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Discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 November 11#Futz!

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 November 11#Futz!. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 18:13, 11 November 2013 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

COI

Regarding your message on Conflict of Interest, I will keep that in mind, and will restrict from editing. Thank you! Yoonchip (talk) 05:42, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Eric Estorick

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 November 2013

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my help desk question[1] earlier today. MFM14 (talk) 11:30, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the Original Barnstar! -- Jreferee (talk) 13:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help with my article

Thank you Jreferee for all your help with my article, its very much appreciated as I am new and learning the site, I will get exact dod date. Re your other suggestion I can't at the moment find a reference to link the two artists, just links to paintings. (Enuejel (talk) 13:32, 18 November 2013 (UTC))[reply]

You're welcome. Biographies are a good place to start with learning how to write Wikipedia articles. As for help in finding references, many librarians and researchers hang out at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities and they usually can help. -- Jreferee (talk) 15:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New rule proposal

Can you please reply at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#New_rule_proposal.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:52, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting second round of feedback

Dear Jreferee, thank you for your comments and feedback about my first contribution to wikipedia. It is extremely helpful as I have been putting a LOT of time in to it. I have since made edits to refine the article and incorporate all the feedback. I am also excited that a few others have helped me edit the page. I am quite hooked to Wikipedia and hope to author/contribute more within my expertise in nutrition education. ! Would you please be able to take a second look to advise me about how I may improve further? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Bhargav_Sri_Prakash

Thank you! (Chippadum (talk) 15:25, 19 November 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Overturn of deletion decision for John Schlossberg

Can you please explain why the deletion decision for John Schlossberg was overturned? If possible, please include plain language for those of us who may be unfamiliar with Wikipedia lingo. Thank you. --Crunch (talk) 20:34, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The administrator who closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Schlossberg (2nd nomination) as delete, later stated at the deletion review of the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Schlossberg (2nd nomination) close that his close was a misinterpretation of consensus. -- Jreferee (talk) 12:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Silver City Daily Press

Gatoclass (talk) 18:09, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hkettani again

Hi Jreferee. After six weeks, the user is back again, replacing vast swaths of content with material sourced to himself and containing multiple errors of grammar, punctuation, style, etc. I have no wish to insert myself into the situation again and be accused of god knows what, and I actually have no firm opinion on the proprieties in this case (I've seen no CV links this time), although another user—and a perceptive one at that—has questioned it. I do think there may be some moderate WP:COMPETENCE issues. In any event, I'm planning to stay well out of it this time, but since you did some helpful intervention at COIN and on the user's talk page last month, I wanted you to be aware. Rivertorch (talk) 06:05, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've just posted a response to Hkettani's reply to my earlier post (see [2]), but I see that meanwhile Hkettani has restored the material. Hkettani's CV [3] (which he had been plastering over articles earlier) makes clear that his expertise is in computer science - and that there is no reason to see his self-published book on The World Muslim Population... as WP:RS, even if we were to settle the obvious WP:COI issues. It clearly cannot be cited, and something clearly needs to be done. I would suggest that maybe someone should revert Hkettani one last time, and then take it to WP:ANI if he doesn't get the message. Since I don't want to get involved in an edit war, I'd prefer not to have to revert the material again myself. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:16, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Given Hkettani's latest reply on his talk page, I can see no option but to raise this at WP:ANI - I'll leave it until later though, as I should have gone to bed hours ago. If someone else wishes to deal with it though, that will be fine by me. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The book is not self-published per WP definition of Self-publishing (and all definitions I know!) So try another one, or better, make the article better as volunteer editors. I have posted this to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents Please continue the discussion there to resolve the problem: I am trying to contribute to history and size of population of Muslims in articles such as Islam in Asia. I have several peer-reviewed articles in scientific conference proceedings and journals and a recent 600 page book [4]. So I added some results in Islam in Asia and other continent and cited by book. Interestingly, some editors such as AndyTheGrump, Jreferee and Dolescum keep reverting my contribution (basically deleting all of it and the source). They keep citing COI or self-publishing, none of which applies here. When I refute their allegations they come up with another excuse and keep threatening of blocking my account. Such "referees" or "editors" may have other motives that they are not disclosing. The job of an editor or contributor is to make the article better, not deleting all sources and information. Better means: checking facts, better reference, etc. Hkettani (talk) 17:01, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Self-citations are allowed per Wikipedia:SELFCITE#Citing_yourself. May be mis-understanding is promoting such ill-informed editors to go to war! Someone needs to stop this as it degrades the content of articles. Experts like me will not put up with this and will give up easily (they are busy doing real research and real publications). However, bloggers and those who know less, in the long term will control the quality and content of WP articles. Something that no one wants for WP. Hkettani (talk) 17:44, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Al (Allen) Schwartz

