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Please comment on Talk:Andrew Scheer
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Andrew Scheer. Legobot (talk) 04:28, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Concerning the speedy deletion on the Genohm page
Hello, can you please give me more information about how did you find the page promotional? In stead of deleting it why don't simply participate to improve the text ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadjem007 (talk • contribs) 12:36, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hey Nadjem007. As to what part of the article is promotional, the short answer is all of it. The long answer is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a means for you to promote your company, and that you need to review our guidance on managing conflicts of interest and be careful to abide by it.
- As to why I do not help rewrite it for you, to try to turn it into an actual article rather than an obvious advertisement, the answer is that we get hundreds if not thousands of similar advertisements every day, and it is a strain on our volunteer time simply to identify and delete them. It would be much appreciated if you did not actively work to further strain that limited resource. GMGtalk 12:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello GreenMeansGo, Who told you that I am working for that company? Who told that I am not volunteer? Well It's much better to spend a little bit of your time explaining to me what I did wrong (one time), instead of spending your very precious volunteer time deleting all the pages that I will creat. Because I still don't know why this my text doesn't fit Wikipedia recommendations.
- ...You...do realize LinkedIn is publicly available don't you? And no. I will not spend my time training you how to use Wikipedia as a vehicle for advertisement. The only recommendation you need from Wikipedia is to go advertise your companies elsewhere. If you one day decide to come back and write about topics for which you are interested, rather than writing for self promotion, I'll be happy to help. GMGtalk 14:51, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Feminist Perspective of Rhoda
Hello, I am a student at wingate university and I posted the link to my two articles of the Rhoda page. I understand that you flagged the comparison to Mary Magdalene (because it is not very necessary), but I do not understand the feminist perspective article? I would like that one to stay just as a suggestion to other readers on Rhoda. if its okay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards (talk • contribs) 16:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hey WilliamColeEdwards. Welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate the efforts you're putting into these, but I'm afraid they're a little bit misplaced. Generally, information about Rhoda or information about Mary Magdalene should go into their respective existing articles as appropriate, rather than creating spin off articles comparing the two. The exception to this would be if the comparison between them in particular was itself the subject of sustained in-depth coverage across a wide variety of published sources, such that it would uniquely qualify under our standards for notability.
- So for example, the play Hamlet has its own article, but there has been such an overwhelming amount written about the play itself, that Critical approaches to Hamlet also has it's own stand alone article. But this kind of thing is comparatively rare, and you have to go to the likes of Shakespeare in order to find examples of it. GMGtalk 17:06, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I can understand why that should not be there! I apologize! I have deleted the link to that page. however, can the link to the Feminist perspective stay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards (talk • contribs) 17:08, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well William, we kindof have to look at the whole context here when deciding how and when to make stand alone articles. In this case, Rhoda (biblical figure) is only a short three paragraphs long article, and content should really be added there first, since presumably that's where readers interested in Rhoda are going to look first themselves. Then if certain sections of that article get too large, we would at that point look to spin off stand alone articles for particular sections, so that they don't overwhelm the rest of the article.
- Also in this case, for example, it looks like nearly all of what you are adding is based on the Chambers source, which can be perfectly fine for adding content to existing articles, but we shouldn't be basing entire new articles on a single source, because it's difficult to tell whether we're representing the topic neutrally (without anything to compare our source to). Also with only a single source, you can't demonstrate that the subject (in this case feminist perspectives on Rhoda, rather than Rhoda herself) definitely meets our standards for notability, because meeting those standards necessarily requires that a subject be written about in more than one source, in your case, you would need a fairly wide variety of feminist scholars dealing with Rhoda in-depth, but you can gather those sources through adding content to the existing article for Rhoda, and then once they're gathered, we can look at whether they amount to enough to have a stand alone article. GMGtalk 17:17, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I understand! I did try to edit the Rhoda page but that made people unhappy until they finally edited my work down to the small last paragraph. That is why I didn't want to add it directly to the Rhoda page. I along with my professor (who is a biblical scholar) will continue to edit and add sources to the Feminist perspective page so it meats the requirements. Would that be okay? I would just like that small link to stay there so possibly other feminist biblical scholars can edit the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamColeEdwards (talk • contribs) 17:25, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well William, getting your edits reverted occasionally is normal for any Wikipedia editor, but tends to happen less often as you start to get the hang of the way things work. One of the most difficult things for new editors to get a feel for, and probably one of the reasons why your edits were reverted, is that unlike almost any other form of writing, Wikipedia is the one place where you don't write about what you, William Cole Edwards, personally think. Here, that's called original research and is explicitly not allowed. Instead, what Wikipedia does is simply restate what is written in reliable published sources, without going one inch beyond what the sources say.
- So in my experience, if you're having trouble writing something without going beyond what the sources say, it's usually an indication that you need to go out and find more sources, so you can say more on Wikipedia, because you have sources that say more themselves. So it looks like this book and this book might be good places to start, although you might have to access your university library system to get the full texts, and if you look for scholarly commentary you are likely to find a good deal more.
- But one thing is for sure, writing for Wikipedia, and doing it the right way, without personal commentary or opinion, is always much easier when you start with a whole big pile of sources to choose from. GMGtalk 17:38, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Curious again.
Sorry, if you have seen this before me, and had different impression. All I know is that I reported them using WP:TW, but fortunately now I am checking my contribs I came across this weird diff. I didn't remove yours manually. Do you have clue why it happened that way?. –Ammarpad (talk) 18:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hmm? That's very strange indeed. I didn't even notice. I normally don't monitor my UAA reports once they're made. Oh well. I guess it doesn't matter all that much as long as it gets the job done. Twinkle works in mysterious ways. GMGtalk 18:18, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- OK. I see that. Thanks –Ammarpad (talk) 19:11, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Ha!
