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Piece about the Jungle

Hi, Cptnono! Thanks for beginning this article. I'm going to revise it, with the input of other stewards and with links to organizational websites. I'll remove the Beacon Alliance of Neighbors link, as the site is no longer active (using Facebook now, Friends of the Jungle), plus do a general update on the material. The Nicole Brodeur piece will be removed, though, as it really isn't about the Jungle, plus she wasn't engaged in the area in the 12 years since the Jungle Project (City of Seattle's caps) began. CraigAThompson (talk) 19:52, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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I don't mind, indeed I relish the stimulus, of hard challenges in editing from whomever. But that skunk page is getting farcical. Would you do me the courtesy of looking at edits like this. It is wrong on all technical grounds, invites edit-warring, and is not healthy for the encyclopedia, regardless of POV merits. Of course, a request is not under an obligation, but while I almost never agree with you, your editing is rigorously based on a respect for wiki protocols, and there lies my trust that you can examine that page fairly. Nishidani (talk) 19:44, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

@Nishidani: The level of tagging and adding language that dismisses a source is not good for the article. I think the article could easily be fixed in a way that will satisfy both you and the other editor. I'm not convinced that Who Profits is RS from looking at their about us page. Ma'an has been problematic in the past but looks to be growing into the real deal. I would be surprised if those sources couldn't be replaced with pieces from less biased organizations. I think that other easy ways to reduce the appearance of "propaganda" include:

• Beefing up the lead and product sections with general information
• Trimming the history section of individual incidents. The primary concern is the notion of collective punishment. There is a strong argument that the problem exists and a simple paragraph should be sufficient.

I also do believe the other editor is treading on shaky ground. It is obvious a lack of experience but it is still not acceptable. Is there an admin that can explain possible sanctions while still being diplomatic and understanding of how green the editor is?Cptnono (talk) 22:31, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I think my record will show I have steered away from Ma'an, until relatively recently. Reading it now regularly, I find it toned down, fairly focused on names, facts and incidents and quite reliable for them. It also frequently cites the Hebrew Press coverage which is only otherwise available to me in Mondoweiss, Tikun olam, and other websites not deemed generally acceptable. Since NPOV requires both sides, and there is little out there that records things reliably from a Palestinian perspective, I think it qualifies by now.

As to Who Profits, it is a joint Israeli-Palestinian activist research group. We in practice allow a good deal of citation to the IDF, its allied research centres or groups like Israeli Intelligence & Heritage Commemoration Center or the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (2014 Israel–Gaza conflict) etc.etc., but label any research group like this 'activist' and not-usable. I am a contextualist. I read a document thoroughly to see if it is useful, careful, footnoted, regardless of some formal mechanical idea of what is, or is not, RS. The three papers I have read from WPO are all thoroughly sourced and internally verifiable. That does not make them free from accuracy - but our mainstream newspapers never footnote or source themselves. In this case, in the paper we used, we have an academic unhysterical presentation of documented analysis in a field lacking so far good sources. In these cases, one uses such sources, I would think, until better ones, preferably books with a good academic imprint can replace them.

I'm quite happy with your suggestions, which are sensible, and ready to work out a a solution on the talk page. It's hard enough doing these articles when editors don't understand the rules or lack experience. Don't want to drag you there, but if you could briefly outline these and/or other suggestions there, then I'd deeply appreciate it. Thanks Nishidani (talk) 20:08, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

As to admins, I think they're overworked, and only to be called on when necessity demands it. Ed Johnston obliged when Ashtul was having problems, and a note led to him reverting. I think it too early to bother admins with the other editor. These requests always tend to look like one is using admins to win a point, and are a last resort.Nishidani (talk) 20:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final

