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User talk:Hoary/Archive31Global accountHi Hoary! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with {{ping|DerHexer}}. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm just forwarding this server issue to people in charge. After merging your local accounts, I can easily usurp the nlwiki account as it has no visible edits. The itwiki account can be merged with your global account as its single only edit refers to your enwiki account, a developer will insert your email address so that you can request a new passwort. Once the account merge tool will be available by approximately late January 2015, stewards could easily even merge your both accounts. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:32, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
From my quick investigation it looks like you're running into phab:T78727. Legoktm (talk) 23:22, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Odd BLPPerhaps an admin should look at this: Shina Animashaun, supposedly a 21-year old "philanthropist" founds a school in London. Trouble is that one of the sources shows his name at attending some school (OK?), the other two discuss the founding of the school but do not mention his name. So I reckon this as zero evidence, and PROD it. The IP has come back and removed the PROD... ? Imaginatorium (talk) 06:56, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
ThanksThose edits were getting annoying. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:53, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Suspect vandalismSee this diff [1] -- the user just got warned for vandalism. I know nothing about this band etc etc etc, but seems to me there's a high probability this is also vandalism. I don't have time or patience to investigate: should I (1) revert anyway (2) revert and put note on talk page or (3) something else. Grateful for suggestions. Imaginatorium (talk) 15:23, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Redlinked photographersWell, I was going to settle in this evening with my mathematical bibliographies, but then I found this. Yeah, we could stand having an article on Gianni Berengo Gardin. Thanks for the to-do list. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 04:13, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Initial notes are here: User talk:Lesser Cartographies/sandbox/Gianni Berengo Gardin. Can you wrangle a couple of photographs into commons? Or tell me how to deal with the copyright issues? Thanks, Lesser Cartographies (talk) 05:09, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer to the example of a fair use rationale. That's exactly what I needed. And many thanks for the kind words. I didn't have any expectation that you'd be helping out, but I'd be more than happy to have any time and expertise you can spare. I'm going to be hitting a couple of good university research libraries over the next week and will hopefully be able to add some material that google missed. I'm afraid, though, that nearly all of the useful material is going to be in Italian, which I do not read. Still, let's run with it and see what happens. I like the idea of generating the bibliography and I am competent to manually scrape worldcat to get most of them. Let's get as close to 250 as we can into the proto-article and then discuss whether we should break out a separate bibliography article once the main article goes live. I don't have much of a clue as to how to verify individual exhibitions, so if you're looking for a place to dive in I'll leave that to you. (I expect the books will be referring to exhibitions and exhibitions will be referring to books, so I'm not expecting this to be silo'd efforts.) Looking forward to collaborating with you. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 07:23, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
<grin> One of my ongoing projects is a bibliography of Paul Erdos. His main published bibliography listed 1525 publications. I managed to dig up ~300 more. I'm now reconciling the published bibliography with what I was able to dig out of Zentralblatt MATH and Mathematical Reviews. When I took a break I was trying to figure out how to write a BibTeX to UTF8 translator in Lua. (Did you know that wikimedia's software can't deal with 1500 {{cite journal}} templates? I didn't either...) So yeah, 250 books is a walk in the park.... 250 books shouldn't be in the biographical article, but a bibliographical article on him would make a nice featured list..... Lesser Cartographies (talk) 08:27, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
