User talk:JBW

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A response waiting for you

Thanks for the message about my sandbox. A response has been left about it on my talk page. - Todd Barczak (talk) 18:45, June 26 2012 (EST)

Thank you

Thanks for the additional information. I'll study it all and give it another go. - Todd Barczak (talk) 19:33, June 26 2012 (EST)

Re:Kayo

Hey, thanks for closing that EDITWAR thread. Happy to finally have that off my hands. Chubbles (talk) 15:15, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Looks like he's back again to his old ways, but you beat me to reporting him; thanks once more. Chubbles (talk) 02:35, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Just a note - there's an unusual influx of new accounts editing Anticon discographies today...User:Rijkhamout, User:LazyEditorsRuinWikipedia, User:Poet4life, User:Brenjen, User:F C K Y, User:Panda Gold, and User:KKK Life. Nothing particularly objectionable (other than one of the usernames), but it does seem rather curious, that's all. Chubbles (talk) 21:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

So, if you've got a moment, have a look at what's happening at Alias (artist) and the associated talk page. Damned if I'm not dealing with a block-evading sock, here... Chubbles (talk) 09:47, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Okay, I've started an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cvlwr. Chubbles (talk) 17:07, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Ceedjee

In this edit, you restored a tag to a page that the editor himself did not add, and was added by a sockpuppet of a banned user who has been, for several years, harassing the editor in question. The only requirement for such notification is to ArbCom, not publicly on a user page. Why did you restore that tag? And, if you would be kind enough to answer this question, what brought this to your attention, given that the tag had been removed 3 days ago? nableezy - 15:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

It seemed to me that the information might potentially be useful, and there was no evident reason why it shouldn't be there. You may have good reasons why it shouldn't, but there was no indication of any reasons, so perhaps it would have been more helpful to have mentioned the reason in your edit summary, so that I knew not to restore it. As for what brought it to my attention, I think I was checking Powder Hound 3000's edit history because he/she had made an unblock request. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Should a tag like that be allowed to be placed by any user, including a sock of a banned editor who had maliciously hounded this user for years, or should it require some sort of self-disclosure? nableezy - 15:02, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Bump. nableezy - 15:41, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, I've thought about it, and come to the following conclusion. Sorry it's taken me so long. Normally, rather than put a tag like this on another user's page, I would do them the courtesy of suggesting to the user that they might like to do so. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for just going ahead and doing it, but perhaps this is not one of them, and I do agree that the fact that it was done by a block-evading sockpuppet account does count against it. Because of those considerations I shall remove the notice, even though I still think it's useful information and does no harm. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:50, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect supporting image

Unless I'm missing something (which is a distinct possibility), on Prolate_spheroid the [[File:Ellipse_axis2.png|elipse]] shown, when rotated, will not produce the [[File:ProlateSpheroid.png|prolate spheroid]] shown.

Shouldn't the elipse be tall and narrow and rotated about the vertical axis.

DavJenkins (talk) 15:55, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The specified rotation of the ellipse shown would create the right spheroid, but in a different orientation than shown in the diagram of the spheroid. I agree that it would be better to redraw the ellipse diagram so that the two have the same orientation. That would not be at all difficult, and maybe I will do it some time, or you may like to. The diagram of the ellipse was originally added to the article in July 2011 by an anonymous editor using the IP address 94.66.82.255. As originally shown, the diagram was wrong, as the labelling of the axes did not agree with the notation used in the text. My only contribution to this was to change the labelling on the ellipse, so that it was not actually wrong, but I do agree the orientation is not helpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:12, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

hersh davis-nitzberg deleted for a G11 violation

Hello, It would be greatly appreciated if you could please suggest what i can do to re-add this article...it was written by me, and not sure how it violates g11. maybe you can suggest a few pointers to perhaps make it publishable :)

Jmjamahl (talk) 08:52, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I started by spending some time looking at the history of the deelted article Hersh davis-nitzberg, and writing a fairly detailed response to your question on the assumption that you were referring to that article. I then discovered that there had also been an article Hersh Davis-Nitzberg. Since neither of these was created by the account Jmjamahl, and the former has a title the same (apart from the initial capital) as the form in which you refer to the article, it was natural to find that one first, but it now looks as though you more probably meant the latter. How many accounts have you used? Since you say that you wrote an article on this subject, but the account you used to post here has never created one, you have clearly used at least two, and I wonder whether you have used more. In particular, which of Trickskelley, Hershdavis and Rolandeavey were yours? Also, can you say why you have used more than one account?

