined to this particular page. Honestly so glad I asked you here before posting. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 08:26, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, I am generally sympathetic to concerns about older devices, I just think the bigger problem is that the Wikipedia website itself won't even connect to really old browsers. Don't let anyone invalidate your lived experience. Benjamin (talk) 20:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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