I ♥ "baronial". Commence walkies. (I go back and forth between having the BibTeX bibliography entries live in Module Space and translating them as they're rendered, or doing the translation once on my laptop and cut 'n' pasting the results. Having a lua lexer/parser in mediawiki means that lots of other people can start using BibTeX in articles. Writing the damn thing in python on my laptop means that I can start using it much, much sooner. But since there's this new shiny toy over here, I'll put off that decision a little longer.) Side note: tomorrow is going to be mostly grant-writing and powerpoint-barfing, Monday is travel, and Tuesday is presenting + looting Powell's bookstore in Portland. Walkies may be delayed until Wednesday evening. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 09:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm at UOregon and have pretty much struck out—only five books in the stacks. What's the bibliographical book that you found? Lesser Cartographies (talk) 22:33, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Il libro dei libri is $50 on Amazon. I'll check Powell's in Portland tomorrow and if they don't have it I'll go ahead and order it. (Worldcat shows a copy at Stanford, but that's a ways away from my stomping grounds. Nice catch, btw! Lesser Cartographies (talk) 00:19, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Note to self: probably a good idea to make a record of books consulted that were not useful as well as the ones that were. Should be at Powell's in a few hours, and now I'll be browsing their references works as well as GBG's own. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 14:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Struck out on the Portland trip. One page in one book in Powell's, and the book had no copyright page and worldcat doesn't know about it. Nothing in the city library or the Portland Museum library. Deeply strange.... In other news, I prefer using the {{cite book}} template; if this makes you break out in a rash, we can talk. There's also several competing efforts around the idea of regularizing identification, and I think the French National library had collected the several ways GBG was identified in these several systems. I know nothing at all about how enWP deals with this, but once I track down the link again I'll copy the data over and we can discuss. And now, sadly, back to grant writing.... Lesser Cartographies (talk) 18:09, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm happy to report that {{illm}} now works to at least a limited degree:
For the moment I'm going to use them in the bibliography, with the understanding that they're a tool and not a religious commitment. Feel free to continue to add entries in non-template formats. (That illm thing is pretty cool. So is authority control, which is another new discovery this evening. Good times.) Lesser Cartographies (talk) 07:40, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
What is the difference between a slur and a phrase mark?Well, I think this is a slur -- you said: "Japanese units of mass/weight [these would have been used by people unaware of the distinction between the two concepts]". No, I don't think you have any evidence that Basil Hall Chamberlain for one, me for another, and lots of other sensible people do not understand the difference between mass and weight. I got an A (I hope I remember correctly) in A-level applied maths, which involves doing all sorts of calculations with the weight of an object as a force acting on it, and with the mass of the object making the F=ma equation work to give you the right answer. But when making a cake, I check the weight of the ingredients. For ordinary purposes, unless you are going to the moon, weight and mass are interchangeable, and it is customary to talk of "Weights and measures". There seems to be a recent trend towards believing that if children are taught to say 'mass' instead of 'weight' this will somehow make the world better. I don't believe it. (Interestingly, most modern weighing devices do indeed measure weight, not mass, don't they?) Sorry, this is an irrelevance really, the important thing is, um, the, um, I've quite forgotten where I was, and I am still not sure if there is any difference between a slur and a phrase mark. Imaginatorium (talk) 11:43, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
The statmhoI also got an 'A' in physics, but these various schemes for cgs units just make my head spin. Could you be a dearie, and look in your Cardarelli for what he says, exactly, about statmho. I think this might be a verifiable bit of "bogus precision", which would be useful. Imaginatorium (talk) 15:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Time for a moveIf it's just me working on an article, keeping the talk page for source material and the article page for drafts might work, but I think that's proving unworkable for collaboration. I've moved the article to Draft:Gianni Berengo Gardin, which will give us a talk page. See you there! Lesser Cartographies (talk) 18:12, 17 January 2015 (UTC) You are just running rings around me....I may be reduced to cheerleading at the GBG article. Ummm.... Go! Go! Go! (Nice work. Really.) Lesser Cartographies (talk) 18:25, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
ReplyI found that article to comply with Wikipedia policy so I bypassed the salt. Lets make it clear that I am within my rights to do what I'm doing. You are not the sole administrator that decides who is worthy of contribution. I hope that you will realize that Wikipedia continued success depends on independent editors such as my self. AFC is NOT a admin only task, you may put policy around your script, but not around the task itself. If you have a issue with that I suggest you seek the creation of a new usergroup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lynctekrua (talk • contribs) 08:56, 25 January 2015 (UTC) AAVEI wasn't sure I entirely believed him anyway. By the way, I was going to duplicate the footnote found at ebonics (word) into the AAVE lede that states "For linguists' reasons for this avoidance, see for example Green (2000:7–8)." Is that a typo on the date or are we missing a reference? — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 05:26, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
