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This page is unambiguously promotional.However, every time I try and make a page that isn't promotional you delete me while I'm making the page. I'm trying to create a page about my company as a lot of my interns coming from england find it hard to understand the russian website. The page is factual not promotional. Promotional implies bias which it isn't. If you feel I written biased info tell where it is and I'll delete it. I keep having my page deleted by different "monitors" and so I'm to explain myself ever time. Could please help/ Advise me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yours Independent informtion

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July 2014

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Sourcing a list

Thank you for your good work at the SPLC list. Although I differ with you on the best way to source this stuff, we agree that it needs to be sourced.

Given that WP can be edited by (almost) anyone at any time, there are various problems, I think, with:

{{Asof|2014|July}}, the following are listed as active anti-immigrant groups:<ref name="immigrant">{{cite web | url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-immigrant/active_hate_groups | title=Active Anti-Immigrant Groups | work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | accessdate=9 July 2014}}

Let's put aside trolls, fools, axe-grinders, and so on for now. Suppose somebody hears in September that the newly emerged "Sovereign Citizens of Wingnuttistan" is on SPLC's list. She looks it up on their website, and yes sure enough it's there. So she wants to add it to the WP article. The only "simple" (ha ha) solution I see is for her to take on the job of checking every other item in the sublist as well, to add this new item, and to update the above to:

{{Asof|2014|September}}, the following are listed as active anti-immigrant groups:<ref name="immigrant">{{cite web | url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-immigrant/active_hate_groups | title=Active Anti-Immigrant Groups | work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | accessdate=16 September 2014}}

Trouble is, a great percentage of well-meaning editors (let alone the others) aren't going to do this. They're more likely (A) to fictionally backdate the addition to July, (B) to lazily/myopically assume that everything that was listed in July is still listed in September, etc.

For this reason I think it's better to avoid the attempt at a source for the lot, and instead to repeat the reference. If necessary, again and again and again:

Group 1<ref name="immigrant">{{cite web | url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-immigrant/active_hate_groups | title=Active Anti-Immigrant Groups | work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | accessdate=9 July 2014}}
Group 2<ref name="immigrant" />
Group 3<ref name="immigrant" />
Group 4<ref name="immigrant" />

Etc. Ugly, but more bulletproof. -- Hoary (talk) 01:37, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, on a thread a short distance above: "Editing of other editors' user and user talk pages / If a user asks you not to edit their user pages, it is probably sensible to respect their requests (although a user cannot avoid administrator attention or appropriate project notices and communications by merely demanding their talk page is not posted to)" (here). If another editor is seriously misbehaving, it doesn't have to be you that informs the editor. Instead, bring up the matter at WP:AN/I. If what you write there is convincing, then an administrator will deal with the matter. -- Hoary (talk) 01:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Hoary! I admit I did the former citation method out of a bit of laziness. It won't be too much trouble to convert to the latter with some copy-paste though. However, I did like the idea of using "as of" because the lists clearly change, but you're correct that most people wouldn't update. Hm... think there's a way to include a date? EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:50, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I can't think of a simple way. I think you're stuck with

Group 1<ref name="immigrant201407">{{cite web | url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-immigrant/active_hate_groups | title=Active Anti-Immigrant Groups | work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | accessdate=9 July 2014}}
Group 2<ref name="immigrant201407" />

or similar. (Even if there were some wonderful template that would solve your problems, chances are that other, well-meaning contributors wouldn't bother to read the instructions for using it.) -- Hoary (talk) 02:09, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll keep that in mind about the ANI. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:50, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stay cool, sound cool. If you attract some fruity insults about your editing or person, perhaps regard them as unintended trophies. (They should say more about the writers than about you.) -- Hoary (talk) 02:09, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For the hard work you put in verifying the story List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups . ta Mosfetfaser (talk) 04:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Mosfetfaser! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 16:16, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BLPCAT

Categories regarding religious beliefs or sexual orientation should not be used unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief or orientation in question, and the subject's beliefs or sexual orientation are relevant to their public life or notability, according to reliable published sources.

