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Attempting dispute resolution with editor who is not responding

There is an editor making edits to the Miniso article which I believe violates WP:NPOV. I have listed the reasons why on the article's talk page, and left multiple invitations on the editor's talk page asking to please engage in a discussion. I have never encountered an editor who ignores repeated requests to engage in discussion. I'm not sure what the next step should be, and I'm asking here for help. Thanks, --haha169 (talk) 17:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

I gave him a block for edit warring. He was given enough notices that he should have figured it out. Hopefully this gets his attention. Someguy1221 (talk) 18:39, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your help! --haha169 (talk) 01:58, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Logo Update

Hello! I am looking to update our company logo to our current one, however, I do not have a confirmed account. Is anyone able to assist with this? For some reason when I try to upload the logo in this thread, it says there's an error. Any idea as to successfully upload it to this thread? I've included a link to our company page below. Thanks so much !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Distribution — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kfrasier11 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

can an editor who requests an RfC also close it?

If an editor starts an RfC, can that same editor close it, per WP:RFCEND? I have gotten some puzzling pushback (see 3 June activity). -- Oa01 (talk) 12:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

It's ambiguous. If discussion has begun and other editors have weighed in, an attempt by the filing editor to withdraw it usually is okay with the other editors, but since nothing here is "owned" by any one editor, an editor who wants to keep the RFC going could certainly take it over from the filing editor. The filing editor could strikeout his original request or post a notice that s/he's no longer going to participate, but just based on how this place works, I don't think that there's an absolute right withdraw or close it. That's just my opinion, however. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 16:29, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@Oa01: How is the second RFC you started materially different from this first one? --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@NeilN: The first RfC was about image licensing; the second is about choice of imagery. -- Oa01 (talk) 22:31, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

I would say that while it may be technically permissible to close one's own RfC, if it has received any level of significant feedback, doing so may be considered "bad form", especially if the opening and closing editor leaves a summary that the participating editors don't feel is a reasonable summation. Stating a desire to withdraw the RfC without formally closing it is probably more advisable. DonIago (talk) 20:11, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

@Doniago, NeilN, and TransporterMan: Thanks. -- Oa01 (talk) 11:47, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

White House Scandals list Missing

Hi You guys had a list on wikki White House Scandals list. It showed all the Scandals for each administration. Somebody’s deleted it and put federal scandals instead. It is not as informative or helpful. Can you replace the one that’s missing. Also Wall Street Scandals by Administration or and years. Thanks some right winger probably buried the information. MF — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.194.249 (talk) 19:36, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

I can find no sign of a White House Scandals list. There is no relevant deleted page with "White House" in the title. We currently have List of federal political scandals in the United States. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:27, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

GlassQube Coworking

Answered

GlassQube Coworking is a co-working space in Abu Dhabi

References

To request an article go here and carefully follow the instructions. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 14:51, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Help review page below

I recently read Kaihan Krippendorff's book and think he should have a page.

Info sourced from Florida Internatioal University Business School page CV of Krippendorff along with other 3rd party sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slotmachiner/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slotmachiner (talk • contribs) 18:00, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

@Slotmachiner: See WP:NOTRESUME and WP:NOTPROMO for why I just deleted that page.

If you're going to write an article about anyone or anything, here's the steps you should follow:

1) Gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find.

2) Focus on just the ones that are not dependent upon or affiliated with the subject, but still specifically about the subject and providing in-depth coverage (not passing mentions). If you do not have at least three such sources, the subject is not yet notable and trying to write an article at this point will only fail.

3) Summarize those sources from step 2, adding citations at the end of them. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer.

4) Combine overlapping summaries (without arriving at new statements that no individual source supports) where possible, repeating citations as needed.

5) Paraphrase the whole thing just to be extra sure you've avoided any copyright violations or plagiarism.

6) Use the Article wizard to post this draft and wait for approval.

7) Expand the article using sources you put aside in step 2 (but make sure they don't make up more than half the sources for the article, and make sure that affiliated sources don't make up more than half of that).

Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:11, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

@Ian.thomson can you revert so I can copy and paste just to have the content outline I would like to search for in journals, etc?