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Request to Proofread New Edits

Hello Mr. Ollie,

This is Tri, a student working on the Dell Med Wikipedia Project with Dr. Ring. I made a few edits on the "Tendinitis, Bursitis, Impingement Syndrome, and Rotator Cuff Tears" section of the "Shoulder Problem" page that showcases our current understanding of editing a variety of edits (such as relocation of material, addition of material with evidence, and removal of inaccurate material). Would you mind taking a look at these few edits and giving us a bit of feedback on what we could do better to improve our edit justifications? Thank you so much for your time and help while we try to build our understanding and experience with Wikipedia.

--Trit6611 (talk) 01:49, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please take such requests to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine rather than my user talk page. MrOllie (talk) 01:52, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for that. I did not realize. I will submit a request there right now. Thank you! Trit6611 (talk) 03:07, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted edits on Diabetes page

Dear MrOllie,

I am the facilitator for Wikiproject:Dentistry. Our members have been attempting to add in the dental implications of diabetes mellitus to the Diabetes Wikipedia page but have had their edits removed and were flagged as disruptive. The content uploaded was evidence based and backed by numerous systematic reviews, may I enquire as to what reason were the edits deleted and deemed as disruptive? Please help us understand how we may temper our edits accordingly. Thank you

Suki1744 (talk) 12:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Dentistry has been around for years, much longer than your account which has only a handful of edits. Who are you really? - MrOllie (talk) 13:40, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear MrOllie, Wikiproject Dentistry is a project managed by dental practitioners and dental students around the world. The founder of the project recently stepped down as facilitator which is why I have taken over temporarily and I have indeed not been a member of the project since it's creation. But the crux of the issue isn't my status. I would just like to ask why were our edits removed so that we may improve them. Thank you Suki1744 (talk) 17:43, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Claiming ownership of a Wikiproject affords you no special authority, please do not act as though it does. Who is 'our'? Why is that article being editing by a series of brand new accounts who are making the same edits? Are you coordinating this effort somewhere offsite? MrOllie (talk) 17:46, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Toxchat abuse

Thanks for catching and reverting them! DMacks (talk) 20:34, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Link removed from GDPR page

@MrOllie In regards to my link in GDPR page, is there a way we can keep that there as an external link? There is no Spam or affliate product there. Just a comprehensive article about GDPR and Data Privacy. Im sure if you read it from top to bottom you will see that its a blog post. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Croixdoix (talk • contribs) 07:57, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at WP:EL. Wikipedia doesn't link to blogs. MrOllie (talk) 11:26, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MrOllie ::Its not a blog, its a page or a hub as you may call it on topic about GDPR could you please reconsider at least one last time? Informations there are valuable Croixdoix (talk) 11:07, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Distinction without a difference. It's a self published posting by a company used to steer people to buying their services. We don't link to such marketing materials. MrOllie (talk) 12:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Targeting me?

It’s somewhat questionable that you take part in almost every conversation I start. Sure, anyone can participate, but given that many of the articles you haven’t even edited before, it’s clear that you’re participating in my initiatives in a targeted way. There are dozens and dozens of reviewers in these articles, so you could leave some for others to review and discussion. In many previous initiatives and discussions, you brought expertise and useful arguments, but little by little this goes over. So let’s stay to articles and topics which we have knowledge and insight to bring. --Avoinlähde (talk) 15:46, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm interested in open source and open culture, so I have many of the pages you're trying to move on my watchlist. When I see something I disagree with (especially something which is a bit of a big deal like undiscussed page moves) I see no reason not to weigh in, and I really don't appreciate being asked to stay away from articles I have a legitimate interest in. If you don't want your page moves to get reverted so much, I suggest you take on board that articles that have had a stable title for a long time probably have that status for a reason and should not be moved without gauging consensus first. MrOllie (talk) 15:49, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I’m also interested in FLOSS, but it’s clear I can’t be know of everything, because FLOSS and openness are everywhere. As an example open learning, which I simply don’t think I know well enough yet. You may have misunderstood a little, I don’t want to try to interfere with your participation, but it feels like you’re taking a stand on my initiatives in particular, which would be a little problematic. Good if not. I hope that the cooperation will be better in the future, I appreciate your work in other respects. You’ve been here since 2008 and improved many articles on FLOSS and openness, among other things. Thank you for that!

As for the renaming, I understand that you have questioned some of them. The intention is not to harm them, but to update the used terms that live and unify article names. You must have noticed this. Nor is it intended to minimize article names unreasonably. For example, look at the open file format, on the contrary, I specified the article name used when there was a reason for it. -- Avoinlähde (talk) 16:42, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia article names are specifically not supposed to be 'unified'. They are supposed to be the WP:COMMONNAME, determined case by case. Systematic page move campaigns are misguided. MrOllie (talk) 17:14, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, but yes they can be questioned and it is obvious that some articles (and they names) are related to each other. -- Avoinlähde (talk) 18:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just stop moving these things unilaterally, you are aware at this point that doing so is controversial. MrOllie (talk) 19:41, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mr @Ollie, This is no content promotion. It is not a paid product, there is nothing you can buy there, it is a completely free turn server available for the WebRTC community and is being used by thousands of developers for free.

Please reconsider adding the link

Thanks