I noticed you violated our policy on biographies of living people by adding Anthony Rapp to a category he does not publicly self-identify as. Please consider reverting your change. JackSchmidt (talk) 04:59, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@JackSchmidt: I reviewed the edit by a user who replaced a sourced statement with an unsourced one. I'll review the edit and see if the cat needs changed. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:00, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You were correct. Thanks for pointing that out. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 05:04, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! JackSchmidt (talk) 05:06, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

NBA players

Yes, absolutely. Only once the team itself has officially announced it on their website can we update it i.e. an NBA.com source. For example, Paul Pierce just agreed to signed with the Wizards. That is not official as the Wizards themselves have not announced it. When it is listed here, it is official. Only a few people of Wikipedia keep patrol on NBA articles and revert when unofficial signings are added. It be great for more people to help us out. Cheers. DaHuzyBru (talk) 06:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@DaHuzyBru: - I'll keep an eye out! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 20:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nick Demetrios Panagiotacopulos

I was gong for AfD, but now you've added PROD tag so let's watch. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 04:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OccultZone - Lol I debated that too... seems like a resume-type page so thought I'd try CSD first. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:50, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Antifeminism

I bet the article's been linked on some extremist site. Keep an eye on it - it keeps getting hit by new IPs. Personally, I think it should be permanently semiprotected, as a huge amount of the article's edit history is reverting changes to the cited definition. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:08, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Roscelese: It's on my watchlist. I'll keep an eye on it and if it intensifies, I'll submit a PPR. Right now I expect they'd say the vandalism is too slow/infrequent to warrant page protection. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 20:21, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Um

About this: reversion: Self-presentation is a behavior. I don't really care what it says, so long as we can get rid of the awkward "what one does oneself" circumlocution. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:33, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bob's Burgers

FYI [1]-- — Keithbob • Talk • 15:13, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

UAA Request

I blocked the account, and revision deleted the log entries at Laverne Cox per your request, but will be leaving the log history at UAA alone for transparency. Just wanted to give you the followup regarding the revdel request. Monty ₈₄₅ 23:34, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Monty845 - Thank you! I appreciate it! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 23:40, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hema Malini

Sir, I have posted my comments and justified the reason as to why the religious identity should be changed. Please, see it on the talk page of the article. Thank you.Iamgame (talk) 17:11, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Iceland

Why that edit is unnecessary? 173.206.37.64 (talk) 22:36, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was overly specific for the lead sentence in my opinion. Country means roughly the same thing but is understandable to more readers. For reference, talking about this edit. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 02:05, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Understandable, but don't you feel that people need to be educated and to do their research for its proper terminology? I've seen way more complicated articles and if people want further clarification, they can look at simple english. Sovereign state is only mentioned once in the article and shouldn't Iceland have it's full terminology for a soveriegn state as it is a huge article needing its' best terminology and it would explain the term of country to its' fullest extent because terms (Sovereign state) is a little missed out. 173.206.188.180 (talk) 22:43, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What the Heck

My information was true considering the fact that a news report confirmed it, so they had no business deleting it, because either way it was true,they probably didn't even try searching it up! Here's the report: http://www.newsnet5.com/entertainment/celebrity/nicki-minaj-gets-animated-for-steven-universe_09416171

If they were following the rules then they could have easily done some research to see if it was true or not. I did.So I hope they got a notification too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emarldquatz (talk • contribs)

The talk page didn't have any one talking about confirmation on dates that's why I didn't bother! and I did give a source that apparently wasn't "reliable" but yet a News website confirmed it, making what I wrote true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emarldquatz (talk • contribs)

Thank you

Thank you! that's all I wanted! fans have been waiting for this information for 3 months. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emarldquatz (talk • contribs)

Your short version appears to work

Hi User:Evergreen. Substituting short version of Red Cross MH-17 edit by User:Evergreen. Agree with User:Evergreen that short version is sufficient summary for multi-sentence version. This appears to be a length-of-edit issue. The discussion of Wikipedia applied to recent events in covered in the opening sections of the Wikipedia article. It is the Wikipedia administrator Andrew Lih who is referenced as supporting the use of Wikipedia to keep up with recent events within responsible guidelines of verifiability like the aircraft incident. FelixRosch (talk) 15:24, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@FelixRosch: Actually, your continued excessive quoting of news sources [2] makes it a WP:NOTNEWS issue. Wikipedia articles are not here to repeat what the news of the day says. When you look at a source, pick out the historically important facts, keeping in mind what historically important means changes from article to article, and distill the content so it doesn't read like a bunch of quotes mashed together. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:37, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's not quite right, to the help edit comment. Wikipedia administrator Andrew Lih is attributed as stating the correct position: "Wikipedia has also earned a reputation as a news source because of its rapid updating of articles related to breaking news." FelixRosch (talk) 15:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@FelixRosch: Andrew Lih has an opinion, not the "correct position". For content issues it matters not a whit that he is an admin. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:09, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Let's keep this on the article's talk page. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 18:48, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nash Grier article

Hello.

I am "talking" to you in regards of Nash Grier's correct date on his Wikipedia page.

His birthdate is indeed the 28th of December of 1997. He used to state it on his website and he also said he was born in 1997, I THINK, in one of his videos.

We know he his currently 16 and born in 1997. So, I am going to revert the changes you made back to how I had them expect the month and date, just the year because it's not questionable when he was born --we know when he was born.

Thank you,

Your Wikipedian.