User talk:Just Step Sideways

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-FASTILY ^(TALK) 22:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Jesus Taught Me

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Jesus Taught Me. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jesus Taught Me (2nd nomination). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:09, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For using common sense and declining the speedy on Bernd Teo Matthias. I will re-write it, and in the mean time, have a cookie:

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Acather96 (talk) 06:09, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mob dynamics

There is no consensus in a mob. I appreciate your endeavour in doing what you perceive is best for Wikipedia but representing me as a problem is not the truth. The problem is heavy handed administrators who forget their charge and not the editors who qualitatively improve articles. Very rarely are my edits contentious and as they 99% of the time involve citations I have demonstrably qualitatively improved the project. Out of 20,000 edits there have not been many if any significant conflicts with editors that have not been resolved. I may continue editing Wikipedia on the odd occasion to fix a spelling error or provide a linkage but apart from that my input will cease. You and the others in question have made it clear that my edits are not valued. Even more importantly, I have completed what I intended to do. Being associated with a cult by the Wikipedia community has fueled my resolve to discontinue editing. I wish you the best.B9 hummingbird hovering^{(talk • contribs)} 11:10, 16 May 2010 (UTC) P.S. As I just had a difference of opinion in regards to grammar as I write in Traditional or Formal English Grammar and speak in received pronunciation (which should really be the Received Pronunciation) which is very different to the English speech variety of the majority of English Wikimedians and as Wikipedia servers are in America, I will discontinue all editing.[reply]

This is very typical of you, you deny that there is any problem with you, it's everybody else. You accuse us of being a mob and say admins are heavy handed. Then why aren't you blocked right now? It would only take me about five seconds to indefinitely block you if that was what I wanted to do. You are very wrong when you say your edits have improved this project, there is a massive incomprehensible mess to clean up thanks to you, and it's going to take considerable effort to filter out all the flowery nonsense you have added to Tibetan Buddhism articles. Normally I would try and convince an editor that they should remain and try and resolve their issues, but your utter rejection of the manual of style, and indeed the very concept of consensus make your goals utterly incompatible with Wikipedia's goals. Since you refuse to even acknowledge the problem, it would be best if you do as you have promised and completely cease editing here. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:38, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transformers vandal is back

Just to let you know the user you blocked for making up tons of fake info on Transformers pages User talk:24.207.226.65 is back and already vandalized 2 pages. I reverted them. Mathewignash (talk) 18:53, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User(s) blocked. Thanks for the heads up. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! He also seems to be User talk:Mdj56 and he made a fake page called Alienbots under that name. It's completely made up nonsense. All these and more are sockpuppets for User talk:Twctinc1. Mathewignash (talk) 19:42, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Foreign language articles (test pages)

Thanks for the contact Beeblebrox. The reason I marked it as a test page, after it was first marked under A7 Bio, was the fact that they'd included the "Example.jpg" image, and it appeared to me from first glance, since I didn't have a damn clue what it said, to be someone doing the old "can I really edit this?" thing. Since I now know otherwise, thanks for letting me know, just making sure you understood why I tagged it the way I did - it wasn't simply because I didn't understand it. To me, it genuinely looked like someone testing stuff. BarkingFish ^{Talk to me} | _{My contributions} 17:42, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose technically all three of us were correct, there was no indication of the subject's significance, there was an apparent test image, and the content was an unsourced negative biography. It puzzles me why someone would come to a website that is clearly intended for an English speaking audience and post something in Serbian, but maybe they were already kicked off the Serbian Wikipedia... Beeblebrox (talk) 17:45, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the original tagger, and when I first ran across it I ran it through Google Translators until I could read it. I didn't think to tag it as an attack page, though, as I couldn't be certain it was some kind of attack. It was certainly unreferenced BLP, though. Thanks for taking care of it. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 18:03, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did

I actually did read that the block reason stated sockpuppetry, but the probability is hardly ever 100%, which is why I had commented. mechamind 9 0 19:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do I report a problem with an article?

How do I report a problem with an article to get more outside neutral attention on it?

You know that article you deleted, the one which someone had obviously posted as an attempt to spam Wikipedia, "The Diet Delusion", the author's article is even worse but it had references so I tried to clean it up instead of marking it for deletion - however when I did that, I got repeatedly reverted and calling my edits vandalism and "warning" me by another user who seems to have been making changes to keep it to a promotional version over a while [1] [2] [3] ... as well as an IP editor who uses the exact same edit summary when changing it back to their version... Talk:Gary Taubes#Deletion_of_Relevant_Material

Here is the cleaned up version in an attempt to make it actually factual rather than full of weasel word promotion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Taubes&oldid=362684635

Here is the version he/they are trying to push: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Taubes&oldid=362698924 - which seems to be more about helping to sell books rather than neutral factual coverage, deliberately bigging up physical science awards as though they are relevant to nutritional biology just before going on about books, it's incredibly misleading and just a total advertisement, I can't believe people try to protect people who do this crap. --94.193.135.203 (talk) 11:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]