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November 2015

Thanks for the note. Lauren Lapkus challenged her fans to add comments similar to mine; just following along. Thanks for your input. --Gilley920 (talk) 04:20, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. Just remember in the future that edits like those aren't really for Wikipedia. There may be other websites where humor is appreciated, and of course there is always Uncyclopedia. Also, when adding to User Talk pages, please create a New Section with a Level 2 heading for your post, and of course sign your posts by typing ~~~~. In this case I've done it for you to keep my talk page consistent. Thanks for taking my feedback into account. --JQTriple7 (talk) 05:02, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Vishal Aditya Singh

Hello. I think you have confused another edit with mine. My sole contribution to the article in question was stub sorting. I don't see how that could be an NPOV issue. Nocowardsoulismine (talk) 11:55, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I apologise if I have legitimately made a mistake, but not yet realised it, but it appears to me that you wrote 'He is a dashing personality and the next superstar of Indian television', which does not seem encyclopedic to me. --JQTriple7 (talk) 12:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies. I have taken a closer look and realised that I have indeed made a mistake and noticed in the edit summary that the most recent edit removed that content, which existed in your edit, but was there even before that. Sincere apologies. --JQTriple7 (talk) 12:20, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Joshua Feuerstein

Just so you know, I am not Feuerstein, so this is not an autobiography. Everymorning (talk) 14:54, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There was another contributor to the article with the username Feuerstein, and obviously I got confused somehow, If you saw what he did to the article... Anyway, for some reason I must of thought that was all along and I couldn't rollback. Sorry about that. --JQTriple7 (talk) 20:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Free as a bird

hello from dragonas74, the variations on the 2015 remix of the beatles' "free as a bird" can be easily heard playing the 1+ dvd, and comparing the 2 excisting versions ( the 1995 remix and the recent one).Since George Harrison sings a different line on the 2015 remix, his vocal must have been edited from a different take ( he sings whatever happened to the LIFE that we once knew on the 1995 mix and the LOVE that we once knew on the 2015 mix).Thank u very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonas74 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing that out to me. However, that does seem to fall under the category of Original Research, which isn't allowed under WP:NOR. If you can find a reliable source online, then your edit can be accepted. Also, please post at the bottom of talk pages, under a new section, and sign your comments. I have done these things for you this time, but in the future please remember that. Thanks, --JQTriple7 (talk) 20:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Self-review

I noticed I was marked for review for creating XHXM-FM (I'm on a Mexican radio crusade). I have autopatrolled rights (I'm not purposely marking my own pages for review). Why did the page come up for new page patrol? Raymie (t • c) 07:15, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think of that. I was looking through the New Pages Feed and reviewing articles, And Page Curation marked it as Reviewed. Sorry about that! JQTriple7 (talk) 07:17, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the prompt response. I do have a high article creation volume (I have created several hundred stub articles on Mexican radio stations this year alone), so I do understand the potential concern. Raymie (t • c) 07:19, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

About List of the oldest living state leaders#Bias

Hello JQ,

I wanted to discuss some points about List of the oldest living state leaders-Bias. I am a fellow DRN volunteer and I came to the board after getting message about DRN. Please don't take anything i write as criticism. I actually appreciate the work you have done. I am only trying to help with ideas

  1. The main article is about world leaders per se. Not any type of leader. So believe the designation of Elizabeth should simply be the current or last title held. That's it.
  2. Anything mentioned on Wikipedia will have to comply with Biographies of living persons policy. Note that this mean that the article may have to be distilled down to the most neutral and verifiable version possible that avoids any controversy.
  3. More as a continuation of above, I think there is lot of original research - through personal opinions - happening for this article. I think, again as the information is about living person, the discussion should focus on only whats verifiable.

Hope this helps --Wikishagnik (talk) 08:32, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Calvin Cheng

