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Happy New Year, Nightscream

Please forgive this post if this is the wrong place to contact you at but I have just about given up in figuring out Wikipedia and the alteration of history in Chief of FDNY Peter Ganci's page with a gross error on it.

Your corrections and the placement of indents and arrows was not helpful as I am totally unfamiliar with the nuances of Wiki. please forgive a neophyte.

I have been trying to enter the information on Chief of FDNY Peter Ganci's page that his body was found at WTC on 9/11/01

I was there as well as the people (Fire officers) cited and in videos posted with our update. I am not a PHD in wikipedia but have no idea who would change history of this event. I do not know how to and it is not a major player in my life. I was just trying to edit an article that was grossly wrong and hurting to the family of Chief Ganci. His body was recovered and buried. The info I posted was :

Ref Dennis Smith - Report From Ground Zero ISBN 0-670-03116-X Pg 11-113   Ref Animal Planet - Dr Jane Goodall 'When Animals Speak' BBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rgBuZdNgNM Ref Princeton House Publishing - 'Bear' (the Story of America's Most Decorated Rescue Dog) Pg. 71-73 ISBN 978-160530-085-6

Nightscream can you be of assistance in getting this corrected? There are enough real cover-ups of 9/11 without this hurtful misinforamtion on your site. Feel free to contact at safety1ff@gmail.com

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Spider-Man enemies

I am inviting you to copy edit and put on your watchlist my sandbox with all the information regarding Spider-Man enemies. It should soon replace this and turn a plot cruft filled article into a featured list article worthy list sometime maybe in the next future. Jhenderson⁷⁷⁷ 01:43, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration

The drafting arbitrator of the Nightscream case has placed elements of the proposed decision on the workshop page. Your comments are welcome. --Rs chen 7754 19:32, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A proposed decision has been posted at the above page for the Nightscream arbitration case, and arbitrators will now vote on the proposals. Comments can be left on the talk page. --Rs chen 7754 10:03, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An arbitration case regarding Nightscream has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedy has been enacted:

For repeatedly violating the policy on administrator involvement, Nightscream's administrative privileges are revoked. Should he wish to regain administrator status in the future, he may file a new request for adminship.

For the Arbitration Committee, Rs chen 7754 01:24, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this

Per the request of Arbcom, I've removed administrator rights from this account. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 03:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to see you get De-Sysop'ed. Hope you get the bit back soon! KoshVorlon. We are all Kosh 17:44, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto. I'd support any new adminship request you put in. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:37, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nightcrawler

Actually - not that it matters - I reverted one set of unsourced text to the previous batch of unsourced text, and didn't actually add anything to it. I guess you removing it was the right thing to do though. Thanks for looking out for things here! I try to do my best. One problem I am having is watching the edits of Crashsnake - he does not seem to work well with others. 2601:D:9400:3CD:15F:1C77:7604:9A47 (talk) 06:15, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit summary for Joseph Swan edit

Greetings, and thanks for your improvements to various articles on my watchlist. I am curious about one thing; why did you use the edit summary "ce," which is typically for "copyedit," when you made editorial changes which went beyond basic grammar, punctuation, spelling and fixing of awkward spelling? In this edit you changed "Edison collaboration" to "Independent from Edison" and labelled it as "ce." This seems more substantial than a "copy edit,". and it would be helpful if the edit summary gave a clearer description of how the article was changed. If an editor whose name I recognize, such as yours, copyedits an article I usually do not find it necessary to check what they've done, but if it is a substantial change, I might want to take a look. In this case I think the edit is fine, but when the heading of a section is changed to practically the opposite meaning, I would like to have a heads up. Regards. Edison (talk) 04:12, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit was probably more accurate than the old heading, but it was a significant change. Technically, correcting inaccuracies can indeed be called copyediting, but I tend to use ce for grammar and spelling, or correction of redundant or awkward phrasing. "Change x to y" rather than "ce" would have alerted anyone who might have cared or disagreed. I do not disagree with the change in this case, but I'm more likely to view the actual edit if the summary says more than ce when a generally trusted editor is doing the edit. Keep up the good work. Edison (talk) 02:21, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hoboken, New Jersey

Hi, thank you for informing me of more of the accepted usages on Wikipedia. I will have to look further at the issues surrounding "claim" to ensure that I am not violating that. I also should have cited this article at MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mayor-christie-camp-held-sandy-money-hostage Since the Lieutenant Governor denied the allegation today, and therefore Zimmer's charge is not accepted, I will have to see whether or not the word "claim" is inappropriate. Frank Lynch (talk) 23:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reliability of Emporis for Kızılay Emek Business Center

Hi Nightscream, we briefly crossed paths over a year ago on the George Lazenby page. I'm not sure what to do. Kızılay Emek Business Center was recently edited to add a mention that the building was inspired by the UN Secretariat building. I reverted this edit because it didn't ping to a google search and was unsourced. The IP user who made the change reverted a couple of times and then came up with a source. Emporis.com

From previous experience with Emporis, their website is a data mine and regularly holds inaccuracies. I tagged the source with ^{[unreliable source?]} and asked on the talk page if anyone could shed some light on it. This one editer has reverted and looked like it was going to go repeatedly back and forth. How do I get a reliable answer to whether emporis is ^{[unreliable source?]} or not?