IkedaTwo questions, please, re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisaku_Ikeda Hi Hoary, Thank you very much for all your help. Regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisaku_Ikeda 1) I had made this edit: According to <ref name=murata />, Toda admitted to hitting the priest "once or twice"'; this accusation is disputed and there is no record of any charges filed against Toda. Ikeda later referred to the incident as an "act of kindness" because "the old priest, made to realize his apostasy, was grateful to Toda and Soka Gakkai and died a happy man."<ref name=murata /> Shortly thereafter, catflap08 reverted this to its previous text, Ikeda, who admitted to hitting the priest "once or twice" later referred to the incident as an "act of kindness" because "the old priest, made to realize his apostasy, was grateful to Toda and Soka Gakkai and died a happy man."<ref name=murata /> a) Text of Murata reads, "Toda [not Ikeda] admitted hitting the priest 'twice' [p. 96] ..." That is, my edit accurately reflected the text of Murata. Hence the my history comment "Update Ogasawara section to match Murata pp. 96-97" b) Indisputably, this accusation is disputed, as seen on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Daisaku_Ikeda c) Is this a better edit for this section (given that Murata names Toda, not Ikeda, in the text)? According to <ref name=murata />, Toda admitted to hitting the priest "once or twice"'; this accusation is disputed and there does not seem to be a record of any charges filed against Toda. Ikeda later referred to the incident as an "act of kindness" because "the old priest, made to realize his apostasy, was grateful to Toda and Soka Gakkai and died a happy man."<ref name=murata /> [that is, this edit uses the neutral language "there does not seem to be a record of any charges" rather than "there is no record"] 2) I had inserted a fairly lengthy quotation from Rosa Parks, "American Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks chose as her favorite photo one of her meeting with Ikeda in 1993. She explained that “This photograph is about the future and I can’t think of a more important moment in my life. ..." Catflap08 removed the entire quotation, referencing "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Puffery" Does that stylistic guideline mean that none of the published quotation from Mrs. Parks in Kismaric, Carole and Heiferman, Marvin. "Talking Pictures: People Speak about the Photographs that Speak to Them." San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. ISBN 0-08118-0382 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum-1) is usable in the article? Thank you very much for your guidance on these questions. Starrynuit (talk) 00:11, 31 January 2015 (UTC) 2015.02.05 Greetings again, Thank you very much for your followup on my questions. I do hope all goes very well. Please help me understand the best way to proceed with the repeated misquoting of Murata ([1]) As indicated in my previous communication, text of Murata reads, "Toda admitted hitting the priest 'twice' [p. 96] ..." Today, catflap08 added a reference to the article: Google Books (http://books.google.ca/books?id=x8QKAAAAYAAJ) http://books.google.ca/books?id=x8QKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96&img=1&pgis=1&dq=admitted+hitting&sig=ACfU3U3GLP8B07Kd_i38YEDfKjxJ61cWzw&edge=0 That Google Books link indeed reads "Toda admitted hitting the priest 'twice' ..." Montgomery ([2]: 187 ) states "What happens [after Toda encountered Ogasawara] is not clear. According to Ikeda, Toda reasoned calmly with Ogasawara, demanding an apology, while the old man 'drooled at the mouth' and 'howled like a rabid dog.' But Murata claims that Toda told him in an interview that he struck the priest 'twice' ([Murata, p.] 96)." Why then does the article itself read '"Ikeda, who admitted to hitting the priest "once or twice"' while referencing this same page from Murata, which clearly has "Toda" rather than "Ikeda"? By the way, Ikeda, in The Human Revolution, vol. 6, [3]: 710 from which much of Montgomery's account of this incident seems to be derived, states that Ogasawara himself kicked Toda twice. Why does the article itself read "Ikeda and Toda headed a group of 4,000 men" when Murata (p. 96) and Montgomery (p. 186) both state that Toda headed the group. Murata p. 96 states that Toda led the group and then says on p. 97 that Ikeda led the group; that is, Murata seems to contradict himself on this point. Thank you so much for your guidance on these questions. Starrynuit (talk) 19:44, 5 February 2015 (UTC) P.S. Ikeda, in The Human Revolution, vol. 6, pages 710-711, writes that Toda never struck Ogasawara; in fact, Toda said "Stop! Don't hurt him. This vile fellow is not worth beating. Leave him alone." after Ogasawara kicked Toda the first time. After Ogasawara kicked him the second time, Toda left the room and then warned the youth division leader Seki, '"Don't harm Kasahara [Ogasawara.], Seki."' Thank you very much again. Starrynuit (talk) 20:03, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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As requested