Hi. The edits by Khairulash were reverted because they cited questionable sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Questionable_sources and self-published sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources Aricialam (talk) 14:42, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I see I am not the only user to notice that there has been repeated vandalism and edit warring on this article. I stand by my decision I made some time ago to revert your edits and place a warning on your talk page. In future, also please put new messages at the bottom of talk pages. Thanks, JQTriple7 talk 22:19, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
hi JQTRIPLE7, can I ask that you assist in helping improve this article. Aricialam has persistently made it very difficult for other editors to improve this article. I think it is obvious there is room for improvement and there have been many attempts to improve it in the past. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lampoon1983 (talk • contribs) 02:57, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Lampoon1983: I would be happy to help with this page, but unfortunately it has been fully protected for edit warring. I don't have the needed permissions to edit the article. If you can solve the dispute on the talk page, you can request for a decrease in protection level at Requests for Page Protection. JQTriple7 talk 06:05, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

the issue of Mitch

Hello sir. I saw you message and i admit, what i said wasnt nice and i wouldnt be suprised if you kept it as it was. However, everything i put down was true. He actualy did that, and i can think of no better way to descrie him other than evil. SO, in summery, i respect and understand you reasoning, and will not edit the page again, but i stand by the idea that eveything i typed was true. Thank you so much for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:281:C202:1440:919B:8433:2F3D:E42E (talk) 06:25, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, 2601:281:C202:1440:919B:8433:2F3D:E42E. Thanks for bringing this up with me here on my talk page. Thanks very much for agreeing not to edit like that again. Wikipedia does have a policy on Neutrality, particularly on Biographies of a Living Person. Also, any content added should be verifiable. Thanks for your understanding, JQTriple7 talk 05:15, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

the issue of Google Analytics

The whole privacy section is absolutely abysmal, and an embarrassment to Wikipedia. You cannot simply allude to the fact an article may or may not contain information relevant to the subject matter, the actual subject matter needs to be visible (excerpt, quote, etc.). I suggest you keep a citation needed, unless you want to go into that article and dig up what's relevant, because no one else will, and that is part of where Wikipedia fails. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.254.156.232 (talk) 06:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I reverted your edits not because they were invalid points, but because you put some form of comment in article space, which is visible to the public. You can put comments in <!-- --> in future. JQTriple7 talk 06:47, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Andragogy

Please do not include "learning styles" in this page. It is not tied to adult education by any of the chief theorists in that discipline and the individual learning styles that you included is empirically contraindicated, as a modicum of research in this field would reveal. Lev Lafayette (talk) 07:09, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You removed cited content without giving an explanation. Your reasoning may be valid, but please use an edit summary explaining your changes in future. Furthermore, it's not really any concern of mine what happens on that article, provided it isn't vandalism. You may like to discuss it on the talk page. JQTriple7 talk 07:14, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the heads up. I am doing this for a final project for college and essentially I only need it up until the 20th of this month (December). I did not know that an edit summary was something I need to do, I'm new to Wikipedia, but I've completely changed my section and I will add a summary with it. I have no intentions of offending anyone and making any assumptions, I'm just trying to complete the project and still remain neutral. If you have any concerns with my new section please let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pcampbell30 (talk • contribs) 07:20, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Just use an edit summary in future. Other than that, I don't have a problem with it. JQTriple7 talk 07:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Greitens

@JQTriple7: The sources that are being cited either do not backup what is being claimed or are very partisan sources. Of note is the IP Address of those making the changes, see Request for Protection for more information Chad.huber (talk) 07:01, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Ex parte Milligan

I have reverted your restoration of material that was removed by the user who put it there in the first place. The material had all kinds of problems and a discussion of sorts was started on the article's discussion page. If you really think the material should be restored, please make the case on the discussion page. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 18:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's irrelevant to me what you people want to do. I merely reverted what appeared to me to be vandalism using an external, off-wiki tool called Huggle. Due to the lack of context (it may not be practical to check the talk page every time) sometimes myself and other patrollers would revert what appears to be vandalism but isn't, JQTriple7 talk 20:56, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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Request for help on mediation board

Hello, we had an exchange a few months back regarding the "Mohammed" page (which has still not be resolved, but I've resigned that Wikipedia simply does not want it to be). there is another page which I have dedicated a lot of research to but is being challenged despite all the citations and sourcing. I'm requesting guidance from you to see if I have filed the request for mediation properly here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Italy I'd like to ensure this is "by the book" but as it is my first time doing so, I would like some assistance. thanks.Trinacrialucente (talk) 06:51, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

14:35:49, 3 February 2016 review of submission by Seedsforchange


Dear Reviewer,

Can you please tell me a little more about which parts are not written correctly. I am very sincere in wanting to do this correctly. Any more advice you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!Seedsforchange (talk) 14:37, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 15:01:11, 3 February 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Seedsforchange


Dear Reviewer, I request your help please. I want to make this article fit the wiki criteria and I hope you can give me more guidance on how my article sounds like an essay. I am not a technophile by any means--but I am sincere in my intent. Can you give me any example of what parts are not appropriate. I looked carefully at other foundation pages (like the Gates Foundation) and thought I was following a similar format. Please helpSeedsforchange (talk) 15:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC) Seedsforchange (talk) 15:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Response

