User talk:Ckatz

User talk:Ckatz

Hello! Thanks for dropping by... please feel free to leave me a message below. I don't have a convention as to where I'll respond, be it here, your talk page, or the talk page of the subject we're discussing - but I'll do my best to keep things clear. Let me know if you have a preference... now, get typing! Ckatz

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Re: Your undo of my Locations in Jericho edit

How is what I wrote any more speculative than speculation about St. Louis or any of the other cities with unconfirmed status? I used information from the show combined with factual statistics about the populations of those cities and arrived at a reasonable conclusion. Please respond to SethJL83@gmail.com.

Removal of Link

Ckatz,

You removed an external link I recently added to Wikipedia. This is not a promotional link. It is a unique link because it provides an ENTIRE list of Mahayana Buddhist Canon in English. Other sites may have some translations but not all texts not yet translated, which is an overwhelming majority. It should be clearly noted that some of the other links only contain a portion of the Mahayana sutras rather than a complete or comprehensive archive of Mahayana sutras.

I want English speakers to see the extensive list of titles in the Mahayana Buddhist Canon/Tripitaka/Sutras. If external links is not the best method, feel free to suggest other methods, but I believe this is a worthwhile contribution and link.

Thanks, Guo Cheen

Mail!

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Request for interview

Gregory Kohs, a freelance reporter for Examiner.com who covers wikis as his news beat, is very interested in interviewing you for an Examiner article that he is writing about how the Examiner.com domain came to be "blacklisted" on the English Wikipedia. He is obtaining an interview with a senior employee of Examiner and, in order to keep the article balanced and factual, he would also like one or more points of view from the Wikipedia team that manages the blacklist. You may contact him by telephone (at 484-NEW-WIKI), or by e-mail at ResearchBiz@gmail.com. He asked that I contact you this way because he did not want to log in to English Wikipedia due to a ban on his account here. Regards, Lara 14:58, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for passing that along. However, after looking at Mr. Kohs' work on that site, I have significant concerns about whether he is actually intending to write a balanced piece. His writing seems heavily skewed to a particular POV with regard to Wikipedia, one that I can't help but wonder may be influenced by the fact he is trying to promote his own for-profit wiki. --Ckatz^chat_spy 16:19, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... having reviewed more of his work, I don't trust him at all. Highly sensationalized, lacking in any apparent journalistic standards, apparently just trying to stir up the muck. No thanks. --Ckatz^chat_spy 16:27, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Re; Dr. Who reverts

You have made four reverts within a 24-hour period (0, 1, 2, 3, 4), placing you in violation of 3RR. I would urge you to undo your last revet and remain engaged on the discussion page; if you choose not to do so, I will be forced to escalate the matter. You cannot convince anyone of the strength of your arguments via revert; indeed, if anything it simply clouds the issue with a strong desire to put another person into a very small box and kick it around the room. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 20:42, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I would say that it is really a mistake to resort to heavy-handed threats like that; not only are you somewhat misrepresenting the situation, but it unnecessarily adds tension to the discussion. Please note that you are the one who removed the long-standing text that is in fact supported by the reference, because you erroneously thought the link was dead, and you are the one who repeatedly deleted text three times after that. While I may have restored my attempt at compromise a second time, my subsequent edit involved rolling back to the existing consensus version (consensus in this case meaning the one that had been accepted for quite some time) so that we could discuss the matter on an even footing. (Your rationale for removal was predicated on the assumption that the link in question was dead; it was not, but even if it was it could easily have been tagged as dead given that the source - the BBC - is certainly reliable. Also note - and I say this while recognizing the spirit of 3RR - that I did not actually revert 4 times in 24 hours.) Honestly, the best and most proper approach on both our parts should have been to properly respect WP:BRD: you removed some text, I restore it, then we discuss. Unfortunately, neither of us took that route; while we are discussing it now (and hopefully getting additional voices as well) please leave aside the needlessly provocative threats. --Ckatz^chat_spy 00:21, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

My apologies if you thought I was heavy-handed; I simply asked you to revert. Had I been what I consider to be heavy-handed, I'd have simply asked you to revert, wait 1 hour and report you to AN:EW - note that I did not do that (even though you have refused to self-revert), but instead came here, privately, to allow you to self-correct. Trust me, had I felt the need for provocation, we wouldn't be talking here. Now, even though you chose to forego that gentle reminder, I am going to still work with you in discussion to resolve the problem. This despite the bit of Good faith that you have lost here. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:32, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Removal of sourced info from Awards table

Please, discuss at the article's talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 03:01, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Mail! part two

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Sadly, i have not received a single answer from the email i previously sent you. On the Template:Canadian mobile phone companies talk page, i've listed my numerous problems with the template and how its information is presented. Please address my concerns promptly. Thank you. --LABcrabs (talk) 20:48, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Revert in child actor article

You reverted my changes in the article and requested for sources, but I don't get for what sentences sources are needed. Could you explain?--Cannot (talk) 21:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. Wikipedia has very specific rules for verifying material, and those are especially important when making statements about living persons. This is outlined in the verifiability, reliable sources, and (most importantly in this case) biography of living persons policies. With respect to your edits, you've made several statements that have to be sourced to reliable third-party commentators:

• Very seldom a former child star can be successful again;
• Among good examples is Alanis Morissette;
• After one successful album in Canadian market, she was considered a "has been seen in many" at 18;
• by the age of 21 she managed to reinvent her music career into a different perspective with Jagged Little Pill, which ... made Morissette a household name;

--Ckatz^chat_spy 00:20, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Sum of Logic

Can you explain why you removed the link at this article. It points to this which is the original Latin version of part III of the book. There are other versions on the net, all ultimately deriving from this one. It has since been corrected and so is the most accurate version. Why does it not conform to WP:EL? It says "acceptable links include those that contain further research that is accurate and on-topic, information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail, or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its accuracy. 109.145.242.187 (talk) 09:03, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

You're an IP sock of banned user User:Peter Damian, and you are well aware that you are not permitted to edit Wikipedia. Please stop. --Ckatz^chat_spy 09:06, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

This does not address the point. In what way is the link not acceptable? This was discussed with John Vandenberg ages ago 109.145.242.187 (talk) 09:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Once again, you are not permitted to edit Wikipedia. --Ckatz^chat_spy 09:39, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Again, why does the link violate the guidelines? I am not asking to edit Wikipedia, but rather asking you to replace it. It was in place before, and did not violate the guideline. Why did you remove it? 109.145.242.187 (talk) 09:41, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

IP sock blocked; note link is also to a for-profit wiki whose creator is also banned from Wikipedia. --Ckatz^chat_spy 09:47, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:Canadian mobile phone companies

We'll need to keep an eye on LABcrabs (talk · contribs). He renamed the template, but I reverted it back and edited the re-direct so it can't be moved again without consensus. But yeah, he's being frustrating, LOL. Me-123567-Me (talk) 22:30, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Slow down, please

Greetings, Ckatz. I have undone your summary reversion of my contribution to Right- and left-hand traffic. It was unilateral and done without discussion, based solely on your personal preference. That is not how it works, and as an administrator you fully well know that. Your adminship does not make you entitled to go around declaring contributions by veteran editors with good track records unworthy, and you know that, too. I have no desire to pick a fight with you, but it looks like you might be forgetting yourself. Please take a few breaths and remember that admins have special tools but not special rights; you are not exempt from the core principles and protocols that govern all contributors to this collaborative project. As for the question of whether my version or the previous version was better, we'll take that up at the article's talk page, thank you; see you there. —Scheinwerfermann ^T·_C00:21, 23 May 2011 (UTC)