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)

Mohammed Conde

Dear ‘James’, thank you for your comments and encouraging me to study the Wikipedia policies, have a more balance approach to editing and diversify my editing. I have been working on my content for the Mohammed Conde page, focusing on compliance with BLP and Critism guidelines. I have opened sections on the Talk page to encourage the discussion of my edits. Yet my content is simply being removed by the same person, CollinsGen12, every time with no discussion. How do I approach this – not wishing to start an editing war? My post on the vandalism board (which you commented on) was misdirected in my desperation, and before I take up more Wiki admin time by creating a formal ‘content dispute’: I was wondering if you would be kind enough to comment on my most recent edits to the Mohammed Conde page: [1] [2] [3] [4] Perhaps from your experience you may also suggest how I can engage with CollinsGen12 in order to resolve any differing personal opinions and agree on content that complies with Wiki policies without needing admins to adjudicate. Further background: The notability of the Mohammed Conde page is currently being discussed here. Thank you for your time. OscarK878 (talk) 11:04, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

FYI The Mohammed Conde page has been deleted via Afd. If you are bored one day and want to comment on my editing, or have any tips, then please feel free to do so. Otherwise this request may be removed from your page. Thank you OscarK878 (talk) 17:24, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Milos

Hi James - regarding User talk:JamesBWatson/Archive 44#Milos23 - please note that Milos23 (talk · contribs) is probably the same as МИКИЦЗВ02 (talk · contribs) and today's new appearance Milosczv2222 (talk · contribs) - a full list of suspected sockpuppets at Serbian Wikipedia can be found here - linked as they create hoax articles, see Milos Bozovic and Milos Bozovic (footballer born 1990). GiantSnowman 17:36, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks, I'm sure CU will find plenty more! Regards, GiantSnowman 14:52, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

The whole story goes like this for him one of the Serbian Wikipedia administrator wrote to welcome him to the Serbian Wikipedia. I happen to notice it's in the user name and the additional cost Milos CZV. When I saw that he decided to inform the administrator of one of the English Wikipedia, which is welcomed by him to do the same with 27 user accounts of Wikipedia. Greeting! --Kolega2357 (talk) 15:24, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Ted Hughes

Hi James, would you mind saying why you removed the Modern British Collections on Ted Hughes link from Ted Hughes, you cited WP:EL, but which particular point? It's one of the major online resources on Hughes. Thanks. Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 16:09, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

I think it was a mistake. I was removing unsuitable links from a number of articles, and I think this one got included because I didn't check carefully enough. I have restored the link, and a couple more too. Thanks for calling my attention to it. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:24, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks for that James, I was racking my brains wondering if there's yet another obscure policy area I am sadly deficient in understanding. :) Is British poetry an interest area for you? Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 18:32, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes, in the sense that I read and write poetry, but no, in the sense that it's not an particular area that I particularly edit about in Wikipedia. JamesBWatson (talk)

OK. There are so few humanists as opposed to technologists generally around the place that one craves the intellectual company of those to whom the likes of Hughes are an editing interest. Back to the articles! :) Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 18:44, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Updating Michael Levin's Page

Hi James,

I volunteer for the Lone Soldier Center in Michael Levin's memory. His family has requested we update this Wikipedia Page about him with information about the center carrying his memory.

What should we do to post on Wikipedia as we noticed that you deleted our posts?

