User talk:Cirt

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Other neat portal ideas for longer term

• Longer term ideas to think about from other portals:

1. Events section, like: "On this day" e.g., Biography, Religion, United States; "Selected anniversaries" e.g., War; "Calendar" at Holidays. Interesting idea of "Month selected anniversaries", at Oregon.
2. Model intro with some rotating images, after Portal:Oregon, Portal:Indiana, Portal:Iceland/Intro and Portal:Philosophy of science/Intro.
3. Revamp DYK sections w/ free-use images, model after Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Oregon.
4. Portal palettes at User:RichardF/Palettes/Portals. Comparable color schemes can be developed from the various hue lists at User:RichardF/Palettes. Also see Portal:Box-header.
5. If there are a lot of categories, then categories section to 2 columns, like in Portal:Indiana.

   Also take some time to check out style/formatting at Portal:Indiana Cirt (talk)

Note to self

• MakeRef

independent reliable secondary sources

• User:Citation bot/use

• {{findsources}}

Cite templates

<ref>{{cite book| last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title =  | publisher =  | year =  | location =  | page =  | url =  | doi =  | id =    | isbn = }}</ref>

<ref>{{cite news| last =  | first =  | coauthors =  | title =  | work =  | language =  | publisher =  | page =  | date =  | url =  | accessdate =  }}</ref>

<ref>{{cite journal|last =| first=| authorlink=| coauthors=|title=|journal=|volume=|issue=|page=|publisher=|location = | date = | url = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }}</ref>

<ref>{{cite web| last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title =  | work =  | publisher =  | date =  | url =  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate =  }}</ref>

Citation model

The Simpsons (season 3)

Body text in-cite

<ref name="REFNAME">[[#LASTNAME|LASTNAME]], p. PAGENUMBER</ref>

References section

(reference template from WP:CIT)

*<cite id=LASTNAME>REFERENCE</cite>

Different model

• Template:Citation
• Template:Harvnb
• Example: <ref name="REFNAME">{{Harvnb|LAST|YEAR|p=PAGENUMBER}}</ref>

See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa.

More info. Cirt (talk)

More at Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples.

And Template talk:Harvard citation no brackets.

Cirt (talk)

Dispatch

Cirt, Awadewit suggested that you might be interested in writing a Signpost Dispatch article on Featured portals (the only area of featured content we haven't covered). Sample previous articles are at {{FCDW}}. We've covered:

• Featured content overview
• Peer review
• Did you know
• Featured lists
• Good articles
• Featured sounds
• Featured topics
• Images
• TFA
• And Featured articles many times: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-07-21/Dispatches, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-10-13/Dispatches

None of them start out looking like that: if an editor initially just chunks in some text, many others chip in to tweak it up to Signpost standards. For example, someone wrote this, which Karanacs, Royalbroil and I turned into this, so if you just chunk in some text as a start, others can help finish it off. Another example, I put in this outline, and Karanacs brought it up to this. Other editors have written almost complete and clean Dispatches without much need for other editing. If you're interested, please weigh in and coordinate at WT:FCDW In case you're interested, you could just begin sandboxing something at WP:FCDW/Portals and pop over to WT:FCDW to leave a note when you're ready for others to help out. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Will mull this over and most likely draft something up. Cirt (talk) 11:54, 18 November 2108 (UTC)

Razzies progress

• 15th Golden Raspberry Awards through 29th Golden Raspberry Awards = reformatting process done.
  • Note: Going to have to go back and model these after the modifications made subsequently to 29th Golden Raspberry Awards.
• 29th Golden Raspberry Awards - so far only one expanded with sourcing research. (WP:FL)
• Razzie Award for Worst New Star = reformatting process done, next to use Talk:Razzie Award for Worst Picture as model to reformat other pages in Category:Golden Raspberry Awards by category (with subsection breaks by decade)

Cirt (talk)

IP vandal

Hi there, regarding the IP vandal you just blocked - he's back again already with a different IP, doing the same thing [1]. Any thoughts? Do I bother to undo all his vandalism again? Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

And another, from the same location [2]. He has also just vandalised my user page, conveniently undone by the first IP. Clearly all the same person. Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:02, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Blocked both. I am not yet certain a rangeblock would be appropriate. You could try asking at WP:ANI. -- Cirt (talk) 19:08, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm not sure about a rangeblock either. I will ask at ANI, thanks. Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:09, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Another one [3] is already active. This is just ludicrous :( Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:12, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

ANI report here FYI. Thanks again, Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:26, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Commented there. -- Cirt (talk) 20:17, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

You rock

and your user page rocks too. Sorry about the edit conflict on the main news page. Keep up the good work, and thanks.