The de-sysopping, topic banning and relegation to the seventh circle of hell will have to be done by someone else unfortunatley as i left the keys to those doors at work. Amortias (T)(C) 01:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Раціональне анархістI have checked that he had misrepresented one of your comment before as WP:NPA. Now I am currently having a problem with him, he continues to WP:REFACTOR my comments from his talk page after misrepresenting them as WP:NPA.[2][3] OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 11:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC) The band is getting back together!Nothing reunites Wiki editors quite like the raging COI of a single-purpose editor's article being AfD'd. :D Mbinebri talk ← 15:08, 23 February 2015 (UTC) User:Catflap08Hi! I have recently (read: over the past 9 months) been having a problem with this user, and recently I requested he get TBANned from the Kenji Miyazawa article. This was opposed by User:John Carter who seemed convinced that I was involved in some stalled DRN discussion with Catflap and was forum-shopping by bringing the dispute to ANI. Ironic since one of my complaints about Catflap was that he was forum-shopping. I have just now been doing a bit of digging (didn't have to go far: edits to the ANI archives are almost always problematic) and found out that actually forum-shopping of that exact kind had been done, and you were the target of it. I'm curious if you have any hints on how to put up with this guy? He's stopped editing Wikipedia over the last two days, but I'm certain he'll be back (my current dispute with him started when he came back after six months to violate a by-then old consensus, after having already done the same previously). It's pretty bloody frustrating. The guy clearly knows nothing whatsoever about the subject except that he is (peripherally?) aware of his religious views, and it's becoming a pain dealing with him. Any advice? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Bernard Cheong pictures/photoHi Horay, uploading pictures, seem too much selection, am worry my friend Bernard Cheong pictures/photo is been downloaded and misuse can you at least guide me how to do it or what to write when uploading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zane Loke (talk • contribs) 04:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Sir ClaudeThanks for the moustache. I guess it could've been worse. -- BenRG (talk) 06:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
You are strangeRemoving cited work to support your own POV is vandalism. And why are you trolling me? Or are you a sockpuppet of Yopie? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.117.249.253 (talk) 06:23, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
New Yopie stalkerI noticed you had blocked an IP that was stalking Yopie, I believe I have stumbled upon another one. I will let you take it from here. --Kansas Bear (talk) 06:53, 2 May 2015 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for May 5Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Ian Davies (photographer), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page The Face. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:38, 5 May 2015 (UTC) SinghThe behavioural signs - running round issuing warnings, blanking them on their own page, malformed appeals to EW, language style etc - are that the new-ish contributor to the Singh fashion designer article is another sock of the original promoter, whose name is scattered all over the talk page. However, that is three years ago and so I'm not bothering with SPI. I'll just deal with it as if they are indeed new here. Thanks for stepping in. - Sitush (talk) 12:06, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank youThank you for the help with IP stalker/troll. I really don't know, what to do with him, because he is not communicating, explaining etc.--Yopie (talk) 22:52, 11 May 2015 (UTC) Hello. May I as ask your clarification and guidance for the future articles like this. You've removed the speedy deletion tag, while it's clearly visible that the person is not significant at all, without any notable sources. As your wrote by yourself - "yes another blogger". So, why not speedy remove and how should I act in the future, when I see article like this. Thank you in advance Arthistorian1977 (talk) 12:27, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Container categoriesI know it's a few years ago, but I'm wondering what your reason was for changing[5] Category:History of photography to a container category. Why should that category not have articles directly in it? DexDor (talk) 06:28, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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thoughts re Comprised ofMore questions/ideas/suggestions! I don't have access to the contents of S Pinker's book "The Sense of Style" so must ask: do you know whether Pinker actually wrote that "comprised of" is among (what he calls) "fuss-budget decrees" or does he only use the 50 states thing to indirectly point to "comprised of"? What I'm getting at is, can we simplify that sentence "...lists purists' avoidance of comprised of among "a few fuss-budget decrees..."? I just find that clause with the 50 states thing (perhaps unnecessarily?) complicates things.