The first version of the article was deleted both for speedy deletion criterion G11 (unambiguous promotion) and for criterion A7 ( no indication that its subject is significant enough to warrant an article in an encyclopaedia). The deletion log for the second version mentions only G11, but it seems that lack of evidence of notability is also an issue there.

As far as the promotion is concerned, if you can write either of those two articles and sincerely not see it as promotional, then I can only assume that one or more probably both of two things applies: (1) You are so closely connected to the subject that you are unable to step back from it and see how your writing will look from the detached perspective of an outsider. This is, in fact, one of the main reasons why Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline strongly discourages writing about a subject to which you have a personal connection. (2) You work in marketing or "public relations", and are so used to marketing speak that you have become desensitised to it, and can't see it when it is there in front of you. Both versions of the article were full of such PR-speak as "in a city where image is everything RIC is exactly who you would want behind you", "if the past is any indication his golden touch will make Exchange LA your favorite new nightlife hot spot", "based on his strong relationships and insider intelligence, he has a reputation as a successful entrepreneur", "motivated by a desire to mobilize new energy", etc etc.

You ask for "a few pointers to perhaps make it publishable". Firstly, you need to look at Wikipedia's notability guidelines to see what sort of subject is suitable for an article. Most relevant in this case are the general notability guideline and the guideline on notability of people. Only if it seems that your subject satisfies those guidelines is there any point in considering putting more work into the article: no amount of rewriting an article will turn a non-notable subject into a notable one. However, even if the subject does satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria, the kind of promotional prose you used, illustrated by the quotations I have given, is totally inappropriate. Wikipedia is not a free advertising service, and articles have to be written from a neutral point of view. Finally, I think it is only fair to warn you that I have done some internet searching, and have found nothing at all that looks remotely like evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability criteria. There is plenty of material around, but all of it is either trivial mention of him, unambiguous promotion, content from non-independent and/or unreliable sources, etc etc. On the basis of what I have seen I very much doubt that he satisfies Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. My advice is that your time would be more usefully employed promoting yourself, or your employer, or what ever the correct description may be on sites that are intended for the purpose of promotion, rather than trying to use Wikipedia as a free advertising service, which it is not. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:02, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Hi JamesBWatson :) Thank you for protecting and keeping Wikipedia free from disruption, trolling and vandalism! Your quick response on anti-vandalism saves everyone's time and keeps Wikipedia functioning smoothly and efficiently! Keep up the good work :) Regards and Happy Editing! TheGeneralUser (talk) 20:49, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Old image on What Car?

Hi James,

Thanks for giving me more information about editing the What Car? entry on Wikipedia. I'm obviously aware that it's a sensitive area so I will read up on reliable sources and make sure to provide them.

One of the things I'd like to do is change the front cover image on the What Car? entry to a more contemporary one; we've redesigned the magazine at least twice since that 2001 cover was on sale.

How do I go about changing the cover? I already have a 2012-edition cover, as a JPEG in the same dimensions as the one that's on the page right now.

Hope you can help.

Kind regards,

John — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnmcilroy (talk • contribs) 10:29, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

User:HumanNaturOriginal

Hello JamesBWatson. I would like to ask you to take a look at the borderline harassment on my talk-page by User:HumanNaturOriginal. This user is in constant violation of Wikihounding ("The important component of wikihounding is disruption to another user's own enjoyment of editing, or to the project generally, for no overriding reason. If "following another user around" is accompanied by tendentiousness, personal attacks, or other disruptive behavior, it may become a very serious matter and could result in blocks and other editing restrictions").