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Re Carmel

The two articles from Haaretz and the New York Times which I introduced there have really a lot of excellent material on the farming, commercial activities and industries at that settlement. I had that in mind when I read them, particularly the Haaretz article. I hardly have much time for Wikipedia, what time I have is devoured by pointless bickering that eats into productive additions. It was obvious to me in adding the excellent Haaretz article the other day that there was an hour or two of work needed to balance out the article with details on life, work and productivity. But, fuck it, I can't do anything. My real complaint with editors is that when a source like that is used partially, as I did, because of lack of time, they don't study it closely and add everything else in it that balances the perspective. I should do that of course, but every edit I do takes a long while, since I usually check several other sources as well before I do it.The material on the Israeli 'positive' side's there, and should be harvested. If you or anyone has time, they'd save my honour (lack of time these days) by filling it out.Nishidani (talk) 22:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Much like on the ground, it is fucked. "The only winning move is not to play" it feels like. I'm fortunate that I care more about my local sports team that working towards a good and then featured topic makes editing more enjoyable. I do agree with you that that 0404 publisher looks questionable.

Oh snap... TOUCHDOWN SEAHAWKS.Cptnono (talk) 23:03, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Lucky bastard! My first home was near a golf course, like my second, and I live in a country with none within 30 miles, and even there they charge like wounded bulls. I've just realized that editing Wikipedia was probably a life-choice diotated by the fact that Italy provides me with no golf links, and their soccer is boring. Cheers.Nishidani (talk) 23:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

If we could all just walk around in the the grass for a few hours every week than life would be better. It is a goddamn shame.Cptnono (talk) 05:06, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Pal (whoops, no pun in poor taste intended!), I don't walk around in the grass, I smoke it! I commend the sentiment. Nishidani (talk) 21:18, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

LOL.. took me a second. It will all work out as we get years of acclimation to this environment. Oddly enough, all I can think of from my most recent AE comment is "the jerk store called and they're running out of you" (or something like that). We need to find golf courses since it will make us happier (I can't smoke on the course because I can barely hit that bastard ball with 2 beers in me).Cptnono (talk) 07:29, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Yuta Watanabe GA

Hello. Thanks for accepting to review the Yuta Watanabe article. I will try to make the changes when I get the time. Temple of the Mousy (talk) 00:15, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

AE

I'll continue to offer my opinion at AE when I like and won't worry at all about you. If you think I should be topic-banned, then of course it's open to you to make a request about me. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 07:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

that isn't what I said. Read the fucking words on your screen.Cptnono (talk) 07:23, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final

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Seattle

Thanks for the invitation, I'd love to travel to America's soccer city, it seems such a cultured and interesting place (I may be basing that opinion on a certain television sitcom). By the way, The Cup can stay! '''tAD''' (talk) 19:05, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Haha, like you, I may have once or twice let alcohol get in the way of my edits. I'm at university and because of my regular habit of going home for the weekend, we often drink on Tuesdays, and I stumble into bars to see glimpses of Champions League matches and write about them when I get back. '''tAD''' (talk) 19:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Not sure if you follow the "other" football, but good luck for the Seahawks in the big game! I like their name, reminds me of how my father speaks in a quaint country way and calls seagulls "shitehawks" in reference to the obvious '''tAD''' (talk) 01:56, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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SD

Hi. Responding to your prompt I looked at his edits over the lòast few days (admittedly I rarely sight SD, most of the pages he works are not on my watchlist)

• Buq'ata SD wants ‘currently’. Might be overegging the pud. I don't think the word is needed, as you say per WP:MOS. But it's a fair POV, a nudge perhaps that attentive readers don't need.
• Keffiyeh. Reasonable. I once got chased and threatened on a kibbutz for wearing one, only by one kibbutznik though. The community was a great, flexible and sensible one, save for him.
• that the Shebaa Farms is occupied is universally known
• Syrian ‘controlled’ is wrong, because it is Syrian territory, as the previous edit had it..’Israel-occupied’ , as a contrast to ‘controlled’, while true, is probably not the best solution since Shebaa farms is defined simply as a territory, and referred to by a link that explains its status, earlier in the page.
• reverted back to S.hoyland, ‘invaded’ is improper, ‘entered’ is correct. Jordan did not invade, nor did Lebanon, for instance. The former assumed defensive control of areas designated as Arab in the UN declaration. User contributions:Par Ah Dux, an editor with a profile that doesn’t exist confidence (reverts good editors or admins like SH and Malik Shabazz)
• correct, I think. A new editor reverted Sean.hoyland on POV tag. SD restored it.
• ‘reverts’ de jure to proclaimed for Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which is correct.
• Putting ‘occupied’ can be justified. The Golan Heights law placing the area Israel conquered under Israeli administration does not contain the word ‘annexation’ and technically it is under ‘belligerent occupation’ (Yoram Dinstein The International Law of Belligerent Occupation Cambridge University Press, 2009 pp.19-20.
• ethnic cleansing is going on in Syria, correct.
• correct