[list of Trollope, Mailer, etc quotes, followed by] In a 2011 survey, only 32 percent of the writers and editors on the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary found “comprised of” unacceptable.[35]
I'd be interested to know what you think of my Pullum additions. I realize that the one in the Pinker paragraph kind of throws the flow of that section off a bit but without larger-scale restructuring I'm not sure how to fix that. --TyrS 12:14, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
As I haven't seen you......near articles for Indian academic institutions of late, I thought you'd be interested in all the departments that use File:Gautam Buddha University logo.jpg to bring out that masochistic side of you. —SpacemanSpiff 11:56, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
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David GodmanAny thoughts on David Godman and my comment at the related talk page? The guy seems to be a hagiographer for the sect and I'm toying with sending it to AfD. - Sitush (talk) 17:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Rajkumar KanagasingamSome time ago you participated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rajkumar Kanagasingam. As the article has recently been recreated, and nominated again for deletion, you are invited to participate in the new discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rajkumar Kanagasingam (2nd nomination). —Psychonaut (talk) 10:48, 24 October 2015 (UTC) Check your inbox It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:44, 28 October 2015 (UTC) Problem IPAdvice/help needed: I just undid the remaining edits by 181.143.225.98 over the space of 2-3 months, all but one obvious vandalism. Can this be blocked? Imaginatorium (talk) 15:10, 11 November 2015 (UTC) DuaxThe article that is the subject of this AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Duax) has been enhanced substantially since you weighed in. If you have a moment to take a second look at Robert Duax, that would be appreciated. Cbl62 (talk) 23:44, 11 November 2015 (UTC) Hi, Gary Stretch articleHello I read your article on Gary Stretch and was surprised when it said that he knocked Eubank down twice and that the stoppage in rd 6 was controversial. I then watched the fight on Youtube. Eubank wasn't knocked down at all. He did slip twice in rd 2 and in rd 3 but both were clear slips and not called as knock downs. Also the stoppage was not controversial as Stretch was knocked down twice (once through the ropes) and was in bad shape when the ref stopped it. I don't think the existing description of the fight is accurate. ..... added at 14:47, 25 January by User:2016 196.215.80.244
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vmakris (talk • contribs) 22:57, 30 May 2016 (UTC) [citation needed]hi I am Vassilis Makris I try to help you on [citation needed] in this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassilis_Makris He has been a member of... http://etekt.gr/ειδικοτητα/φωτογράφος-σκηνής/ http://www.foebus.gr/showuser.asp?userid=518 In June 2015 he participated in the 4-day "Light Up the Night" event... http://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2015/06/incarnation-photography-exhibition-by-vassilis-makris/ In May 2016 he mounted the "Damni i colori...The making of" exhibition http://www.snfcc.org/visitors-center/events/2016/05/events201605dammi-i-colori…the-making-of31-05-2016/ From 2005 to 2010, he taught various courses on the principles of architectural and industrial photography at the Leica Academy... http://www.leica-academy.gr/index.php/en Contact person: mrs. Konstantina Margalia - e-mail : info@leica-academy.gr Between 2010 and 2012, he was a member of the editorial team... ask here: http://www.protagon.gr http://www.protagon.gr/poioi-eimaste thank you in advance Vmakris
Sock?You might want to check this thread --Epipelagic (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
See this edit where I converted the 'Retitling?' thread into a formal move discussion. Hope this is agreeable to you. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 19:23, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC) HelloHi, My English not so well, but I will try to say. here I think something isn't right. --TonJ (talk) 09:17, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
07:02:59, 23 February 2017 review of submission by Ducati-2007
