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anonymous (street meat)

(misplaced comment from userpage moved at 16:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)) Hi, John of Reading, here's the Huffington Post article --

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-cubias/are-the-banks-still-comin_b_1076388.html

and here's the user's page --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Migdiachinea/Anonymous_(Street_Meat)

If you can help, it would be very nice -- thanx and sorry I haven't been in touch. Shot another film last week and I'm dealing with many related issues, including my father's impending surgery. Mig (talk) 15:58, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, the Huffington Post article doesn't have much to say about the film, does it? -- John of Reading (talk) 16:08, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've added this as a reference to the Migdia Chinea Varela article. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:29, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, it links to the film. The article focuses on BofA and what it does to people because it can "What is happening to me..." I've received email from people I don't know who have seen it and make a connection. I sure did. I'm just not a real on the nose writer, etc, and prefer to create a metaphor, rather than an overt statement. I'm now editing my new short. We'll see what shakes. My father's surgery was postponed bc he has a cold. Something BIG is going to happen, I can feel it. Regards, Mig (talk) 04:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I meant to thank you also for the aditional article link to the page. The last thing one can do around these parts is be in a hurry because what you write comes out totally skewed. I have mentioned this to Cloveapple, who was editing that page. Wouild it be possible to remove this following announcement -- I'm not editing this and I don't know you or Cloveapple?

"This article is an autobiography, or has been extensively edited by the subject or an institution related to the subject. Please help edit it to conform to Wikipedia's neutral point of view, in line with the discussion on the talk page. (October 2011)" Something big is going to happen, I know it. Thanx so much for everything and kind regards, Mig (talk) 15:40, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm not going to remove the {{COI}} tag. It was removed on the 26th Oct and immediately put back again in this edit. Be patient - if something big happens, it can be written about at Wikipedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:08, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use

Hi John, Thanks for responding. I am pretty new to all this...

Yes your response helped but then how come this wasn't allowed on Flavour Nabania's page when the picture is of him? Or am I still not getting something here? Does that not class as the 'Fair Usage'? The same thing with my player Gideon Baah.. The page is for him but a picture of him was deleted...Please advice.... Many Thanks

I now realise that my first answer wasn't good enough. I'll write some more at User talk:Hazelnike. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:31, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All I ask for is the truth.

John, thank you for taking time to respond to my claim, however, discouraging me from trying to add truthful and easily verifiable information merely because it's autobiographical is troubling. Sadly, people use wikipedia as their sole valid source of info, so it puts me in an extremely bad situation when I am unable to correct my own information when others are listing it as incorrect. My parents were saddened to learn that they were misrepresented on my page (their names and occupations were completely inaccurate). They actually thought I was ashamed of them. It took AGES for me to get that info corrected. How can you discourage me from protecting the truth? And why should I be okay with having legitimate information about one of my shows removed for no reason? I'm not trying to add editorial information. I'm trying to add FACTS. Indisputable facts regarding my own life and work that others are providing carelessly erroneous information about. Wikipedia should be a service of and for the community but not at the expense of the truth. I'm sorry that you feel it's okay to lie to people when it doesn't meet with the baffling policies that govern this tome of half-truths. This is very disconcerting and I will be sharing wikipedia's willful ignorance policy with the many, many people who follow me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spamwick (talk • contribs) 08:36, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion at Talk:The Nerdist Podcast is not particularly about whether the episode names and dates are true, but about whether they belong in an encyclopedia article about the show. As laid out at WP:NOTDIRECTORY, Wikipedia does not aim to record everything. You are welcome to contribute to that discussion - but you should make it clear that you are the host of the show.

