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Cap020570/David Gorski[edit]

Hello, Cap020570, and thank you for your contributions!

I wanted to let you know it seems an article you worked on, Cap020570/David Gorski, is copied from another Wikipedia page, David Gorski. It's fine to do this as long as you provide the following information in the edit summary:

  1. a link to the article you copied from
  2. the date you copied it

You can do this now by editing the page, making any minor edit to the article, and adding the above information into the edit summary.

If you're still not sure how to fix the problem, please leave a message at the help desk. It's possible that I made a mistake, so feel free to remove the tag I placed on the article.

Thanks again for helping build the free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 13:50, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know, I moved Cap020570/David Gorski to User:Cap020570/David Gorski. I assume you meant to create it in your userspace. The page ended up in the article space; it needs to have the "User:" prefix before your username to make it be in the userspace. Cheers! --Nick—Contact/Contribs 13:55, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks NickW557! That's exactly what I meant to do. I'm still pretty new at this and the code stuff has a way of melting my brain. Thanks again!! Cap020570 (talk) 14:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Arpaio[edit]

The court decision you added to the above article was placed in the section for the Department of Justice racial-profiling lawsuit section. It was for the Melendres v. Arpaio case and belongs in the Melendres v. Arpaio racial-profiling class-action lawsuit section. This guy is so slimy its hard to keep track of the muck. If this is the stuff he is being successfully sued for, I can only imagine what else he is up to. I figured I would let you know instead of changing it myself. Thanks. (Bill from GSoW) MrBill3 (talk) 03:12, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pandagon[edit]

I believe, though don't quote me on this, that she blogs on Raw story/pandagon. It seems pandagon.net is now guest bloggers / stories. Question: would you classify her as a "radical feminist". Note previous edit war: history User_talk:Jim1138#Amanda_Marcotte User talk:98.166.88.177 User talk:Falkirks diff Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 17:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gorski[edit]

Sorry I thought you were done. I'll step away for awhile. But please review the article when you are done and remove any duplicate into, like the Orac thing. That's already been said. Thanks.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 14:19, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you could improve your citation format as that's very time consuming for others to clean up behind you. This kind of format, which you are using does not contain enough information:
"David H. Gorski, Managing Editor". Retrieved 17 May 2013.
Best way is to choose PROVELT in your preferences or some other citation helper. Or do it manually like this:
Date, Author (last name first), Article name, Publication name, URL link, date accessed
Thanks, -- — Keithbob • Talk • 14:25, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please see my comments on the Gorski talk page. -- — Keithbob • Talk • 14:36, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)[edit]

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

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Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: CPCs[edit]

Hey there. Thanks for cleaning up the external links section. I'm a bit worried that we're potentially losing out on information that could be used to expand the article, though - did all those links pretty much just support the existing material with little to no new content that could be added? –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:11, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, Roscelese!They all pretty much contained the same information. The NPR interview I pulled some new information from. I'll be mindful though. Cap020570 (talk) 18:15, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, glad to hear we're not missing anything. BTW, on the talk page I have a list of things in the article that could be added/expanded, so if you came across any info that would help with that... –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:21, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Roscelese Looked at it, great ideas!Cap020570 (talk) 18:25, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I totally missed your talkpage comment before you started. Well, thanks! It's good work. If you stick around at the article, maybe sometime we could split up the list of sources and look through them for material on stuff to add (delaying, adoption, role in movement), since there are a lot of sources. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:28, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Roscelese I just got done reading "The Child Catchers" It discusses the role of CPC's in the evangelical Christian adoption tract. I may have to get it back and pull some quotes out of it. That and this article, I think, would be good too. Cap020570 (talk) 18:33, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to hit the little "thank" button but I thought instead I would come here and praise your recent work on the CPC article. I see I'm second in line! :)
Best wishes – Binksternet (talk) 23:07, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Binksternet Thanks so much!! Cap020570 (talk) 02:54, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

David Gorski[edit]

The Barnstar of Diligence
In overdue recognition of perseverance in your efforts to improve the biographical article on David Gorski. Nmillerche (talk) 02:09, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply] 
Nmillerche Thanks!! If that --wasn't-- a learning experience, I don't know what is! Cap020570 (talk) 02:10, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Opting in to VisualEditor[edit]

As you may know, VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 50 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to your preferences and choosing the item, "MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable". This will give you the option of using VisualEditor on articles and userpages when you want to, and give you the opportunity to spot changes in the interface and suggest improvements. We value your feedback, whether positive or negative, about using VisualEditor, at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014[edit]

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BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors[edit]

Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Medical Translation Newsletter[edit]


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Amanda Marcotte edits and weird definitions of "Concise"[edit]

I notice that you have gone to great lengths to remove significant amounts of verifiable, sourced material from the Amanda Marcotte article. You claim in your summary description that you "made concise" these sections, but what those edits actually do is gut them completely. They obfuscate the nature of criticisms against Ms. Marcotte by replacing entire paragraphs with vague phrases, and likewise eliminate her specific damning statements (coincidentally matching identically with articles Marcotte has deleted from her own blog). Not only that, but you removed references that should have remained even after your deletions. "Making concise" would imply that you reduced a few details and perhaps rephrased wordy passages, but that the essential nature (and source citations) of the original version remains. That's not what happened in this case.

If I didn't know better, I'd think those edits were ideologically motivated by an individual who would prefer to see any and all criticism banished into the Orwellian memory hole, much like critical comments on FTB and other social justice warrior hangouts. If I didn't know better.

I eagerly await your defense. In the meantime, I think your edits will be on my watchlist from here out. You know, just in case I'm wrong in my assumption of good faith. 96.255.138.217 (talk) 11:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of coming to my user page and trying to intimidate me with your anonymous account,why don't you go over to Marcotte's talk page where this was discussed, openly, over a year or so's time. Cap020570 (talk) 12:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Your draft article, User:Cap020570/scottmandia[edit]

Hello, Cap020570. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "scottmandia".

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. CalOtter (talk) 19:21, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Cap020570/martyklein[edit]

Hello, Cap020570. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "martyklein".

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.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CalOtter (talk) 19:22, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Cap020570/ffrf[edit]

Hello, Cap020570. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "ffrf".

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.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CalOtter (talk) 19:22, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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