Thanks for your inputs, will get back with more updates and reliable references Dear Hoary please give your feedback on the actual page. Bearing in mind we shall provide a few official critics later in a month or two. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducati-2007 (talk • contribs) 08:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Ok Hoary :) Thanks for your feedback, will keep editing and updating it and soon will get reviews but promise: you will hear enough about it independently :) Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducati-2007 (talk • contribs) 11:59, 28 February 2017 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Kikai-india.jpg Thanks for uploading File:Kikai-india.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:45, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Kikai-meiro.jpgThanks for uploading File:Kikai-meiro.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:46, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Kikai-outati.jpgThanks for uploading File:Kikai-outati.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:46, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Rock Revolt MagazineThis article was not part of AFC, so should not have been deleted as an AFC draft. Please restore the draft. Thank you, Unscintillating (talk) 13:28, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
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Request for helpHoary, I see that that you and I have crossed paths - in a nice way - in the past. I am trying to resolve a dispute regarding the Ellis Paul article and am hoping you will lend support on the Talk:Ellis Paul page by offering a Third Party Opinion. In a nutshell, another editor removed a sound sample box that has been part of the article for 10 years. I would like to have a consensus to be able to add the sound sample back. I would appreciate your support. Thank you for your time and consideration.Kmzundel (talk) 12:48, 3 April 2017 (UTC) HelloI'm Michael Recanati son that article is mostly made up and and rest half truth there is much personal information about living people that Is private. I want help in a complete rewrite Flamingoflorida (talk) 07:11, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Probal Rashid: notable or not?I would like your advice about a photojournalist bio, Probal Rashid, that has been on my radar for a while as needing either improvement or deletion. I've been impressed with your insights on other photographer bios, so would appreciate any guidance you have time to give. It cites one feature article about him in an independent reliable source, which is a good start, but not normally enough to pass WP:GNG. My searches found one other reliable source with significant coverage, although in the form of an interview, so not independent to the extent that it's him talking about him.[8] His work has been widely published, but that's the job of a photojournalist. I'm not sure whether there's a point at which that becomes evidence that he's regarded as an important figure or his work has become a significant monument. I couldn't find any books of/on his work. He has participated in about 20 group exhibitions, but no solo exhibitions.[9] I'm unsure how to weigh the importance of solo/group exhibitions in this field. Eleven of his works are in the collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, which is another good start, but WP:CREATIVE calls for "several notable galleries or museums". There's a long list of awards, but of the nine that cite a source, the gold and first prizes are in lesser-known contests (Asian Press Photo Contest (APPC), Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) and LightRocket Asia-Pacific Photojournalism Contest) while the awards in the notable contests (National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards, and Pictures of the Year International) are honorable mentions or awards of excellence. So what do you think, would the encyclopedia be better off if I tried to clean this up, or if I took it to AfD? Thanks, --Worldbruce (talk) 05:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
Do you remember this guy at all? Maybe you can help"Franz Lidz" from 2010. On his talk page you were involved in trying to clear it up back then. No problem if you've forgotten. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Promotional_behavior_by_OPamuk1967b — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pastoes777 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
