User talk:Coolgama

Indian film score composers

Please see my proposal to rename/upmerge: Hugo999 (talk)

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Category:Malayalam film composers to Category:Malayalam film score composers

Blogs as references

Hi there, I'm not sure what was confusing about the embedded note that you replaced in this edit, so maybe you can suggest a way to rephrase it to avoid confusion. It didn't seem to do the job, since you added content that was supported by marathistars.com, which is clearly a blog, bornglorious.com, which is clearly not a reliable source with an established reputation for fact-checking (it credits Wikipedia as a source for content at the bottom of the page), filmymonkey.com, which is clearly a blog run by who-knows-whom, and a Yahoo reference that does not resolve. So, to clarify, We do not use user-generated sources as references. This includes blogs, unverified Twitter accounts, IMDb, Wikia, discussion forums, website comments, even Wikipedia itself. We are only interested in what reliable published sources with established reputations for fact-checking and accuracy have to say about anything. Please familiarize yourself with our reliable source guidelines, and please also note our rules for editing biographies of living people. BLPs must be impeccably sourced, which again means no blogs or other poor sources. Please feel free to respond below if you so wish. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:49, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi Coolgama, thanks for your note at my talk page. You're welcome to disagree about whether or not Marathistars.com is a blog or a "website" (I'm not sure what distinction you make between the two), but to my experienced eye, the site is shaped like every other cookie-cutter blog I happen across. It contains content that is not attributed to anyone, there's no indication of when that content was published, it does not announce who owns or operates it, and there's no indication that there's an experienced journalism professional editing the content.

This fits the standard profile for a faceless content-scraping blog. Note for example the phrasing on the marathistars.com site:

"Swapnil married a dentist by profession, in January 2005. It was a love marriage but the two divorced in 2009."

Now look at marathionweb.com. Now look at marathishine.com. Now look at vipmarathi.me. These sites all contain the same general content arranged the same general way. Even the websites bear a general common resemblance in layout. What a lot of bottom-feeders do, is create garbage websites/blogs, "scrape" content (i.e. steal content) from other sources without attribution, and then perform some SEO witchcraft to drive traffic to their garbage sites, typically so they can get advertising revenue.

If you're still skeptical, look at marathionweb.com again

Swapnil married a dentist by profession, in January 2005.[9] It was a love marriage but the two divorced in 2009. He then married Leena Aradhye on 16 December 2011 in a private ceremony, at the Taj Hotel in Aurangabad. Leena also is a dentist

Do you notice the [9]? That's because marationweb.com lifted the content (without attribution) directly from Wikipedia. Look at this February 2014 version of the article. Exact same prose. Even has the [9] in the same place.

Now look again at marathistars.com. Note the statement: "Leena also is a dentist." That phrasing appears here in a November 2012 edit, when someone changes the prose from:

"Surprisingly, Leena also happens to be a dentist like his first wife."

to

"Leena also is a dentist."

This suggests very strongly, that like marathionweb.com, marathistars.com lifted the content directly from Wikipedia, which means that we are basically using Wikipedia as its own reference, as filtered through these useless content aggregators.

If I need to further demonstrate the point, see tribuneindia.com. This Tribune interview written who-knows-when is almost certainly the source of the content:

"Swapnil Joshi who divorced his first wife Aparna in 2009 married Leena Aradhye on December 16 in a private ceremony. Surprisingly, Leena also happens to be a dentist like his first wife.

So, my point is, marathistars.com did not originate the content, they scraped it from somewhere, almost certainly from Wikipedia, which makes it as completely unreliable as the other sites included above (minus the Tribune, of course, as that is a reputable publication with an established reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.)

As for your question, "why we are so rigid for birthdate?" WP:BLPPRIVACY explains it.

"With identity theft a serious ongoing concern, people increasingly regard their full names and dates of birth as private. Wikipedia includes full names and dates of birth that have been widely published by reliable sources, or by sources linked to the subject such that it may reasonably be inferred that the subject does not object."

Biographies of living people must be impeccably sourced. If there are other articles with unsourced birthdates, those dates should be sourced or removed. Sorry for the ridiculously long-winded reply, but I thought you deserved a detailed explanation. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:43, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi Cyphoidbomb, I truly appreciate the efforts put by you in explaining details. Let us try to solve this. Interestingly I know Swapneel in person and he has personally confirmed me his date of birth orally and he has no issue in adding on wikipedia. Unfortunately, I could not find any reliable source for the same. Can you please help to find the way out? Coolgama (talk) 15:35, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

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I do not know for what reason I am blocked. I have not done any personal attack, I have not abused anybody, I am not a part of any contradictory discussion. I have not done fights with anybody. The reason given as sock puppet investigation. Please note that I am contributing from my office where many people are using common IP address. Even the writing style could be same as I have only encouraged many members in office to contribute to Wikipedia. That could be the reason for getting multiple IDs from same IP. Another thing, Wikipedia support multiple accounts as per WP:Multiple accounts. I am silent player on Wikipedia who loves Wikipedia very much and try to contribute when ever I get time....

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You were blocked for WP:socking. Yes, Wikipedia allows sharing IP address, but it has to be properly disclosed per WP:COWORKER. Our WP:CheckUser tool shows that you and your "collegue" User:Yogee23 operate from the same computer. You also edit same articles, making similar edits, sometimes on the same day. That looks like to much coincidence. If you make another unblock request, you should address this issue. Vanjagenije (talk) 22:14, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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I was not aware about the disclosing of such things. May be I will take care in future. As informed earlier, Yogee23 was the person who was learning from me for editing in Wikipedia from my computer only and we share computer in the office with few others also. Incidentally Yogee23 was blocked few months back but I continued to do so. You may find some other IDs also from same IP as we have very small office and are having shortage of computers. Our company can not afford to give separate PCs to everybody. I am on Wikipedia for last 3 years with more than 2500 valuable edits. I once again request you to unblock me and allow me contribute to Wikipedia. I am awaiting your positive reply on the same for last few days as I am not able to contribute. Coolgama (talk) 07:26, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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