Many of his edits are disruptive, since he has poor command of English and poor understanding of Wikipedia policies. He keeps engaging in borderline edit-warring over common syntax/grammar/punctuation/MOS-related errors ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]), and he keeps stalking/reverting my edits in a completely unjustified way. I tried to engage in dialogue with him but there was no result ([7], [8], [9]). His tone is completely is inappropriate; he claims in my talk-page that my edits are not "clever" (referring to this one) or that I have created a mess after correcting him a couple of times ([10]: he had falsely inserted that Jorge Luis Borges wrote a book called "The Biography of Evaristo Carriego", while HumanNaturOriginal's source just had this piece of information "Evaristo Carriego" (biography); I tried to correct it and there followed this). I cannot assume good faith any more; I would like to ask for advice on the matter. --Omnipaedista (talk) 13:50, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Peace for everyone, guys... HumanNaturOriginal (talk) 13:54, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for dealing with this. We could also check the following accounts: Phallussok, Dactarianou, Rousfo, Zeromaker, AngBent, and IPs: [11], [12] as suspected sockpuppets of Plouton2. --Omnipaedista (talk) 15:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

I have no time to check them now. You could try taking them to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations if you like. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Lena Pessoa

Hello

I have talk to you on my page. Here is my message. Thanks for your future answer :

an answer to 3 peoples

To : Strike Eagle

To : JamesBWatson

To : Amatulić

Hello,

I do not understand why do you treat us like that.

2 days ago we decide to bring Lena Pessoa on english talking Wiki and Portuguese talking wiki. Since 2006, she is on the french Wiki, with never no complaint.

I am the same man, with "mouzaia" as a name, writing on the french one, the english one, and the portuguese one.

I am the same man taking the pictures, who belongs to me, this is the reason why I gave these pictures in the public domain under my wiki name, using the procedures described on your pages.

Lena Pessoa is quite famous. As mentioned on her pages, the is the designer of hundreds of stores all over the world, working for Vuitton,Pucci, Tods, Jimmy Choo and others,it is also possible to see this on her site, http://deuxl.com When googling "lena pessoa" the answer of Google is : Environ 7 080 résultats (0,43 secondes)

Our company,DeuxL,exist since 2000, it is a small company,and before the Crisis,it was very profitable.

But yes, no one wrote a book on her, so I cannot ref no books with her name as a title. We have a lot of pages on books on architecture all over the world, I have mentioned one of these books this morning to one of your censors, his only answer was "she got only one page" !

I have read somewhere in your 'so difficult' pages to read that we were using pictures coming from ttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Pessoa this is ridiculous, I am the one who wrote both of them, and the pictures are mine. I am the one who take care of Deuxl's internet site, with the same pictures ..

So please, be reasonable and let us work ...

Thanks for reading.

Sebastien BERNARD (Mouzaia)

(talk page stalker) It doesn't matter if she has a page on different Wikis. They each have their own policies for notability. Also, it seems that you have a conflict of interest with the subject. I would strongly advise against writing this article. Lastly, biographies of living persons, also known as BLPs have very strict rules here. We also have rules on notability, which she unfortunately does not meet. Please see WP: Notability (People). Regards, Electriccatfish2 (talk) 20:52, 13 July 2012 (UTC).

Iaaasi

Hello JamesBWatson,

I do not know how it is possible this......but there is a Ip user (202.117.4.226 ) who is from Peking ,according to "Ip2 location. com" [13] and yet it looks to me that this user is Iaaasi.

There is a banner on Iaaasi user page saying that "Banned user Iaaasi has been soliciting users by e-mail in an attempt to get people to edit on his behalf. Please do not act upon any instructions issued by this banned user".

A couple days ago, a user who had previously no interest to edit Wikipedia, approached User:Omen1229 on his user page to elicit his email address for purpose of cooperation [14]. Shortly before a "IPv6" type of Ip user user:2001:4BA0:FFF7:12:0:0:0:2 appeared at the article Bratislava to help User:Omen1229 winning at an edit-war here in which I was also involved. Okay it was a coincidence...

However, there is a Ip user from Peking who helped User:Omen1229 winning at an edit-war at the article Jan Jesenius again. It is obvious that it is impossimble geographically, knowing that Iaaasi is from Romania, Craiova.

