User talk:S Marshall/Archive7
Bastille DayI noticed your message on WP:NODRAMA mentioning that you intend to work on translating some articles from fr-wiki. Just FYI, if you think there are any that you can have well-referenced and stuff by July 14, we could probably ram some through DYK quickly for Bastille Day. rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 01:59, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
RfC on merger of Bristol Indymedia with Independent Media CenterUser:Simon Dodd has requested comment on the proposed merger. You are being informed as you participated in the recent AfD discussion. Discussion at Talk:Bristol Indymedia Jezhotwells (talk) 08:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC) QuestionI think we watchlist a number of common pages and I had a question about your edit summaries. Whenever I see an edit of yours on my watchlist it is like Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion (diff; hist) . . (+3) . . S Marshall (talk | contribs | block) (Fix) [rollback] now most of the time when I see an edit it is like Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion (diff; hist) . . (+341) . . Gonzonoir (talk | contribs | block) (→The Claret Run: Doesn't look in the least bit notable to me) [rollback] this is useful because the little arrow before "The Claret Run" is a link to the exact thread he was commenting in. I was wondering if you had maybe turned off your automatic edit summaries somehow, since it is a bit hard to follow things when I don't know what is the last active thread on a page. Best. MBisanz talk 13:04, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
The Golden BoughA good and thought-provoking question you gave at RfA (Tedder) I thought.Peter Damian (talk) 20:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Consensus continued....I haven't forgotten our discussion - I was just busy refereeing a fiddly and fraught dispute. I think we are actually broadly in agreement provided that comments can be discounted based on valid commentary by others within the debate so "Delete: article makes me think about cheese" can be ignored provided "But that argument falls foul of WP:CHEESE stating that Wikipedia articles should induce cheese-based ponderances" also appears. I think, however, that we would still fall down on the concept of "validity", because the admin's judgement call would involve making a judgement to discard one opinion over another. On another, related topic: do you think an admin should read an article in advance of closing its AfD? This was a discussion I was having the other week, and I don't think we should in general, as it would encourage us to come to an opinion... Fritzpoll (talk) 08:57, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi S marshall, I am going to direct you to the talk page of the article in question where I have posed a concern about the direction in which the article is going. My main concern is that the use of extensive quotes is problematic. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 10:57, 17 July 2009 (UTC). WP:NODRAMA reminderThanks for signing up for the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Wikipedia stands to benefit from the improvements in the article space as a result of this campaign. This is a double reminder. First, the campaign begins on July 18, 2009 at 00:00 (UTC). Second, please remember to log any articles you have worked on during the campaign at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/Log. Thanks again for your participation! --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 21:14, 17 July 2009 (UTC) Barnstar
Invitation to provide further input on desysop proposalAs someone who commented either for or against proposals here, I would like to invite you to comment further on the desysop process proposal and suggest amendments before I move the proposal into projectspace for wider scrutiny and a discussion on adoption. The other ideas proposed on the page were rejected, and if you are uninterested in commenting on the desysop proposal I understand of course. Thanks! → ROUX ₪ 04:25, 20 July 2009 (UTC) My talk pageIn the past, you have raised a concern about my talk page "wizard" system. I have changed this to an FAQ-based system (User talk:Stifle/FAQs), and would appreciate your feedback at User talk:Stifle/FAQs/feedback or elsewhere. Stifle (talk) 12:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC) SeriouslyIs there cause to panic [1]? ChildofMidnight (talk) 16:31, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for making WP:NODRAMA a success!Thank you again for your support of the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Preliminary states indicate that 129 new articles were created, 203 other articles were improved, and 183 images were uploaded. Additionally, 41 articles were nominated for DYK, of which at least 2 have already been promoted. There are currently also 8 articles up for GA status and 3 up for FA/FL status. Though the campaign is technically over, please continue to update the log page at WP:NODRAMA/L with any articles which you worked during the campaign, and also to note any that receive commendation, such as DYK, GA or FA status. You may find the following links helpful in nominating your work:
Again, thank you for making this event a success! --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 02:08, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Battle of Bilin RiverBorgQueen (talk) 00:08, 26 July 2009 (UTC) DYK for Battle of Sittang BridgeBorgQueen (talk) 18:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC) DYK for Anna Dorothea TherbuschBorgQueen (talk) 19:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC) You were talking about academics and CSD-A7 the other day...Lorraine Foster → here's another example, which was deleted via A7 and recreated (in which I contested the speedy). MuZemike 05:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Lift vectorHi S Marshall. I send you my best wishes, all the way from Australia. On 30 July I nominated Lift vector for deletion. You added to the deletion debate. I responded by deleting part of your addition, and by adding my own postscript. You responded by restoring that which I deleted. Your edit summary invoked the assumption of good faith (thank you for that) and stated that my deletion may have been made accidentally. I am writing to explain why I deleted what I did, and to assure you that it wasn’t accidental. It was done deliberately and carefully. Your contribution began:
Firstly, our contributions to deletion debates should be written for an audience consisting of all Wikipedians with an interest in the subject, and possibly for the administrator who will eventually arbitrate on the fate of the nominated article. Positive comments directed at an individual User are sometimes seen in deletion debates. (e.g. “Good point User:X. Your argument has convinced me.”) However, deletion debates are visible to a very wide audience and they should not be used to direct a comment to an individual User if there is the slightest possibility that the comment could cause offence or discourage a User from further participation. If it is necessary that a potentially-negative comment be directed at an individual, the relative privacy of that individual’s User talk page must be used. Your comment, quoted above, was directed explicitly at only one User – the User named Dolphin51. Secondly, your words quoted above are, in my opinion, an example of condescending language. At WP:Civility and a number of other Wiki pages, standards of appropriate, civil behaviour are described. Those standards talk about positive behaviour towards other Users, not biting newbies, and avoiding criticism of individuals and the action of individuals. There is nothing on any of these pages to encourage Users to practice behaviour which makes them feel superior, but I could find nothing to explicitly alert Users to the offence of condescension. Consequently, on 2 August I amended WP:Civility#Engaging in incivility to explicitly comment on condescending language. For both the above reasons, parts of your contribution to the deletion debate were, in my opinion, inappropriate. They were particularly inappropriate because they targeted me deliberately and explicitly. (Those parts should have been posted on my User talk page.) Because your condescending words were directed at me explicitly and on a much-visited page on Wikipedia I was entitled to remove them. However, I don’t engage in edit wars so even though you have restored the words I don’t intend to remove them a second time. Whether I was actually offended by your comments, or whether I will be de-motivated from participating in Wikipedia to the best of my ability, are irrelevant. You may have made the assumption that Dolphin51 was a sufficiently robust character that he would not be offended, or would not be de-motivated from participating further in Wikipedia, but that would be an inappropriate assumption. We know little or nothing about the personal qualities of different Users so we must always make the safest assumption, and that is to assume that the User to whom we are writing is sensitive and easily offended. (As you know, the Wikipedia community includes people from every race, every culture, every age, and all genders.) I cannot think of a comment that can be made in negative language that cannot also be made in positive language. For example Your recent contribution was garbage so I trashed it can also be said as Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent contribution did not meet Wikipedia’s high standards and it has been deleted. However, you are welcome to restore it if you re-write it in a way that is compatible with WP:Article development. Please contact me on my User talk page if you want further assistance. I will be happy to help. I also removed some of your text that was, in my opinion, superfluous. Finally, the way ahead.