Wikipedia takes errors in biographical articles very seriously. If there are errors in this article, please list them on the talk/discussion page with a note that you are Chris Hardwick. If that doesn't work there are other suggestions at WP:AUTOPROB including an email address. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:52, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Schnauzers

	Award for being loyal and adorable
	My loves --. Mig Mig (talk) 19:33, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm trying to be as helpful as I can while maintaining Wikipedia standards. I'm not sure that's enough to make me "loyal and adorable", though...or are you referring to your dogs? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:57, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm referring to you all! My dogs are picture perfect for the loyal and adorable award to be bestowed upon those who are beyond diligent. Mig (talk) 06:12, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Create new article need help on format and to see if it is good enough

I created a List of Plasma (physics) articles right now. It has no link i don't know how to get one maybe it needs to be approved. I made it up and down like index of wave articles . But it just keeps on going down how do i make it more even pot Like right next to article A index. Should i rename it and add plasma applications or technology with it. Side by side is harder to read so im making it up and down but if someone changes it do i still get credtit for what i added so far. i still have a whole list to add to it probably about 500 at least more plasma articles. Should i delete the new name article goes here and delete contents reference and external links.Can u help me. You dont have to add any plasma articles i got them all on my word pad list.Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 08:35, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've tweaked the text at the top and reformatted the list into three columns, using Index of wave articles as a guide. The page history shows clearly that you contributed most of the content. I've left the "new unreviewed article" banner in place so that the usual reviewers will look at it as well. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:12, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks This guy wants to delete it maybe because he thinks it is similar to category plasma physics but it is not. Plasma category physics does not show up on the search tool box plus sometimes theres a limit to the amount of articles You can put. And it doesnt't have all of the plasma application technology and equations like list of plasma physics articles. Check out the discussion if u want and see what u think. Maybe i should delete the plasma capitalization of the P and make it a lower case p. Is that why is cant be viewed on the search tool engine. Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 18:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Google has already indexed your article - Google search - but so far it won't be one of the main results for typical searches like this one because Google doesn't yet see it as an important page. You shouldn't worry too much about search engines, though. If you concentrate on building an encyclopedia then Google and the others will catch up eventually.

I suggest you don't rename the article. Leave that for someone who knows the article naming rules inside out. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:03, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks i actually meant wikipedia's search box won't show up yet. I guess it has to be approved first. Maybe because it's spelled wrong with a capital Plasma.Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 20:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, sorry. Try again in 24 hours - see Help:Searching#Delay in updating the search index. This delay has nothing to do with the "New unreviwed article" banner. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:54, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pickup

Hi I noticed you are changing the word "pickup" to "pick up" in a number of Alberta political articles. The word pickup in a political context referring to the gain of a political district is used correctly. An example of that outside of Wikipedia is in this news article is here [1] The word pickup in that context is common usage in Western Canadian English as well as American English. --Þadius (talk) 09:10, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(e/c) That news article only uses "pickup" as a noun - "A Republican pickup". I am, I hope, only changing instances of "pickup" where it is being mis-used as a verb - "to pickup" - which is incorrect according to wikt:pickup and a couple of other dictionaries that I checked. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Faleristics

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Djathinkimacowboy 14:35, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thom Calandra

Saw your edits, so, I guess you're about to deal with Mr. Calandra on HD - that's cool; I was about to do similar / point to Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject), but I'll leave you to it. Cheers, Chzz ► 08:47, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done - though it took me a while to get the words right. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good.

As regards the stuff he seems bothered about though - re. undisclosed compensation - it's hard to argue with the refs; especially [2], and it seems to be reasonable weighting, too, based on what I see on Goog News. I imagine he will not be happy with the article, but...anyway, your answer was quite right; the talk page is, of course, the right place for this. Cheers! Chzz ► 09:09, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I predict that the article will be unrecognisable in a few hours once the usual HD volunteers have all had a go at cleaning it up! -- John of Reading (talk) 09:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Likely Chzz ► 09:18, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please look at this with impartiality

An article Mark Ashwell has been created largely by one user. I have tagged it and had my tags removed twice by this user. Regards --Greenmaven (talk) 23:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a look, and have edited the article and the talk page. The article might just scrape through an Afd, though I'm still not good at judging these things. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:20, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(more) It's perhaps not helpful to stick so many tags at the top of an article. See here. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:39, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I have put a note for you on the article talk page as well, I will look at the template page you suggested --Greenmaven (talk) 04:58, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some baklava for you!

For good advice over about 12 months Greenmaven (talk) 05:02, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm, thanks! -- John of Reading (talk) 07:43, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pokemon portal improvement

Good Job!

