There is more than one valid way of working here. Some people prefer to create only high quality articles, even though they may do very few of them. Some prefer to create many verifiable articles of clear notability even though they may not be of initially high quality. As this is a communal project, I think every individual person is fully entitled to do whichever they prefer, and the thing to do about people who prefer otherwise than oneself is to let them work their way, while you work yours. The only choice which is not productive is to argue about how to do it, rather than going ahead in the way that one finds suitable.</block quote>
Many [who?] editors include a statement about their attitudes to editing on their user pages. I am not one of them, that is until I came across what you wrote. I would really like to include this on my user page. While I can add anything at all I like to my user page subject to WP:USER PAGE, I nevertheless ask for your permission to add the quote. OK with you? I'm fine if you decline this.
--Shirt58 (talk) 12:37, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
where is the "like" button?
RobLab (talk) 01:42, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm sure I've seen you reference this essay
WP:TALKINGSOFASTNOBODYCANHEARYOU. Is my memory that faulty? I can't find it, and it's possible the syntax isn't precise. Did you use this a sort of irony? I seem to remember you used the link to represent bullying behaviors. I'm seeing one such user who seems to be wanting to turn the entire AfD process on its head by using such a technique. BusterD (talk) 11:48, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
I have sometimes used pseudo-links like these as a statement for their own sake, without writing an actual essay. I remember saying something like this, but I can't find it. I think this one was TALKINGSOMUCH... -- but I can't find it either. As for the problem, I've commented pretty extensively at AN/I: [1], and will comment at the RfC also, But please don't confuse the reasonable message, with which I am in agreement -- that Deletion Policy is overbalanced towards deletion, and one step towards rebalancing it would be to require some version of WP:BEFORE -- with the unreasonable way it is being over-expressed. DGG ( talk ) 23:23, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, David. I was a debater in school before "talking so fast" became the current style. I feel anything which games the system deserves appropriate response in order to keep the system sound. I appreciate your valid concern about deletion procedures being over-weighted toward one outcome. Thanks for your valuable comments in those forums. Be well. BusterD (talk) 23:37, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Ah yes, I had forgotten that context. And so was I, in college--a very valuable experience, especially in facilitating the sort of intercampus experiences only the athletic teams otherwise gave occasion for. But the stimulus is interesting: if I take a turn at NPP, the amount of junk turns me for a while into a deletionist before I catch myself and stop being so unfriendly to all the newcomers. If I take a look at AfD, the number of unwarranted nominations makes me inclined to give a similarly snappy and unjust response to all of them, with the less than rational thought that if I argue against all of them, maybe there's a chance the good ones will make it. Several good inclusionists have run into trouble here falling into such temptation. DGG ( talk ) 23:58, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
items from 2015 and 2016 removed for archiving--a few will be replaced here
Your talk at 16 Years of Wikipedia
Heard your lightning talk just now. I support both the "Radical solutions to promotional paid editing" proposals you announced on notability and restrictions on anon editors around companies newer than 1999 foundation. Are there some written proposals to refer to? - Brianhe (talk) 20:43, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
there will be--one of the reasons I gave the talk was to get some feedback about just what to propose, and I am already getting some. Watch this space tomorrow. DGG ( talk ) 20:55, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Sounds good. I will evangelize to the communities I'm part of, as soon as there's something to show them. - Brianhe (talk) 20:57, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Video from the lightning talks is now available via Commons. DGG's lightning talk is the first one, proposal #1 is detailed at 2:15 and #2 at 3:00. - Brianhe (talk) 06:31, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Combative deletion rebuttals
Hi DGG, I noticed a wave of combative deletion rebuttals on your page lately and wondered if this is a new phenomenon. Would you like me to answer them as able, or just leave them alone? - Brianhe (talk) 18:17, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
In the past, most paid or other promotional editors, when their articles have been deleted, have simply gone away and tried again, generally under another username. For a while now, an increasing number of them have been adopting the practice of arguing. Many admins ignore them; my response unless they are ridiculous altogether is to explain why, sometimes in detail. If they are a good faith but promotional editor who simply has not realized, they usually understand, though it sometimes take a second round of explanation. . If they are professional paid editor with any sense, they realise they;re not going to get anywhere, and go away--and try again usually under another name. Zealots with a unpaid COI have very often continued to argue, sometimes indefinitely. The best thing for us to do here is the traditional remedy, to ignore them. Some paid editors are now doing the same, hoping to wear people down. The best technique here is to block them. If they show up for the same purpose again, they can and should be summarily blocked as behavioral meatpuppets--though we usually run a checkuser for possibly helpful additional information. The danger, as has become clear, is catching a good faith but imitative editor. There are only 3 solutions: accept promotionalism , be able to investigate who people actually are, or accept there will be occasional injustice. I will oppose the first as long as I work here, I will continue trying to change consensus to permit the second, and , alas, be forced to accept the third.
There are of course other factors. I have lately been taking a larger role at AfD, and as I didbefore, I tend to close the ones that nobody is eager to close and present some possible ambiguities. It is therefore natural that there should be exceptions taken to them. ,Unless I were to do only the obvious, it's part of the structure, and I will make an effort to address what I think are reasonable objections. And, unlike some admins who just refer people to DelRev hoping few will brave that extremely specialized process, I will revert a close if I think it may have been in error.,
There is also of course the possibility that I may have been making more errors. DGG ( talk ) 03:56, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Back in the day (Nov. 2013), you stated in an AfC comment that the subject is notable and that the page needed cleanup (diff). So, I cleaned it up and published it in main namespace just now. Feel free to improve the article further. North America1000 16:19, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
all it needs now is 1/removal of some adjectives and phrases that constitute puffery, 2/or that could be seen as espousing a political view, 3/removing inserting some links to relevant WP articles, 4/Clarifying 4.1, which implies but does not say that the first generation parents resisted or wanted to resist, 5/ clarifying section 4.2 by saying in the text as coming from the California oral history project & making it an indented quote, 6/ removing or sourcing multiple sentences of opinion and 7/Finding some references that come from other sources than Omura and Toland.
It makes no difference how strongly you or I agree with the his political viewpoint. If we used WP to advocate our own beliefs, we'd end up the same as Conservapedia. You may possibly think that in the current political situation in the US and some other countries, all honest citizens should feel themselves called upon to undertake action, or at least write polemics. I would probably support this as a valid position, but the advocacy does not belong on WP. The role of WP in fighting actual or potential tyranny is now and always to write objective articles in purely dispassionate language. At WP we present the facts, trusting the readers to themselves draw the proper conclusions, not to tell the reader what conclusions they ought to draw.
To avoid misunderstanding, I think the WMF, as distinct from the encyclopedia, can appropriately play a political role in defense of its values, and I support its past and present actions and statements. And, also to avoid misunderstanding, there may indeed come a time when dispassionate reporting is hopeless, and direct opposition is the only possible course. But the two should not be confused. DGG ( talk ) 21:24, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the detailed reply. I cannot guarantee that I will improve the article more; perhaps you could post the content of your first paragraph above on the article's talk page so others will see your suggestions. North America1000 03:23, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Addition of un-redirected pages to Special:NewPages and Special:NewPagesFeed
I'm contacting you because you participated in this proposal discussion. While the proposal was approved, it has not received developer action. The request is now under consideration as part of the 2017 Developer Wishlist, with voting open through the end of day on Tuesday (23:59 UTC). The latter link describes the voting process, if you are interested. —swpbT 18:02, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I will comment there, but I think this require WMF action independent of that process. DGG ( talk ) 18:17, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Am interested in your thoughts on this AfD, and specifically on the issue I have raised. I have no idea how you are going to !vote on this, and am curious. Jytdog (talk) 19:44, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Lots of naive discussions of citations from others, but the actual analysis speaks for itself. You did of very good job of editing, btw. For someone of his importance I would have done if it needed, but its great to have such competent help. DGG ( talk ) 04:36, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words but all I did was clear away the most fetid of the promotionalism. The remaining directory entry ( i will not it an "article") is promotional; this person cannot have an actual WP article as there no sources from which to write one. The directory entry exists because someone is trying to promote this guy. So I have just polished a turd. It should not exist in WP per NOTDIRECTORY and PROMO.
I am going to try to raise N standards around WP. I am trying because a bunch of people seem to think we should and more importantly they undercut efforts to make meaningful changes by pointing to things like changing N.
But everybody has pet projects and is willing to fight to the death to protect notability guidelines and essays that allow fake "articles" to exist in WP, that are really directory entries or worse. The journals people do it, the academic people do it, the radio people do it, the music people do it, etc. It will be a waste of time, but I will try. So it goes. Jytdog (talk) 05:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Yes, I'm willing to go to some trouble to maintain proper standards of notability based upon objective evidence that shows someone is a leader in their field. WP:PROF is one of the very few guidelines we have that follows a rational approach to inclusion policy. I fell so strongly about objective guidelines that I support them even when I think them overly broad (as for sports) or much too narrow (as for politicians).
I can and will argue as I think appropriate & necessary using the GNG in either direction, but it's a totally useless intellectual activity that I think detracts from the encyclopedia . You may possibly have a case about directory entries (though we have about 2 million directory articles), ut I don't see how the article is PROMO. Anyway, looking at it from your direction, even so you're attacking articles that we do have in a field where we do not have anywhere near enough coverage--if you want to attack directory entries--why not do it a field where e have overcoverage. Or do you really think academics unimportant?
Of course we have information to write an article we have what's important about academics: their position and their published work. In each case that's third party information based on the university authorities and the editor of the journals and the citing authors. The decisions of peer reviewers and peer authors in the aggregate are much sounder basis for an article than the uninformed comments of journalists in most current day newspapers.
one of the differences in what I and most others do here, is that I'm willing to fight even for what other people consider important. Tolerating and supporting each other is the basis of a cooperative encyclopedia. There's real promotionalism in WP that's much more dangerous and compromising than even the original version of this article. You're losing perspective. DGG ( talk ) 05:58, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your thoughts. I know that lots of people have identified various fields in WP that they think are particularly .... bad. Some people focus on where they believe there is lots of "paid editing", some people focus on where there is lots of COI, other people on various forms of POV or bias, systemic and otherwise. I know people think that what I care about is COI/paid editing. They are wrong but I let myself get trapped too often in that box.
My work is primarily about NPOV - ensuring that articles summarize high quality sources.
NPOV is what my entire Userpage is focused on, and has been focused on, for a long time. (it comes down to finding high quality sources and accurately summarizing them)
Lots of people have said we should address the paid editing problem at least in part (and in some quarters, primarily) by raising N standards.
I agree with that. It would solve lots of other problems too.
I don't understand -- at all -- how anybody can support raising N standards, and at the same time support any guideline that allows automatic green-lighting, even when we cannot actually write a WP article about something because there are not multiple independent sources with significant discussion of it. (In other words, it isn't possible to write an NPOV article about it)
I mean it - this completely baffles me and in my view comes down to special pleading. And each Wikiproject points to the special pleading that other Wikiprojects do. Which means we will never succeed in raising N standards for any field in WP.
If, on the other hand, Guy is correct and NOTDIRECTORY has been effectively abandoned, I need to rethink what a "WP article" is and my approach to NPOV.
But as it stands, in my view, the approach to N that allows PROF and JOURNALs and RADIO to create and keep directory entries, is what allows crap articles about business executives to exist.
(and what is promotional about the article about the guy who is subject of the AfD, is its very existence in WP. It was created as part of a promotional campaign, and upon examination it fails GNG and should not exist in WP at all. It is no different than artIcle about some business executive that gets created, gets looked at, and should get deleted.)
So what do people mean when they say "raise N standards"? How is it coherent and consistent? I really don't understand (obviously). Please explain how this makes sense to you. Please. Jytdog (talk) 22:05, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I should acknowledge that I made a mess of the discussion at PROF. I did that badly. Jytdog (talk) 23:00, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Btw, i just read your userpage, and see that your thoughts about GNG and N are completely different. Hm. Jytdog (talk) 06:11, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
yes, they are, and I've made no secret about it. Besides what I do on wiki, I've talked about this at many events. This has been my general approach for about 7 years now--the main difference from then is that 7 years ago the problem of using WP to advertise was not as widespread, and I was much more willing to rewrite such articles than I am now. Under current conditions, I'm very much more concerned about fighting promotional editing than about disagreements on the level or criteria of notability. DGG ( talk ) 04:43, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
But in making arguments in actual cases here I always give an argument based on the conventional rules. I will then sometimes supplement it with additional reasons. I use my own concepts in deciding which articles I'm going to argue about. I will not personally defend an article that clearly meets WP:N and which I do not think appropriate unless I can find some other policy-based reason. DGG ( talk ) 08:21, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
My view is that all articles written by this group should be deleted regardless of notability. The TOU are foundation policy. Our COI policy is based both on that and WP:NOT, which supersedes all consideration of notability. Attempting to advertise someone highly notable, is still advertising, just as advocating the worthiest of causes is still advocacy. Some of the people being written about are so notable, however, that an article ought to be written. I considered whether to rewrite the existing articles, but decided not to, because it would take rewriting from scratch. I think the only way we can enforce our rules and deter promotionalism is to first delete, and then wait a bit and communicate with the subjects to make sure the lesson is learned, and then rewrite. DGG ( talk ) 01:55, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Talk page stalker here, with a minor point. The PROD template might benefit from a special-purpose parameter. As it is now, the wording is unfortunate. I quote: "If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion policy." Of course contradicting the reason for deletion. (And of course I have no objection to the idea of deleting this article or those like it. Just a matter of wording.) -- Hoary (talk) 02:04, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Well, there is a way a undeclared paid editor can actually save the article, which is by declaring and then rewriting. I do not think there's an actual guideline, but so far we have generally granted amnesty retrospectively, in order to encourage people to do things properly. Of course, it a situation like this there would be considerable explanation needed. Anyway, I was thinking of using speedy in analogy with G12. I know it would be to IAR, and IAR is rarely used in connection with speedy. We could have another speedy criterion, but I don't want to propose it until consensus about the tou is more firmly established. It's cases like this which will show the need for it. DGG ( talk ) 03:58, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. I am in favor of nuking the articles created by this group. There is a list of remaining articles at WP:COIN#Arunkapadia. An IP has heavily trimmed this one. — JJMC89 (T·C) 21:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
considering the extent of work on this particular article, I am not going to list it for deletion. But anyone else can do so. DGG ( talk ) 18:54, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
COI/BLP issues
I came across 501 7th Avenue, SeaRise Office Tower, and 111 West 33rd Street and originally thought that it was a paid promotional editor and so put a paid editing notice on the creator's user talk page. Looking a bit closer at the user's created articles, it seems that they might actually be trying to spread information about Qatari owned businesses that have terrorist funding connections, and have created several BLPs/recent deaths that make terrorist funding/terrorism claims too: Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, Ismail al-Salabi, Mohammed bin Hashim al-Awadhy. I'm not sure how great the sourcing is on the BLPs, but given the sensitive nature of the topic and a near laser focus on it, it raised my eyebrows. You deleted Pamodzi Sports Marketing as G11, and since that was the last deletion on the talk page, and I know you have experience with COI type subjects, I thought I would get your thoughts. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:45, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
I have generally thought most large buildings in major cities notable, though it is difficult to say an exact size, and t will depend on the city.
Searise & W33rd St are I thing large enough; 7th Ave isn't but it was built by a famous architect. But what we really need is an article for the company that owns them (and the Empire State Building), Empire State Partners (formerly Empire State Realty Trust), which is mentioned in the Empire State building article); it is a NUYSE company and has an interesting history. None of this of course answers the question of whether we should keep articles on notable subjects by undeclared paid promotional editors. I've been arguing that we should not--for those that are so notable as to be essential, someone else can rewrite them -- after a gap, because there is no other way to convince people that it is not helpful to pay for an article. If your suggestion is correct, it's still by a promotional editor, because it's advocacy which is considered as promotionalism , but that isn't considered nough reason for deletion, if the subject is notable just for revision unless it's so bad that revision is hopeless and it falls under G11.
I'll look at the BLPs tomorrow. The sourcing is,as you say, not great, but I think they would pass AfD DGG ( talk ) 18:54, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
fwiw, those deletions stem from this ANI thread, Vipul's paid editing enterprise, where there have been some calls to delete company timeline articles created by the group under discussion there. Jytdog (talk) 05:33, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
I would probably support a CSD criterion modeled after G5, for undeclared paid editing, but we do not currently have one, and using G11 for the purpose is stretching it very far. This is especially true when the actual article was probably not written as promotionalism or advocacy, but as a unfortunately misguided good faith approach to improving WP. JzG is very much around, and I do not intend to do this without notifying him, especially because I entirely respect and totally agree with his desire to rid WP of blatantly improper editing. I consider the speedies to be misjudgment, not absolute error. I will undelete them tomorrow unless there are arguments otherwise., and they can then be taken to AfD I fully understand why the deleting admin did this, and I totally sympathize with his views on this sort of editing. But G11 is really not the appropriate method. These need to be taken to Afd if they are to be deleted, because this is a disputed situation and requies explicit consensus. Speedy is not appropriate when the consensus will be debated, only when the deleting admin can be reasonably sure that the consensus would certainly support him. I do not think there's the case here. and the best course would be for JzG to do that himself. My own suggestion would instead be a merge, and therefore I will not personally take it to afd after it has been restored, for AfD is not needed to do a merge.. DGG ( talk ) 07:49, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
So, first of all, I already proposed a speedy criterion for material created in violation of the terms of use, and it was rejected. Getting any kind of broad community consensus on what to do with paid advertorial is difficult, not least because there is a group of people who for whatever reason seek to make it impossible. Not all of these are associated with the Sangerites and their fawning over Kohs. Some have a genuine, if in my view misguided, belief, that Wikipedia's need for articles overwhelms the problems of people subverting Wikipedia for profit.
That's why I only removed a small number of articles. There are several medical timelines, for example, all paid for by the same pyramid scheme, which I did not touch.
The articles I did remove are promotional in intent and designed, in my view, purely for SEO. They are timelines of commercial entities, paid for by Vipul (who engages in SEO as well as his Wikipedia editing pyramid scheme), replete with numerous links to other commercial entities, several of which are owned by Vipul. And that's what pushes them over the line. Guy (Help!) 09:02, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
JzG, You may be right, but you shouldn't be making this decision by yourself, especially because there is disagreement about the nature of Vipul's motivations. Please undelete and send them to AfD. This particular case very much needs discussion, and preferably not just between the two of us. . As for the speedy criterion, the main problem I see is exactly what is presented here--the difficulty in determining motivations (and identity, usually, though not in this case). DGG ( talk ) 15:01, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
I don't think there's any disagreement about Vipul's motivation by now, but whatever. Guy (Help!) 16:11, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
JzG is free to hold whatever views they want to hold about paid editors. They shouldn't be calling all of them as "vermin", "dogs" and "parasites" - that is at least a gross violation of WP:NPA, and a BLP violation as well, if anyone cares. But, the least they can do is not to delete stuff bypassing consensus. Feel free to AfD the articles, but don't act unilaterally. Kingsindian♝♚ 19:02, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
Read again for comprehension. I did not call them dogs. Parasites, of course, is entirely accurate according to the definition of the term. Guy (Help!) 00:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
@JzG: I am not that interested in the dehumanizing language you use for people you don't like. But is someone (you or anyone else) going to undelete the "Timeline of..." pages? The deletion under CSD deletion G11 is clearly not applicable because it is not an unambiguous case of blatant advertising; indeed DGG agrees on that point. The CSD process is meant to deal with clear-cut cases with minimum of WP:BURO, not a method to shortcut consensus on an issue on which reasonable people may differ. Kingsindian♝♚ 02:26, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
@JzG: You also keep repeating that Vipul is running an SEO spamming operation (despite them denying it) and a pyramid scheme. Might I remind you that pyramid schemes are illegal in the US? This is as blatant a personal attack as can be imagined. Just because you think you're right doesn't mean that you can go around flouting rules with impunity. If you can't keep your head while dealing with the subject, let other people deal with it. Kingsindian♝♚ 02:38, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
See WP:COIN. They were offering to pay people, and allow those people to recruit downline and pass the money on. That's a pyramid scheme. The SEO is also proven to my satisfaction, people have checked the records of sites he admits to operating. I actually think he did not consider how this would be perceived. I originally offered him some advice on how to support Wikipedia articles in his area of interest without these problems, but it's since become apparent that this has been going on for a long time and his responses do not look to be entirely straight. I've not been involved in much of the cleanup, I mainly reviewed sourcing on a series of articles on immigration-related topics where Vipul and his paid editors had added large numbers of links to sites selling visa services. Again, I am not sure this was intentional spamming, but there is a conflict between the claim that they are experienced editors and the use of poor quality promotional sources.
You also appear to be under a misapprehension about my views on spammers. They are not people I dislike. I dislike the behaviour, not the people. I strongly suspect that Vipul and I would share broad agreement on a number of issues, and several of his paid editors seem to be nice people caught up in a nasty situation. Paid editing is predatory, a parasitic abuse of a charitable project for personal gain. It is reprehensible and, I would argue, morally indefensible. But you can see why Vipul did this. The critical point is what happens when the user is confronted. In this case the response was obfuscation. That is not cool. There have been many cases where the response is genuine remorse, the user not having even considered how the community might view paid editing. I can write that down to mistakes born of ignorance. That certainly applies to a lot of Vipul's paid editors. But not, I think, to Vipul himself, based on current evidence. Guy (Help!) 10:14, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
JzG You are accusing someone on Wikipedia of doing something illegal. And just because you think you're right and you have the correct opinions about paid editing, that makes it ok. Even if you were right (and you aren't), this kind of behaviour would be wildly out of line. Referrals are not necessarily pyramid schemes; they need to have a structure where people get most of their income through referrals and not through direct work. There are many other factors which go into pyramid schemes (see this page, for instance). You are totally incompetent to make such a determination (as am I), but you go around making these outrageous accusations. I would suggest that you're unable to think rationally about this topic. Please get some outside advice on this matter (from someone on WP) you trust. Preferably in private. Kingsindian♝♚ 15:27, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
You are engaging in hyperbole. Up to a point, so am I. I think there's nothing more to be said here. Guy (Help!) 23:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
@JzG: Are you going to undelete the "Timeline of ..." articles? DGG says clearly above that G11 doesn't apply and you shouldn't be making this decision by yourself. Your failure to answer this question is rather annoying. Kingsindian♝♚ 23:33, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
I am not good at answering questions when they are framed as overblown rhetorical statements, Am I goin to u delete the paid-for SEO adverts? Um, I will leave that to DRV because I remain convinced they are spam. Guy (Help!) 09:40, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
I'm not going to comment on this further, since at least some aspects of this might be headed for arb com. DGG ( talk ) 03:47, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Touche!
Hi DGG, I just wanted to thank you for having a spirited but civil discussion at AfD. Your points are good, as I believe are mine. Your good demeanor is refreshing. I didn't want to clutter the AfD page up with this, but wanted to say "Thanks!" Jacona (talk) 02:26, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
(re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Mendelson )
Commenting on Vipul/Riceissa related matters
Hi DGG, do you think I should refrain from commenting on Vipul/Riceissa related matters? I decided to leave the following note on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Riceissa/Spokes (replication system): "Note: I was a part of the same paid editing ring as User:Riceissa, so that is a COI I hold; I am not getting paid for any of my comments related to the Vipul/Riceissa ordeal, they are of my own accord. I was not asked by Vipul or Riceissa or anyone else to make any of the comments below." If you think I should stop, I'll stop; I don't want to get blocked for paid MEATing or whatnot. Sincerely, Ethanbas(talk) 07:25, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) You're skating on pretty thin ice already, so I would strongly recommend you keep well clear of anything even tangentially related to this mess. Guy (Help!) 09:55, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
I agree with Guy/JzG. Softlavender (talk) 10:09, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
I will not comment on any thread any longer; however, I reserve the right to comment on talk pages of users involved in this mess (making sure they know I was part of Vipul's project) Ethanbas(talk) 02:48, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Indexing
Here, you say "About reusing drafts: the unlikelihood of anyone else reusing a draft is one of the faults of our current system. I think there are at most 4 people (including myself) who rescue old drafts. I generally only do them in my primary field of interest (academic faculty and related), but even so I have a very long list, and very rarely have time to do one. We do not even have a system where when someone starts an article, it shows whether there is a pre-existing draft on the topic. The default Wikipedia search does not pick them up, and even if set to Everything only finds them if spelled the same way. Kudpung, you know this system best--is there any reasonable solution?". Maybe INDEXing the drafts is the solution? Ethanbas(talk) 02:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
this has been proposed, and decisively rejected. Drafts contain unverified material, including copyvios and advertising nd possible BLP violations. The whole idea for drafts is that they are not yet reasd to have a prominent position in external indexes. They do show up in our internal search, if one knows the title and specifies a customs search.T
the solution that has been suggested several times and could have been adopted years ago, is to categorize them in at least rough categories, so people could at least scan them. The objection has been raised that there are not people willing to do this manually, but there are two other methods: a simple weighted keyword approach, which, however inexact, is at least a start, and more recently an AI system. There has historically been a dichotomy--at least a perceived dichotomy--between the people who work with the WP infrastructure and the people who work with articles. Fortunately, under the current Executive Director, there seems to be a possibility of some improvement. DGG ( talk ) 02:52, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
It's interesting that Vipul did not mention he is associated with Caplan when he added so many primary-sourced references to Caplan's blogging into articles. Funny how that goes, eh? Guy (Help!) 00:03, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
JzG, there are two alternative approaches to COI problems: one is to simply judge the subject for notability in the usual way; the other, for which you have been arguing, is to judge the intent. I certainly understand the point of your way of doing it: I would support a rule that undeclared paid editing be deleted rather than fixed on the same principle as we delete articles from banned editors (otherwise the prohibition is toothless), and I would probably also support a rule that grossly COI articles also be deleted rather than fixed unless someone actually rewrites them, as we do for copyvio. There are also arguments against either proposition, and I think the strongest two are that usually we cannot tell, so it will remain toothless, and that is that paid editors can be persuaded to declare, and COI editors taught to write properly (though both seem to be quite rare occurrences).
But at present the community supports neither rule. I doubt we could get the necessary support to explicitly change either of them, and I am very reluctant to propose that until there is some chance ofsucceeding in the argument Another way to change the rule is to change what we actually do at AfD, because the rules here are what we actually do, rather than just what we say; this is the method you;ve been pursuing. I've been doing the same thing, but I am trying to concentrate on the individuals without significant notability, not clearly notable people like him DGG ( talk ) 04:03, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!
My name is David Alves (User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat (User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the == Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017 ==outreach:WIR|Wikimedian in residence page]] in Outreach. As you may know, Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents.
In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alvesoutlook.com.
I just wanted to comment and say I really appreciate your User page. Thanks for writing that up because I have always felt the same way and couldn't say it better myself. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 04:00, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Andrew Radford draft
hi DGG. you mentioned that you would like to see <andrew radford> draft before i submit and that you would accept it.
photo is a family photo and i have permission from radford to use it freely.
thanks so much for any feedback. i could submit next week if it looks ok.
josephJosephgalasso (talk) 20:48, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
even if you have permission, you need to follow the formal procedures at WP:DCM. The copyright permission must be made by the copyright owner, and it must be for CC-BY, which permits use not just in WP, but use anywhere by anyone for any purpose, even commercial. And we normally list doctoral students only if they are notable themselves. We usually don't mention editorial board membership, only editor-in chief. Otherwise it seems OK. DGG ( talk ) 08:41, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
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Pardon, can I ask you to archive a bit more of this talk page? My browser is hanging when I try to post here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:33, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
I keep intending to. thanks for reminding me. DGG ( talk ) 19:55, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Which browser and OS, Jo-Jo? Given a lengthy talk page here, with Safari on an iPad I have no problems reading or posting here. With Windows 10 and IE 11 attempting to go directly to a section from my watchlist hangs—but going to User talk:DGG works OK. Surely there should be a computer based solution. Fifty years ago (when I started programming) maybe no, but now? — Neonorange (Phil) 20:42, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
If I may butt in; I'm using Safari on iPhone, and when I first tried to load this page I got an error message saying something like "An error occurred. Attempting to reload page." I've never gotten that message before. This is quite possibly the most popular talk page on Wikipedia. Lizard (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
actually, it's slowing down even for me, with Safari and 16GB memory. It's my own fault, because I ambitiously set up a system of subject archives instead of doing like everyone else. I will make another try this weekend. DGG ( talk ) 21:23, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
The Windows 10 64-bit system and the 80 Mbit/sec Internet connection I use is way overkill for editing and browsing. Your talk page, as it is the moment of my sig time stamp, loads in less than a second when I go to User talk:DGG. When I go to a specific section of the page (from my watchlist) the browser busy pointer appears and after five minutes is still busy. I must reload Wikipedia in the browser to continue, as the page cannot be recovered. Computers should allow a person to be as productive as that person wishes, not the reverse. — — Neonorange (Phil) 00:02, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
the section editing for me works in just the opposite way--much faster. Anyway, expect some improvements here. DGG ( talk ) 02:26, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thank you for all you do to help keep Wikipedia collaborative. It's a thankless task, on the ANI board.auntieruth(talk) 14:55, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
Notability and GNG
Summary, modified from my comment elsewhere,
The policy on whether we keep an article is not WP:N. The policy is WP:NOT. The guideline WP:N is the explanation for how we decide on one part of that policy, NOT INDISCRIMINATE. An article might meet that, but fail other parts of NOT. If something is effectually promotion, it fails NOTADVOCACY, and that's enough to rule it out as encyclopedia content, because we do not advertise anything, no matter how notable. There's no justification for keeping advertising in Wikipedia any more than there is copyvio. Unless there is a NPOV version to revert to, or unless it is immediately fixed, it should be deleted, whether by speedy G11 or at AfD. It shouldn't be moved to draft or userified in the hope of improvement, as we might for something lacking in sources for notability but where there's a good chance of finding them. We wouldn't do that for copyvio. We wouldn't do that for BLP violations. Using WP for advertising is just as harmful. "fixable" applies in many circumstances, but not for any of these. DGG ( talk ) 20:27, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
HM. Hm. Set brain to churning with all kinds of things clicking. Two questions:
Is that true, historically? I mean, was N created to flesh out NOT, explicitly?
Is this widely seen as true in your view? (I have never heard of it or thought about it this way.... it makes total sense however) Jytdog (talk) 19:57, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Based on several sections What Wikipedia Is Not, it is generally agreed that topics in most areas must have a certain notability in order to have an article in Wikipedia. Several guidelines have been created, or are under discussion, to indicate what is and is not notable by {{|Radiant!}}. (but at that point several of the proposed specific guidelines had developed to approximately their present form, with varying degrees of acceptance). The first appearance of a GNG was in Nov, 2006. by UncleG
(2) This my understand of the necessary implications of WP:NOT. It is my interpretation, & I think reflects the trend of decisions at AfD. It is not universally accepted; the alternate interpretation is for keeping promotional articles even if borderline notable, if it is at all possible to fix the promotionalism. In choosing how to interpret, we should follow logic & consistency, but also practical considerations. My view is that accepting even temporarily promotionalism plays into the hands of paid editors and other spammers, and that such editing has the real potential to destroy the usefulness of WP as an encyclopedia. DGG ( talk ) 03:47, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
I meant mostly the "this guideline fleshes out NOT" thing. Thanks for the history link! Jytdog (talk) 11:59, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
another restatement of notabilty SNG vs GNG
(my argument at a recent deletion review in popular music)
Consistent practice at WP has been that meeting the SNG is enough in this field. Guidelines are what we do, not just what we say, and if there is conflict between the two, it's what we do that matters. WP is not run primarily by rules, but primarily by consensus--rules are attempts to codify the usual consensus, and are valid only to the extent the community in practice supports them. re ambiguous, The rule on charting has an enormous advantage: it produces unambiguous results. Except for the need to define just what charts it is that count, there's not much room for dispute and decisions can be easily made,. Following the GNG is another matter entirely:the specifications that coverage by ""reliable"", significant coverage, independent and secondary and in sufficient number, can be endlessly debated, and in all fields where we rely on the GNG they are endlessly debated-in most cases that reach AfD they can be plausibly debated in every direction, and people in practice pick what side to argue by some sort of global judgement about whether the article should belong in WP. Thus our hundred or so FaDs a day where the main discussion is the opportunity to show skill in quibbling, and the result depends on just which skilled quibblers appear at the discussion. I don't care about the individual results in this subject field, but I do care they our decisions be consistent and rational. The SNG does that--the GNG guarantees the opposite.
Perhaps it's odd that with some degree of reputation as a skilled quibbler, and years of experience quibbling on both sides of AfDs, I want to do away with those discussions. I've experience in a lot of unnecessary things, and I'd much rather use my skills at something substantial at RSN or the like, and in figuring how to fix articles. I came here because I thought I could use quite different skills in finding refs to fix articles, but I've never had a chance to use them much. Debating as we do it is just a game. Sourcing is real. DGG ( talk ) 22:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Eliyahu Leon Levi
Hi DGG, I noticed you struck the listing for Eliyahu Leon Levi at WP:AN/CXT No. 9 with the comment that it is in adequate English; but how's the translation? The quality of English in the article isn't really that important; any copyeditor can do that. What we are mostly concerned with, is the accuracy of the translation, as most of the pages in this list were script-generated due to a misconfig in ContentTranslation and are either pure MT, or MT+monolingual copyedit, so don't worry too much about the English quality.
If you can vouch for accuracy of articles translated from Hebrew, the following ones in the list could use your help, if you have the time: #106, 197, 1627, 1680, and 1907. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:04, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
I agree that this is a questionable reach for me , as I do not read the language at all. I cannot vouch for accuracy; I can vouch for the English making sense and being consistent and the facts reported being likely. Like most bios, the article is extremely straightforward and leaves little to be misinterpreted. I know the cultural significance of what's reported, and it makes sense. I would not have looked at anything more complex or where I understood nothing of the subject. It's no worse that way than were it to have been written directly into the enWP using Hebrew sources, and certainly had it been an unacknowledged machine translation. The only reason these articles are any different is we know instead of guess that they used machine translation. So I shall ask a wikifriend to verify.
And I did likewise with a Chinese article on a straightforward political career. Again, it makes sense, but it is a language where machine translation to English is notable awful. It could be imaginary, but so could any article using Chinese sources. I'll ask for verification.
The other languages I've worked with I do know how to read at least somewhat, best for French and German. How well I can deal with them depends upon how simple they are. I've done translations in both from scratch, but I do not attempt deWP articles on history with their usual complicated German syntax--this is one case where it is easily possible to get mixed up. However, some types of articles are extremely formulaic. I'm most likely to run into an uncertainty regarding the equivalence of positions in different countries, tho as a librarian I know a lot of organizational equivalents. (There's a very nice large book A manual of European languages for librarians by CG Allen. Invaluable for the Soviet era in particular.) And if I come across anything I'm unsure about, or where I do not know the cultural equivalent, or where the original seems confused, I leave that part out. I see from the comments that other do similarly.
But this raises some more general questions. I was going to post on the project talk p.and I will in some more detail tomorrow:
How many of the articles I accept at NPP or AfC can I really vouch for the accuracy? That's an unrealistically high standard for any new page patroller--all we really check is basic verifiability. That a translation is not quite accurate is no worse than in the English from a non-native speaker is not quite accurate, or if the sources don't actually verify what they say they do, or are unavailable. The only time we really check an article in depth is when an article is challenged at AfD or analyzed for GA or FA. What we're looking for is basic correctness, not detail.
of the first 100 articles, we're accepting or redirecting almost all of them that are worth working on. Some that I could read perfectly well I am not marking for acceptance because I do not consider it worth the work, and I see others are deciding similarly. My intent is to rescue everything worth rescuing if I can do enough work. The project would be enormously simplifyied if we simply accepted translations from the Scandinavian languages. The machine translation does very well with them, because the syntax is almost identical. It also does very well with straightforward German.(as distinct from the professional level German in their longer articles) In other languages , the most serious inaccuracy is the sequence of events because of the difference in tense use which are very often messed up by the machine translation, and the original is often a little unclear here also. But I'm particularly concerned the project did not screen out those articles that used the machine translation as a base, and then edited manually by the contributor or a good editor. There's no reason to assume they're incompetent.
Our role should be to screen out the ones that are incapably done, and not worth fixing. There are fewer than I anticipated--perhaps 25% not 50%. I also consider it our role to produce readable though not necessarily high quality English. :::I am not going to let something that can barely be deciphered pass no matter where I see it. How far it's worth fixing depends on how easy it is to fix, and it's importance.
If this standard is not acceptable, I might challenge the entire project using the experience I now have as the basis. The goal of all we do here is, after all, to get articles worth keeping, not to reject all problematic ones out of hand. But in any case I do understand your advice, and will work more conservatively. DGG ( talk ) 04:31, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for this very thoughtful and detailed response. You raise a lot of interesting issues regarding translation, verifiability, accuracy, quality, and others that go beyond the narrow issue here that sparked the original comment. I hang out at WP:PNT and think about translation there and in other venues (both on, and off-wiki) and I've been thinking about how to better organize this in a way to improve the encyclopedia generally, and capitalize on all the talent and interested people we have here and assemble a group of those who are interested to discuss that. I know there's a WikiProject Translation, but for what I have in mind, I'm not sure if that's the right place for it, as I think this is something else, but anyway (sorry, I'm rambling; it's late!) let's keep in touch about this, if you would like to.
Back to the original topic: I understand your PoV, and in a pool of 3600 articles, it's not so important if one article more or less gets kept or not (with the exception that I hate to nuke ones that editors have worked long and hard on, unless policy really requires it) so if you want to restrike to keep this one it's fine by me, or tell me and I'll do it. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 08:19, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
My confusion; no need to restrike E L Levi, it's still struck as you left it; I've been doing so many of these lately, can't remember which way is up! Mathglot (talk) 08:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Librarians -- especially academic librarians -- have the distinctive requirement to be able to deal with material about which they have only the scantiest knowledge--there were about 100 professional librarians at my university, and we were expected to be able to understand the requirements of about 1000 faculty, all of whom had a world-class specialized knowledge that we could not hope to match--even those of us who became librarians after a research career had only mastered one special field, not 10 of them. This is obviously a good background for working at WP. Publishers have a similar skill, and so do reporters. This included the need to work with a range of languages--some of the faculty had an extremely impressive range indeed, but still we collected in more languages than was presently represented. But librarians do not have to truly understand the details of a book in order to catalog it, just understand it well enough to figure out what it is about and the level of the analysis. I've taught librarians also, and though no one can actually teach these abilities, I did explain to my students that if they were to win the respect of faculty, they had to at least know how to pronounce properly the words of their various specialties. (Thus I can spell and pronounce chemical and biological names much better than I can ordinary English) The same is of course true of many non-academic fields--you have to at least know the talk. So I will boldly attempt anything unless I know by experience I will make a fool of myself.
There's a difference among the various WPs. deWP is known for insisting on a solid university level of German, and we don't expect anything more than high school level literacy. We deal more than any other WP with people who cannot really write the language, and within limits, we encourage them. Fortunately, we have a very wide range of language and other specialists, and there is very little we cannot find someone to deal with. (The problem in that in some fields and languages there are very few of them, and they may not be representative of the range of POVs) By experience, I've learned some fields where I can , and cannot, trust the available WPedians, both here and at their own language WPs. I am very reluctant to delete anything the de or fr WPs consider notable --but this does not hold at all for some of the other European language WPs.
Anyway, that's where I come from intellectually. I see you understand, and I appreciate it. DGG ( talk ) 09:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) David, that's an interesting analysis, thanks. I'd noticed that there are many of us librarians or retired librarians editing Wikipedia, and had thought it was connected with our urge to make knowledge accessible, along with an interest in cross-references etc, but you've reminded me of our professional ability to deal with sources of information in subjects we don't understand, and up to a point in languages we don't understand. One of my first tasks as a graduate trainee librarian, many years ago, was to catalogue and classify a couple of shelves-full of books in Macedonian, with some highschool knowledge of Russian and a Macedonian-English dictionary: they'd been donated from Skopje and the chap on whose office shelves they were waiting needed the space. I've set myself the challenge of creating an article for every editathon of WP:Women in Red, whether or not it's an area I know (or care!) much about: it's an interesting exercise! PamD 21:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Robichaux
DGG,
I see the Chad Robichaux page has been nominated for deletion. You stated that, "promotional bio. full of puffery and uncited praise. The athletic career does not seem to meet the requirements,and there is nothing else substantial. I would not have accepted this from AfC."
Thank you for your feedback on the article. I made some edits to the page to remove any puffery. It don't understand, however, your other reasons for this being deleted. Can you help me? As I read the biography for living person page this seems to fall in line with the requirements and the coverage doesn't fall under "routine coverage" as described.
You are the expert, so however I can learn and make this page better I will gladly hear.
TO REPLY
A cup of coffee for you!
Thanks for reviewing my article. Yavarai (talk) 12:38, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Beer and bread fueling your labors. Hyperbolick (talk) 13:31, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Your user page
I was just looking at your user page and I must say, you have some interesting reading on there. Thank you for sharing! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:23, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
We've got a problem
OK. I looked at the famous February 2017 RFC on SCHOOLOUTCOMES, analyzed it some also did some thinking on my own dime. My full unfinished take is here, but don't click that link, it's long. In summary:
FWIW WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is indeed accurate. Of 35 randomly sampled the result was 34-1 Keep (or maybe 34-0, 29-1, 29-0 depending on how you count).
FWIW there are valid reasons to cite WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES I think. 1) it's valid to say "this works, let's keep doing it", 2) it's valid to say "not this shit again, its a timesink, let's not do it" 3) the community has consistently expressed its opinion on the general question for 15 years, and that counts. 4) maybe others I didn't think of. It's a matter of opinion, but reasonable opinion that one can disagree with but not just blow off, I would say.
Examining the February 2017 RFC, I found that the closers made a mistake -- a bad one. They said "Citing SCHOOLOUTCOME... has been rejected by the community", but that's not actually true; it wasn't (I'm pretty sure; I'm still working on analyzing this, and it will take some hours; but it appears so at this point).
Therefore people are being given a bum steer, I would say. The poor admin over at the Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2017 May 10#DRV for Kent School is having do deal with a shitshorm, and its not his fault. He followed what is written: "Firstly, I think the new language at WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is unequivocal: Secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist"
This is a problem IMO.
I didn't say this in public, but I have dark suspicions about the people who closed the February 17 RfC. Be that as it may, we can at least say that they demonstrated lack of acuity and diligence. As someone who has closed a couple RfC where I took a week (not 40 full hours, but still), I was appalled to see statements like "many arguments didn't make sense and were ignored". Man, that is not how you adjudicate a hugely visible and important RfC! I mean at least don't say that out loud. If you're too busy do to it right don't do it.
The key point is that the closer said "Citing SCHOOLOUTCOME... has been rejected by the community", but that isn't true, apparently (still working on this, but pretty sure it is not true). Mendacity or... lacking acuity... doesn't matter. They used this (untrue ) statement to make or authorize significant changes to a couple of pages, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes and Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions.
My inclination is to roll back these changes and cite User:Herostratus/Understanding SCHOOLOUTCOMES as justification. Whether WP:BRD applies after three months, I don't know... doubt it. My inclination could also get me in a heap of trouble. I'd rather let jack do it. If I'm going to do it, I need cover. I have enough enemies already.
But it's important enough to not just shrug off IMO. As a matter of principle the whole affair frosts me, for one thing. Four guys supervoting on a highly visible RfC is toxic to community feeling. As a matter of practice, leaving this alone will probably result (after much wasteful drama, and admins being caught in the middle) with a blow to our coverage of high schools outside the first world.
So what to do next? Herostratus (talk) 01:55, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
What to do next is to vigorously defend all plausible articles, while letting the very weakest go. I'm willing to accept literally that "citing SA doesn't have consensus" Focus on the rest of the RfC, that in practice we do always keep them. Since nothing in that whole section of common outcomes is policy or even guideline, just advice. I wouldn't bother trying to upset or reconsider the RfC=, no matter how aelf-contradictory its conclusion. Policy & guidelines are important concepts in hierarchical organizations, but at WP, policy is what we do unless there's a very good reason otherwise, and a guideline is what we usually do., unless we decide not to. Usage makes the policies sand the guidelines. Even so , notability isn't even a policy, but a guideline for one part of the real policy, WP:NOT INDISCRIMINATE, and the so-called GNG is just one possible way to apply WP:N. We can use it if it helps. I don't thing it often does, because experience shows how easy it is to manipulate the details to get whatever result is desired. It's a way of arguing, not a useful guide. If I were more cynical, I'd support it, because it would serve my interests, as I have considerable skill and experience in arguments using it in both directions. NOT INDISCRIMINATE is an important and in my opinion necessary policy, but the details of how we choose to apply it it are what affects the results. Just don't cite it. Cite the facts, as you just did in the first sentence above: We always keep them, unless there are unusual circumstances. It's a convention justified by its utility. Remember, as WP idiosyncratically uses the term, "notability " says nothing about actual merit. It's a term of art, meaning only "worth keeping in the encyclopedia".I wish we had never started using it, but instead, said what we meant.
I cannot explain the existence of the current push against high schools. It has the effect of clogging up AfD and preventing proper consideration of the real problems here, which are promotionalism and fan support of the transiently popular. I hope that isn't the intent, but rather am misguided faith in ideological purity. WP is not the place for ideological purity. WP is driven by consensus, and the essence of consensus is compromise, not rigour. Those wh owant rigour wshould go elsewhere.
But consensus has a weakness--it an be defeated by zealots. The only defense is for sensible people to stay with their purpose, and argue each dispute as it comes up. At WP, success goes to the most persevering, Think of it as those who care the most, not those who are most stubborn. who are assumed to care the most. I was raised in a tradition of political activism, and what I was taught was: always appear at every opportunity. Let's see who has the real majority. Otherwise the minority of zealots rule, as they currently do in what I still think to be my country. DGG ( talk ) 07:35, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
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Can you take a look at this please. I've prodded it because I'm sure it's an amalgam of chunks of text text copied from the one source that's used but I don't have the book. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:13, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Kudpung, did you notice there's a snippet view of the book on Google Books? It's not great but maybe good enough to scan for copyvio.
(later) Oops, maybe not - it's volume 1 and the article uses volume 2 or 3. Anyway here's the link [3]. - Bri (talk) 23:33, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Kudpng, it cannot simultaneously be OR and copyvio. And if it is not copyvio, then I do not see it as OR, but the summary of information based on a book with other sources used as well.Thestyle, with the long quotations, and the manner of referencing, suggests that it's a term paper. The snippet view is useless, it's from a quotation in the book. I tried other phrases, only ones from the quotation bring up the book. I suspect its in part a paraphrase., at least as far as organization goes. It covers a narrower scope than the current title; I moved it to American Jewish Anti-Bolshevism during the Russian Revolution. I think the way to proceed is to list it at Copyright problems DGG ( talk ) 00:47, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
contemporary artists articles still unassessed as keep
I've been avoiding these as likely lost causes but we may as well deal with whatever we've got. Not sure what the agenda is tomorrow for you but here are some of my current art articles, in addition to that one about the guy who cast bronzes. Oh and a librarian for you: Ana_Santos_Aramburo. And also Dolors_Lamarca
Inmaculada_Concepción_(Murillo,_1670) - I did some work on this, but is the Fundation Carlos Slim proof of notability? --- translation looking uglier than I thought
Yes I do realize that 1670 is not contemporary and neither is Rodin, but hey if you're going to be in an art museum -- any suggestions on any of these will be great. I will add to these as I go tonight.
OK so. That's enough for anyone even given superb powers of delegation. This is not homework, btw, just what I am working on, so if you have other stuff to do then fine. For all I know you are giving the keynote and were thinking along the lines of picking someone's brain for ten minutes. The art stuff is however to say the least extremely uneven and This is where I am with it. Some of the articles probably cannot be saved and also the stuff out of Carlos Slim foundation is sounding kind of sloppy. Or maybe someone just translated a lot of their catalogue? Anyway, there's that. I would like to keep the Rodin but it's where I am seeing this. Elinruby (talk) 14:47, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) I don't know the background to this but had a look at a couple out of curiosity:
Aurelio Gonzato - looks like an exact translation of the Italian wikipedia article. Don't see any sign of phallic device - but perhaps that's in some other context I don't know about. PamD 07:46, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
@PamD: First of all, pleased to meet you. And, you are right about phallic, thank you. I apparently looked at "metallic planes" way way way too fast. I still can't figure out what it did though, and he patented it? was it like a transformer? Became different things? Any thoughts welcome. Do you speak Italian? Meanwhile the context to this is that DGG told me on a different earlier talk page that he is going to an edit-a-thon at the Metropolitan museum tomorrow and it so happens that I have a bunch of art articles in this list of bad machine translations scheduled for deletion, except get this, some of them are fairly excellent articles... and then there is the stuff totally beyond my own horizons where I can't tell if it's too technical or too finnish, etc. So. what I have been doing is going down the list to make sure nobody tosses the astrophysics and cryptology articles, then I took some French under my wing, then nobody was doing Portuguese so....Please feel free to jump in. The key question is whether it would be easier to fix a given article or to start over. This is of course subjective but over a couple of iterations we have identified a lot stuff that is fine, other stuff not worth the headaches, or a whole lot more stuff somewhere in between, as with the articles above, where at least two editors appear to have machine translated museum catalogs or something possibly copyvio. And there are weirdnesses that often a sign of something wrong that someone made wronger trying to fix it. Anyway I have talked to DGG about some of these articles and hey if he is going to be at an editathon....if he potentially can enlist some editors at the editathon I thought I would share some of my bemusements. The Rodin piece is definitely worth an article but I am not sure I believe what this one says right now. Anyway, we have entire languages and fields of study that aren't being looked at much right now... we got Tang poets and Roman fortifications and WW2 missiles, origin of life, Chinese warlords, holocaust massacres in lithuania... need arabic, gujarati, chinese. Bulgarian and Portugese would also be very nice. Even if you only speak english you could still fish the Women in Red Articles out of there and that would help a bunch too. Elinruby (talk) 09:10, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Elinruby: Unfortunately i was too much involved in other thing at the museum editathon to work on any of this. I still would like to, and I will be going back there in a few weeks. There's a NYC chapter meeting Wednesday, and I will mention the project if there's times.
However , I do not think it essential to decide whether or not to keep these translated articles. The purpose of the verification is to see if the basic facts are correctly translated, and whether the article is either OK as is, or worth working on further. Some of the participants in this project are of the opinion that all machine translations are hopelessly unreliable, and I think they're wrong . Certainly they are almost always in need of some degree of rewriting (more or less, depending on the language=-the Scandinavian ones are usually very close, and the ones from the languages of India very rough indeed.) A few disastrous problems in meaning have been demonstrated, so they all do do need checking. The problems are not just linguistic but cultural--not knowing the corresponding titles or special meanings in other countries. An interesting example is the very different meaning someone in the US, Russia, or even England is likely to think of first for the term "Civil War"--or what someone in a particular country thinks is met by "War of Independence", (Such problems turn up not only in machine translation, but manual translation by those whose knowledge of one of the two languages ins adequate , and even original writing by someone with inadequate command of English--or indeed even a native speaker working a a field where they do not know the specialist terminology. Our Wikipedia has had probably hundreds of thousands of such articles submitted, and probably a few thousand serious problems remain. Very few articles here have been meticulously checked against the sources by someone expert in the field, and this is why we say that nobody should use WP for serious research.