Yours, - —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.15.50 (talk) 06:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Cirt (talk) 00:15, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Ian Benardo

WILL YOU RESTORE THE IAN BENARDO PAGE! HE HAS 2 CDs OUT AND HAS HOSTED NUMEROUS TV SHOWS.....WHY DID YOU DELETE HIM! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.128.218 (talk) 06:55, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Already responded to. See IP talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 00:15, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

The Simpsons Star

With the Simpsons WikiProject having reached it's goal of getting every single article about a season 1-9 episode, 203 in total, of The Simpsons to GA status. With that accomplished, I am trying to thank every member (and non-member) who was involved in the effort in some way.

		The Simpsons (Annoyed Grunt)-star
		WP:DOH has reached its long-time goal of getting every classic era episode, 203 in total, to GA. You earned this because after the first topic drive was finished, there was no rush to continue, but you helped kickstart the ninth season drive, and contributed a lot along the way. Scorpion0422 II (Talk) 00:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very very much!!! -- Cirt (talk) 00:15, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

IRC

Sorry, missed your message on IRC, was working on the Adopters' list. If there is still need, poke. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:13, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

No worries. -- Cirt (talk) 13:19, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

IMS

Hi, I notice that you deleted the article on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems under WP:CSD#G11. I had already suggested some improvements to the article at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback#Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) - Global Research and Innovation in Manufacturing. Can I ask that the author be given a bit of time to sort out the problems? It is obviously promoional and it does obviously need some re-writing but the organisation it describes seems notable. I also think there is no point in blocking User:MfgGlobalResearch. He/she obviously wanted to promote IMS but, as far as I know, there is no evidence of him/her promoting anything else.

I think if you undelete and unblock, User:MfgGlobalResearch could be persuaded to produce a decent article. If that doesn't happen then you can always delete again.

Yaris678 (talk) 14:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

If another editor would like to work on the page within their userspace, I would be most happy to userfy it for them. But that is not really the best username, and also likely a violation of WP:Role account. -- Cirt (talk) 17:41, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Userfication seems like a good idea. Unfortunately, you have just blocked the user who would be most likely to want to put the effort in to get the article up to a decent standard. The choice of name isn't brilliant but we have no evidence that it is a role account. I remind you to WP:Assume good faith and WP:Please don't bite the newcomers. Furthermore, I think the fact that User:MfgGlobalResearch submitted the article for feedback suggests that he/she may be willing to go along with policy and consensus, when he/she is aware of them. Yaris678 (talk) 21:34, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

It appears to be an account that is also the name of an organization, editing about that organization, and possibly on behalf of the organization. -- Cirt (talk) 21:40, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Still not assuming good faith? You are right to raise issues of WP:Conflict of interest but I would point out that it says "Where advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest." If you point out to the user how the interests of Wikipedia are best served you may be pleasantly surprised. The guideline doesn't even prohibit autobiography. It does recommend against it but it also suggests how to do it if you really must. Yaris678 (talk) 22:06, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Indeed you are right, there is also the issue of the blatant conflict of interest. But that, combined with the username that is the name of an organization, is also most inappropriate. -- Cirt (talk) 22:08, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

List of Scientologists

• List of ScientologistsWhy do you insist that Danny Masterson's raising as a Scientologist be referenced, when right above him in the list, his brother Christopher Masterson has no such reference? (along with several others in the list of scientologists) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.tougas (talk • contribs) 21:28, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

They should have references for that info as well, or that info should be removed as unsourced. -- Cirt (talk) 21:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