Thanks for pointing out a better way to include references in portals. Northamerica1000^(talk) 11:16, 25 November 2011 (UTC)}}[reply]

Talkback, Portals

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A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For all your work correcting typos Oddbodz (talk) 16:44, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! c 80,000 and counting... -- John of Reading (talk) 20:58, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Someone seems to be vandalising Shoreham, Kent

Could you take a look please? --Greenmaven (talk) 23:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done There are easier ways to undo five vandal edits at once - see Help:Reverting#Manual reverting. If you find yourself having to do this a lot you might like to enable the Twinkle tool, which makes it very easy to undo vandalism and place a warning message on the user's talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:59, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

IRC cloak request

About eighteen months ago, Chzz (talk · contribs) suggested I try helping at the IRC help channel. I've finally got round to trying it... -- John of Reading (talk) 10:51, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thnx

thnx I just disabled WikiTweak Gauravjuvekar (talk) 13:30, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Architects from Colorado

John of Reading, Thank you for the helping hand. Creating categories is above my pay grade; so I have an excuse. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:06, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Gailsedotes (talk) 18:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, but I don't see any new messages for me at User talk:Gailsedotes. I'll watch the page, so I'll see anything you post there. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see it now. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thanks again! and you beat me to the talkback on his page :) Gailsedotes (talk) 18:13, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Passchendaele

Thanks for your edits.Keith-264 (talk) 09:33, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just one of the thousands of articles on my current list. May take until mid-January... -- John of Reading (talk) 10:10, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks, John. It's never too late... to be late. :)) Yes, I can find my way around (I am admin on Bosnian Wiki), but warm welcome is always welcome. :)) Best wishes. -- Kukac (talk) 15:43, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Many Thanks for your prompt response to my query 'Identifying edit removing section from article' at the Help Desk John Clivemacd (talk) 18:20, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

HHOLDINGS

I note that my materials under user: hholdings have erroneously been deleted stating that it was copywright material citing one of my websites http://www.williamcharrison.com. The material in question was composed personally by me on my word processing system(Microsoft Word) and transferred to several of my web sites (11 of them) as well as to Wikipedia. Bits and pieces may be incorporated on a few of the sites but it was all originated from a single source (my word processing system) that I generated. The web site cited (www.williamcharrison.com) is my name and certainly before deleting any material, I should have been notified by email which you have (hholdings@mycampingmall.com).

What can be done to recover the material and re-admit it on Wikipedia? What do I have to do to grant authorization of the material since I own and authored the material and am the owner of the web sites?

William C. Harrison hholdings@mycampingmall.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hholdings (talk • contribs) 08:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia operates a very simple sign-up process - you just choose a user name, and don't have to prove anything about who you are. This is one of the reasons that Wikipedia has to be take a firm line on apparent violations of copyright, as there's nothing to stop person A claiming to be person B and uploading text belonging to person B. You'd be amazed how often that happens. To confirm that you, Wikipedia editor Hholdings, are the owner of the website owned by William C Harrison, you need to go through an extra formal step by sending an email as described at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

BUT the text at http://www.williamcharrison.com/ is not suitable for Wikipedia for other reasons, so I recommend that you don't spend any time on the copyright issue. One is that the text appears to be advertising, and Wikipedia is not an advertising outlet. Also, Wikipedia does not aim to have a page on every person or company, only those that other people have already written about; there's more on this at Wikipedia:Notability. And Wikipedia editors are strongly discouraged from writing about themselves; see Wikipedia:Autobiography.

I'm sorry to be so discouraging. One day, perhaps, your businesses will have generated enough media interest that someone will decide to write a Wikipedia article about them. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:48, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Donation appeal

You're welcome. Was upset earlier regarding that post, calling my story as hoax but now me fine :) -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 17:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very glad to hear that. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:19, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many Thanks!

Hi, John of Reading - thank you for reviewing, untagging & tidying-up Charlotte Melmoth & John Street Theatre, and for your positive comments on the help desk! I very much appreciate you taking the time & effort to do this. I'm not quite sure why I'm writing articles about American theatre - I live in East Sussex - I started off intending to contribute just one article about a 19th century writer from Hastings, uncovered links to someone else who lacked a Wikipedia page, so researched them and that lead to something else, etc etc! Anyhow - thanks again for your assistance! Butcherscross (talk) 20:36, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]