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It would be great if you could watch these articles for a bit, thanks. [[User:Ricose|Ricose]] ([[User talk:Ricose|talk]]) 22:04, 26 March 2013 (UTC) |
It would be great if you could watch these articles for a bit, thanks. [[User:Ricose|Ricose]] ([[User talk:Ricose|talk]]) 22:04, 26 March 2013 (UTC) |
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:Firstly, I've told you several times not to remove the reliable sources from the articles but you kept on doing that, you have done it several times in the articles [[De-illumination]] and [[Warfaze]] (most recently [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warfaze&diff=prev&oldid=547140201 this]) and probably in other articles as well! Secondly, you have been removing more contents than you should, going with your edits it has been seen that all of your removals have not been puffs and peacocks, you have been removing the informations about the subjects giving the reason of removing puffs. Thirdly, if you really think that there are some contents which are violating [[WP:OR]] than you can simply add the maintenance templates in those articles, give a chance to other editors to verify those contents, removing the contents is not the only solution! --[[User:Kmzayeem|<font style="font-size:18px" color="#848482" face="Ransom">Zayeem</font>]] <sup> [[User talk:Kmzayeem|<font color="#483C32">'''''(talk)'''''</font>]]</sup> 11:50, 27 March 2013 (UTC) |
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- Benzband (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) A self-styled gnome and userbox creator, Benzband joined WP in August of 2011 and has devoted 35% of his work at article pages. New users are the lifeblood of Wikipedia. Until benzband joined the community in late 2011, Project punk was almost dead. He injected much needed life into the project creating a Renaissance of sorts.. Never underestimate what a new user can do. Nominated by Buster7 based on comments by --Guerillero
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- Well deserved. ```Buster Seven Talk 06:53, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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Editor of the Week for the week beginning February 10, 2013 | |
A part of the Wikipedia community since August 2011, Benzband does all-round work in all the spheres of the Wiki. He has been a WikiGnome as well as a userbox creator. His actions and activity at the Project Punk has been fundamental in the project's subsequent Renaissance and improvement. | |
Recognized for | Revival and subsequent improvement of Project Punk |
Notable work(s) | Garageland (song) |
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- I am honored by your kind words and nomination. Thank you! benzband (talk) 17:39, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
- Well deserved. You do good work and are exactly what EOTW is for pointing out.--Amadscientist (talk) 04:35, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
- I am honored by your kind words and nomination. Thank you! benzband (talk) 17:39, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
More kind words for you!
Any editor that can display a button on their talk page that says "kill me" is allllll riiiight in my book. Not taking yourself too seriously is one of the best qualities a good Wikipedian could have. Thanks for all you do! You are highly deserving of all recognition you may receive. Keep up the fine work. Gtwfan52 (talk) 18:08, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
- Haha thanks! Hopefully any admins will check the link before clicking on it ;) benzband (talk) 18:13, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, i was wondering why my edit was changed :) the page i edited lacked a lot of information about the singer so i wanted to improve it. even used the given references at the bottom of the page, the previous edit history and other wikipedia articles about Bangladeshi singers as templates and reference, including but not limited to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehreen_Mahmud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samina_Chowdhury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(musician) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runa_Laila http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mila_Islam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momtaz_Begum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuad_al_Muqtadir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bappa_Mazumder
compared to the above articles (which mostly are filled with uncited, unverified content), i think mine was much better and well cited. i believe there has been some misunderstanding, otherwise i'm sure the other articles would have been changed first? thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faisal961 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
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What a jungle!