But those who are expert in both languages--a few of them quite specifically professional translators--want to use their professional standards , just as many of us want to have perfect English grammar in articles, or perfectly formatted citations. But WP is the encyclopedia written by amateurs, not experts. We want to be as good as we reasonably can, but the standard is not academic perfection.
the usual errors in machine translation can be dealt with by amateurs and the level of knowledge of the source knowledge necessary for this depends on the subject. I can translate basic geographical articles from a number of languages, but I don't think there's any where I would be fully capable of doing justice to a complex philosophical or historical article. We o need our language experts, but not for everything. Anyone working with machine translations of say, the Spanish WP, knows the likely errors in tense and gender--but also should know the somewhat lower standards of notability and citation in that WP, and the vagueness of some articles written there by those who may know the language, but not the subject. Even a WP of the very highest standards, such as the deWP, whichI think in general quite superior to ours', uses general references in cases where we would insist on specifics (and in many case I think they it is they who are right about that, not the enWP, but still we must add referencing to satisfy our own expectations, whatever we think of them.
There's a sort of panic when people here come upon a set of particularly weak or problematic articles, leading to an over-hasty decision to delete all of them, such as attempt at the WP:AN to delete one particular editor's very brief but almost always accurate one or two sentence stubs about clearly notable scientists. The people advocating mass deletion can easily find a few conspicuously awful problems, but they're usually just a few % (there have been mass deletions that have been fully justified, such as a large group of articles on slime molds using obsolete taxonomy where most would have to be rewritten from scratch, or a group of geographical stubs using a incorrect procedure for getting material from a census. There's a saying here, better no article at all than a bad one. This is rational, if "" is used to mean awful in one sense or another. It is not rational if "bad" is used to mean inadequate. This is a place where inadequate article get fixed slowly over time. There are a great many editors here who want to improve a small part of an article , but not write an entire article. And an inadequate article on a place or non-living person can still give enough identification to help the user who knows nothing at all. DGG ( talk ) 13:25, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
@DGG: it's ok, I knew you might and the sorting process was actually somewhat helpful in itself. And Pam came by to look at a few for me so overall it was a win. I do have some specific questions about that list if you have a moment. But I'll mention first that yes, I agree with you, but nonetheless if wp is getting crap articles because a software tool allows someone to make them faster than they can be fixed, it might be an idea to improve the process so the articles need less fixing whether they come fast or slow. I do have some thoughts about that since I have been doing some of that cleaning for a long time, but for now I am just trying to get some articles adopted before we blow up the others and I start asking you what I need to do to get rid of X2. So, in the goal of getting some articles adopted let me come back to that lost for a moment. I made some posts on the talk page last night and would especially like to know what you think of the one about Tunis. I would also like to know what you suggest about the Olympic athletes and the 18th century mathematicians? Thanks for all you do. Elinruby (talk) 13:52, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
X2 was in my opinion a major error, and what we need to do is not delete the articles, but delete X2, and reject the approach to WP on which X2 is based. Given that we're stuck with it, as we are with all of our over-hasty ill-informed decisions based on inadequate evidence. There will be more--our manner of decision making is subject to such decisions unless they are immediately and vigorously opposed, and get widespread attention. Whether every verifiable Olympic athlete should be notable is an open question, but WP at this time treats them as such. If the original language source or the translation appears to verify, the article must be kept. The articles on 18th century mathematicians follow the same rules as later ones: if they held a major university appointment, or had notable disciples, or published important works, or have something named after them, they will meet WP:PROF.
Unfortunately, there are at least two other situations where I need to do similar rescue: the attempt at WP:AN to remove all the 1000 or so subs by a particular contributor on the basis that 1% of them are inaccurate, and the attempt to delete G13 without looking at the drafts to see whether any are salvageable or even ready for mainspace. I feel overwhelmed to the extent that I am almost unable to work on any of them, and need to force myself to work here at all. DGG ( talk ) 17:06, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
I hear you I hear you Elinruby (talk) 03:37, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Help with my St. Vincent (musician) edit and breakdown in getting it to stick Comment
Things like this are what I find confusing...
A philanthropist who donates millions to research isn't worthy of inclusion in WP, but a film that hasn't been distributed yet, such as Bank Chor, is worthy. I don't get it. Atsme📞📧 03:13, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Our notability guidelines for pop culture subjects (celebs, film, sport) are very gameable, especially so when the local media are – ahem – particularly friendly towards the pop culture subjects. Because of the futility, and general ennui, I don't usually try to fix those articles anymore. - Bri (talk) 03:21, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
I still support articles on billionaires, but anything less does not much impress me unless they've accomplished something. "philanthropist" is a very easy claim--as I see it, it requires active participation, not just money. DGG ( talk ) 03:47, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
I understand, DGG - but the point of my question was about a film that was produced, not yet distributed to the public or seen, and is considered worthy of inclusion in our encyclopedia. Do you support that? If so, why, because that's the part I'm not understanding. Atsme📞📧 09:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Films from India are a problem, because the article written here are usually inadequate, even for important films, the sources are hopelessly contaminated by advertising, and there is generally no practical way to search for additional sources. In consequence, I no longer attempt to work with them. The film was discussed a few days ago at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bank Chor, A rational case was made for the importance of the film, even if the author of the article was unaware that he should have shown it was in principal photography. The film is supposed to open next month. There were 2 keep comments and no delete comments; the experienced admin, Jo-Jo Eumerus, quite reasonably closed keep. On the basis of the material presented, I would have closed the same way. If you disagree, you can file another AfD in a month or so; there is no point going to Del Rev, because the consensus there will almost certainly say just what I did, that no other close was plausible.
If you think particular films are not notable, use deletion processes, If you think the standards are too low, try to get them raised. If you think (as I do) that the sources are unreliable, try to get consensus for that--but be aware they are generally the only practical sources we have for material from that country. If you think you can find better, that would be a major step forward, and a very helpful thing for WP.
My own view of the relative importance of different topic fields has been stated many times: we are a collection of smaller communities, and the basic rule for coexistence is to tolerate each other. My own view of the usefulness of the GNG as a standard for inclusion has also been stated many times: utterly worthless except perhaps as a last resort. DGG ( talk ) 16:51, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Userspace drafts
Hi there, DGG. I understand that you feel strongly that "We can and should delete drafts when there is no hope of an article", but you do realize that the outcome of last year's WP:CONSENSUS, reflected in WP:STALE, is something different, right? That WP:GNG do not apply in user- and draft- space and that neglect of a draft wasn't grounds for deletion, etc.... Do you think it might be better to change the policy, rather than going around it? Because that's how the SD requests look to me. I'm not being tendentious, either; just trying to have good faith dialogue. Newimpartial (talk) 06:07, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
I do not mention the GNG in these arguments; I agree it does not apply outside article space, and I have in fact argued that it should not apply. As for speedy, I have never listed a speedy for a draft or users space except for the reasons that are appropriate there, which include G11. It is true I think we should use G11 much more energetically. I remind you that while the RfCs said that G13 does not apply except in draft space, they did say that "For userspace drafts where notability is unlikely to be achieved, consensus is that they should not be kept indefinitely. However, the community did not arrive at a specified time duration." and, for userspace drafts, " They can be deleted, but it should be done on grounds different than solely the age of the draft or the period the draft has not been edited." Therefore, the outcome for individual items is subject to consensus at the MfD. That's always been the case for deletion process. The two fundamental principles involved are WP is an encyclopedia , and IAR.
Simultaneous, I very strong disapprove of the use of G13 for improvable drafts, and most especially for drafts that are already good enough for article space but where inappropriately declined. We need to find a workable system for proper notification and working on them.It and everything else about AfC would be helped by clearing out the hopeless. DGG ( talk ) 06:20, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
OK; I can see where you're coming from. And I agree that MfD is the place to adjudicate these deletion requests. But that is why I have the problem I do with speedy G11s - it seems to me that many of them aren't G11 at all, but just wimpy early drafts; in cases where they really are WP:SPAM I have no problem seeing them deleted by consensus. But in my deletion review, you say that User:BucaFan3/Shy Kidx "would be a good Speedy anywhere" - but I don't see how it is WP:SPAM at all. It's just a baby article lol. Newimpartial (talk) 06:29, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
I have a high regard for keeping anything that might be a promising article, and a low tolerance for anything that's going to remain useless. Obviously, views on what falls into these categories will differ. G11 is a criterion which is not as obvious as it claims to be, but it's our best defense against those who would debase the encyclopedia. My priorities vary with time as our needs differ. Ten years ago it was critical to supportg broad inclusiveness, now to resist promotionalism. But I shall look again at the del rev. DGG ( talk ) 16:14, 28 May 2017 (UTC) and I did. your argument did have some merit. DGG ( talk ) 17:14, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
More generally, as with most guidelines and policies in WP, the meaning of the deletion criteria depends a great deal on how they are interpreted. The interpretation is done by the accumulated and sometimes changing consensus the talk pages of the noticeboards and policy/guideline pages, and by the very variable decisions at individual instances. The result is sometimes a considerable gap between the formal wording and the effectual applications of it. Some things are interpreted very narrowly, some very broadly; some very strictly, and some very permissively.. Individual people differ, and the consensus is affect by which individual show up at a given argument. Every one of us who participates in these arguments has a different view of it. That said, there are some constants: the clearest example is that BLP tends to be interpreted strictly and broadly (more broadly than I really think justified); copyvio also strictly (and again more broadly than I think necessary--we are much less permissive than USLaw about fair use); most speedy criteria somewhat more broadly than they are written; WP:V is often disregarded unless someone protests,
The result, of course, is an encyclopedia full of inconsistencies, with consequent difficult for new users in figuring out just what is permitted. But this is inherent in the underlying working method of the encyclopedia -- we make our own rules, we make what exceptions we please, and there is no person or group that who can definitively settle disputes about content. The only reason this works is because of mutual tolerance, including the rule that admins must follow the consensus interpretation whether or not they like it. There is consequently a strong feeling against individual who try too insistently to make a point overemphasizing any one thing--they disturb what little equilibrium we have. Working with deletion processes involves tolerating an especially large amount of ambiguity and stupid decisions. Those who want a more predictable environment, would do better to work on vandalism or copyvio. DGG ( talk ) 16:53, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
This discussion has been very cordial. Do you have any thoughts about my new ANI? Newimpartial (talk) 17:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Commented,. I think at this you will learn more by just watching some AFD discussion than by asking questions. atching is safe, but watch a good while before you start to comment there. The best course for you at the moment, however, is just to do something else for a while, like write or improve some articles. DGG ( talk ) 18:17, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. I will be back editing and writing draft articles forthwith, but I won't put any new articles into userspace until I feel that I can stop looking over my shoulder for deletionists. You know, I lurked at MfD for about a week, on and off, without commenting, and really felt that I grasped the letter of the policies. Now I understand the letter plays into my own idiosyncrasies, and isn't the main thing that counts. But my reason for lurking in the first place? Fear of deletion lol. Newimpartial (talk) 18:26, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
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CVs
What is the preferred format to reference CVs? I would think external link rather than in line citation, but thought I would ask. Article in question is Robert R. Caldwell. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:50, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
I usually add both. It's both a RS for most purposes, and a proper external link. I also of course add an EL to their web page at the university, but often the CB is not linked from there. I consider the formal CV a much more authoritative source than the university website. The formal DV id sn officisal document, and people get hired on the basis of it. In 11 years here there has only been one case of a false (or even misleading) cv for an actual academic. (politicians are another matter). For the university website, department PR staff sometimes have a role in it. DGG ( talk ) 04:27, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
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You stood out as the sole user who I thought may be possibly amendable on this whole draft article ordeal. Part of the reason I've chosen to not continue it is a belief that nothing I produce, at least by myself, will be satisfactory to the detractors and cynics who have opposed some of my past additions and for whom I was confident would resume this pattern. I did want to ask what qualifies a person to receive a sub article; do the Early life of Frank Sinatra and Early life of Joseph Stalin exist because the main articles are long? I've found myself perplexed by that question since that happen, and I'm seeing fit to live with the mystery. Informant16 June 2, 2017
'still needs reply
Hello! I saw your post here wishing that some kind of keyword sorting might be imposed upon unpatrolled pages to help us patrol pages in our realm of interest. I just wanted to leave a quick note here in case you missed the recent conversation at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard where someone pointed out that you can use User:AlexNewArtBot to do exactly that. For example, here are the search results for the New Jersey keyword search. It'd be nice if this functionality was integrated into the NewPagesFeed interface, but in the meantime it definitely helps me to be more efficient with patrolling. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 19:51, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
yes,I'm aware of that, and a simplified version oft he bot was more or less what I have in mind. . Unfortunately, very few workgroups aare actually active, and fewer actually use i; locating the results within the workgroups is not very efficient for anyone else, as most of us interested in deletion process have altogether too many workgroups to follow.. The bot needs to be used to provide a more systematic approach,with the material in one place.
What I had in mind was either a collection of pages covering all, after the model of categorized AfD discussions, the articles , using the bot , or simply using the bot to add subject keywords to the new article list. I'll comment further. I apologize for not having had the time yesterday--but I've also found that sometimes just suggesting an idea and letting others develop it to be a very effective way of getting interest. DGG ( talk ) 00:12, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Do you think a tool that did something like this would be of any practical use? I haven't done any serious NPP myself for about a decade, and it was pretty rare back then for pages to hang around unreviewed long enough for someone to categorize them. —Cryptic 01:03, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Your speech here was a masterpiece. A shame it was only on a user's talk page. Relax for 15 minutes and read WP:KNPP. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:16, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
I will copy over a revised version somewhere. I think of it as a rough draft, and I was very tired when I did it. I has not followed the previous ANI stuff.
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My caution about bands, record labels, fan pages, music, celebrity spin-offs, etc. can be summed up in this diff which resulted in a bit of a rollback'' but it's mainstream thinking nonetheless. Atsme📞📧 15:46, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
I try to not get involved in fan areas. WP has always been very intensive in a few fields, and I think it best to leave them alone, on the basis that others may think the stuff I am interested in to be just as intrinsically unimportant. DGG ( talk ) 17:18, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
I am deeply disturbed by your apparent admission of moral cowardice, DGG. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:40, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
If you mean I do not go around here looking for fights, I admit the charge. If you mean that I am prepared to admit that other's views on importance or anything else may be valid although different from my own, I think any other attitude arrogant. If you mean that I do not seek to eliminate articles on let's say wrestling or tv serial episodes or individual pop songs because I do not like the genre, I think my view coincides with the principles of WP. DGG ( talk ) 18:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Penny for your thoughts
Slightly related to your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of participants at the Second Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, but do you have thoughts on listing of electors at papal conclaves. As I mentioned in another thread above I've been working through the 17th century ones, which were largely lists based on self-published sources of the electors. My current technique has been removing the lists because they are overwhelming and not from RS. I'd been planning on going back through when I was done with that century and seeing if I can reconstruct the lists as articles from reliable sourcing, but your !vote there has given me second thoughts. Input is welcome. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:57, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
uncertain--but in any case they would be part of the article. They must also have sources in Catholic encyclopedia, histories of the papacy, etc. I'd expect everyone who participated was usually the subject of at least one biography, and in the 17th & 18th century I would expect almost all of the sources to be in Italian. DGG ( talk ) 02:44, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the thoughts. I asked because more recent ones have it as separate list articles (see Category:Lists of Papal conclaves). I personally side against the inclusion in the article because naming 50-70 individuals with half of them being red links is less than ideal. I am also just generally list averse in articles, which is why I like checking myself on such things. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:29, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
But should they be redlinks? It seems to me that this makes it obvious that there should be articles. I recognize your greater expertise in the area, butsince all bishops even are considered notable here .... DGG ( talk ) 04:08, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
Oh, most certainly none of them should be red links, though all cardinals being bishops or even all being priests is a 20th century innovation, being a cardinal is notable independent of episcopal status. When there has been a runner-up that doesn't have an article, I've been creating it. I'd do it for all the red links, except I don't have the language skills to do more than the more notable runners-up. I believe the 20th century model we have of not listing all of the individual electors in articles is probably ideal stylistically, but your comment at the AfD above made me reconsider whether the 20th century model of listing them separately was ideal. Following this conversation I think what I would probably settle on as the ideal is mentioning within individual biographies what elections the subject was a part of. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:29, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
I was thinking exactly the same. DGG ( talk ) 04:56, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
I have highest of regards on your knowledge of Wikipedia. I am highly participative in your AfD. But this one i do not agree on various grounds.
You have deleted the One of the Biggest Fintech startup in India. Its like deleting PayPal or Ebay from Wikipedia. There might be article quality issue, but this is no PR stunts, if you even know India, this is by every means follow standards to Encyclopedia or Wikipedia. It is Textbook notable, I will not be surprised if students are being taught in schools taking examples of PayU.
I know you are very senior and not biased. But are you see every Indian startup or company as advertising. I can show to over 1000 Americans companies here with baseless, blatant promotions, and ridiculous Press coverage being protected in the name of GNC or some other Wikipedia policies.
Even you have protected many American articles which I have AfD, on what grounds, just because they are covered in Media? or they are American?
You are an Admin, and this decision does not make any sense. By every means there are some Startups in India which deserves the place here. Else i will be first one to nominate them.
I am not advocate of any articles here, not for Indian neither for American, but it should be treated similar, if its Indian startup or an Indian Entrepreneurs does not make them automatically non-notable by their place.
I can give you list of Ridiculous US startups you have protected without any significance as they have, PayU and few others are not promotions, It is a history of Payment.
You are very intelligent making decision, i will still be participating removing the spam as you tag them. No offence just my view, you are biased in many places, no one can be perfect, neither you are. Sorry If i offended you, but I can not agree on few decision of yours. Light2021 (talk) 20:39, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Light2021, It is always appropriate to challenge me to explain myself. True, some people here don't like it, but that's a little silly, because this is a place where it is expected and a necessary part of our manner of working. I will always take something like this seriously and give the best answer I can. What's more, sometimes I'm just plain wrong!
I must follow consensus when I close. My role in closing is merely to judge what the consensus of reasonable arguments is, and state it. I may not instead close according to my own opinion. No admin may do that. (Some have been known to do so nonetheless, but it's quite wrong, it is called here a Supervote, and such decisions are usually reversed at Deletion Review)
If I disagree with the consensus, I have 4 choices only: instead of closing, I may give my own opinion, or I may pass it by and let someone else close, or I may list for further discussion, or, if the consensus is clear enough, I may close it according to the consensus as expressed.
the consensus here was clear. Most of the experienced users thought the references insufficiently independent or insubstantial. If that's what they think, rightly or wrongly, that's still the consensus. It had already been relisted once, and it is rarely useful to relist again.
I do not see Indian companies as likely to be non-notable. I do see them as relatively difficult to prove notability by the standards we use, because I consider articles on companies in Indian newspapers as very likely to be PR. I also see most articles on American companies or organizations of any sort in most newspapers as likely to be PR, and I have so argued when relevant. There are more Indian companies with promotional articles being submitted these days, in part because more American companies have learned not to try for articles here. But , as you observe, there are a great many that got into WP in earlier years, and we have not yet removed all of them.
In both cases, I judge by the content. If several articles repeat the same words, they're almost certainly copying it from the press release. If they interview the CEO, and let him say whatever he chooses about the origin and accomplishments of the company, they're an organ for his PR. If they use terms of praise without analysis, they're PR. If the overemphasize minor accomplishments, they're PR. NGOs and similar organizations are even worse in general, because they use cheaper and therefore less skilled press relations people.
But this is irrelevant in this instance. I did not go back to the original sources here, because I was not trying to evaluate the article and decide what I thought about it. I was evaluating the discussion, which is all I'm supposed to do. Unless the discussion looks really weird, I assume the arguments are made in good faith.
If there are any particular keep closes you think I did wrong, let me know--but remember, I must follow the consensus, not the merits. If you think I've argued wrong in any particular case, that's another matter, because most articles I argue are somewhat equivocal. I try to concentrate on the more difficult decisions, and therefore the consensus will not always be with me.
If there are any particular horrible examples from anywhere, that you think I might want to nominate, just tell me.
But let me give my opinion on the actual notability of this company: I think it might well be notable, but I do not think the article shows it. But I see it's an international company and I think it would be much better to write the article about that company first, with a section on hte Indian company. I see that the entire company (I think) of Naspers, which is notable, and so at least a redirect there would be appropriate. It's already mentioned in the article. a redirect would be appropriate. I will make it for both the international company and the Indian one. . Perhaps I should have seen that originally. But then, perhaps someone could have mentioned it in the discussion. DGG ( talk ) 01:01, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for writing and truly appreciate & understand your point. Light2021 (talk) 18:52, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
I looked up some of Mr Magoos' sources and the company does seem notable, although it wasn't clear at first that there was a PayU that was the parent of PayU India. Two things struck me with the voting - not everyone seemed to take the time to read his sources, and of course I'm sure you noticed that TwisterSister voted delete twice, although that didn't affect the final tally. I do notice two biases in Wikipedia - one against Indian companies, which as you pointed out is a function of the press being a bit fawning, but also the fact that some of the articles are written with poor grammar. The other is against businesses - I've taken articles that were tagged for notability and added sources and almost verbatim info from the coverage, and seen the articles subsequently tagged for advertising. Nonetheless, are you able to email me the deleted PayU India text so I can see if it can be fixed? TimTempleton(talk)(cont) 15:30, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Reposting in cased you missed my request. Do you have access to the PayU India text, and if so, can you email it to me? I'll take a shot at fixing it and will submit it to AfC, and will let you know here when it's up. TimTempleton(talk)(cont) 18:24, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
for the work and contribution. Light2021 (talk) 12:39, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello DGG. I understand your concerns and the reasons for placing warning tags. I also believe you are willing to hear my clarifications. I was not aware that in the course of a discussion I should not make edits. I did this in good faith to improve the article and bring more references. Being new to the Wikipedia protocols and technicalities might have resulted in what messily appears as “disruptive edits”. In real-life I am an academic specializing in philosophy. I do not have a connection with the subject of the article, but I am intellectually interested in his research and of other academics in the field. I used to make occasional edits in philosophy on Wikipedia without adopting a name. I had a bit of time after the end of the semester this summer to contribute to Wikipedia. One of my motives was an incident with a graduate student who used Wikipedia as reference and resulted in negative evaluations of the thesis as per the criteria of reputable universities. Given that I occasionally follow the news of the Wikipedia article being discussed, and those of other academics in related fields, I was concerned about a deletion request being made by a user who did not specialize in academia. I hence became engaged in the process. Given that I am new to this, I tried to find ways to bring this to the attention of experienced Wikipedia editors to serve as independent objective referees/assessors. It became clearer to me as the process was unfolding that it has its internal self-corrective integrity - You are clearly an experienced editor, with sound knowledge as librarian. One side-comment to consider (generally and independently form the article being discussed) is that: “chapters” in anonymously-peer-refereed edited volumes (published by Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge, Brill, etc.) are nearly equivalent to anonymously-peer-refereed “journal articles”, this is the case in the humanities, unlike the criteria of the natural, applied, and social sciences) - I was hesitant at first to write this whole clarification, but I then felt it is vital to do so given the integrity editors like you are bringing to the process, and that clarifying my actions ultimately serves the same purpose, although my contribution to Wikipedia will remain minimal given the limited time I am able to dedicate to it. Thanks anyway (AcademeEditorial (talk) 09:00, 11 July 2017 (UTC))
Based on my career talking to academics, publishers, and specialist librarians in all fields of knowledge, such chapters are in general not the equivalent, even in the humanities-- except in a few very specialized fields, or if the chapter is in something really important, and I consequently left one in. But I was exceptionally conservative in removing material--normally we do not even include any journal articles for people in fields where the notability and the academic advancement is primarily by published books, and even in the fields where articles are the most important forms of presentation we normally include only the two or three most cited--and there are some editors here who challenge even that. Taking you at your word, there may be no direct coi, but there is such rampant promotionalism in all areas of the world , including the academics, that even good faith editors tend to write promotional articles as that;s what they've always seen, and unfortunately even in WP. It will be years until we have removed half million or so promotional articles from earlier years when standards were lower, but at least we do not want to add to them.
If you do have time for WP,I urge you to write brief bios of leading people in your subject area. The easiest criterion to meet to show notability is holding a named distinguished professorship. DGG ( talk ) 09:17, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank you DGG for your response. I began now a User-Page and will see how things progress. The summer is easier than later in the year in terms of having some time to making contributions to WP. I prefer to improve existing articles than start from scratch since I am new to the WP technicalities. However, given the tags under my userpage, I will steer away from the article being discussed and leave its handling to experienced editors (AcademeEditorial (talk) 21:08, 11 July 2017 (UTC))
Hello DGG. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Colette Mazzucelli, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. GorillaWarfare(talk) 02:20, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
GorillaWarfare , you are aware that almost all of these two articles were written by one or more now-banned undeclared paid editors and their multiple socks? DGG ( talk ) 05:22, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) As Colette Mazzucelli's article has been around since 2005, edited incrementally over the years, perhaps it should be reverted to the version of 22 March 2016 before the banned editor's major contributions, and their contributions hidden? PamD 07:21, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
(talk page watcher)On the other hand, perhaps the edit history of Oren Alexander suggests that perhaps there's another sockpuppet/paid editor to add to the list (it was created by an editor who has made no other edits before or since)? PamD 07:26, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
If that's the case, they should be tagged with G5. But when I reviewed them, I disagreed that they were so promotional as to be unsalvageable. GorillaWarfare(talk) 15:56, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) How would that work, GorillaWarfare? Criterion G5 is absolutely specific that "To qualify, the edit or article must have been made while the user was actually banned or blocked". We're just shooting ourselves in the foot here. We know that undeclared paid editing sockpuppet rings exist and that they need to be stopped, yet we can't organise ourselves enough to have any procedure for dealing with them. What's the way forward? Because I think it's time to look for one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:05, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
And G11 is absolutely specific that it applies to pages that are "exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION". Perhaps you should start a discussion to amend the CSD criteria, if you think articles like these should qualify? Otherwise take them to AfD. GorillaWarfare(talk) 17:42, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I agree with GorillaWarfare: I always thought that G11 was about the article's content, not who created it. {{db-g11}} does say in its current form. Adam9007 (talk) 17:50, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Well, actually so do I – G11 does indeed say those things. But I don't see how G5 could be any more likely to be accepted. Do you? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I think Doc James has discussed in the past (at some page I lurk at) trying to clarify G5. Currently it is very narrowly construed. For now, I think the best option is simply to keep pointing out in AfDs that WP:N has two components, and that promotion is a valid reason to delete something per WP:NOT, WP:DEL4, and per WP:DEL14. As someone who is a regular at the NPP conversations, I do think the Sheryl Nields AfD, and the controversy around Marcomgirl in general did a lot to raise the awareness of the issue of promotional editing even within a group that isn't keen on promotionalism to begin with. I continue to think the best way forward at this point is through the AfD process: it is sometimes flawed, but it is a way we can achieve a practical consensus over hundreds of cases rather than a drawn out RfC. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:37, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
@Justlettersandnumbers: No, I suggested it just based off of what DGG said above. I didn't look at the editors involved. GorillaWarfare(talk) 20:12, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
just reminding people that "once an article is nominated for CSD, it can be deleted under any applicable criterion" DGG ( talk ) 21:19, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
OK. We're still just floundering round in circles here without a proper criterion or policy for dealing with TOU violations. Doc James has reverted to an earlier version of this particular page, as PamD suggested above. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:22, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Comment So the question how do we interpret "while the user was actually banned or blocked" in the G% criteria? As I have said previously in this case User:Susana Hodge is not the master it is just the oldest account we have found to date. Just look at their first edit. They will have prior blocked accounts and just because we only get CU data for the last 3 months does not mean they do not exist. We can come to obvious conclusion and for these types of cases I occasionally do. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:49, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
The way forward is to hold to the principles, not to the often contradictory guidelines that have developed around them. To start with, WP is an encyclopedia in contrast to a medium for advocacy. The two are incompatible. The best practical approach to this is what I've been saying explicitly at AfDs, and what I've actually been doing for the last ten years: either immediately rewrite the article or delete it. Anyone who argues that an article can be fixed, needs to prove it by fixing it, not just by hoping somebody will eventually.
G11 is necessarily somewhat subjective, and two experienced people (such as GW and myself) can still differ in whether an article falls under it. That's why no admins delete G11 single-handed. I make 5% errors, let's say for argument's sake even 10% on the more difficult cases; let's say another more conservative admin makes 2%. Having both of us do it, gives 0.2%, 1 in 500 , which is an error rate as good as we can hope for.
But since it is to some extent subjective, we have to take into account everything that affects how we look on it, and that does include the purpose of writing, which can often be implied by who it is who has worked on it. I think it is a reasonable assumption that articles by paid editors will almost always be promotional , because that's what people pay for. (Not 100% of the time, so some will need a discussion.) I also think it a reasonable assumption that people caught socking will have been socking earlier, and likely to have been banned for it, even if we haven't spotted it. More generally, I think that the terms of use means that articles by undeclared paid editors have no justification for being in WP. In removing them, we should use all applicable processes (fairly and properly and transparently and with checks from those who disagree, as always; we can interpret, we shouldn't distort). DGG ( talk ) 21:19, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
I thought I would put in a little time reverting vandalism this evening and found a rewrite you did. I use 'Hatnote', an audio representation of content changes and it flagged this big change of yours. You are well-respected (by me anyway) and I couldn't tell from the edit summary what the problem was in the first place. Reply or not.
User:Bfpage, the article was nominated for deletion as promotional and non-notable by another editor. She is an academic, and academic biographies are my main area of interest. I immediately recognized that she was very clearly notable by the relevant guideline WP:PROF, but the article was indeed very promotional. I therefore rewrote it removing the promotionalism and summarizing the detail, as I explained at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Debórah Dwork. You can tell from the previous version in the history what the problem was.
Hatnote [11] seems--and sounds-- interesting. Since the term is used in WP in a different sense, perhaps you could describe it for a page like WP:Hatnote (program) or even an article about it. and possibly mention it at meta:Help:Recent changes DGG ( talk ) 04:02, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
AfC / Draft article copied into mainspace
Hallo David, Could you have a look at Joyce Stevens and Draft:Joyce Stevens? She seems clearly notable (Member of Order of Australia, subject of several articles and obits), and a lot of changes have been made since the draft was last rejected as "appears to read more like an advertisement " and as lacking sources.
The mainspace article appeared fully-formed today with edit summary "(Created new page entry for Joyce Stevens based on a draft made by another editor.) " That obviously isn't right - copying within Wikipedia without real acknowledgement to the editor who's done all the work. But I'm not sure what the protocol is when the copying is also bypassing the (horrible) AfC process. I hope you can do something to help! Thanks. (Incidentally, if the Submission Declined message of 28 June is from a template then the template needs to be fixed as it doesn't seem to make sense: "...should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed."??? If the subject being discussed is anything other than a fictional character, who's "the creator of the subject..."?) PamD 15:25, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
anyone can move a draft . Sometimes a move without using the AfCH process is necessary--I do it when the AfCH macro doesn't work, which for me is about half the time. But this was done by copypaste, which is almost never necessary, and we normally try to fix copypaste moves by redoing them properly. I will take care of that. For copying within WP we normally just correct the attribution; in this instance, doing the move properly will take care of that. She is clearly notable. The article does have a promotional done, but it seems to be based upon the tone of the tributes to her after her death, and seems fixable. I've revised the draft & moved it to mainspace.
the wording is the wording of the template. It obviously needs some adjustment. The AfC templates are in general terrible, but my efforts to try to get the fixed within the Afc process over the last few years have consistently failed--there has always been some excuse for not doing them. I will make another try at it. The real solution is to redo the entire AfC and NPP process, as Kudpung has been trying to do for several years. The problem is that it seems to require assistance from the WMF programmers, who have their own ideas about how we should do things. Some of the people involved have sometimes not been very willing to actually cooperate. At one point I was thinking of listing the AfC pages at MfD. In the past, before the RfC system was fully developed, that method was sometimes used effectively.
But for any system, we depend on the quality of the participants, & the quality of one of of the reviewers of this article is known to be a problem. I'm trying to deal with it without banning him from afc altogether.
and thanks for your further fix-up. As is obvious, I was trying to get this quickly to avoid confusion, but i see from the eds talk p. I wasn't quite quick enough. I left a comment there that I hope will be encouraging. DGG ( talk ) 22:54, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks - but you left your comment on my talk page accidentally, not her's! PamD 22:57, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
PamD, although it can't happen fast enough for me, I think we've achieved a lot (by Wikipedia standards) since I started the ball rolling in Esino a year ago. I am convinced that merging AfC and NPP is the way to go because with a few tweaks the Page Curation system software can easily do both tasks. This would be a 'soft' deprecation of AfC because the Drafts would appear as such in the feed and the AfC team would simply migrate to using a the NPP GUI. There are half a dozen other advantages that I won't go into here, although I have had to temporarily full protect the AfC user list again.
Due to the pressure I and now other editors have exerted recently, the WMF has now done volte-face on some of its ideology based arguments, now accepting a more pragmatic approach instead, which leads me to assume that when we ask for Curation to combine the relatively simple elements of the AfC helper script, the devs will probably do it. The only real resistance is from the AfC users who have no better argument than simply wanting to keep their independence. Once we have the results of the upcoming ACtrial, we'll know more because it directly affects both systems of new article quality control. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:24, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I haven't been involved in AfC for ages now (aside from just bouncing stuff in their direction when a creator gets upset that their company / band / friend / autobiography was deleted) - are there really individual fiefdoms? I've never been comfortable with the whole idea of AfC as a project in the first place, it's a process that complements NPP as one whole workflow for new topics (or if it doesn't, it should). Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 13:21, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
The team is currently working on three main goals, which we expect to complete this summer or in September:
Graduate New Filters for Edit Review core features out of beta:
The core New Filters features slated to become standard parts of Recent Changes are the ones that have been out in beta for a while and fully road-tested by the community.
These include the new filtering interface, the machine-learning filter groups “User Intent Predictions” and “Quality Predictions,” the highlighting tools, the ability to save your filter settings for later use, and the new filter groups: “Watchlisted pages,” “Last revision” and "User registration and experience."
We expect to release those features by default in September. A more precise message will be sent to communities. If you have questions about it, you can write a message on Mediawiki.org, in any language.
Extend the New Filters to Watchlist: The Watchlists of very active editors can include thousands of pages. To help these busy folks keep up with their work, we’re adding the New Filters UX and tools to Watchlist. The Watchlist and Recent Changes pages are similar, but there is some work involved in adapting the tools to their new setting. That work should be ready some time in late summer or early fall. Stay tuned for an announcement!
Continuing work on “Integrated Filters”:
While the New Filters for Edit Review beta brought probably 70% of the old-style Recent Changes features into the new user interface, it left some behind—like the Tag and Namespace filters and the controls for the number of days searched and number of results presented. As the name is meant to suggest, “Integrated filters” integrates those old-style tools into the new UI.
It also adds some new tools users have asked for, such as:
“Live updates” which provides a near real-time automatic refresh of the Recent Changes page.
User filters, which let you define searches that include or exclude edits by particular users.
We will put the community-defined related links that cluster at the top of most Recent Changes pages into a collapsible panel, in order to clarify the Recent Changes page.
We should note that it’s not certain these last two additions will make the cut for inclusion this year. If you want a make the case for either one, we want to hear from you.
I will work on it -- it needs some supplementation. DGG ( talk ) 23:34, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Touching base
Hi DGG: Just letting you know, despite some disagreements we have in AfD discussions, I never take matters personally, and view AfD discussion simply as what they are, a forum for debate about Wikipedia articles. My stance is typically to be as objective and fair as possible, to ensure the highest standards of accuracy. In part, this is a reason why I provide sources in AfD discussions, rather than simply stating "keep - meets gng" or "delete - fails N", etc. This serves to provide an accurate overview regarding a topic's potential notability, or lack thereof. Ultimately, I base my commentary at AfD upon research and facts, avoiding conjecture and subjective rationales. When I walk away from a debate, and when a discussion is eventually closed, I move on, with no hard feelings whatsoever at any time. I wanted to let you know this because the mode of communicating on Wikipedia via typing can be impersonal, whereby one's intentions are not always easy to express or convey.
After seeing you at AfD for some time now, I understand your stance about some company articles, that some of them are not needed in the encyclopedia. I have no problem with your stance, even though I don't always agree with it, but this is relative to each individual article for me, rather than as a macro-level philosophy. In other words, I assess each topic individually, per the merits of that particular topic relative to notability, whether or not an article is promotional, and if so, to what degree (e.g. fixable or a WP:G11 situation), etc. I am also aware that some news sources are derived from press releases, just so you know. You'd be surprised at how many news articles from my searches that I don't provide in AfD discussions, per obvious PR ties. I find myself continuously skipping over articles from internet searches that are not appropriate to establish notability. Sometimes, one has to go through ten or more Google search pages to find one or two usable sources. North America1000 16:30, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Small differences (or even fairly large differences) in the notability standard do not greatly harm the basic usefulness and values of the encyclopedia. Almost any general position on notability can be justified. Most disputed articles can be reasonably argued in either direction, and the actual question is which articles are worth defending--and which are most in need of removing.
But with respect to promotionalism, any compromise here will tend to destroy not just the usefulness but the basic values of the encyclopedia; if we become a vehicle of promotional content we have no purpose--Google does it better. And there's no reason volunteers would be interested in doing for free what they might get paid for. The essential group of articles that should not be improved or defended are those that are of a basically promotional purpose--especially those likely to have been written by undeclared paid editors. The people who write such articles should if misguided volunteers be educated and if paid, removed from WP. The only possible exception is if an article is so essential that the encyclopedia would be defective without it, and if it would be much easier to rewrite than to start over. Even here I am undecided whether it would be always best to first delete the history and then eventually rewrite.
To the extent your work--however skillful-- is helping such articles remain, you are acting against the principles of WP. Your view undoubtedly differs, but I'm using my priviledge on my own talk p. to close the topic here. We've both plenty of opportunities to say it elsewhere, and neither of us is shy about using them. DGG ( talk ) 03:55, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for replying. In closing, I'll just say that what is considered promotional is in the eye of the beholder. As an editor and WP:COMPANIES member, I pay close attention to maintaining neutral pov and prose when contributing to company-related articles. I'm definitely not here to promote anything. Regards, North America1000 04:14, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
the actual last post on this thread:you are not editing for promotional purposes, but you are helping the people who are accomplish their goals of getting an article in wp. Even if the article at the end is not promotional, you are helping people editing against the terms of use not get their article deleted. And you are helping companies get an article who would not otherwise be noticed here. I consider such editing a danger to the encyclopedia, and I will try to diminish the effects when I can. DGG ( talk ) 14:50, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Notability question
Hello. I came across this article, Social Bite. It appears to be a notable non-profit and some of its claim to notability is this has garnered notice from some A-list Hollywood celebrities. However, after I stopped being enamoured for a bit, I noticed the coverage seems to be based on recycled press releases that have made their way into the Scottish newspapers. My own research led me to a group of articles that seem to be recycling the same press release (see this).
So my question is how best to deal with this? Maybe this is not a notable topic, because, in essence, the topic lacks independent coverage. Or maybe it is notable? I am also pinging @SwisterTwister: to hopefully also offer an opinion. Thanks in advance to both of you. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 02:25, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
I wasn't asked but I will answer briefly anyway. Looks notable IMO, regional (not local) importance with RS coverage. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:35, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Steve Quinn, I'm usually very wary of such enterprises, but in this case the sourcing seems to be decent enough. Press release-based/inspired or not, they've gained coverage in reliable and notable papers, and that is what matters. My 2 cents. Drmies (talk) 02:38, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
I'm not quite so sure--organizations like this live by publicity. This is a press release, not an NPOV article. But it's a high-quality sensible press release--much more apppropriate than the usual stuff thaat gets written here for organizations of this nature. But consider the same contributor's Draft:Josh Littlejohn -- the 2 articles are part of the same press campaign -- and the bio one is nowhere near as good because it's less focussed, and falls into the common PR style of using a string of very short paragraphs--which is at WP diagnostic of either a press release or an inexperienced good faith contributor naive writer who doesnt yet understand how to write an encyclopedia article. DGG ( talk ) 03:26, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Oh sure it's definitely a publicity campaign. But it appears to have become a notable publicity campaign. The Sun for instance has slightly different coverage of the celebs involved and doesn't use the founders quotes in the press releases at all. So it's not straight up churnalism. I actually based my quick judgement mainly on the names of the sources, and on the award issued by The Guardian; our convention is that if the issuer of the award is notable, then the award probably is too. If I'm reading DGG's tone accurately, then neither of us is fond of the article, but chances are it would survive AfD easily. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:42, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
yes, that's what I was trying to say: there are so many worse ones to work on removing. But I will probably nominate the bio on Littljohn for deletion if it reaches mainspace in its current condition. DGG ( talk ) 03:48, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Not trying to be a jerk, but doesn't an MBE satisfy WP:ANYBIO criterion #1? ☆ Bri (talk) 03:58, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
While MBEs are handed out as long-service awards to middle ranking civil servants, No. For other recipients like Olympic medallists, the MBE is a consequence of being notable rather than the cause of their notability. Cabayi (talk) 05:37, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
in more detail, I think we always recognize the rank of CBE (Commander) -- and higher-- as notable; there are according to Order of the British Empire only 6980 Commandeers. The next lower, the OBE (Officer) has 858 appointments each year; the MBE (Member) 1484 peer year. MBE , at the bottom, we include in the article, but it doesn't contribute much to notability; OBE contributes to notability but doesn't amount to presumptive notability. DGG ( talk ) 09:17, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Greetings in Montreal
Hi DGG, thanks for coming to chat after the Undisclosed Paid Editing meetup yesterday. The person who had been sitting next to me was, I think, User:Rachel Helps (BYU). We didn't have our badges on so I didn't realize it was you. I've always admired your perspectives and I hope to see you again at the conference. Take care, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 13:45, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
by that time of day, many of us didn't. I'll me here all the way to the end--and if you don't see me otherwise, look for me at lunch. Today I'm also clear the end of the afternoon. DGG ( talk ) 14:25, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
I was there but I left early. I have circular glasses if that helps. It was an interesting discussion! Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 02:53, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
Sorting by size of edit - not exactly, but maybe close enough?
In one of our many hallway discussions, you mentioned the desire to see edits sorted by size of edits. While you have copied the edit history into a spreadsheet to do this sort, that's pretty cumbersome. I wondered if the revision history statistics were sortable and it turns out they are. This isn't exactly what you wanted because it gives you the total added bytes by user as opposed to by individual edit but it might be close enough for you purposes.
The link doesn't seem to save the sorting but if you go down to the top editor section you can sort on "added (bytes)"--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:57, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
Yes, it's a start. Thanks for the help. (Soritng in an external spreadsheet is for anythign substantial avery cumbersome solution, it is a backup for missing features in many places, on and off WP.) DGG ( talk ) 05:47, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
A goat for you!
Thank you for looking out for people, not the software.
Seconded; we need more leaders like you who prioritize community, healthy and functional process, and integrity. Here's a basket of bedding for your new goat. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:47, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Any suggestions for tactics in my expository writing style or my persuasive writing in negotiation with admins would be appreciated. sheridanford (talk) 14:02, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
this will need a relatively complicated response. It will take me a day or two. DGG ( talk ) 04:10, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
still to do
Essay on Userpage
I like your essay, but noticed one point about people not declining based on lack of inline citations. In the last 6 months there have been over 700 such AfC declines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:AfC_submissions_declined_as_needing_footnotes Can we eliminate that as a reason to decline? I believe AfC is far too tough to pass, forcing the new editor with a notable topic to fully develop and format it, when they are a newbie without the skills and maybe not the interest. Legacypac (talk) 05:49, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
all or almost all of them are BLPs, which really do need them to survive. It is our policy that they must be supplied. I can understand using it as a reason for these, if the only source is a very general one, or if most of the article seems to be unsourced entirely. Many of the ones where it is used wrongly are older ones--the list includes those where it was ever used as a reason to decline, not just the ones where it is latest reason. , Checking a few, most of them should just be given another reason, some should be removed entirely, and a very few accepted to mainspace. or removed entirely. I don't think we should remove the reason, but we should modify the wording to specify it applies to biBLPs only. Has anyone figured out where the text for the template is stored? It used to be hard-coded. DGG ( talk ) 21:12, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Ishall be proposing an umber of changes, some to reduce hostile wording, a few to align with actual policy, and one additional category: nn-spam. DGG ( talk ) 20:44, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
Good. Quite a few pages come through as Blank. I consider them test edits and nominate them for deletion G2. The Blank and Test reasons should reflect the idea they are tests and will be deleted. Shorter and less redundant wording would be great too. Legacypac (talk) 20:51, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
I suppose you mean removing redundant wording? Then we're talking about a complete rewrite almost from scratch. I can do that, but it might be better to fix a few obvious problems first. DGG ( talk ) 21:44, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
At least on the ones you are rewording. I'll look into these too. Legacypac (talk) 22:21, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Didn't realize you were still around good to see a username I recognize still after my self imposed wiki break.
This Wikipedia article, Centre for the Mind does not qualify for notability based on news sources - see Google News. Then I noticed on its web page it claims scientific accomplishments and works published in academic journals [13]. There are a number of hits on Google Scholar, but only one with the exact nomenclature [14].
There are some works authored by the center's founder, Professor Allan Snyder. I don't know whether to credit these toward "Centre for the Mind". Then there are these specific journal articles, [15], [16], [17] and [18]. Then there is this page on their website which lists a bunch of journal articles [19].
I have no idea how to gauge this for the notability of this topic. Maybe you and some others who visit this talk page can take a look at this and tell me what you think. It looks they have been publishing since 1997 [20]. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I will leave a similar post over at Academic Journals project. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 03:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
the obvious solution is to merge to the article on Snyder. The tone of their web page is such that I do not consider it a reliable source about itself or anything else, even for basic facts, but the publications referred to are ones that he has written or edited. DGG ( talk ) 04:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Ernst-Georg Drünkler - clearly controversial but I would think encyclopedic because we do have List of German World War II night fighter aces. Who on earth would want to memorialize this person considering the cause? At the same time, when I login, my biases are left behind, and my thought process is focused on NPOV as an editor of an encyclopedia. Were it not for 30 years experience honing a NPOV, I probably would have moved on and left this bio in the NPP queue (where it's been since 2011) for someone else to deal with, but that's not me so here I am, again looking to you for guidance. A GF editor redirected the article but the redirect was reverted. On the TP, there is a response to the redirect. My question is, as a NPR do I mark it as reviewed? It appears to me that it may have escalated beyond NPP, and now requires admin attention. Atsme📞📧 03:10, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
There have been some long discussions about articles like these, and the article talk page reflects it. The article may have remained in the NP queue, but it has been worked on; various people have tried to deal with it before you, and are trying now. There is no reason not to mark it as reviewed--we mark as reviewed wen we have tried to deal with the problems, not waiting until we have been successful.
The general way to look at this is promotionalism. The problem is that we have no enforceable standards for article content; all our processes can enforce is whether or not there will be an article. Thus we have been successful only in removing the fluff and promotionalism in those fields that few here care about--while leaving it in for popular celebrities. We are also susceptible to pressure groups--even one or two really determined people can get their way until the clash head-on with other equally determined opposition. In this case, there is effective opposition, from most of the members of the MILHIS Wikiproject, who are very effective in enforcing their standards.
After trying to cut excessive articles in various fields if I keep getting reverted, I have sometimes taken them to AfD, saying : promotional, and cannot be fixed by normal editing because efforts to remove the promotionalism have consistently been reverted. This argument has sometimes worked. DGG ( talk ) 05:22, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Thx, DGG - very helpful. Atsme📞📧 19:07, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
When does "affiliated" morph into "paid"?
Hi DGG. I've received no answer to my query to this user about potential paid editing on behalf of BrandTotal. However, she later stated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dark marketing, that she is "affiliated" with the company in question. My strong impression from the nature of the edits and her previous usernames is that she is not simply "affiliated" but an employee of the company and may well work in the marketing department. The slick jargon in the article in its original form (especially the "Origins" section) is pure PR-speak. Before I pursue this with her, and as a question in general, if she were indeed an employee holding that position, does it count as "paid editing"? Judging from the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Paid-contribution disclosure, it seems a bit of a grey area. The article may well be deleted in which case I won't bother pursuing it, but it would be useful to know for the future. Paging also Doc James. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:39, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
User:Voceditenore If one's job at a company is marketing than ones work on WP with respect to that company is paid editing. I will block those in the marketing departments of companies who do not disclose based on the TOU. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:42, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Wow! That's fast service, Doc. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind for future encounters and for this case if the article is kept (unlikely) or moved back into draft space (possible). Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:47, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
I consider that it is also paid editing if it is part of a person's job, or assigned to a person as part of their employment, regardless of what the position is called; but with someone in the marketing dept it will always be assumed to be that person's job. DGG ( talk ) 23:52, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Bittencourt
I think that this comment of yours on a user page was instead intended for the corresponding talk page. However, I suggest that you skimread the depths of this user talk page before moving it there. -- Hoary (talk) 12:46, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
I think he was trying to make a good faith effort to contribute. Though we of course do not like autobios, they are not prohibited, and his was very close to appropriate; Google Scholar shows him highly notable, both for the papers and the major textbook. The block seems an over-reaction to a new ed. who makes mistakes, and whose initial effort was given an altogether incorrect AFC review. I will just write the article myself based on the official CV etc DGG ( talk ) 22:09, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
'not yet done
Question about references
Hi, DGG - with regards to a list of monuments and memorials, I have a few questions:
Statues: how does one verify whether or not a statue was created in honor of someone for a single notable event, or for their life's history or for service to their country, etc.? I realize the plaques should provide details of the memoriam but what if there's just a name? Is there a way to look up the dedication and if so, what references would one look up? Example: A statue of Sam Houston in the Statutory Hall in Austin, TX. The memorial honoring his birthplace says noted soldier and statesman, so would it be appropriate to use that memorial in an article titled Monuments and Memorials of the Battle of San Jacinto?
Naval ships: when a ship is christened and named in honor of a notable person, is there a reference to look up the reason the ship was named in that person's honor - such as a heroic deed, or a long career, etc.?
If a plaque, statue, national park, battleship, street, etc. is named after a notable person, shouldn't that memorial only be included in whatever WP list corresponds to the honor? For example, a memorial was constructed and named in honor of an Admiral who served courageously for 45 years in the US Navy. That memorial would properly be included in List of US Navy Admirals. But what if he also served 4 years in the Foreign Legion and no memorial was created in honor of his service there. Should that same memorial be included in Lists of Monuments and Memorials of the French Foreign Legion?
What if there is no plaque or other identifying feature on a statue that defines the honor and gives only the person's name - is there a way to look up why the statue memorialized him?
Would it be considered WP:OR to include a statue in a list article for a specific cause without verifying the honor was actually for that cause?
Should the statues, ships, memorials, monuments, etc. be cited to a RS to verify that it belongs in the respective list?
Thanks in advance, Atsme📞📧 05:07, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
to respond
You were right
Your comments regarding paid editing are quite interesting - especially since I am applying for a WMF grant to fund a Wikimedian in Residence at Pitt. On the project grant page, an editor told me that I was asking for funding so that I would be be a 'paid' editor. I am still trying to figure out this point of view. I can see that creating content related to the University may be considered paid editing, but is creating content on user pages, talk pages, template pages, category pages and topics unrelated to the University considered paid editing? Barbara (WVS)✐✉ 18:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Best Regards, Barbara (WVS)✐✉ 18:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
it's a special form of paid editing which we usually consider benign,and is exempt from the usual rules unless it's abused. It can be abused--for example, by making references only or predominantly to university sources for material which is not unique there. There is no reason not to declare it as if it were ordinary paid editing, on both the article talk p and on your user p. Doing so has no down side. DGG ( talk ) 19:00, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for all your work as an admin and an ArbCom member. ⓏⓟⓟⓘⓧTalk 20:41, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Request on 19:32:53, 16 October 2017 for assistance on AfC submission...