Classic. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 08:19, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Sigh. I just...I just don't understand honestly. If I really had basically no interest in writing articles...I think I would just go play video games or...have really awesome landscaping in my yard or something. Grow a vegetable garden. I definitely wouldn't hang around just to shoot the shit on noticeboards and ArbCom. That's just...all the weeds with none of the juicy tomatoes. GMGtalk 10:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Excellent metaphor :) stores away in lumber room of brain —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 15:34, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe I'm weird, but I like weeding. Gives a feeling of accomplishment. Primefac (talk) 15:39, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe the better metaphor is the folks who weed the community garden, the folks who plant and water the vegetables, and then that one guy who shows up on the weekend and does nothing but tell everyone else how they're doing it wrong. And when someone suggests they grab a hoe or a spade, they complain that it's a community garden, so they have the right to hang out just like anybody else, and after all, their hands are too delicate to do any digging, on account of the fact that the only way you get digging hands is to actually dig. GMGtalk
- I can dig it. Primefac (talk) 16:01, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe the better metaphor is the folks who weed the community garden, the folks who plant and water the vegetables, and then that one guy who shows up on the weekend and does nothing but tell everyone else how they're doing it wrong. And when someone suggests they grab a hoe or a spade, they complain that it's a community garden, so they have the right to hang out just like anybody else, and after all, their hands are too delicate to do any digging, on account of the fact that the only way you get digging hands is to actually dig. GMGtalk
- Maybe I'm weird, but I like weeding. Gives a feeling of accomplishment. Primefac (talk) 15:39, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Peter Thiel
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community ban on use of administrative privileges
Just an fyi, banning an administrator from using administrative privileges has come up before, as I mentioned in the discussion. isaacl (talk) 18:02, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Db-g0
Just a little heads up, I created Template:Db-g0 from the one on your userpage. L293D (☎ • ✎) 19:39, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- (watching) You might want to tag that {{humourous}}...there are certainly plenty of people here (whether logical constructs or otherwise) who have the sense of humour of a British rail pork pie. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 20:39, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- done. L293D (☎ • ✎) 00:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Philosophy is fun. I still have a big leather bound edition of Descartes sitting around on a shelf somewhere. I actually tried to get a paper on the treatment of positivism in social work textbooks published when I was in grad school, but wound up screwing up and getting a degree and a job and now it's just sitting on an old laptop hard drive somewhere in a drawer. It's still probably publishable, although it would need updated for the last decade worth of sources. GMGtalk 10:42, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- done. L293D (☎ • ✎) 00:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Q11
Meh, A10 re CT_scan#Medical_use would have probably worked for me.--Dlohcierekim (talk) 02:21, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
YGM
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- For clarity, my previous account is already declared on my user page. GMGtalk 06:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- You might want to redirect to this account.--Dlohcierekim (talk) 06:28, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done And yeah, A10 probably would have worked on that article. But A1 was just plain wrong. GMGtalk 11:05, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Colt AR-15
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DYK for Marlon Bundo
On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marlon Bundo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marlon Bundo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marlon Bundo), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hah! Top spot and everything. The bunny has finally hit the big time boys. GMGtalk 12:06, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
RFA questions removed
I added to your RFA questions section but then removed what I put in because I am not experienced like those people who participate there.
Tell me about you being approached for paid editing. Company? Individual? How did they contact you? What did they want you to write? What was the offered pay?
Good luck! Vanguard10 (talk) 04:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Phew
Just putting this here, because I've got nowhere else to put it and probably no one that cares to listen anyway. That Nazi comment on RfA. Phew boy. That got me in the gut, and right before I tried to lay down for bed too.
I...I remember the first time I was spit on. I was in seventh grade. Someone I'd never met took a big draw from the water fountain and just spit it all over me. I...presumed it must have been a mistake. Like he got choked or something. He looked me in the eye and walked away, like I should have known what it was I did wrong to deserve that. I had no idea. And that was my introduction into modern race relations in the US.
I...I wasn't born in Germany; I was born in West Germany when there was still a wall and everything. I was barely old enough to remember that checking our car for extra stray wires was a thing, because being a US citizen living in West Germany, it wasn't out of the question that someone would try to blow us up to prove a point. So, when I came back to the states I wasn't really used to our particular type of racial tensions. I was completely naive to the point of stupidity, and I was only starting to get used to people trying to blow me up because I was American, and not distrusting me because I was brown.
Turns out, most white people think I'm Mexican. Mexicans tend to think I'm Puerto Rican, and visa versa. By that I mean that I'm not taken off guard anymore if someone just walks up to me and starts speaking Spanish, and I have to ask them in broken Spanish to please speak English. Black folks tend to think I'm half black. I'm not, I'm just brown. I look like my mother and she looks like her mother. We're Cherokee. Somehow we missed that whole thing where Jackson marched half of us to our deaths on the way to Oklahoma. My dad's white. So is my sister, my wife and daughter. If...you've never been a brown dad in a grocery store in rural Kentucky with a white baby in your cart, well...good for you then. It's not always a pleasant experience.
I...I do reserve the right to defend bigots, because I'm better than them. And that's something that someone who is better than them would do. I don't want to be their enemy. I want to be their friend. Because those type of people are looking for enemies, and when they meet a friend that doesn't look like they do, they're dumbfounded. I want to dumbfound them. I want nothing more than to befuddle them and make them think differently than they do, because the way they think is wrong, and toxic, and I'm tired of it. GMGtalk 04:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)