User talk:Vanamonde93

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Brandon Victor Dixon

Hey, I might live to regret this idea but I’m wondering about potentially reducing the restriction on the Brandon Victor Dixon page to pending changes rather than semi-protected? He just did a widely watched television special in the US and I’m wondering if we might get some helpful new users wanting to add to the page constructively. Reaching out to you because I saw you were the one who had to protect it when there was so much vandalism in 2016, so if you think this is a bad idea, I completely defer to your judgment! Just a thought. Innisfree987 (talk) 07:00, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

@Innisfree987: I'm willing to give it a shot. So reduced. I'm still sort of on break, so if vandalism resumes you may get a faster response at RFPP. Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 11:00, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks very much! Will do. Hope all is well with you, meanwhile. Innisfree987 (talk) 21:12, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Colt AR-15

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Please comment on Talk:Legality of cannabis by country

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Template:Did you know nominations/Brad Smith (American lawyer)

I responded there; I was worried without the contrast of "known for settling but filed some rather big lawsuits", it's not really "hook-y". Can you say what needs to be done? --GRuban (talk) 16:09, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

replied. Vanamonde (talk) 16:35, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Syria

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Happy New Year

	Wishing you a belated happy new year
	Wishing you a belated new year with a traditional platter consisting of rice, mangoes and illish macher jhol(from what I can make out). May you have a prosperous 1425. Keep on rocking !  — FR+ 11:07, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Cheers, FR. The same to you and yours. Vanamonde (talk) 11:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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User talk:Yogesh Khandke# Why people paddle thier own views on Wikipedia ? Doug Weller talk 17:34, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

• Found nothing of use, I'm afraid. Drmies (talk) 17:36, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
  • I'll admit I was drowning in confusion. Doug Weller talk 17:38, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
    • @Doug Weller and Drmies: It looks very much like one of the stalwarts from my RFA; several of them have learned to dodge the doctor's checks, I regret to say. I don't know which one specifically, though I could speculate. YK is in any case topic-banned from Indian History (though it really needs to be an Indian politics and history ban), and can't do much about it. Thanks for the revdel. Vanamonde (talk) 14:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Holocaust denial

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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

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Madurai Airport

Hello Vanamonde93. Since this dispute was reported at WP:AN3, I've issued a block of the reported editor. Possibly this would influence your thinking on whether full protection of the Madurai Airport article is still needed. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 14:30, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: It would indeed. Previous protection restored, and thanks for letting me know. Vanamonde (talk) 15:29, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Pantheon-Sorbonne University

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Protection modified

Just a courtesy FYI that I removed your pending changes protection from Hurricane Harvey and replaced with straight semiprotection, due to a recent uptick in vandalism that probably has to do with an internet meme (but I don't know which). Your PC would have expired before my semi did anyway, I just removed it early since I was in the dialog anyway. Cheers. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 20:50, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ivanvector: Makes sense, thanks for letting me know. Vanamonde (talk) 07:23, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for Review

Hi,

I am a paid consultant to Nextdoor. I am an experienced Wikipedia editor, though not even close to your level. The article for Nextdoor is poor. There are hundreds of reliable sources about the company, stretching over 10 years, but the article, in my view, is incomplete, poorly written, poorly structured, inaccurate in many places, and violates policy in some instances. So I created what I hope is a much better draft at: User:BC1278/sandbox/Nextdoor, with the goal of getting it to B class, and eventually GA. After opening a discussion at Talk:Nextdoor#Request_for_Review and an RfC for an ongoing dispute regarding one section of the existing article, an obstinate editor surfaced to voice various objections. This is all fine and good. I have a thick skin and expect extremely close scrutiny as a paid editor. However, upon researching the History of this article, I see that the same editor has been deleting reliably sourced content from the article stretching back for years, while adding spuriously (in my view) to the Controversy section, partially explaining why an app with tens of millions of users and extensive media coverage has such a weak article.