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But let me ask you, why do you "need" an article? The only reason a person would need an article is in order to promote themselves or their activities--and that sort of promotion is not permitted in WP; it s a violation of our basic policy WP:NOTADVERTISING. I see nothing in the existing draft to indicate that the person isa major government official whp would generally be considered appropriate for an article.
I must also alert you that there are people who write articles in what they claim to be a professional manner, but almost all of them do not follow our terms of use because they do not disclose their conflict of interest, and most of them are in reality incapable of writing an acceptable non-promotional article. Either reason alone would be sufficient cause for the articles they submit to be immediately deleted as soon as they can be identified--we delete dozens of such articles every day. If you use such a service you need to determine that actually follow our terms of use. Any service that claims special access or permission or administrator assistance is not following our rules, because no administrator or person with special permissions is permitted to use those facilities for paid work at WP. And as if this were not bad enough, be aware that some services have the despicable practice of accepting payment and writing the article, but will then challenge the article using another name, and ask additional payment for defending it. DGG ( talk ) 00:50, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you
Hello. Thank you for your response in Wikipedia:Teahouse. Unfortunately, you did not answer my questions. As such I have removed your response from my query in hopes that someone else may be able to assist me.
Kind regards
KaiRAWR (talk) 06:43, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm mystified by thesetaggings. I thought G5 only applied to pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block (i.e. after they were blocked, not before). This article wasn't even started by the user in question, and I would say it has substantial edits by others. Note that Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikieditions isn't even closed yet, and from what I can tell, Richardaldinho was blocked for logged-out editing that's unrelated to that SPI. Sro23 (talk) 02:21, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Sro23, I've deleted the second article you linked to under CSD G5. I also would have deleted the first article under G5 if you had not removed it. There is an emerging consensus that large sock farms/UPE operations where it is clear they are connected and impossible to find an original named master, it is within the discretion of an administrator to delete the article if it is tagged for G5 because we can have moral certainty that the master has been blocked in the past or that the accounts are proxying. This has been reaffirmed in multiple deletion reviews. John McPhee (Ret. Special Forces) also has the complicating factor of being a BLP, which makes me even more confident in that deletion.David, I did remove the G5 on Waterlogic per Sro23's statement above. It is obvious UPE, but the original account isn't blocked and is stale, so I think it is stretching G5 a bit too far given recent discussion surrounding G14 for UPE. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
If the interpretation you and I and many other admins have been increasingly using for G5 is not as fully accepted as we have been thinking, perhaps we do need to revise the policy behind G5, that any article ever written by anyone shown to an editor blocked for undeclared paid editing must be deleted. The prior interpretation was based on the assumption that banned editors would be blocked for specific misbehavior, and that what they had written before that misbehavior was not necessarily affected. But now we're dealing with cases where the more recently discovered information casts very strong doubt on all previous work. DGG ( talk ) 03:05, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Very confused right now. As best I can tell, Richardaldinho was blocked (temporarily, not even indefinitely) for vote stacking (via IP, no account) on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oliver Isaacs. The block has nothing to do with the SPI or undisclosed paid editing or whatever. Sro23 (talk) 03:13, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Sro23, that is a fair point, and I can see how this would be controversial so I've restored the article and PROD'd it because of your concerns. I typically agree with DGG on things such as this, and given the history here of obvious undeclared paid editing over the past few months, and the intersection at that AfD, I think DGG's taggings were within reason.David, I agree we need clarification here, but I am not hopeful that we can achieve much more in terms of CSD criteria at this time. I think G5 works in the vast majority of these cases, but I get the concerns on this specific one at this time. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Well, you can't win 'em all. Hopefully any negative trends as far as reviewing (or reviewers) goes can be reversed before we start accepting real junk. Primefac (talk) 17:10, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
We will never get things 100% correct at AfC any more than we do at NPP or AfD. But certainly the error rate at AfC remains higher than elsewhere, and the only way to improve it means following up editors who consistently make wrong decisions there to remind them of the standards. I have actually received negative criticism for checking up on people's accepts and declines, but I think people who concentrate of checking up are necessary at all decision points--and that is in fact the primary reason I gave in asking to be an admin. (One thing that can help is a quick screening of drafts the first day they are entered to remove obvious copyvio and promotionalism before they get any further. I've started doing this for G11, and I see others are also, especially for G12.) DGG ( talk ) 17:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Hear, hear! (The page in question went the way of all good spam.) If there is a tool/method to help me screen drafts the same day as they are entered, I would enjoy using it. And screening is needed to assure quality. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:03, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
DGG, to continue on from a thread in another location (and to ping off your "higher error rate" comment) - is your comment based on statistics or just "I see a lot of AFC-accepted pages at AFD"? It seems like everyone except me (who is the one tracking all of these stats) thinks that AFC has this huge error rate in acceptances, and I cannot figure out why. I haven't run the numbers, so I cannot comment on how accurate we are as a group. Primefac (talk) 18:18, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
I haven't tried to collect figures for many years now, because there is too much ambiguity in what to measure. There are 3 ways to define error-- a/ a decision which is reversed at a later stage, b/ a decision which is hopelessly wrong, and c/ a decision which I think should have been otherwise. I usually mean by error a mix of criteria b & c, thinking of c as violating the consensus, not just disagreeing with what I think the consensus ought to be. There are also Type I and Type II errors--in this context, I think of a type I error as an incorrect rejection of an article, Type II as an incorrect acceptance. Going by impressions, I consider the rate of errors at AfD to be between 5 and 10 % in each direction. At NPP, probably about 10% incorrect acceptance and 5% incorrect rejection, as Speedy is applied very conservatively; At AfC. I think there's about 5 to 10% incorrect acceptance, and about 10 to 20% incorrect declines, as the unfortunate practice has been to decline for trivial reasons. The prevailing type of error there is the opposite of NPP, because NPP besides being conservative, are systematically reviewed by an admin. But no, I do not have numbers.
The real problem is not the error rate, but the disagreement on whether to fix or delete promotional articles. Before paid editing became so conspicuous, I always tried to err on the side of fixing, and now I do just the opposite. Bad articles are less of a danger than paid editing, which corrupts the entire process of building an encyclopedia, and trying to decrease it is a greater priority. DGG ( talk ) 19:17, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daffodils English School, Sanjaynagar
I'm interested in your take on this deletion discussion. You stated when endorsing the 'Keep' at deletion review that "All comments except one were keep". I don't believe that is accurate, since neither Cordless Larry, nor Pburka – nor I for that matter – made comments that could possibly be interpreted as "keep". In any case, I thought that AfD was decided on the strength of the arguments, not the number of votes.
You also claimed that "all the arguments were sufficiently policy based", and yet every single keep vote was a variation on the theme "the school exists therefore it's notable" or "we always have kept secondary schools in the past, so we should keep this one". Are you aware that the February 2017 RfC specifically discredited both of those arguments? In addition, the keep arguments were based on an earlier version of WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES which is not even a guideline, let alone policy. Even being charitable, WP:NPOSSIBLE is a guideline, not policy. And yet the 'delete' arguments were firmly based on policy: "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it." and "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources ... Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability." The article was written by a serial adspammer using only the school's own website to create the content. Since then, there has been found nothing more than the entries for the school in a couple of directories and a two brief sentences in The Hindu noting their exam results one year. That is nowhere near enough third-party sourcing to base an article on.
If you feel able to, I'd be interested on how you feel you can refute (i) the strength of argument where policy disagrees with an essay; (ii) the results of an RfC; and (iii) the policy requirements that all articles must be based on reliable, published secondary sources. --RexxS (talk) 18:31, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
(1)The effectual policies and guideline are the way we agree to interpret them, not what is written. What is written is not system, sand there are many contradictions. Given these, and given also the differences in how people interpret, at any AfD except the most obvious it is possible to construct a decent argument in any direction. I think people generally make a global opinion on whether WP should or should not have the article, and then look for the appropriate arguments.
(2) The RfC, as I said, did not say what you assert it said. It said there was no consensus to change the practice of keeping school articles. It also said there was no consensus that commonoutcomes was a sufficient argument. I do not know of any way to really harmonize these two conclusions, so confusion about them is not just understandable but inevitable.
(3) My view that we should continue the practice of keeping articles on secondary schools articles is simply an empirical compromise with not keeping primary school articles. It needs no other defense than being a workable way of avoiding spending most of our AfD energy on the the disagreements. The goal is to build an encyclopedia, and sometimes that means not focussing on issues that we cannot settle. The secondary reason is that some degree of consistency is a virtue, and back when I first came here and we did debate every primary and secondary school, the results were not much better than random. You will notice I am not arguing that either primary or secondary schools do or do not meet the standard of GNG--back when I did, the argument was that if we had sufficient access to local sources, we could show notability, but that the effort in obtaining them was not worth it in either case.
(4)It comes down to a choice--either accept the compromise or debate not just every secondary school in the world, but every primary school in the world also.
Further discussion should go elsewhere. But I don't really see the point of it--we are both going to repeat what what we have already said.We are not goign to convince each other, and anyone coming to this question for the first time already has available many full arguments in each direction. DGG ( talk ) 19:17, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
I was interested in what you've said here and also what I found on your userpage about counting !votes in AfD discussions. Taken together you seem to be arguing that (for example) this AfD should have been closed as "keep" because more people !voted keep citing policy arguments than those who !voted delete. Whilst I kind-of see the logic of this position, it doesn't seem to be one shared by the majority of people who close AfD discussions. And I don't know how it would work in practice: surely it is then just a popularity contest. On the other hand, I think this whole idea of "consensus" is problematic. The vast majority of people who edit do not !vote or engage in these debates, so any RfC or AfD is (obviously) going to be a fight between those who turn up. When those parties get into a rut on how to decide between the merits of keep/delete, I can't see how there can ever be consensus. Simply saying that the consensus is that people disagree doesn't seem to adequately address the problem - particularly when closers seem to apply the supposed consensus in different ways. JMWt (talk) 09:33, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Yes, people can judge consensus in different ways--it is to some extent subjective. But the rule is to go by the consensus of the policy-based arguments, and that is almost always followed, though there is also some subjectivity in judging what is a sufficiently policy-based argument. There is no way in any system to avoid personal judgment in decisions, except by strict vote counting , which we do in only special situations--elections for arb com, decisions by arb com, for example. DGG ( talk ) 13:45, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Noteable Faculty and Biomedical Engineering Page JHU
DGG, I am a little confused. Can I add references to Nitish Thakor page for example, and is it ok
for me to update with more references the JHU BME page? I am currently the Director of Biomedical Engineering
and wanted to do for BME what Stanford Computer Science has done and Oxford Computer Science, both have wiki pages
and are demonstrating very coherent easy ways to have undergrads and high schoolers just find them easily through Wikipedia.
I dont think I have added anything to date that is not accurate. It isn't our business in the Academy to speak about things we don't
have published. Anyway I appreciate reading your notes about "Noteable faculty"; that was very helpful. My criteria which was in error was
National Academy. I think essentially it is suggesting
the Associate Professors and Full Professors will all likely be noteable because all of them in our department have H-indices that are very high and many publications.
Thank-you in advance.
Mim.cis (talk) 03:29, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
You do have an obvious conflict of interest; according to common sense you are not the best person to evaluate the appropriateness and balance of the content in the articles about your own organization. According to our rules in WP:COI, you may only make suggestions of the article talkpage, except for fixing obvious errors or updating. Adding the references for the plain facts of Thakor's career is the sort of thing you can do directly; adding references for judgements about him, do on the talk page. ( Be careful about adding content--we give only a brief description of the research and list only the 2 or 3 most cited papers. We regard Research Career Development Awards and the like as grants, not awards, and we do not include them; we also do not include alumni awards from his university. There's no need to pad the CV--Fellow IEEE is sufficient proof of notability.
As for the Department article, I started by restoring some refs to the Department articlefrom earlier versions of the article) Since member National Academy is notable, I found the proper way to add some additional names, even though the articles have not yet been written. However, the history section is still a little heavy with internal detail. It could use some copyediting for compactness. I'll give it a try if I can. You might note the extreme plainness of the other articles you mention.
when you proceed to write articles on the other faculty, do it in Draft Space using the WP:Article Wizard, Make sure you declare your conflict of interest. And I strongly recommend that you do them very cautiously, one at a time, starting from the most notable, and seeing if you run into opposition before you start the nest one.. In judging citations, the key factor is not the h factor by itself-- person A with 50 papers each with 50 citations has h=50; so does person B with 20 papers with 200 citations and 30 with 50, but only person B is likely to be notable. I give you advice to the best of my ability about what is acceptable, but I cannot make final judgments. Anyone who wishes can bring an article deletion request at WP:AFD , and the community consensus makes the decision. Do not be surprised if some people oppose.
I hope this helps. DGG ( talk ) 13:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Fair Use
Hello DGG -
I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I love it in America - so rich life here! I think I will rent a car and go buy things at walmart this weekend.
I appreciate your comments and support. You seem like a very established editor who seems to care about other editors. I am considering creating Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Fair Use and I was interested in suggestions on how to go about this, and editors who I can talk to about building this page before it goes live. Any suggestions would be most helpful.
I would advise you against doing this. The enWikipedia policy on how to deal with copyright is not likely to change, and you will be wasting your efforts entirely. There was a deliberate decision early on to minimize the inclusion of material justified only by Fair Use. Part of the reason is that fair use is interpreted much more liberally in US law than it is anywhere else in the world, and we intend our content to be usable internationally. By US law even a full chapter of a non-fiction book would probably be legally fair use in Wikipedia under either the earlier 4 factor balancing test, or the current emphasis on whether it interferes with commercial exploitation. This is more generous than anywhere else, and makes a curious contrast with the US very extended period of protection. There would be sufficient legality to let WP operate legally in the US--it would not be enough to let everyone copy it everywhere. We were also aware that the entire principle of a open license website like ours would be both in principle and in execution very dangerous to some businesses that depend on intellectual property laws for their commercial existence, and we wanted to take no chances in letting them attack us. There is also the realization at the very beginning that we intended to use the US very generous rules on other aspects of free speech to the limit, and that these principles were much more important to us and to the world than fair use. So we wanted to show that we were being zealously law-abiding. And, by and large, this strategy has been enormously successful. It is much too important to take risks that might affect it.
Myself, I do think enWP went to ridiculous lengths in the interpretation. I don't want to go into details of what I think would be a safe rule. because I think there is no chance whatsoever of getting it changed. Every person who works on copyvio to a significant extent in enWP follows the current interpretation, and if you did start an RfC, and a vote were taken on whether to continue it, I am as certain as one can be around here that the current guideline would be strongly supported. (I'll even guess the % result--depending on just what you suggested, it would be between 75% and 95% against the change. A result like that will only harden the guideline, and prove extremely counterproductive.
Sometimes there is a reason to challenge something even though knowing that one will be totally defeated. The most important reason is to maintain general awareness of the problem, in the hope that there will be eventual change. If one is going to do this, it is only sensible to either select instances where there is in fact continuing gradual change in opinion sufficient to indicate the real possibility of progress, or to select causes which are fndamentally important enough to be worth it. This does not meet either criterion.
As for your own writing, if you are going to use quotations, use them only when we actually need quotations--to establish someone's opinion. Don;t use them for sections of articles where your own summary would be as helpful. DGG ( talk ) 06:55, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
hello
It appears that most long term administrators do not share the same views that you do on treating new editors contributions with the same respect that you mention on your other personal page.
I was interested if there are other administrators like you? If so, who? Thank you in advance. I appreciate all your time and all you do. How can i give you an award? Moscowamerican (talk) 05:44, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Appreciation
I don't think I have adequately conveyed my appreciation for your patient explanations of 'how things work' around here. I have learned so much from you. Thank you and Best Regards, Barbara (WVS)✐✉ 06:56, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
November 2017
Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines; "Large talk pages become difficult to read, strain the limits of older browsers, and load slowly over slow internet connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." - this talk page is 233.4 KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:28, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Jax 0677 at 267k this page is almost a full fifth of the size it was two weeks ago (when it was the third-longest page on Wikipedia). I for one am happy enough for the progress that has been made so far. Primefac (talk) 18:31, 20 November 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
I shall be reducing it by another 30% or so, but it will never be as low as 75K. DGG ( talk ) 18:33, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
neither can I, so I reverted the close, uncollapsed, and re-closed. Please check that the removal of backlinks came out right. DGG ( talk ) 21:04, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
I think the deletion of Studio 71 may have been accidental, it redirected to Studio71 and not Reza Izad but I had recreated Reza Izad as a redirect to Studio71#History before you reclosed the AfD, so I think the Studio 71 and Reza Izad redirects should be restored? Sorry for the mess and thanks for pitching in. Ben · Salvidrim!✉ 21:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
yes,I just fixed them a few seconds ago. Also Natural Born Prankster. DGG ( talk ) 21:10, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Hm, the Studio 71 and Reza Izad redirects are still re-deleted, and so is Talk:Studio71. Plus there's like dozens of backlink removals where you unlinked Studio71 instead of the indended backlink. I don't wanna just revert it all Special:Contributions/DGG :/ re-closing really made a mess, sorryBen · Salvidrim!✉ 21:18, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
did them also just now . anything else? I obviously did the AfD closer wrong, and I'll check more carefully next time. DGG ( talk ) 23:54, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
The only thing is the dozen of backlink removals which actually removed links to Studio71 instead of the intended page. If you look at your contributions chronologically, from "Collective (disambiguation)" to "Producers Guild of America Awards 2014" need reverting Ben · Salvidrim!✉ 00:16, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
finally done . Just from checking the wrong box... . My apologies to everyone. DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Your new talk page
When I drove by your talk page today, it reminded me of Miami after Hurricane Andrew—I didn't recognize the neighborhood.
My Internet situation is such that I've considered length here at this talk page a feature, not a bug. How do you feel about a Best of DDG archive? — User:Neonorange (Phil) 00:26, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
you will find these in the topical archives sections listed at the top. DGG ( talk ) 00:31, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Can we turn it into a podcast?Barbara (WVS)✐✉ 00:47, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I was mentioning to primefac that I felt the current templates we use for declining submissions could be made more pithy. Seemingly people aren't reading them, or, more likely, ignoring them; and I feel if they were either trimmed up, or made more specific (pointing to SNGs, for example) it may help. Either way, primefac mentioned you also have an interest in this, so I figured I'd reach out to get your thoughts. Thanks in advance. Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 04:40, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Yes indeed, thanks for reminding me. I write write at least a sample in the next week or two. Not reading, because I know that when I receive obvious boilerplate that seems to contain material not directly helpful, I stop reading. Also not understanding, because only someone who actually knows how we judge articles could understand the significance of the advice--and only someone with experience here could understand the pages being referred to. And, to be sure, ignoring -- sometimes they don't care in the least about what we require--but I am not sure any change in wording can help that part. . DGG ( talk ) 06:37, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi again, with the holidays behind us I had a quick moment to take a stab at a template rewrite. It's just boilerplate, and I'd like more specific ones so we can point them to respective SNGs, but wanted to get your feedback to see if you feel it's going in the right direction. Thanks in advance. Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 23:00, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Read your essay
You certainly are a good teacher thank you for working on the essay you recommended to me on my talk page. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS)✐✉ 00:44, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Did you know we actually have rules about this stuff? They apply to you, too!
In regards to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Made to Stick, did you even do WP:BEFORE? I don't think you did. I get the impression that you just spitball decisions on articles to be whatever you think it should be. You might've made some reference to WP:NBOOK in your nomination. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
I didn't list it for problems with notability, but promotionalism. I didn't refer to NBOOK because that's not the basis of my nomination. In fact, I think it most likely is notable. If I thought it wasn't I would have said so. I did enough WP:BEFORE to confirm the notability. I am fully aware that I can not discuss the notability of a book without looking at least for library holdings, which are quite high--and having seen that, I assume that there are reviews also.
As you must know by now, I currently care much more about promotionalism than notability. I rarely send to afd any more if notability is the only concern, unless it's really clear. I send promotionalism that doesn't fall under G11. There are enough people dealing with notability , and in any case I consider lack of notability a less critical issue.
I make mistakes. By my estimate, somewhere around 2% of my AfD nominations are errors. (as distinct from those where the consensus disagrees with me) Criticize me when I make the errors--I want to try to reduce my error rate to 1%, and I need the criticism to do that. But not when you just assume I make an error without looking at what I actually said. DGG ( talk ) 00:37, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Ok, so this is the crux of the disagreement. Deletion is not cleanup. I would love to just go around deleting articles I don't like. We have a bunch of articles about minor athletes and movies no one saw and the articles remain because the subjects are notable. So it must be nice to ignore WP:N. I don't think you made a case for WP:DEL4 and it's your job as nominator to make that case. So my charge isn't that you made a mistake, but that your beliefs about deletion are wrong, hence my utter contempt for you as an editor. You are one ARBCOM candidate I definitely regret supporting in the past. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:48, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Jesus, dude... I think you're getting a bit snippy with your response here... :-/ ~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs) 01:03, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
that's OK; I take comments like this for recognition that I'm getting somewhere. DGG ( talk ) 02:42, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
'A bit snippy' ? It's downright PA. Boomerang for troutman. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:45, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
@Kudpung: How is it a personal attack? I have seen AfD noms like what DGG has done considered "bad faith." I'm pointing out that Wikipedia actually has agreed-upon criteria for deletion and DGG seems to think himself above mere community consensus. I agree with Aristotle's adage: He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. Anyone who purports to enforce and define the law has to obey the law. Contempt for guidelines and policies indicates unfitness for leadership, in my opinion. Clearly, I am in the minority in my views, which is sad. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:51, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Most actual disagreements involving policy are not about what it is, but how to apply it. Sometimes the consensus is pretty stupid, but each of us has a their own view about what that applies to. NOT ADVOCACY is basic policy, but the dividing line between which promotional articles to fix, and which to remove, is a matter of judgment, with a very wide range of plausible views. I do not have contempt for those who take a different view here than I, tho I certainly continue to oppose them as opportunity offers, and I certainly intend my arguments to affect the general consensus on interpretation. WP would not be much harmed by disagreements on whereto draw the line about notability ; it could be destroyed by being used for advertising.
I don't see what ArbCom has to do with it; it is rarely concerned even indirectly with what articles get kept or deleted; there have been a few arb cases about deletion behavior, but they were before my time on the committee. If, hypothetically, there were a supreme board to decide what articles were kept, then people would appropriately vote for the members based on what they thought about deletion-related questions. Whether I'm an arb adds no weight to my !votes at AfD, and I don't see that it discourages people from disagreeing with them. It would be more relevant to ask my views about what constitutes a personal attack, for that arb com does have jurisdiction over.
If I had deleted the article as G11 single-handed without a second admin's confirmation, you might have at least an excuse for a question about my general judgment. But this is just a nomination for a discussion. As I tell beginners, if your view is considered right by the community, the article will not get deleted. DGG ( talk ) 05:19, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
"But this is just a nomination for a discussion. As I tell beginners, if your view is considered right by the community, the article will not get deleted." The problem is, this is simply not the case. All it takes is a nomination by a highly influential admin (you), and lack of participation (AfD is already a ghost town and has been for years as the noms pile up beyond anyone's ability to track), or participation from deletionists, non-neutral participants, or people with an axe to grind, for a notable article to be deleted simply because nobody, or insufficient people, bothered to do WP:BEFORE, or bothered to click the search links at the top of every AfD. The proper response to a promotional-sounding article is to (A) edit it, or (B) tag it with {{advert}}, {{cleanup}}, or similar tag. The proper response for an article whose citations appear to demonstrate insufficient WP:N is to do WP:BEFORE. It cannot be over-stressed that WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP. That's why we have cleanup tags.
All of that said, Christroutman's vicious personal attacks here are way out of line and are in violation of the final warning he received here: [21], so by all rights he should be blocked. Softlavender (talk) 23:55, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Softlavendar, that is not how I see my experience at afd. My record of success is not particularly high, partly because -- having no real need to have a perfect record as if I were running for an RfA, -- I can try to see where consensus currently lies by sometimes nominating what I suspect to be marginal cases; the way we work, there is no other way to find out except to try and see & then adjust expectations. I'm perfectly willing to withdraw a nomination or suggest an alternative, as I have done with the one that started this thread. I consider AfD misnamed--it should be seen as Articles for Discussion, and with the current variety of closures, that is more and more what it has become.
There are many regulars who have not the least hesitation in telling me that I'm wrong -- I think in fact some of them find it particularly satisfactory to be able to do so. Many beginners do also, and they can be sometimes correct as well. Of course, it is possible that I may be an adult gorilla who does not realize my own weight--I have never been all that good in judging what people think of me. .
Participation at AfD has been even lower in the past. But even as it is, it's the only process here for quality control that actually works. Again, I may be misperceiving this because I am overestimating how well it works because I have long enough experience there to know how to use it.
But here is the real situation: I am now much less concerned with notability than promotionalism. I do intend to use whatever fair methods I can find to put an end to the practice of undeclared paid editing--and if possible, to convince the community to end all paid editing. The most effective method at my disposal is deletion. (SPI also helps, but I'm just not good at it and have to depend for that part on others). Variations in notability do not actually matter very much, but paid editing will destroy WP by reducing us to an advertising medium. Even if by some miracle we could get paid editing of decent quality, it would destroy WP by driving away the volunteers. That includes me--I will not work here if it stops being a volunteer project, any more than I would work here if it were censored, or if it did not have a free license. Those are the things about WP that are actually important to me.
Consequently, I no longer fully agree that "The proper response to a promotional-sounding article is to (A) edit it, or (B) tag it with {{advert}}, {{cleanup}}, or similar tag. " It remains the proper approach for an article from a good faith editor (GFE). For an article in violation of the TOU, the proper course is deletion. We could remove these from AfD--I will support a speedy criterion; I'd even support it also applying to draft space. (I recognize there are some problems here, because sometimes a GFE will not know better than to copy the style of one of the hundred thousands of promotional articles thinking that's what is actually wanted. The solution is to remove the bad examples--all of them, regardless of how long they've been here, just as we dealt with the unsourced BLPs. It will take a few years.) For good volunteer editors to try to fix such articles makes the matter worse: they're facilitating the undeclared paid editors, they're preventing a real solution, they're doing the work so the people who want to destroy our principles can earn the money. That's suicide, not altruism.
Nor do I fully agree with the essay Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup. The most effective way --sometimes the only way--to get an article cleaned up over opposition for fans or promotional editors is to list it for deletion. It shouldn't be the first step for an article by a good faith editor, but it works. clumsy as AfD is, the alternative is 3O, which rarely accomplishes anything, or RfC, which can be really messy. DGG ( talk ) 02:25, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Then, in my opinion, you are, or could be accused of, nominating in bad faith. If you feel or realize that a subject has notability, but are AfDing anyway, then you are nominating in bad faith as many people understand it. Unlike other XfDs, AfD is not "articles for discussion", as you have stated/implied above. It is "Articles for Deletion". By AfDing you are stating or implying that an article on the subject should not exist on Wikipedia. If you are too lazy to edit, and unwilling to tag articles (we also have the {{coi}} and {{undisclosed paid}} tags for the issues you address), but want to remove them entirely based on your subjective opinion of how they are written rather than the notability of the subject and the well-established thresholds of inclusion established by the community, not by a single person .... then you are, in essence, taking "the law" into your own hands. I understand why you are doing it, but it subverts a lot of the established community processes under which the encyclopedia operates. They may be inefficient, but they have been established by community consensus. Softlavender (talk) 02:49, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Softlavendar: WP:N is clear that simply meeting the GNG is not enough for inclusion. Failure of WP:NOT is grounds for failing WP:N, and that includes WP:PROMO. WP:DEL4 and WP:DEL14 also apply here: a notable subject that is promotional can and should be deleted from Wikipedia under existing policies and guidelines, including the notability guideline itself, even if it does not meet the strict G11 criterion. Your view is certainly a view that many in the community hold, but so is David's. The point of AfD is for the community to decide how to apply the principles of Wikipedia as expressed in our policies and guidelines to the case of a specific article. David is making good faith deletion nominations based on promotion. While the community might not always agree with him, it often does. Consensus is built organically through local discussions such as AfD, and the work David is doing here is important. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
"Essentially advertising" is an incredibly weak rationale for sending something to AfD. If he had said "I can find reliable sources for this, but there is so much promotional content, I think we're better off blowing it up and starting over, and as this isn't my topic of expertise, I'm not comfortable doing it, and I can't see anyone else coming forward" then I might be more understanding. If a brand new admin candidate did this, and somebody noticed, they'd get opposed and possibly their RfA would tank. So why should an existing admin get away with things a new candidate won't? You should agree with WP:NOTCLEANUP, as the deletion policy says "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page." Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 10:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC)C)
Ritchie333, "essentially advertising" is one of the basic reasons to remove an article. Of all the rationales at WP:NOT, NOT ADVOCACY is one of the most important, for it is the very basis of NPOV. (By comparison, NOT INDISCRIMINATE, the basis of Notability guidelines, is much less critical.) Articles that amount to advocacy must be removed, and the mere promise to fix it is just as inadequate as the mere promise to fix copyvio or BLP violation. How we do this fundamentally simple thing is of course complicated, and is adjusted to circumstances by changing the written rules and the interpretations--normally, the written rules lag by a considerable amount. The interpretation is whatever consensus has it--there is no other basis for deciding content in WP. It is reasonable of anyone here to try to influence the interpretation, and I knew from the start that my main purpose here was to do that. In some things I have been successful. I always realized success would come slowly, and I think in terms of years. Sometimes change come surprisingly quickly, and there has been a major change in the last year in the extent to which we reject promotionalism and its usual correlate of paid editing. Having already changed what we do, the rules will follow. My style is to let others write them, once I've gotten the change started.
Softlavender, "Nominating in bad faith" is a remarkable term to use for giving my opinion, and then asking the community to determine just where the present boundaries of consensus lie. I have never nominated without the intent and hope of getting something deleted because of WP:NOT. Nominating in bad faith means nominating maliciously or to be a nuisance, or based on prejudice, or relying on spa or sock support, not merely having an opinion others disagree with. It can also include nominating repeatedly and persistently despite knowing that the consensus is firmly against one. I try not to do that, tho sometimes I make an error in moving more quickly than the circumstances turn out to warrant. More often I think I make an error by letting things slide, but both are inevitable in anyone doing a large amount of non-obvious work here.
If we are to trade charges, those who try to fix the work of promotional editors, especially promotional paid editors, could be considered complicit in helping them destroy WP. I don't go around accusing my opponents of doing that deliberately, though I do sometimes remind them that such will be the effect of what I consider their misguided work. Perhaps eventually they'll realize; I've changed myself, as I too did not realize the danger initially, and I hope the continuing revelations of the extent of promotional editing might affect them, as it did me.
one of the prerogatives of one's own talk page is the ability to have the last word in an exchange. There will be dozens of opportunities each day to continue elsewhere. DGG ( talk ) 06:07, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
SwisterTwister
SwisterTwister (talk·contribs), This editor follows you quite closely, the problem is he tends to remove sources before he nominates things for AfD. I gave him two warning for this here and here. He reverted both, how should I take care of this. Valoemtalkcontrib 07:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Just to clarify, this is the edit in question, no understanding as to why an established editor would remove the information which gives the subject notability. Valoemtalkcontrib 09:41, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
This article is on John's Roast Park, and it has never been nominated for deletion by ST or anyone. As for the deletions made,
para 1 as worded is advertising--the quote should have been shortened.
para 2 should not have been removed
probably para 3 also should have been kept .
But he did not nominate that article for AfD. I'm not sure why--I might.
As for the notices, remember that removing a notice is permitted, and taken as evidence that they have been read. If someone removes one, there's no point placing it a second time.
ST does seems follow me; so do a number of other people. That does not mean he pays attention to my suggestions, or that we agree. We tend to work differently--I try to work on as many articles as possible, he concentrate -- sometimes in my opinion excessively-- on a few. We both have a similar view of promotionalism , but so do at least a few dozen other very active editors.
But more generally, you raise an important point:
the problem of whether to remove somewhat promotional material from promotional articles before listing from AfD is a dilemma. I have come across articles that I try to improve, and then after sharply editing content, decide they are unsalvageable, and take them to afd. If I leave them in their improved but still inadequate state it doesn't give a fair impression of the promotional intent and overall promotional writing. If I return the contents, i am deliberately making the article worse than it needs to be. Since the promotional content can also contain material relevant to notability , this makes the dilemma even more difficult. (What I now usually do is leave it in the improved form and give a link to the original in the discussion).
As we know, there is a disagreement of how strictly to interpret NOT ADVERTISING, and on how bad a article has to be before it qualifies for G11 as requiring fundamental rewriting. My position here has changed over the years from considerable tolerance for anything vaguely notable--though I was always a bit hesitant about local interest material-- to an emphasis on removing promotionalism to discourage the usually paid promotional editing.
There is also a disagreement on the notability of these restaurants, and the promotionalism in them is normally from fans, not paid editors--and it is difficult to write about restaurants at all without sounding a little promotional. As far as WP guidelines go, anyone experienced at AfD could equally easily write a keep or a delete rationale for most of them, so it's basically a question of what extent of local detail we think WP should cover. I have sometimes been tempted to add every restaurant in Brooklyn that got a significant write-up in the NYT. If the current trend holds towards keeping such articles, I may do it yet. DGG ( talk ) 19:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
I understand your concerns. The problem is think is that sources such as Serious Eats or NYT are national notable sources which gives the subject notability, unfortunately these articles would generally be written in a way that praises the subject. I've noticed (not in this case) that some editors tend to remove sources and when sources such as Serious Eats are removed it could make the subject look vastly less notable, as a result the discussion could be skewed. Valoemtalkcontrib 16:14, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
restaurant and other reviews
I'm not familiar with Serious Eats, but I am a close reader of the NYT restaurant reviews. They cover, as would be expected, not every restaurant in the city, but those that are significant in some way: established favorites, currently popular or fashionable, new restaurants from well-known cooks or owners. This inevitably produces a bias towards places of some merit, but, everything considered, the reviews are generally critical, and by no means extremely laudatory. (The number and venom of bad reviews has varied over the years with their different critics).
More basically, essentially any article about any company or professional will have a promotional value. it's a maxim that all publicity is good, and having an article in WP has become regarded as a sign of importance. If we are going to cover anything in the current world, or that affects the current world, the articles will have some degree of promotional effect. This gives us a dangerous influence, about which we must take precautions. The efforts of the PR industry can only be countered by true NPOV editing, and it is absurd to expect any professional or organization to actually write or commission a true NPOV article about themselves. Therefore, we need to consider all coi editors as at least potentially destructive of our values, and, the world being as it is, they will be particularly dangerous when money is involved. The attempt at paid editinghas corruptd too many good editors here, and has attracted a remarkable number of incompetents. More and more, I think the only practical way forward is to remove them. DGG ( talk ) 01:33, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
consensus at AfDs
Hi DGG! I was reading some of the materials on your user page and it was useful for me to read them. I'. Specially, I would like to know if the materials of "with respect to consensus at AfDs" are induced to your mind by WP's policies and guidelines or it's just a personal interpretation of them? Btw, the paragraph starts with quotation mark but I could not find where it's closed. Regards. --Mhhosseintalk 10:26, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Would you mind shedding light on this query? --Mhhosseintalk 12:20, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
still to reply
An interesting thought experiment
Hi again, I was chatting with some folks about an idea that will likely never see the light of day, but I'd like your feedback on it. An outright ban of CORP articles in AfC for a 6 mo trial. I was joking about it initially, but the more I thought about it I'm curious what the outcome would be. If I had to guess, no one would notice other than paid editors. I can't think of people searching Google for "Bizco" and having an erosion of trust because Wikipedia doesn't have it. It also has a potential interesting side effect of preventing companies that haven't been around for more that six months, which is kind of an indirect SNG for CORP. Again, no chance of it being implemented, just thought getting your views on it would be insightful. Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 00:50, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
I had been thinking of something like that for companies formed after 1990 or thereabouts. There are of course other areas, such as their executives, and all the NGOs, and politicians, and the artists--all of who use paid editors almost as much. But it would be an interesting moratorium. DGG ( talk ) 01:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
I think this is an excellent idea, makes sense, and there is probably potential for it. Kind of lke an ACTRIAL experiment. Would need some careful thinking out though. @Drewmutt:. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:16, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Kudpung for your feedback, glad this seems more feasible than I initially thought. Any suggestions on next steps? Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 00:44, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Interesting idea: on the whole, it might be a net positive. We'd have to flesh out the specifics, obviously. The other thing is whether or not something like this could achieve consensus and how it would be enforced. A simple decline of all corps? a CSD X criteria? There are also conversations going on now at WT:CORP surrounding increasing the notability requirements for corporations that might be relevant here. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:44, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
The consensus bit seems the biggest obstacle, but I've been trying to rack my brain for any "cost" this would have to WP as a whole, and I can't come up with any. The only debate I could see (which I feel is a weak one) is driving paid editors to more nefarious methods of publishing. If nothing else, people concerned about the AfC backlog should be on board. I'd be fine with it simply being a decline template, something like, "Currently Wikipedia is undergoing a trial where new articles about corporations will not be accepted. Therefore your submission cannot be accepted at this time." Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 00:53, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Possible. OTOH, a new CSD would be unlkely. Getting new CSDs agreed is one of the most challenging aspects of Wikipedia. Everyone knows that I'm a firm proponent of a total ban on PE, Tony mentioned 'baby steps' somewhere not so long ago - this would be one of them. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:01, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
for the two X criteria used so far, they were so rough and ready that there were many exceptions needed; the same would be the case with this. A new general CSd category is not a good idea; it will be more practical to adjust wording on existing ones. (G5 for example) . Similarly for 1990+, I would do it not as a speedy, but as a modification of the SNG, and say specifically that it over=rides GNG. At some point we would really have to deal with the primary obstacle to increasing notability standards, the GNG/SNG comfusion. But I do not think there will be consensus for it at this point.
What there willl be consensus for, is increasing restrictions on paid editors. Proposed wording changes,
1) on WP:COI, lede para: from "Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it " to "Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are required to disclose it "
2) WP:COI section 1.2, and throughout change all the "should" to must.
3) all new articles on commercial organizations founded after 1990 must go to AfC, and any one encountering one should move it there. This includes articles by confirmed editors. DGG ( talk ) 02:26, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Support -- I would support; possibly with a caveat "for companies launched after X year" -- anyone wanting create an article on a historic company would be able to do so. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:29, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
I do not support if it's a ban on entering articles, only if its a requirement to use Draft space / What we need to remember, is that at present we may be in a state of emergency, but the situation is getting better, not worse, because we now do have general awareness of the problem among WPedians.My own prefered place to work remains with individual articles, not wording of policy. oer the years, it's the only way I've had any success. The rewording sometimes comes later, once opinion has been affected by individual articles. Everyone who care needs to participate in NPP and AfD. DGG ( talk ) 02:41, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
David, I think you hit the nail on the head here (as usual). In my experience, progress on Wikipedia is only achieved by building local consensus first and establishing something as common practice and standards. What we need to do here is to make people aware of the crisis we are facing with promotional editing, and get the people to care to participate in the two processes that most directly affect it: AfD and NPP. RfCs only work if consensus is preexisting. We have come a long way on this even in the last year, but more progress is needed. That only can occur if people who care take the time to work in these areas. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:09, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
If this were taken up, how would it affect new articles about noncommercial corporations or associations? You could use Oregon Psilocybin Society, which I created, as an example. Would it have had to go through AfC? ☆ Bri (talk) 03:16, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
I won't characterise on Oregon Psilocybin Society right now because I haven't gone through all the sources, but at first blush it seems to have attracted enough attention for notability. However, non-profits are notorious for attempting to promote themselves through Wikipedia, and most of them are written by someone with a COI. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:36, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
I was thinking about this over the last couple days, and essentially what I came to is that "if having a Wikipedia article leads to an increase of money exchange, than it should be sent to AfC", which includes donations, so I'd vote, that yes Bri it would go to AfC. Not that it would have a problem getting approved, I just don't want to burden folks with determining if something is for/non-profit. Logically, that expands to BLPs as well, but I feel that CORP is a more pressing issue. Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 23:36, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
Support I think that's a very elegant solution to a non-elegant problem. I mildly feel that 1990 is a bit too far back, but I trust your judgement over my own. Drewmutt(^ᴥ^)talk 23:36, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
Comment: Wow. I can't believe what I'm seeing. Surely there must be a policy against using Wikipedia to conduct arbitrary "thought experiments". Especially ones where we just don't know what the possible side effects are. I think we've all gone mad. Huggums537 (talk) 20:15, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
Help
I created my first page, but not sure what I did wrong. I'm trying to understand what it's needed. Can someone help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MVelez71 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
still to do
DGG thank-you for the thoughtful comment about /sandbox
I will try to incorporate the advice.
Can you give advice on the article on JHUBME. It is posted for being taken down due to conflict of interest.
Can it be rescued. It is factual. Overexhuberant new Chairman trying to follow Stanford Computer Science and Oxford Computer Science
both top ranked departments. Is it possible for editors like yourself to sharpen it up and remove individuals who are not noteable etc
given the history is all documented and BME at JHU is largely considered to have created this modern field of BIomedical discovery.
Thank-you in advance.
Mim.cis (talk) 02:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
I can remove the Prod tag, but I expect it will then be nominated for a discussion at AfD, and the consensus there will decide. There are two considerations: promotionalism, and notability , and either reason is sufficient for deletion. I can help with the promotionalism--at the present time it's not particularly outrageous--more a matter of tone than anything specific, and I've made what I think to be the necessary adjustments. Notability is a more difficulty question. We have no good standards for academic departments. but most submitted articles on them have been deleted, and I've almost always agreed with the decision. It's very difficult to write one without promotionalism unless the department is actually world-famous, and that's my personal standard, and the standard I argue for. It's relatively easy to decide this in the more general and longstanding fields, like for example physics. It's harder in the more specialized and newer ones, ones, like Biomedical Engineering. I cannot predict how the discussion will go.
the problem is to provide third party documentation of your statement "largely considered to have created this modern field" and each individual statement ones in the article, especially the ones already questioned with citation need tags. I point out the USNWR rankings are considered of rather dubious reliability here, certainly not as a measure of research importance. We include them because the public uses them.
Unless you can find material to document the statements, I do not think that the article will pass AfD. If you can, it probably will. If you provide them on the article talk page and let me know here, I will remove the tag. Otherwise there is no real point in trying in keep it. DGG ( talk ) 05:01, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank-you very much. I looked at several things. First, I appreciate that noteworthy is not an absolute metric.
I wanted to just share some thoughts on possible noteworthy measures indicating that Biomedical Engineering as a discipline is significant and within the field JHU BME is noteworthy. (i) Currently we have 8 faculty over 60, 12 faculty with h-index greater than 50, and 19 over 40. While h-index is not an absolute measure of noteworthiness, Wikipedia says and I am quoting "an outtsanding scientist has an h-index of 40, and a truely unique individual an h-index of 60". For comparison, I looked at Duke, Stanford and GTech in this manner, none have as many. GTech and Stanford have 5 greater than 50.(ii) We have 5 listed members of any of the National Academies. According to Wikipedia "Election into the National Academies is one of the highest honors in the scientific field. (iii) The size of our discipline is significant and of the scale of the departments of Biomedical Engineering are similar to other outstanding program which have wiki pages. For example Georgia Tech, Duke, UCSD and JHU have 40 tenure line faculty in Biomedical Engineering. (iv) A noteworthy measure of the importance of our undergraduate program, the acceptance rate of 7.8% into JHU BME is currently more competitive than CalTech and MIT based on U.S. News and World Report.
If there are other measures that Wikipedia uses of noteworthiness we would be happy to address. We agree that any statements that you feel are inappropriate because of inadequate 3rd party referencing should be taken down. At the time of our founding in 1962 there were no other departments. We are currently looking for 3rd party referencing to that effect. It seems appropriate that the statement "Johns is credited as ..." can be taken down until we find further referencing. We are proper the proper reference from U.S. News concerning continual ranking. Mim.cis (talk) 17:06, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Notability for the purposes of wikipedia does not correspond to the way the word is used in the Real World--it can only be thought of as a term of art -- language used in a special way by those within a field. I am giving you advice about what will be needed to keep the article, which requires dealing with the artificial manner that is used here. I also have my own opinion, but the advice I give you is based on my experience of what actually happens, not what I think ought to happen.
Officially, the measure Wikipedia uses for determining notability is the WP:GNG, whether there are references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements. If you have such material the article will be kept, whether or not it would rationally make sense to have it in the encyclopedia. If you do not, it won't, again would rationally make sense to have it in the encyclopedia. The key words to pay attention to are substantial, independent, and reliable. To the extent that it will help influence how people consider the references, the best way of making the case for your deprtment is to focus not on present quality however high it may be, but historical significance, where it may be unique. DGG ( talk ) 10:27, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank-you for these clarifications. I am slowly learning. I may have clunkily tried to remove the prod based on my understanding of correct procedure. I left comments on Bfpage talk since BFP was the individual who tagged it. I hope the page can stay up and be edited and improved. Thank-you in advance in whatever you decide.Mim.cis (talk) 21:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
A new bibliographical landscape
At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.
Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up.
The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations.
But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.
Regarding this[22] edit, you just redirected the page to a non-existent talk page. Why did you even redirect it in the first place? Boomer VialHappy Holidays! • Contribs 01:10, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Thats what we do with accepted drafts. It keeps the records straight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs)
Hi! So my article on Dave Sanders, the Columbine High School coach that died during the massacre was rejected, and the reason was "not memorial". I'm not sure what this means. I wrote details on his life (there's not many), and a quick summary of his death. There's no other way to write it and if every other victim got a wikipedia article, he certainly deserves one (as does Daniel Rohrborough!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genevejuneau (talk • contribs) 19:46, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
We do not make articles on people whose only notability is having died in a disaster. I'm not sure I agree with that, and I've sometimes argued otherwise, but such has been the consensus. Two of the other victims only have articles, and in each case its because they have individually been the subjects of books ( and for one of them, songs) .But my decision is not final--another admin might accept it and it might conceivably be kept in an afd, and the decision is made by the community consensus in that afd discussion . Before you do that, try to find references providing substantial coverage about the individual in particular from third-party independent reliable sources--if you can find more and better material, there's a better chance. DGG ( talk ) 04:52, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello DGG. I saw your comment at WT:CSD regarding error rates on G13 nominations, and I was wondering what kinds of errors you were referring to. Do you mean technical errors in not meeting G13 criteria (e.g. pages that actually have been edited within the last six months)? Or do you mean pages that are potentially worthwhile and ought to be allowed more time to work?--Mojo Hand(talk) 03:27, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
I mean results which are clearly wrong according to our current standards. and that includes- both the printed guidelines and the accepted standards of interpretation. No policy or guideline, however absolute it sounds, provides an automatic answer for all situations. Every administrative action at WP relies upon following consensus--in the case of deleting at speedy, the implied consensus of what other admins would reasonably do. If you examine WP:CSD, you will find each criteria has a qualifying word, such "credible" "unquestionably" "unsalvageable" "good faith" essentially", "implausible" and the like. There is an accepted range of interpretations for all of these, and a variety of accepted exemptions or inclusions in practice that are not specifically written. My % does not however include items that do fall under the accepted interpretation, but where I wish it were otherwise. Nor does it include instances where another admin interpreted it differently than I, but both of us are within the accepted range of interpretation. And it should be noted that for many of these, the accepted practice changes with time in one direction or another. Almost always in WP, the written rules are revised after the practice has changed. Furthermore, specific and general policies can contradict each other--for example, the details at CSD and the general rules at NOT are both policy, but can be harmonized in many different ways--some are within the accepted limits, some are stretching things, some are entirely unreasonable abut attempted nonetheless. Even more broadly, our fundamental WP:IAR could be interpreted to permit anything, but in practice is used also within accepted limits.
You will notice I'm not directly addressing the point you have in mind, G13--this is a case where the standards have apparently been changing. I think it is now accepted that it does not apply to material that would just as it is pass AfC; it might possibly exempt also material that with reasonable improvements would meet AfC, but I wouldn't say that someone was wrong who thought otherwise.
for clarity, I should add: When I give people advice about an article, I try to make certain my advice follows very conservatively the clearly accepted standard--I would consideranything else irresponsible. When I argue for doing something, that's different, and I sometimes do argue for adjusting the interpretation — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs) 07:18, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your thoughts. I generally tread lightly with G13s and only deleted the easy and fairly obvious ones. So, I was curious about the thought process of those who look at the harder candidates.--Mojo Hand(talk) 15:51, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
Request for guidance regarding creation of an article titled 'Assent (philosophy)' or 'Assent (research)'
Dear Sir,
Greetings!
When the legal age is not matching to give consent, assent is obtained in research. This is an important concept, hence an article can be created in my opinion. May I request you to kindly guide further?
Thank you.
- Dr. Abhijeet Safai -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 11:25, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
still need to look at this
Suggested wikiproject on Canadian Visual Arts
Dear David. When I first started writing entries you were very helpful and I would like to do the same for new writers on Canadian Art by starting a separate wikiproject or category to the Canadian article page. This would include general information on Canadian notability and key awards, institutions, sources of published articles etc as well as preview on request or review new entries. I – and hopefully others – would add information and rescue those entries with notability or stub tags, but not deletions. Does this sound like a good idea to you and, if so, could I send you my notability criteria who you to have a look at. Best regards, Heather HeatherBlack (talk) 20:14, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
certainly I will look at anything you send, preferably on wiki but email is OK if you think it more appropriate. However, I remind you that no project has any authority over the community, and any rules the project may make regarding notability are mere suggestions unless the community chooses to formally add them as a Special Notability guidelines--which is rather rare, or tacitly adopt them by following them at AfD--which is more likely. It helps if they are consistent with existing guidelines, particularly WP:CREATIVE, and I am not sure I see the need for anything else, except for such details as which museums or publications count towards the conditions there. Other projects have made similar definitions, and they are usually respected.
I would also suggest that it be worded, "try to add information and evaluate those entries with notability tags etc .. "rather that necessarily rescue." The proper approach is to call attention to challenged articles in a field, but , not take a one sided approach to them. I'm confident you didn't mean to imply this, but meant to say to defend the articles that should appropriately be defended, but it has to be carefully worded to be unmistakably neutral. DGG ( talk ) 06:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you David! Yes my intention is to include and refine the Notability Creative Text with the Canadian institutions etc with a few suggestions that you passed on to me. And I agree it's important to use the proper words, so thank you, I will send you a short draft here within a week or so. Best wishes for the holidays. HeatherBlack (talk) 13:10, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Deletion of Lily Jay - Concern over Inc profiles
Hi DGG, I'm writing regarding Articles_for_deletion/Lily_Jay. You mentioned that every Inc article may have to be checked in order to remove Inc profiles. I think there's no reason to be worried, as Inc Profiles are meant for companies to have their standalone business profiles like this [35] or [36], similar to Bloomberg company profiles. Having an Inc Verified profile for $30/year does not give them the ability to publish and contribute on the Inc magazine itself.
Taking that into account, I'm trying to understand for myself what exactly made you think that this [37] Inc article was published by an Inc Profile?
Moreover, why do you consider Gold Coast Bulletin and Inc Magazine as unreliable? Do they fall into the category of self-published articles or press releases?