And this is the point where I and possibly many other possible contributors say 'fuck it' and stop contributing.... Mr.tougas (talk) 21:33, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Update: Removed the unsourced bit from that entry on Christopher Masterson. -- Cirt (talk) 21:35, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia! I have only edited maybe 10 articles,usually stuff that does not have a neutral point of view or vandalism. You should see how awful the article was on Gerry House. I cleaned it up on April 2nd I believe, but I couldn't sign in to take credit for it. It was one of the most biased articles I had ever seen on here.It read like a PR firm wrote it! Anyway thanks for the welcome and I look forward to working on Wikipedia--BeckiGreen (talk) 04:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC).

Article deleted: Medicity

Hello Cirt,

I would like to recreate the page: Medicity that you deleted. When I first created it I it was poorly sourced and it was almost immediately nominated for deletion. After a several days I completely revised the article to include all reliable, relevant, credible, sources that were not to the companies site or the companies press releases. Amongst the new sources were periodicals, published analyst firm vendor assessments, healthcare news, etc. After I revised the article I had no further objections to the article, and in fact the only objection that I did have came from only one deletionist not multiple different people. The problem that the deletionist had witht he article was assessed and fixed. Please let me know what my next steps could be to have this work out. Have a great day. Colbyholbrook (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest first drafting a version, within a subpage of your userspace. -- Cirt (talk) 21:28, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the idea. Ill draft it in a a subpage and ask for help from other users before I publish it to wiki. How do I know when the article is ready to be published to wiki without being nominated for deletion? Colbyholbrook (talk) 17:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

You could try posting for advice, to a few talk pages of relevant WikiProjects. -- Cirt (talk) 18:33, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Big data - resurrected and now CSD

This is a courtesy note to say that I researched and recreated Big data. You oversaw it's deletion back in November. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Big_data This new version is substantially different and shows the concept as quite notable. jk (talk) 23:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

 Done. -- Cirt (talk) 23:57, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Fred G Sanford

My edits were not disruptive, I was simply undoing someone else's unnecessary deletion of an entire section. SmackDot (talk) 00:17, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

You're my man of arms

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/War of Ideas. 13 days, n countin... :)Could you take a look at it pl? ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 12:22, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Can wait til it gets one additional comment. -- Cirt (talk) 02:26, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Sure. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 10:43, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Rhonda Harris Taylor deleted?

Hi, help, why did you delete this article? I'm confused. And was interested in improving it. thanks.Katewill (talk) 02:56, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

That page was deleted after a WP:AFD process, deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rhonda Harris Taylor. -- Cirt (talk) 02:58, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Monarch vandalism

Cirt, User talk:Fdghdg12 another one for you. Drmies (talk) 23:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

• And thanks again! Drmies (talk) 23:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
  • You are welcome. -- Cirt (talk) 23:31, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
    • Are you still on call? Drmies (talk) 23:36, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Userfying a deleted article

Hi, I would like to know if you would be willing to "userfy" the deleted article Final Fantasy XV (to User:Jonathan Hardin'/Final Fantasy XV for instance). Thanks! Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 09:42, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

 Done. -- Cirt (talk) 13:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 13:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

You are welcome. -- Cirt (talk) 13:03, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Please restore Aldrin_(application)

Please restore Aldrin_(application).

1: Other articles in Wikipedia like Jeskola_Buzz reference to them. 2: The project is important for some electronic musicians.

Please restore the article.  — [Unsigned comment added by 213.229.63.90 (talk • contribs).]

Suggest you register an account. Then, you could work on a proposed draft of the article, in a subpage of your userspace. -- Cirt (talk) 03:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Egersund IK

Hi. You speedy deleted this article as an A7. Would you please reconsider this. I don't agree that it qualifies as an A7. I would have voted keep in an AFD. Rettetast (talk) 22:17, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Not going to restore wholly unsourced content. But feel free to recreate the page, as a new article on the same subject matter, if you can source the information to WP:RS sources. -- Cirt (talk) 03:39, 25 April 2010 (UTC)