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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 97.64.209.102 (talk) at 23:04, 30 January 2014. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This talk page contents prior to 24th January 2014 have been archived. Please feel free to start new discussions below.  Velella  Velella Talk   09:43, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I know I have the sniffles but my doctor said there was nothing wrong, I then said that cant be right he then said do you want me to get my family down here. I then said no and then he walked out the room went to the drive in got on his carriage and pulled his caravan away. Later half a dozen angry builders were out side my house swearing, they threw bricks in my windows and drive off in the diggers and caravans. Pleas help me I don't know what to do because the police said what did they look like and I said they were all black. They the accused me of racism. Now I'm sitting here worried. Please help me!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.112.83 (talk) 21:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Akidjoh

Good day Vevella. How to create a page of biography for someone, Example a football player like FISTON ABDUL RAZAK? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akidjoh (talk • contribs) 07:03, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Greg Abbott

His daughter is adopted according to this BussinessWeek article from Bloomberg and many other news sites. This is important because partisan Truthers are arguing he is faking his need for a wheelchair since his child was born in 1997. Wikipedia should state this clearly, I don't understand why this is questioned but his daughter's birthyear in the same sentence requires no citation?: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-09-19/grit-steeled-by-injury-drives-abbott-bid-for-texas-governor#p1 I changed the summary to "Audrey (adopted)" and this was removed as well, please change this back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.129.81.55 (talk) 17:44, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The trick in Wikipedia is to quote your reference when adding material. This is especially important when adding material to biographies of living people. Please feel free to re-add the material with a robust and reliable reference provided that the information is relevant, appropriate and encyclopaedic. It is often the case that information about children are not themselves intrinsically encyclopaedic if the career of the person in question is not influenced by the presence (or absence) of children. I understand that you understand that it is encyclpaedic so please feel free to re-add the information with the references as in <ref>[ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-09-19/grit-steeled-by-injury-drives-abbott-bid-for-texas-governor#p1 Grit Drives Abbott to Follow Perry as Texas Governor - News From Bloomberg]</ref> .  Velella  Velella Talk   18:35, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mayo college

How would you know about mayo college? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.64.178.202 (talk) 11:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I know nothing about Mayo college but I do know a little about Wikipedia and its rules. Please have a look at WP:PEOPLE to see why names have been deleted. Thanks.  Velella  Velella Talk   12:01, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Amelia Does

Hi there, according to IMDb, Ms. Does was a consulting producer on one of the Lipsett biodocs and would appear to have contributions to make to this article, despite the COI concerns. I'd like to work to see if we can find a way to include a link to her book, in some fashion. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:29, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have no problems with anyone making informed and referenced contributions but I would draw the line at promoting her own book, no matter how authoritative. That should be for others to do. She is, of course, at liberty to post relevant information on the article talk page and leave it to others to decide what to use and what not to use. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk   20:33, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I understand. Personally, I'm for pending the rules a little, in this case. Please see my latest edit to the article, with a primary ref to her Senses of Cinema article. Can you live with this? Trying to find a secondary ref... Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:42, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I just found an RS. Please stand by. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:45, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Albert Ellis

Hi Velella,

I added a book to Albert Ellis' list of published works: "Are Capitalism, Objectivism, And Libertarianism Religions? Yes!: Greenspan And Ayn Rand Debunked." You wrote a message saying you removed it because you thought the edit was "not constructive." Could I ask you to elaborate? Thanks in advance, appreciate any feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.37.244.76 (talk) 23:24, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The issue that persuaded me to revert the edit was the change to three referenced instances , altering average to average. This is not what the references say. The edit was therefore in breach of Wikipedia's guidelines. I note that this is not the only occasion when editors have been persuaded to revert unsourced information that you have added to articles. Please always provide a reliable source for any changes of this nature that you make.  Velella  Velella Talk   23:38, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, that's odd - I see what you're talking about, but I didn't actually make any changes to the instances of average, at least, not intentionally (I don't even understand what the difference is that the revision page is highlighting? average vs. average? They look exactly the same to me in all 3 instances, I don't see any difference in spelling, capitalization, spacing, punctuation, etc.?) Also, this is the first time I've ever made an edit from this IP, I think I'm showing up as a shared IP that apparently has a history of questionable edits, now that I look at its history. Anyways, do I understand correctly that you have no issue with the additional published work being added (which I referenced via ISBN and can be verified via the Wikipedia book sources page)? If I were to create an account and re-submit the edit from there (taking care to avoid re-creating the strange average differences, to the best of my ability), would that suffice?
It is my mind to request that you be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Re-factoring another's comments, and on their own talk page too, is considered a serious breach of Wikipedia's guidelines. Can you give any rational explanation?  Velella  Velella Talk   09:21, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Velella - I've made an account (I'm the one who made the Albert Ellis page changes) as it seems someone else is doing things from this same shared IP (I'm in an office w/ dozens of users), I'm guessing they're the ones who made changes to your comments. I'll go ahead and re-submit my change from this account. Sorry that someone else from this location is giving you problems. Lortho21 (talk) 00:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