Bloomberg profiles are not reliable for notability either, just for verifying the basic facts about the company or individual. As for Inc Profiles. , to quote from their web site "we independently confirm that businesses are operational, websites are functional, social media links and phone lines work, content is appropriate and no obvious red flags exist. Inc. Verified Profiles are meant to save purchasers a little time by showcasing businesses that are part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. They are not an endorsement of products or services, nor a guarantee of quality." If I open a grocery store, once I've got my social media set up, I'd be qualified. They could be used for the above facts, and nothing more--all other content in them is written by the firm or its PR agency.
You are correct that this is not a profile. It would be more accurately classed as a press release. The give-away was the author: "by Wanda Thibodeaux, Copywriter, TakingDictation.com", and the expected line at the bottom: "The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com." DGG ( talk ) 18:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
I've been wondering about Trampton.. I know ST well enough that I will try to clarify this privately. DGG ( talk ) 01:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
confirmed. DGG ( talk ) 03:04, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Ya, there was something odd about this Hey you yeah you! account, maybe the username but they always struck me as not-so-new. Incidentally, I never thought that it could be the same person as SwisterTwister, their AfD arguments struck me as fairly different. And now I wonder how many AfDs were tainted by this socking. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
I doubt there were very many at AfD where the ST vote made the difference, because their arguments were somewhat incoherent at times. And I don't think that if the problem is that he was the one who raised the argument for deletion, there was no deletion unless other people said similarly--but those do have to be checked. But what we need to check first AfDs where more than one of them appeared. BTW, I recall an analogous instance in the inclusionist direction Useer:A Nobody, better known as User:Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles DGG ( talk ) 16:05, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
I think most have been examined - and so far I know two have been overturned from deletion to no consensus or keep. Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:06, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Galobtter, can you help me here--who have been examining them, and which have been overturned? DGG ( talk ) 16:15, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
I am a bit more concerned about quorum. Many AfDs attract very few votes (I use 3 votes nominator included as my cutoff, and that is cutting it fine) and I saw Hey you yeah you! in several such bare-minimum AfDs. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:46, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Per the RfC earlier this year that updated NOQUORUM, the default here is to treat as an expired PROD, so it shouldn't be an issue. If someone raises it to you in an AfD where there were minimal votes, I would just restore at your discretion like if you had soft-deleted it. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:50, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
I will delete with one additional delete argument if it's unopposed, and the reason for deletion is obvious. But I agree there may be some that need to be revisited. DGG ( talk ) 16:52, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
this page was deleted in accordance with criterion for speedy deletion A7. If you believe that this decision was made in error, or that significant new information has come to light since the deletion, please contact the administrator who carried out the deletion, user DGG (talk·contribs). […] Note: While the deletion was in error because I had previously declined the A7 request for good reasons, you need to contact him directly for a restore.
I have questions: (a) Despite the A7 deletion, why couldn't SoWhy userfy per my request? (b) Why does SoWhy say that your deletion "was in error"? (c) Can you fulfill my original request? — fourthords | =Λ= | 17:33, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
It was an error for me to delete it because once a speedy request has been declined by anyone, it may not be restored. Speedy is designed for uncontroversial deletions, and if someone disagrees, it is not uncontroversial. I had not noticed the previous request. To avoid the appearance of conflict, it is normal to let the original admin deal with the revert. That way I have the chance to correct my own error.
However, it seems there's a significant copyvio problem, and I revision-deleted the versions with the copyvio according to the notices placed on the page. But I notice that the current take consist about half of quotations,. Though they are sourced, we do not normally build so much of an article in this manner, because it is a little too suggestive of copyvio in the very expansive way we use the word, so you probably should try to use only a smaller amount of the quotes
I continue to consider the article not suitable for mainspace, under the policies NOTNEWS and NOTTABLOID. What I suggest it needs is expansion with references showing continuing interest. Even so, I reserve judgment. And remember not to leave it in userspace without improvements.
because of the various problems, I would probably not have restored the article had you been a new editor; but since you are an experienced editor with considerable very good work to your credit, I feel confident in trusting you to deal with it properly. DGG ( talk ) 19:32, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
I've actually had very little experience with speedy deletions, so thanks for the explanation! As for the current state of the article: I wouldn't ever put such a piece in the articlespace myself. The article'd already been made though, so I was just endeavoring to bring it up to snuff as quickly as I could. I knew it still wasn't great by any means, but I'd hoped it was enough to stave off speedy deletion for the short-term. Thank you very much for the praise, and thank you for the userfication! — fourthords | =Λ= | 20:59, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Info for Wikiproject Canadian Visual Arts
Happy New Year, David! As I had mentioned I am sending you the text for your comment before I format the page. You will notice all of our Royal Societies and such Canadian anomalies as a provincial gallery called The Rooms, as well as Auction Houses called Galleries as individual's cannot be an art dealer in Canada, only galleries. Also, if you don't mind having a look at two recent ones that I did. Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, which is my third auction-artist estate house, hasn't been reviewed and I'm wondering if it's because of the "gallery name" although I wrote a comment in the talk page. Like Heffel's it's an office when you go in there are four desks crowded in a front room with no art, with a back room open to the public only for exhibitions of artist or collector's estate sales or "not-for-sale shows" complete with hockey sticks. With Annie Baillargeon, I'm wondering if I'm a little OCD when it comes to referencing as I'm a history major as well as designer-writer-educator. Thanks again. HeatherBlack (talk) 21:24, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikiproject Canadian Visual Arts
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Thanks for your help. So, if I understand correctly, I'll move National Gallery of Canada (some biographies and/or works), Order of Canada, SASKART, museum catalogues, and Canadian Dictionary of Biography to notability. Under biographical information sources, I'll add media reviews (over two-paragraphs) together with the Note: use commercial artist catalogues, blog interviews, web or unpublished CVs for background information only, artist statement or technique. Does that make sense? Also as I'm doing more clean-up with only three or so new (all notable RCA, FRAIC, OCs or auction-related) and want to advise others, any comment on my own work, re Alan Klinkhoff Gallery and Annie Baillargeon (since 2014 my sole non decorated artist) is appreciated. HeatherBlack (talk) 14:01, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Saw this too late to do anything as nobody notified me about it or the other articles that were deleted, but in response to "promotional article for someone whose job is promotion. I tend to look at such articles quite skeptically. There is very little here that indicates any actual notability, and a great deal that indicates a self-indulgent bio, ("Fergusson-Stewart honeymooned on Islay and named his firstborn daughter Islay."--which happens to be where the Scotch he promotes is produced) known to be written by a declared paid editor, who is by training a PR professional .I think this is one more instance that paid editors, declared or undeclared, regardless of their good intentions,are generally not likely to write a NPOV article. The references are PR, and that;s all there is. DGG ( talk ) 17:58, 30 December 2017 (UTC)"
The Scotch he promotes is Glenfiddich which is a Speyside single malt produced in Moray. It is not produced in Islay, one of the southernmost of the Inner Hebridean Islands located off the west coast of Scotland. Did you really need to fabricate something in order to get the deletion? You disappoint me. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 22:08, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
my error on the Scotch. I should have said "where Scotch is , famously, produced" sorry. But a self indulgent bio it certainly is. But it is true one might write such a bio merely because one likes the whiskey. And it is also true that people without a direct coi often write articles indistinguishable from coi because they copy the model of the great many promotional articles on WP. Some have even told that they thought that's what WP wanted. DGG ( talk ) 15:09, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Are you watching them tell me that editing in userspace is still COI editing? Do you agree with that? If so, when did you switch your position? Because you were very supportive when I first came up with the idea for the process. If you don't agree with that, please say so. I've also asked them 3 times how to get the sockpuppet tag removed from accounts that have nothing to do with mine (and from accounts that already identify their connection with me, like my own personal account, which got tagged as a sock too), and nobody will touch it. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 23:48, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
The discussion has confused several issues. In my opinion: although editing in user space with a conflict of interest is editing with a conflict of interest, it is the permitted way to do coi editing, as long as the editing is NPOV. That was so at the time, and remains the consensus. DGG ( talk ) 16:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Barnstar of Diplomacy
I appreciate your contributions regarding my topic ban as well as your thoughts on Arbitration Enforcement. --MONGO 13:35, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
speedyingas a recreation was perhaps not ideal, and it was declined. I just added a speedy tag for G11 advertising. If declined, I suggest AfD. DGG ( talk ) 02:52, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
I am the original author of the page - how about making suggestions on how to improve the article in its talk section rather than blanket deletion (which seems rather excessive and abusive)? Cagwinn (talk) 04:22, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Every individual paragraph would have to be rewritten to omit promotional phrases and write in plainer sentences. And there still remains the original problems with the catalog, which is still half the contents. DGG ( talk ) 05:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi DGG. I'd contested the speedy deletion of this after pruning it right back. Shouldn't there have been some discussion before it was deleted? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 09:31, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
to reply
You made a minor edit to this, is it worth keeping any longer? It has had no substantive edits since May. Guy (Help!) 17:15, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
three significant awards, major writer. I'm reluctant to try to cut down the plot section of a book I haven't read, but that's the only reason for not accepting it. Maybe I'll eliminate the plot section entirely. DGG ( talk ) 19:48, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
"to check'
Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
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From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.
Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by sadads, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.
Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.
For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.
Charles Matthews, suppose term v in V is only a approximate match to term w in W. Not all shovels are spades or even usable as spades. One cannot dig a hole in earth with a snow-shovel. The article Schema crosswalk that the newsletter mentions explains this in a more detailed way. I'm aware you understand the problems of using wikidata to map from commons to enWP, or from one language WP to another. We should not pretend this is a trivial exercise. DGG ( talk ) 00:33, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Well, indeed. The "structured data on Commons" exercise is rather more demanding, and the ramifications of the current category structure on Commons will take effort to translate. The same phenomenon is visible in fact closer to hand, when one compares typical subcategory structures used on the German Wikipedia, which tend to be purist, with those here that lapse in the direction of the baroque.
I don't see, however, that these "facts on the ground" undermine the simple point that this editorial is trying to extract, from Alex Stinson's posting. Different, rather strict systems can be compared, if one takes some trouble. Wikidata is not committed to a particular ontology, and can handle complex subclass structures. Its query language is very expressive. The precondition is to get everything over a common denominator, first of all. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:51, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello David. I made a few improvements to the Wikiproject, and if the information is of use to you, please feel free to pass it on. Also I was wondering if you had a chance to look at the improvements to Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, and if everything was okay, could remove the new, unreviewed tag. In the past, I found that it was faster to use the "move article" but I have a few backlogged so have now returned to "submit draft" for review. Thanks again for all your help. I really appreciate it. Best regards HeatherBlack (talk) 13:48, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Lipo-flavonoid. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --Zeamays (talk) 21:59, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Could you have a look at this for me please. I PRODed it because I thought it was a no brainer for not meeting WP:PROF. It was dePRODed by its author on the basis that ' all professors are notable'. Maybe she is. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:35, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
I would agree with you that she doesn't meet PROF (based on what's in the article). I haven't looked into general claims of notability, but being the head of a department often means you've just been around longer than everyone else. Just because an editathon created the page (or vetted it) does not mean that the PROF rules have changed (and no, not all professors are notable). Primefac (talk) 15:04, 17 January 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
I'm looking at the publications in some more considerable depth. My comments will be on the article talk page. DGG ( talk ) 22:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
to recheck
Huffpost and other sources for May Tha Hla
Based on your AFD comments for Danielle Fong's article, can you look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Women#May_Tha_Hla and see if they did any better in digging up secondary sources for that? It's leaning on similar notability as I discussed with mainly BBC 100 Women and similar lists but expanded from there. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:04, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
I think it's time we eliminated placement on lists as a criterion in notability determinations. Thee have been too many instances of borderline `y decisions based on such factors. (I want to say, that although I sometimes evaluate material a little differently than you, I greatly respect your attempts to bring some realism and common sense to these discussions.) DGG ( talk ) 21:04, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate it. The Danielle Fong article has a better chance at notability than some of the AFD, AFC and New Pages Feed articles I've had to deal with, even if the overall media and apparent rush of new advocate editors is biased towards promoting her causes. Feel free to chime in at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people)#BBC_100_Women which is the general thread I have going on, regarding such listings. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 01:03, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
From the pt of view of notability I agree there have been much more unlikely articles. But check my nom. I nominated it because of the repeated promotionalism, which seemed unfixable--I did try. Unless it's protected, it'll soon be back at 40,000. Opinion varies on how we should handle situations like this--none of our methods are fully satisfactory. DGG ( talk ) 20:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
If it survives AFD then it definitely needs protection from promotionalism. Another editor has already upped the talk page to mention DS-level sanctions. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:04, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Tags on notability
Hello David. Thanks again for your help with Alan Klinkhoff Gallery. Is there anything more that I should do to finish it and have "new unreviewed article" removed? Also I'm doing my first cleanup where there is a notability tag. Once I rewrite it – there are journal articles to back up notability on technique plus featured interviews in cultural magazines – do I take it off myself, ask someone for a review or just leave it on? Best regards HeatherBlack (talk) 15:30, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Sorry David. I didn't receive an email alert from the Alan Klinkhoff Gallery page, so didn't read your comments until today. I fixed the links and changed the text to: "In 2017 the gallery, a successor to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, reported the sale of a Lawren Harris painting for $9.5 million." Thank-you again. HeatherBlack (talk) 22:55, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Manhatan Associates old deletion action. Neutral sources existance
To start with, this request in the context of your previous contributions makes it reasonable to ask you if you have any relationship with the company: in particular whether you are a member of its PR staff, or a PR or advertising firm doing work for it, or are otherwise being paid to write an article. If so, you must declare it--see QP:COI for the details.
Second, please read our rules on WP:NPOV, The previous article and article draft were the same sort of promotional material that would go into a company web page, without reliable third party sources. The reference you suggest above, is essentially a press release, slightly disguised, but nonetheless an advertorial. If you have more objective sources than that, it might be possible to write a new article draft, provided you declare any connection. Let me know. DGG ( talk ) 20:30, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
12:19:27, 22 January 2018 review of submission by Zelgizbog
Hi DGG. Thank you for the pointers. I have added new references to the article. I believe # 2,3,4,5,7,9and 11 would be considered notable and non-press releaseish. I have deleted the awards sections as well. Would appreciate any other pointers you think would improve this article. I have resubmitted for review in the meantime. Thank you!
preliminary question: were any of the activities in the "Activism" section successful? DGG ( talk ) 04:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Pentax is a harvard business school case study and was a very successful case. the other one is ongoing. im sure there are many that were unsuccessful that didnt make the papers....Zelgizbog (talk) 14:06, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi DGG. Just checking in to see if I can do anything else for this page. Thanks Zelgizbog (talk) 03:37, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Speedy Deletion Nomination (Miss National Sweetheart 2011, and 2012)
Hi, I am braniac2000, I was just wondering why my pages Miss National Sweetheart 2011, Miss National Sweetheart 2012 are being deleted. I really put a lot of effort in those pages, and I wouldn't want it to go to waste. Would you please tell me all errors to avoid from being deleted. Thank you and appreciate your time.
Have a great night Braniac2000 (talk) 02:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
I see no evidence that the entire series of events are notable--that they have received substantial discussion in reliable sources--except for press releases or local notices, neither of which count. I'll just mention that the main article on the event might not have been noticed if you had not decided to start articles for the individual years. The main article was written many years ago, when our standards were much lower. DGG ( talk ) 02:29, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hugo Gottesmann
Thank you so much for your acceptance and comment about the article on Hugo Gottesmann.Mary Jane Doerr (talk) 21:23, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
You have been so kind in helping me through this and to be successfull. Deep Appreciation.Mary Jane Doerr (talk) 11:55, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Can you give me the location of how to change my user name? Again you have been most helpful.WS114 13:42, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi DGG, I have deproddedSimple Energy because it's been previously kept at AfD. I only did this for procedural reasons and have no prejudice against you taking it back to AfD. Cheers, —KuyaBriBriTalk 16:02, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
I recently made this close to an AfD. I am not seeing any consensus here, Spartaz has questioned the close. In normal circumstances I would revert, however Spartaz has been less than neutral when dealing with me and far from cordial. I noticed you voted delete in this case but it appears that another editor Northamerica1000 (talk·contribs) has edited it after me close which appears to be consensus through editing. I have no qualms if you elect to reopen it and as you voted delete Spartaz should not have any issues with my request from you for a neutral third party opinion. I can't see any consensus to delete and his statements on my talk page are patently false. I highlighted WP:AUD and arguments which favor both inclusion and deletion, not a vote count, though the vote count was in favor of keeping. Any input from you is appreciated, for or against. Valoemtalkcontrib 17:33, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I can't really reopen a close on an AfD I voted in. I might be reopening it hoping for a reclose as delete. Spartaz and I rarely agree at either AfD or Deletion Review, but I think we both usually feel that it make little sense to challenge a non-consensus close unless it wholly irrational, and your close was reasonable enough (though I would advise you never to even mention the vote count in a close, even in a general way). I presume the request is because of the principal of WP:NAC; NAC is not clear in this situation, except for the general requirement not to do NACs of contentious AfDs. The simplest thing is to revert the close yourself. DGG ( talk ) 20:26, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
If you believe delete is a better outcome I will reopen, but Spartaz would be bias here already suggesting he would delete, and 100% votes against anything I've done, I would prefer a neutral admin close if that is possible or DRV. Do you feel this to be reasonable? Valoemtalkcontrib 20:33, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Actually I was going to close it as keep but nevermind we can leave it as nc and someone will no doubt relist it later. SpartazHumbug! 05:20, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Question
User:DGG, I sent this same question to User:PhilKnight, on his Talk-Page, but he had no answer. Based on the directives given by WP:ARBPIA2, are we as editors of Wikipedia who wish to mention the location of a city, say, in Samaria (such as Havat Gilad), required to write West Bank as its geopolitical location/region, or can we simply write Judea and Samaria Area, based on either one of the six Administrative Districts of Israel? As for the name of the country, are we permitted to write "Israel", instead of "Palestinian territories", for places located on the former Jordanian side of the pre-1967 Demarcation lines between Israel and Jordan, known as the "West Bank"? The reason why I am asking you is because an article written by a former editor for Wikipedia had initially listed all of the towns in the country according to region as found in Districts of Israel, but then after six years, another editor came along and changed all regional locations to "West Bank" and "Palestinian territories." Is this proper procedure? If not, can we restore the original edit?Davidbena (talk) 19:10, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
There is no reason why an arb should know better than anyone else. What is needed for this is community agreement. DGG ( talk ) 23:47, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. So, should I add on that relevant Talk-Page a RfC in order to gain a consensus about the edit?Davidbena (talk) 00:35, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
AfC and stuff
DGG, despite all the respect I have for you as an editor, I was somewhat surprised (and, to be honest, not too pleased) when at John Cabot University you moved a draft written by an employee over the previous content (some of which I had written). I had thought that we had similar views on the pernicious and destructive influence of corporate advertising on this beautiful project. But that is nothing to my amazement at your move of Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M. into article space. I couldn't see any way of dealing with that ill-written, ill-referenced promotional screed, almost certainly written by the gallery itself, other than complete removal – so that's what I did. I've written a couple of sentences, with refs, and sent it to AfD (you may have seen, I don't know); presumably you thought it notable, but I could find no evidence that it is. A plea: if a page is so bad that it will take longer to clean up than to write from scratch, please don't move it to mainspace; if you think the topic notable, why not create a stub on it yourself, and save other editors the time and trouble needed to sort out a mess?
I see that you've put a men-at-work sign on Leoncillo. Leonardi is indubitably notable, but that page is more or less unrescuable; there's also the possibility of translational copyvio (NB his wife Maria Zampa is called "Maria Paw" in our page, that's indiscriminate machine-translation from Italian – but from where?). There is plenty on him in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani alone, quite enough to write a proper page. I'm more than happy to contribute to that if you would like; I'd suggest removing the current content, probably in its entirety. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
John Cabot has continued to dissatisfy me, and you are correct that I need to take another look at it. I have a very long list of things to go back to. Doesn't everyone?
Galleria: of course I'm aware of the promotional nature, and I stopped several times to consider what I should be doing, and hadn't really decided. Nowadays I usually do not rewrite things as promotional as that. Earlier I did, but the sheer amount and nature of the promotionalism has tending to discourage me. (But even in removing promotional articles, I concentrate on those likely to be by paid editors, who are deliberately trying to subvert our principles, and not the more benign direct editing by the subject, which is usually much more transparent and very likely to be a misunderstanding of the way we work, rather than defiance.) I decided to do this one because I judged it to be clearly notable enough to be worth the trouble--and a little interesting in its possibiltiies. See theafdforfurther comment.
Leoncillo--my principle with these has been to improve it enough to 1/ see that they stay in WP for future improvement 2/ try to clarify the notability 3/ have them read like English, 4/ fix at least some of the broken internal links 5/make sure that references are at least copied over 5/ try to resolve any ambiguities or contradictions --or if necessary remove the obviously defective parts I've done this for the first part, and started the second. If you want to do the rest, please do; I'm somewhat literate in this field, but certainly not an expert,.
People have different approaches to things like this. Mine is that I try to rescue what can be rescued quickly. I'm much faster and copyediting and rewriting than writing from scratch. When I came here, I initially thought what I would do is work on bringing articles in my field(s) to a high quality and writing what was missing, but I very quickly found I enjoyed more trying to rescue the possible and remove the impossible. So I never in 11 years here have actually worked on trying to bring an article to the best I could do with it. Maybe I will someday, but for now I plan to keep going, and I regret the current immediate need to concentrate more on removing promotionalism than rescuing notability--it's relatively rare I can even do as much as I did here.
I'm aware of the possibility of translational copyvio. There surely was some here, and of course its a machine translation as shown by many indications. Therefore I tried to reorganize as well as correcting to avoid too close a paraphrase. And, as I said, other approaches are welcome--and necessary. I don;' really think it helpful to deprecate complementary approaches. DGG ( talk ) 05:11, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
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I gather you came across this page some way or another after seeing Lookout co-authored a report with the Electronic Frontier Foundation exposing a major state-sponsored hacking campaign. Given the company's recent press coverage, why prod the page now? Mark Schierbecker (talk) 23:34, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
OK. I removed the product listing. It might help to expand the last sentence into a description of the firm's role. DGG ( talk ) 00:41, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Dr. Jay's deletion
Could you provide a link to the article that was delete? Thanks--A21sauce (talk) 15:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
If you mean Joseph Betesh, the article is still right there, during the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Betesh. It will not be deleted until the end of the 7-day discussion period, and then only if the consensus is that it should be deleted. If you think it should be kept, comment in the discussion. DGG ( talk ) 19:10, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}} tag from Research software engineering, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}} back to the file. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks!
I've added more information that shows how RSE differs from SE and it's a topci by itself, more will be added in the coming days. Let me know if you still think this is not enough. Thanks
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Bloomsbury Square
DGG Stop reversing the original "Letters to John Law" citation for the language relating to the duel of John Law and Edward Wilson on the Bloomsbury_Square page. You have clearly lost both your objectivity and credibility as a Wikipedia editor in relation to that edit as you have invented several incorrect reasons to justify your edit: justifications that are simply incorrect and baseless. Firstly, you claim the book is a "self published source" - that is simply incorrect. It is not. It is published by an established independent publisher. Secondly, you claim the book is "almost unknown" - again, that is simply incorrect. It is not: is on the reading list for the history of economics course at MIT (http://lawandrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Finance_and_Fraud_Syllabus_3-7-14.pdf). Thirdly, the language stated in the article is taken from the Adams book - it is not from the Gleeson book you seem intent on incorrectly citing for the language from the Adams book, and that is because the Gleeson book does not deal with the duel in anywhere near the same extent as the Adams book. Fourthly, that citation and its corresponding text was inserted on the page in question (not by me - check the history) 5 years ago, and has quite correctly stood as the correct text and correct citation since that time, before you arbitrarily decided to erroneously remove it. Might I suggest you take a step back and attempt to regain some objectivity about that edit as you are damaging both the integrity of the article, and your own integrity as an editor by making inaccurate and unsubstantiated edits and inventing incorrect reasons for making them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siolio (talk • contribs) 01:22, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
As I asked you, did you or an associate write the book? DGG ( talk ) 01:25, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
DGG As, I responded to you - NO. I read it at MIT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siolio (talk • contribs) 01:30, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
I'll deal with this later. DGG ( talk ) 02:00, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
DGG You can 'deal' with whatever you like, whenever you want to. But I suggest you take an honest reflection of your edit on this article (especially given what you say about editing on your own user page - as your position here goes completely against the standards you claim to maintain) as you will see that you have completely lost objectivity over a perfectly legitimate source (which was not inserted by me) and have made erroneous edits in relation to it and attempted to substantiate those erroneous edits not with facts and objectivity but with completely incorrect and contrived statements that are baseless have zero credibility. In this respect, your edits are doing a disservice to the page in question, a disservice to the Wikipedia community, and damaging your own credibility.
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Public library anon editing and account creation versus rangeblocks
Hi, I have a question about anon editing from public libraries in general and NYPL in particular.
Background: The purpose is for awareness and for workarounds at our Cascadia Wikimedians events where e.g. King County Library System seems to be blocked more often than not. I went to my local branch today and verified it is currently in this state (206.188.32.0/19 rangeblocked, I think) for a system with 700,000 members and ~2 million in its service area.
Just a bit earlier today, I saw a contrib from a NYPL anon and was a bit surprised as I thought they were usually rangeblocked too.
The questions for you: Is NYPL usually or just sometimes blocked? Do rangeblocks pose a problem for you at public events such as editathons? Is the workaround simply to have an account creator at the editathon? ☆ Bri (talk) 05:30, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Addendum: If you didn't know, KCLS and NYPL vie for busiest system in the U.S. [38] We pulled ahead in 2010 or 2011 but are now back at #2. ☆ Bri (talk) 06:21, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Bri, could you please check: Ido not find it on our lists of blocked sites. The usual block prevents only anonymous editors. If you are blocked again when you edit with your username, please email me a copy of the message you receive.
At NYC we have about 10 or 12 admins (+ 1 crat + 2 arbs), and are able to deal with this sort of thing. Cascadia seems to have very few. (more about that on your user page). Otherwise, there are various methods available, but first I want to see what the situation is. DGG ( talk ) 06:22, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I emailed the IP block message to you for checking. ☆ Bri (talk) 06:25, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Hiya, hope you don't mind but I stumbled across and de-PRODded this primarily because I felt that while it had issues, it's not a clear cut case of non-notability or using exclusively primary sources. Please feel free to AfD it, I think additional input would be helpful on this one. In the meantime, I've tagged it for issues. Have a nice week!--Newbiepedian (talk · contribs · X! · logs) 06:28, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
never a problem.Thanks for letting me know. DGG ( talk ) 09:58, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.
Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.
Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.
Hi DGG,
my name is Marco Krohn and I am one of the co-founders of "Genesis Mining". I just tried to create a stub about Genesis Mining, but noticed that the article is blocked because it was not considered noteworthy in the past. I have not edited Wikipedia for a long time, so please bear with me, if I do not follow the right route by directly asking you to unblock the article. Any guidance would be highly appreciated! Please note that my intention is only to create a stub for the company. I do not want to be involved in the article itself; this should be done by the Wikipedia community.
The reason why I think that "Genesis Mining" is fulfilling the criteria as per Wikipedia:Notability by now, is the extensive coverage by international media, including:
Any help/pointers from your side would be highly appreciated. -- mkrohn (talk) 13:44, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
I appreciate the frank disclosure, so I assume you have read WP:COI. The protection was because the article was re-created twice by the sock of an editor who had been banned as a undeclared paid editor. I have just deleted the version that was in draft, because it was also created by a banned editor. I am glad you realize that is not the way to proceed. You can proceed to write an new article in Draft space, and when you are ready we can look at and see if the protection should be lifted to create it.
But interviews with anyone associated with the company are not reliable sources, because they are not truly independent--the person can say whatever they please. The company however is prominent enough that you should be able to find real news articles that discuss it in a substantial way. DGG ( talk ) 05:23, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Travel industry articles
DGG - need your thoughts on travel promotion and use of travel destination "key words" or "coined phrases" such as Blue Cruise and Greek Island Hopping. Will it end up like what we've got in schools, geographic locations, and the music & film industry - almost anything goes? Atsme📞📧 14:03, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Our question is this: How big is big enough to be a separate page? We are just getting started with this page and have hundreds of events that we will be adding. We have a couple hundred newspaper articles that we've collected and will be referencing. We even envision subpages being necessary. This page will cover 40 years of history. We started this page because it would make the Nebraska Wesleyan University page too long and actually push other elements down page in an extreme way unless we restructure that page to have the history at the end, but even then the history section will be small book length. We will have sections on students and student life, buildings and grounds, faculty and staff, administration and governance,campus activities, alumni and advancement, and athletics. We get questions all the time from alumni, students, faculty and staff asking for this information. Having it be accessible via Wikipedia would be a god send for us all.
What size should we build to before asking for a re-review?
Thanks! I appreciate your guidance in this.
Jmpinnell (talk) 17:20, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
See WP:SPLIT. But in general, there is no need of it except for the very largest and most famous universities, usually the state flagships. I see no comparable articles in WP. Equally important, it is almost always better to put this sort of material in paragraph form, not a list. A list emphasizes minor events and does not highlight the major ones--and many of the items on the current list are minor indeed such as individual campus lectures. For an example of a good university history articles, see History of the University of California, Santa Barbara. There is some material that should go on the main page: the list of presidents of the college.
WP is a general encyclopedia , and its material is meant for the general public. Material of primary interest to people at your university should be published elsewhere. The library web page might be a good place for this. Even better, who owns the copyright of the book? Could you put it on the web?
The draft gives the impression that it has been written partly for the purpose of emphasizing the role of the Dept. of Special Collections at the library. It would deemphasis it a little to put the explanation of the source at the bottom, not the top. And Please see WP:COI. You need to explicitly declare your connection with it on the draft talk p. as you do on your user page.
I'm interested in what you'd have done, if anything. Camilleri follows a classical pattern I have observed numerous times, often over several years, where an expert contributes his expertise only when accompanied by cites to his own work, but I am a nasty suspicious bastard and I completely accept htat I may well have been excessively impatient. Guy (Help!) 18:56, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
I've just checked his contributions, including the UTRS. You're right. I had previously seen just the new article. But now I see the prior placements of the references to his work in various articles, and then the talk p. warning, and after that the new article. The UTRS says nothing helpful. All in all, this does mean that he intends to ignore the rules, or that he not know the rules and does not want to learn. Either way, there's nothing useful here. I had hoped for better. DGG ( talk ) 04:44, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Yes. Even a cynical bastard like me would like to be pleasantly surprised occasionally. This was not the day. Guy (Help!) 16:42, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Request on 22:36:14, 6 February 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Mursimon
This is a question regarding your rejection of the page on Tom Palazzolo.
You said “first, you need to show notability by substantial 3rd party published reviews of his work”. It is unclear to me why the published articles I included aren’t sufficient. I have listed articles from The New York Times, Washington Post, PBS, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Film Archives, Light Millenium & Film Studies Center, Chicago Art Magazine, Facets Multimedia, The Smart Museum & the Chicago reader.
Your comment indicates that these aren’t “substantial 3rd party published reviews”. Please tell me what you consider to be substantial reviewers.
Thanks for your continued objective evaluation.
Murray
p.s. I couldn't find a "Save page" button as indicated in the instructions for this page, but I did find a "Publish changes" button. I hope that works.
Mursimon, Yes,the publish button is the save button. We've tried both wordings, but neither avoids misunderstanding.
Sorry. I didn't see them because you forgot to format the reference to show the sources, and I didn't notice they were in the external references. Please use the cite news template, --check WP:REFBEGIN. References to sources that documentthe aticle go in as references in the text--links to freely available websites thatsupplement the article go in the external links -- and the external links can contain only one personal website of the subject, no additional social media links. After reformatting the ones you have, the next step is to try add an exact reference for as many of the screenings or shows at major museums-their web site will do, or any other published notice). Otherwise, we assume you are just citing you published CV, which is not a reliable source. You also need a source for the grants.
You need a reference to WorldCat or equivalent for the books. It would really help if there are reviews of them.
In the descriptions of the videos, there has to be a source for them--extensive descriptions like for Rita on the Ropes need to be shortened. .
As for the connection, if it was a non-financial connection you should just mention it somewhere on the article talk p.
Sorry to have been unclear. DGG ( talk ) 07:09, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Request on 22:43:03, 6 February 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Mursimon
I forgot to indicate that I have known of Tom Palazzolo since the 1980s. I became more personally acquainted with him about 10 tears ago. Since then, I decided that he was significant enough & should be included in Wikipedia. So I started a topic on him.
Hi, I just edited the Bluemercury article to remove advertising-like tone, and as you were the editor who added that template, I wanted to check with you to garner your support before I attempt to remove it, which I will not do without your OK. Please have a look at the website at your earliest convenience and let me know if I may do this. Thank you for your time! Spintendo ᔦᔭ 01:42, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks to both of you! Please also review the photos in the talk page's hidden text and consider if you'd place them when you have the time. JaneStrauss (talk) 12:29, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello
Hi there. I worked very hard on the Livin Lite RV article to source it and be objective. To the extent that it could be perceived to read like an advertisement, that is due to the limited sources that are available (though I don't agree with the advertisement assertion). All content must be verifiable. I've written and edited many Wikipedia articles (not that that makes me any good). In working on this one I looked at other RV manufacturer articles. This new article is one of the best out there. It contains basic facts about the company that are all sourced and verifiable. I request you reconsider this tag or advise me on what I can do to meet the standards as you perceive them. Thank you.--Utahredrock (talk) 16:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
PS--I went ahead and removed some of the external links.--Utahredrock (talk) 17:08, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
I see you've been working on a number of companies in this field, among other topics, so it's clear that your intent is not promotional. But compare this with the article on Thor Industries. The key problem here is is the repeated emphasis and excessive detail about the lightweight construction. When you fix it, let me know. . DGG ( talk ) 00:41, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
I made a number of edits. One thing is, the lightweight construction is something that makes this product different so it seems particularly noteworthy to discuss it--as long as it's sourced. Thanks for your work on wikipedia, I hope you'll find the edits acceptable.--Utahredrock (talk) 03:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC) Also, dealers are saying Thor/KZ is on the verge of shutting down Livin Lite. There isn't much material other than talk in chat groups and one dealer did a blog post about it. It's not enough I don't think to add that fact yet, but as soon as an RV news outlet covers it (as it seems likely that they will) I will add it to the article. I found the company interesting because it appears they produce something unique in the RV industry, which is notorious for poorly built products. I am a huge fan of Airstreams, but in some ways the Livin Lite products seem to be even better built than Airstreams. At any rate, the way they construct their trailers is what got my attention and what got me interested in it.--Utahredrock (talk) 04:02, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
I think there is still too much emphasis on detail, and I may edit it further myself. DGG ( talk ) 05:18, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
So, said solicitation: scrutinize! Starting sources - some silly, some seriously substantial. Seemingly sufficient? --GRuban (talk) 18:03, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
As a general comment, remember that in many recent afds we considered interviews with subjects where they say what they please not to be truly independent sources, but rather primary sources, with all their usual limitation. But I think almost any press on an entertainment or society figure or model or the like, is instigated by PR, but in theses field insisting on real freedom from PR might make it almost impossible to have an article, unless the person is actually famous.
My general view is to adapt the requirements to the field, to some degree, and interpret them so we can justify articles on the most notable, without requiring actual fame with academic books on them. I am not one of the people who want to adjust standards to decrease our coverage for fields in which they have no interest. We all have different ideas about what fields are important, and we need to accommodate each other. I don't want to impose my own views about importance to the world upon others--and I expect others will do similarly in return.
For specifics, see the draft talk p. DGG ( talk ) 05:57, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
Thank you --GRuban (talk) 15:16, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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Deletion of page: Introduction to Modern Application Development
Hi DDG, I noticed you had deleted my page on Introduction To Modern Application Development. I would like to understand why. You had given the reason as 'unambiguous promotion or advertising', but everything in the article was sourced from independent, highly reputed news sources. Could you please explain why?
Tanmaig (talk) 15:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
I deleted it after it has been listed by another experienced editor. It is indistinguishable from a straightforward advertisement for the MOOC, including an outline of course content and information of getting academic credit for it. This is not encyclopedic content.
I'd say just the same for your article on The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The book is notable, but the absurdly over-detailed article is promotional--it is 10 times the length of the articles on his other books. Articles do not have to be intended as an advertisement to be promotional --we cannot judge intent. We judge content. DGG ( talk ) 18:54, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
Second Opinion
Example source: Thurm, Scott (February 23, 2009). "McKinsey Partners Pick Barton to Lead Firm". The Wall Street Journal. Article-text this source is used to support: Dominic Barton "was hired by McKinsey & Company to work in the Toronto office in 1986." Question: Does WP:AGEMATTERS prohibit using this 2009 source for events taking place in 1986? Context: This is regarding the feedback I got from @Spintendo: on a draft I prepared for the Dominic Barton page (see Talk). This feedback effects most of the content covering his career before he became famous in 2009.
CorporateM (Talk) 14:13, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Finding a contemporary source for bio details before anyone is taking notice of the subject will be tough, and the source would be primary. TKe it back further. Unless you can find a newspaper birth announcement, a birth certificate would be the only contemporary source for a subject's birthdate. Legacypac (talk) 17:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Age does not matter for a source for factual information such as this. Nothing in the section quoted has anything to do with this sort of situation. Furthermore, a birth certificate is a primary source,and does not definitively seytle the question of birthdate in any event--they can be misdated accidentally or deliberately. I will take a look at the article. DGG ( talk ) 21:10, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Draft article-text this source is used to support: "He was hired by McKinsey & Company to work in the Toronto office in 1986 and worked in Toronto for eleven years."
Clarification: I reviewed this claim statement and was concerned with its mentioning events taking place in 1986. The claim statement in the draft version said that the subject worked at the Toronto office for 11 years. But according to the source proper, the subject worked in Asia for 11 years. Both claims cannot be true, unless the source meant that Barton worked in the Asia sector department at its Toronto office for 11 years. The WSJ does not ultimately specify which was the case. It was this discrepancy and the uncertainty surrounding it which led me to mark the Thurm source as unapproved for use on its first claim, which I felt needed clearing up, while marking it as approved for use on its second claim (that Dominic Barton won the election in 2009 and became Managing Director of McKinsey & Company on July 1st). Regards, Spintendo ᔦᔭ 09:18, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi David. Just wanted to check-in and see if this was still on your radar. No rush. CorporateM (Talk) 14:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi DGG. I thought I'd see if you still had any interest in this page. About two months ago @John Broughton: did the early life section and got halfway down the career section, but has since gotten busy elsewhere. He is also no longer managing director at McKinsey. I'd be happy to start a new string on the changes that are still needed. CorporateM (Talk) 12:46, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
AfD rename proposal
I saw you nominate several articles for deletion so in order to find your individual reasoning behind what I had assumed was a deletionist attitude I started reading your user page and found that you want "AfD" to stand for "Articles for Discussion"... Well, on Dutch Wikipedia I've seen this in action and it (unfortunately) doesn't work, many people are confused about the rename (from years ago) and think that if they nominate articles to the "Articles for Discussion" (well, a more literal translation would be "Articles for Assessment") that other users will give valuable input on how to improve them, but in reality it remained a deletion list, and articles that would've otherwise have been improved get nominated because the nominator genuinely believes that they are just brainstorming with the community so such a name change will backfire. I encourage you to try and change it, but judging from how things have turned out on Dutch Wikipedia I wouldn't trust the name change as anything other than cosmetics. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) 10:37, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
23:47:07, 12 February 2018 review of submission by MSKTC
Hello, on January 6th the Wikipedia entry 'Burn Model Systems' was rejected. The reason stated was because it reads too much like an essay. I was wondering if you could provide me with specific examples from the entry. I think this would help me visualize how it needs to be re-written.
That was probably not the best term. I re-reviewed it to indicate the actual problems. The article is promotional, and in addition lacks references to show notability . It promoted the work of the Program, as shown by the discussion of the harm caused by burns--in a press release that's a major component, in an encyclopedia article one just makes a cross reference. It relies on a presentation of accomplishments in bulllet points, another technique suitable only for a press release. It included such directly promotional language as "See "Development of the life impact burn recovery evaluation (LIBRE) profile: assessing burn survivors' social participation". and learn more about the LIBRE project at http://sites.bu.edu/libre/" As for notability : a WP article needs to show notability by references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements, but everything here is from the organization itself. DGG ( talk ) 06:46, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Chess grand masters - notability
I was having a look at Category:Chess grandmasters (over 1,000 entries) because I came across a new article with only one source and I nearly PRODed it as an insufficiently sourced BLP. Don't they need to meet GNG? Are they considered inherently notable? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
there's a current discussion at WT:Wikiproject Chess. Just as I think we should have extensive coverage in areas that interest me, I think this is also true of those areas others find of interest. Just as we've figured out criteria for what counts as encyclopedia - worthy for academic faculty ,they can do the same fo chess. More limited coverage in some fields can be best justified by limiting the opportunities for 1promotionalism, or lack of sources for WP:V. There's also the possibility of a general feeling of the community as a whole that some areas are simply not encyclopedic if carried to the extent their fans desire. This tends to get worded as problems meeting GNG, but in my view, it in practice is actually done by adjusting the meaning of the GNG to produce the desired result. I don't think the coverage is that outrageous: Personally, I think it perfectly reasonable that in the world in general there have been 1000 notable chess-players. There seem to be about 9000 bios of basketball players. Though I have never watched more than a few isolated minutes of a basketball game, and have never in my life wanted to know anything about any of these 9000 players, other people are as entitled to their interest as I to mine. DGG ( talk ) 02:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Brief statistical comment here (I will copy this to the WikiProject discussion): if you look at List of chess grandmasters (1780 entries, of which 184 are dead [of which there are 17 without articles], so there are around 1596 living GMs on the list), you will see that the article says that there are currently (November 2017) around 1594 grandmasters on the FIDE rating list (the figure for the February 2018 list is 1595). If you assume that all the blue-links on the list are the 1066 articles in Category:Chess grandmasters, then you get a figure of 530 red-links at List of chess grandmasters, and presumably 17 of those are the dead ones without articles (some of which should definitely have articles) and there are around 513 living GMs with no articles. Some of these will be very obscure, certainly in English-language sources, though all will have some record of their chess-playing activity and the award of their titles can be sourced. Carcharoth (talk) 16:13, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Draft: Pradip Sawant
Hi DGG! Thank you for taking the time to review my submissionDraft: Pradip Sawant. I've read the feedback, but it seems a little broad. I would appreciate some specific pointers as to how this can be improved. I appreciate your help. And also please tell me some example of good 3rd party references, cause i have used Times of India as reference — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunnybcn1 (talk • contribs) 09:47, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Source notability -- usefulness of non-notable sources
Hi DGG,
Many thanks for your many productive contributions to the Wiki community. I'm a noobie here and am working on my first contribution, Draft:Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop (Thanks for the helpful suggestions). I've cited a mix of notable and non-notable sources (more of the latter), since the non-notable citations provide useful information. Does including a large fraction of non-notable citations detract from the article, per Wiki standards? Should I remove the non-notables (almost) completely? I've resubmitted my draft, and it's awaiting review. ~Cheers~ David
Fieldsde (talk) 15:03, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
The requirement for sources is not that they are notable, but rather that they are reliable; for material in an article, the rules are at WP:RS, with details discussed at the very large number of discussion in the archives of [[WP::RSN]], the Reliable sources noticeboard. The special conditions for sources that are suitable for showing notability are at WP:N, which can basically be summarized as references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements. The interpretation of that general phrase varies with subject, and to some extent tends to reflect general feelings about what our coverage ought to be.
With respect to Draft:Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop: We generally have been relatively reluctant to make articles of series of conferences,or organizations that sponsor them, unless there is very firm 3rd party evidence that they are regarded as the most important one in the subject. The sources in the draft are almost entirely publications by the organization itself or very closely related organizations, and therefore not independent.
My role in screening AfCs is not to decide on accepting the article, but to try to estimate whether the community will accept it. The place where that decision is made is in an AfD discussion, and it goes by consensus. The way we do things here, nobody can fully predict the result of such discussions, but on the basis of my experience in many thousands of them, the article is unlikely to be accepted in its current form. DGG ( talk ) 06:02, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for clarifying that the need is for more reliable (independent) sources that show notability. Please continue contributing to the Wiki effort. Best regards. Fieldsde (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Teenage notability
If my memory serves, is it not customary to not include BLPs for single event notability for children (teens included), including National Spelling Bee winners, National Science Fair winners, National teenage beauty contest winners, and so forth? Atsme📞📧 21:29, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
[39] - not sure where this link goes, but it broke the section title so I'll add it here. Atsme📞📧 23:01, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
I agree with you that WP should not cover them, but there have recently been at AfD keep decisions for a surprising number of bio of young people who have had some press coverage for accomplishments which would not have made them notable had they been adults. I am therefore somewhat reluctant to bring AfDs for the people listed in the table. We would need a rule similar to that for sports, where only adult competitions indicate notability--but those who believe in the unthinking application of the GNG without considering the subject field would probably oppose that also.
Of the spelling bee champions, the only one who I consider clearly notable as an adult is L. E. Sissman, who became an unquestionably notable writer. Frank Neuhauser as winner of the first bee might be another exception. The other with articles had at most minor roles in the very notable film Akeelah and the Bee about the spelling bee. (Of course others without articles might prove to be notable also.) DGG ( talk ) 02:45, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
deletion of One With Life Tequila page
I would like to understand why you deleted the above referenced page - the cited reason was promotion/advertising. This page provided all factual statements about the company supported by independent sources. While the page is about a particular tequila brand, not unlike the numerous other tequila brand pages on wiki, all of the statements were factual and pertinent to the new brand. Can you specify more particularly the issues and concerns? If these were legitimate reasons for the deletion, then why are the other brand pages not also deleted? Thank you in advance for any guidance you can provide.\Philacevedo (talk) 23:03, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
when it's a new brand, there is very likely to be nothing to say but advertising. With established brands, eople may sometimes write about it, if only with respect to the cultural significance. What was available here was either very specialized awards whose very purpose was allowign for promotion, and local notices, which are indiscriminate for local industries. DGG ( talk ) 02:49, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
I appreciate the clarification. Though, still a bit dismayed, as the rule seems to be selectively applied and this particularly brand targeted. Additionally, there does seem to be some distinction and societal importance to this brand which sets it apart from some of the other new brands with pages. That is; it seems to be one of the few created and owned by a woman. This in a male dominated industry seems important. Philacevedo (talk) 22:14, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Many articles were accepted in earlier days when standards about notability and promotionalism were much lower. It will take us many years to remove them, but the least we can do is not add to them. DGG ( talk ) 22:23, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Question about a mention of a ban
Hello, David. I see that at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nuri Katz you said that the creator of the article, EricFisch, is "now banned", but I can't find any record of a ban for the editor, and the account has never been blocked. Is there a ban recorded somewhere where I haven't been able to find it, or was your comment a mistake? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:37, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Yes, but as I said above, the account has never been blocked, as you can see in the block log, here. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:17, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I recently recreated Rahul Verma (social activist) after Allow creation decision in deletion review/Log/2018 February 9 with sources that have appeared since the AfD (specifically the front page NY Times article about the subject. NYT international print edition). Closing editor stated that There was also a somewhat theoretical discussion about whether an allow recreation result makes the new article G4 proof, or whether there's always an implied right to recreate an article if it's not salted. No consensus on that, but I'll state here that any new version certainly will need to meet all of our requirements, and if anybody finds the new version is still lacking, they can bring it back to AfD. During the discussion one editor stated that Also, if the circumstances have changed: recreate the article and let's see if an independent admin thinks it passes G4. DRV should not be used to G4 proof articles where editors on the "losing" side of an XfD think it has changed. I should have created this article under WP:AFC to get some review but since it was not mandatory I took a chance.
You were one of the admins who voted Delete during AFD. So is it possible for you to please have a look and if you feel it really need G4 or any other discussion related to deletion. Actually I am asking you this question because since last year I was looking for some sources and finally I got some and not sure if it meets the notability standards or not. Sorry for taking too much of your time. Thanks Shibanihk (talk) 13:49, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I would only consider using G4 if an article was almost unchanged, and even then I'd prefer AfD, since the situation is obviously contestable.
As for the article: I will not usually try to delete an article with a directly relevant NYT first page story. However, it is the only usable reference, and it is equally about him and about the overall problem. The NYT International Edition account is just an abridgment of the NYT account, not a separate item. The Gulf News article is a reprint of the NYT. The 3 together make one source. The Asian Age article is a brief promotional article about the cause. The CNBC item is a primary source: a statement, not even an interview with a reporter--just a video statement. It was misleadingly described in the Del Rev as a " video featured about his work by VNBC-TV " It's no different from from any other charitable promotion. So are all the other sources in the present article. I have not looked again in detail at the sources in the previous version, but almost all of them were at best advocacy. DGG ( talk ) 07:14, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your valued feedback. I will keep on adding more appropriate sources as and when appears. Regards Shibanihk (talk) 12:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
School AfDs
What we feared is happening, users are now trawling school articles looking for ones to delete. You can tell these rampant deletionists this: Thank you for patrolling new pages. As a New Page Reviewer, you are expected to know our deletion policies inside out. Please see: WP:ATD-R and please note that this is a policy, not a mere guideline. Thanks. Change the wording if they are not NPR rights holders. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
It's also just a suggestion (may have a title that would make a useful redirect, emphasis added). You're obviously welcome to ask users to curtail their "rampant" nominations (if they're doing so) but to require them to abide by a suggestion in a policy is a bit much. Primefac (talk) 17:57, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
And for what it's worth, the "you" was referring to Kudpung but I have a bad habit of using the royal "you" for general instances anyway. Primefac (talk) 17:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
The policy that we should redirect rather than delete if a suitable target is available is one of the most ignored parts of deletion policy, almost as much ignored as the part that says for subjects that might be notable with no significant information, a combination article can be preferable. I'm not really sure that any of the section on alternatives to deletion is actually followed enough to make it an accepted policy. I prefer to use policy vs guideline arguments for only the most basic policies, such as NOT ADVERTISING. DGG ( talk ) 20:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
@Primefac:, who's talking about 'requiring'? Just pointing to a policy is not the same as handing out orders. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:48, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
I often word it as "suggest" . or, "you might also want to consider" in giving advice, especially when it's a question of trying to tell people they should be doing something differently. Even so, it is sometimes seen as a little aggressive. Sometimes it is helpful to simply correct it, and see if they get the idea. DGG ( talk ) 00:36, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
I have tried to do major clean up. Still not sure if any further clean up required. Pls see if you can remove advert tag now or suggest what needs to be done. Thanks HelloDolly89 (talk) 07:59, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
I doubt is enough non-repetitive non-promotional content for both an article on the sponsor and on the foundation. But I will take another look DGG ( talk ) 06:19, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for consideration. Removed almost majority of text and link. Regards HelloDolly89 (talk) 07:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
A large section of this draft was added by a user (on your suggestion) to the text of Main Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) but in such a way that no indication of its origin was given and thus no credit was given to the original author(s). That needs to be remedied either through a history merge or through a deletion of all the subsequent revisions of the merge target, removing the copyvio content from the history (otherwise it is only too likely to be restored).
