User talk:DrStrauss

DrStrauss is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.

Pulp magazine RM

Your correct close on the Pulp magazine RM didn't take into account that someone had gone ahead and moved the page to the proposed title anyway. Maybe, if you have a minute or three you can move the page back to the name it had when the RM went into effect. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 17:56, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! Fixed now. Thanks, DrStrauss talk 18:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A minor booboo fixed

It was about relisting a requested move. :) —usernamekiran(talk) 20:19, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran:

Facepalm! By the way, what do you think to this? DrStrauss talk 20:48, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

lol. Lets move on :)

I commented on the talkpage of the essay. —usernamekiran(talk) 23:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran: I'm on a semi-wikibreak at the moment but I'll look and improve it when I get back! DrStrauss talk 21:36, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No hurries. :) My activity has been decreased cuz of real-life too. I will try to work on that essay. Also, how to determine a "consensus" with requested moves? Not sure if I should close this move as an affirmation. I will ask Amakuru for guidance regarding a general guideline for consensus. —usernamekiran(talk) 12:08, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kittie Knox

You rejected the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kittie_Knox, saying "This submission appears to be taken from bikinblazers.org/AS_THE_PEDALS_TURN.html." The situation is actually that site took the material from Lorenz (Larry) Finison's book, "Boston's Cycling Craze", referenced here:

   http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bostons-cycling-craze-1880-1900
   http://news.wgbh.org/post/larry-finison-bostons-bicycling-history
   http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/12/06/best-new-england-books/oNZhJVFLMkyM6mcNQVPI8H/story.html

I worked with Mr. Finison to put this Wikipedia page together, so it's ironic that since he has not been active in tracking down copyright infringers this content is coming back as being represented as plagiarism. What can we do about this situation? Mr. Finison is certainly the leading US authority on Kittie Knox as evidenced by his book on the subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajrsingh (talk • contribs) 03:06, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rajrsingh. First things first, if you're working with Finison, you need to disclose that on your userpage. Please see WP:COI and WP:PAID for more information. Whether Finison gives his consent to large portions of his content being used verbatim or not is irrelevant as we try to put things into our own words and not copy-paste even if copyright problems aren't an issue. DrStrauss talk 21:36, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks for info DrStrauss. We're just getting started with Wikipedia publishing and having some growing pains. I'm mainly the tech enabler and Finison is the historical researcher, which leads to some hiccups along the way.

21:17:07, 14 August 2017 review of submission by Gojukai

Gojukai (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Leo Lipinski (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I've made several changes. Any further changes you may recommend are appreciated. Also, in wake of the subjects current battle with cancer, should such be considered for inclusion?

Hi Gojukai, thanks for your message. While unfortunate, Lipinski's battle with cancer does not confer notability for a Wikipedia article. The first thing that jumps out to me is that a lot of the content is bullet-pointed. This needs changing into prose. Once you've done that, feel free to drop another message here and I'll take another look. DrStrauss talk 21:36, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Harry Ashland Greene

Dear Wiki admin,

When possible, will you please take a look at Harry's page and let me know if it can be published? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Harry_Ashland_Greene

Katie has been very kind to recover the deleted page and put it as a draft.

Thank you for your time.

Forharry (talk) 23:54, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Forharry, thank you for your message. I can't review drafts anymore as I've left AfC. FYI I'm not an administrator but KrakatoaKatie, to whom you refer in your message is, she might be able to help you. One more thing: your username suggests a conflict of interest, you might want to declare that on your userpage if this is the case. Thanks, DrStrauss talk 16:59, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DrStrauss,

Thank you for writing back.

I shall write to Katie again in this regard.

And yes, this account was created to help put Harry's page back up. I will update my page to state this.

Thank you

Forharry (talk) 20:24, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reliant Review

Hello DrStrauss, I rewrote this page and added more sources. Before resubmitting, I wanted to send it over to you for review and for your feedback. Please let me know what you think about the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Reliant_Energy Thank you for your time!