stop

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i helped to make her page better. stop reporting me P☮ace-♥-33756 (talk) 00:19, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Changing somebody else's User page is blatant vandalism and was reported as such. If you cannot start making a sensible contribution to Wikipedia rather than posting nonsense message to user talk pages, you will find yourself blocked from editing.  Velella  Velella Talk   10:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Velella, today you deleted several links I added to pages of several artists. The links I added connect to a website which shows objects of these artists including art, letters, pictures etc. As most of these objects cannot be found anywhere else in the internet I think these links are a valuable contribution to the articles on the artists. Moreover, the website is created by the German National Library which I think can be considered as a trusted source. I understand that linking to the start page of the website can be considered as advertisement. Therefore, I suggest to add the links again but only to the pages of the artists and not to the start page. Kiebitz13 (talk) 14:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your motivation here, but the editing practice of simply adding links from the same site to many different articles always appears as link spamming, a editing practice strongly deprecated in Wikipedia. It would be mush better, if this archive contains valuable information, to use it to insert in-line references to support material already in the article or additional material that you may be able to add. External links are always rather suspect and always at risk of deletion whereas relevant and appropriate in-line citations are always most welcome. I hope that this helps. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk   15:34, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

24th November contribution

hey Velella you have removed my adjustment on wikipedia (24 november) and I hope you get this :) I added that page because I accidentally promised a friend of mine who is unfortunately very sick that I would get her name on the internet and make her "famous" so the only thing I could think of was Wikipedia. To put it briefly my adjustment isn't really "scientific" but I really hope that you could leave it there so that I could keep my promise. I'm sorry for disturbing you!

PS: I hope my English wasn't to bad!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1810:398E:9400:D9DD:8344:3313:4B39 (talk) 17:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have made no changes to any articles edited from your IP address. Please provide some more information about the article and I will try and make a fuller response. Thanks  Velella  Velella Talk   18:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thierry Henry Handball

Hi, You deleted my addition on the Thierry Henry handball regarding a banner? I was at that match and saw the banner, I probably have a picture of it somewhere but outside of that I don't know what else you want me to do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.8.87 (talk) 20:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Any potentially contentious statement must be supported by a reputable and robust reference such as a national Newspaper, BBC or similar. I am sure that there should be a reference to the banner and if you can find the reference, then please feel free to replace the statement. I will leave it to others to decide whether, even with a reference, it is encyclopaedic. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk   20:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How is the statement contentious? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.8.87 (talk) 04:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Because to any uninvolved person, the banner appears to make a threat against a person - in this case the Captain of the French team.  Velella  Velella Talk   10:20, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Q-go

Hi. You nominated Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Q-go (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) last year. I since found some sources and have now reinstated the article (rather than taking it to DRV). You may wish to comment at Wikipedia talk:Deletion review#Template:Olddelccc. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk · contribs) 16:01, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Query

Hi, why did you give this IP a second "final warning"? Was it a Huggle malfunction or something? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:05, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect a Huggle artefact. This was an IP making very frequent vandal edits to one article. When I reverted, Huggle saw the last warning as #3 and issued a #4. In the meantime further vandalism had occurred but due to my slow connection my #4 warning hadn't arrived and Huggle issued another #4 warning. A few seconds later my warning arrived and we end up with duplicate warnings. I guess just a quirk of huggle, variable speed networks and a busy little vandal - who has now been blocked. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk   18:37, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Velella, We would like to restore the edits recently made (1/30/2014) to our organization's page at CLINIC(ie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Legal_Immigration_Network?diff=593166407). Our history, board members and programs were outdated but will be up-do-date once the edits are reinstated. Please let us know if there is anything we should do to verify that the changes made are accurate. Many thanks, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)

Two important issues. First it is important that if you are editing on behalf of the organisation then this should be openly stated. It is far better if you get a username and declare your interest on your user page. Editing without declaring your interest is considered to pose a risk of conflict of interest. Secondly, to avoid having your edits reverted, please always provide an edit summary identifying what you are doing and why you are doing it. If you are removing referenced material, this is especially important and it is important to provide good references for the new material that you add. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk   20:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"User talk:97.64.209.102 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search January 2014[edit] 

Hello, I'm Velella. I noticed that you recently made an edit to Sudirman that seemed to be a test. Your test worked! If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  Velella  Velella Talk   14:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)"

Bold text As I recall, I corrected the spelling of a couple of words. Did I do it incorrectly?

And sorry, I'm at work, so I don't recall my login and password.

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