I think the article should be rather of the Libraries of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, and I will make the appropriate merges and links. The history may have to remain for the time being in the history of the redirects, because the only times I have done so, I have made a total mess out of it. DGG ( talk ) 06:17, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Christian Nobel laureates (4th nomination)
Starting a DRV is probably equivalent to peeing against a strong wind.... but I'm minded to do so because, had I seen that discussion, I wouldn't have closed that yet. While there was a clear majority vote to keep, the majority of the keep arguments weren't grounded in policy, and much of the delete arguments were. Therefore I don't see that a real consensus grounded in policy had emerged by the time you closed it. Many of the arguments were "already survived 3 other AFDs" but the counterargument would be "been nominated 3 other times which suggests we have a problem." And that problem of whether the list is a noteworthy topic hasn't been addressed.
I would like to see the discussion re-opened and continued. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:49, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Frankly, that article should die in a fire. It freely mixes people form a period where being a member of an organised church was the default, people who are professed Christians but not in any way active in promoting that, and people who are outliers in their field by virtue of religious faith. It exists solely to promote one religion, and actually largely to support the anti-science end of that religion. Being a Jewish Nobel laureate 100 years ago was a big deal. Being a Christian Nobel laureate in the field of evolutionary biology now would be a big thing. Virtually everything about what it means to be a Christian and a Nobel laureate has changed from the earliest tot he latest entries in that list. Its like a list of poeple who believe the white race is inherently superior. It will include virtually everybody at one point and virtually nobody at another,and tells us exactly nothing about either category because the same would apply if you replaced Nobel laureate with doctor, engineer or anything else. Guy (Help!) 00:41, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Thinking it over, I realized I am not neutral, and to avoid any doubt, I have reopened. I do not think I would have needed to do so, since I was closing according to what I think a very clear consensus, with which I happened to agree. I usually do agree with the consensus at AfDs that I close. None of us limits our closes to the ones that close against our opinion, or therewould be no admins atall for most AfDs. DGG ( talk ) 05:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
btw, JzG, I don't see that any Nobel prizes were ever awarded for evolutionary biology, so I'm not sure of the relevance of your example. DGG ( talk ) 16:16, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Le Palais Royal
Good day DGG! Why was "Le Palais Royal" deleted without an AFD if the article that I wrote was not promotional? --Jax 0677 (talk) 20:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
"Because I consider it entirely promotional in its current form: "has spent more than ten years designing and developing the castle with the goal of creating “something completely different than what’s been done in America." ; "With more than $7 million in 22-karat gold leaf" ; and "Also included is a room for your dog with an computerized watering system included ." Any article written in the second person that way is indistinguishable from an advertisement.
I recognize that was not your intent, but that was the state of the article; I could restore the article in the state you originally wrote it in 2014, and semi-protect it. Would that be OK? DGG ( talk ) 23:14, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Reply - The entire history should be revived, but the page should be brought to the latest revision that is not promotional. We can discuss the matter at WP:AFD if there is disagreement as to whether to keep, redirect or delete the article. --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm reluctant to restore advertising even in the history, but I've restored the whole thing, and I hope you will keep a watch that it does not get re-added. If you want meto semi-protect, ask me. DGG ( talk ) 18:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Reply - Please feel free to semi-protect the article, and to report those who advertise on it. --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:40, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
awni-protected. but if theee are further problems, please let me know--I work on too many individual articles for me to effectively watchlist them. DGG ( talk ) 22:19, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
If you recall, at the time of the original deletion, you'd said in a thread this:
There are a few areas where we actually do have rational standards, though ewe sometimes call them only "presumed" notability . The most distinct one, and established as not presumed but definitive, is WP:PROF, which is based upon the actual criteria which those in the subject field being covered use themselves to determine significance. It's the soundest and most rational of our guidelines; it does have its limits--the decisions people make sometimes do show prejudices against areas that some people here have considered unimportant or of lower quality (the most notorious one is the bias against academic areas where women have traditionally particularly numerous, such as education or nursing or home economics.) You are arguing above in effect that Mormon Studies is one such affected area, and I have indeed detected some bias against the academic field of religion. But it is still a more rational guideline than the GNG, and we need to establish other similar guidelines (In practice we already interpret "presumed" to be definitive in some cases, as for Olympic athletics, or populated places.)
However, it is unreasonable for those who dislike the result in a particular individual case to try to change the general rule to favor the particular person or other subject that they want to include. Bias here is best fought by making people aware of it, with the assumption that most of us here -- to some extent more than in the world in general-- have a predisposition to correct it when pointed out to us.) It is furthermore unnecessary to change the general rules to accommodate particular cases, for we do apply the fundamental rule of WP:IAR in determining notability. Whether we apply it depends upon whether people are convinced by the argument, and under our general system for making decisions, there's no other possible basis. (Whether the result is one I would agree with in the particular instance being complained of is totally irrelevant. It is better to have a fair & definitive manner of decision even though the result in any one particular case may be wrong, than to try to manipulate the system to get what one personally wants in a particular instance.) DGG ( talk ) 04:15, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
Here is a snip from the start of a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Organization of American Historians.
"Trade publishing exists in the commercial economy. Here, you try to expand your audience, rather than more deeply penetrate a closed market, as in academic publishing. You do that not by dumbing down, but by maximizing the reading experience. The ultimate goal of the trade book is not to advance the state of the field, though it certainly may do that, but to succeed as a book—as an organically complete and satisfying work. In trade books, the emphasis is on reading pleasure. That can come from many sources—not only storytelling, but also provocative new research and arguments. You can still engage in debates with important scholars and situate your work within current historiography, but unless it serves the experience of the reader, relegate all that to the notes."
Another snip from further down:
"due to challenges in the marketplace, I get the sense that trade publishers are taking on fewer "small" and midlist books. My hope is that this means university presses are able to sign up more of these books that may have some crossover potential, to help their bottom line."
you have found a good quotation to show that writing general books is a second-level publishing venue in history if one cannot publish an academic research book.
I've seen instances of prejudice here against academic studies of religion, and of Mormon studies. The AfD in question is not one of them. You made the argument that he's influential within Mormon Studies. But his book on Mormon history is not by the major specialized published of such titles--or by any of those listed in Mormon studies. If you wish to write additional articles on notable scholars in this field, the easiest way would be to take the 5 named chairs in Mormon studies that are given in that WP--every individual holder of such a chair is explicitly notable by WP:PROF. DGG ( talk ) 07:30, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Park's book won't by any stretch of the imagination be a popularization of existing scholarship. He's been soaking up a lot of the era he's to cover's sourcing a good percentage of his time for years now. Indeed, per the proposal his agent shopped around, "It draws from a broad collection of primary sources, most of them overlooked and some of them used for the first time...." And Rob't Weil, the renowned ed. @ Liveright, bit!--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 10:18, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think WP is improved with a Park blp but your opinion differs.
In any case, I'd imagine that what's now been reborn as this literary/scholarly imprint at Norton, Liveright, will be considered exponentially more prestigious among the Mormon studies community than, say, Signature Books of Salt Lake City, and any of the half-dozen Mormon studies chairs would give eyeteeth to be published there. Scholars published there certainly can garner reviews, too.
According to Wikipedia: "Books published by Weil for the Liveright list include, Edward Sorel's Mary Astor's Purple Diary, S. Jonathan Bass’s He Calls Me By Lightning, Jack Davis's The Gulf, Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist, George Orwell’s Diaries, Max Boot’s Invisible Armies, Jules Feiffer's Kill My Mother, Harvey Sach's Toscanini (all of which were reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review review), as well as Gail Collins’ As Texas Goes, E. O. Wilson’s The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Existence (National Book Award Finalist), Michael Gorra’s Portrait of a Novel (Pulitzer finalist) and Allan Gurganus’ Local Souls. Other books edited by Weil that were reviewed on the front-page New York Times Book Review include, SPQR by Mary Beard, The Complete Works or Primo Levi, and "The Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf." -- "Robert Weil (editor)"--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
and not a single one of these are academic books at a research level. (it's a odd argument anyway, because the NYT has never or almost never put an academic book on its front page, & very few Pulitzers or NBA awards go to such books. I never said they were not an important publisher in what they do. DGG ( talk ) 19:47, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
still NYN. You are making a strategic error common to those working in fields where there is so degree of skepticism, whether rightly skeptical or wrongly: it is not wise to try to defend the weakest existing articles. Even for high schools, I let the worst of them go rather than try to defend them, even if I think I could by some great effort source them.. Similarly, those skeptical of the strength of evidence in a topic area sometime make the mistake of attacking some of the stronger articles. It is better to let something marginal get deleted or kept by a brief argument than to fight it to the last possibility, because a really extended discussion involving many people is likely to be taken as a precedent. DGG ( talk ) 10:16, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
David/Dave, I created this stub @ Ardis Parshall, Salt Lake City researcher-for-hire and history blogger, a few years back. I think it's kinda fun for me to argue for its What? 3 sentences of length. But anyway thx for pointing out such considerations of Realpolotik(?sp). :::Gonna keep Ben Park in my sandbox subpage. For After reviews of his in-progress, nuancedly hard-nosed expose...disguised as compliments to the religious genius of Jos.Sm.Jr, demimessianic annointed one, opening up the pre-millennial dispensation's earthly kingdom of the Most High - come out. (@ Liveright.) OK if I ping ya, shd you still be around, to get your advice about whether I ought t-to - re- um- um um r-r-re-creating it? (I used to stutter.)--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 03:39, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, the notability is clear. But what we currently have is a very promotional article, mainly written by an undeclared paid editor. If that can stand, I'm very unclear how we are not just providing a platform for their paid advertising. KJP1 (talk) 23:55, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
KJP1, as you know, I very rarely do this sort of revision nowadays, as I feel very strongly about such editing. But it is quite simple here to remove the worst of the promotion, leaving in only the factual material. The company will thus have paid for the work involved in the factual update and the work involved in the promotionalism. But they will discover that they paid for the promotionalism in vain, and the COI editor, could not deliver what he no doubt promised. Since he now knows enough to declare, I think he will know enough not to do this sort of editing again. And if clients wish to pay him to update financial results and facility locations, this is the most innocuous form of paid editing.
I would not have done this had it taken any significant amount of work, or if the firm had not in fact been the market leader in an important field of general interest here. I probably would not have done it had it ben a new article, but not all the prior work was promotional . Normally in such a case it is better to revert back to the last non-promtional version, but in this instance that would have also removed the factual updates. When I do engage in this work, I try to make it as easy for myself as possible.
Understood. But this place does get depressing sometimes. What it aimed to be, and what it could be, compared to what it actually often is. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, it's getting better. Ten years ago when I joined, even just 5 years ago, it would have accepted that sort of content. You are of course right that we need to keep working, because it still is far short of the goal. DGG ( talk ) 00:58, 3 March 2018 (UTC)v[reply]
Equinix
I appreciate your assessment of the importance of the article in your mention here. I was nevertheless very tempted to indef the author. The page as published was an architypical example of unpaid editing (according to your own essay). I do not believe the creator should be allowed to continue to edit it. My main part in UPE issues is to set examples so that we have precedents to draw on for future policy changes, and to provide solid examples for new page reviewers who still probably miss recognising such issues. What do you think?Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:33, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
See my comment on his talk p. He did declare when asked. He might be able to learn. If he contributes further such content, then will be the time to block him. I gave him what amounts to a 4i warning. WP benefits not only by blocking persistently promotional editors, but in politely encouraging the amenable ones to stop. We want to have PR houses to have a good opinion of ourselves, even as they learn to stay away from us. We don't want to have to fight them. DGG ( talk ) 00:40, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Serious Issues regarding the article Ambarish Srivastava
Greetings Mr. DGG.
You had previously contributed in restoring the deletion reviewed article Ambarish Srivastava back in 2011 for which i am very grateful for your efforts. The article was accepted by all editors and had been tagged as complete and genuine. After 7 peaceful years, SpacemanSpiff has again started making meaningless edits on the article, reducing the whole article to a mere line. He also tagged the article as 'edited by undisclosed payments'. Since he could not get the article deleted at that time, now he is deleting it step by step so as to completely delete it. Whatever reliable source i present, he denies it including all the national newspapers in India. He is clearly misusing his rights. I humbly ask for your opinion as to what should i do to save the article and save the subject from defamation. You might like to go through the Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 14 to make the topic more clear. Thank you. Spjayswal67 (talk·contribs)
I have got some cuttings of a few national newspapers proving notability as a poet. Will these cuttings prove to be the reliable sources in order to prove notability as a poet?
no, but it proves he has published poetry. I will adjust the article accordingly. It would help to have exact citation for the three works he is reported here as having published. DGG ( talk ) 11:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Mr. DGG. Look like SpacemanSpiff (talk·contribs) had some issues with me or article named Ambarish Srivastava from the very beginning since the article was created, he also had previously deleted the major part of the article intentionally after this page was approved and uploaded in main space by deletion review. Since the Third Opinion received in 2011, there has been no editing in the form of a poet in this Wikipedia page and neither there was any spamming as a poet. Even then, on December 23, 2017, SpacemanSpiff (talk·contribs)has made it a stub by removing about ninety seven percent of this article without any genuine reasons. Not only this, SpacemanSpiff (talk·contribs) has even tagged the transaction of dollars symbol on this page without any concrete proof, it appears that he has some issues with me or this article. So please remove the transaction of dollars symbol on this page and restore that deleted part and direct the SpacemanSpiff (talk·contribs) to stay away from this Wikipedia page. Spjayswal67 (talk) 07:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Seeking guidance
Hi DGG, I hope you’re well. I know it’s been a while since we last spoke, but I’m looking for guidance on conflict resolution, and your name has appeared in a number of places across Wikipedia. You commented on my initial propositions to make changes to David M. Cote three years ago, and weighed in on my ongoing dispute with Philafrenzy not too long after. I recently requested new edits, and Philafrenzy again antagonized me on the sole basis that I am a COI editor. I want to understand what my options are and what best practices would be for resolving this conflict. I previously submitted an RfC, requested a 3O, and submitted an edit request.
I feel that despite my efforts, any propositions I make are viewed with great antagonism, and that my character is attacked rather than the content I’m suggesting. It seems to me that Philafrenzy is being deliberately obstinate (and I’m sure they think the same of me), but it’s difficult for me to continue assuming good faith when they neglect to engage on the talk page and instead edit the article directly, with the recent exception of another personal attack after I made another edit request.
Philafrenzy and I have found common ground before, so I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility for us to come to some sort of understanding. Would you agree that mediation is the next step forward? I don’t think we’ve reached the point of arbitration, and I’d like to handle this as diplomatically as possible.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 19:32, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate it. I know ArbCom doesn't handle content disputes, but I guess I'm curious to know where the line is between a content dispute and a editor conflict. I've never found myself in a situation like this, and I respect your expertise.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 19:55, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dear DGG, we actually had quite a discussion about COI editing at my talk page. What I said was that when you follow the rules and fully comply, you actually suffer from what Melcous labeled as "more heavily scrutinized" (moderation). My view is that the current practice of such super-scrutinized editing of paid articles strongly discourages paid editors from following the process, pushes them to the grey area and also makes the life of paid-editing fighters more difficult as the volume of such edits and practices increase.
It also frustrates clients who are persuaded to follow the rules. One case where I had a greatly frustrated client was The National Memo case where the article has been rolled back 3 times and currently exists in a highly castrated form (more like a stub now). I had to return part of the payment and apologize. Had these edits been made from the single-purpose account, they'd most likely stayed. At the same time we have a lot of articles where large parts of the text go completely unreferenced and it is perfectly OK. Please don't remind me about WP:OSE, I think we both know what I am talking about.
I also noticed that around 70% of articles about lawyers and law firms were created from WP:SPAs (not necessarily through the AfC). This is an area where the demand is high and commercial interest is very obvious (lawyers earn big money). Editors probably understand that they won't be able to publish such articles the official way simply because people hate lawyers and Wikipedia editors hate paid edits. So the demand is here and shortcuts are pretty obvious. This practice also gives paid editors 1-2 week period to get their payment before the article gets deleted (if that happens). I've also seen some of the articles for the potential clients where they decided not to work with me and go for such shortcuts. All of them were made from single-purpose accounts.
Having said that I want to highlight that I truly understand some of these paid editing "watchdogs" and know that they want to make the project better. I only noticed that these edits rarely add value to the article, they are almost always just in "delete, delete, delete" mode (Melcous is a nice exception from this rule - they actually re-write the text and try to preserve content that has some value). So instead of fighting large amounts of quite clear undeclared edits, moderators spend their time on editing "easy targets" doing it easy way. One possible solution could be inviting some "inclusionists" for the improvement or having a broader discussion about such articles before editing. Hope it helps. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:10, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
To be clear, I'm advocating dealing with the SPAs, especially the sock SPAs, rather than relaxing the attitude. Blocking open proxies and VPNs would be an excellent first step. While it sometimes seems counterproductive to bother the disclosed PEs more than the undisclosed ones, disclosing cannot be a carte blanche to write promotional stuff. Bbarmadillo, you might want to correct the quote above. It misrepresents what I said a little. NPP != AfC. Thanks. Rentier (talk) 02:16, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Along the lines of what has been said by Rentier: From my perspective, the solution is to more vigorously remove the articles by the obviously undeclared paid editors, snd to raise the standards for all articles. There is ongoing progress here: We are in the process of tightening up our reliable source requirements for organizations, and a strict interpretation of them deal with at least the lower third. We are once more considering an increase in the number of edits to get confirmed status, (Unfortunately but necessarily, ACTRIAL will be entering the test phase where new editors can edit in mainspace, and this will cause a move of the problems from AfC to NewPages.) We are also considering ways to facilitate people reporting instances of paid editing, or approaches to their business by undeclared paid editors.
Even so, the problem of dealing with the hundreds of thousands of press releases masquerading as articles submitted in earlier years when standards were lower and people were less vigilant is a very difficult one, but not hopeless. We did manage to source or remove about 80,000 unsourced BLPs in a year back in 2010; we could probably screen all organization and organization articles in 2 or 3 years starting with the oldest if there were more people interested in doing this.
The problem with even declared paid editing is NPOV. Some other declared paid editors have told me that their clients are reluctant to accept NPOV articles: they want advertisements. This has been confirmed by recent examples on-wiki, and by the nature of the arguments and many afds. It's also my experience that for those writing both paid and volunteer articles, the volunteer articles are better. It should be possible for us to find a way for paid editors to do more work in providing information for people writing articles. For example, we've been trying for many years with little success to persuade companies to provide freely licensed pictures of their notable products. But what is also needed is more volunteers interested in working on business topics.
Ultimately, I do not expect the measures I've mentioned or anything else now in view will completely solve the problem. They will help it. I'm going to make a guess that it will reduce the problem for incoming articles to half the present. Unfortunately, that will probably be matched by an increase in such articles for even smaller businesses. and for some currently under-represent countries.
The only way to solve the problem completely is to eliminate paid editing. The only way to eliminate paid editing is to require some sort of secure confidential identification for at least some types of articles. That would be a major change in the basic principle of Wikipedia, and would not currently be supported. Perhaps it will never be feasible to even discuss it in the future, because of the need to preserve privacy at least here external pressure. DGG ( talk ) 18:44, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Kesari Tours article has been deleted from Wikipedia because it was repeatedly recreated for promoting Kesari Tours in the past (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kesari Tours). If you go through the content written by me, I have not mentioned about any awards and achievements of Kesari Tours as mentioned in the past articles. I have completely referred to facts and figures mentioned in the news sites and they don't intend to promote Kesari Tours. I have cross checked the articles mentioned in the past and I completely agree that they were misleading and inappropriate. My objective of creating Kesari Tours on Wikipedia is to lead audience with appropriate facts and figures rather than mislead them. I am quite aware about the guidelines for creating an article on Wikipedia and I have always tried to stick around with the facts. It will be really helpful if you can review the content written by me and further guide me to edit the content which can be further reviewed by you before I upload it on Wikipedia. It will be a learning for an aspiring Wikipedia contributor as well.
I am also putting forward this request because in India many people get their tickets booked from Kesari Tours and we can also add a column of criticism where we can include a couple of fraud cases that customers have faced. At the end of the day, Wikipedia should be able to spread correct information. I am an independent contributor and I don't support any organization. Hence I am not a supporter of Kesari Tours but I want audience in India to be informed about the presence of this firm just like all the other companies. All of my statements are supported by news facts. As said before, I will edit the article as per your guidance and going forward I can keep monitoring the page to avoid addition of any wrong information or promotional content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gadgetsgigs (talk • contribs) 09:27, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello sir, did you have the opportunity to go through the article? Kindly check and let me know how to edit it so that it can be put together again. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gadgetsgigs (talk • contribs) 13:22, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
one or two them are ones I would delete/merge myself. Even for schools, and even for the way I think about school articles, there is such a thing as sub-minimal. DGG ( talk ) 00:44, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment on Speedy Deletion of Page
I feel that the page for Asumoh Enyiema was unjustly deleted. Asumoh is notably referenced in multiple maintstream publication web sites like NY Post, TMZ, NY Daily News. Asumoh is also a social media influencer. There a plenty of social media influencers on Wikipedia already. I feel that the information of his background is relevant and should be a good addition to Wikipedia. One more thing I have to say is that I have gotten flagged for my username utsolutions. My real name is Malik Hosier. I have had the same email address utsolutions@yahoo.com since 1998. Utsolutions goes back to a nickname "Tiny". I had back in the 90's. I would gladly change my username to MHosier to comply with Wikipedia guidelines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Utsolutions (talk • contribs) 14:08, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
General question here, do you find this person to be notable enough for an standalone article? I recently split the Self-enucleation article and Wikipedia editors tend to apply NOTNEWS for deletion of such things particularly due to its recentism. After researching self-enucleation, it is among the rarest form of self-harm on average 1 in 30 million [41], bilateral is significantly more rare about 1 in 90 million. It occurs more commonly in men than women, as far as I can find, this female is the only cases to hit mainstream media (a thorough search might find more), and one of bilateral enucleation. Due to the rarity do you think she is notable for a stand alone? Valoemtalkcontrib19:18, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
the interest is in the fact of someone having done it. Not having an article on her is in my opinion a reasonable application of ONEEVENT. A redirect is reasonable,and I made it. DGG ( talk ) 23:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I can see your message in my talk page regarding Laura Meakin's Article for deletion. Could you please guide me how I can improve to avoid deletion. Also, now the article can only be edited by the administrator. May I know how I can contact the administrator so they can edit it? Laura Meakin has done a lot of work in film and drama industry. I can provide you the resources of her work.
I am the administrator who protected it against re-creation. There's actually nothing you can do to improve the article enough for inclusion, because her career is not yet significant enough for her to be notable for the purposes of an encyclopedia. it's up to her
Hi DGG, can you take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jesse Waugh (2nd nomination). I sent it to AfD, and it has devolved into a Bludgeon fest, with at least one of the !Keep editors having Canvassed. The !keep editors have participated in less than 50 AfDs each (with the most confident of them, only voting with consensus 47% of the time), and it seems like they are forcefully attempting to claim a rather different set of expectations around Artist 4(b) than I have seen elsewhere at AfD. Furthermore, the Bludgeoning seems to have discouraged any new voices from participating. Your experienced and impartial advice is welcome, either here, or on the AfD. --Theredproject (talk) 14:22, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Obits...
When nothing but obits are cited, (some of which are in national RS) is that acceptable for notability of a recently deceased person who was a local social justice advocate 20 years ago? Just needing a gage for future reference. Atsme📞📧02:22, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It depends on the source. I trust full editorial obits in the NYT (after 1896) and the London Times. I am unsure about any other paper in those two countries for recent years, however reliable they may be for other purposes. There are other papers I trust for various parts of the 18th thru early 20th centuries. There are presumably equivalent ones in other countries, but I am less familiar with their standards.
An increasingly common problem with all newspapers, including the NYT, (and some National biographies) is their coverage of representative people, rather than important people, for obits and otherwise. This has not yet infected the NYT obit section.
Another problem is the focus of the NYT in the early 20th century upon high society figures. This tends to affect more the wedding coverage, but they are what people paid attention to back them. I'm not sure how to handle that aspect. DGG ( talk ) 03:31, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Fair use of abstracts
The older catalogues I've seen reproduce abstracts freely, and so do many modern catalogues and publishers. But I've heard, unreliably, claims that abstracts can't be used under fair use, although I can't find any source for that online. Does Wikimedia have a policy on this? Could we store an abstract of a copyrighted work in Wikidata? HLHJ (talk) 03:58, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am uncertain whether using them in WP would be considered fair use in US law, but they are indeed often used as if they were; use in WP in particular might well be considered sufficiently transformative. However, actual Wikipedia policy is very much more restrictive. Under the current enWP rules for free content in the English Wikipedia, WP:NFCC, I cannot see how they would be permissible for use in an enWP article.
All projects are bound by the general WMF copyright policy--the enWP policy is a permitted exemption under that policy. I do not know whether Wikidata has considered a corresponding policy exemption--it would obviously have to be different than that of enWP and tailored to their particular purposes, and I cannot even guess whether the foundation would consider it acceptable . DGG ( talk ) 04:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
In the interim I did find one mention of abstract fair use online; here, scroll down to section 5.
I can't imagine they could be used in the article text; I was thinking of using them purely as a resource for searching for references in the bibliographic database being created on Wikidata, Wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData (which many expect to eventually become its own project, like Wikisource or Wikiquote). My own private bibliographic database mostly contains abstracts, because it makes it much easier to find the reference I need to cite.
Wikidata appears not to have copyright policy exemptions.[42] So it looks to me like this is something to discuss later as a possible exemption for a bibliographic database project, if I've understood correctly.
Hello, David Goodman, with regard to the recent speedy deletion, I am curious whether you read the TALK page prior to the action? If so, could you elaborate upon the rationale for your decision? If not, can I provide those TALK points on this page? Thank you.
Hello DGG, Thank you for reviewing our article as well as the information and guidance you offered.
I'm very interested in having the tags removed from the article once it adheres to Wikipedia's guidelines and policies. Please let me know if there is any way I can help speed this process.
Hi, I contested the speedy deletion tag there. I'm going to give it another shot in draft space to address the concerns, but before I do, I was just curious about the speedy deletion process as well as any tips you might have to avoid another deletion. Calm Omaha (talk) 12:29, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Uruthikol
I just nominated Uruthikol as G11 - article creator is User_talk:Chennai_Information_Updater who appears to be a paid editor promoting films. I also just did a G11 Udhayan (film) by same user (the Reception section was copied to the film promo on YouTube. Not sure how best to handle the User name which appears to be business related or the repeated promo material and thought it best to bring it here. I saw where you previously deleted some of this user's promo material. Atsme📞📧11:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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International Journal of Statistics and Medical Informatics
Hello DGG, I have noticed several SPA's adding thinly-veiled cite spam for this "journal" (in Clinical data management and a few other topics) and have reverted these additions. The added site is www.ijsmi.com. As you have a lot more experience with academia-related topics, would you mind taking a look at this site please to double-check my assessment? Despite its fancy title and nice layout the site's editorial team consists of 1 member named "Editor IJSMI" who is also the author of all articles (see author list on site). I am pretty sure this is not a reliable academic source per our RS guidelines, but a second opinion would be great if you got a bit of time. GermanJoe (talk) 09:53, 9 April 2018 (UTC)Recheck[reply]
Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
The 100 Skins of the Onion
Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.
Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.
Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.
Red onion cross section
From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.
It's amazing, and impressive. So impressive that one can forget the individual data points are false binaries. I've discussed it in a little more detail at WP:Articles for deletion/Alexander Friedmann-Hahn. As the method is very likely to be used again, I'll try to give yet a fuller analysis. If not at this afd, at another. DGG ( talk ) 05:30, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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On 4 April 2018 in an AfD for Jan Allen, you wrote: "Admittedly, curators are difficult to document unless they had published works that would qualify as NAUTHOR or NPROF,, but important curators do just that. The minor publications shown here do not." A few day later, in an AfD on ALexander-Friedmann-Hahn, you wrote: "We have no workable standards for gallerists. It is not just a business in the ordinary sense, but one of the auxiliary professions that facilitate the fine arts. Considering their significance in that professional network, I think we should be very liberal here; I would say the same about similar auxiliary professions in other fields, such as music and science. It's the nature of such professions to be overshadowed by the artists etc. they serve, and I've always thought we should interpret the GNG standards in line with the nature of available sources in the field." Earlier, you had commented in an AfD about Casey Caplan "I continue to disagree that the mere fact the art shows take place at a particular art gallery make either of them notable."
I am still working it out, to be honest. There was a sentence that I wrote for the last AfD "This is somewhat different from my earlier position."; I in the end omitted it to avoid confusion; I see I should have left it in. In trying to figure out what to do, I will deliberately try to make a case for various positions to seewhat convinces me or others. AfD needs to experiment a little before it settles down -- premature guidelines are often a lasting error.
The increasing number of articles (and discussions) on fine arts, partly the result of Art+Feminism and related projects are showing our need for clearer standards. This is especially important because in advising new editors, we need to be able to tell them what is or is not likely to be accepted. That after all is rthe real need--not to decide what we would like to accept, but to guide contributors. Ifthe situation is unstable, as it is now, there's no good way to guide them. I have learned deal with it in editathons etc by telling them to play absolutely safe or their first article. The role of an advisor is to be conservative..
Some particular points:
Galleries vs Gallerists. This is a problem with many similar professions where the business is essentially dependent upon the expertise or reputation of an individual. Rarely is it appropriate to make an article for both unless there's some really special distinction. If it'smulti-generational or a partnership, the choice is easy: the gallery/firm/etc. If the individual has a reputation beyond the particular gallery , then it's easy also--in other words, if he meets WP:PROF as an expert, or WP:AUTHOR. If unsure, I tend to go with the person because its easier to write bio articles.
notability for the shows or the artist because of the gallery There may be some galleries whose selectivity can indicate the artist showing there is notable. It would take some degree of agreement between experts about which they are, and it would be nice if we could find actual sources for this instead of our judgment.
notability for the gallery because of who shows there. This shouldn't be a matter of our judgment--it should take sources.
Sources for notability. There are books about the profession of selling artworks, which do not have the possible bias ofbeing about individual galleries, which would ake good sources. I know more about 19th c. UK, but there should be something available for later periods also.
substantial . We need to stop using mentions as being adequate sources. We've done this in many circumstances before to show notability of clubs etc. There should by now be better sources available. DGG ( talk ) 06:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You recently deleted this page. However, the inventor and entrepreneur is notable, having won over a dozen "highest level" awards in the tech community (Webby's, Apple's "Best of", Time Magazine's "Best Startup CEOs", Business Insider's "Top 100 inventors in Silicon Valley", etc.) - all easily identifiable via a simple web search - and created technology still in use by major corporations including Yahoo! and Apple, with dozens of patent filings and notable sources within online search results and printed materials. He was a pioneer of automating the creation of video from data, as demonstrated via many cited news sources, and awarded patents. Deletion of the page seems unwarranted. The inventor remains a sought after expert, and reference materials on him are helpful to the technology community at large. He has authored articles in major publications including, but not limited to, Newsweek (on page one of his search results), and his inventions have featured prominently inside the pages of MIT technology review, the NY Times, and more. Please restore, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.204.33.38 (talk) 23:31, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
it was deleted by Prod, and therefore I have restored it at your request. Anyone can still send it to WP:AfD if they wish, as that's the place where notability is finally determined. DGG ( talk ) 06:30, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What's ur opinion re viability for a Grant Hardy blp?
After my Ben Park re-creation fiasco, rather than boldly contribute something from the info below in main space, I thought I might ask what political hurdles or ones of a formal nature or moreso of Wikiettiquite I'll likely encounter were I to go ahead and fashion it into in a scholar bio for Grant Hardy.Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Grant_Hardy Closing admins' cough cough counts of delete-!votes I mean weighing of !votes supported by argumentation citing specifically applicable guidelines end with AfD deletes--as it did here--not defaults to keep per no consensus. The milk spilt, since 2012, Hardy has continued to publish, albeit mostly as editor.
Hardy's status aside publications? Regarding wp:PROF's criterion # 6 ("has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution"), the AfD's reflex !voters thought, "Not so much," waving off Hardy's terms as U. of North Carolina Asheville's history chair as insufficiently impressive. (Meanwhile, reflex !voters recently found former head of a newly-stretched-to-for-year local college Joseph Bishop notable solely for his position when at Weber State College.) In any case, Hardy exchanged his history-faculty power center for that of UNC Ashville's director of Humanities.[44]Find sources:Google (books·news·scholar·free images·WP refs) ·FENS·JSTOR·TWL--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 01:44, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
notable as author and historian. Ed. of standard non-LDS edition of Book of Mormon. non-n as academic admin--this only applies to heads of colleges, not depts. Whether it will be accepted is not possible to guess. If you do it, use Draft space and let me know. DGG ( talk ) 04:21, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
remove the minor material, such as funding from ... advisory committee of .. Remove material that is primarily about the company, which has its own article. You should know this sort of thing already. If you're going to do paid editing, be aware that writing a proper WP article requires NPOV, and most people paying for articles don't want that, but would rather include as much flattering material to highlight their importance as they possibly can. DGG ( talk ) 00:48, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DGG, Greetings to you. I am one of the NPP. At times, I move a page back to "draft" space for the creator to further develop the article or provide source, and I do leave a message to their talk page and inform what is needed to improve the page. I encountered a number of cases that the new editor recreate the same article in the main space without changing/improving anything on the article. Since the is a "draft" copy existed and a new "main space" copy is created, I can not re-move the "main space" copy back to the draft space. I need advise on what should I do next and what should happen to the draft copy? Thanks in advance for your assistance. CASSIOPEIA(talk)02:40, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Does Wikipedia expose a review schedule for specific new articles that are still blocked by NOINDEX HTML tag (<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>)?
Hi David,
I think source code of new Wikipedia pages (e.g., 26-Mar-2018 created new article: view-source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemma_Senbet_Fund) have a NOINDEX HTML tag (<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>) for up to 90 days, which makes page invisible to search engines such as Google. Is there a Wikipedia page that shows status (or queue, or schedule, or backlog, or ETA, or reviewing user) of New Page Patrol reviews of any specific new Wikipedia articles? Thank you, sir. - Mary
P.S. I'm not rushing anyone, or asking to prioritize or expedite. I know there are 5.6 million Wikipedia articles, and only a tiny squad of Patrollers. And we (Patrollers, Administrators, Contributors, Editors) are all volunteers. But I really strove in good faith to create a Wikipedia article that met Wikipedia excellent standards (notable, useful, neutral, factual, encyclopedic, supported by 3rd party evidence, referenced, accurate, spam-free, advertisement-free, not vandalism, not hoax, not violate copyright, not defamatory, not exploiting Wikipedia to earn money, not orphaned, etc). I'm just trying to learn how to see review status.
There is no schedule for reviewing. Everyone who does reviewing works independently on whatever pages they want to--some from the newly submittedarticles, some from the oldest, some picking articles that interest them. DGG ( talk ) 18:11, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(talkpage stalker) I took a look at the page. It's probably a notable topic but the page is not neutrally written. Tagged as such. Legacypac (talk) 20:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Hi Marykartowski, The folks working on the NPP backlog are at the point where the oldest articles we're reviewing are from 25 February at the moment. So the queue is approximately 2,381 long. Lemma Senbet Fund is 2,352 old, so it will likely take (at the very most) Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". days to get reviewed. The problem with the Special:Newpagesfeed is that it's very difficult to find articles that are in the middle of the queue. It's actually pretty unlikely that someone is looking at pages that were submitted in March because they're difficult to navigate to. I've looked at the article and decided to skip it. I have no idea what to do with it. My recommendation would be to remove words like "prestigious", "top tier", "hand-picked", "prolific", "rigorous", "leverages", "in-depth". In fact, I'd suggest avoiding adverbial phrases entirely. Vexations (talk) 21:03, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Request To Review
Hello!
I am a student at UC Berkeley and have created an article on ResistBot for a class assignment. I noticed you have done some work on founder Eric Ries' article and thought you might potentially be able to offer some constructive feedback on my work. If you know of any other users who could also lend a helping hand, that would also be appreciated! Sweet inaara (talk) 20:27, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
some factors to consider: watch out for WP:Close paraphrase, in this case with Recode; Recode publishes both technology news and material indistinguishable from technology press releases; interviews with the founder of the company especially in local media do not show notability and are not really reliable for anything other than what the founder wishes to say. See WP:NCORP; because of that factor I am not sure about the actual notability of either this program or of Ries (WP can be rather skeptical about the notability of people who have done a little bit of a number of different things). The program will be more clearly notable if it becomes discussed to a significant extent on mainstream national media. DGG ( talk ) 22:29, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Zenni Optical
Hey! I'd like to stick you with a question about Zenni Optical; the article was created three times, with the latest creation having been blanked by the author and subsequently moved to draftspace. The cross-namespace redirect was logically deleted, however, the draft remained abandoned and got deleted as well shortly after. Recently, the people behind the company asked me to restore and enhance their article, wherefore I started Draft:Zenni Optical using the deleted article and rewrote it using reliable sources only (I'm only not entirely sure about the reliability of MoneyCrashers.com, but it comes in handy for me to cite negative reception). Obviously, the article needs some oversight before it is published, and since I noted that you creation-protected, I wondered if you could do a double action for the draft: For once, could you check whether the article reads neutrally and whether it needs and work before being able to be published (Notability should be established through several sources that go in-depth with the topic, e.g. in the form of reviews). Secondly, as I meantioned, the target article is creation-protected; as such, if the presented draft is satisfactory, could you lift that protection and move the draft to mainspace? Thanks! Lordtobi (✉) 17:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
please abridge the sale section: the place to find out the details is their web site.(But it is not clear if the $6.95 is for the frame, or complete glasses) Remove quotes from the company. We only include the CEO, not other officers. Replace most of the uses of the company name with "The firm" or "The company" or "It". Then let me know. And some of the pluses and minus obviously apply to all mail-order glasses: we may need an article on the concept. Remember to declare your involvement on the talk page. DGG ( talk ) 19:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hey again, I trimmed the sale section like you asked and removed two mentions of "Zenni Optical" from the history section, though I cannot fit "the company" everywhere given that I'm talking about multiple companies at times. Paid involvement notice is already present on the talk page.
Regarding the inclusion of officers in the infobox, what makes you say that we only include the CEO? From what I see on most articles, the people most relevant to the company (can extend over many titles, not just CEO) are usually included; our guideline also states that we should use "Up to four key individuals closely associated with the company" and provides an example with more than just the CEO. Because of this, I think it should be justified to include the three people that are mentioned in sources (you can see commented out two further people that are addressed by the company but never in sources, and as such excluded). That's also the way I'd put it in unpaid articles. Lordtobi (✉) 09:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
our practice is to only include below the ceo for a really major company (e.g., there are some executives at companies like Alphabet who even have separate articles). The general approach I think should be parallel to WP:EINSTEIN. When you see it elsewhere, it is likely to be the results of promotional editing--it would be fair to say that at least half our articles on companies are unsatisfactory , because standards in the past were lower and very few reliable editors really paid attention to this field except for some areas of special interest like computers and automobiles.
a little more generally, the infobox guidelines and listings of permissible fields were particular loose in earlier years, but people are now paying infoboxes much more attention, and some of them are already been cleaned up a little.
Looked at in a different way, there is a difference between what you can get away with and what is best practice. When I give advice, I always give the safest and most conservative advice. Anything else would be unfair to people who do as I suggest and might be challenged. And it is important to recognize that the effective standards are considerable higher for paid editing. Whether this is right or wrong may be open to question, but at the moment, that's the way people look at it.
I think that position on how to cover key people in the infobox is more your opinion than common usage, but since every editor may have an opinion, I fixed the issue to not have it stand in the way of getting the article out there. Lordtobi (✉) 18:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm eagerly awaiting your response. The draft has stood still for a couple weeks now, and IMO should be ready to be published given that all your issues have been addressed. As I stated, the target page was creation-protected ny you back in February and it'd be great if you could unlock it and move the draft there. Lordtobi (✉) 08:33, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think it will be more helpful if I post my comment where anyone else who would be reviewing the article could see it. I added it to the draft. Any admin can of course accept it if they disagree with my views about the work of paid editors, generally and in this instance. . DGG ( talk ) 09:14, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Kosie Marais
Good day DGG
Your comment of today 26 April 2018 refers. I have added more citations specifically to show notability, regarding his Brandy, still made to his recipe today claiming world-wide recognition.
Hi DGG. I'm not sure I can address the local nature of Hope Services as they only operate in Northern California. I did add an incident that is currently in national sport news regarding an NFL player sexually assaulting a Hope Services client sent to interview for a babysitting job. The trial is currently in progress, but has generated significant news coverage. It isn't exactly the focus of the wikipedia article but if it needs to be added to get over the notability hump then ok. As for the lack of citations I've expanded them further. Let me know if this is what you are looking for. Thanks - Stephen Inoue Riptide360 (talk) 18:36, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Riptide360 (talk) 18:36, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
not yet. First, remove adjectives. Second, tho the material on the change of emphasis in Mormon studies is interesting -- and new to me -- don't use it as the opening paragraph--focus on him, and find a way to say it somewhere in the article. Third, cut down on the quotes. Forth ,, cut down on the infobox--too many thingsare specified. DGG ( talk ) 03:03, 20 April 2018 (UTC)�[reply]
Okey doke.
rmvd gaudy bauble - & its sourcing - "seminal"[45]
mvd intro prgf re development of field to its own section below[46] <along w sm other stuff added to it in later edits>
incorporate a lot more paraphrasing[47], [48], &c.
Ya done as a copypaste... I've requested a history merge or someone can delete the page and move it properly. The Draft talkpage notes should also carry over to the mainpage. Legacypac (talk) 21:13, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Move as you like--I will do the necessary further editing in mainspace. I dealt with one of the long quotations; I remain concerned about the others. I point out once more that if it is desired to keep the article, it helps to make it modest and unexceptional. DGG ( talk ) 00:01, 25 April 2018 (UTC) .[reply]
Thanks, David. Taking a hint, after copy'n'pasting in a balancing Qt here - diff -, in the next edit I went ahead and tagged the blp with template:Quotefarm.
The article's lede paragraph contains "students claimed not to experience the lessons as over-intensive, but actually enjoyable and exciting" and name-dropping about celebrities who have hired Thomas. The article contains almost entirely detailed descriptions of the content of the lessons, puffery about their virtues, promotional quotations, and a very detailed "List of available courses" and their authors. This is as promotional as an article can get, and I consider it a textbook example of the proper use of G11. We have an article on Thomas, and I need to check it for similar. DGG ( talk ) 20:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed with addressing the deletion of Gunter Bechly? I submitted a request at WP:DRN but it was closed because it was supposedly "out of scope." Nobody seems to care about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines in this matter, but every dispute resolution option I'm reading about seems to suggest that there is no way to redress an illegitimate consensus.Snoopydaniels (talk) 12:55, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I have a recommendation, the same one as before. Wait until I (or someone similarly experienced and not overly-committed to the issue) write a replacement article. Probably in 6 or 8 months, which is the time scale I use in such cases where re-creation is needed. I see aa perceived need to do it rapidly as over-committment. DGG ( talk ) 19:47, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
An editor AlexTheWhovian (talk·contribs) claims these two article are not ready for mainspacing. A far as I know there is no rule that creating a sourced article is bold. His revert appears to be bold and against consensus as another editor has already thanked me for my edits. The discussion is here. Can you please return this to main space, I cannot do it because of the over edits It appears three editors there have already agreed with me. Valoemtalkcontrib15:03, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WP:CANVAS: Canvassing is notification done with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way, and is considered inappropriate. -- AlexTW15:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There is no discussion therefore canvassing is impossible. When an experienced editor asks an admin to mainspace an article it is not canvassing. Both Another Believer and Galobtter all came to the article on their own. Valoemtalkcontrib15:14, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Canvassing is posting on other user's talk pages to sway a discussion, instead of a neutral talk page. When a more active editor gives you suggestions, I recommend you take them on. -- AlexTW15:16, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There is no discussion therefore no canvassing. I moved a draft article into main space with admin support. Three editors stated you are wrong here, DGG is an arbcom member often asked to resolve disputes. Valoemtalkcontrib15:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Valoem, my being in arb com has nothing at all to do with content disputes. Skill in content building is not one of the things considered in elections, arb com has no direct authority over content, and arb com will not directly intervene in content disputes until they become so heated that conduct is also involved.
The reason I am sometimes asked to review content problems is because I participate widely at AfD and similar discussions, and therefore know in most fields not just the guidelines but the actual present consensus. I can therefore try to give advice that reflects not my own opinion, but what will or will not be accepted.
It seems to me that we have articles about individual episodes on many major shows. Whether we ideally should or not, we do. The question is whether Westworld is a sufficiently major show. Considering how sources like the NYT discuss each episode both in advance but afterwards, I think it is. If anyone wants to try afd, they can, but I think AfD will give a result of keep. In fact, I m was surprised to see that we don't already have articles on the most important characters), because we do have them on some similar shows. DGG ( talk ) 16:57, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
As always your input is appreciated. I also have had issues with editors going from 0 to 100. I asked Graeme to main space the article and immediately Alex makes canvassing accusations which I don't appreciate, there was not even a discussion opened. In these cases I do not feel ANI is worth it due to how time consuming it is, I generally turn to the opinions of editors who I find knowledgeable. If you believe the article is worthy, can you mainspace it again for me. I cannot as edits on top require deleting the redirect. Valoemtalkcontrib17:12, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm getting tremendously confused here. Do I need consensus to create an article? Isn't creating then AfDing the proper procedure? It's strange the resistance I'm getting regarding an article on an episode of Westworld. Can someone main space it? Valoemtalkcontrib17:03, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
W concern academic authors, by what rough measures do you, as an editor, decide whether his or her work has: been cited/reviewed enough? received prestigious enough of awards? &c &c--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 00:36, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I use two standards.
Awards is relatively straightforward: the highest national or international level in the field.
Publications:
1. the level of work which would qualify for full professorship or at least tenure at a research university of the very highest standing. In the traditional humanities that is usually two books by a major academic publisher. For sciences, it goes by citations, and it varies by subject.
2. Comparison with others in the field., especially those with such positions.
Books, as such: being the leading or one of the leading books in the subject, as judged primarily by library holdings (and to some extent by citations--allowing for the very long time lag.) DGG ( talk ) 06:37, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I should mention that with respect to Marsden, I just gave the opinion at the AfD that his books need further checking to show notability as an academic, as some seem of more general rather than scholarly interest, but they certainly do show notability as WP:AUTHOR. DGG ( talk ) 23:12, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wow. Thank you so so so very much for your expertise, D.
Listen: Most folks on WP won't be able to do much in the way of making effective examinations among these criteria. Wdn't it be great if some techie around here designed an um...algorithm(?)...that could crunch all this into some matrix of variables, each scored? (Come to think - Maybe A/I could edit WP. A topic for another day.)
Up the page (or somewhere else), you mentioned you find the history of the Mormon sub-discipline of Religious studies somewhat of interest.
Mormonism is a new religion, the more academically inclined studies of which especially intertwine with historiographic considerations. In any case, the old dichotomy, until the new Religious studies paradigm really came to the fore, was that between
The former: those non-affiliated with Latter Day Saint Restorationism, whether sectarian or secular, who hold that the B. of M. was a fiction by the mountebank J.S. Jr.
The latter: Mormon or Community of Christ, who hold that it is a divine history revealed through the Prophet Joseph.
Among exemplars of the former: Jerald Tanner (1938-2006; Protestant); Fawn M. Brodie (1915-1981; secular academic).
Exemplars of the latter: Hugh Nibley (1910-2005; BYU); whoever was an analogue within the Community of Christ, out of Independence, Missouri.
The new dichotomy covers the above terrain but sifts it according according to the two categories below. (It operates in addition to the above dichotomy, making for four qaudrants (two to the second power, of course).)
Stuff publishable by e.g. Oxford University Press (i.e., "Religious studies"), which politely bracket whatever faith traditions' truth claims.
Among exemplars of the latter: (1) the original Maxwell Institute (2) Interpreter journal, Provo, Utah (3) many in the Restoration branches movement (who broke off from the Community of Christ over its becoming too Religion studies tolerant) (4) various anti-cults publishers, many from out of Nashville, Tennessee.
Where does Brigham D. Madsen fit in? In my opinion, likely up there in that quadrant alongside Fawn Brodie, in that Brig wasn't careful enough to phrase his thinking in such a way as not to offend the LDS donor class (which funds both the three fully funded Mormon studies chairs, both the old and new iterations of the Maxwell Institure, the Interpreter journal folks, etc. etc.)
How about poor William J. Hamblin of BYU? (fully belonging in the original BYU-etc. quadrant)? There are lots of BYU profs who are moderate in their positions but Hamblin is of the old guard, "famous" as a public intellectual w lots of online back and forth in vociferous support of this opinion or that, and he co-founded alongside Peterson lots of things. Yet Hamblin himself doesn't initiate many of these forays, he was and is more of a follow-on-er, I think. Yet: Beloved by students and fellow faculty. Doesn't publish (secularly). Hence, within the new BYU paradigm, remains un-tenured as a prof of history. Yet IMHO he ought squeak by, per wp:PROF's "Academics/professors meeting none of these conditions may still be notable if they meet the conditions of WP:BIO or other notability criteria, and the merits of an article on the academic/professor will depend largely on the extent to which it is verifiable. [...T]his guideline sets the bar fairly low, which is natural: to a degree, academics live in the public arena, trying to influence others with their ideas."--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 21:41, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 About the necessary expertise : It does take some idea of the academic /scientific world to judge in that area, just as is the case with articles on sport or music or computers. Even politics requires some knowledge of what's going on in the world. But one can judge the books part who knows which publishers are serious academic publishers--and this can be seen discussed in AfD debates and simply by reading WP and seeing where the references come from. Anyone at WP can see which awards are important by our usual analysis of seeing who has received them. Journal article citations to be evaluated properly require some knowledge of what the standards are in the subject, but here again AfD debates are a good guide, together with the comparisons I mentioned. Nobody at WP can judge notability in any area at all who does not know our standards, and the effective way to learn is to follow AfD and Deletion Review. DGG ( talk )
2 a/ WP:BIO sets the bar low only for those academics who do take part in public policy and the like, which is not most of them. b/ But it's no lower than for any other pundit or commentator c/we have fortunately been getting a little more rigorous about pundits and commentators. d/ many, I hope most, public academics are also notable by WP:PROF DGG ( talk ) 23:27, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And you know as well as I that there's a medium-small minority of WPedians who refuse to believe that any topic in religion is worth an article, except for debunking it. Fortunately, there are many fewer of them than 8 or 10 years ago. DGG ( talk ) 23:27, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
cmt - I see your point re learning the ropes by following AfD's. Ppl can learn a lot of hinky stuff there too, sometime, though. Heck, maybe a "Check yes or no" bubble could pop up asking "Does your nomination or !vote avoid these arguments?" before their windows opens up for contributors to type in their nom, commentary, or whatever. Hmm, that's a thought.
cmt - Seeing Hamblin's quandary
The academic policy of BYU is to reward publications that have national or international merit. The catch phrase is publications “outside the BYU bubble.” I support this policy. And, indeed I have published books with HarperCollins, Rutledge, and Thames and Hudson, all academic presses with international reputations. The unintended consequence of this policy, however, is that (for whatever reasons) certain LDS-related topics–like studies affirming the historicity of the BOM, the prophetic authenticity of JS, apologetics, etc–will not be published by secular university presses and journals. Hence they cannot be published in non-LDS publications. This policy has nothing to do with a repudiation of apologetics or the Book of Mormon. It has to do with the attempt to raise the academic reputation of BYU. The problem is, if such studies are not done at BYU, they will simply not be done at all. Hence the catch-22. I edit and publish with Interpreter. BYU administrators inform me that I should publish in other venues. They are doing so in a sincere effort to guide my academic activities to meet BYU policy. There is nothing insidious about it. The result, however is that if I publish with FARMS or Interpreter, I am considered to have low productivity, because publications count as scholarly only if published outside the BYU bubble. ---link
make me see academia as an aviary. BYU doesn't wanna be "pecked" by the academical flock as an institution of unknown academic bonefides so in turn "pecks" idiosyncratic scholar Bill. (He may well have continued on as editor of Interpreter, though, in which case he would seem to satisfy whatever the qualifying category @ wp:PROF in that regard ?no?)--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:08, 30 April 2018 (UTC) His co-authored book has been cited over a hundred times per Google Scholar.--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:45, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
co-authorship involves determining whether one person has the principle responsibility, and which author that person is. . As this is sometimes difficult for us to do, we sometimes tend to not to rate co-authored books as highly as if there had been only one author. In examining citations to a book, it is necessary to determine their nature--often they are just included in a bibliography of all books published. There is no simple formula. Determining notability must either involve analysis & judgement, or use an arbitrary level. The most recent example I know is NCORP, where we now specific various criteria in detail for the key words substantial & independent instead of our earlier practice in accepting anything that looks like 3rd party. There are advantages to each method. DGG ( talk ) 19:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Erratum: Hamblin's '06 Routledge historical pub Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History was solo-authored.[51]
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Hi DGG, from the few administrators I have come across, you are the only active one I can think of who could advice me on this. There is an onging attempt to purge Wikipedia of Baba related articles. Given the scarcity of reliable independent sources some may have to go. My concern however is on a strange or maybe uneducated COI claim made by the nominator to User talk:Dazedbythebell#Note. Now this user states on his user page that he is a follower of Meher Baba. Since there is no organization sanctioning Baba followers, this is much like one saying I am a follower of Plato or Aristotle. Yet there is a COI warning that this user should not edit Baba related articles. Much of the logic used is that all these articles are promo spam and therefore a Baba follower should "refrain from pursuing promotional activities over here" or one may be banned or topic restricted. Now this is equivalent to credo policing. I may laugh, but it also has to be acted upon and I am not sure what is best to do. Simply "call in an admin"? How does one stop such a COI claim? Reason with persons who simply sees "cult cruft" at the sound of Meher Baba? I tried but all I got is "sources please" (period). I do not state I am a Baba follower, but if I do? Why should I then be exempt from editing these articles? Isn't this credo policing? Thank you. HoverfishTalk20:28, 10 May 2018 (UTC) Done[reply]
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Hi DGG, I would like to take the next step towards re-opening the Genesis Mining stub. Please see our previous discussion from 5th February 2018. As you recommended, we have created an article about the company and I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at it in my colleague’s sandbox: User:MiaMlnr/sandbox
It is very basic, and further edits should be done by the Wikipedia community. Do you think it would be possible to lift the protection?