I'd never imagined you were writing so much stuff! Well I might as well pollute your talk page to divert some of your attention :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackbird34 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
template links
Hi, this is about district-related navboxes related to Uttar Pradesh. They all had links to similar navboxes on other districts of the same state. But, it seems you replaced all the links to navboxes of other districts to mere links to article pages of them, in edits such as this. The edits do not have much info in edit-comments ("links"). Can you please tell me why you made these changes? Was this based on some kind of guidelines or policies related to navboxes? Thanks.--GDibyendu (talk) 04:22, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- It was per a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates/Archive 2#Templates linking to other templates. According to WP:NAVBOX: "navigation templates, sometimes called navboxes, are boxes containing links to a group of related articles". benzband (talk) 12:25, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- OK. Thanks for sharing this info. I kept the links of other navboxes, because I saw many more such uses, which still exist for similar navboxes related to other states of India. Right now, I won't be changing all such templates to remove all those template links, but, will do it later. Regards.--GDibyendu (talk) 14:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
bot issues (maybe!)
hi, i noticed today that the bots seem to have accidentlly messed up the authors of the references on this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tishma (or if it was done manually then i don't know, but i think it was bots!) it hasn't happened to the references on other wiki articles i a working on, (but that could be as fewer references could be found online and used for those articles.) for example, in the above named article someone called "Hafez Ahmed" was wrongly credited for writing an article by "Haque Faruq Ahmed" and so on. i don't know how to fix this as i don't understand the ref tag things! more information is given on the talk page about this. i was wondering why this happened or if i simply didn't understand something. Faisal961 (talk) 19:16, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi again! I suggest you take a look at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners.
- Yobot, a bot, has grouped multiple instances of the same reference with this edit. To group the refs it used
<ref name="ReferenceA">…</ref>
for the first instance, then replaced all identical subsequent instances with
<ref name="ReferenceA" />
(see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once). I've just changed the name to "jjdin.com", with this edit though since that's the name of the website in the reference. - But i saw no changes relating to authors. Could you clarify?? Maybe whoever inserted the refs in the first place got the author wrong? benzband (talk) 19:55, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- thank you for the helpful link, i will look at it sometime. i can't speak for others, but in my case i always just insert any citation link within ref tags is all, don't have any clue about adding author names and stuff (those are always there within the references anyway!) noticed that some links that i also used in the article at some point got authors may have gotten added automatically, as no user has mentioned in edit summaries about editing author names but then again who knows? at some time i may try to fix the glaringly obvious wrong citations, that article now literally has more references than lines so don't really have the patience to go through all of the refs to correct all the authors LOL! Faisal961 (talk) 20:17, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- A way of neatly formatting references is using Wikipedia:Citation templates, of which the most common are probably
{{cite web}}
, {{cite news}}
, {{cite book}}
and {{cite journal}}
. For instance, {{cite web|url=http://example.com|title=Example|author=Joe Bloggs|date=2 January 2012|work=The Daily Example|publisher=Example Media Group|accessdate=7 March 2013}}
produces:
- Joe Bloggs (2 January 2012). "Example". The Daily Example. Example Media Group. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
- Regards, benzband (talk) 20:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
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Dear Benzband, Thank you so much for your help with my referencing issue. I wish that I was better with all of these rules; but I guess it's learn as I go. Many thanks for being such a patient Wikipedia mentor.
Sofiabrampton (talk) 20:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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Rudy Buttignol - adding info for a ref in the ref section
Hello Benzband.
I am writing to ask you about how to do something on "Rudy Buttignol,"
Re paragraph 5 under "Career" I added something about his outreach mandate and then added an online ref to an event that took place about a week ago.
It looks ok in the "Career" section; however the format is not correct in the reference section at the end of the piece. This is what it looks like. It's ref # 17:
How can it be corrected?
Many thanks for this help and all of your past help.
Sofiabrampton (talk) 18:33, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi again!
- When you use templates (such as
{{cite web}}
) you have to remember to close them using }}
. Typing {{cite web |url=http://theomega.ca/2013/03/10/knowledge-network-ceo-discusses-its-evolution/}}
gives:
- ^ http://theomega.ca/2013/03/10/knowledge-network-ceo-discusses-its-evolution/.
