User talk:CitizenNeutral

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Again, welcome! -- Trevj (talk) 16:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PGF and TrackingPoint

Why did you tag these pages with the banners? Precision guided firearm and TrackingPoint have seen plenty of budding interest. Which is how I found out about their existence, but I do not see what is wrong with the information presented, including the edit you made about removing promotional spam which noted TrackingPoint's development. Please advise me. I got an eye on those articles now. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 23:46, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Its been a while. I know you may not be on at all times. I am removing them because it seems invalid and the coverage of this subject is high, so rather then cast unnecessary doubt when there is none, I'm going to remove the tags and do as best I can to address matters from then on. Contact me if you disagree. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 21:27, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewed page?

Hello - I've received a notification that you reviewed one of my created pages (Red carpet fashion in 2008), but can't find anything in the page history or elsewhere to see what exactly this involved. Just wanted to say thanks for reviewing it, and ask whether I could find out more about what exactly your review involved? Given the lack of tags/flags etc, I'm guessing no tags is good news. Best wishes, Mabalu (talk) 09:17, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have just had a blinding flash of realization. It's been SO long since I created the page that I'd forgotten it was still up in the New Articles log without a review - which is what you did. Thanks for passing it! (Still morning-bleary...) Mabalu (talk) 09:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

April in the Afternoon

I note you have removed the April in the Afternoon prod with the comment that is has some notability. I can't find anything locally (in NZ) that points to that and wondered what you may have found. NealeFamily (talk) 07:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would like a response please as you seem to be reversing PROD's simply because you don't like prod's rather than any other reason. NealeFamily (talk) 03:20, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm sorry I think I made a mistake. CitizenNeutral (talk) 06:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. Another editor has set the article to Speedy delete. NealeFamily (talk) 20:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deportes Rengo

Hi. I noticed you removed the PROD from Deportes Rengo arguing that the Spanish language wiki has enough content with sources. I checked the page in Spanish and noticed--that yes--there was some substantial text but there were no citations and its references section was empty. Their only external link was a website with a splash that had words of encouragement. --MicroX (talk) 17:09, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Wanderful Media" article

Hi CitizenNeutral! I see you un-CSDed the already-AFDed "Wanderful Media" in this edit.

Please see Wikipedia:CSD#G11. Do you agree or disagree that the article is "exclusively promotional, and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic"?
Why should an article not be tagged for CSD and AfD at the same time?

When you reply, please remove my message from your talk page and insert it on mine. I can do the same when I reply to you. Thank you!

Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 19:50, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bernstein Crisis Management

Hello CitizenNeutral,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Bernstein Crisis Management for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:39, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Nathan Finch Ballard

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Recreations

Hi, with all due respect, and taking into consideration the messages above and the discussion on my talk page, if you simply continue recreating deleted pages or moving userfied pages back into mainspace, they will probably be deleted again just as quickly, and even be prevented from being recreated at all. We generally have a 'fail safe' for/against deletions: an experienced editor tags the pages for deletion while an admin reviews that tag and decides whether or not to do the actual deletion, or help the creator to find another solution. In the case of at least one of your articles, both the tagger and the deleter were admeins, so it's very likely that their combined decisions were appropriate. The Bernstein article is of particular concern because its recreation is persistent (it was already previously created by another account, and then deleted). Once an article is tagged for deletion, there is not requirement for admins to allow the creator more time to work on the article. [[WP:CSD|Speedy Deletions] are , well, speedy. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:29, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kudpung: Thanks for taking the time to explain your point of view on deletions to me. The reason I decided to recreate these deleted pages was b/c I found the subjects to be notable and of some encyclopedic importance. After a discussion with a user named Rybec and another IP editor in July, I was introduced to a substantial list of articles that have been deleted under the G5 criteria as a result of being created by a banned user named Morning227. You can view the whole list here: User:Rybec/CSD_log, User:Rybec/PROD_log, User:Rybec/sandbox and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Morning277.

I reviewed the G5 criteria and the article on recreating deleted pages, and it's not mentioned anywhere that an article deleted as g5 can't be recreated by an editor in good standing. If these notable subjects cannot ever have Wikipedia pages again for a reason I don't know, please do let me know and point me to where I can review that, and I'll happily stand down. Any articles I recreate will be well-sourced and neutral. Thanks again for taking the time to respond to me. CitizenNeutral (talk) 18:56, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's my version of the background to this: 24.23.151.188 (talk · contribs), who I had thanked for finding promotional articles, made some harsh remarks toward CitizenNeutral. When 24.23.151.188 made a G5 request on Steve Kuhn (Executive), CitizenNeutral removed the tag. I restored it because I perceived the removal as incorrect. CitizenNeutral wondered whether I was the same person as the IP editor [1]. CitizenNeutral took a wiki-break of about five weeks, and apparently was annnoyed to find another comment from 24.23.151.188 upon returning [2]. We had a discussion about the new/restored articles [3] (continues in the "Dasein" section). CitizenNeutral asked for my help, but all I did was to provide partial lists of articles I've nominated for deletion. I don't have the "master list" that was requested, but the roughly 180 files I did list in my CSD log, PROD log and sandbox ought to be enough to keep CN busy for awhile. —rybec 19:56, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

maintenance tags removed

Hello again,

I've removed maintenance tags from Crisis communication‎ and Digital Chocolate. The {{POV}} tag is supposed to be accompanied by an explanation or a discussion on the talk page, but I saw none. The work of the obvious COI editor DChoc was promptly reverted years ago, and you didn't put {{connected contributor}} on the talk page so the reason you added {{COI}} wasn't apparent to me. —rybec 21:04, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the heads-up.The POV issue I saw on the Crisis Communication page pertained to how the article spoke about CC in the context of the Clinton administration without presenting other historical examples. Anyway, I appreciate the message. CitizenNeutral (talk) 18:08, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