20:48:35, 11 May 2018 review of submission by OAKS222
I resubmitted the draft -- Here I just want to say what changes I made.
First, I tried to remove all the "tribute to Legéndy" remarks; also I added a few more explanatory notes to the scientific discussion, to make the essay more informative to encyclopedia readers. I addressed your four instructions as follows:
(1) I cut the early part of the biography to its bare bones --
(2) I included the two engineering firms referred to: ITT Avionics and Singer-Kearfott (now part of Marconi Electronic Systems) --
(3) I moved away from the discussion of individual papers, and grouped the research-related sections by subject matter, with the published papers only cited where they were relevant for supporting various statements. In the process, I greatly shortened the text and left out a few of the research items that I thought were less interesting to the readers. --
(4) The "nonstandard career" description mainly refers to Legéndy's neuroscience work, as the physics work (on helicons) is essentially made up of papers that came out of Legéndy's doctoral dissertation at the Cornell Physics Department.
-- In regard to helicons, the most complimentary third-party comment I can mention is from Boswell, the man whose discoveries changed the helicon phenomenon from an obscure little footnote to plasma physics into a veritable goldmine. The "Boswell 1970" reference (in its "Preface to the internet edition" section, dated August 2004) includes the sentence: "Charles Legendy, one of the real pioneers of the helicon game, has..."
-- In the neuroscience field I included a citation from Donald Hebb, a big-name contributor to psychology and neuroscience. In Hebb (1976) he cites the brain capacity estimate from Legéndy (1967) in the introduction.
-- The other third-party citation I included in the neuroscience field was on the "Poisson surprise test." It is from Gourévitch and Eggermont (2007) which offers a critique of the test (which I mention in the new Wikipedia draft), but puts that in perspective in the Abstract, which states that "the Poisson-surprise (PS) method [of Legéndy and Salcman, 1985] has been widely used for 20 years"; and in the "Discussion" section, which states: "The PS method ... has been the most widely used method of burst detection ..."
Most of the material in the physics section should be moved to the article on helicons, leaving just the work he did himself; as for the neuroscience , it is necessary to separate his notable work (as judged by citations) from his miscellaneous work, instead of treating it all similarly. I will see what I can do. DGG ( talk ) 02:45, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You might be interested in the actual statute at issue: [52]. It is, IMO, out of date. I have had to apply for a Norwich Pharmacal order before now, and in the application I had to show evidence that the person had likely committed an offence. This was one of the two for which I provided evidence, the other was Section 1 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 [53]. Once I had my NPO and had proof of the person's identity, they immediately stopped, so I never had to press either charge. However, I did read a ton of material on tort law including the unlamented libel laws, now thankfully replaced with something far better in the Defamation Act 2013. Anyway, as a result of all this I am slightly less fundamentalist about free speech than I was, having lived through a nutter posting wank fantasies about murdering my children. And this wasn't even a racist - he was a fundamentalist anti speed enforcement zealot. Guy (Help!) 20:25, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DGG, you have cleaned up some inappropriate prior edits from my predecessors at Lookout. I am trying to vindicate the page by doing things properly/neutrally. Can you help? This is the proposed draft that we would like reviewed.
Thank you for the (May 18) improvements to the “Draft: Charles Rudolf Legéndy” article. Yes, I should have thought of that, you are right to move some of the helicon paragraphs to the “Helicons (physics)” article.
If it’s OK, I also moved one other paragraph (the one beginning with “One property of the waves..”), because without it the next paragraph (“The practical significance..”) does not make sense. And in the place where that paragraph was I did not leave a void, but left some of the “surface mode” text in place and added some more to it, tying the physics to the efficient plasma generation — because predicting the surface mode was one of Legéndy’s main helicon contributions.
If it’s all right, I also added to the “Legéndy is best known for..” paragraph (at the beginning of the article) that helicons are also used in nuclear fusion reactors and in space propulsion. Both of these items have now been moved to the “Helicons” article, and yet they are also a legitimate addition to the “Legéndy is best known for” paragraph.
I had not finished. In rewriting, I work in incremental stages. He did not discover helicons--he contributed to their theoretical explanation. But he did not do any of the work involving their use for nuclear fusion reactors or space propulsion,-(for that matter, nobody has yet actually used them for space propulsion.) So really none of the applied material belongs in his bio at all.
I hadn't started in the neuroscience part yet.When iI do it, I will decide what is worth emphasising on the basis of what has gotten most cited. DGG ( talk ) 02:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Copyvio recommendations for New Pages Feed
Hi DGG -- I'm Marshall Miller; I'm a WMF product manager working on an improvement to the Articles for Creation process. I think you've commented on this effort a couple times, but I wanted to reach out directly to get your feedback on some of the latest open questions. Our current plan is to add AfC drafts to the New Pages Feed, and to score all pages in the feed with copyvio and quality scores. The idea is that this will help both AfC and NPP reviewers prioritize pages that need attention soonest. Adding copyvio indications to all pages in the feed is presenting unexpected technical challenges, and the WMF engineers could definitely use opinions from people who are experienced with copyvio. It would be a big help to our effort if you could take a look at my most recent project update and leave any thoughts on the talk page. In addition to the copyvio parts, we would also definitely value your thoughts on the project as a whole. Thank you! -- MMiller (WMF) (talk) 00:46, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My general view depends on the way it is set up, and I like the new basic arrangement : NPP and AFC are two separate processes, and setting it up as a toggle to choose one or the other is practical way of dealing with it; the reviewer one can concentrate on one process at a time, and avoid confusion from the different standards.
I will look at the details tomorrow and give some comments. But a general comment is that these scores have to be seen as a guide, and as a way of avoiding gross error, not as substitutes for judgment and knowledge of actual practice. The standard for acceptance at AfC is what is likely to pass AfD, not what ought to pass AfD. For NPP too, the standards are what the community currently thinks they are, not what the rules say they are supposed to be. Advice to users has to follow the consensus standard, not try to change it.
Personally, I can adjust to patrolling using whatever is available --I do not expect everything to match my own idiosyncratic pattern. The main thing I am concerned about is to make sure we do not lose important features (what that primarily means to me is that I need to be able to continue to use Special:New Pages) DGG ( talk ) 03:55, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: thank you for the initial thoughts -- and I'm looking forward to your further comments, particularly around copyvio.
To address what you wrote: I'm glad to hear that the changes make good sense at a high level. I totally understand the point about using the scores as a guide and not a substitute for human judgment. As we add things to the interface, we'll be careful to write the language such that it's clear that, for instance, a page is "likely B-class", as opposed to just "B-class". And in terms of the accompanying documentation for how to use the new features, I'm hoping the reviewing community (as opposed to the WMF team) leads the way on the language there, so that no consensus standards are changed. In general, we're going to be careful to only add to the New Pages Feed, and not to remove anything or change peoples' existing workflows. -- MMiller (WMF) (talk) 22:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello DGG, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.
Paid editing - new policy
Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
Subject-specific notability guidelines
The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
Not English
A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.
News
Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.
Moving a Draft to Mainspace for Purpose of Deletion
You may ignore this post if you choose, but User:Legacypac suggested that I ask you. User:Legacypac has frequently, in discussions at Miscellany for Deletion, said that if a draft is not deleted in draft space, it should be moved to article space where it can be nominated for one of the A criteria for speedy deletion or Articles for Deletion. At least, that is what I think they are saying. I haven't actually seen them do that, and maybe there is ancient history that I don't understand. I think that moving a draft to article space that one thinks should be deleted is a terrible idea, and that the place for a page of questionable merit is draft space. In any case, I just tried to ask Legacypac, again, about these statements, this time with regard to Draft:Kopparapu Duo Poets, and was asked to ask you, with the comment that Legacypac thinks that I am trying to get them sanctioned. (At least I think they were implying that I and others are trying to get them sanctioned.) I know that I am not trying to get Legacypac sanctioned, but am asking them to explain a position that they repeatedly express that I am unable to understand or agree with. So: Do you think that sometimes drafts should be promoted, or moved from draft space to article space, in order to open up a mainspace deletion discussion? What is your view? I am not asking what Legacypac thinks. Only Legacypac can explain, and after their unfortunate short-term de-reviewing, they are in a bad mood. If you explain, thank you. If you disagree, thank you for explaining. If you would prefer not to discuss this issue, I will let it drop. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:26, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've tried to explain there is good reasons to move to main to seek deletion before. Please share your thought on this.
Yes, User:Legacypac and User:DGG. I have seen that you, Legacypac, have been a tilt at windmills for two years to the effect that drafts should sometimes be moved into article space to be deleted (as opposed to being moved into article space because they are article-ready, on which we all agree). I would be interested in any supporting opinion. It might not persuade me, but I plan to listen and consider.
How to deal with unsatisfactory AfC drafts is somewhat disputed. My opinion on the current situation is that the general mechanism for removing them is of course MfD. If there is dissatisfaction with a particular MfD decision, there's Deletion Review. If there's a feeling that MfD discussions in general are unreliable, then like any WP process, the remedy is to encourage more participation. If there's a view that additional deletion reasons are needed, then that can be discussed also. The situation is confused enough without being provocative.
There are some instances where it makes sense to take a questionable draft to mainspace and discuss it in an AfD. The standard for acceptance of a draft is officially that it is likely to pass AfD (though I and almost everyone else now considers "likely" to be somewhere in the range of 66 to 90%, not a bare 51%). But such numbers give a false impression of precision: decisions at AfD are inconsistent and unpredictable. In borderline cases, it may be impossible to really give a prediction, and the only way to find out may be to take it there and see. I've done it myself in some cases where there seemed no consistent practice, or an unusual question. But just doing it to get the content deleted is not a good idea.
If a contributor objects to a particular reviewers interpretation, they can submit it again for someone else to review (no reviewer should insist on being the only person to handle a particular AfC--though some contributors seem to think we do that ). And of course if someone insists on taking their chances and it isn't a speedy candidate, the simplest thing to do is to let them try. A delete at AfD will discourage improper re-creation. There are many good articles that were deleted that shouldn't have been, and many foolish ones that shouldn't have been allowed to stay--it is rarely productive to spend too much individual of community energy in arguing about a single article. DGG ( talk ) 06:03, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
More AFC Thoughts
You wrote: "If a contributor objects to a particular reviewers interpretation, they can submit it again for someone else to review (no reviewer should insist on being the only person to handle a particular AfC--though some contributors seem to think we do that)." I agree, but will comment. First, I and some other reviewers do not like to see a draft resubmitted without addressing the comments of the reviewer. If a contributor disagrees, they have semi-automatic options to discuss on the reviewer's talk page or to discuss at the AFC help desk, or can accept the advice to discuss at the Teahouse. If I see a draft resubmitted as is or essentially as is without addressing the comments, and without an explanation of why it is being resubmitted, I will not only decline but caution the contributor. Some contributors will resubmit over and over again without material changes (which often winds up at MFD - I would like to be able to report this as a conduct issue). Second, what do you mean about some contributors think we do that? I know that some contributors expect that a reviewer will follow a draft through the review process. I try to be diplomatic with them and get other reviewers to comment. Third, I don't know of any reviewer who insists on being the only person to handle a particular draft. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:42, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm pretty sure DGG means some authors think a reviewer follows a draft all the way through multiple reviews. I'm not aware of any reviewer that tries to do that. The decline templates (wrongly) encourage discussion on the reviewer's talk so I understand where that idea comes from. See Draft talk:Ciera Rogers for an example where I think a move to mainspace and a test at AfD is in order. This user is not going to take AfC no for an answer and the topic - a social media personality - is one of those grey areas where it could go either way. Legacypac (talk) 02:47, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, many new contributors think that the same reviewer follow a draft all the way through, and it is natural that they think this way, because most of the world works in that fashion, especially when it's a matter of following up on suggested revisions, not outright rejection. In fact, OTRS at Wikipedia works that way: for email inquiries and complaints and requests for pages, the same OTRS agent follows the entire case unless they unlock it. The OTRS agents are by and large more experienced than the AfC reviewers, and make fewer mistakes. But I have seen the same sort of bad advice in both places, and the standard OTRS messages are even more nonspecific and unhelpful than the AfC ones.
And I have also seen reviewers try to keep a AfC case resubmissions returned to them. I haven't seen any absolutely insist, but I have seen it encouraged; and it is easily possible to watchlist a draft--there are many instances of successive reviews by the same person.
When a review is completely wrong, and the submitter is experienced enough to know that, it can make sense to resubmit unchanged, though anyone with some degree of subtlety will make at least some changes. I have however certainly seen people resubmit impossibly unacceptable material unchanged, on the hope that the next time they will get some reviewer careless enough to accept it--and they sometimes see their hope fulfilled.
Ideally, we when we encounter a previous bad review, we would follow it up with the reviewer. This is fairly easy to do with beginners at it, but much harder with those who have experience and have been doing it wrong consistently. I do sometimes, and try to word it as a suggestion. Sometimes, it makes a difference; sometimes I get ignored or challenged. As with similar situations at CSD or OTRS. I am very reluctant to really take issue with anyone whom I know to be stubborn, and even more reluctant to follow to the conclusion. I could easily spend all my time here on this, and although it might help WP, it would not help my own mental equilibrium. If it were a regular system of review or audit, it would be less personal. DGG ( talk ) 04:13, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I see bad decline reviews - I just override them and note up the talkpage. I have yet to see a strong enough pattern of bad declines to start a serious discussion. I assume most of us watchlist draft we touch anyway which will bring reviewers back to the page sometimes. Legacypac (talk) 04:20, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Obits..
Do you think an obituary in reputable newspapers like Telegraph et al is an auto-indicator of encyclopedic notability, in the event no other significant covg. about the subject could be discovered?~ Winged BladesGodric05:23, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:Winged Blades of Godric - That would depend on the newspaper's obituary policy. Some newspapers, including the Washington Post, which is considered a newspaper of record, have a policy that they will publish a true news obituary for any long-term resident of the area of the newspaper. (A long paid death notice that reads like an obituary is a different matter, but your question has to do with true obituaries under the byline of one of the obituary staff reporters.) Therefore a news obituary in the Washington Post is not in itself an indicator of encyclopedic notability. Other newspapers have mileage that may vary. Does that fail to answer your question? Robert McClenon (talk) 17:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
For the New York Times it is a clear determinant of notability at least for 1896+. I'm told this is true for the London Times also. I am insufficiently familiar with the Telegraph. The distinctions Robert McC gives above about paid obits is important to keep in mind in all cases. DGG ( talk ) 23:46, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
IMO a full obituary in a broadsheet paper (UK: Times, FT, Observer, Telegraph, Grauniad) is normally a non-trivial reliable independent source, so counts towards WP:GNG. Paid obits, not so much. Guy (Help!) 00:10, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but the distinction is that the NYT and the Times are so reliable as to be sufficient by themselves without needing other sources. As for the others, as I said, I'm not familiar enough to know if they fall in this category. And for the US, a local paper regardless of format is I think usually not reliable for notability, and I think there is no clear level above that where a clear division can be drawn. To some extent I judge by the nature of the obit. DGG ( talk ) 04:26, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sometimes. Yes for Obits published by universities. It probably depends on the author. The obit should make a claim of notability if it is being used as a claim of notability. Newspapers obits are paid, so take with salt. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:59, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, replying to User:SmokeyJoe and following up to my comment and that of DGG: There may be three types of death reports in a newspaper, and one should be mindful of the distinctions. The first is a news obituary, which is written by a reporter, and is not paid for. Different newspapers have different policies on who qualifies for these. A news obituary in The Times or the NYT is an indication of notability. A news obituary, written by the obit writer, in the Washington Post is not necessarily an indication of notability. The second is a conventional paid death notice, normally placed by the undertaker. These are no indication of notability. The third is a hybrid, a paid death story, written like an obituary, but paid for by family. These can be mistaken for news obituaries, but they are not, and are not indications of notability. True obits are not paid for; they are written by staff, and they may or may not indicate notability; but true obits and hybrids can be confused, and require careful reading. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:12, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.
Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.
Hi, firstly many thinks for taking the time to look over the Eve Poole page. It’s my first one and quite a learning curve but I’m enjoying it and hoping to do more in the future. I hope I’m doing the right thing here (I'm new to Talking!), I added some discussion points to the Eve Poole Talk page and I would really appreciate some advice. Please tell me if I'm not doing the right thing. KellysHero01 (talk) 09:35, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've made some specific comments on the article talk page. But speaking generally.
(1) In reviewing this article, what I noticed first was the obviously incorrect name of the department; this sort of error is a warning signal to look at the original sources myself. This led me to the apparent vagueness and over-expansiveness of the claims; that's a common indication of careless promotional writing. PR staff, even in academic institutions, tend not to be concerned with getting that sort of detail correct. Because of this, in the absence fo a formal CV it can be quite difficult to verify the details. This does not necessarily indicate an actual conflict of interest, because PR writing so pervades the world that many beginners here tend to fall into a similar style.
(2) All of the descriptions of a person in their lecture announcements and the like sre normally written by their publicity team or copied from their own statements. They never have third-party authority, no matter where reprinted. The extremely close similarity of them all demonstrates their common origin.
(3) There is an unfortunate tendency in Wikipedia to try to document statements by cherry-picking quotations that happen to use the word or phrase. References have to be used in context.
(4) There is a frequent tendency in Wikipedia to emphasise the current interests of a person as they themselves describe them--they not unreasonably want to write about what they are currently interested in. But WP is an encyclopedia , and must treat their career as a whole. Sometimes what fascinates a person in their later career is not what the major real contribution is. Sometimes it is otherwise. Here it seems to be a mixture: their recent "neuroscience" work is too trivial to mention, but the current high administrative position in the Church of England is probably of greater importance than their earlier authorship and consulting.
As advice, to learn about notability, observe and participate at AfD. To lean about sources, keep up with the WP:RSN, the reliable sources noticeboard. The BLP Noticeboard is helpful also, but it mainly deal with particualrly contentious articles,not how to deal with routine material. DGG ( talk ) 06:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(4) In dealing with an author, it is often helpful to organize the description of their work around their successive major books.
Authority control
As you would know, {{Authority control}} is used at the bottom of many articles with links showing how the topic is catalogued at various libraries. A discussion at Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard#Authority control is questioning the merits of the template on the basis that it may violate WP:EL by unduly linking to external websites, and that many of the links are unhelpful. Do you have any thoughts on the value of {{Authority control}}, or any thoughts on how to contact editors who might have knowledge of its use? Johnuniq (talk) 11:26, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I see it lists the control numbers of various national libraries. It is routine practice in libraries to include whatever identifiers are available, in order to make sure that the record can be found under any possible search. If this produces duplication, it doesno harm. If they do not agree, it provides links to the data for resolving the disagreement. I se the discussion mentioned thepossibility thatt thesecould be used for search terms, but not routinely display--that seems a good idea. DGG ( talk ) 04:46, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Maxicar, I went to the article to remove the name of someone else whose article I deleted, since the rule is to remove names of alumni unless they are notable in the sense of having a WP article, or when it is immediately obvious from what is said on the list that they would certainly be qualified for one. When I do this, I try to clean up other redlinks also. Jonathan Benassaya is cofounder of Deezer. a company that has an article, but it is not such a major company that it is obvious that his position would justify an article; checking the frWP article on him, I continue to think it not obvious. But the way to proceed is to write the article, add the name back, and see if the article gets deleted.
Roland Vardanega is different. He was listed a little confusingly as "intermediate CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën"; this is a sufficiently important company that its CEO would obviously get an article, but I wa unsure of the meaning of "intermediate president", whether it meant a president of one division or a president during one of the changes of ownership. Checking the enWP article on the company, he isn't mentioned. So the removal is justified, but , checking now the enWP article again, I see it mentions none of the earlier executives and it certainly ought to--one of them even has a picture and a quote in the article without a statement of his role anywhere. Checking the frWP article on him, he certainly should have an article. So I'm restoring it, and will myself translate/rewrite at least a stub of the frWP article to have one here. DGG ( talk ) 23:20, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
thank you very much for your intervention with regard to China Illustrata. As you may have understood it was not really the plan to bring the draft in the sandbox of the student into the Draft or main namespace so soon. But now that it has happened it does not work out too bad after all. I agree with you that the article is of an acceptable level already (especially when you keep in mind that it is made by a student, who did this for the first time in her life). I hope to find time soon to enhance it still a bit, when Noémie herself does not do so (as is quite often the case with students, in my experience).
For us it is not always easy to keep "all the frogs in the wheelbarrow", as you call it in English, I believe, when working with a group of students. And it is really important that the students find a warm welcoming environment on Wikipedia.
I will "cc" @Romaine: about this subject. He does often coach students at Maastricht University (and elsewhere), and I'm sure he will be glad to see that there is again a willing and positive effort done to get a good result.
Dick Bos, Romaine: Our practices about drafts in general are quite unsettled at this time--I think everyone involved knows the system is confusing, over-complicated, cumbersome, much too slow, and unsatisfactory in almost every respect. It is effective neither at getting usable material into mainspace, nor keeping unacceptable material out of Wikipedia. Everyone centrally involved has a different idea of how to fix it, and some of them are trying out their ideas at cross purposes.
The only guaranteed safe way at present for a student to proceed at this point is to do the development outside Wikipedia. Personally, I think we should be able to do better: one of the basic concepts of Wikipedia is that it should itself be a place for people to develop articles. I hope to be able to make better suggestions in a few weeks. DGG ( talk ) 22:17, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
AfD notifications for Fifth Wall Ventures
Hi,
Last night, after completing a thorough update of Fifth Wall at a sandbox here: User:BC1278/sandbox/Fifth_Wall and adding the individual proposed changes to Talk, I decided to write a note on Talk pinging all contributors to the article of the AfD and update, with a string of @, then notes to their Talk page. I expected there would be several but upon looking at View History, there was only one, the original reviewer who had also expanded the article. So I modified to note to only notify that user, since they were the only one to have contributed directly to the article.
I explain the above only to provide context for a question/request, since it seems wise to get feedback in advance. I believe WP: Finance and WP: Private Equity should be notified of the AfD, as it relates to these projects. And perhaps WP: Business. But I am loathe to do anything without raising it for feedback first. So that is what I am doing now.
BTW, the original Fifth Wall reviewer was a member of WP: Finance, has been a member of Wikipedia since 2006, and noted on their user page about 15 articles they created or expanded. This is why I thought they would be an appropriate independent reviewer in the first place. I had asked several experienced editors in that project to look at the draft. However recently, since WP: PAID was updated, and Jytdog raised some concerns about this practice, I posted a question at COIN if it was OK to ask subject matter experts in appropriate Wiki projects to do independent reviews of new articles (something I had done just a few times), and the editors who weighed in said all new articles should go through AfC, so that's what I'll do.BC1278 (talk) 17:04, 8 June 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]
Wikiprojects are groups of all WPedians interested in a topic, and are not restricted to those expert in the topic. They have no independent authority, and have only as much autonomy as the community as a whole is willing to give them. To what extent they can set standards in their area depends upon the extent to which the community as a whole through its actions at afd supports them. This varies by project. A few specialized projects -- some small, some large -- have great respect in the community, but even they can lose that respect if the rest of us decide not to follow their lead.
Experienced editors likewise. In particular standards change, and in the field of articles about business, the standards have changed to the extent that the change is shown not just by practice but a far-reaching change in the basic relevant guideline, NCORP, and its wide acceptance at AfD. In any particular field, there are sometimes a few currently dominant editors, but they can lose their dominance quickly if their views no longer find acceptance. And among those most active, there will usually be some who try to maintain the current status, and some who seek to change it.
I show different sides in different situations, and try to keep them apart: when making a decision I strictly follow the current consensus; when giving others advice, I try to give the safest advice possible; when arguing for my views, I often try to lead the community a little. DGG ( talk ) 22:19, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nextdoor
DGG, I respect the view your expressed at Nextdoor very much and in the normal course of events, that's ideal. There's a proposal, an independent editor reviews it and says yes or no or asks me to make changes. Maybe there is some discussion or an RfC. It's all pretty straightforward. All I tell people who hire me is that I will try to get them a fair article, stay strictly within WP policy and act ethically above all else. I turn down maybe 4 out of 5 people who ask for help because their requests seem invalid to me. I'm independent - no one can hoist an assignment on me. I come up with my own article language for a proposal, based on what I think is fair and allowable under WP policy, and only have clients do a review for accuracy.
For Nextdoor, I am only hoping for fairness and NPOV from editors who take the time to review all the relevant sources. I am not committed to any particular position on language. An editor asked me to pare down the original proposed language, so cut it in half. Another editor proposed their own version in the original discussion. I made small suggestions to improve it, but nothing happened. The editor did not follow through, even just to publish their own language verbatim. In this most recent discussion at Talk:Nextdoor#RfC_about_possible_NPOV_issue_in_Nextdoor a re-listing of the proposal Jytdog suggested, two editors asked for changes to the first sentence, so I did it. I am not locked in to a POV at all. I search for secondary sources extensively and try to summarize them fairly and encyclopedically. If I fall short, it's because I didn't do a good enough job with my source summary, not because a client is pressuring me to do something.
That said, this is not a normal situation. The article and Talk discussion for Nextdoor has been under attack by editors who have been explicit or implicit they are using Wikipedia to damage the company. In short, we have had a sock puppet who vandalized the article and made threats external to Wikipedia, personal attacks, both veiled and unveiled threats to damage the company's reputation through Wikipedia, an undisclosed COI SPI agenda-editor inserting vandalism, and someone aligning their editing with plaintiff's attorney civil lawsuit.
Last week, an editor who made extreme statements in Talk, and major POV edits to the article, was revealed to be sock puppet and was blocked indefinitely. User:Edward_Mordake, sock of User:The_Quixotic_Potato
That same editor sent a very threatening e-mail to the CEO of Nextdoor heralding a "PR Disaster for Nextdoor" on Wikipedia based on changes they had made to the article. There were professional threats against me and demands on Nextdoor. This matter had to be handled privately in ArbCom because of confidentiality, but the material is in than hands of User: BU Rob13, who also removed user vandalism from the article. The letter was over the top and it's reasonable to worry this user might reappear as another sock.
Another editor participating here, The Gnome, previously made a more subtle threat about PR problems for Nextdoor because I had raised issues: "Are you certain that all these public and quite loud discussions about Nextdoor's entrails, and all the pond stirring, are viewed positively by your employers?" Talk:Nextdoor#CEO This remark came after a specific matter in question had been decided contrary the editor's position. Talk:Nextdoor/Archive_1#RfC_on_Founder_section
Since 2014, years before I became involved last month, inflammatory language quoting a lawyer suing the CEO was repeatedly re-inserted by the user Chisme. The editor tried to convince others at Talk:Nextdoor#CEO to go along with their position, and failing to do so, just keep adding it back after it was deleted. e.g. dif, dif, dif. This language benefited the plaintiff's lawyer in influencing a civil lawsuit.
That same user, Chisme, during an RfC that I initiated to resolve this same matter with finality, made personal attacks against me, including: Talk:Nextdoor/Archive_1#RfC_on_Founder_section ("How much is Nextdoor paying you to white-wash this Wikipedia article? How much would Nextdoor pay me not to write an article about Nirav Tolia?")
At the same time, this editor has removed routine updates about the company with RS. See e.g. dif
Domdeparis restored vandalism, sharpening it to include an accusation of possible illegal conduct by Nextdoor, without any RS. Nextdoor#Denial_of_service_to_sex_offenders_and_members_of_their_households His justification is that I had been the one to remove the original vandalism, which is true. I stated I had a COI in the notes for the edit and, notified the SPI editor directly. I am loathe to ever directly edit articles where I have a COI, except in rare cases where I see clear cut vandalism. In this, an SPI editor, in their one and only edit on Wikipedia on April 12, 2018, with their Ft. Lauderdale IP address revealed, inserted a "Controversy" sub-section sourced only to a same-day, April 12, 2018 blog post and self-published letter from an obscure Florida advocacy website for sex offenders. dif Their complaint is that household members of sex offenders are prevented from having Nextdoor accounts. As I understand Wikipedia, a self-published blog post on a local sex offender's advocacy website has the same RS weight of tweet or Facebook post. Editors who review COI requests have told me repeatedly not to bother them with removing vandalism similar to this - just to do it myself. I also checked that the complaint by the sex offender group had not been written about by any RS. I reminded Domdeparis of all this and but he has declined to delete his restored and "improved" controversy section (he added a citation to the Nextdoor website and to a law review case note that is not about and does not mention Nextdoor.)
I am concerned because of everything above that a normal discussion of the current proposals among neutral Wikipedia editors has not and may not occur, without special steps. Several ordinary Wikipedia editors weighed in during the original discussion of this proposed change.Talk:Nextdoor#Proposed_new_language_for_Racial_profiling_section. But they are not likely to re-appear for back-and-forth of what has to-date sometimes been a pretty toxic discussion. Perhaps with a mediator they will return. But I have to keep a close eye out for sock puppets, severe POV problems, undisclosed COI and vandalism because of problems stretching back several years. Ultimately, this article should probably get protected for awhile.
You should read this WP:VANDTYPES and try and learn the difference between edits that you do not agree with and vandalism. Your defense that you were removing vandalism is not what one would expect from an experienced editor. And suggests that you may be trying to game the system by hiding behind policy to justify your COI edits. What you did itself is actually defined as vandalism in VANDTYPES. And is classed as WP:GAMETYPE #4 in the list of ways to game the system. I am having trouble with WP:AGF here. I am not 100% sure as to whether this should stay or not but the fact that the advocate for this company is so adamant that it shouldn't suggests that maybe it is of importance. The suggestion by the association that policy of denying access to sex offenders could be illegal is far reaching. I have found literally dozens of RS sources that mention this supreme court decision and that have remarks like "such as Facebook Twitter and other sites". Nextdoor is a social media site and would be affected by any action taken. I will keep poking around to find a RS that specifically mentions Nextdoor...this is something that I wouldn't have done if you had made the request to remove it and had let other editors do it. Dom from Paris (talk) 06:21, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I understand now that I made a misjudgment in removing that content, and I will only say that I consciously thought about whether anyone would possibly object and couldn't foresee it. Whereas I could foresee a reviewing editor saying I was wasting their time with something this obvious, since that happens to me from time to time. I prepared a redraft with several proposals and it would been no trouble for me to just add this one for discussion on the Talk page. I already suggested to domdeparis that he could add the Nextdoor policy on sex offenders and their households not having accounts if he deemed that relevant to the article. There is a RS for that. My point in raising the matter at all is just to mention that the original edit came from yet another agenda editor, and its restoration seems weird to me without anything like RS. We're just supposed to be summarizing secondary sources. My larger point is that the history of this article, such as external emails by a sock describing their own actions on the article as creating PR disaster for Nextdoor, makes it clear that this is not a typical article where neutral editors are just trying to make a good article. People with all sorts of agendas and conflicts have been editing. I'm just the only one to have declared a COI. I have heard about situations like this, but personally never experienced anything like it on Wikipedia.BC1278 (talk) 19:27, 9 June 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]
Any mistakes in judgment are my own, as the company has only asked the article be fair. They're leaving it to me to decide how to best accomplish that.-BC1278 (talk) 20:23, 9 June 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]
Fair tends to mean, "a fair statement of my POV". Our rule is neutral, as judged by those with no stake in the matter, not a negotiated compromise between NPOV and a subject's position. I appreciate the difficulties our policy must present for you, which is one of the reasons we should consider abolishing paid editing. DGG ( talk ) 07:45, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
“Draft: Charles Rudolf Legéndy” (I now rewrote the “neuroscience” section)
Dear DGG —
I would very much like you to revisit my “Legéndy” draft, if at all possible!
Somehow the draft landed on the desk of Bradv, but I think he is somewhat disrespectful. He is not paying it much attention - whereas it is clear that you have gone into in-depth detail. (Bradv wrote a rejection letter, saying “please cite your sources” and “please see ‘references for beginners’” - and then when I sent him three third-party references from the Draft, he apparently lost interest.)
I now rewrote the “neuroscience” section - now it has just an introductory paragraph and then two paragraphs, each devoted to one of the two neuroscience items supported by third-party references. OAKS222 (talk) 21:27, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Any reviewer may review any article--people generally select articles to review at random or in sequence as submitted; some, like myself, tend to look for one in my areas of interest. Nobody may monopolize reviewingan AfC, just as nobody may monopolize an article. However, I will however take another look at this. DGG ( talk ) 22:25, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Look over something?
Hi DGG - I have a bit of a favor to ask. Recently one of our instructors (Chronophoto) created an article on someone that she had worked with as a co-editor in the past. (We've instructed her to disclose the COI on the article's talk page.) This article was created on her own time, so to speak, so the article wasn't made as part of a Wiki Ed assignment. The article in question is Cáel M. Keegan and the instructor has been open to the idea of incubating the article if it doesn't pass AfD. FWIW, there's some limited argument to be made for notability via some secondary sourcing I've found, one of which names him as a significant contributor to the field of trans studies. There's a book coming out in October and if it gains the coverage that I think it may, that should help push it into more firm notability territory, so if it's incubated that could help establish notability then. I'll probably recommend AfC for the instructor if it's incubated, as this could help smooth over any lingering COI or notability concerns.
I was wondering if you could go and look over the AfD and just make sure that everything is running OK. AfD isn't really an easy place for even seasoned editors to get used to and she's feeling overwhelmed, to say the least. For example, she's concerned about the tag that the nominator added to the article that there may have been canvassing done, as she has denied knowing this person or asking anyone to come and argue for or against the article. (I did add some sourcing to the article but haven't argued for or against deletion due to my ties to the instructor.) Basically I just want someone uninvolved to sort of look over the AfD and keep an eye on it. (ReaderofthePack, formerly Tokyogirl79) Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:28, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Message from OAKS222 (Re: "Draft: Charles Rudolf Legéndy")
Dear DGG —
Thank you very much for revisiting the “Legéndy” draft.
Legéndy’s citation figures are not impressive; the more impressive part is the quality of the citing authors. The 1964 brain capacity paper only had 52 citations, but those include Malsburg, Buzsáki, and Hebb, who had some “best sellers” with 1,518, 3,720, and 27,843 citations, respectively. Similarly, the 1985 Poisson surprise paper has just 399 citations (although that is respectable for a “methods paper”), but the citing papers include one with 2,645 citations (Abeles) and one with 1,016 citations (Schall). In the helicon work, the 1961 paper has only 172 the direct citations (and the citing papers some 300-600 citations), but here the later industrial application to computer chip manufacturing is more important than the academic response. OAKS222 (talk) 16:29, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Trying to justify an article by quality of citing offers strikes me as the sort of stretching of the criteria associated with COI editing. We do not omit giving the highest citation figures ieven if they are not impressive: we're writing NPOV articles, not trying to make a CV look as strong as possible. DGG ( talk ) 17:54, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes - clear - sorry! But I just couldn't resist. Hebb's comment is made to carry more weight by the fact that his book has 27,843 citations ... OAKS222 (talk) 23:06, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Beck questions
Hi DGG. Thanks for the feedback provided in the draft review. I have to admit I'm a bit confused, however. After asking for more extensive feedback at the Articles for Creation help desk I received generic pointers that in all honesty I had already gone over, both before creating the draft and with you after reviewing the first version. I know you must be working long hours to deal with the large amount of current submissions; if it were possible to discuss individual sources, would you be willing to point me in the right direction, be it through one of your colleagues or yourself?
You still have not done what I suggested on May 10, or what DESiegel suggested on May 14. We both said pretty much the same thing, and so would any experienced editor here. I'm not sure why you want more specifics. For example,we both dsaid tyo remove the references mainly about his company--it should be obvious what they are. I said to remove interviews with him. Remove them. DES said to remove press releases. Do that. DES told you that some major newpapers are usually OK--it should be obvious that most of the newspapers you cite are not major. You are being paid to write the article, not me, or him, and I can see no reason why any other responsible volunteer should want to do work for which you are being paid. I & others will sometimes do so for a real reason, such as when the subject is extremely important and not having it would be a serious gap in WP's coverage, but that is not true for the owner of a barely notable company. And I, but not many others, am sometimes willing to help Public relations people learn how to write WP articles, but I will only do that if it is clear the editor will in fact understand.
I can also advise you that I am not sure how much work is worth your putting into the article, for it is very likely to be listed for deletion in any case, because the notablity is in my opinion insignificant, and the only viable article is the one on the company. DGG ( talk ) 04:45, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
StraussinTheHouse is working faster than I usually advise, but I have reviewed every one of his nomination up to now in fields I can judge, and there are only a few that I have taken issue with. I encourage more people to do the sort of work he is doing--especially with paying attnetion to older articles. DGG ( talk ) 04:05, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Notability for departments within universities?
If you have a moment, may I please trouble you for an opinion on where/how the notability bar is set for pages for individual departments within universities? I see "expected outcomes" suggests they are generally not considered notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field but I'm wondering how this is assessed: at NPP I came across this one for Texas Tech's philosophy department essentially made of a few thin sources (several campus student paper refs since added), two sentences of prose and a list of redlinks to people who mainly don't seem (at cursory review) to be notable. When I redirected (Texas Tech's main page already has a content fork for "academics" with plenty of room to expand), the page creator reverted saying "Please afd". So that I might have a better index on such things--does AfD seem appropriate to you or would you let it be?
An additional reason I wanted to ask you (beyond your particular expertise in universities) is that I share your concern for clogging up AfD with school matters when there's so much commercial promo to be dealt with, and the latter so much more detrimental to the encyclopedia--but then, this one felt like promo to me (and no doubt universities and departments, especially in the US, have strong economic incentives to seek opportunities for promotion.) So I wasn't sure.
Ah, it seems I will find out at AfD! Though will of course continue to be very glad for your thoughts in whatever venue, especially as I think about how I should balance such entries with other AfD concerns going forward. Thanks. Innisfree987 (talk) 22:58, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Possibly these pages are created in good faith by ex-students or academics, but universities are big business these days, so in my view articles like these could also be seen as a form of advertising. I agree that there may be bigger priorities on Wikipedia, but this author seems to be blatantly refusing to improve the article or prove notability. Sionk (talk) 23:06, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker)2 The bar should be set pretty high on these, but for example the English department at Cambridge (with F.R. Leavis etc) has had almost as much written about it as the Wars of the Roses. Some departments have been very influential in the development of an entire subject area, but most deserve at best a section in the uni's article. Johnbod (talk) 02:34, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I consider the appropriate standard to be world-famous within the discipline, either currently or historically. This could also be worded, as about the 5 or 10 best known in the discipline, on a world-wide basis. There is a possible narrower standard, famous enough for outsiders to know about it. There are in my opinion a few universities where some or even most of the departments do meet this qualification, and a few dozen others that will have one or two such departments. They are rarely a matter of general interest significant enough for an encyclopedia. Regardless of the possible promotional intent, the articles usually are indistinguishable from the department web pages, which are characteristically written to attract the interest of prospective graduate students. I don;t think the 1pm has much to do with the rise of big business influence--the academic world from its medieval origins to the present has been in large part dependent on reputation, because a department becomes famous by attracting students and faculty that will make it famous.
As is usual at WP, most of the departments that need articles do not have them, while most of the articles we do have are not appropriate, I've always meant to work on the ones that are needed. I fully share Innisfree987's concern about clutter; WP does need more coverage of the academic world, but this is best done thru a biographical approach, increased attention to particularly notable books, and the NPOV presentation of academic tendencies.
(As limitations, I can judge best for the US, and sometimes the UK, and I may not be aware of developments in the last 10 or 15 years.) To give an example of my standards, in library science there have been only two, both defunct: Chicago and Columbia. In ornithology, there's one US department more famous than any other: Cornell, both now and historically. In a very large & influential field like Physics, there might be over a dozen.
There are beginning to be a few truely reliable sources: institutional history by outside scholars. Student newspapers and alumni publications are never reliable for this, nor are isolated statements of excellence without context. In most cases, it has to go by documentation of the ranking and inference from the faculty and alumni. Because of the need to show influence, they will mostly be found in the oldest and most famous research universities. As a caveat, a single famous personality is not enough to make a department famous. DGG ( talk ) 04:01, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes quite--had a similar thought about the Chicago School being an unimpeachable claim of notability for those department, but wondered where we drew the line afterward (since by contrast we are quite liberal with secondary schools--appropriately, in my mind.) But unlike secondary schools, which if outside a public school system will have no place in the encyclopedia if deleted, departments can always be covered on their college's page until a content fork is truly required. So nothing is lost if one holds the line a bit more closely. Innisfree987 (talk) 05:15, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much DGG for these thoughts; very clarifying. True indeed about academia always running on reputation (and incentive to promote thus nothing new). I think this case just particularly smelled off to me because the original links were touting the master's program in particular, and in a field where a doctorate is the standard terminal degree, master's programs are typically less a source of intellectual capital than just ... regular capital.
Agree very much that scholarly institutional histories are the best means of validating significance; and conveniently also serve wiki-notability standard's other purpose, i.e. to identify not only the most important subjects but the ones for which we have sufficient independent sources to write something balanced and fully realized without resorting to original research. Perhaps if I run out things to write for fun (!), I'll dig into my collection of those materials. But yes meanwhile I think I'll carry on with biographies and sometimes books; I'm not sure how many academic departments I really feel excited enough about to want to work up a summary of their institutional history. Probably just the ones I like to imagine I've done in an alternate universe (so... just HistCon, really.)
Having a party tonight and sharing a cookie with you for your help over the years
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I hit twenty four thousand edits tonight and became a senior editor on Wikipedia. Thank for your help over the years. -O.R.Comms03:57, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Another editor created a draft at Draft:Wolfgang Ernst (media theorist). I am reasonably sure that he is notable, but I am having difficulty proving it, in part because there are other notable people with the same name. I don't know how to find his h-index. He is a full professor at a German university. He is on the advisory board (but not the editor) of an academic journal.[1] Google Scholar says a book of his has 375 citations.[2] The problem is that I haven't found a reference that explicitly says Wolfgang Ernst is an important media theorist. Eastmain (talk • contribs)09:39, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
even had you found an explicit reference like that, it is necessary to be very cautious about relying on such quotations, especially if they are incidental mentions in a news article or the like--they're essentially boiler-plate, and tend to mean nothing more than "my esteemed colleague" does in a speech or posting. They only have meaning in context of a reasoned judgment from an authority.
A book having a large number of citations, however, is usually enough to show notability, but an equally important factor can be the publisher. Fulll professors are often notable, but it depends on the university. Not all German universities are first-rate research institutions.
And areas such as "media theorist" are difficult to judge, as compared to the traditional disciplines.
But he's very clearly notable: Humboldt University fo Berlin is one of the great universities of the world, and the books are sufficient.
I should mention that the previous review of the draft is totally inapppropriate, for it used the GNG, which is not the appropriate criterion/
I just drafted a very short essay on civility, User:Geo Swan/Pick one. If you have time, I'd appreciate your opinion. Your talk page readers are invited to comment too, at User talk:Geo Swan/Pick one.
Tried to follow all your recommendations. There had actually been a fair bit of updating by other editors since I wrote my draft, some of it with no sourcing or only primary sources. So I took care of that too. User:BC1278/sandbox/OLX-rev. -BC1278 (talk) 17:55, 29 June 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]
Please note that a short time ago Modernist was warned by User:NeilN about using invective like this to characterize ongoing content disputes [54], a warning Modernist has repeatedly disregarded. This comes out of a longrunning content dispute regarding the use of nonfree images of visual art, where Modernist is among those who strongly reject NFCC policy (see, for example, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts#Under attack, and the related deletion discussions at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 June 18 (where many of the disputed uses that Modernist advocated for have already been removed). The underlying issue is whether certain articles on the visual arts are exempt from (or subject to much more relaxed application of) basic WP:NFCC, WP:V, and WP:RS policies. With his side not prevailing in the dispute, he is again personalizing the issues rather than substantively addressing serious policy concerns. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 16:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
As a gneral reminder, anyone who wants my opinion on a dispute should just point me to the dispute; I will look at the arguments there, and do not need them here. If you do not think I would be able to judge for myself, why ask me?
As for the issue. Personally,within the framework of the Foundation's NFCC policy, I would prefer that we interpret it somewhat more liberally than our guidelines and decisions currently do. But the established consensus here is very consistently to use the present guidelines, and to apply them strictly, so I and everyone else are therefore obliged to do so. DGG ( talk ) 16:32, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
RECONSIDER--previously deleted for promotional, now restored as not promotional, but notability is questionable.
Quick note on Adam Prtizker
Hi DGG,
Saw your note on the delete discussion for Assembled Brands. Here's what I'd say. Adam Pritzker has already co-founded two companies (also General Assembly) of note; is also written about because he is from one of the wealthiest families in the world, with 11 billionaires; and co-founded a political non-profit, which while not notable yet IMO, has attracted meaningful press coverage.
So this is not the same situation as Ale Resnik, who is known as this point for just the one company. Pritzker is known for many things already and merits an article. I could see the argument where the CEO or founder of a company should not get their own article, as you suggested, where it's essentially just a breakaway of the main company article, but not vice versa, when there is clear notability.
Merging Assembled Brands into Adam Pritzker would mean all sorts of coatracking in order to continue to update the coverage of the company from very high-quality reliable sources, which is continuing at a regular pace. It is a new and extremely well-funded approach to the fashion business, which is why it is getting so much serious press coverage. Indeed, the sub-brands of Assembled Brands are also getting their own RS coverage. I would agree that the sub-brands of Assembled Brands should remain merged into Assembled Brands article, unless one of them gets a really huge amount of press.
But I think the notability of Pritzker even without Assmebled Brands is a good reason to keep these articles separate. Also, the Assembled Brands article is certain to continue to expand, given its funding and prominence, so it flunks the merge policy that favors articles unlikely to continue to expand.
When I comment at AfD, I give advice about what I think should be done with the article. Other people do the same, and the consensus makes the decision. It's not a negotiation between you and me. The place for further discussion is where is the discussion is taking place. I think I mentioned to you somewhere that there is sometimes an unanticipated reaction when a coi editor pushes too hard. I know other people have said that they should simply present their material, and then stay out of the discussion. Myself, I don't think that's always true--often some degree of back and forth can clarify matters after the initial statement. But it's my obligation when someone asks for advice, to use my experience to say what might happen even if I think it ought to happen otherwise DGG ( talk ) 19:00, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I understand and agree the substantive discussion about Assembled Brands should take place there. Here I was trying to clarify why your general advice about doing one article for a CEO/business seems less applicable to me and thatI wasn't trying to disregard your general advice.BC1278 (talk) 19:13, 12 July 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]
Kim Timby
Dear David, I don't understand your insertion of the template reading "This article reads like a press release or a news article or is largely based on routine coverage or sensationalism" on this article. I am doing what I can to improve coverage of women art and photography historians. It is properly and thoroughly referenced. Timby is notable with numbers of articles relating to the field in which she works on WP citing her work. If you can point to something specific to improve/alter/remove I'd be most grateful and will attend to it. I don't work for Kim Timby or any of the institutions associated with her, nor do I know here personally, but have read and respect her work, which is an original contribution to the field of the social history of photographic technologies; stereoscopy, colour printing technologies etc. Jamesmcardle(talk)09:08, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I work mainly these days on dealing with promotional articles, and I must admit that concentrating on this can lead to a tendency to see it everywhere. I try to avoid this by not doing too much of this work at a time, but I do make errors. This seems to have been what happened here. The characteristics I saw were not sufficient to say it was promotional.(I saw such things as isolated words of importance quoted from a source, which is often cherry-picking, the inclusion of what I consider unnecessary general context, and an over-positive tone--but all of this was minor and occasional and didn't justify the label) DGG ( talk ) 00:23, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Tag on Charles R Conn's page
Hi, you added a sensationalism/news release tag to Charles R Conn's page. That's fine but would you mind leaving a note on the talk page detailing specifically what it is you object to and how you would like the piece changed or expanded. Best Wishes Pug of the day (talk) 18:29, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
for example , "During Conn’s tenure, the Trust deepened the Scholarship experience with a character, service and leadership program, and re-vitalized its intellectual mission and sense of lifelong fellowship with a convening program of current and alumni fellows including an annual forums on healthcare, new ventures, ethical leadership, education, climate change, LGBTQ rights and other topics." That's pure PR-talk. DGG ( talk ) 21:30, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The page while at AfD was listed for speedy by another editor and deleted by an experienced admin. The closer just recorded the fact. (Ideally, they should have specified in the close that it was because of the speedy, which would have avoided confusion). As for the page itself, Deletion was clearly appropriate. DGG ( talk ) 13:28, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, you reviewed my page submission for "Sean Bloomfield." Thank you very much for the feedback. The reasons you left for not accepting the submission were two: A lack of independent secondary sources that were about the subject at hand (not just mere mentions) and that the author's book is not in many libraries. My key question is to how many independent secondary sources are necessary for a subject to be considered noteworthy. I could not find that in the segment that described notability, and I listed around 15 separate secondary sources and publications that were all solely about the subject's trip or subsequent book (not just passing mentions). One such publication even listed the subject as a person that Minnesotans should be thankful for. My second question is in regards to the book. Should I change the order in the first line to highlight that the subject's main achievement is as an adventurer, and less as an author? I also noticed that there were no requirements for books to be published by a major publishing company or in a certain number of libraries. Are these requirements that I missed? If so, how many libraries are the books required to be placed in?
