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Contents
- 1 PLEASE READ
- 2 Question
- 3 AN/V weirdness
- 4 Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Emily Ratajkowski/archive3
- 5 ISP editor removing reference needed templates
- 6 Country name in birthplaces
- 7 Pan Am Flight 841 has been nominated for Did You Know
- 8 Which of the two?
- 9 Shrimp vis-à-vis prawn
- 10 Pseudonyms Should Be Abolished
- 11 Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter
- 12 Notability of personal secretaries to Presidents of the United States
Question
Why were my edits on the shooting of Michael Brown reverted? Michael Brown was an African American teenager and yet the page incorrectly refers to him an his friend as men several times. Pangolin5 (talk) 18:47, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Pangolin5: This has been extensively discussed among editors of this article (see e.g. here and the consensus (which is how such things are decided here) is that at 18 years of age in Missouri, Brown was legally an adult (a man) and thus should be referred to that way. Do not repeat the edits. 18:54, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
AN/V weirdness
I originally was adding my comment to the bot-reported report. But it went to that /TB2 subpage instead. I don't understand that, but I didn't intend to go to the /TB2 page, whatever that is. ANyway, seems fine now. Jeh (talk) 02:36, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Emily Ratajkowski/archive3
I am taking one last run at getting Emily Ratajkowski promoted to WP:FA in time for a 25th birthday WP:TFA on June 7th. Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Emily Ratajkowski/archive3 needs discussants. Since you have made at least 10 edits to the article, I am hoping you might give some comments.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:58, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
ISP editor removing reference needed templates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/74.102.30.143 is removing tags from articles seemingly without cause. It also appears that https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:74.102.30.143&diff=711134988&oldid=706716366 may be engaged in sock puppetry. I'm not sure how to address this...your thoughts please. Pjefts (talk) 16:47, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Pjefts: Sorry, I am not an admin. Report apparent vandalism or other chronic nonconstructive editing at WP:AIV and sockpuppetry at WP:SPI (if you can identify the sockpuppeteer). Thanks. General Ization Talk 18:54, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Country name in birthplaces
The information I'm contributing is completely correct. Do you dislike facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clayton Forrester (talk • contribs) 17:45, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Clayton Forrester: See WP:PLACE. "New York, New York" requires no disambiguation as to country, as there is no other. General Ization Talk 17:53, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Pan Am Flight 841 has been nominated for Did You Know
Which of the two?
User:General Ization, as a linguistic expert, which of these two origins is most realistic for the surname Maior, this [1], or this [2]. Thanks --Emperorofthedaleks (talk) 18:32, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Emperorofthedaleks: I'm not a linguistics expert (and I'm curious why you thought I was) or an expert on the etymology of surnames, but the explanation at the second link seems to me more likely to account for most occurrences of the surname Maior (and the text at that link is somewhat better sourced). However, it's entirely possible that there are people named Maior whose surnames are derived from both (there are many examples of names of different derivations that share a common modern spelling). By the way, I would not think of www.houseofnames.com as a reliable source for encyclopedic information about the derivation of surnames (though some of the sources cited in the articles there might be reliable). General Ization Talk 03:45, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
- @General Ization: I confused being a linguistic expert with another user, but thanks for looking at the website and giving me your answer, I appreciate. Houseofnames.com isn't the only website that uses these 2 origins for these names, but when looking at my own name (Goram), the website gives this origin ([3]) related to Goring, instead of being related to this name ([4]), Gorham. Is this right? Thanks --Emperorofthedaleks (talk) 15:18, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Emperorofthedaleks: I have no clue. General Ization Talk 15:31, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
- @General Ization: I confused being a linguistic expert with another user, but thanks for looking at the website and giving me your answer, I appreciate. Houseofnames.com isn't the only website that uses these 2 origins for these names, but when looking at my own name (Goram), the website gives this origin ([3]) related to Goring, instead of being related to this name ([4]), Gorham. Is this right? Thanks --Emperorofthedaleks (talk) 15:18, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Shrimp vis-à-vis prawn
The meaning is clear and precise.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vis-%C3%A0-vis
kencf0618 (talk) 00:19, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Pseudonyms Should Be Abolished
It is very easy to hide behind pseudonyms. You are really "generalizing". Who are you and why are you doing this? Laszlo Csatary was my father. I have rights in this case. You do not! No one has the right to slander another or protect slander. That is oppression. Is that clear? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.150.36.88 (talk • contribs) 21:08, April 3, 2016
- This is being discussed on the article's Talk page, where your comments and/or complaints regarding this article belong. If you continue to use the word "slander", your comments will be regarded as a legal threat and you will be blocked from editing. General Ization Talk 22:24, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter
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Notability of personal secretaries to Presidents of the United States
To answer your question here, yes, there are at least 13 personal (administrative) secretaries to Presidents of the United States in the modern era who have Wikipedia articles. They are listed here. The four five without Wikipedia articles probably would qualify for articles, by virtue of that role alone, if someone bothered to do the research and write them (e.g., Rose Conway). To me, the fact that you didn't look into this before making your argument speaks volumes. General Ization Talk 20:50, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- @General Ization: How exactly does that "speak volumes"? I did not know the answer to the question. You seemed more knowledgeable about the subject. So I asked you the question. Assuming that you would know the answer. So, how exactly does that "speak volumes"? And about what exactly does it speak volumes? Please advise. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk)
- You can't possibly be so dense as to not understand my comment above and its meaning. So I will assume (in a variation on AGF) that you are not that dense and instead that you are intentionally trolling me, something I really don't have time to indulge. General Ization Talk 21:31, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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- @General Ization: Not sure how that answered my valid question. In fact, seems to avoid it altogether. So I will repeat it one last time. I also don't have time for your games. Question: How exactly does that "speak volumes"? I did not know the answer to the question. You seemed more knowledgeable about the subject. So I asked you the question. Assuming that you would know the answer. So, how exactly does that "speak volumes"? And about what exactly does it speak volumes? Please advise. Thanks. Answer that question. Or leave me alone. Thanks. Bye. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 22:08, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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- It means that you wasted my time and the time of every other editor engaged in the conversation at Talk:Murder of Kitty Genovese by making this completely spurious argument about how Rose Mary Woods is entitled to an article because of her association with the Watergate scandal, and therefore Walter Moseley should be entitled to an article because of his association with the murder of Genovese, when (as I pointed out here) Woods already met the requirements for notability as the personal secretary to a US President. And that even after I explained that, you couldn't be bothered to actually look to see if secretaries to Presidents are notable here, instead asking a question that you were entirely capable of answering for yourself. So, I conclude that at least one of these several things are true, and possibly more than one: you are an exceptionally poor researcher, you are exceptionally lazy and content to let others do your research for you, and/or you are completely oblivious to the degree to which you waste other editors' time. Now before you accuse me of incivility, allow me to point out that I was quite happy to leave it at my relatively diplomatic comment above, knowing that in order to go any further I would need to insult you, but you insisted on my giving you the completely unvarnished, un-diplomatically-phrased truth as I see it. There it is; make of it whatever you wish. General Ization Talk 22:29, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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- You are 100% right. I am 100% wrong. Not sure what I was thinking. Thanks for your keen insight! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 22:43, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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