(Adapt16 (talk) 19:20, 18 August 2017 (UTC))[reply]

Hello Adapt16, a few minor wording issues need fixing. For example, grand prize and banded together could be construed as puffery. You might also want to look at the Smart Home Technology section again as it appears to duplicate its statements about smart home purchases. Unfortunately, I no longer have the ability to formally review the draft so you'll have to submit it per the AFC guidelines. Thanks, DrStrauss talk 14:34, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trauma trigger

Are you able to offer a justification for your addition last year of the split proposal tag to Trauma trigger. On talk, several editors have said it should be removed if there is no argument presented for a split. I don't see a reason for having a split, and I think there is insufficient content for one anyway. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 20:59, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tiptoethrutheminefield, yes, sorry about that, I forgot to pick that line of inquiry up after my wikibreak. Feel free to remove the tag, I can't seem to remember why I put it there. Nice username by the way! DrStrauss talk 14:34, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Altaf Tyrewala

I am bit surprised by that note. Altaf is a fairly known Indian author credited with 3 books so far. I tidied up the article abit, added more ref and removed the self praise parts (probably added by the author himself as seen from history). Hope it works now to remove the deletion notice. Thanks Debashish (talk) 18:17, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Debashish, maybe he is notable but his article did not convey that when I PROD-ed it. DrStrauss talk 20:58, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

You may want to try and clean up articles that aren't promotional and just lack sourcing before proposing them for deletion. It isn't too hard to clean them up—since they are totally unsourced, you can just nuke the body content a good amount of the time, and then start from scratch. It makes for a much better use of your time, as you can just fix it yourself instead of spending your time nomming these articles for deletion and having the time of other editors being spent cleaning them up. If the article has too much jargon so that you can't really find out if the sources support it, then you can just draftify it. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 23:10, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Noted, AfD withdrawn. DrStrauss talk 20:58, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Feb 09 Orphans

I know there's a few of us out there actively working on it, sometimes I think we should form a club :P ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:23, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Premeditated Chaos: The Olde Orphanage xD - I think the bot's a bit behind on de-tagging, I've just done 40-odd with AWB. DrStrauss talk 20:58, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I definitely think that once the whole category is finished, there should be some kind of "backlog slayer" award for anyone who worked on the Feb 09 orphans. I've seen plenty that are linked elsewhere from ages ago that weren't de-tagged, I'm not even sure any of the orphan bots are still working. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:37, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Premeditated Chaos: definitely, I could do with more barnstars! :P I'm finally finding PRODs somewhat effective with these - with new articles they're about as effective as a trap-door in a canoe. I've started up Twinkle logs now. (User:DrStrauss/CSD log and User:DrStrauss/PROD log) DrStrauss talk 10:57, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I keep finding ones that are ineligible for PROD because they were PRODed in like... 2006 or something (and usually dePRODed by the creator). So frustrating to have to do a full deletion discussion for that, but them's the breaks. Also, I've been finding the userscipt for checking copyvios super useful because holy crap you would not believe how much old copyvio stuff is hanging out in there. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I could complain about it all day... Which script is this? DrStrauss talk 21:23, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Premeditated Chaos: I've just done a quarry query for all articles in the category with more than one incoming link (query link) with 1,095 results. Maybe we should de-tag these? AWB de-tags when there's more than two incoming links and some of the articles are utter crap so... thoughts? DrStrauss talk 21:58, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The copyvio script is here User:The Earwig/copyvios.js. I definitely think it's worth looking at that list. Low-hanging fruit and all. I've never been great with AWB so I'll take a look manually. You're right that some of them are atrocious though yikes. (Just so we don't overlap, I'm starting from the end fyi) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:59, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Premeditated Chaos: will do, I think I already have it in my extended preferences. I've noticed two users have a high number in the backlog (02blythed and Zacharie Grossen) so we might want to have a look into those. DrStrauss talk 17:18, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah in addition to certain repeat users, I've noticed a lot of patterns of types of articles - members of the Nepali legislature, Romanian generals, lakes in Germany, Swiss mountains (I think Mr. Grossen is responsible for the mountains), Italian painters...if I was better with database queries / AWB stuff I'd pull out cross-referenced lists but I find it easier to go manually down the list. You find all kinds of interesting surprises that way, even though it's less efficient. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:15, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

COI - of a different kind

Hi DrStrauss. Because it involves New Page and AfC reviewers along with other maintenance workers (SPI, COIN), an informal chat has begun on some aspects of paid editing. See Conflict of Interest - of a different kind. Please add your thoughts there. It is not a debate or RfC.
From WP:NPPAFC. Opt-out. Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 20 August 2017 (UTC) .[reply]

Responded at the appropriate venue. DrStrauss talk 20:58, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Katsura Tadaakira

Hello DrStrauss. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Katsura Tadaakira, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: 8 year old articles about samurais that lived 400+ years ago could really benefit from some discussion. Thank you. So Why 12:11, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: User:WST Student/sandbox

Hello DrStrauss. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:WST Student/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The draft was never submitted to Articles for Creation. Thank you. Mz7 (talk) 22:27, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

21:50:10, 22 August 2017 review of submission by Cristinaclcardoso

Cristinaclcardoso (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Park Jimin (musician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I think I managed to fix everything that was "wrong" with this article. Could you be able to review it again? I would love if this article could be published soon.