User talk:Shannon1

Dear friends,
I am known for leaving a destructive trail of bare URLs across Wikipedia. My sincerest apologies, but the time I have for editing is limited, and I'd like to spend it adding new content. Time permitting, I will slowly work through my old edits and format them properly.

Your GA nomination of Trinity River (California)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Trinity River (California) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Coemgenus -- Coemgenus (talk) 14:01, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trinity River (California)

The article Trinity River (California) 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:Trinity River (California) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Coemgenus -- Coemgenus (talk) 14:20, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trinity River (California)

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DYK for Oroville Dam crisis

On 28 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oroville Dam crisis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that nine million fish were rescued from the Feather River Fish Hatchery during the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis (pictured)? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Oroville Dam crisis), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Arkansas River

In your edit summary at Arkansas River you wrote "geez a good portion of this article itself has no sources. why remove new content without even confirming it?" I remove it for the same reason I pick up litter in my neighborhood; because if it builds it sends a message to the community that nobody cares, and leads to more litter. The broken windows theory follows this philosophy. I will often look for a source for a new editor who wishes to add something valuable to the project but has little ability to properly source their edit. For an experienced editor, who for whatever reason wishes to add significant content without taking the time to find a source--or worse, expects others to find it for them--I delete like a ninja. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:33, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

I suppose it would be petty, but in this situation it might also be good to give the original poster a friendly reminder. It doesn't do much good to just revert their edit, they probably wouldn't find out anyway. Shannon 00:21, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

If they use Twinkle it notify them of a reverted edit. Also, I left this reminder with the editor six months ago. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:36, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

File:Doloresrivermap.png

Dosen't "west fork" in this map should be "West Dolores River"?--Htmlzycq (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I'll correct it, my mistake! Shannon 16:50, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to San Diego wiknic and bonfire

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2017 Wiknic . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:18, 31 May 2017 (UTC)Template:Z48

Yarlung Tsangpo map

Hello! I just noticed on the map File:Yarlungtsangpomap.png that the Yarlung Tsangpo River is shown to extend 500km further west than its actual source, located approximately where the "u" is in the word "Yarlung". Is there any chance this map could be updated? Alternatively, if you have the original source file, I could attempt to fix this. Let me know what you think is best. Thanks! --NoGhost (talk) 21:53, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know - that's a really old map and I've been working on replacing my old maps anyway. I'll move that up to the front of the list. Shannon 00:19, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Finally done! Shannon 22:38, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Fantastic! Thank you very much, it looks great. --NoGhost (talk) 06:35, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Angus Knowles-Cutler

Hi Shannon. Would you mind explaining what led you to create this article? It's just that only one month earlier, a user who was later blocked as part of Orangemoody editing of Wikipedia/Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody, created User:Manc1234/Angus Knowles-Cutler. This is either a bizarre coincidence, or you been persuaded somehow (presumingly unwittingly) to add their content to Wikipedia. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 16:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

@Smartse: Um, well, I posted the article to return a favor for someone I know, and the subject looked notable enough to me. If that's not allowable I'll refrain from doing that in the future, but could you please clarify what all this is about?  Shannon  [ Talk ] 22:29, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

This could possibly be part of an on-going investigation into some particularly nefarious activity, or then again, it might not be. With your good and long record of editing there is almost certainly nothing for you to be concerned about, although editing by proxy is not allowed. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:50, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Ok- understood. It's been a while since I last got involved in any wikipedia drama. I'm just surprised that turned out to be part of some organized wiki-crime ring... Shannon [ Talk ] 23:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for replying Shannon. I'd like to reiterate what Kudpung said about there being no concern about you directly, it's just that this is rather odd and I would like to understand what's been going on more fully. As you can see from the links I listed before, the Orangemoody operation have been involved in various nefarious activities. It's not just that they are writing articles for pay without disclosing that this is the case, as required by WP:PAID but they have been blackmailing article subject's as well. They're clearly still active here despite being banned and I think it is important to understand if their tactics are changing. The main reason to ask you about what led you to create the article was that I was concerned that you'd somehow been tricked into doing so. That doesn't seem to be the case considering you've said that you did it as a favour, but I think I am correct in saying that you didn't write the content yourself? If I'm right, didn't you think it a bit odd that your acquaintance couldn't just post it themselves? Are you still sure you weren't somehow manipulated into doing this? If you'd prefer not to reply in public then please drop me an email. (And as an aside, they are unlikely to meet WP:BIO but we'll need to mull that over at AFD). Thanks SmartSE (talk) 22:36, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

He asked me because he knows I have experience editing here. I did modify the content to "wikify" it as a whole - formatting references, copyediting, etc. If you'd like to know exactly why, I do some freelance writing online for this agent which sends work to a bunch of different writers. I had a scheduling kerfuffle one day and another writer helped me finish my ongoing project so I offered to do them a favor later, that happened to be working on a Wikipedia article. I had originally got the writing job by linking to things I previously published, including Wikipedia pages, so they know I edit here.

I don't edit Wikipedia for pay out of principle but no money was changing hands in that case. I've made a few other edits here and there in the past, can't remember off the top of my head which articles though, but I didn't think it was for anything nefarious - sorry if I've broken some wiki regulations so I'll just say no next time someone asks me to edit for them... I'm happy to further discuss via email if you want, I didn't imagine my agent might be involved in this sort of case (the Wikipedia mafia?).

Cheers, Shannon [ Talk ] 01:01, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I hope you don't mind my prying but I feel it's important to try and keep track how the PR industry manages to get their content added here. From what you say it sounds relatively unlikely that it was Orangemoody and one explanation is that the subject wanted an article and ended up hiring someone else to do it after Manc1234 was blocked. Through more investigations though I came across almost the exact same version that you posted here: Special:Undelete/User:Silver_Penguin/sandbox (you won't be able to see, but Kudpung will). You also reviewed Bilal Hashmat (which also has the distinct odour of undisclosed paid editing) created by the same user only minutes after it was created back in 2016. That basically gave the article a free pass at new page patrol and meant that no one else looked at it and had a chance to notice the terrible sources cited. To reiterate, > 99 % of what you've done here is great work here, but please don't do any more favours for anyone. SmartSE (talk) 21:07, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

@Smartse: Oh, yeah, I remember those -- so am I required to wear the COI badge of shame on my talk page now or would these be considered 'minor infractions'? Admittedly my attitude towards 'editing by proxy' has been a bit too casual, I'm sorry if I perceived it as harmless. I've let my contact know I will no longer do anything related to editing Wikipedia, so no more shenanigans from me in the future...Shannon [ Talk ] 22:15, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	I'm a huge fan of your maps! Great work shannon :) Nadouglass (talk) 05:06, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Really appreciated. Any map in particular? Shannon [ Talk ] 22:37, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Stanislaus River

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Stanislaus River you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mnnlaxer -- Mnnlaxer (talk) 19:01, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Stanislaus River

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Karun map

Hello. Looks like source of the river drawn incorrect at this map. It should be somewhere here: 32.60207°N 49.91587°E / 32.60207; 49.91587. References: [1], [2]. Please, fix it if you can. — Vort (talk) 15:00, 7 January 2018 (UTC)