We're always going to disagree on quite a few key things, but I don't mind that. What I find exasperating is failure to address coherently on a talk page a point of difference, which is what happened in the Ashtul case (thanks for helping there). I freely admit I have in the past had difficulties with quite a bit of SD's behavior when I reviewed some AE reports. We disagreed then, from memory, on quite a few things, and I don't know if he respects my opinion. Let's put it this way. If you see something that you think is worthy of a note from me on his page or some article talk page, I'd be happy to review it, as impartially as I can and drop a note on his page. Cheers.Nishidani (talk) 11:35, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

And, by the way, stick to the 'suds' and maintain the smoke-free life. I abuse both, but then, it's better to be cranky from a drop of ale than to cough, splutter and struggle with short-windedness, esp. when one tends to be, as I am, a noxiously long-winded cunt.Nishidani (talk) 11:38, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

I was fuckin tanked last night (still pulling 9th place in the wikicup before it gets hard). SD is sole purpose: Fuck Israel and highlight the occupation nonstop in a losing battle to give Syria credit. Really, Syria? At ;eat JJG and a couple other pro-Israeli guys had some goddamn tact in their POV. SD messed up the awesome falafel article.

Regardless, I need something to take the edge off from being angry here and in reality. I had dinner with a handful of old buddies the other night and all they talked about was their million dollar budgets and how many hallucinogens they did as kids. Life is funny that way. But SD is problematic for the project as a whole.Cptnono (talk) 04:05, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final

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Free Gaza

By reverting my edit you've put the red back into the references section. Please refer to Wikipedia:Citing sources and adjust the dates according to [1] Help:CS1 errors here. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 18:54, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on User talk:DragonflySixtyseven. Also, your behavior on Odin Brewing Company is not appropriate either. _→AzaToth 13:53, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

My behavior is fine. Cptnono (talk) 15:58, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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Please look at Carmel, Har Hebron

There are two quotes there about the nearby Palestinian village that are hardly relevant and an image with Carmel 'in the background'. My edits are repeatedly reverted by from what I saw, you get some more respect around here.

Also, can you please comment in this discussion.

Thanks, Ashtul (talk) 08:48, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

FWIW

For what it's worth, you did the right thing by disengaging. My comment on ANI was more toward the others who reverted after you, especially since you did engage in some discussion on the talk page. Just wanted to reply to your comment and acknowledge that you did the appropriate thing imho. Here's an adorable kitten for the heck of it. Cheers! :)

EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 21:50, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

AE request

Hi man,

Sorry you have to spend precious time b/c of me again. I am asking here b/cx AE page is clunged by now. If this is inappropriate please delete.

I am just really confused by this whole AE request since Nishidani doesn't argue even once the content should have stayed. WP:3RR rule is in place to prevent WP:WAR over content dispute not prevent editors from removing outdated material that other editors put back unintentionally.

Thanks, Ashtul (talk) 13:27, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Cleavage

The protection of cleavage (breasts) has been lifted. Your reverts of the recent changes were the only one that were directly motivated concerns relating to article quality (the other reverts[2][3] appear to have been about restoring stability). There has been a lot of discussion about recent changes, including motivations as to why the recent edits were justified. So far, consensus seems to support all or most of those changes. If you'd like to chime in, now would probably a good time.