But said Ip user coming from Peking, added sources to the article [15][16], and the google books display characters used in the Romanian alphabet such as [17] [18] :"Din interiorul cărţii" , "Ce spun oamenii - Scrieţi o recenzie, Acest utilizator nu a creat deocamdată un profil. - Afişaţi-le pe toate".

What is more, this Ip has shown up at the talk page of administrator HJ Mitchell from whom he wanted to cadge an Wikipedia:ARBEE notice for user:Norden1990 who Omen1229 edit warred with on the article Jan Jesenius [19] and within this message the user betrayed a particular knowledge of Eastern Europe which makes it highly unlikely that this user be from China.

Furthermore, there is a blocked meatpuppet of Iaaasi, User:Daccono , who also wanted to manage a similar WP:DIGWUREN warning in the past to one another Hungarian user too here[20] and here [21].--Nmate (talk) 10:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

• This is very complicated, as Iaaasi sockpuppet cases often are, and I make no claim to fully understand what is going on. However, http://www.liveipmap.com/202.117.4.226 says that the IP address has been detected as open or anonymous proxy, so I have blocked it. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:02, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, JBW. You have new messages at Ekren's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Anderson - what's up? If you believe there has been a mistake, report it on my talk page. 00:41, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

• I have removed Anderson's addition from Ekren's talk page and told him why I thought it was not helpful. JohnCD (talk) 11:02, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes. I agree that Anderson9990's editing was unhelpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:04, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for considering my unblock request and unblocking me. Your decision will not be in vain.Worsnupd (talk) 09:34, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Bandaranayake Central College, Veyangoda

this is my problem. I named our school name incorrectly & published the page. then I've to create a new page with the correct name & copied the incorrect page's script then pasted on the correct page. But unfortunately, the new page has been deleted and I can not edit it. Please let me know how to reedit it & then what to do.

The correct name of the school is Bandanayake Central College, Veyangoda I want to edit it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manowiki123 (talk • contribs) 15:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Very Very much for Unblocking me from editting Bandaranayake Central College, Veyangoda.

I will copy & paste whole WIKI MARKUP script of incorrect page & then I will redirect it to that new page. Please Don't Misunderstand!

Shall I Do it..?????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manowiki123 (talk • contribs) 15:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Please Unblock me from editing Bandaranayake Central College, Veyangoda. I made a mistake of name while I was creating the old Article. Then, I corrected it & created above article. After that, I copied the whole wiki markup codes of the old page then pasted to above page. Currently it has been deleted. Please understand the matter & give me access to above page to create it for the school with all your help! Thanks..........

--MR 16:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manowiki123 (talk • contribs)

If I understand you correctly, what you are asking is for the deleted article Bandaranayake Central College, Veyangoda to be restored so that you can copy the text there and post it to another article. However, that article was deleted because it infringed copyright. We cannot restore content that infringes copyright to allow it to be copied, as doing so would be illegal. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:27, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

BLP PROD

Re [22]: the final reference (Florida Times-Union) seems to me to be a valid reliable source, and that's why I rejected the BLP-PROD. I'm not saying the article should be kept, but I don't like deleting articles for invalid reasons.  An optimist on the run! 19:17, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, I suppose to be technically accurate, the link in question is a valid reference for the fact that someone of the name Jeannie Greenwald has adopted a child of Chinese origin, which is mentioned in the Wikipedia article, and so you could say that it's a valid reference. However, unless I have missed something, nothing else in the article is referenced to a reliable source, and that trivial fact is not a significant part of the article, nor is it a reason for notability. It seems to me to be a rather pedantic interpretation of the BLPPROD policy to regard that as a valid reference. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:18, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Pedant is my middle name :-)  An optimist on the run! 07:27, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Watson,

i applaud your consideration of internal wikipedia citations as reference, however, i do not appreciate your deletions of accurate and correct edits due to being tipped off by other editors who share some of your goals/agenda. Kindly refrain from deleting information which should be made available to knowledge-thirsty members of the public.

PhoenixMIXr

I note that you blocked PhoenixMIXr (talk · contribs). Bravo! Please have a look at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/PhoenixMIX and see if you have any input. Thanks! WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:48, 18 July 2012 (UTC)