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Hi, Ive tried my best to condense a huge ammount of information to just a few sentences. I believe the information was an accurate synopsis of the very detailed research. Rather than just delete it, which is not very helpful, can you say what you found inaccurate or wrong? I will try to get back to it and fix any errors when I have time. Thanks for your interest and help.
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You cannot just revert without some sort of explanation. I have 2 sections of information relating to my edits on land in "talk".You need to read that. Anyone who doesn't realise land is at the heart of Maori culture should not be editing that article."doesnt belong here "is a totally pointless and wrong statement. It seems to me you have little knowledge of the topic to write this. Land is at the very heart of Maori culture. Cultural attitudes to land did not stay static. The period of most change was post 1864. Go onto the talk page and argue your point that information about land doesnt belong in an article about Maori culture. I will be really interested to see them.
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 Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the leading ghost story writers of the nineteenth century
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Stuart. Please refrain from sending me self-serving messages about edit warring when the only issue is your insistence in removing properly sourced, relevant material from the Hager article on extremely flimsy pretexts. Come on man, you know that's not on. 101.98.195.208 (talk) 00:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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Should I post this notice on User:GHSinclair as well? I see you didn't notify your co-editor.Edgespath24 (talk) 03:30, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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I see you removed the PROD from Helen McGregor (geologist). In what way do you think notability is satisfied? A h-index of 12 is well below the threshold of WP:PROF#C1, and everything else listed is typical for an ordinary academic, -- 101.117.57.69 (talk) 08:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
I see you also removed the PRODs from Rebecca Spindler and Erin Roger, which have similar notability concerns. I would like to request that all 3 articles be listed at AfD. -- 101.117.57.69 (talk) 08:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- You're more than welcome to get an account and put them up for AfD. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Stuart - what makes her notable? and Keith Syers. Also Miriam Meyerhoff and Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin - NealeFamily (talk) 02:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
- They're part of a recent tranche of academics I've done. I believe that they all meet Wikipedia:Notability (academics), which is a pretty low bar. Feel free to tag them / nominate them fro deletion. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:11, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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May I pester you, again, to return to Template talk:Authority control? Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:49, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I mentioned your name at ANI here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Abuse of deletion process so performing the mandatory notification. Cheers. Nil Einne (talk) 16:01, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
I mentioned you in the same discussion. -- nafSadh did say 23:24, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks people. I've reluctantly replied. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I have found this news magazine article, regarding to a history of Block McCloud. Is this an acceptable source? TwinTurbo (talk) 09:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- That's an excellent source. A couple more like that and you've saved the article :) Stuartyeates (talk) 09:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Stuart - I was assessing this article but she does not seem to be notable from what you have written. Am I missing something? NealeFamily (talk) 22:52, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- @NealeFamily: Fair enough. I've moved it to draft and will add some more to it. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- If you want me to do some research on her, let me know - happy to help. NealeFamily (talk) 02:39, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- @NealeFamily: Thanks for the offer, but I'm seeing a buttload of hits on nzherald and stuff for her name, so I'll sort through that and the more well-known blogosphere first. It is, after all, my responsibility to find the sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:17, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- You do so much, I don't mind assisting NealeFamily (talk) 03:20, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- @NealeFamily: The fact that I know friends will ping me when my stubs get too stuby gives me the confidence to continue creating the number and breadth of stubs that I do. Anyway, take a look at the new Draft:Prue Hyman. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:29, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- If you want me to do some research on her, let me know - happy to help. NealeFamily (talk) 02:39, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Looks much better and should cross any notablitiy threshhold. She has made some significant contributions especially in NZ I suggest you move it back out of draft and I will add further information as I find it. Keep up the good work.NealeFamily (talk) 07:51, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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Your revert yesterday instantly branded as unconstructive a protest against a laughably prejudiced destruction of a serious WPbiog of Dennis Rawlins. Up to a few days ago it had accented his lifetime of primary research in refined academic areas. But after August 30 complaints on Graeme Bartlett WPtalk about CSICOP tool and WPadministrator Vsmith's slanders and threats against Rawlins, the biog was deleted on September 12 by Vsmith's catspaw Drmies and replaced by a stub blatantly designed by CSICOP detractors to pretend that Rawlins's career has accomplished almost nothing but headlines in second rate newspapers and referring to him as merely a "professional skeptic". (Such preciously unselfconscious smearing from professional skeptic CSICOP is as amusing as irony gets.) Do you find that constructive? Will you help create a fair biog, more competent than the original, but which recognizes not only Rawlins's few errors (which he repeatedly insured were fully represented in the biog) but provides at least a summary of his many credits and discoveries, also his repeated vindications by unexpected new evidence? Will you do what you can to discourage threatening and conniving administrators and vandals?
How did the Rawlins biog get onto your watch list? The flap over it is a cesspool of revenge, threats, extortion, slander, and primarily suppression which deserves chronicling as much as the original "sTARBABY". (And the offending organization is so well known that its behavior will interest a lot more people.) Anyone asked to become a partner in constitutionally unhumble Vsmith's unprovoked and dementedly bungled (see Bartlett talk on Velikovsky) war against Rawlins should check his conscience and his caution.2thedef (talk) 04:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- I know very little about Dennis Rawlins, CSICOP or any of these other people. What I do know is that wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a tertiary source, built on reliable independent secondary sources. If I understand your complaint correctly, finding such sources relating to Dennis Rawlins needs to be your first step. Without secondary sources you're unlikely to get far. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:59, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
You do not even acknowledge the obvious question of how and by whom you got assigned to a subject you admittedly know so little about. There are secondary sources galore in the previous biog, University of Cambridge, New York Times, British Museum, Isis, and so on. But Vsmith's Drmies tossed them all out, instead slumming at the low end of newspaper stories to create a half-smear rather than a biog. The material you autoeliminated was rambunctious but valid in all respects while the biog you protect is deliberately misleading. Why are you fronting for smearers and suppressors? Your calling the September 16 intro to the biog unconstructive is typical of the Rawlins WP biog history. Faced with undeniably relevant and accurate facts — find some excuse for deletion to protect the ever more deeply invested censoring and threatening culprits and their heroes and saints, while denigrating or disappearing material in favor of their devils. Kill as many awful facts as possible using labels like "blog", not Reliable, "stuff", unencyclopedic, "junk", not constructive, "trivial". If you are serious about finding secondary sources then just undo Drmies's edit and you will have dozens of such sources. With input from every side the biog can then be mutually improved in stages to the satisfaction of all but fanatics.
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