I checked the editor's user page and saw that a year ago you considered blocking them for problematic editing after multiple warnings. This led me to considering asking you to help with the independent review here. I don't know whether you have time, but given this state of affairs, it's going to be tough to have a constructive discussion with other editors about improving this article, and trying to eventually get it to GA, unless a senior editor/admin such as yourself is involved. I wonder if you might have time to do the review? Thank you. BC1278 (talk) 23:10, 4 May 2018 (UTC)BC1278

• BC1278 If you give me a day or so, I will be able to look into potential behavioral issues here. However, I'm not willing to get involved in the content, as the topic is outside my area of expertise, and in any case, if I did so, I would be unable to act as an administrator. I am sure you will be able to find other folks willing to undertake a review; WP:GAN and WP:PR may be slow, but they do receive responses. Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 04:20, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the guidance. As I mentioned, nothing this editor has said on the Talk page about my request violates Wikipedia policy. And in the past, the editor wasn't challenged after this removal of content, so there's no edit warring, just weak editing that supports his stated belief on Talk that articles about internet companies are too long and detailed. In this case, I will follow your advice, and wait for an independent editor(s) to do a review from WP:PR or some subject matter project. If the editor removes content after that, I'll go through a dispute resolution process of some sort and I can report any behavioral issues if the consensus decision is interfered with. Thanks, Ed BC1278 (talk)BC1278

I am the editor to whom BC1278 refers. He wrote, "I checked the editor's user page and saw that a year ago you considered blocking them for problematic editing after multiple warnings." That just isn't the case, as you can see by going in your archive to Charged with vandalism by UW Dawgs again, where I communicated to you about another editor. The matter was resolved amicably. BC1278 is being paid by Nextdoor to rewrite this article. Now he is canvassing others, including you, to take his side. As you know, canvassing is against the rules of Wikipedia. BC1278 canvassed the following editors:

BC1278 DocWatson

L3X1

Daylen

Xezbeth

Editor 357

All edits I made over the years to Nextdoor were made in good faith. I simply do not like to see companies use Wikipedia has a means of publicity or advertising. This is an encyclopedia, not an advertising venue. What is at stake here is the credibility of Wikipedia. If you agree Wiki should be a credible source of information, maybe you can help me out. BC1278 and some of the people he canvassed have commented on the article. I think they should recuse themselves. Chisme (talk) 20:44, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Otsego

Hi there Vanamonde, I just thought I should let you know, since you raised an issue earlier, that I tweaked the hook to say "escaped destruction" after adding some sources to the article to clarify that this was in fact a potentially destructive event for ships. Otsego's stablemate, Prinz Waldemar, was wrecked at the mouth of the harbor shortly before Otsego's arrival, because the lighthouses had been destroyed by the earthquake. Otsego was initially reported as similarly wrecked but had in fact escaped the same fate, hence the hook. Cheers, Gatoclass (talk) 20:29, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: That looks fine. I did see this when you made the change some hours ago, but I was otherwise occupied and since you had promoted the set to the queue anyhow, I felt it was no longer urgent. Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 05:15, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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Wanda W.

I am disappointed about the closing of the violinist who died 1 May. Recordings are recordings, see discogs, worldcat, musiekweb, all in the article, which could also live without the section. What else would you need? This was a great person known around the globe, - please let this not fail due a formality, without the chance to repair. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Gerda, it's possible you misunderstood me. I didn't close it because the recordings were unreferenced; I closed it because it was older than the last entry currently on the ITN template (when I closed it, May 2). Had the article been 100% referenced, I may have ignored that rule and posted it anyway; but with the recordings unreferenced, I would have caught a lot of flak for doing so. Is that more helpful? Vanamonde (talk) 13:48, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I find the whole thing terribly disappointing, - sorry to have blamed you. The article was was mostly as it's now on 3 March. What should I do differently next time? Yell sooner why nothing is happening? (I felt like it but wanted to stay calm and polite.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

No worries, I entirely understand your pique, I was unhappy myself; the ITN/C admin corps should have done better. Yes, possibly yelling about why nothing was happening would have helped; or perhaps leaving a talk page message for an admin who works ITN/C and whom you know to be active. I wasn't active on 3 May, unfortunately. Vanamonde (talk) 14:16, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I hate yelling. - I should have learned by now not be attached. She was the first violinist I heard on stage, had so much to do with my personal memories. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

In that case, doubly understandable. I don't meant to suggest it's your fault for not yelling, only that yelling may have been the only option :) Vanamonde (talk) 04:27, 8 May 2018 (UTC)