User talk:DoriSmith

Wikipedia Help Survey

Hi there, my name's Peter Coombe and I'm a Wikimedia Community Fellow working on a project to improve Wikipedia's help system. At the moment I'm trying to learn more about how people use and find the current help pages. If you could help by filling out this brief survey about your experiences, I'd be very grateful. It should take less than 10 minutes, and your responses will not be tied to your username in any way.

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the wub (talk) 18:10, 14 June 2012 (UTC) (Delivered using Global message delivery)

Re: Flook (application)/old history

Shouldn't that have gone to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion or Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion? Dru of Id (talk) 03:17, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

It probably should have, but the Anon IP editor who created it asked for it to be moved to WP:Articles for deletion/Flook (application)/old history, so I did. I'm fine with it being moved again, but you'll probably want to give a head's up to 69.155.128.40 (talk · contribs). Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 03:24, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Improvisation News

Hi there - I was working on the improvisation news article when it was changed and multiple sections were taken out - I have been working on adding outside source information as well as internal links - would it be possible to have the text restored without the self-cites? I have a busy weekend but will try to conform the information this weekend. Thank you! --Thetheatrenerd (talk) 06:24, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

From the viewpoint of someone with a lot of Wikipedia experience: the article looks like a gang of meatpuppets is doing their best to get it deleted by making it as fluffy and promotional as possible. Is that really what you want to accomplish?

Are you affiliated with Improvisation News? If you are, you shouldn't be editing the article at all. If not, sloooooowwwwww down. Start from scratch. Find solid sources, and then add only the information you found there. Don't go back to old versions of the article; they were a mess. If anything, more of the fluff should go. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 06:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Okay, thanks - I removed all self-citing and will try to pare it down to just facts... pardon the revert - I had just added some citations that I didn't want to have to recreate. Thank you for the pointers - I will work more on it this weekend - feel free to flag away, but can the general sections be left? I promise I'll work on it, and spoke to a friend (who is getting her masters in improv history) about helping as well. Thank you :)--Thetheatrenerd (talk) 06:35, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

I think you're confused. I'm the one who created (and keeps rolling back to) the version without the self-cites; you're the one who keeps adding them back in. Here's the diff. You've added nothing useful; all the links you've added are either self-cites or otherwise unreliable sources. Your friend is welcome to help out so long as both you and she have nothing to do with improv comedy personally or professionally. Somehow, I doubt that that's the case. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 06:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Apologies, I meant no offense, thanks for the clarification and pointers--Thetheatrenerd (talk) 07:12, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

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Perfect

Thank you for your help. I understand now --Ț♥ttØØdẄ♥itre§ 05:11, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

page: Chanchal Kumar Sharma

Thank you DoriSmith for your clarification(s). From now onwards, I have assumed the responsibility for all further edits on this page. Earlier, some students in the computer department were managing this page and hence the confusion.

I seek your permission to proceed with the additions/changes.

Thanks for your hard work on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetmusician (talk • contribs) 13:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thanks for your excellect work ( from Sweetmusician) Sweetmusician (talk) 13:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Please help me with the undeletion of the SpiderGraph chart article.

Dear Dori,

I can use your help! On 25 April, you made a suggestion to me on the "Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/SpiderGraph chart" page, that I thought could be a continuing page for the AfD discussion page, that I didn't know had been abruptly closed before I had a chance to reply to some of the voting REs confused comments. You were right, I didn't know the Process! (and still don't)

What does it mean to be the Deletion Nominator? If you look at Glrx's User talk page, you'll see that I thought Glrx was in charge of the discussion because he was the Nominator. So after the discussion closed, I continued to direct comments to him. I later noticed that he was making incorrect accusations, but when I proved him wrong, he wasn't acknowleging them in the discussion or passing the truth back to the voting REs to correct their miss-impressions. Not having all the facts (held back by Glrx), they voted to delete. Along came Ryan (Rjd0060) and deleted the article per process, not knowing that Glrx had held back information. I directed a DRV (soon to be a Grievance?) to Glrx because he was the culprit and he directed me back to Rjd0060. How do I get the true facts known, expose Glrx for what he is, and get the article undeleted?

Thanx in advance for your help, Gregory L. Chester 23:44, 19 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GregLChest (talk • contribs)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	You are superb and a great administrator. Thanks a lot for your work, comments, suggestions, diligence and patience.. Sweetmusician (talk) 05:23, 20 June 2012 (UTC)