{{cite web}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(help)
- But there is a warning notice because you must add a
|title=
parameter. It's also good to add some more info from the cited webpage such as author, date, and so on (a full list of possible parameters for this template is in it's description page: Template:Cite web). That can be done like this: {{cite web |url=http://theomega.ca/2013/03/10/knowledge-network-ceo-discusses-its-evolution/ |title=Knowledge Network CEO discusses its evolution |date=March 10, 2013 |author=Devan C. Tasa |publisher=Thompson Rivers University |work=The Omega.ca}}
which gives:
- ^ Devan C. Tasa (March 10, 2013). "Knowledge Network CEO discusses its evolution". The Omega.ca. Thompson Rivers University.
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Thanks again, Benzband. In admiration,
Sofiabrampton (talk) 00:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
help for wiki articles that read like gushing advertisements?
hi. . . . .may i ask for your assistance please with some heavily biased wikipedia articles?
you may recall a revert you performed here earlier today, that was one such article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehreen_Mahmud&action=history
some articles on wikipedia were written heavily peppered with unjustified levels of praise, over-glorified adjectives/fantastic claims and information with no decent reference about their subjects (this includes one or two 'bands' that nobody has probably ever even heard of, who have no albums out and using one newspaper article with a concert review as the sole reference. . . definitely not notable enough to even be on wikipedia.) i tried to make these articles fit the wikipedia mold (neutral point of view, with sufficient reference, and concise rather than rambling on with praises, content that is not verified and exceptional claims, promo style) but today someone reverted 'all' my edits.
in the article about bangla rock, the intro alone gives undue importance to about 3 or 4 listed acts whose contribution is not as great as claimed, and there is an entire paragraph (with no sources at all) dedicated to a band that few, if anyone at all, has ever heard of.
when i reverted the articles back with an explanation, all my work was again almost instantly undone and i was sent a message claiming that i was performing 'disruptive editing'. since there was that instant revert of all my edits, now the problematic articles all read like free wikipedia advertisements about their subjects again, many even containing untrue claims. i have not re-reverted the edits but thought it best to ask you as a wikipedia authority to step in if possible and review the matter.
peacock/unverified content articles list - (i put the history links rather than direct links so you can see/compare the edits i made faster, my edits are under the name 'Ricose', and the other user who reverted the edits is 'Kmzayeem'.)
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fuad_al_Muqtadir&action=history
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehreen_Mahmud&action=history
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mim_Bidya_Sinha_Saha&action=history
4) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy_(musician)&action=history
5) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rezwana_Choudhury_Bannya&action=history
6) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warfaze&action=history
7) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stone_Free_(band)&action=history
8) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feedback_(band)&action=history
9) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoic_Bliss&action=history
10) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De-illumination&action=history
11) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunno&action=history
12) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangladeshi_rock&action=history
Hi Ben, okay, so i have tried to reason with this person about tone and puffery, yet they still insist, in particular, on continuing to keep a "peacock" tone to these two articles below, claiming 'supported by references' is justification enough to keep the articles that way (!) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De-illumination&action=history
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warfaze&action=history
They also keep adding the same few (completely, completely) non-notable garage bands back to this list of 'popular bands of Bangladesh' on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangladeshi_rock&action=history
A minor mention in a concert review or something similar does mean that they are "popular"!
It would be great if you could watch these articles for a bit, thanks. Ricose (talk) 22:04, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
- Firstly, I've told you several times not to remove the reliable sources from the articles but you kept on doing that, you have done it several times in the articles De-illumination and Warfaze (most recently this) and probably in other articles as well! Secondly, you have been removing more contents than you should, going with your edits it has been seen that all of your removals have not been puffs and peacocks, you have been removing the informations about the subjects giving the reason of removing puffs. Thirdly, if you really think that there are some contents which are violating WP:OR than you can simply add the maintenance templates in those articles, give a chance to other editors to verify those contents, removing the contents is not the only solution! --Zayeem (talk) 11:50, 27 March 2013 (UTC)