Thank you for your help! This is my first article creation, though I have begun making contributions to and cleaning up other articles. Hoping to gain a better understanding of the requirements as I move forward.
The purpose of AfC review is to accept articles that would probably pass the community review at WP:AFD, and decline those that would not. In practice, articles on authors of self-published works never pass AfD except in rare cases where their renown as an author can be clearly established. The rationale for that is that publishing by a tr;isb;e reputable publisher implies that a an authority has judged the author;'s work important enough to publish; this is , obviously, not the case for self publishing. Whether or not you (or I) agree with this practice, my 11 years of experience at AfD discussions of thousands of articles on authors, has shown me that this is the practical result. It would accomplish nothing if I accepted such an article, for it would almost certainly be deleted at AfD. Similarly, the same is the case for authors whose books are only in a very few libraries--in the absence of exceptional circumstances, they will be deleted at AfD.
As for other possible reasons for notability , the GNG is not considered to be satisfied by reviews in local or specialized publications, because they tendto give indiscriminate coverage of local people. Nor is it satisfied for biographical subjects if the coverage is based upon WP:ONEEVENT.
Thei nclusion of references to reviews in Amazon and goodreads, and to his own website, furthe weaken the article: not of them are WP:Reliable sources.
As you work here you will learn, that just as the participants in WP make the policies and guidelines by consensus, they also decide ny consensus how they are to be interpreted. DGG ( talk ) 08:05, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Please leave them both, soI can work on them. But I'm going to do the Role of Jews on the American film industry first--because this topic is absolutely genuine; Jews did dominate Hollywood during the studio system, whereas they never dominated banking and finance. That antisemites decried the Jewish dominance of the American film industry is undeniable, butt the phenomenon was real. Jews tried in response to anti-semitism to hide this somewhat during the 20s and 30s (and even a little later), but that's part of real history also. It's characteristic of prejudice that the prejudiced group tends to disparage their victims for their real roles and characteristics, as well as the imaginary. DGG ( talk ) 21:23, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If there's anyone I trust to do a balanced article on this kind of topic, it's definitely you. Will definitely be interesting to see once it's done. ♠PMC♠ (talk)00:56, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The deletion log is 05:04, 16 August 2018 DGG (talk | contribs) deleted page Alive Hospice (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion). I removed that speedy deletion tag yesterday. Then, when this action was reverted, I contested the speedy deletion as the coverage of the topic seemed reasonably neutral and, in any case, G11 requires that the issue be impossible to correct by ordinary editing. Please reconsider. Andrew D. (talk) 07:32, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I will look again. But I am much less tolerant of promotionalism than I was 8 or 10 years ago, and I tend to interpret G11 to include articles that would need major rewriting--unless I or someone personally will immediately do the rewriting. Will you? DGG ( talk ) 08:44, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I can and do rewrite articles but I didn't get the impression that the article was promotional and so can't fix a problem than I can't see. If you think that it was "unambiguous advertising" then you'd have to explain this with some details. For example, promotional material would tend to have some images and be generally much richer in graphics. Promotional material would tend to include anecdotes, human-interest stories, accolades and other quotes. I don't recall anything like this and found the article to be a fairly dry account of the institution's history and structure. If you see it differently, then you'd have to explain or point to the problem. Andrew D. (talk) 16:15, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew Davidson, You are right, I made an error. I seem to have been over-influencd by the apparent paid editing. I have undeleted and moved it to Draft:Alive Hospice . If you want to fix it up and move it to mainspace, feel free. If anyone wants to list it for AfD they can then do so. Thanks for calling this to my attention. DGG ( talk ) 06:45, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
While I'm here, please note that List of giant animals in fiction has been nominated again. In the previous discussion, you said that "I am frankly a little exasperated at people coming here with things they say cannot be sourced, when they haven't found the obvious ones in even the Google. WP: BEFORE should be an absolute requirement...". Matters have not improved as editors not only don't search themselves; they don't acknowledge good sources when they are presented. This looks like a case of WP:IDHT to me... Andrew D. (talk) 08:22, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I will defend essentially any __in fiction article that has content. I think that's the sort of thing that WP can do very well, and that this sort of content is in fact the subject of serious study. As for sourcing, you are also s librarian, so you know the general rule that most people will not look beyond those free sources found on the first page of Google. I have never known anyone other than a librarian or a patent attorney actually do a comprehensive search all the way through Google, . Perhaps 10% of people here will use library resources-- even if they can get them free through their library on the internet . As for printed books, the main people who use them here are subject enthusiasts who have their own collections. DGG ( talk ) 20:48, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Lantern Entertainment Vs. TWC
DGG following up on your comment on the Lantern Entertainment page (copied below), you said you're prepared to make the split, do you have any idea as to when that might be complete? The page still shares incorrect information about both companies
"I think we do need two articles. The Weinstein Company is by far the better known at present, and the principal article should be at that name, and will give the information about the sale of the assets. Latern is notable enough by itself for a separate page, where the link can be briefly stated. I'm prepared to do the split. DGG ( talk ) 17:10, 9 August 2018 (UTC)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekparker63 (talk • contribs)
From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.
do you have specifics contradicting any of the sources? Some of the sources, for example, Strabo, Ptolemy, Livy, Arrian, Thucydides, etc. are used by all modern scholars. The Smith dictionaries are extensively used and followed by others (more modern) such as the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. I'd like to know of conflicting information. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:32, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, you listed this article for deletion because you write it does not demonstrate notability. In depth coverage in two reliable independent sources, what else do you need? I would like you to be more specific in complaints like this because they are likely to disappoint other users. Crotopaxi (talk) 00:37, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I expanded my comment; as our rules provide, even tho you are the original author, you are permitted to remove the proposed deletion tag; if you do, I suggest you add additional references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements, or I will probably take it to afd for a community decision.. If you do not have additional sources at hand, it can be moved to Draft space. DGG ( talk ) 00:49, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your fast response. But come on, the Newsweek source has two whole paragraphs about the bank, AlterNet four short ones. I had no problem to find numerous other ones, and already added one. If you are not interested in the topic, no problem, but why not just stay away from it? I find it quite worrisome that there are numerous wikipedians who complain about the work of others without substantive evidence that they are willing to support each others voluntary contributions. This won't help the project to grow or improve, it shies away those who get easily intimidated. No wonder there are far less female than male wikipedians. Crotopaxi (talk) 00:59, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you conclude I am not interested in the topic? But there are some topics that are likely to be the targets of promotional editing, and work on advocacy and social service organizations, especially those that might take controversial roles, are among them., especially when good sources for notability appear to be lacking. What I care about is NPOV, and I therefore watch both inadvertent as well as deliberate promotionalism & lack of notability on all topics, or at least all topics I can understand. . If you think this is an inappropriatre activity, you can discuss this, either with me or elsewhere, The first step is to add the references you indicate, and then I'll look again. I remind you that this was a proposed deletion only, the least drastic and most reversible of all ways of doing it, and that I have always regarded the ideal response to a deletion nomination to be an improved article. DGG ( talk ) 03:40, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You once tagged this article Csd a couple of months ago. I can't see from the logs if it was deleted or what happened. In any case, it's come back, as promotional as ever by the same author. May be it should be salted.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:50, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
a little better this time, but still promotional enough for G11. I think they'll give up. I usually salt the 3rd time, or the 2nd if its outrageous. This isn't outrageous. DGG ( talk ) 16:09, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
David, usually we take inclusion in Scopus as a sign of notability. However, in this case Scopus says that the journal was indexed "from 2016 to 2017" (which I generously interpreted as "indexed in 2016 and 2017", although it could very well mean that it was included from Jan 1 2016 to Jan 1 2017). If the journal would currently be indexed, this would read "from 2016 to present". So it was only 1 or 2 years and Scopus and has since been delisted. It was PRODed earlier today (not by me) and I assume that you'll want to dePROD because it is published by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Regardless of that, what do you think about Scopus? If this were some obscure (but honest) publisher, would you take the listing in those 2 years as a sign of notability or not? (We don't have this issue with ISI, because their Master Journal List only lists journals that are currently indexed, not journals that at some point in the past have been indexed.) Thanks! Best, --Randykitty (talk) 14:01, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
When Scopus was first published, I reviewed it at some length in the professional literature ("Comparative Reviews of Scopus and Web of Science." with Louise Deis
The Charleston Advisor (Nov 2005) 7 (2) 5-20; my current link for this is broke--I will locate another) . and supplemented my review approximately biannually as it improved. The deliberate intent of Scopus was to cover the scholarly literature more broadly than ISI, including considerably more material on the social sciences, and somewhat more third world material. ISI responded to it by broadening its own coverage, Scopus did similarly, and the 2 have been continuing this ever since. There is a difference--ISI stratified its product, Scopus has kept a single database.
With respect to its coverage for this journal, Scopus has covered through the latest published issue, 2017 no.2. (there are 2 issues/year). It says it has listed 16 items, which from the Journal's table of contents is the total of all substantive articles published in those two issues, so it has covered the entire year. Looking at the journal's archive, until 2016, this journal published almost entirely material by Czech authors; mostly dealing with Czech-related subjects, and almost entirely written in Czech, often without even an English abstract . Considering the Scopus coverage criteria [55], it would not possibly have met them in those years. The journal is now apparently trying for a broader audience. According to the Scopus title list [56] , coverage is ongoing. I do not know why the Scopus previews link said otherwise. Their documentation is not known for consistency. It would be premature to say discontinued until there are 2018 published issues Scopus does not cover , or it appears on the (very interesting ) Scopus discontinued list : [57] Or, of course, if there are no 2018 issue after another year or so. Since they are publishing each issue as a special topic issue, it's hard to predict publication dates.
Thanks David, for that detailed analysis. I missed that there was simply no 2018 issue yet to index. Given that it is indexed by Scopus, I'm going to dePROD it. As for my more restrictive stand on journal notability: I try to maintain clear objective criteria, it is often difficult enough to get people to accept to keep journals that clearly meet NJournals... --Randykitty (talk) 04:13, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I recently submitted a new article draft for Kaplan Test Prep, which was declined with the note: “Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Kaplan Inc. instead.”
I’d like to ask you to review this again based on the information provided below.
As you can see in the Graham Holdings Company template (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graham), there are actually 9 existing Wikipedia articles under the Kaplan, Inc. section, all of which are about business units of Kaplan, Inc. A new Kaplan Test Prep article would be the 10th in this series, as Kaplan, Inc. is the parent company of Kaplan Test Prep.
(FYI, Graham Holdings Company is the parent company of Kaplan, Inc.)
This follows the widespread and generally accepted practice of separate Wikipedia articles posted for significant business units of large companies. Just a few examples include:
To make it clear for readers that Kaplan Test Prep and its parent company Kaplan, Inc. are not the same, I’ve added several sentences to the Kaplan Test Prep draft:
Kaplan Test Prep is a unit of global education company Kaplan, Inc., which also includes Kaplan Higher Education and Kaplan International.
In 1985, The Washington Post Company (now Graham Holdings Company) bought the company from Stanley Kaplan. In 1994, Jonathan Grayer was appointed CEO and led the expansion of Kaplan into other educational areas beyond test preparation, such as higher education and English language programs, forming the educational services corporation of Kaplan, Inc. in 2000.
Kaplan Test Prep today operates as the test prep arm of Kaplan Inc.
As I see you are working on several Kaplan articles, I'll try to give a comprehensive answer. For clarity anfd general visibility, I am going to place my response on the talk page of the main Kaplan Inc. article. (There's a sense in which the Graham Holdings articles might be seen as the main article, but the corporation is too diversified for that to be meaningful.)
But there is a preliminary matter,which I can best mention here. it is important to distinguish whether you are directly an employee of the company, or an independent contractor or employee of a PR firm working for the company; if it's the latter there are additioanl disclosures to be made--see WP:PAID. DGG ( talk ) 03:39, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Would you consider this result a copyvio? I'm also having a bit of an issue with the use of poor sources (one of which is authored by the game's creator), others that are dead links, 2 sections that are unsourced, and to top it off, my attempts to clean it up being reverted. I hesitated taking it to AfD since it was actually a redirect that was reverted (and why it came up in the NPP feed). I think the redirect is probably the best bet, but I'm not going to edit war over it. Thanks in advance. Atsme📞📧16:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Atsme, I don't think it's copyvio. The only significant parts found by Earwig are quotes by the WP article of the reviews , but they are in quotation marks and referenced properly. As for notability , this isn't one of the ares I work in. DGG ( talk ) 23:21, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DGG, I am a paid contributor for Global Wireless Solutions and noticed your edits on the page. I am curious why you categorized the "examples of network benchmark tests" as spam, despite none of them including links to the Global Wireless Solutions webpage? The footnotes were all external news articles and Global Wireless Solutions did not have any influence on them. Please let me know what the problem is for my future understanding. Thank you! Scwiki3 (talk) 18:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
your including them could be see as link spam--a way to get links in WP from famous entities that are only incidental to the subject of the article. DGG ( talk ) 19:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the feedback! I have included your edits in my proposed edits on the Global Wireless Solutions talk page, as well as replaced the "press release" languge with more informative, concise content. I would greatly appreciate it if you could look at my proposed edits and approve them if they are satisfactory. If you approve them, then the press release tag at the top of the Global Wireless Solutions page should be resolved. Furthermore, now that I have been disclosed as a paid contributor to the Global Wireless Solutions page, the COI/"close connection" tag at the top of the page has been resolved and so it would be great if you could manually remove it as well. Thanks! Scwiki3 (talk) 17:31, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Good work. Your knowledge of the products helped make for a more compact presentation, and I replaced the corresponding text with your new version (I cleaned up the wording: r see the talk p for details. I rarely copyedit paid work to this degree, but the extent of your changes indicates you can learn our style, and it is easier to teach these things by example. . Now rewrite the remainder DGG ( talk ) 19:10, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have added edits of the remainder, focusing on removing repetitive information from the History section and making it clear and concise for the readers. If you approve these edits, I think it would be best for you to copy and paste all of my proposed edits on to the page as I noticed there were a few footnote problems when only part of the text was copy&pasted. Also, if these edits are sufficient then hopefully you will be able to resolve the tags at the top of the Global Wireless Solutions page. Thank you! Scwiki3 (talk) 01:55, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, thank you for your civilized approach to the deletion discussion. In the Spanish version the articles were speedily deleted without discussion for being irrelevant and "promotional", and when I asked to restore them and discuss what is missing all I get is "the original decision was right", they don't present any argument and don't follow their own policy which has significant coverage in multiple reliable sources as only criterion. I see your point that it could be sufficient to just mention the companies in an article about sperm banks. I however wonder what is missing for these companies to have their own article as compared to any other company or organisation. Few have such coverage over years in international media, which in my eyes should be the top criterion. Crotopaxi (talk) 18:01, 7 September 2018 (UTC) PS: Am I allowed to vote on an article that I started myself? Do I need to have a certain number of edits or something?[reply]
Technically, our policy also is "significant coverage in reliable sources." This leaves an enormous range for discussion about what is considered "significant", and and what is considered "reliable." In our case, in the fields of companies, the interpretation for this has recently been very considerably tightened up by WP:NCORP. In other fields, the interpretation varies, and is some is altogether uncertain and the decisions in individual AfDs are inconsistent. I personally have repeatedly said that the variation in interpretation is so wide it makes the provision meaningless, and we ought to primarily rely on other measures of importance. Very few people agree with me, though I think a very considerable number--possibly most-- consciously or unconsciously do take this into account,.
Here, I think the problem is distinctiveness. It was met by the additional references, so I changed m opinion to Keep. Thanks for notifying me to revisit the discussion. DGG ( talk ) 23:13, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Cambridge
Mutual sniping seems to be continuing, from both sides. I have removed the irrelevant material form that talk page, and from here . If more is added, I shall block. The best way of avoiding it is to to reply directly to the other party. DGG ( talk ) 14:29, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Not sure how to proceed with this. But Grapefruit17 is an editor who almost solely contributes at AfD discussions. Seems to know their way around WP. Thoughts? Onel5969TT me02:09, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That was the issue I had, I couldn't see a possible candidate, just found it strange that an editor with 120 edits had more than half of them on AfD. Thought admins might have a tool to check on something like that. Went through their history, and couldn't find any pattern. Thanks anyway. Onel5969TT me10:39, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Bisnow article
Hello, could you please review the entry for author Mark Bisnow and let me know if it's good to publish, or if any further changes are needed? It has been edited per the feedback you provided. And to address some of the other comments, it is not an autobiography, nor paid, nor am I related to him. The mainstream news sources support notability. Thank you.
too much about Anderson. And the claims for his various innovations need a specific reference for each one of them, not just a general reference. DGG ( talk ) 20:00, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Bisnow article
Thank you for your guidance on the Mark Bisnow entry. I hope it's acceptable now. I went back to the drawing board and redid the entry. It was indeed a bit imbalanced so I removed the heavy focus on the Anderson campaign, as well as the parts that are unsupported with sources or are otherwise a bit superfluous. The entry also achieves a more neutral tone overall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki-contrib-acct (talk • contribs) 10:49, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Disruptive Technologies Research Speedy Deletion
Hello, DGG. It looks like you are a long time and active contributor to wikipedia, thanks for that. If you don't mind, it would help me to get some feedback on why you deleted the Disruptive Technologies Research AS page without allowing any discussion or opportunity to modify it. According to the site guidelines for Speedy Deletion, that would suggest you found the article 100% unable to be rewritten from a neutral point of view or the subject without any notability. However I (attempted to) composed the material to explain that they were notable within the internet of things field for their contributions to the state of the industry's technology and only relied on information as it was reported in something like 8 different 3rd-party sources, 6 of which are notable enough to have their own wikipedia entries:
My request for feedback is really to gauge whether there is any point in trying to reframe the content, or whether the sources themselves are somehow fundamentally inadequate to demonstrate notoriety. Thank you. Bredfiel1 (talk) 02:19, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The article was deleted primarily because it resembles an advertisement, or a web page for the company's product. It is primarily a presentation of how good the product is, using vague phases of excellence or importance. It provides very little in the way of specifics sourced to reliable third party sources. The references are almost entirely the company';s own web pages, or press releases. The IEEE references is a general discussion of the state of technology, not specifically about this particular product. The awards are very minor--just placements on a list, and most are notto this company, but to its customers. You need references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements. You needto write in a style that does not resemble a web page. I suggest that, when you have real references--prefereable technical descriptions in reliable sources, you try to write an article on the product in draft space. It is not good practice. for a paid editor to write directly in main space. DGG ( talk ) 05:25, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I would prefer to update them that they should wait until they have more substantial coverage vs trying again if the source material is entirely deficient. If you don't mind, would you confirm that the below links are still not adequate for "substantial coverage from 3rd-party independent reliable sources"? I ask because of your comment that "the references are almost entirely the company's own or press releases," but I just checked and, of the 19 sources I cited, 9 were articles like the below. Only 2 were PR and 2 were from the company itself.
Thanks for the encouragement, DGG. I'm slowly working on a number of BLPs in nursing as well as science diplomacy and related fields. I appreciate your edits; thanks! Vothlee (talk) 05:09, 17 September 2018 (UTC) Vothlee[reply]
How does it happen that you saw that upwork page; it's apparenty restricted to those with an account. Please email me from my user talk page; or email arb com at arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org. In either case your identity will be considered confidential, but I do not like to proceed upon anonymous accusations where I cannot see the evidence. DGG ( talk ) 14:03, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello DGG, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
Project news
The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing
Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).
Two questions (related to GMO ArbCom)
Hi DGG,
Again, because you served as an Arb, I am hoping you can reflect on these two items with regard to policy.
Petrarchan47: I suggest you don't respond to the request. It's clear from policy that Drmies had no authority to reopen it. You should ask him to revert. If he won't, have his admin status removed. 173.239.230.41
no individual arb can speak for the committee. To the extent that my personal opinion will be relevant to a possible committee action, I think it better to give an opinion in public only when there is a formal case or discussion. I think this is the way most arbs see things.
For the record. This diff hits the bullseye and could hardly be called an expansive interpretation of canvassing. The explicit request to get other administrators involved is unambiguous. Moreover, the request comes at the end of a lengthy non-neutral appeal.
However, after Kingofaces43 having spelt out everything above to you and then following it with his request, "I’d be glad if you want to review the case to get more admins involved", I beg to differ. It is not in any shape or form a neutral request. Admin shopping is my interpretation.Veritycheck✔️ (talk) 02:19, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You will notice, of course, that I gave this as my personal opinion, but , similarly, (1). I would almost never consider an on-wiki notice to a single individual to be canvassing. In fact, I consider that calling it canvassing might be seen as escalation. (2). Nor would I call a request to get more unspecified admins involved to be canvassing--it's quite the opposite.
Various people involved in this dispute have been trying to get me to express an opinion of which side is correct. If I have anything to say I will say it on the relevant talk pages or arb cases, and I think I've already said all that I'm going to. I am asking that no more comments about this dispute be placed on my talk page while I am on arb com. DGG ( talk ) 03:56, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Red bloc
Hi DGG, hope you're well. It's been a month since you deprodded Red bloc and I was wondering if you have any plans to continue working on it. My sense is that, though the phrase is used to refer to a few different topics, it isn't really notable in relation to any. As such I'm inclined to take it to AfD, but if it's still on your agenda to improve the article (I see your last edit summary mentioned "in progress") then I'd be happy to leave it for the time being. Cheers, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 23:43, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DGG, I just saw your article Ulo Altermann, and it seems to lack all evidence of notability. The sources are a forum and two passing mentions (in one he is named in a picture, shown as an example of a "forest brother", in the other he is named as a member of a group, but without further elaboration on him. The Estonian article is unsourced and offers no further clues. As far as I can see, in reliable sources he is only discussed in passing, and only that forum discussion spends some time on him, but that doesn't conferr notability. I guess you had a reason to select this article for creation, but as it stands it doesn't pass our guidelines on notability. Fram (talk) 09:43, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looking for better sources, I find one book which mentions him as a "for example", one book which mentions him in a footnote, and some apparently passing mentions in Estonian sources. Seems very thin... Fram (talk) 09:48, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
He appears to have been the leader of one of the longest-surving detachments of resisters, tho I need to verify that also. . I picked it a few months ago, & I've quite forgotten why specifically, tho there was a reason. . I was using it a/ to try out the translation interface, b/ because I have some interest in the period and c/it was quite straightforward. But I am now going to ask a specialist to have a look. I agree it may be marginal, or even sub-marginal but give me a few weeks.
No problem, take your time. You never struck me as someone creating articles without regards for basic notability, so this caught my eye (while doing new page patrol) as somewhat unusual. I know understand why :-) Fram (talk) 14:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fram, it seems we are two of the very few people who use NPP to check on autoconfirmed editors. I use the old list interface to scan quickly for anomalies, but I only get to it every week or so for a little while. DGG ( talk ) 17:07, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Same here, I only see a fraction of the new pages, but I look at them without prejudice wrt autoconfirmed, reviewed, ... Of course, there are editor+topic combinations I don't bother reviewing (e.g. Lugnuts creating a List-A cricketer article, these can be reasonably be assumed to be factual and notable (according to our very loose criteria)), but otherwise I have seen too many "accepted" editors creating problematic articles (copyvio, hoaxes, ...). And with ACTrial permanently implemented, we have a bit more time to look at these instead of the endless crapfest we had before! Fram (talk) 06:44, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Draft: Paul H. Irving
Hi DGG, I have added new sources to the talk page of this draft in order to better establish notability for Paul H. Irving. I have noted my NNPOV but hope you will consider the significant coverage in multiple published, secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. If this is still not sufficient, please provide further guidance.
Thank you in advance.
OrliBelman (talk) 22:34, 20 September 2018 (UTC)Orli Belman[reply]
I've commented on the draft. More generally, it would appear that a number of other articles on faculty at the USC Dept of Gerontology have been written by publicists. I am going to assume that these were people in the position before you, but if they are still active, please alert them to the need to declare.
Even more generally, looking at the category for USC faculty, it appears that an unusual number of them have similarly been written by PR staff in a consistent manner. Other universities do this also, but the proportion of such articles from USC is unusually high. If you should happen to know your colleagues who are doing this, please make them aware of our requirements. DGG ( talk ) 01:28, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Bisnow article
Hello, there is a sentence in the Mark Bisnow entry that doesn't make sense because part of it was lopped off.
the sentence currently reads:
A second memoir by Bisnow, In the Shadow of the Dome, published in 1990, chronicled his experiences as a Capitol Hill aide in the 1970’s and 80’s to It was named by Washington Monthly as one of the top political books of the year.
It should be:
A second memoir by Bisnow, In the Shadow of the Dome, published in 1990, chronicled his experiences as a Capitol Hill aide in the 1970’s and 80’s to an eclectic mix of lawmakers including Senators Hubert Humphrey, John Heinz, and Bob Dole, among others. It was named by Washington Monthly as one of the top political books of the year.
The reason the book was well-received is because it talks about those political figures, so the sentence provides pertinent context. Could you please approve the edit?
I've removed the "to", I have not restored the rest, in the absence of evidence about how much of the book was devoted to these particular people, either from the book itself or from the review. I think a reader will assumes that Capital Hill aides will have anecdotes about well-known people. DGG ( talk ) 21:57, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Robert Foster Cherry Award
Hi DGG
I noticed you removed the prod template from the above-captioned article.
Is this because you think the topic is notable, or just think that further discussion is merited to ascertain whether it is?
I think a good guide to the notability of awards is whether all or most of the recipients are likely to be notable enough for articles in WP, tho it is of course not a formal criterion (I at first thought this was an award for Baylor faculty only, in which case I would not consider it notable , but looking more carefully, its a national award.) I have just now removed everyone but the 1st place winners, as usual. DGG ( talk ) 00:39, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Silvair, Inc article
Dear DGG,
Thanks for pointing out places for improvement of Silvair, Inc. article. I'll introduce the changes so that the article brings more value.
As for Afd withdrawal, it has been reversed by the bot: "No AfD template, but article is still at AfD. Bot adding template. (Peachy 2.0 (alpha 8))". Is there a way to fix that?
Please see your user talk page. There are two reason. First, another used has given a delete opinion, so it can not be actually withdrawn; second, I feel I cannot fairly comment further until you give a disclosure of any COI. My advice is that if you can not find the necessary references within the next few days, you ask that the article be deleted until you can. DGG ( talk ) 22:42, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've disclosed COI on my user page. Hope it's been done ok, I'm still learning. (I'm not paid or in any other way awarded for my article about Silvair, however I'm employee of its subsidiary in Europe.) As for "ask that the article be deleted until you can" - do you mean Speed Deletion or something else? I'll be travelling for next four days, so most probably I won't be able to do a research on better sources. The company has been several times awarded for contributions to Bluetooth standard, so there should be more info available. Still, because it would take some time to gather required information, I'd rather delete the article to avoid controversy. MichalHobot (talk) 20:49, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
MichalHobot, it can be deleted at your request. Or, if you think you can improve it in the next few months, it can be moved to Draft space, though I have not sure routine notices of awards will be sufficient. --After you improve it, you can ask for review, or it is not worked on for 6 months it will be automatically deleted. DGG ( talk ) 22:09, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Lists of journalists in New York City
Thank you for your good points, DGG. They are well taken. I've just started this article, I believe we should be able to take it there with time. Best, Castncoot (talk) 19:18, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Suspicious?
Hi DGG, you've probably got a more balanced view of a lot of things that I seem to have. Would you mind taking a look at the articles created by Michael Powerhouse. I came across a number of articles that I deemed promotional and on digging deeper, I came across other articles that appear to be heavily biased towards point-scoring as opposed to any real notability - e.g. Perry Weitz and John Simmons (attorney). Let me know what you think if you get a chance, thank you. HighKing++ 15:03, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I had commented on his talk page earlier. See my comment there. I am now checking additional articles. The editing pattern does seem quite remarkable. DGG ( talk ) 02:30, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Please remember to do WP:BEFORE background research before nominating articles for deletion. I've seen many of your AfD noms fail–they could've easily been avoided had more research been done. I've made similar mistakes in the past and it's easy to correct them. I've rarely seen you mention in your nominations that you did one, while there are sometimes a dozen articles extra on the subject that may make it pass WP:GNG or other notability guidelines.
This link shows that you nominate many articles for deletion and it's good that many are successful, but bad that so many aren't.
This is just a friendly message with advice... no worries here. I know that you are an experienced editor here and have respect from the community due to your activity here and I appreciate it a ton, but there are basic errors I've seen you make and I'm just pointing them out.
I know not everyone understands what my purposes are in deletion discussions. Although some questions involved in determining notability or promotionalism are cut-and-dried, other aspects remain uncertain. And even for our accepted rules, the boundaries between the acceptable and the not acceptable are almost always fuzzy. I have for many years chosen to involve myself with the undecided and the fuzzy. This necessarily implies my nominations do not always suceed--if they always did, I would not have successfully identified the disputable cases.
Additionally, consensus can change, and I have definite ideas on which directions I would like it to change. My method of working is to carefully try to see and affect the views people have here. I try to do this cautiously, and not be over-persistent on any one point; but I continue to advocate for them from time to time as occasion offers; and I do not concentrate too hard on any one issue, because I have several of them in mind. The only way to see if an argument is more likely to convince people than in the past, is by trying.
Further, I have some basic principles that others may not share. For example, I consider avoiding promotionalism far more important than deciding borderline notability. I like simple ways of deciding that do not rely on the variable interpretation of nebulous terms. And, just as long as we maintain verifiability, I consider sourcing much less important than importance as judged within the subject. As you must be aware, the people taking interest in any one discussion vary. If a discussion should happen to attract people who dislike the way I look at things, the result will not go my way. I consider this the necessary consequence of deciding questions the way WP does, by the consensus of those who are for the moment interested.
I never look at my the statistics of afds I nominate or participate in them. Anyone can get a perfect record by only doing the obvious, as it is necessary when a candidate at RfA. I do not even watchlist the discussions. I do keep track of ones that I want to return to--either in a few months, when there may be a more representative set of participants, or in a year, as consensus begins to change, or in 5 years, when it has done so, or in 10, when we mature into a better realization of our responsibilities.
I do not argue to win individual decisions; I argue to change opinions more generally. ( This means I will often lose, but that does not bother me, as long as we are making progress in what I consider the right direction, or as a last resort, just keep things from getting even more wrong-headed) Any topic it would really bother me emotionally to lose, I do not engage with on Wikipedia. And I make mistakers. When I do, I say so. Very few other people do that, and I have never been able to understand it.
In particular, since you mention it, I sometimes do use guesswork about whether there will or will not be sources. I think I'm pretty good at it, but I am not perfect. (very few people are, see the AfD for John J. Kerrigan. or Richard Ziser . ) I do not think this particularly wrong, because I do not give opinions about what I want kept or deleted primarily on the basis of sourcing, though I try to also argue in the conventional way for those who insist on it. No one has the right to expect that I will argue as they would like me to. All that anyone has the right to expect of me, is that I go by the established consensus in making administrative decisions.
And, to get down to issues, our most recent disagreement is Christopher Bergland. Frankly, I consider article unencyclopedic, regardless of details of sourcing, unless it is actually of really general interest. Its the sort of coverage we should minimize. The policy here is NOT INDISCRIMINATE., which is the true foundation of all inclusion guidelines. DGG ( talk ) 03:50, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting discussion. We sometimes vote at the same AfD, and I take note of what you say. I find it interesting you don't base your votes primarily on sourcing, which is my primary basis of voting, except that I will vote for a WP:TNT on articles so poorly written (or WP:PROMO) that I don't want the general public to see them in that state.
I think I might share your view, which I believe is that we have too many articles about unnotable athletes. I find it incredible that we have the WP:NOLYMPICS rule that anyone who ever participated in any Olympics is automatically notable. That seems a glaring and unreasonable exception to our rules, and I cannot understand how on earth we have such a rule. Some of these athletes have zero secondary sources, but we still have an article? I am curious if you have any thoughts on that issue and how that rule came into being. --David Tornheim (talk) 08:09, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1) I think the rule came into being to avoid the tens of thousands of debates that would have occurred otherwise. Including non-notable people does very little harm, provided that what we say can be verified and that there is nothing that might violate BLP. Engaging in extensive afd debates when it doesn't matter does do harm, for it impairs our ability to focus on the important issues. I wish we had many more fixed rules for what we would ordinarily cover/not cover. I would support them even if I did not altogether agree with them, because it simplifies our procedures. (In fact, I would usually support them even if I totally disagreed. Consensus only works if we put up with each other. )
2) There are a number of areas where I think we have too many articles. I think that everyone has this opinion, except that the areas they think over-covered differ. This is a communal enterprise, and I think we can only proceed without conflict by letting other people have their harmless over-coverage in their areas of interest, provided it does not interfere with what we individually consider proper coverage in our own areas of interest. For example, I will gladly accept the athlete in exchange for accepting an article on each species of organisms. Everyone's examples will differ here. But the only way to get an encyclopedia the way I would want it would be to make it myself. As this is impossible, compromise is necessary. Consensus only works if we put up with each other. DGG ( talk ) 17:55, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the feedback. I can't agree with you that declaring certain topics or people notable simply to reduce time spent at AfD is a good idea, but I do respect the idea that having simple reasonable metrics can make complex decisions simpler. (For example, I would like a database that makes it easy to lookup particular sources and our overall assessment of their reliability, including past discussions.) If we have more articles, then that means more maintenance of those articles for accuracy. When I hit random article, it far too frequently goes to some obscure athlete, often someone in the Olympics with virtually zero WP:SECONDARY. This seems a bit unfair to other topics and people, like say movie stars and film directors who have to reach a far higher bar with WP:NARTIST. My feeling is that WP:NOLYMPICS means we are effectively promoting the Olympics by disproportionately waiving notability rules for Olympians while doing the opposite for other fields. It's a bit strange given the demographics of our editors.
Being an inclusionist, I tend not to worry about "over-coverage", as long as there is WP:RS that underpins the text. But given that we have long-standing rules of the minimum requirement for an article, I do believe we should apply them uniformly. If the standard is *multiple* independent secondary sources, I am frustrated that Olympians get a free pass, but others do not. --David Tornheim (talk) 06:29, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If we're talking about athletes, I do not see how the coverage of Olympics in WP has a significant promotional effect in comparison to their already achieved status, nor does it affect the career of individual athletes--they either win, or they don't. I'm much more concerned in this connection with some other fields of endeavor. DGG ( talk ) 06:42, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not talking about the individual athletes, I'm talking about our articles promoting the Olympics, which has become a huge industry. By having articles on numerous people simply because they participated in this event, it sends the message that the event is *extremely* important. The Olympics is a billion dollar business. See their marketing materials here. See also [62][63][64][65]. (I take note that our article Olympic Games seems to give fairly limited coverage of profits, revenues, and advertising mentioned in those articles I easily pulled up in this Google search.) --David Tornheim (talk) 07:42, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Organization Article Question
Hi, DGG – I’m reaching out about the Direct Relief Wikipedia page. As an employee at Direct Relief with a clear conflict of interest, I’m hesitant to make any edits, nor would I know where to start. That said, I share your objective to have an unbiased, non-promotional and informative article about the organization. I was hoping that you might recommend how one might go about trying to resolve the issue you flagged – ensuring adherence to community guidelines that discourage employees from writing or editing articles on behalf of their employers (a good policy).
Any advice or help you’re able to offer is greatly appreciated.
The first step is to realize that it is very difficult to write in a NPOV manner about your own self or your organization. The official way to do it is by making suggestions, which you should make on the article talk page. . Add a line reading {{Requestedit}} . Unfortunately will usually take a while for a response--but if you also notify me here I will take a look. However, some of the elimination of excess can be done directly--it can be cleaer that way, just put a note explaining it on the article talk page.
The problem is advocacy. The simplest rule to follow is that it looks like it would make an effective web page on your site, it will not do here. Your web page says what you would like people to know about your organization--an encyclopedia article says what ordinary people would want to do. This includes the general outlines of your work, but not why the problems it tries to deal with are important. It shouldn't include a list of minor projects, and for those projects that are worth mentioning, it shouldn't describe why the work is important, just say what was done. ( for an example, section 4.1 should not include the second sentence. ) It shouldn't include minor awards; for the awards worth mentioning, it shouldn't cite the vague terms customary in the award announcement. It has to give the source of each reference without people having to look it up. It shouldn't cite press releases, it shouldn't include material such as material derived only from the organization, such as the Guidestar statement that ""this report represents Direct Relief's responses". It should eliminate adjectives of praise or importance.
Hi, DGG - That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the quick reply and thoughtful explanation. Also, thanks for being up for making a first pass. I'll be sure to take notes and learn what I can based on your edits. Tony mit (talk) 21:32, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, DGG - I saw your edits and tried to pick up where you left off. I didn't add any info but removed a couple sentences that I thought could be promotional. Also, I removed some information that didn't seem relevant, and edited punctuation in a few places. If you have any feedback or think any of the edits I made should be undone, please let me know, and thanks again.
I'm the subject of a new page that that has been deleted on the grounds that it's promotional, or that the subject doesn't qualify under the notability requirements.
Agreeing to someone creating a page, then watching them work has been frustrating to say the least. No doubt you will have spent many frustrating hours over the years identifying and deleting pages that don't serve the higher purpose or align to the goals of Wikipedia.
Intending to abide by those standards, I thought it best to let an expert do the editing (and I understand it's not appropriate for an individual to add a page about themselves). It appears the editor has mucked up the whole process and ended up with the page flagged to prevent its creation.
I'm the author of multiple books, and a regular speaker at international conferences and film festivals on the themes of futurism, media technology and creativity. It seemed suitable to offer an overview of the key messages I promote as part of an optimistic-realist approach to our future socio-economic and technological environment.
With countless online interviews, articles, and recorded conference presentations, I had the impression the page would meet the notability requirements and offer at least a little value to readers exploring these themes.
Unfortunately, the editor working on the page seems to have focused on links to books and courses - in short, it looked like marketing. The page in question is (was) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Jago.
I'm not interested in self-promotion but do believe readers of my books and attendees of the conferences I have spoken at would be interested to find information about the work I'm doing in the realms of futurism, AI, social engineering, and the creative process. How can we find someone to edit a page of this kind that will meet the appropriate standards for quality and notability? I must admit I had presumed writing over 30 books and training courses, several used as standard textbooks in universities and colleges worldwide, along with over 1,800 online tutorials, would qualify but it seems the previous editor failed to include this information appropriately.
Thank you for your patience reaching the end of this lengthy post - it seemed better to enquire with someone with the experience and knowledge to offer helpful direction. If it's unhelpful to include information of this kind on a Wikipedia page, perhaps I simply need to understand the requirements better.
It is possible altho not certain that an appropriate page could be written; the key element of notability here might be your textbook if you can find independent reliable published sources that it is the major book in its field. Amazon doesn't count for this purpose. . Lectures almost never count towards notability , and there seems to be no major award for your work on the films, tho I see the awards for 2 of the actors in one of your the short films, which might help somewhat. .
But there is a problem about this which I consider much more important to WP than whether or not you are notable enough to have a page. There are several editors who created versions of the deleted article. . I need to ask you about this, and I cannot do it here. You will need to email me from my user page. See the instructions here. DGG ( talk ) 15:42, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I have to admit I'm bristling a little at your post at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All Things Broadway at having a community member of your stature say my nomination should not be considered when deciding consensus because of admittedly substantial efforts to improve that have improved the article. I have read every last word posted on that page. As I explained after the first 2,000 words, I don't tend to reply to discussions where I've nominated because I've found when nominators engage in prolonged discussion with article creators that neither person in the discussion comes out looking good. However, I do monitor the discussions carefully. Is there a policy/guideline/well-respected essay that says after a rewrite that a nominator should confirm their nomination? I saw no reason to do so here because I considered the theater production element in my nomination statement, but, unlike what I'm doing here, I try to be concise. If there is such a piece of writing I'm sorry for bristling on your talk page. If there's not, I would ask to be asked to confirm next time rather than having my nomination (and time I've spent thinking about the article and researching it and following huge amounts of text at AfD) be imputed to not matter - I'd have been happy to reply. In that spirit would you consider replying to the question L235 posed to you at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southwest Value Partners? I feel that the topic is likely notable but my research to date hasn't found other coverage that pushes it over the line for me. But maybe I'm underestimating/not properly considering one of the existing sources. Thanks and Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:15, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
as I see it, I was offering you the chance to say that you had taken it into account. Even more important, if I notify one person who has been involved in a discussion, I try to notify all of them. And , as I said, I have not myself decided whether or not I consider the topic notable even as rewritten.
as for the SWP article, I'll look at it again . I always like to be reminded or notified , as I cannot watch every discussion I engage it. I think everyone knows by now that I sometimes change my mind. Please always do notify me if there's something I might possibly want to check again. DGG ( talk ) 03:24, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Barkeep49: and @DGG: Thank you, both. I'll be more concise in the future. I'm planning an article about the t. Will these sources suffice for notability: [66][67][68][69] I plan to write ATA as a theater company rather than as a venue or a BLP of James Jennings, founder of ATA. What are your thoughts? Thank you.Vyeh (talk) 06:54, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DGG Wasn't planning on responding again to you but since I got pinged back here anyway, let me say (more succinctly) I would argue I didn't need to be offered that chance at risk of having my voice discounted. I would have been happy if asked rather than demanded (as I saw it) or offered (as you see it) to comment.Vyeh Thanks for taking some lessons from that AfD. I think you'd have stood a better chance of persuading, and wouldn't have attracted so much attention, if you'd been more concise. As for ATA, Backstage might be helpful for notability but it's borderline for me (I question its independence given the heavy quoting and the plug for tickets at the end). I'm not familiar enough with Backstage's editorial process to say more about its RS status. The others don't strike me as all that great. But given what was said in those sources I think the organization likely is notable and sources are out there that would help establish it as such. One such source might be this. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:30, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
High standards
I read your blurb on your user page.. really interesting. Jessica Pollock is a very active person, making a real difference. There has been a struggle earlier because people like you are all too willing to belittle people from their perspective. From my perspective I recently read about a very notable (male) person who was only notable because of the many awards he received. Nothing in there of why he was notable, nothing in there of any suggestion that the article is substandard.
The problem with deletionists, people who are on their high horse is that they are of an opinion and do not take it kindly when people do not agree with their set standards. This is one such instance and your reaction is agrressive; not only do you revert, you include "peocock". Why, it has nothing to do with me, I do not know Mrs Pollock personally. IMHO this is more about you than about the subject at hand. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 10:06, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly support articles for all notable academics. In particular, I have from my first years of WP strongly supported articles for academics in fields that have traditionally been ones where the majority of the people were women. 10 years ago there was explicitly worded opposition to covering people in such fields--I think the records of earlier afds will show I took a leading role in trying to get them included--we still have a long way to go in some of these fields-- there a a great many women who meet the standards for WP:PROF that need articles written, and I support the organized efforts to write them.
But the standards for the 21st century and the late 20th century are the same for all genders and ethnic groups and nationalities. I recognize there is still a considerable degree of gender and other discrimination in the academic world, but an encyclopedia has to go by accomplishments, not by what there might be if the world were better. (In earlier centuries, when opportunities for women were extremely limited, I certainly support taking account of this in the expectations for accomplishment). Saying we should accept anything less than the same standard is like saying good enough, for a woman, the traditional patriarchal condescending way of thinking. I sometimes see that others still see it that way; it is one of the insidious effect of prejudice that those discriminated against and their supporters have also have their own thinking influenced; that's part of the mechanism by which prejudice continues.
Nice words. I am involved in awards among other things; particularly in Wikidata. For me this is about awards, they are relevant and they are not given lightly. The notion about notability in awards as I have observed in English Wikipedia makes me cringe. Having the awards in articles is normal enough, articles however are to be notable in their own right and that gives you an unbalance why are they accepted for one and not for the other.. Your notions and reaction are completely contrary to your flowery prose. Sorry you do not convince. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 17:44, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
he's in the UK and further checkuser is unlikely to help. we have to go by behavior--I see he's already blocked & reverted, which is fine with me. GMT is already semi protected, but perhaps it should be for a longer time. I don't think it's a good idea to semiprotect a talk p. unless it gets much worse. DGG ( talk ) 04:30, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Metropolitan Opera Guild
Thank you for cleaning up my first effort to change this page from the former redirect straight to Opera News. I was unaware of this gap in WP content until I stumbled onto it. Much more can be added. I have included it on my watch list and as time permits changes will be made. Oversight from editors like yourself is invaluable. Any suggestions you might have that will help me better navigate the WP world are welcome. 300 edits is a drop in the water. I have much to learn. Mrphilip (talk) 13:06, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Question on Notability / AfD -- secondary sources based on a press release
I'd like your opinion on whether we consider a topic or person notable if they have multiple independent WP:SECONDARYWP:RS on them, but it is easy to see that the secondary sources (with by-lines of journalists working for the periodicals) were based mostly or almost entirely on the same press release. I can see an argument for and against such a person/topic being notable. I'm not familiar with any guidelines about this. What is your opinion? --David Tornheim (talk) 18:47, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If secondary sources are based on pa press release they do not cou nt for notability . They never did, and this has been clairfied by NCORP. If two or more secondary sources have essentially the same cotnent, they either arecopying each other, or a copying the same PR source, or at least are based on it, and even if the original cannot be identified, it's proof of unreliability. I and others have made this argument of many hundreds of afds , and it's never been refuted.
the real problem is that in some fields, unless the subject is truly famous, all available sources are to some extent based on press releases. We haven't fully realized this yet, except in the most obvious examples, like films in some countries. The job of a good press agent consists of getting apparently reliable sources to carry their material. I'm no sure that this can be dealt with by the GNG--either we have to greatly truncate our coverage in many important fields, or we have to base notability on some other criterion. (It has sometimes been said that the fact that secondary sources choose to reprint one particular organization's press releases shows that that organization is notable -- but most industry sources try to accommodate as many firms in the industry as possible, and beyond there it's based mainly on contacts, the most important part of the background necessary to be a good press agent. What it shows is the importance of the particular press agent, and PR people use these placements as their credentials, just as people trying to write paid editing for WP are expected to give references to their other articles ). DGG ( talk ) 03:21, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for directing me to WP:NCORP and for the full explanation. Regarding this rule in WP:NCORP:
Examples of dependent coverage that is not sufficient to establish notability:
press releases, press kits, or similar public relations materials
any material which is substantially based on such press releases even if published by independent sources (churnalism),...
NCORP is not a new guideline--everything there there is basically the GNG sourcing requirements, specialized for companies. The requirement that sources for notability be . sources providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements is standard. Companies are such an issue these days that it was necessary to reiterate the rule , with examples. People are a slightly different problem, because of the SNGs. Except for WP:PROF, which is an alternative to the GNG, we have never consistently decided the relationship between them and the SNG. My own position in most cases is that they too should in general be seen as replacements, but that has never really had consensus. I have suggested that often it be handled by interpreting "presumed" in its legal meaning, if it meets that requirements in the SNG, it is notable unless it can be clearly shown otherwise, and it can not be clearly shown otherwise without a comprehensive search in all reasonably likely sources, which is beyond the resources of most people here--and even with the necessary library resources smd languages and skill, it is normally beyond the time available.
But everything I say above is just how I think the guidelines we use can best be interpreted to give what we consider a reasonable result. We most of the time actually use them to justify our views about what an encyclopedia like WP ought to cover, although many people claim not to not realize it. The effective guidelines are made by our decisions. That's why I usually say something like, "it has been our consistent practice that ...." If I argue to change a guideline, it is on the basis that our decisions have changed and the guideline needs to keep up with it. DGG ( talk ) 04:04, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
ATA
DGG You haven't responded to my message: "I'm planning an article about the American Theatre of Actors. Will these sources suffice for notability: [70][71][72][73] I plan to write ATA as a theater company rather than as a venue or a BLP of James Jennings, founder of ATA. What are your thoughts? Thank you."
In its former home Off Broadway, the American Theater of Actors, a warehouse-like room on the second floor of a midtown building with 135 seats on risers, I found Urinetown audacious and exhilarating, riotously and intelligently arch. And my intention was to assess how well the show has accommodated its step up in physical dimensions (at 635 seats, the Henry Miller is far bigger, though far from Broadway big) and also to assess the visibility that its notoriety and success have engendered.
Are the four source in my original message, the Daily Herald and the New York Times enough to establish notability for ATA? Thank you. Vyeh (talk) 14:21, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
How do I go about moving the userspace pages over to mine? I believe that I added the appropriate disclosures to the page, but please correct me if I am wrong. I do see, in the current state that they are in will mean they need some edits (in my userspace) before they will be considered.
Thanks for your recent work reviewing new articles. Foreign biography articles are often particularly difficult (at least for me), and I saw quite a few of these among your reviews. Thanks and keep up the good work. Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)15:28, 6 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Page Deletion Follow-Up
Hi, I noticed your deletion of the Patrick Gunning page due to G12 ("Unambiguous copyright infringement: extensive copyvio from ref 1 and other references"). Do you reckon you can restore the page as a draft so I can address your concerns? (I paraphrased everything as briefly as possible. I absolutely did not copy/paste anything, and so I'd like to see where I went wrong.)
I'll explain things further on your talk page later today. I meant to do it before now, but real life got in the way. Sorry. DGG ( talk ) 21:13, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I contested the speedy deletion of Easy Transfer, a page that was tagged for speedy deletion for the following concern: Unambiguous advertising or promotion. I believe that while the article talks about the company, it is not intentionally promoting the company's services. All statements are from cited sources and media.
I just wanted a reply to my contest before the page would be deleted, but there was none. As a relatively new contributor, I am saddened by the speedyness of the deletion of quite a few days of research work. I do not see a clear reason why the article was "unambiguous"ly advertising anything. Looking forward to your reply! Thanks. --Peon ruler (talk) 02:42, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1. You are the obvious sockpuppet of another editor, who was indefinitely blocked for adding advertising material with a promotional username--using an open proxy in both instances. , It has returned without explaining the connection, and have continued to add material which was essentially advertising; this account too has been blocked.
2.The material was added to mainspace despite the conflict of interest, with edits designed to evade or rules requiring use of draft pace for new articles by new editors.
3.The material consisted of long sections of advocacy explaining the underlying problems, a long overpersonal account of how the two inventors devised the scheme and their own individual merits, & direct advertising claims about the security and other benefits. This is appropriate for the firm's web page, not an encyclopedia
4.It was sourced almost entirely to he firms own website, PR sites, mere listings, t mere announcements of funding, and similar. (Tho some are in Chinese, the online translations make it obvious that everything is copied from their own press releases.)
You are, however, quite correct in your statement that we proceed to remove material of this nature as rapidly as we possibly can.
much of it is very similar to what I've said hundreds of times, so it takes just a few minutes -- and it's here for other people to see it.
I find that an explanation of how I know they're a spammer tends to lower the chance that they'll come back, or try to protest further. .