Thanks, David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidbesnainou392 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Both editing on behalf of his family and volunteering for the organisation mean that you have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest strongly discourages you from editing on the subject. People with a personal involvement in a subject, or people acting on behalf of others who have one, very often find it difficult to edit from a neutral point of view, even if they sincerely intend to do so, quite apart from the fact that some of them don't. Your editing, using such language as "There [sic] heroes need our support", has certainly not been neutral. If you did not intend to use Wikipedia for promotion, then you clearly are too closely involved to see your own editing objectively, and should not be editing on the subject. If, on the other hand, you did intend to use Wikipedia for promotion, then you have, unfortunately, misunderstood the nature of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a medium for promotion of anything. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Nope

No, I'm not. --Teemu Leisti (talk) 16:29, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Possible unblock of User:RickWilliams75

Hi JamesBWatson. I've asked this user to address the issues you raised in your decline of his unblock request before I unblock him; if you could take a quick glance at his talkpage and check that I've represented your objections correctly I'd appreciate it. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 07:52, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I think you have made a very fair offer, and am happy with what you have said. If he accepts your terms then unblocking to give another chance seems reasonable. I wanted to make it clear to him that there were more issues than he had accepted, because otherwise there was a risk that he would be unblocked, but continue to edit in unacceptable ways that he had not acknowledged were at issue, and be blocked again pretty soon. The main reason I did that in the form of a decline of the unblock request, rather than just adding a note at the bottom of the page, was to prevent his undeclined unblock request attracting more admins who would be wasting their time looking into a case that was already being dealt with. In such cases I think it is often better to decline the request pending acceptance of the offer. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:01, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Good point. Thanks for the advice, as always. Yunshui 雲‍水 05:02, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

I've asked him for clarification one last time, since it appears he still claims his account was hacked by Salvidrim to make the offending edits. If so, he's either untrustworthy or compromised. We'll have to see what he says next, but I'm thinking that unblock offer may have been a waste of time after all... Yunshui 雲‍水 08:13, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes. There was no harm in giving him a chance, but since he seems not to want to take that chance, I think the time has probably come to drop the matter and move on. All credit to you for your patience, and your willingness to give him yet another chance to show good faith, beyond the stage where most of us would have turned our backs on him. My feeling is that, if he has lied, been given a chance to retract his lie, and has chosen to stick to it, then unblocking would be unhelpful: even if he eventually does change his tune we will never be able to trust him again. If, on the other hand, he really is telling the truth, then we have a compromised account. (Incidentally, how much intelligence would it to realise, after everything he has been told, that "Of course I stand by my claims" is a step towards making it more certain that the block will stay?) JamesBWatson (talk) 08:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

I think (and I'm sorry to keep this thread going; I suppose I'm just a sucker for lost causes - if you want to wash your hands of the affair just say the word!) that there was a misunderstanding there - his latest statement, though brusque, clearly explains that he repudiates his earlier statements about being hacked. I'm guessing he either didn't read the thread I linked to, or he didn't understand what I was asking - it's not always easy to get one's message across on the internet... Either way, I've left it like this: if someone will take him on as an adoptee, I will unblock him (making it clear when I do that if he uses the rope to hang himself, I'll put him back on indef like a shot...). Yunshui 雲‍水 08:17, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Advice please

Can you view this revert and its edit summary, shortly followed by this and advise whether this amounts to gaming of the 1rr restrictions. Note that the edit in question was being contested by several editors here. Ankh.Morpork 16:27, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm not 100% happy about it, especially the edit summary you refer to. However, I do have some sympathy with Mystichumwipe, who seems to be making a good faith attempt to make a case which is certainly not without merit, and which he sees as being persistently frustrated. That is not to say that I agree with him: I actually do not have a view as to which side is "right", but I don't think that Mystichumwipe is intending to be obstructive. The edit summary suggests that he has still not really grasped the point about edit warring, but he did self-revert. I will draw his attention top this discussion, but I don't see any need to take any other action at this stage. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Ist, Can you explain what you mean with: " he has still not really grasped the point about edit warring"?

2nd, There are three editors who appear to me to be editing the article with a clear bias and who refuse to explain their reverts or engage in specific discussion and which I have asked one if they are prepared to go to arbitration over. But that is a different subject to this one of 'gaming'. So...

