User talk:ferret

Markus Persson Twitter

Hello,

I noticed that you reverted my edit quickly once published. Much of the information can be rendered "useless" but my main points should stay about his political views, net worth, twitter activities, etc. Under the 'Twitter Controversies" section, a prior section of his page discussed about race, particularly white.

"In November 2017, Persson was criticized for posting a tweet that read, "It's ok to be white." In follow-up tweets, he said he believed privilege is a "made up metric." Critics of Persson said his message was "tone-deaf" and "ignorant"; The Root called the tweets a "white-privilege meltdown."[33]" - Currently on his page

"In December 2018, Persson again caused controversy in regards to politics, race, intelligence, among other things. One tweet that generated much attention was a tweet about intelligence among different races.[34] It has been speculated that Persson was insinuating scientific racism. Another tweet that was controversial was when Persson responded to a user that was denying that there was an "agenda against white men" by replying "There clearly is an agenda against white men."[35]" - My edit.

Half of my edit is identical to the previous one. I am curious as to why you would revert my whole edit? I do understand why but couldn't you atleast take a little bit of time and let the "okay" edits stand? All that I am doing messaging here is to gain understanding. I also added a portion back onto the Wikipedia page due to overlooking secondary sources. Those have been added also.

Including, by the sounds of the [or questionable sources as sources on themselves], it is ok to use Twitter as a source. According to the 5 points, the tweets appear to uphold 3/5. They are direct sources from Markus himself; his own views. News organizations are not going to be tracking his every tweet. And with the amount of tweets in regards to his political beliefs, would it be ok to now include such a section? I think so.

I eagerly await your response! Thank you!

Aviartm (talk) 22:21, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Twitter is not a reliable source for a BLP. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:25, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict)@Aviartm: The greater bulk of content like this has recently been removed for the same reasons I stated. You cannot say he caused controversy, then link primarily to Twitter messages. Coverage in reliable secondary sources is required to demonstrate any sort of controversy. As always when people say "Why'd you revert everything?", my recommendation is to make smaller edits with specific components. It's no one else's job to try to save bits and pieces of your edit, when you make large complicated edits you run the risk of the entire thing being undo due to issues. Also please read WP:BLPPRIMARY which strongly cautions against Primary sources in BLPs. -- ferret (talk) 22:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

@Ferret: Understandable. I have changed my edits accordingly to exclude tweets at all costs and to use reliable secondary sources. Thank you Ferret! Aviartm (talk) 22:41, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Micke Kuwahara as a Lead Programmer of Battlefield 1942

Micke Kuwahara came across as a Lead Programmer of Battlefield 1942. It is listed at Hokkaido University, Japan- Official Profile page & linkedin. https://researchers.general.hokudai.ac.jp/profile/en.yiU.UEzaAwi.AM91X61x-Q==.html https://linkedin.com/in/micke-kuwahara-1738103 Can you consider this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by As47 battle ground (talk • contribs) 04:55, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

No. These are personal sites that he wrote. While I'm sure he worked at DICE and may have had roles on each of those two games, he was not the Lead Programmer and the game's credits do not include him. He appears to have been more of an auxiliary team for expansion packs or support/patchs, based on his own claims. He was not the Lead Programmer of the games. -- ferret (talk) 12:18, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thank you for all your work. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:42, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Revert on Heroes of the Storm

Your revert on the Heroes of the Storm edit by a disgrunted IP user was by all means justified. Thank you for your vigilance. The reference was about important news and from a reliable source, but I guess it's too much to ask to rewrite such a rediculous edit and keep the reference, rather than just reverting it.PizzaMan ♨♨♨ 23:10, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, it definitely is. It's not my job to replace bad vandalism with new content, and there's no expected burden on vandalism patrollers to do so. You'll also note that before the IP did that edit, I had added the news to the talk page so someone could look into adding it. -- ferret (talk) 23:12, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Sameem123

Hi I’m seyer123 I’m oldest brother to my youngest brother sameem123 I was just asking why is my youngest brother account blocked and there any way to unblock him? Seyer123 (talk) 18:32, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Minecraft

The wikipedia is extremely require to write what they say web sites. But why? Why do we remove something from Wikipedia even be true? Greetings. --Furawi (talk) 23:36, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

See the policy WP:V, which requires us to back everything with sources. If the sources don't say it, we don't include it. -- ferret (talk) 23:38, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello Ferret, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 20:41, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Incorrect Reversion

My apologies. I was going through the changes on my watchlist, and at first glance, I presumed it was just someone trying to be 'funny', which seemed unusual considering your contributions page(s). I hope you can see where my error came in, as an outside party with no knowledge of this 'dedicated field' name. Thanks for the clarification, and continued hard work. ;) - NsTaGaTr ^(Talk) 15:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Possible Paid Promotion

Hi, I recently nominated a page called Rhythm Wagholikar for deletion, a page about a non-notable author. The creator of that page User:Mukesh.bhardwaj40 left a message asking for help on how to make it better, I explained him what I could regarding WP:GNG, conversation is on my talk page. He then showed me a list of awards "Rhythm" won, then I explained those aren't eligible. He then went on trying to push me to somehow say yes to include the author or the book . Him trying hard made me suspicious and I did a check on his talk page. He made an article called Oye Digital marketing that got deleted. Basically that is a Brand marketing agency, that promotes people's web presence i guess. Then I googled the username and the Oye agency together and It brought up some interesting results, you might wanna have a look there. Daiyusha (talk) 16:15, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Daiyusha: I've reviewed (and reverted a few) their contributions and the deleted articles. I think its very close to a case of needing a block, but at this time I'm not going to issue one. You may want to try WP:COIN where editors who deal with COI more frequently can take a look. I can't say there's a definitive tie to the Rhythmn Wagholikar editing and Mukesh's obvious COI with Oye Digital Marketing. Oye Digital Marketing is salted, but if he tries to create anything related to it again, it's grounds for a block. -- ferret (talk) 16:58, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, WP:COIN is just the kind of thing i was looking for, I'll report it there. Daiyusha (talk) 17:01, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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Sybreed

The content of the small edit is made up of information that is objective, basic in its complexity, and impossible to source in its nature. Evidence should not need demonstration. Look through your own eyes, not through some rules. Read what was written. This situation is a symbol of wikipedia's decline and ossification. What's the point of contributing with something that is true if one cannot find a "source" from it, even if the nature of the text is unsourceable. Threatening with ban against an attitude of collaboration this page was founded upon is downright tyrannical and contrary to the spirit of the early days of this page, i hope you can realise this. sigh