User talk:OlYeller21

Welcome! Feel free to leave comments, critiques, etc., below. Unless you specifically request that I answer on your talk page, I'll be answering here, as I prefer to keep as much of the conversation in one place as possible. I'm not new to Wikipedia but I'm sure I'll still make mistakes. If I do something wrong, please let me know and give me as much information as possible so that I can make sure that I don't make the same mistake again. Thanks!

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AFT5 newsletter

Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!

On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.

For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!

Deletion of Stuff??

OlYeller21, can you please let me know why you're deleting changes I made to Thomas Worthington High School Page? Can we talk? Jenibynes (talk) 00:24, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! I found that the text was taken verbatim from another source. I can find it again if needed. This is a WP:COPYVIO and required removal. At any rate, the article shouldn't be going into that much detail about alumni. It's an article about TWHS, not those people mentioned. If they're notable, they can be covered in their own article. The TWHS articles shouldn't include much more than their name, that they won the award, and a sentence or two about them. OlYeller21^Talktome 00:34, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, here's the deal... the Worthington City Schools website no longer lists these accomplishments/descriptions which is where they were originally. These are distinguished alumni from Worthington High School which also no longer exists. I'm sure that most people who come to THIS site are TWHS or WHS grads and would like to see the information. While it is copied from another website, the copyright does not belong to that website. There IS NO copyright on this information. I was on the board that wrote these statements and that board is now disbanded. I spent HOURS editing that page to have you go in and delete everything. I helped author and edit these statements about the alumni. Jenibynes (talk) 00:44, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That it doesn't list a copyright doesn't mean that it's not copyrighted. The owner would need to specifically state that it may be used by others and to be clear, you yourself are not the owner, that board is, and that's assuming that you really were a board member (we can't just take people's word for it, no offense intended). That board, or a representative of it could give WP permission to use the text via WP:DCM but at any rate, it doesn't matter. It was unattributed WP:PLAGIARISM and that much information about those people doesn't belong in an article about a school for the same reason that Al Pacino's biography isn't found in the Scarface article. It's the whole reason we have separate articles. If those people are notable and warrant their own article, then the copyright issue can be addressed there.

Is this making sense? OlYeller21^Talktome 00:57, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Allow me to continue to edit. Please don't delete. I will clean it up. Just don't delete my work until it's done! PLEASE. You can look up Jeni Bynes (me) and see that I'm a member of MANY of the alumni things that go on in Worthington. I was asked to be on this committee and then when Worthington decided to do away with the award, we disbanded. I understand that ALL of this information doesn't belong here, but I am the author of much of it. I give my permission for its use. This is me! Jenibynes (talk) 01:21, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said, you would have to give permission via WP:DCM. Anyone can claim to be anyone else here - in fact, I'm Jeni Bynes... Obviously not.

Edit all you like but please note that changing the text slightly is still not acceptable, if that was a plan. Also, there will never be more than a few sentences about each person in that article. I'm not sure why you would want that. Hopefully you don't. Do you?

Lastly, if you want to work on something, you can always do it in your "sandbox", here. OlYeller21^Talktome 01:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha. Working on fixing stuff. Hang in there with me. :) Jenibynes (talk) 01:51, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me get the Worthington City Schools Distinguished Alumni page down? Jenibynes (talk) 17:25, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Centenarians

When I heard your complaint about an editor with an 'unhealthy' or overemotional interest in centenarians and supercentenarians, the case of a now-banned user came to mind. Now I'm not at all suggesting or implying that these are one and the same, but I just want to draw your attention to it, in case it may be relevant. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 02:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AFT5 newsletter

Hey all; another newsletter.

If you're not already aware, a Request for Comment on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Wikipedia is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found here; thanks to everyone who took part!
We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.

That's all for now! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:21, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you undo the changes?

Hello this page was restored: Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2013_January_28 I explained the changes that I made here: User_talk:Spartaz#Updated_FolderSize_Page. This was a merged article with the latest additions by User:Spartaz Allancass (talk) 21:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I mentioned on your talk page immediately after I reverted your addition, you clearly have a conflict of interest here. I reverted your edit instead of marking the page indicating that an editor working on the page has a conflict of interest. Also, several additions aren't needed and are down right advertorial, such as the section on free editions. Totally unneeded. If you wish to discuss this issue, please do so on the talk page of the article. OlYeller21^Talktome 21:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to my edits

Noticed that you've made a few edits to contributions of mine. Just wanted to say these seem fair in the main, and no hard feelings at all. With the three articles in question I have added uncited stuff, filling in easy, but true, information, with the idea that myself or someone else will come back and fill in gaps and add refs later on. Certainly not intended as an abuse of the purpose of Wikipedia, which I believe in strongly, but I take your edits in good faith. Tubefurnace (talk) 21:33, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]