3rd, Self-revert explanation: I ADDED clariftying info to the lead and tried to write it in a way that I thought accomodated the views and objections of these mentioned other three editors. This is not so easy to do as they refuse to discuss or answer specific questions (see talk) [5] [6] As I did not delete anything and added info in line with what I understood their objections were (and while trying to accomodate their viewpoints) I did not see that as edit-warring but as moving the article toward improvement. The time shown on the history page is not exactly the same as the actual correct time in my country, so I then saw that I had added these edits before 24 hours had elapsed from my last editing. To avoid any chance of a complaint of 1RR I self- reverted my edit.--Mystichumwipe (talk) 07:56, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Ronnie o'sullivan premier league 2011 victory

Hi i am writing to you in relation to ronnie osullivan's premier league win in 2011.i have tried to place this win in the non ranking section,but everytime i do armbrust removes it saying this is a variant event.i have done research contacting world snooker,premier league and snooker statisticians like dave hendon who provides snooker stat they all still class it as a non ranking/invitational event. According to world snooker and dave hendon century breaks made are counted towards career totals,and matches counted towards players head to head records.this would not occur if it was a variant event.as i said i got confirmation from world snooker on this but armbrust will not listen to reason.can you edit this for me ?.any reply will be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.154.227 (talk) 17:15, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Ronnie o'sullivan premier league 2011 victory

Hi i am writing to you in relation to ronnie osullivan's premier league win in 2011.i have tried to place this win in the non ranking section,but everytime i do armbrust removes it saying this is a variant event.i have done research contacting world snooker,premier league and snooker statisticians like dave hendon who provides snooker stat they all still class it as a non ranking/invitational event. According to world snooker and dave hendon century breaks made are counted towards career totals,and matches counted towards players head to head records.this would not occur if it was a variant event.as i said i got confirmation from world snooker on this but armbrust will not listen to reason.can you edit this for me ?.any reply will be appreciated. Snookerfan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.154.218 (talk) 17:21, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Salvador Puig Antich again

I want to reach an agree with CristofolR about our mini edition war, but him doesn't seem available for colaborate. Today he make the same edition and later answer me in my talk page. In the message he says "Catalonia has an own government" and the guy nationality is the Catalonian. I think that even the books says about him how Catalonian, we can't ignore the actually nationality. If you want report us to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring, go ahead, i don't want argue about political issues, I prefer you to be the moderator or anyone (i don't care). I promise don't make another edition in Salvador Puig Antich Until we receive response. Thanks. Answer me as you can in my talk page, thank you. --Ravave (talk) 09:34, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Ah!, by the way. I have found some sources (in English) which says he was a Spanish born in Barcelona, one of those sources is a PDF profile about international famous anarchists. --Ravave (talk) 10:29, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Hello!, i'd be waiting your response, but you don't response me. I am disagree with CrsitofolR and i reported him to Administrators' noticeboard. --Ravave (talk) 15:19, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Protected page

James; you are quite right (of course). I muist have accidentally selected the wrong notification tremplate. I will look and see how/what I did.--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:08, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

urgent

Dear Mr James BWatson , would you please delete this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setareh_Diba as soon as possible — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.152.195.92 (talk) 17:19, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

What? That article has not existed since it was deleted by JohnCD on 27 January. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:32, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Herbolzheim

Hello JBW, I notice you are continuing to monitor Herbolzheim. But he is still writing very offensive and insulting comments about me on his talk page. He keeps saying "look at his talk page, he has sucked people into arguments". He really seems to have an obsessive vendetta against me when I have done absolutely nothing wrong. I am just sick of him dragging my name through the mud, if there is anything you could do I would appreciate your assistance. I am not going to approach him directly as that will make things worse which is why I have come to you. Thanks very much. Christian1985 (talk) 23:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

The Punisher a Superhero?