I just find it odd that google didn't pick up the claim at all outside that site. SPACKlick (talk) 12:32, January 22, 2014

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Buzzard Roost, Mississippi

Hi there. You gave me some good advice a while back so I thought I'd ask you again. I've been editing a lot of towns in Mississippi, and came across "Buzzard Roost, Mississippi". It's listed as an unincorporated community, but has no GNIS entry and doesn't appear on a topographic map. It seems to be more a "place" locals call Buzzard Roost, because there's a store by that name on the corner. The reason I think the article needs editing is because it appears in a lot of literature as "that town in Mississippi with the funny name." But it really isn't, so the article is misleading. I'm just not sure how to edit it. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 14:24, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Union City High School

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My edit at The Lego Movie

Hi, Night. I respect your work immensely, and I wanted to explain, good colleague to good colleague, why I made the edit i did just now. As I wrote in the edit summary: "Normally, I wouldn't revert a good-faith edit by my longtime and very responsible colleague Nightscream. This one, I know inadvertently, took the plot to way over 700 words." I hope you understand and that we're cool. With regards as always, Tenebrae (talk) 01:18, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, absolutely, and I'd hoped and figured you'd be understanding. You're one of the best editors here, Night, and a treasured friend and colleague. God knows you do great work.

My fear with going over 700 words is that once fans see one movie getting away with it, everyone wants to write everything they can about movies they like ... Lordy, especially on genre and comics movies. I'm proud to have worked constructively with other editors — sometimes literally on a word-by-word basis! — to get Titanic, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol and Skyfall all within 700 words of tightly told plots. One trick I've found that helps is changing passive voice to active voice: "The car driven by Bond went off the road" > "Bond drove the car off the road" ... saves two words, reads better. Or in The Lego Movie someone had the phrase "powerful superweapon." Well, what kind of superweapon would it be if it weren't powerful? : ) --Tenebrae (talk) 18:14, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Union City High School

The article Union City High School you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Union City High School for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ТимофейЛееСуда -- ТимофейЛееСуда (talk) 00:31, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you saw, but I posted my final three points, then I'm happy to pass the article. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 20:16, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Union City High School you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Union City High School for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ТимофейЛееСуда -- ТимофейЛееСуда (talk) 23:02, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chumlee

The section I removed in the article 'Chumlee', regarding his income level, is wholly unsupported by the citation. As explained in the talk page for Chumlee, his derived income level is formed from an assumption made by the author based on hyperbole in a Chumlee interview question.

“She wanted a boob job and she was going to pay it herself but she works so hard. She’s a chef for a major casino. I thought to myself, it literally takes me a couple hours of work to buy a boob job so why would I make her pay for them. She had her money saved up and I just felt it was the right thing to do. That’s a good birthday present, right?” - Chumlee

"That admission, folks, might be as close you’ll get to Chum talking about how much he’s getting paid: If he’s making $2,500 an hour for the show and the merchandise and public appearances, he’d be pulling in $100,000 a week." - Author BipolarBear0 (talk) 08:04, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Actor's biographies - is IMDB an accepted source?

Hi! Thanks for getting back to me and explaining why some of my edits were reverted on Brent Spiner instead of just reverting them. I wonder if the bio page at IMDB would be an acceptable source in this case? Googaah (talk) 10:28, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Coral Smith

Coral Smith So what do you suggest for reporting the information? Golufemi1 (talk) 18:53, February 22, 2014

Changes to citation format at Hoboken High School

The net effect of your recent edit to the article for Hoboken High School is largely to change citation formats in the article. Per WP:CITEVAR, such changes are discouraged and should only be undertaken based on reaching a consensus to make the change based on prior discussion, rather than arbitrarily changing the prevailing format. Before I revert to the prior citation standard, can you explain why these changes were made in contradiction to the guidelines established by community consensus at WP:CITEVAR? Alansohn (talk) 05:08, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I'm actually a bit more agnostic about reference formatting than it may appear, I just don't see that the format that I've been using for years is wrong. I look forward to being convinced otherwise, but until then it appears that CITEVAR supports just leaving things as they are. All I request is that the references be left as they had been before the other editor started adding content. Alansohn (talk) 17:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That approach sounds appropriate. Alansohn (talk) 01:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Al Plastino

This is a neutral notice to a WikiProject Comics member of a discussion at Talk:Al Plastino and an edit-war over fringe science and family/friend editing of Al Plastino. --Tenebrae (talk) 20:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]