And I know from comments made to me here and elsewhere that an explanation that makes it clear that I've actually read the article and checked the references is much more effective for both spammers and good faith but inexperienced editors than our usual notices. I only sometimes do this because there are just too many, but we really always ought to. We need to at least give the impression that this site is run by humans. DGG ( talk ) 18:10, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you think that every human gene is notable and deserves a page? Was it a discussion somewhere? Can you give any link? I would say a lot of genes and their products are not notable at all (in WP sense) because there was nothing published about them...My very best wishes (talk) 15:44, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I may or may not be expressing the current consensus, but I made such arguments earlier. The way to find out is to bring the articles individually to AfD, and there will be a discussion; for others should be involved, not just the two of us. I suggest that you bring them individually, not as a group, because it is usually argued that there may be something more known about a specific one. In situations like that I usually bring one or two, not all, to see what view is taken, and then I can decide better what to do with the others. In that sprit, I will not revert your redirects until after the discussion. By " nothing published", I suppose you are saying they are only in a database and have not been further investigated or ever included in an article. . But for each of them, if they have been given a name, it has to have been on same basis. (If the consensus is that they do not merit a separate article, there is an alternative, which is merging in a list; our articles on the individual chromosomes refer to external lists only ; for an example, see List of minor planets. DGG ( talk ) 01:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, I do not have time for nominating these pages for deletion. I can only quickly fix something when I see it. If you know what this particular gene product does and believe the "page" is worth keeping, you are welcome to revert my edits. My very best wishes (talk) 03:50, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Genericusername57
@DGG: I need your advice concerning Genericusername57. Please look at Special:Contributions/Genericusername57. I'm only impacted because he did a drive-by peer review of my article. Some of his comments seemed wacky. I noticed that he/she did a similar treatment of several other articles. In addition, he/she put an article up for peer review. What should I do? Vyeh (talk) 13:02, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I went ahead and peer reviewed the article he put up. He thanked me and asked a question about biased sources. He read my article further, putting in a couple of needed spaces. I guess he is an editor that wanted his article reviewed, read the section in the instructions about reciprocity and was very enthusiastic. Vyeh (talk) 20:08, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It is not a very frequently used process, and it is unusual that someone does this so soon after starting here. His comments deal with general non-wiki writing--structure and grammar--rather than wiki-specific format and the like. What he said on your page was sensible enough though only one key thing was important: the shortening of the intro paragraph. DGG ( talk ) 22:09, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: Reviewing the history of the article he put up for peer review, it appears he had worked on it unregistered. Perhaps there is a requirement that one has to be registered to seek peer review, since that was the first contribution. What threw me was his suggestion that I ditch the article's intro in favor of the informal intro I had used in the peer review. Thank you for responding. Vyeh (talk) 03:22, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone who wants to can do peer review, just as anyone can edit. It is not a formal process. Nobody is obliged to follow any of the comments there. Looking at it more carefully it seems to be used more than I thought it was, as a sort of test run for GA and FA. I have never participated in those processes, so I've never paid it attention either. I will take a look at the specific issue about the lead and give my advice on the article talk p. DGG ( talk ) 19:54, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: My FA mentor (it was a way of getting someone to look at the article!) recommended peer review. COGE has gone through the article and made helpful comments, in the process shortening the lead. Vyeh (talk) 18:26, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
At Wikipedia there are many ways of working, many patterns to develop content. There is enough space for everyone to pick their own pattern of work and their own priorities. I don't work with FA, but I appreciate the people who do. DGG ( talk ) 16:02, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG:User:Genericusername57 found a source only said a book was nominated for a prize, but did not win it. It was a sentence and source I inherited. I had checked it, but missed it partly because it was a Romanian language source. He also caught a duplicate sentence in the body. He's been very helpful in improving the article! Are you coming to Wednesday's meeting in DUMBO? Vyeh (talk) 03:11, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Georgii Chornyi
Thank you for editing of my article Georgii Chornyi. I agree with most your corrections, but ask you to accept some clarifications that I brought in to the article 19-20 October 2018. Geokiv (talk) 6:18, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
and I agree with most of your corrections also, and made a few more, to use the enWP style of writing book titles, and the usual English sentence structure. It can take several rounds of this to get it right. DGG ( talk ) 05:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I was chatting with MOJO Hand and he mentioned that we should get in touch. I noticed that the Bitwage page has been taken down. When I had originally created the page, I was using it as a repository of important articles describing the progress of Bitwage over time. However, we had been flagged for potential advertising for some time. I did not understand what about the page was considered an advertisement. However, if you could point to the particular issues, would be happy to update it so that the page is properly formatted for Wikipedia. Thank you :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonathanericchester (talk • contribs) 14:16, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There are the following problems:
The article is addressed to "you"
Overpersonal account of the founding of the company
Referring to people by the first names alone
Repeated use of straight advertising language, eg "... makes international payroll payments faster, cheaper and easier" "in under 24 hours" "helps employees, freelancers and contractors receive their wages all over the world, "
Inclusion of practical details about how to use the service--this belongs on the firm's own web page only.
Inclusion of routine features as if they were something special.
In addition, there are major problems with the referencing:
Using references that merely mention the company as if they had substantial material. Every reference from something that could be seen as a major reliable source is of this nature,
Using references that are straight PR sites, or based on PR, or are mere announcements.
The only likely way of getting an article on Wikipedia is that the company might become so notable that there will be truly substantial, independent and non-promotional sources, and for someone unconnected with the company to want to write about it. DGG ( talk ) 19:41, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your edit! I’d like to inform you that that article isn’t a press based! I’ve gathered all information from google, linked in, and many sources! I founded this source from google and I made it reference for verification so that people easily can understand! He’s an artist so he gave lots of speech in front of press and etc and it’s general! Can you please remove that template, it’d be kind enough! Thanks Shaheba Sultana (talk) 06:04, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for looking into the draft of CoinSwitch. I see that it has been deleted for "G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion". I'm not very experienced with Wikipedia so I may not have known to avoid certain tones or points of view in order to avoid this, but I did make efforts, to the best of my abilities, to ensure a neutral point of view, while adding numerous citations, from reputed publications, wherever possible. I believe the topic is worthy of a Wikipedia article because of the following reasons:
- It is the largest exchange aggregator in the world (based on number of currencies supported). The oldest brand in this industry - Changelly - supports about 1/4th the number and yet has a Wikipedia page of its own.
- It contains neutral, reputed sources for the content mentioned in the article.
- The previous draft of the post (that I began working on) had been sent back. That post lacked sources, and seemed overly promotional (it even had links to 'reviews' of the service). I worked on removing any such material and revamping the post entirely, adding more content and making it neutral. It hurts (and is confusing) to be honest, to face deletion on a post that I personally felt was better than the previous draft. I understand that Wikipedia submissions shouldn't be run by emotions of course, but I'm unable to fully understand how the updated draft was worse than the previous one. Perhaps you could help me with this.
- I don't recall writing the article from a pro-CoinSwitch point of view. If however, that has happened, could you please help me with the changes I can make to rectify this? I'd really appreciate it.
This would also significantly aid me in my future submissions on Wikipedia, so I'd be grateful if you can spare a few minutes of your time on this topic.
I have restored it for you to work on, for it might be possible to improve it. One way of looking at promotionalism is that if the article is suitable for a company web page, it is promotional , not encyclopedic; another is that a promotional article gives the information the company would want to give, rather than the information a reader might want to know; yet another, is providing information that would interest none but present or potential participants or clients. associates. Either way, it's promotional. You may not have intended it as such: the nature of some subjects is that it is difficult to write an article at all without it also having large elements of promotionalism; the world is so full of promotional writing that people naturally write in that style; Wikipedia in particular, has so much promotional content from the earlier years when standards were lower that people assume that's what is wanted here. It will take us a long time tor remove it all, but the least we can do is not add to it. DGG ( talk ) 04:12, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I will work on the page now, and hopefully can come to you for assistance if required. Can you also help me with how to upload images to Wikipedia? I just created a new page - Ben Böhmer, which already had a German page but not one in English. But I'm not sure about how to upload images for the page. Thanks. Ymed07 (talk) 16:17, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your comments on my attempt to get this previously rejected article over the line. I am new to creating and editing articles, and it is useful to have advice on how much to include, or not, as far as supporting quotes go. RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:58, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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There's a discussion about prod patrolling at ANI and I mentioned you there as another patroller that it would be good to hear from. In the course of discussion, it was noted that WikiProject Proposed deletion patrolling is not very active – no-one has posted there for over a year. Perhaps we should do some spring-cleaning and compare notes about best practice. We might also request some time-saving scripts or tools in the Community Wishlist. Andrew D. (talk) 13:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Help with article deletion
Long time, no see. Hope you are well. I've been going back and forth with somebody about Everlane, an unremarkable (in my opinion) clothing retailer that nevertheless has a gee-whiz promotional article on Wikipedia (not the first or last such article on Wikipedia). I would like to nominate this article for deletion, but for the life of me I can't find a page in Wikipedia that explains how to do that. Can you help? Is there a template somewhere I can use? Thanks for your past work purging fluff from the online encyclopedia that everyone can edit. Chisme (talk) 22:51, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:Chisme go to Preferences, Gadgets, and check Twinkle and set your preferences to do everything including turning on your CSD log. You can than easily Speedy Delete nominate (WP:CSD) and XfD (nominate for deletion discussion) away all day long. See WP:AFD and WP:WP for more info. Good luck. Legacypac (talk) 00:10, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
clear enough. I don't like to block while the afdi s in progress, and after it's over, unless they write more, theres no need to. The virtue of afd in this case over speedy, is that it prevents re-creation. DGG ( talk ) 05:19, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Request on 18:48:22, 11 November 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Robhmac
Regarding Draft:Erie High School (Pennsylvania)
I do not know what else you require for this article stub to be acceptable. I've included THREE external, third-party sources, including the school's official website, the school district's website, as well as the local newspaper article that documents how and when the school was formed by the merger of other high schools. It was never my intention to write a full article, just enough to update all of the other Erie high school pages that imply that they still exist as high schools. However, if I have not provided enough sources, can you give me some more details, such as what else should be added?
Thank you so much.
If it were up to me it would be acceptable. But the purpose of AfC is to evaluate what the consensus is going to consider acceptable. The current opinion here is that unsourced articles on high schools will be deleted. I have argued against this for many years, and I thought that I had established the principle that high schools would always be considered notable or the purposes of WP. In the last year, the consensus has been otherwise, in spite of the greatest effort to prevent this change that could be made by me and the others who agreed with me. One of the characteristics of the way things work here is that the interpretations of the rules are not fixed, but can change. Nobody here can tell other people here what they must do: there is no such authority, and consequently sometimes not a great deal of stability. there really is no alternative between there being an authoritative top-down decision making and relying on the general agreement ( we could do it by voting--we don't , we do it by a sort of rough consensus.) It would be irresponsible of me to tell you it was OK when I think it likely that this will not be the decision.
How much sourcing is required is however an open question. I suggest that you first check for articles about the school in the local news sources--here ought to be some, especially if there was a period of changes in the organization and consolidation of schools in the district. Then the best approach might be to write a combination article, High schools in.... . I shall certainly support it, and I hope others will also. But the nature of WP is that neither I nor anyone else can make any promises. DGG ( talk ) 05:29, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Draft article
Hello, I certainly came to pick your brain, seek opinions, and learn. The article Draft:JBJ95 was on the list and it also showed it was a duplicate title of JBJ (band) that is now defunct. The JBJ band was actually a temporary project group, managed by Fave Entertainment, that disbanded on April 30, 2018. Two members signed a contract with Hunus Entertainment and Star Road Entertainment and started JBJ95. These bands, as well as [I.B.I (band)]] that was apparently active in 2016-2017, are a product of Produce 101 and Produce 101 (season 2) with YouTube presence.
The circumstances are somewhat similar to Topp Dogg (2013) that became Xeno-T in 2018 when Stardom Entertainment merged with Hunus Entertainment except only two members of JBJ (band) became JBJ95.
Anyway, the draft appears fairly well sourced, even with biographical references, but is really too new. Since JBJ (band) is defunct and related I am wondering if JBJ (band) and JBJ95 should be merged since JBJ (band) was only on a temporary contract, probably a result of the show and the contract not renewed, or should there be two separate but totally connected articles.
I would lean with a merge of JBJ (band) to JBJ95 (band), that would also remove the like name issue, and content treated like Topp Dogg in the Xeno-T article, which seems now to be historical,. I am a fan of parenthetical disambiguation only when absolutely needed but feel JBJ95 alone is ambiguous. Most of these articles are the result of what is known as "Temporary K-Pop Acts" through the Mnet (TV channel) survival show with some turning permanent such as Wanna One producing the related One: The World tour.
At any rate this is above my current comfortable (confident) ability and there would be some redirect changing. If you are tied up I can move on with any suggestions you have or you can jump in and I will learn from the results. Otr500 (talk) 20:01, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
not my field, but in general, if there is a major change in a group, such as here where only 2 of the 6 members formed the new group, there might be justification for a separatearticle. Personally, I think we should routinely use parenthetical qualifications to clarify all possibly ambiguous terms, more so than is in fact the consensus,. In particular, I would include them in this case, because it is not at all obvious they are musical groups, and there is a standard use of three-letter alphabetic terms as gene abbreviations, so there isa real possibility of confusions DGG ( talk ) 06:00, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly not my field. I was not a fan of parenthetical disambiguation, after a bout of many articles that were done so artificially over natural, which might have been some reasoning for the negative consensus, along with the mass using looking too much like Britannica, but in these cases there is a very clear need for parenthetical "qualifications" (I like that term in cases like this) not just between bands that got Draft:JBJ95 listed at "Category:AfC submissions with the same name as existing articles" but the gene abbreviations you mentioned. The new band is too close in name (JBJ versus JBJ95) and listing "JBJ (band)" would still leave JBJ95 stuck "out there" and ambiguous. I do see some notability on the new(er) band, even though they only have one very recent release (mini album Home 10-30-2018), as their actual forming was only announced 10-04-2018 . I am going to pass on this as too new for me with cleanup issues, like the "Home" album being listed under the Discography section of JBJ (band), that was likely just parked there. Well, I was just looking things over and exploring. Thanks for you advice, Otr500 (talk) 15:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding your note on Draft:Lactobacillus kefiri, all accepted taxa are inherently notable. The only times a species page is not warranted is if it is in a monotypic taxon and the genus page exists, or for prehistoric species where the species are not that distinct in the fossil record. Not saying that draft was ready to roll otherwise, though. --Nessie (talk) 15:20, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
certainly they are. I've been saying so for 11 years here, and it is one of the areas where there has been consistent consensus, mainly because the people who do not understand the subject do not edit in the area. But, as you say, it is still the case that this is a very incomplete article , especially because it is a well studied species and economically and medically important. The article when I saw it did not even have the taxobox giving basic biology, and gives only one of the multiple applications -and the single reference doesn't even support the statement of that particular use in the article. Further, the application specified is unlikely to be the most important one at least to a general reader--and for good measure that use, as a probiotic, would require a MEDRS compliant source.
There is a difference between an article on a species of interest only to specialists in a group, and that on an organism like this. I therefore considered it not only incomplete, but seriously misleading. .It would in my opinion not be a good idea for it to go to mainspace until it has been expanded,. Normally I would say an article even so incomplete can be fixed in mainspace, but not when it is misleading to that extent, and on a topic relating to human medicine.
what really surprises me is that we did not already have an article. You are a very experienced editor in this area; you do not need to use the AfC process. I assume you do because you do what your work reviewed. DGG ( talk ) 16:28, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
. It is not clear whether this is an already adopted technology, or one that is still under development. If it has not yet been adopted, it may not be possible to write an article unless there are already substantial 3rd party independent published reliable sources, discussing it. Too many of the references here are from their own web site. Too much of the article talks about prospective future additions.
. In particular, when you discuss uses, you need to distinguish between actual known uses for the technology supported by 3rd party reliable sources, and prospective uses supported only by the company web site.
. You also need to write in an encyclopedic manner, not aas ifyou were lecturing us. "It is important to note that ..." should be rewritten as "X... " Check alsothat you are using formal wording, not phrases like "off of". . DGG ( talk ) 17:28, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hey DGG, thank you for reviewing my page. I was going to start revising the page on your suggestions when I realized someone deleted it. Is there any way for me to get the draft back? I spent a whole weekend writing what was there.
Tsangares (talk) 00:48, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Slabovia
Hey DGG, I can understand why you might not think that Slabovia is notable. However, I would like to appeal to you for reconsideration under the following reasoning:
. Slabovia was selected to host MicroCon 2019. This bi-annual event currently does have a page
it has previous ly been speedy deleted 3 time by three previous admins. I merely declined to move it to main space. the criterion for moving to main space is that It has a reasonable chance or surviving an AfD. I think it does not. Perhaps after the 2019 convention gets reported there may be more of a chance. DGG ( talk ) 18:55, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello DGG! Thank you for your comment on my draft for the viscounty of Rohan. I've thought about it and, re-reading the House of Rohan article, I suppose the "draft" content could be moved to this page. Otherwise, it would make duplications. What do you think about it?--Aziliz Breizh (talk) 15:55, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
yes, needs merging. and what is also needed is a proper expansion of this article based on the frWP, and then translations of the missing supporting articles. I could do it, but you could clearly do it better. DGG ( talk ) 21:33, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural advice
Hi,
I've done a substantial edit on Draft: Fifth Wall Ventures, which was previously deleted in an AfD. It's been a few months and there are many more sources. What is the proper process to get this reevaluated? Is it to go back to AfD and ask for a new vote? Or is it to re-submit as a draft on AfC? Or something else?
you might want to start by removing the opinions of the founders about their own company, and also removing material that seems directed primarily to potential investors. Then you should consider whether the sources about the companies they have invested in actually are relevant here. Once it looks less like a press release, resubmit at AfC. DGG ( talk ) 21:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi User:DGG Could you take another look at Draft:Fifth Wall Ventures? a) I removed the paragraph that I think you were referring to when referencing the opinions of the founders about their own company; b) I am less clear as to the content you think is directed primarily to potential investors, but I cut back some material that's my best guess about what you meant. I didn't write anything with that intent, and the company didn't direct the writing of the article, so I wasn't sure what you meant; c) I know the sources about the companies they invest in don't establish notability and could even confuse the reviewer as they are looking for the reliable sources in the references that establish notability. But I think a basic question anyone interested in reading/learning about a VC firm would ask is what companies they have invested in. For the purpose of brevity and readability, I've reduced what I think is useful information to a bulleted list. But if you think it's a bad idea even as revised, please let me know. And I added an AfC Comment to make it easier to spot sources establishing notability from the bigger reference list.
Aside from the sourcing, there are two things that make this VC fund stand out. I hope I've adequately addressed these in the draft. First, it's the largest VC fund just doing real estate technology. It used to be the only one but several have sprung up since "PropTech" has been attracting huge amounts of investment this year. Fifth Wall has raised two new and very large funds since the last AfD review. Second, in some ways the business model flips VC investing on its head. Instead of looking for start-ups that are trying to fill a hole in the market (then finding clients), Fifth Wall typically asks its investors (some of the biggest companies in real estate) what its real estate technology needs are, then it finds start ups that offer the technology. It sets up the large investors/real estate companies as clients of its portfolio companies, creating a built-in market.BC1278 (talk) 19:03, 14 November 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]
At the last minute, I have decided to. The time it takes in relation to the useful work I can do is lower than almost everywhere else on WP, and I have been able to accomplish much less than I might have elsewhere, but perhaps what I have been able to do there has been something that few of the other people on the committee have been inclined to do. Unlike some of the other candidates, I am interested in accomplishing specific things. If people support them enough to elect me I will be pleased that the committee might accomplish something; if people do not support them, then I will have been saved the frustration of uselessly trying, and will be able to redirect my time to other projects here where I know I can be effective. DGG ( talk ) 22:52, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm very glad to hear it, and wish you luck in accomplishing your goals. I may ask about them in the Questions for the Candidate page if they are not apparent from your Candidate Statement. --David Tornheim (talk) 02:00, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly did try to make them apparent there. I can clarify further , but will be reluctant to talk about individual cases. DGG ( talk ) 02:17, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your excellent well-considered responses to my questions. I am quite intrigued by what you had to say about WP:AN/I and some of your other ideas about dispute resolution. I will likely have some follow-up questions. If you would prefer discussing any follow up questions elsewhere than the candidate question page, so as not to clutter it up, that is fine with me, especially for anything you do not deem particularly relevant to your candidacy.
Do you know if there is a rule about "too many questions"? I have many more I could ask of all the candidates. :) But I do not want to overstep limits or be unreasonably selfish.
I think that is wise of you not to comment on cases. I was a little surprised editors had asked candidates about particular cases, especially any closed case that the editor might have no familiarity with and could take hours of reading and diff review to properly assess. Reminds me of the Supreme Court confirmation process.
Notwithstanding what I just said, I may bring up a particular old ArbCom case and how it and its subsequent administration might have had a strong affect on content of a particular article (and no I never edited that article and did not participate in the case). If I do, it would be more about the rules imposed on the topic and upon editors in that topic area rather than anything about any particular editors or any particular editor's specific behavior. In general, I do not think it appropriate to discuss individual editors in ArbCom candidacy questions.
If there are any guidelines about what is and is not appropriate to ask in the questions, I'm all ears. I can't even figure out when the deadline is to ask them. Despite many years here, I've never been very good at figuring out where to find all of our obtuse and abstruse rules. --David Tornheim (talk) 10:18, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
there is no fixed limit of questions; it is possible for one person to ask too many, but I think one or two more would from you would not be unreasonable, DGG ( talk ) 23:12, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again for your extremely well thought out answers to my two new questions! Wow. I don't think any other candidate will come even close to they depth of thinking there. You definitely have my vote.
I liked how you compared Aristotle and Plato's approaches to knowledge. I almost got a masters in Philosophy, so that interpretation is dear to my heart. Plato's Theory of forms I find particularly interesting. So, I if you would like to continue a conversation here about philosophy, I do have more questions--this is not in any way related to your running for ArbCom. If you prefer not to indulge me in a conversation over philosophy right now, that's fine--I know you have a lot on your plate with the run for ArbCom and other matters. If so, here's some questions: Couldn't one argue that Plato's forms are mystical in nature, and that Pythagoras worship of mathematics (Cult of Pythagoras) was a cult and a religion? And what do you make of David Hume's contention than belief in cause-effect is irrational? (Problem_of_induction#Hume) Kant supposedly solved the problem articulated by Hume, but I have never been convinced of that Kant solved the problem. What do you think? --David Tornheim (talk) 05:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW. as a non-expert. I think was both a mathematician and a founder of a religion. Plato also was discussing religion as much as philosophy. We cannot actually prove anything belonging the domain of physical objects, in the sense that we can prove mathematics. The scientific method is not induction in the sense Hume used it, but rather that it makes testable predictions about the world.in the sense of Problem_of_induction#Karl Popper . I'm really just repeating here the standard scientific way of looking at things. DGG ( talk ) 13:51, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Draft: Myla Villanueva
Hi There, noted on your feedback about my submission (Myla Villanueva). I have rewritten my article for resubmission as of Nov 12, may I ask if this will be reviewed by you or another editor? Thanks! Angcorwut (talk) 03:53, 14 November 2018 (UTC) Angcorwut[reply]
It's definitely better. Whether it will pass AfD is hard to predct. The 2 usable sources for notability are the June 2012 and the Dec 2013 Philippine Star articles. We don't much credit interviews where the subject can essentially say what she pleases about herself, but these contain more analysis by the reporter. You need to do several specific things further: (1) The very first paragraph must say what the key element of notability is, which in this case is her 4 companies. It's OK to name them in the lede, but try to avoid adjectives of praise. (2)Never refer to anyone other than a popular performer by their first name alone. It's a promotional trick to make it sound informal, but an encyclopedia is a formal publication. (3) Any claim for "first" needs a really good 3rd party reliable source, not just an interview. (3) Don't make an internal links. If a firm doesn't have an article, just give its name and make a references to its web page where it gives her role--don't let it show up in blue, looking like there is an article.
I advise you to make these changes immediately. I'll let someone else review it. And remember, if they do move it to mainspace, anyone may challenge it. DGG ( talk ) 01:42, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Because of my draft has not been accepted.
Dear David,
I am writing you since my draft has been declined three days ago and I would really appreciate your help how can I improve my draft .
Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Robert_Feranec
It says: "Just like before, the references are not from major 3rd party reliable source, or are not substantial, and do not show notability . If there is nothing more significant, he is not appropriate for an article."
Could you please advise me which one? Since, I was really careful to use reliable references and sources, also I was cautious to add reference from third party sources after every fact that I wrote in the draft. I truly did not write the draft in few hours I made an effort to write the article from best sources. Also, I was in touch with Frayae about my previous draft and I have changed the infobox, removed external links, fixed the links and added references and sources. From her side the draft after my changes was good enough. However, I absolutely accept your opinion about my draft.
Also, could you please advise me when person is consider on wikipedia for example as a famous youtuber (depends on the number of followers?). Since, I believe that my article is useful for wikipedia and all information are truthful. Therefore, I would really appreciate to know specifically which sources are not enough or what would be enough as a reference since, I added sources from magazines, articles, school references etc.
Thank you very much in advance for your response and your time.
You need substantial 3rd party independent published reliable sources, not mere notices or press releases, or interviews where the person says what he pleases. I'm not sure any of the source meet these. Announcements of his talks are just notices, and in general whatever is said in them comes from his own press kit. The net result is a promotional article, for the subject advertising his own courses and lectures. Consider for example the sentence "Currently, Robert is living in California (US) and his main focus is teaching online and sharing his experience through online courses, workshops, presentations, youtube and blog". Promotional writing is where the subject says what he wants the reader to know, but an encyclopedia article gives what the general reader might wish to know. DGG ( talk ) 23:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I was checking to see if there was an article about this topic, and I saw a message about it duplicating an existing topic. Where is this duplicated topic?
WhisperToMe (talk) 10:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thankyou so much! It seems it was a borderline copyright issue so I can fix that easily, I just failed to see the notifications in time- will try and make sure that doesn't happen in the future.LyraSilvertongue29 (talk) 10:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DGG - in 2016 you nominated The Next Web for deletion. I can't see the deleted page but I assume, from the discussion, it was typical, self-referencing promotional chaff. In any case, I've recently had occasion to source content to something they published so took the liberty of checking to see if the notability situation had changed and I think it has, enough, to warrant a stub. Before I recreate it, though, I wanted to check with you to see if you agreed or not? I made a draft here. Thanks - Chetsford (talk) 04:01, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I want to create an article for a website/video game I used to play, but I have some concerns. First of all, who do I talk to to get an article moved from sandbox to the mainspace? Second, this will be mostly based on my own knowledge. Is that allowed? Grimm324 (talk) 19:48, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I was wondering if you as a member of the arbitration committee could advise me; or direct me to someone more appropriate, regarding the right way forward in a dispute I have with a couple of editors on the English people page. Alssa1 (talk) 20:52, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
as I commented on the talk p. there, trying to find the right wording to express nationality is ofter impossible, and almost always not worth arguing about. DGG ( talk ) 22:49, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
NPP Review
Hi DGG! I noticed that you marked the page Google News Lab as patrolled. When I came across it, though, it still had a lot of problems, such as not linking to the page for Google, not including projects on its talk page, not including categories, etc. I'm in the process of fixing those, but I just wanted to open a conversation with you, since it's my understanding that those things are required before a page should be marked as patrolled. You're more experienced at NPP than I am, though, so if there's a rationale behind marking that sort of page as patrolled, feel free to let me know. Sorry if this comes off as accusing you of not being thorough; I'm not trying to do that, but more rather just get a sense of what the norms are in NPP since I'm new to being a patroller. Hopefully that makes sense, and thanks for your thoughts! - Sdkb (talk) 09:02, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sdkb, You are correct that I did not really complete this adequately. Here's why: The basic decision I was trying to make, is whether it should be necessary to send it to Draft space for further work; I almost did that, but finally decided that first, it was not just notable, but quite important, and that on a topic of as general interest here as this, it would be more likely to get the necessary improvement in mainspace. I therefore marked it as reviewed, but found it necessary to stop at that point. There's no clear practice on how much tagging is needed at NPP -- I usually do the most critical issue only. I do not usually add categories, for there are a number of people here who specialize in it; uncategorized articles are automatically marked, and they will get the needed work (and because I have considerable disagreement with the way categories are used here, so I think it better not to interfere). I usually do add the basic links--others typically get added later. I normally try to make sure the first sentence at least is clear, and the overall organization reasonably standard. But fundamentally in NPP I am looking for signs that the article shouldn't be here at all, because of promotionalism or lack of notability , or copypaste. These are the things that should not be missed.
The additional work on it you did was correct, and illustrates the way WP manages to work: people here tend to make up for each other's deficiencies.
I should also add that as a teacher, I have found it very effective to make use of my inevitable errors for the purpose of explaining how I came to make them, do the others would learn. I'm therefore always glad to have them pointed out here so I have the opportunity. DGG ( talk ) 06:32, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DGG, hope you're well. I'm no longer involved in Afc but came across this guy, User:Jubair1985, by another route. If he's not doing undisclosed paid editing, I'm a Dutchman. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 18:25, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the deleted articles as well as the actual ones, I see only one (now deleted) article which would be incompatible with someone having a personal interest in the two fields they write about. That's not enough for proof. DGG ( talk ) 19:58, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Could you help with copyright issue with the Vienna Project Draft
Hi DGG,
I was the original user who submitted the page. I have met the artist who did the project and gotten permission to use the pictures (in fact got the pictures from his son directly) and other information about the project. What can I do to fix the G12 and which part exactly was the issue?
Thank you for all your feedback, this is my first article.
and the permission , from the artist, assuming he owns the copyright to the entire web site, would have to be not just to post it on Wikipedia, but to make it available here with a CC-BY-SA license, which irrevocably permits anyone in the world to use it and reproduce it and modify it and redistribute for any purpose, even commercial, as long as the credit is given. See WP:COPYRIGHT for a further explanation.
But if you rewrote it, there could be an article. When you do so, omit the lists of Prominent leaders, Partners, sponsors, and Project Team. That information belongs on the project's own website, not here. DGG ( talk ) 00:13, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rachel Parent (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.
Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018
In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.
Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.
Links
Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018)
LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
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Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
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any insight into specific areas that were deemed to fall under G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion and how to best go about resolving those areas would be much appreciated.
we are hoping to resolve this ASAP. thank you for your time.
Hi DGG. Given your recent vote at the Jytdog case, I was wondering if you thought the motion I brought up might be worth bringing to a vote instead? In short, cut out the problem topic area entirely instead of a blanket site ban. Maybe it's too late in the game and essentially buried at this point (I didn't realize we'd have this quick of a turnaround), but I figured I'd toss it out there for arbs as another option that might be more preventative sanction focused. I'd personally prefer to see the preventative necessity of a site ban explicitly justified over such a topic ban in the arb votes if that's going to happen by including both motions, but I'm planning to duck out of the case either way at this point most likely. Just curious if you thought it was a viable motion to bring up or has the train has left already? Kingofaces43 (talk) 03:07, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There's a lot to be said for your idea, that " Jytdog is indefinitely topic-banned from any material relating to an editor's real-life identity, broadly interpreted." I've tried to find many similar solutions in terms of topic limitations, and so have others, but they are very tricky to word. (My own idea was to limit him to article space and to talk pages when people asked him about his edits. Another possibility was forbidding him to attempt contact with anyone off-wiki about a WP matter . Yet another was forbidding him from dealing with matters involving COI. (there are lots of articles in fields he is knowledgable about that he could write or expand without getting involved in that ) The specific wording problem with your idea is that many people do use their real name or some versions of it, including coi editors, and including even people writing autobiographies. It is possible to discuss these things without makign dwefiite accusations, but actual identies are usually implied to some degree whenever there is coi.
There is a broader problem. It seems clear that he has too great a degree of confidence in his own judgment and his own abilities. This can be seen also in matters not involving coi. He will sometimes therefore push too hard about whatever he is working on. And though it's improved over the las year or two, it hasn't improved enough.
There are none of us here who is capable of making a judgment about what might or might not happen in any personal matter. It's presumptuous of us to pretend otherwise. Idid not join arb com to make judgments, but to solve problems. I don't really have a solution for this one.
Thanks. I agree that the wording is definitely open for tweaking considering what you said, so it's really just meant as a first step of intent. If something like that does go through and that line still did get clearly crossed, I would agree that there's no WP:ROPE left at that point. Kingofaces43 (talk) 19:04, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Have a situation here
At the article Emma Sulkowicz and Columbia University rape controversy I've elected not to engage yet, because I have other open discussion that this could seriously effect. In this section the user Nblund stated "We're not going to treat Cathy Young or Mona Charen as reliable sources, and we're not going to ignore one side of the debate or overemphasize an issue that is discussed elsewhere". As far as I can tell Cathy Young or Mona Charen are reliable sources. Over the past few months the group of editors on that talk page has been systematically removing criticism of Emma Sulkowicz and evidence that her accusation was false. For example this version included the Facebook message which was the key point of Nungesser's lawsuit against Columbia.
I've noticed that when men are accused of sexual misconduct it is immediately added to the lead (e.g. Brett Kavanaugh, James Deen, Steve Wynn etc). I attempted add her controversy with this edit I added "Sulkowicz has been a controversial figure in media and social media with bloggers and commentators accusing Sulkowicz of making a false accusation of rape". It was immediately removed despite being sourced. I know you like to make your own formulation without bias so I'll keep my beliefs in the Hat below.
What I believe
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
I believe there are a group of editors using Wikipedia to promote political ideologies which directly violates WP:HERE
I have managed to spend 12 years here without getting into article problems where it is almost impossible to avoid making judgments about people. To illustrate the difficulty, I'm sure you mean to send me a neutrally worded notice, but I would have said "evidence that her accusation may have been false." I will look at all these, but not in the next day or two, and I will only get involved if I think there is something actually helpful I can do.
I want to remind everyone that if you would like me to pay attention to an article, please just mention the article. I will read the discussion and form my own conclusions about what I ought to do. When you indicate what you would like to see done, I have the inclination to prove my freedom from being thought to be canvassed by doing something quite different. (smile) DGG ( talk ) 17:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I actually hope you do not get involved I came here looking for advice regarding the calmest and strongest approach. I know from past experiences that if I open an RfC it is going to turn into a full blown war and I probably would be fully committed for six months. I'm trying to avoid that. I was hoping to see how I can prove Cathy Young and Mona Charen are reliable sources. I intented to open a discussion for that and then added their sources. Because you are a librarian I was wondering if there was a simpler way. Or maybe they are not reliable sources, I don't know. Valoemtalkcontrib18:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I share your reservations about holding an RfC on this. I will look at the sources you ask about, --but I am also going to check outthe entire discussion, which will take more than one look.. I hope there is no urgency, for I am unlikely to get to it until next week. DGG ( talk ) 02:14, 5 December 2018 (UTC) .[reply]
Hey Valoem a ping would be nice here. As I stated in the very next sentence of the response you partially quoted: I'm open to including some additional discussion of the controversy, but multiple editors cited multiple issues with your edit which you made no effort to address. Instead, you responded with stuff like this and this. Those approaches, unsurprisingly, didn't actually gain much traction, but you didn't bother trying anything else.
If you want to address content concerns, you need to either attempt to address the concerns of other editors, or you need to follow the advise @Grandpallama: gave you here, and pursue another venue for dispute resolution. If you want to accuse other editors of systematically suppressing information, you need to gather diffs and take those complaints to WP:ANI. Ignoring everyone and then attempting to quietly appeal to another admin is not acceptable conduct. You are plenty experienced enough to know better.
@DGG: I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful and also remain neutral, and I can see that lots of editors look to you for advise. In this case, however, it seems like Valoem is bringing this issue to you instead of (rather than in addition to) making an effort to build consensus with other editors, and he's casting unfounded aspersions. I think the most helpful thing to do here would be to encourage Valoem to pursue his content disputes through the same avenues that every other editor uses. Nblundtalk18:34, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Nblund:, By chance how did you come across this page? I wanted a private discussion, and due to the political nature of the debate which may be opened in the future, I advised against opening any ANI until the proper arguments of possible bias have been put forward. I still don't understand how you arrive at this page if you are not stalking me? Valoemtalkcontrib15:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Allied Media Projects article
Hi David,
An editor at the Radical Education editathon on Sunday created a new article for Allied Media Projects. It was put up for speedy deletion; I and some others did work on editing it yesterday (more to come!) and contested the deletion on the talk page (it has been downgraded from speedy deletion to considered for deletion), but there is still discussion going on on the talk page and I'd be grateful if you have a moment to add any suggestions or thoughts. Perimeander (talk) 20:41, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Please Review Copyright Issue on Pure Storage Page
Hi David,
My name is Ian Wikramanayake, I am the social media manager at Pure Storage. It appears that a copyright issue dating back to 2012 recently caused an investigation on the Pure Storage Wikipedia page and requires admin attention to resolve the copyright issue in history. I’d greatly appreciate your help to resolve this issue, so the Pure Wikipedia page can be restored.
Regarding your recent Carrying on section: you alluded to not being able to "keep track of pages that [he] may have been watching." Would it be helpful to have his watchlist? Even if unable to log in, he can view his TP, and if it seemed like having his Watchlist would be useful in combating COI (or helping in any other way), then if we asked him there and he was amenable to the idea, maybe he could it email it to you or to somebody. He can't log in and access it now, but I bet he remembers the highlights. Would this be a worthwhile initiative? Mathglot (talk) 10:35, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What I mean however was not that I would be unable technically, but that I am unable to deal with the work involved. He has been at least as active as I , and many more of the matters he dealt with are subject to continuing problems.
As you say, he is blocked, and cannot log in, and cannot see his watchlist when logged out. There is however a workaround, using the Related Changes feature at WP:Public Watchlist I or anyone could look at his edit history and construct a list of what needed to be watched. Like me, there are undoubtedly several thousand pages on his watchlist, and his edit history like my own will involve many thousands of pages. But your suggestion is useful, and something can be done along these line. I shall this weekend try to prepare a subpage in my own userspace of recent articles that he was involved with that remain seriously problematic, but nott hose that are trivial or -- more important--those involve carrying on continuing disputes. Other people will see them quite enough without such assistance. I can use my own judgement for this, and of course anyone can add to it. There is no need to ask him and I do not think he would really be helped by being reminding about problems here that he cannot work on.
David. I understand you were the editor who undertook the speedy deletion of Draft:Alternative Business Funding. In fact, it was deleted so fast I was unable to even lodge an appeal and I am concerned that this decision shows a lack of consistency in the decision-making process.
The entry was justifiable as an organisation which pioneered a product/service that led to a direct change in UK legislation. The entry itself was significantly amended following comments from the original reviewer to enhance the balance. The historical context and generic explanation of how a funding portal works was also amended to provide an even stronger encyclopedic element to this content. I ensured these elements were educational and balanced. The citations were all from independent, national publications or directly from UK Government sources. The G11 decision states: "because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic" and yet there are numerous live Wikipedia entries in this specific sector to which this ruling would apply - not least Funding Options, the second of the three UK Government designated portals (NOTE: it is absolutely not my intention to see this page removed). The same could be said for the Wiki entries of products and services such as Funding Circle, CrowdCube, Zopa, and MarketInvoice (which has been flagged as having significant issues but remains live). Also, every UK bank listed in Wikipedia. Again, my intention here is not to have these pages removed but to demonstrate the inconsistency in this deletion decision. I would be grateful for your comments and an opportunity to review your decision and reinstate the page.Casius12 (talk) 14:43, 6 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Casius12 (talk • contribs) 12:50, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia articles must show notability according to the rules in WP:N; in general this requires multiple substantial references from reliable third party sources that are not mere press releases or notices, and not advertising, nor promotional interviews where the person interviewed says what they please.. Of your references, almost all were about the general method of Designated Funding Portals (about which we do need an article) -- the others were mere mentions or promotional interviews. You are correct that the article Funding Options was almost as bad, and I have listed it for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Funding Options,if you do not think it should be removed, you can comment there, declaring your coi with a firm in the same industry. If the consensus is to keep that article, I will consider reinstating yours as a draft. As for the others, one is a firm listed on the LSE, which we almost always consider sufficient for an article-- I shall look at the others. DGG ( talk ) 01:34, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi David. Thank you for your response. I have objected to your proposed deletion of Funding Options, but will put together a reasoned argument for both as soon as I can. It was not my intention to demonstrate that the article was "almost as bad" - in fact entirely the opposite and I am sorry that this is your interpretation. It clearly wasn't the view of the Editor who found it acceptable in 2016. As I am sure you will understand, I am now extremely reluctant to discuss or debate other entries for fear of these also being subject to deletion. This has never been my intention and, given that I feel the deletion of the ABF draft is unfair, I don't wish to be responsible for a cascade of further similar decisions. Your comment about a Designated Portals entry is duly noted and this may, ultimately, have to be the compromise. However, I would prefer to address the issue of individual entries first. Thanks for your time - I'm sure we will be 'talking' further in due course. Casius12 (talk) 11:51, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You have some good points.
Dealing with the other articles is always a problem when comparisons are mentioned. I' m trying to think of a way to still look at them, but avoid the side effect, or at least not make it so obvious. But to be clear, once I see a problematic area, I sometimes look at everything there, though it may take me a few years in some cases to go through them all.
Regardless of what happens to your particular article, one on designated portals will I think be a good idea. For areas here where there are questions of notability, my experience is that an article on the general field is always helpful. It helps show the field is important to those who have not heard of it, anddecreases the likelihood of deletion of articles on firms in the industry. I'm in the US, so the term though not the concept is new to me, and I'm glad to know about it. (In fact an article on the general field is helpful for all fields whatsoever. It can serve as the basis for expansion. It also shows that you are interested in writing more than just on this particular company.
Our standards for articles in companies are higher and more consistent now than 2 years ago. But there should be no problem in having an article if you can find references that meet the criteria. If you can show them, I can undelete the article and add them, splitting out the part on designated portals. Our standards here are fixed on the quality of the references; myself, I think we should take importance in a field into account also, but that's a minority view, and tho I will say it in discussions, when I take admin action such as deletion, I always follow the orthodox rule as strictly as I can.
We are currently going through a phase where we are emphasising removing promotionalism . The priority here is articles that are entirely or mainly promotionalism , but in practice it now also includes articles that are even somewhat promotional, and it has therefore has an effect on all articles on business (and nonprofits also). I'm not a zealot about this: any fair article about a good or useful enterprise will inherently have some promotional effect. But the immediate need is to get rid of the undeclared paid editors who write straight advertising in violation of the terms of use, and about that I and most of us here are quite determined. We will never actually get rid of them entirely--the temptation will always be strong--but once we have the problem a little more in hand, then we can deal with the more difficult problem of getting people to write balanced well sourced articles on organizations. I recognize the unfortunate side effect upon people who do declare properly. I however do not know how to avoid it. All Ican do is encourage people who want to write properly about important organizations to find really good references. DGG ( talk ) 16:53, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi David. Thank you for the considered response. I think there are a number of challenges here, all of which I appreciate. Let me try and address them in order:
1. Yes, having now been on the receiving end of this, it has a significant unintended consequence (i.e. deletion rather than comparison). I think the challenge you face here - and believe me I am really NOT setting you up for this, because you could collapse an entire house of cards - is that in the financial/business sectors, there will always be this tension between the commercial and non-commercial. So, for example, you talk about the legitimacy of LSE-listed companies. They still breach the literal rules of Wiki regarding the promotion of companies. The fact that they are listed only means they have public shareholders - they still remain commercial, profit-making organisations. It is really only a matter of scale. In the case of ABF, Funding Options, or the other companies I listed above, they are relatively small and mainly unlisted organistions, but the impact of the services they provide on the UK's SME sector is far more significant than the organisations themselves. As with the US financial services sector, UK's Alternative Finance Sector is complex and interlinked and, where players within the system are innovators or disruptors, there is an argument for them to be recognised by Wikipedia. If it would legitimise the entries for both Funding Options and ABF and allow them to be/remain posted, then would it help to provide links to some of the other organisations they work with (and each other)?
2. Thank you for this. I had assumed you were US-based and this is a pretty niche area - as the article says, there are only three portals in the UK and it took a change in our national laws to bring them to fruition. So, yes, this is fair comment and, depending on the outcome of this discussion, this may be the solution we will have to settle on. In fact, even if I can persuade you to retain the ABF and Funding Options entries, I would like to create a Funding Portal page anyway and can reduce the content on the ABF page as a result.
3. This is the bit I am REALLY struggling with. In your previous comments you stated: "interviews where the person interviewed says what they please.....-- the others were mere mentions or promotional interviews." Even after reading the Wiki guidelines, I am still struggling to get to grips with this. The articles cited in the ABF post, for example, were in UK National Newspapers - The Times, The Financial Times and the Financial Mail on Sunday - and all were undertaken by respected journalists. They were not published as advertorials (it was have to state this at the top of the article under UK media regulations). Of course a person interviewed can say what they please! But by being passed through the filter of a professional, independent third party (in this case a national newspaper journalist), there has to be legitimacy and verification to what they say backed by the journalist's own reaserch and credibitlity in creating the article. If you take your/Wiki's argument to its logical conclusion, then any citation involving a quote could render the 'quotee' (is there such a word) as a liar or fantastist simply by saying it. I have also just read your response to a discussion further down your page in which you state: "The content needs reliable sourcing, not necessarily independent sourcing. A person's CV is suitable for that." Is that serious? I was always taught that, in order to get a job interview, you should be embarrassed to read your own CV! I would suggest that a CV is arguably one of least reliable sources of fact about any individual. In a toss-up between CV and professional journalist, journalist wins every time. But I digress. After the comments of the original reviewer, I was diligent in changing some of the references to what I believed to be more credible and independent sources. On the one hand you/Wiki appear to want citations that are more than mere mentions, but on the other are critical of articles which focus entirely on the organisation cited as being 'promotional'. This suggests a case of having it both ways.
4. While I completely understand and recognise this objective, I think this is about picking your battles. Rather than questioning the motivation of Editors, success may lie in taking the approach you suggested at the end of your paragraph (and by engaging in this talk process): namely, educating ANY and ALL Editors to write balanced articles and understand the issues faced in sourcing, etc. Whether voluntary or paid, if they genuinely care about the content they produce and the way Wikipedia works, they will learn how to create/amend content that meets the needs of Wikipedia and respond to constructive criticsm and discussion from reviewers. Those that are purely 'copy monkeys' will very soon disappear as they are probably paid on results and will simply walk away from any challenge. It is also worth considering that someone that is paid and makes a successful living as a writer may well produce higher quality, better researched and better informed content than an enthusiastic amateur. Don't forget you still have the Editorial community to review and amend every entry and, again, you may find that the 'paid' Editors can add insight and additional value to entries, whatever their motivation. View this an an opportunity rather than a threat.
Regardless of the outcome, this dialogue has at least motivated me to do a little more entry reviewing where I can and where I feel I have enough expertise to offer comment. I have edited a couple in the past, but need to read more about the process before diving back in. Casius12 (talk) 16:25, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dear DGG,
I was working this summer at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) as a Wikipedian in Residence. I was at that time using the account user:WiR IACA and was mainly focussed on writing the article Anti-Corruption. While doing my work there, I also noticed that the article about IACA itself could need some improvement. I was hence suggesting several changes, which were integrated by Spintendo but later on mainly reverted again by Jytdog. After their edit, I tried to understand what exactly caused this revert but only received several times the assurance that they would soon have a look at the raised issues. After the end of my project at IACA, I was retiring the former account that was exclusively created for the purpose of the residency but asked a follow-up question to Jytdog like ten days ago. As they did not answer again, I checked their page and noticed that the account is retired/blocked. On their talk page, I saw that you were so kind to offer a review of problems raised on Jytdog's page and, therefore, thought about contacting you to ask you, whether you could have a suggestion concerning a proper way forward. I would not like to ignore Jytdog's objections against my suggestions by re-raising them through the requested edit-process but do obviously also understand that I will probably never receive a response from their side any longer. If you should have the necessary time, I would be super thankful for a short check of the respective discussion (even though there are several sections, the last one might be the most important one). Otherwise, I would obviously also be happy about any advice from your side, which steps I could take in order to avoid circumventing Jytdog's objections without conserving the status-quo for good. I would like to thank you already in advance for your efforts and want to apologize for this rather lengthy text. Please feel free to simply delete it, if it should be inappropriate. Best regards --Kid from Laxenburg (talk) 00:20, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I was browsing WP:REFUND and saw that you turned Robert M. Epstein into a live article. As far as I can tell, the entire content of that page, with the exception of some memberships in professional associations, is based on Epstein's own work and words. I am well aware that requirements for secondary sources are, shall we say, relaxed for people who meet WP:PROF, but that seems extreme. Furthermore, much of the content doesn't even seem based on the cited sources or even flat-out misrepresents them (in a way that promotes Epstein). Were you aware of these issues? This is a BLP, after all. Huon (talk) 18:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I did not do it as well as I should have. As you recognize, the membership in the National Academy of Medicine is enough to pass WP:PROF, and in my opinion even a sourced stub saying no more than that would be sufficient for mainspace, though I myself never write anything that sparse. The content needs reliable sourcing, not necessarily independent sourcing. A person's CV is suitable for that. . But you are absolutely right there are some sentences that make claims that are not supported, and I did intend to go back to the article. I removed them now. Thee's one I think could be supported but needs a cite and I marked it. I had meant to remove most of the material about university service, as I usually do; I removed it now. There's a running debate about whether to make improvements beyond those necessary to pass afd indraftspace or in main space; I take an intermediatep position, that they could be done either way. Of course, the danger of doing it in mainspace is that one might forget to go back, or, more likely with me, be diverted into other things,, so I should have done more here. Thanks for reminding me. DGG ( talk ) 18:53, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
and my difficulty is that in reviewing deleted G13s to see what shouldn't have been deleted, a/I seem to be the only one doing it and b/ there is no single step process for seeing the contents, Both of these get me frustrated every time I do it, so I do get tempted to take do it as quickly as possible, which is not always a good thing to do. DGG ( talk ) 19:02, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Help with explaining NAUTHOR/CREATIVE?
Hi DGG, I have someone arguing that coverage (ie, reviews) for an author's works doesn't count towards notability for that individual, as that would be the author inheriting notability for the works. I'm going to try to clarify my viewpoints, but I wondered if you would be willing to help as well. I think that since the article was created by one of my students, they may be assuming that I'm making the argument to save their work. (I did spiffy it up by adding the reviews and some tweaks, but I wouldn't move bad work live, of course.) I think hearing it from another person would probably help reassure them. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:18, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Reviews of their work are the principle thing that count for notability of an author. Ideally, substantial critical reviews from independent reliable sources. Authors do derive notability from their works, just as athletes from their performances, politicians from the office they win. What would possibly make an author notable except publishing notable works? Generally not their personal lives, and what else is there? Even prizes are normally for a particular work, though a few are for a whole career.
The question however is how many works, and what kind of reviews., I consider, and thousands of AfDs have uniformly confirmed, that the consensus here is that two or more notable works is enough .The usual problem comes from an author writing only non-notable works, and here I would be very reluctant to consider notability without very good sources about the author that are more than PR. The other likely dilemma is for an author who whas written a single notable work. A good case can be made forthe article being about the book, or about the author--I do not think it matters much, butI usually prefer the author because the author article has moreo f an opportunity for expansion as almost everyone who succeeds in writing one notable work writes others, but I have always opposed having 2 articles in such cases, unless the author is truly famous; there have been only a frew genuine cases.
However, in practice it depends upon the reviews. Borderline significant reviews I do not consider sufficient, buy which I mean the brief reviews in Publishers Weekly and the similar. I will look at the specific case later tonight.
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