User talk:Gogo Dodo

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Talk:William C. Harvey School

Hi, Gogo Dodo. I put a template on the page of the creator of that school page, User talk:Oldtrowel, which told him what he could do to contest that it was a copyvio — some stuff that involved using the article talkpage, the one you've deleted. I explained further on the school talkpage itself, for the benefit of my colleagues rather than the newbie Oldtrowel, mentioning the Way Back Machine, so they could see that Wikipedia was copypasting the school prospectus, not the other way around. I meant to leave the talkpage for a few days before deleting it, since the material on it was potentially useful. Not that I expect Oldtrowel to come looking for it; he had four edits altogether, in 2006, all within a few days. But students and staff at the school may be nonplussed that "their" article is gone, I thought. (Most likely they won't find Oldtrowel's userpages.) Shouldn't we leave the talkpage for a few days? What do you think? Regards Bishonen | talk 10:05, 2 September 2011 (UTC).

P.S. It's so easy to find these massive school copyvios; most of the so-called school articles are simply copypastes of some prospectus, as the advertisement style clearly indicates. I can't believe WikiProject schools "assesses" them without even bothering to click on the link to the school website, which is always right there on the page, and where the "article" text would stare them in the face if they did. What a swamp the school articles are. A person could flop around in that category forever. :-( Bishonen | talk 10:05, 2 September 2011 (UTC).

Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:18, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Talk Page Cleaning

No problem. :) I may not have done much editing lately, but I do check Wikipedia a lot still. -WarthogDemon 03:16, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Jewelry Television

I have requested the page be protected due to edit warring. I realize you have only reverted COI edits/content blanking, but I thought I'd leave you a notice. Asav | Talk (Member of the OTRS Volunteer Response Team) 22:32, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Whoops.

Sorry about my mistake on the "Catching Fire" page; I was simply trying to register the previous fix (that was my own before I signed up) as my own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Klvnhng (talk • contribs) 20:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Ken Boyd (politican)

Gogo Dodo,

Sorry for bothering you! I noticed that you were an administrator and had previously done some editing on the Wikipedia page of Ken Boyd (politican). I have done a lot of work on the page (I am starting to become interested in local politics and was appalled at the bias tone the page originally had!) and have worked very hard to keep it neutral and well-researched. I would like to do work on Mr. Boyd's opponent, Cynthia Neff, but her page was deleted due to her 'not being important'. In my revisions I have made great strides to uphold the tenants laid out in the Wikipedia guidelines, but today an unknown user (IP address only) has been revising the page to an earlier state where it was poorly researched and full of bias. Of note is the fact that the individual who first put the bias in the article is banned from Wikipedia for having multiple accounts (letsgocrazytogether) and this individual is attempting to revert the page back to that state. The argument is that I have deleted information which was well cited and that Wikipedia is all about adding information, not subtracting. While I agree with this statement wholeheartedly, the user neglects to mention that the information being deleted is not factually correct and extremely bias. In addition, the reversion deletes half of the biography, all of the committee assignments, all of the current goings of the 29 Bypass and all of Boyds committee work. In short, the reversion deletes half the article all while the IP address user claims that Wikipedia should never be about deleting work.

I do not like to see my work wasted and will continue to undo this persons revisions. Could you give me advice or your input on the situation? I am not bias for Mr. Boyd, heck I doubt I will even vote for him. However I want this to be a good source of information and not have my work go to waste. Thanks again and sorry if I am supposed to be speaking with someone else.

05:10, 6 September 2011 (UTC)escytherdonEscytherdon (talk) 05:10, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:31, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

GoDoDo, The page has now been locked. While I am happy about this, I was FINALLY starting to get the other editor against a wall to speak about their edits. They are blatantly bias and include a lot of untrue information which is easily proven too be false. Does the page stay locked forever? How can this be resolved? Thank you.

05:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)escytherdon05:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Escytherdon (talk • contribs)

Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:57, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

I have a question. The person is claiming copyvio but that is not the case. If you go to the website for that information NONE of it is copyrighted. At the bottom it states "All information about Ken C. Boyd was provided by Ken C. Boyd, Ken C. Boyd's campaign staff, or extracted verbatim from Ken C. Boyd's website(s). This website is not associated with any Election Authority. Instead, it is hosted and maintained by Vote-USA, LLC. All data on this site were obtained from various State Election Authorities, the politicians themselves or from their staff or websites. Vote-USA, LLC is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization funded by contributions from private citizens. All contributions are 100% tax-deductible." Under Virginia law, all material created by election officials, candidates, or their campiagns is public and freely given. How is that copyvio?

Escytherdon (talk) 06:11, 8 September 2011 (UTC)escytherdonEscytherdon (talk) 06:11, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

meany!

I spent an hour writing about Dan's house only for you to delete it! you could have put it as my user page or something but not just delete before Dan had the chance to read it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobwozere (talk • contribs) 21:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

it wasn't a joke!

Dan's house is a landmark here on the isle of wight, he wanted his house to have wiki page so i started one, wikipedia is full of nonsense, Dan's house isn't nonsense, it was a factuall piece of writing, just to prove my point i typed Buckingham Palace into wikipedia and do you know what it came up with? a bit of writing about someones house so why can't Dan's have a page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobwozere (talk • contribs) 21:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Deborah S. Kearney - reviewed page

Hi, Could you check please if the bio is OK now? I included a very short version and I will add info step by step. I am not sure if the reliable webpage could be the Amazon's page for one of her books. Advise please. Thanks, Francisco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fkdcampo (talk • contribs) 02:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 02:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

I should know better?

I was joking around. I know they get fixed pretty quick so I don't get the parental advise, haha. Who is Clay Travis anyway? --FourteenClowns (talk) 14:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

YOu're the last admin here

Could you please do something about Escytherdon adding copyvio to the Ken Boyd (politician) and refusing to discuss his changes outside of making accusations on the talk page? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.197.81.122 (talk) 05:43, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

The last admin here? Hmm, I better turn out the lights then. But seriously... I have protected the article since you are both edit warring and that will not be tolerated. Since you two can not agree, please follow the Dispute Resolution policy. At minimum, you should get a third opinion. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

The article needs to be reverted to the version before Escytherdon's edits. His previous "Biography" section and the "Non-profit Service" section currently in the article are straight copy paste from http://vote-va.org/intro.aspx?state=va&id=vaboydkenc. I've pointed this out to him numerous times. My reverts are exempt from WP:3RR because I am reverting unambiguous WP:COPYVIO. 75.197.81.122 (talk) 06:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

I have removed that particular section as you are correct that it was a blatant copyright violation. However, I disagree with you classifying all of your edits as reverting copyright violations as you were changing much more than that. That makes you not exempted from WP:3RR. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:07, 8 September 2011 (UTC)