Hi CitizenNeutral. When you add references to an article, please do not just mention a month and date: also mention a year. There are various acceptable styles: see WP:MOSDATE. My favorite is "9 September 2013". Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 05:38, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up on the dates. I made that mistake a few times unfortunately. CitizenNeutral (talk) 18:15, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New Relic

Hi CitizenNeutral. Would you mind elaborating on your reasons for eliminating the technical capabilities section of the New Relic article? That section has been in the article for some time, though I recently updated it a little. The section seems relevant to me in explaining the company and what it does. I would also like to understand the removal of the fact that the CEO has 19 patents, as well as the removal of its clients, both of which I feel help establish the company's notability. Thank you very much. JNorman704 (talk) 23:11, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How does the number of patents that the CEO holds affect the company's notability? If this article was about the CEO then that might be the case (though holding patents is not source of notability typically). However this is an article about New Relic. Much of the information you added, such as a list of company's clients, is typically not included on a company Wikipedia pages. The long list of technical capabilities was largely unsourced, and better suited for the company's website. CitizenNeutral (talk) 23:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your feedback! JNorman704 (talk) 18:24, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of GatherSpace (company) for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of GatherSpace (company)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Unique Squared

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Nomination of Pogoseat for deletion

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Hey

Hi CN -

I noticed that you were a very prolific editor for quite a while, initially working on removing promotional content, and later working on salvaging content from G5'ed articles, but have since retired. If you don't mind sharing, what made you decide to stop editing Wikipedia? Best, Kevin Gorman (talk) 05:39, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Innoz for deletion

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Blocked

Although this user is already inactive, I have blocked them indefinitely. User:Kevin Gorman asked me to take an independent look at their history, and my conclusion is that they're clearly a sockpuppet of User:Morning277, employee of Wiki-PR (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morning277). This has been suspected before on this very page (old revision).

First and foremost, they have extensively re-created articles created by socks of User:Morning277, including many of questionable notability, and almost all their article creations fall in this category. They recreated them as stubs, which has been claimed to be part of Wiki-PR's MO ("When the page was finally created again, it contained only one sentence. Rather than apologising, French told Rahim to raise his media profile, and connected the academic to Scarsdale media, who offered 30 days of "media relations efforts" for another $800.") The following are all re-creations of articles originally created by suspected or confirmed socks of User:Morning277:
- Helsinn, ClassDojo, Bizible, Innoz (second creation), Heliospectra, RxWiki, Unique Squared, Telly (website), Vungle, SouthWest Energy, Splash (company), Inflection (company), Pogoseat, Centrify, Tom Kemp (entrepreneur), Chris Hobart, BillFloat, Jason Kanner, DDC Advocacy, The RLJ Companies, Hannah Bronfman, Gordon Kahn (architect), PeopleSmart, Boundary, Inc., Steve Kuhn (Executive) (substantially edited), Hotel Urbano, David Rusenko, Rick E. Schaden, GatherSpace (company), Dominique Molina, Timo Weiland
The user had a good understanding of policy and jargon from their first edits on 8 Feb 2013, with edit summaries including "unreliable sources", "notability tag", etc.; they are clearly an experienced editor, most likely using a new account to evade scrutiny.
Although they professed to be "anti spam," they radically shifted their behavior from deletion/tagging of content to saving content from deletion and detagging and recreating deleted content on corporate entities and professionals on 21 July 2013. This kind of radical behavior and worldview shift is unnatural and most likely part of a Wiki-PR strategy (first tear down articles to generate more clients, then build up other articles based on who is paying you).
They've engaged in repeated user talk page blanking and purging, most likely to cover their tracks.

To play defense lawyer for a minute: The user consulted with rybec about their re-creations, and was aware of User:rybec's CSD log and PROD log which they could have been using as their source of article titles to re-create, and they openly noted them as G5 re-creations (and of course rybec had been working the Morning277 case). The stubified articles don't appear to share content or style with the original deleted articles. It's possible that their experience with Steve Kuhn (Executive) - in which they tried to clean up the article by making it less promotional and were accused of sockpuppetry - is what led to their radical behavior changes. And the talk page blanking may have been a purely emotional reaction. But I don't find these arguments very plausible compared to the alternative - particularly considering the radical shift in worldview that their change in behaviour would represent.

I think the evidence points to sockpuppetry beyond a reasonable doubt. Dcoetzee 00:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]