I have written all the above in the knowledge that Wikipedia will be the better for it. My intention is education, not retribution. I don't intend that this essay should cause you any long-term embarrassment - feel free to remove all of it after you have digested it. Very best regards, Dolphin51 (talk) 03:33, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi S Marshall. Thank you for your prompt, thoughtful and courteous reply. I would like to see stronger acknowledgement that you might do things differently in future, and I will challenge your fifth point, but apart from those two things I accept what you have said. You have written that you don't embarrass easily. Please be aware that this is not a universal quality among Wikipedia Users. We are a remarkably diverse group. I would like to comment on your first four points. First: I agree that it is never acceptable to edit someone else's words in such a way as to change their meaning or emphasis. I concede that by deleting the words I have described above as superfluous I was changing your emphasis. I apologise for that, and I won’t do it again. I also concede that by deleting your words shouldn’t be a redlink on Wikipedia I was changing your meaning. I apologise for that, and I won’t do it again. Your words Without wanting to be unkind, Dolphin51, AfD's the wrong place for this. I think it's blindingly obvious that provide neither meaning nor emphasis. They are inappropriate in a deletion debate. I am unable to apologise for deleting them. I find these words offensive. If there is a rule that prohibits a User from deleting words that are personally offensive, and target that User directly and explicitly in a deletion debate, then I invoke the principle of WP:Ignore all rules to defend my action. WP:IAR states If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it. I believe your words were unnecessary and offensive, and by deleting them I improved Wikipedia. The principle of being civil to all other Users is not a rule. It is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia. (We are even exhorted to be civil to Wikipedia vandals.) I believe the principle of WP:IAR cannot be invoked to justify incivility. I believe condescending language, particularly on a much-visited page, is an example of incivility and cannot be excused by invoking WP:IAR. Please see my recent addition to WP:Civility. Second: Without wanting to be unkind. Thank you for trying to take the sting out of this one. Condescension can be a puzzling thing, and avoiding it can be elusive. For example, when someone begins a sentence With all due respect, you can be fairly confident that what comes next will be disrespectful! Far better for that someone to completely re-word what they have to say to genuinely avoid disrespect than try to obscure the disrespect by using a disclaimer as an opening to the sentence. Third: I concede this one. Fourth: I sense you hold the view that nominating for deletion something that could be dealt with differently is wrong. I sense you don’t see various options, some better than others, with various Wikipedia Users doing different things, some optimally, some sub-optimally, some learning by trial and error. Perhaps you see right and wrong, and nothing else. Your response begs the question What punishment should be imposed on a User who does something wrong? Should that User be named and shamed? Probably not. This is Wikipedia and people participate as a hobby! It is not a commercial undertaking with billions of pounds at risk, nor a military campaign with hundreds of lives in harm’s way. Fifth: Trying this defence was a risky strategy and I’m afraid it hasn’t worked. You have written My contribution was intended to inform and educate all those who read it. At first glance this looks like a laudable intention. However, remember that the sentence in question is directed at Dolphin51. Remember that my User name is there, explicitly, right in the middle of the sentence. You cannot successfully claim the offending sentence is aimed at all those who read it. It is aimed solely at Dolphin51. It says so. Other readers will see the User name Dolphin51 and not infer that your words are a general truth aimed at all who visit the page. Fortunately, there is a clear and simple way ahead.
My best regards, Dolphin51 (talk) 03:26, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Deleted offending material as requested User:Penright/Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?)Have deleted offending material as you all requested from User:Penright/Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) according to Wikipedia rules that you have pointed out about not appearing to attach any living person or organisation on in a Wikipedia article. Please would you all be so kind to review your individual "to keep" or "to delete" decisions in the light of the revised edit on this article, many thanks again for all your contribution, thoughts, advice and guidance as you all have a lot more experience at this than IPenright (talk) 22:21, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Penright (talk) 23:30, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Penright (talk) 23:49, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Penright (talk) 00:01, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
DRV & MFD
Reply to User:Spartaz|Spartaz] re deletion User:Penright/Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers? page
Record of my WMF Trustees vote
|