Hi, Jreferee! At the discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al (Allen) Schwartz, you made an excellent suggestion about how the article titles for people named Al Schwartz should be redone. That discussion has now been closed. Would you be willing to implement your title change suggestions at this point? I would do it, but I think some of the changes will require admin tools and I'm not an admin. Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 17:12, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at it. -- Jreferee (talk) 17:51, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! --MelanieN (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 November 2013

Apology

My apology for reverting your edit. It was purely accidental and unintentional. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:41, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. -- Jreferee (talk) 11:42, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed. -- Jreferee (talk) 22:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for a second round of feedback - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Bhargav_Sri_Prakash

Hi Jreferee, I greatly appreciate the suggestion about reworking the references. Per your earlier advice, I have looked through Template:Citation and have deleted many of the references and have reworked the significant references that I thought established notability per WP:REFBEGIN. I felt that the article about Mr Bhargav Sri Prakash by Bloomberg News established his notability the most and have therefore added it as the first reference. Does the ordering of the references make a difference? I am asking because many things about about him have been reported on multiple independent online sources on US and Indian media but I am not sure if the order of the references should follow a prescribed standard of priority. For example, his first company has been reported by Bloomberg News and by Kauffman Foundation and both to me are reputable sources. Would you please take another look and let me know how I am doing with the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Bhargav_Sri_Prakash Thank you again for your patient feedback/advice as I am still learning my way around editing articles! (Chippadum (talk) 17:30, 26 November 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Replied at User talk:Chippadum. -- Jreferee (talk) 22:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ellis Short

Hi. Could you review the additional content that I've suggested on the Talk Page of the Ellis Short article? I posted it a while ago and haven't had any feedback. Thanks for your help Vivj2012 (talk) 09:44, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Responded to request at the Ellis Short article. -- Jreferee (talk) 22:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Jreferee. Thanks for helping with the Ellis Short article. I've left a response on the article talk page about a few final points that need attention. Vivj2012 (talk) 09:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 December 2013

Sri Lanka

Thank you for expanding the article on the Sri Lankan school WhisperToMe (talk) 00:45, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see if I can find more info about the school WhisperToMe (talk) 03:16, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is Poramadulla Central College big enough or do I need to find more? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:07, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please check Template:Did you know nominations/Poramadulla Central College WhisperToMe (talk) 20:40, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Geoff Morrell

Hi Jreferee. My name is Arturo and I work for BP. I am the company's official representative here on Wikipedia and I am looking for help with a BP-related article that I thought you might be interested in. Perhaps you've seen my message on the Wikiproject Biography talk page? If you haven't seen the request, I'm looking for someone who can help make a few updates to the Geoff Morrell (spokesperson) article. I saw your name on the list of members of the Wikiproject and based on your comment there about having a soft spot for people who edit their own biographies I thought you would be a good editor to ask.

I would like to be clear, I have never directly edited any Wikipedia articles and, to my knowledge, Geoff has never edited his own article. I only work on Wikipedia via talk pages. Still, I'm assuming you're well versed in the mistakes people make when they edit their own articles and I thought your review of my request would be valuable. The main request is on the article's talk page. I hope you'll have a moment to look at it. Thanks. Arturo at BP (talk) 15:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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