My intention on Boeing 777 was to revert the edits of 2003:70:cf3d:bb01:cd2c:405d:1ab7:7f05. I guess I didn't see they were already reverted.Crboyer (talk) 10:14, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, that's all good. Nothing will come of it, it's gone now. :) JQTriple7 talk 10:15, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please help

Hi JQTriple7! Thank you for the opportunity that through the Teahouse I can write to you. I am very new here, I am working now on a 6 years old article that was not properly sourced, I am improving it, but I have almost no one who would help me a bit to control what I am doing. I found more than 40 new sources, I built them into the article, and now I am kindly asking you, would you take a glance to my work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Deme and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Zolt%C3%A1n_Deme My other problem is that this tag "Find sources: "Zoltán Deme" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images" proved to be useless for reaching the sources of the 1960-1980 decades, especially the sources of the past communist countries in East Europe where most of the libraries very poorly digitized. For example "Scholar" gives 1 citation, though just with 10 minutes research I got immediately 20 citations! [[1]] page 65 [[2]] p.2 [[3]] p.23 [[4]] p.1 [[5]] p.289 [[6]] p.5 [[7]] p.2 [[8]] p.353 [[9]] p.35 [[10]] p.1 [[11]] p.46 [[12]] p.75 [[13]] p.63 [[14]] p.84 [[15]] p.64 [[16]] p.1 [[17]] p.48 [[18]] p.317 [[19]] p.196 [[20]] p.101. (Plus I got many items, as "required reading" in the universities, like [[21]] p.1 [[22]] p.1 [[23]] p.48 [[24]] and so on). For other example, Books, Google Books gives 3 items, while this site (and others) show the pictures and data of more than 20 items! [[25]] [[26]] [[27]] This misleads almost everyone, presents the subject non-notable with only one citation and three books, thus, I had to go over this problem and collect printed material. Would you kindly investigate the refreshed article, is my work now sufficient? I saw your contributions and you seem to me an expert of Wikipedia works with erudition, would you please help me a little bit? If you would have any advice, any proposal, any suggestion please let me know. Sincerely yours, Norbert (a Hungarian). 89.133.187.29 (talk) 13:47, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Why do you threat to ban people who add cited sources to articles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CheeseMasterX (talk •

Social Justice page does not have "proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been published". The page is full of bias, and needs more criticism in the page. The whole page needs to revamped, and is super unclear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CheeseMasterX (talk • contribs) 08:54, 18 August 2016 (UTC) [reply]

@CheeseMasterX: - I mentioned on your talk page, I, and others, don't consider your edits to be properly neutral. They appear to be quite anti-social justice, and so is the source you link. If you would like some help with editing the article in a neutral manner, and working to resolve any issues with the article, feel free to talk to me. Thanks, JQTriple7 talk 09:04, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I added criticism under the criticism page of the article. It is neutrally written, but of course the criticism itself is of the author. How come criticism of the subject is not allowed? Don't be a social justice warrior and try to moderate opinions and information, especially if they criticize things close to your heart. This is wikipedia, not biased media. --CheeseMasterX (talk) 14:27, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@CheeseMasterX: I assure you it is not a subject I watch closely and I have no bias towards the matter. Furthermore, I absolutely do not identify as a 'SJW', as you say. At any rate, this is hardly relevant and I have only discovered your edits in passing while conducting RC patrols using Huggle. Criticism also has to be reported in a neutral and factual view, and made clear it is criticism that others have written, not yourself, and that it is not presented as facts or the truth. Thanks, JQTriple7 talk 23:05, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks Davey2010 for the Christmas wishes. Merry Christmas to you as well! Enjoy. JQTriple7 talk 22:28, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Request on 20:09:31, 24 October 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Harpwiki


Thank you for your advice concerning my submission of the Shelburne Historical Society page. I would like assistance on what type of sources you would consider reliable. SHS has been active since 1963 with countless documentation in published periodicals including hosting Arms alumni events and participation in events throughout Shelburne Falls. Would it be more reliable to list bibliographies from books or older documents and manuscripts than newer materials dating over the past year? We are in the final decade of surviving students from the last class at Arms Academy and it would mean a lot to those that remember the school to be able to access updated information of the original building and related materials, or knowing that the school archives are still accessible.

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