User Ash Loomis[7] is calming that the Marvel comic book character the Punisher should be listed as a Superhero even though everything about the character doesn't Categories him as that at all. The only reason this user has come up with so far is that just because an enemy of his is listed as a Supervillain (which was wrong), he should be listed as a Superhero and that doesn’t make any sense. But you see the Punisher lives in the Marvel world where it's full of Supervillains, he eventually runs into them.99.174.168.3 (talk) 03:25, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

User 75.80.134.142

Sorry to bother you, but several Articles on my Watchlist were edited by this User and I went to their Talk Page and noticed that this User has been repeatedly warned (even warned by you before) and previously blocked. The main problem is the User constantly adds Categories to Articles that are inappropriate even after being repeatedly warned about it. I went through this Users edits and reverted many, many of them and found that many of them were already reverted (several by you yourself) When 95% of a Users edits are either just reverted or reverted and the User is warned then the User should no longer be able to edit (in my humble opinion. King of Nothing (talk) 04:23, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Nevermind. User Kudpung has blocked the IP Address. Thanks. King of Nothing (talk) 04:42, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Snooker tournament change

Hi i am writing to find out what is the process i need to change a snooker event from a variant to a non ranking on wiki.everytime i try and change it,it is deleted even though i have evidence to suggest i am right in changing this event ?.can you tell me what i need to do thanks ? PaulG — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.154.220 (talk) 08:03, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

The essential thing is communication. I see that you have given an edit summary mentioning your reasons, in an edit at Neil Robertson (snooker player), but it might be more helpful for you to try discussing the matter with the other editors involved. I see that you took some part in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Snooker back in February, but apart from that and a few posts here on my talk page, you don't seem to have discussed your issues. Or if you have, then I can't see when and where you have done so. That is one of the difficulties created by editing anonymously from IP addresses that keep changing. Even what I have seen of your editing history took me a bit of time to find. If you discuss the issues with the other editors involved, there is a reasonable hope that you and they may be able to come to an agreement, or if not then at least a degree of consensus that can be accepted. I have no opinion on the matter myself, in fact I have no idea what the difference is between "variant" and "non ranking". However, when I find myself in disagreements with other editors about things that I do know about, I explain my reasons and try to persuade them. Quite often I succeed, or at least manage to get a compromise we can settle on. Sometimes, though, I find that consensus is against me and shows no sign of shifting. In that situation, I leave the issue, and move on, even if I believe the consensus is wrong. I take the view that my time is better spent on things that I can improve than on persistently trying to change something that is not going to be changed.

I have, then, two pieces of advice. The first is to create an account. This makes it easier for others to keep track of your editing and know what you are doing. It makes it easier for them to communicate with you. It also may encourage other editors to take your opinions more seriously. Perhaps people shouldn't take editors less seriously if they don't have an account, but it's a fact that some of them do. My second piece of advice is to approach the other editors, politely explaining the reasons for your edits, and asking them about their opinions on the matter. Discussion can take place on user talk pages, but if several other editors are involved in connection with one article, then that article's talk page is likely to be better. If discussion doesn't work, then there are other methods of dispute resolution, but probably they won't be necessary. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:15, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

hi thanks for replying i only really use wiki to update players snooker profiles as i am a budding statistician.i have emailed armbrust about the about event i mentioned but he said his mind will not be changed.but i have contacted the governing bodies and he is not listing it properly,if i start a discussion on the wiki talk snooker page and i get consensus that means that the tournament in question can be changed then isnt that right ?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.154.239 (talk) 16:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

If you get consensus then there should be no problem. I still suggest getting an account, though. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:57, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Boxing club

The blocked enthusiast wrote new messages at the top of his talk page, including one addressed to you, which I have moved down to here and replied to, though since he particularly addressed you, you may want to add something. I really think we have a WP:CIR issue here - I see no evidence that he has read or understood any single thing that anyone has said to him. JohnCD (talk) 23:35, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I agree entirely. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:44, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Indiavision News

Thanks for the wi-ta, The article is well researched and properly referenced, may have more contribution from other users in days to come. I appreciate your concern but due respects clears your doubt.~~farhan.dastoor~~