My name is Franz Lidz. For the last 40 years I have worked as a professional journalist. I spent 27 of those years as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. For the the last five, I have been a columnist for Smithsonian magazine. I am also -- concurrently -- Vice President of Communications of the Detroit Pistons, an NBA franchise owned by Palace Sports & Entertainment. All of these inarguable facts can easily be verified in the External Links section of my Wikipedia page. (For instance, the Sports Illustrated resource search opens to my current bio, which is scrupulously maintained by my longtime employer: https://www.si.com/vault-authors/franz-lidz I’m still a contributor to that magazine). Similarly, the Smithsonian magazine resource search has catalogued my columns - sometimes with additional biographical material - since my hiring in 2012. Both full-time jobs have long been listed on my Wikipedia page.That is, until yesterday, when an editor changed one job title from columnist to "published magazine article writer” and the other to “former vice president.” I should note here that I rarely pay much attention to my page unless a Wikipedia user alerts me to mischief by other users. But yesterday was different. Yesterday morning a college professor sent me a distressing email about what he termed "vandalism and trolling" on the Talk page of my entry. At the time, I wasn't exactly sure where the Talk page was, but when found it, I was horrified. Copy had been mangled, misinformation inserted and aspersions cast on my character and integrity. For reasons I can only guess at, over the last few days one editor implied that I lied at a reading I gave before several hundred people, and that if I hadn't, I should have. (In a subsequent post, he frantically walked back this theory, but the damage had already been done and his biases baldly revealed). In another exchange, the professor mentioned that he teaches my oeuvre in his classes, prompting another editor to snark, "I look forward to the invitation I am sure will be coming from you shortly to look over your course material and help you improve it." (Emphasis mine. In the magazine world, we call this "open contempt" for a subject - not the sort of neutral attitude WP encourages in its editors, is it?) By tacking a couple of demeaning templates onto the first page of the entry, that same editor implicated me, my family, close friends and a onetime Bloomsbury U.S.A.publishing flak in a vast conspiracy to insert my name into pretty much every Wikipedia story ever written. OK, I may be overstating things, but the notion of any conspiracy between me and people close to me (let alone "paid" by me) is as insulting as it is preposterous. (I have no idea who's responsible for the pranks, but pinning the blame on a dead Bloomsbury publicist is probably the wrong way to go). BTW, Bloomsbury delisted the book in question in 2011, at which point the paperback rights were sold to Penguin, which doesn't plan to market it the anniversary of the event, in 2024. Tell me - Why would Bloomsbury care? These Wiki shenanigans - and the egregious behavior of the editors behind them -- both anger and disgust me. Normally, I’d just shrug it off as “kids will be kids.” But Wikipedia editors are alleged to be adults. The Talk page fantasizing and the finger-pointing templates that blanket both pages of my entry are inappropriate, unprofessional, malicious and, in the opinion of PS&E counsel, potentially libelous. And because the pages are on public display, they impugn my professional reputation. According to Talk page guidelines, personal attacks and insults are not allowed (Editor Ken violates this rule repeatedly). Which is why I have been advised to request that the entire entry - including the Talk page -- be "blanked" and replaced by clean, untainted copy. I realize that under normal circumstances, Wikipedia articles should not be blanked. But these aren't normal circumstances. Wikipedia's bylaws state that it is acceptable to blank an article for libel or privacy reasons as an emergency measure, as described in the policy on biographies of living persons. Your rulebook also notes that "completed deletion discussions (or other discussions) may be blanked for reasons of privacy or courtesy to individuals. Which suits me fine. I'd love to put all this behind me and give the page a fresh start. In other words, I'm asking for a common courtesy. I look forward to your response. FL
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accepting articlesI think you do understand what I'm trying to do, and I want to thank you for your careful analysis. As recently as 3 or 4 years ago, before the problem of promotional editing became so overwhelming, I would also have endorsed your conclusion. DGG ( talk ) 05:34, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Sock of Judebob123Vikze340 looks like a sock of Judebob123 that you blocked. Only reason I'm not blocking yet is because the account was created before the block which could mean it is unrelated but shares the same POV or that it was created in anticipation of the block. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 10:08, 2 December 2017 (UTC) ArbCom 2017 election voter messageHello, Hoary. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) |
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