Peter ^Isotalo 15:43, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Are we looking at "Reverted edits in need of motivations"? The massive changes were a cluster fuck. I suppose that talk section will do for review purposes but it looks like someone else is already calling shenanigans. I will attempt go through source by source. It would be easier if the lines being removed were also included. It is alreayd hard enough to do due dilligence without it taking an extra half hour to sort through tid bits that the remover could have spent time highlighting. (note to self... bug WMF about a tool that mimics the bright yellow of a higher).Cptnono (talk) 04:42, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

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2014 Coppa Italia Final

Thanks for "waking me up" about the GA review, can't believe I had it on my watchlist but never noticed it! I've made all the changes you have suggested, you are very good at making suggestions. I think it helps to have a North American reviewer, because sometimes European football fans take our knowledge for granted, it's important to present information for a global audience. '''tAD''' (talk) 07:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

@The Almightey Drill: dammit, I was about to go to watch a documentary on baseball and go to bed but now I have to go and cross the t's and dot the i's on this new GA. Don't forget you have an FAC with dead links still. Nice work, dude!Cptnono (talk) 07:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Game of War: Fire Age

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Just a note

it would have been cool if he would have stepped back and taken a deep breath before disregarding Ashtul's points.

You're right to the extent that I disregarded his points because they were legion, and short responses lead to more. On retrospect. Exasperation with, what to me, was consistently confused responses was at work. I just find that he should have mastered in 6 months some of the more elementary rules, and how to stay on topic, and avoid campaigning. Most of us don't do a large number of edits we're minded to, because they foreseeably lead to conflict or bickering, and try, I think, to stick to stuff that will stick. I've had to sit out a few bans, one a perma (which I privately felt was entirely irrational), some for sheer stubbornness for refusing to revert crap, for months. It's sensible in the long run, if one wants to work this place and fucks up, just to sit things out, work on other articles and learn to build them, and come back refreshed and more competent. I'm minded, if I get time, to return to the Skunk and a few other articles, and if I do, I'd appreciate you s(h)itting (:)) on my shoulder to see that a fair rewrite emerges. Cheers Nishidani (talk) 17:51, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

I think Skunk would be a piece of cake.Cptnono (talk) 04:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello

I saw your AE request, just thought I'd write and tell you you're well justified in trying to fight the half-dozen partisan Palestine SPAs that have hijacked the entire Israel-Palestine topic area for their own ends. This comes from one who spent quite some time on a previous account trying to undo the rampaging Israel SPAs some ten years ago or so. It seems quite some time after I left some epic stuff went down with ARBCOM and the pro-Israel types mostly moved on and the pro-Palestine types mostly waited out their bans and continued the fight. In many respects the articles are far weaker now than then because of the jarring propaganda they have managed to insert into articles day-in, day-out with little resistance and oversight - and then all close ranks to defend. I don't care about the subject area enough to get involved, with all the bickering required and the inevitable abuse that entails, but good luck to you. AnotherNewAccount (talk) 15:10, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Very well said at AE. A little bit more profanity is my style but god damn. Noting will come of it it but it is good for people to hear.Cptnono (talk) 03:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

2008 UEFA Champions League Final FAC

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Happy Easter!

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All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 02:06, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Freaking cute! Thanks. Besides editing on a broken keyboard and acting like a jungle gym for several hours, it has been a lovely holiday. Thank God for mimosas.Cptnono (talk) 04:58, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

your reversion of "killing" to replace it with the anodyne "incident" et cetera at La Familia - your edit description was sarky or kindly - I cannot make out which.

The beating of the deceased's cousin by the Israeli forces was proven to have taken place after they handcuffed him, and contrary to their statements . Hence both the riots and the sense in mentioning that detail in the article. Do you really want to revert a killing to use the word "incident" to describe it instead ? REALLY ? If so, why ?--— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht ^Talk/_Stalk 16:39, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

My primary concern was the handcuff part. That detail belongs somewhere else, was too minor a detail for that article, and made the sentence read a little off. I considered keeping "killing" in but "murder" is used just before it so I don;t think there is any confusion to the reader. There was also the kidnapping so it is an overall "incident". I don't feel terribly strongly about that bit, though. I was going to keep the "protests" part but confussed myself while trying to reword it and got sidetracked. The other edit was kept 100%.Cptnono (talk) 17:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Dude, awesome work!

		The Seattle Sounders FC Barnstar
		For your great work taking 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup from stub article through DYK, GA, and finally FA reviews getting it to the status of featured article, I award you this barnstar. Bravo! SkotyWATC 06:57, 8 April 2015 (UTC)