User talk:MrOllie

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Company page

Can you please let me know why the following accusation without any basis was tagged to our company article? "may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments"

I am trying to create an article for my company with all backed statements with citations and references. What I am doing wrong? Wiki.Lower (talk) 17:40, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @Wiki.Lower: You admit that it is your company, which means you have a financial stake in it, which means you have monetary reasons to promote it. This is not allowed. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Of course, I disclose that. But please tell me how on earth I can put an informative and objective page about my company with information that can be backed with references :) Wiki.Lower (talk) 18:01, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

You can read and follow the policy links which have already been posted on your own user talk page. MrOllie (talk) 18:26, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I am aware of those broad and vague policies. But you are not answering my specific question :)

Q: How were all of those pages about commercial companies created?

A: By PR and marketing firms who are not "affiliated" by those commercial companies :)

Rules are policies are there for the order. But when they are limiting progress, they need to be modified or dropped. True information backed by references should be published by anyone.

I am not expecting answer from you, just voicing an issue that I hope Wikipedia community would eventually pay attention. Thanks again!

P.S. I will remove that article. Wiki.Lower (talk) 19:51, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

If you have questions about how Wikipedia is written, you may ask them at WP:TEAHOUSE. In general Wikipedia is written by volunteers, not PR or marketing firms. Policies are supposed to 'limit progress' in directions that are contrary to the purpose of the Encyclopedia. This is expressly not supposed to be a business directory. MrOllie (talk) 19:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Name articles

Hi MrOllie Al could be short for males and females. like Alfred, Albert, Alexia, Alexander, Alexandra, and more. 144.121.78.178 (talk) 18:44, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

You've already been blocked for doing this stuff once. Kindly stop disrupting articles about names. - MrOllie (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

"citespammer"

Hi,

You recently reverted an edit by an editor that I can see has landed in trouble for inappropriate external links, and judging by your edit summary "citespammer", adding cites that are already present.

However, I fail to see what the issue is with this particular addition. Could you elaborate? (Or, even, re-evaluate?). Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 11:09, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

It was part of a pattern of edits that were designed to add as many references to that podcast as possible across Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 12:15, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Is there anything wrong with the cite? If so (for example, it is puffery, self-published etc) then fair enuff. If the only reason for your revert is the "pattern", and there is nothing wrong with the edit per se, perhaps we can reinstate the edit? Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 21:52, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

It is a self published podcast, yes. MrOllie (talk) 21:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Reverts

"Not what we do on Wikipedia". Please don't be so patronising. You know as well as I do that the original edit I reverted was solely based on the aggressive POV of Bon courage. 86.187.171.52 (talk) 19:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Making personal attacks will not excuse your edit warring. Keep discussion on the article talk page where it belongs. MrOllie (talk) 19:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm smelling sock. Bon courage (talk) 19:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Really. I think not. Just an observer. 86.187.171.52 (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Bolding in titles

Hi, I notice you edited List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history to remove bolding for subheadings for the regions.

I see nothing in WP:MOS that states that bolding isn’t accepted, although I might be missing something. The reason I do it is so that the region headings are bold in the contents section in the top left, making it easier to navigate. I would also like to bold the title “List of kingdoms” as this is the main title, as opposed to “Comparison” or “History periods” which offer supplementary information.

I just thought it’d be best to drop you a message instead of edit warring over something trivial Alexanderkowal (talk) 17:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Also in the future would it be possible to refer to a particular section for example WP:MOS#Section headings Alexanderkowal (talk) 17:57, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

It is mentioned at MOS:BOLD - section headings are already bolded, adding manual bold as well 'double bolds' them, which should be avoided - it makes the text less legible on some browser/platform combinations - for example on my screen the lower case 'a' in Africa is very difficult to discern. MrOllie (talk) 18:01, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I might be thick but I don't see it there. Regardless I'll just italic the time periods to denote their inferiority. Can I get away with bolding the heading "List of kingdoms" as it wouldn't be double bolded? Alexanderkowal (talk) 19:21, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

You should not bold any section titles. MrOllie (talk) 19:50, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't see that written in WP:MOS. Not to be annoying but unless I'm wrong, this is just one person's opinion as opposed to wikipedia policy. Alexanderkowal (talk) 20:18, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to ask for clarification at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Text_formatting if you would like additional input. MrOllie (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Alexanderkowal (talk) 20:38, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Perfume

is it advertising the correct foto of opium in the right bottle of Ysl in an article that already exists?

is it advertisement the historical brand of Rance 1795 that it is the first niche house?

is it advertisement to include the musician who created high end perfumes with music and not just a refference? 2A01:B600:6F6F:1:B5F3:A090:7A54:5CD6 (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Please stop spamming Wikipedia. Thanks in advance! - MrOllie (talk) 00:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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