Confusion
Why were you reverting the addition of Andrew Scheer's date of birth? That's about as standard a feature of an article on a human being as I can imagine. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:43, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Unsourced WP:DOB. Was it not clear from my edit summary? [1]Toddst1 (talk) 16:35, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- The answer, then, is a "cite needed" tag; and in fact, the user provided sources without any trouble. No big deal, though. (I really think we get silly sometimes about WP:DOB; but that's not on you, Todd.) --Orange Mike | Talk 19:52, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Orangemike: No, we don't leave stuff like that with a
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. We err on the side of caution because the standard for inclusion of personal information of living persons is higher than general facts. Unsourced DOB or other personal info is removed on-sight. Toddst1 (talk) 20:08, 10 February 2022 (UTC)- Normally, I would see your point of view; but this is a major political figure, the Canadian equivalent of a Nancy Pelosi or a Mitch McConnell, so it seemed blatantly obvious that this information is casually available. Again: no big deal, no hard feelings. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:17, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Orangemike: No, we don't leave stuff like that with a
- The answer, then, is a "cite needed" tag; and in fact, the user provided sources without any trouble. No big deal, though. (I really think we get silly sometimes about WP:DOB; but that's not on you, Todd.) --Orange Mike | Talk 19:52, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Edit war on May 23
Hi Todd, could I ask you to help resolve the apparent edit war between myself and User:Spicyapplesauce on the May 23 article. Spicyapplesauce had previously asked on the talk page (Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2022) to change the order of Bonnie and Clyde, with User:RudolfRed replying "Not done: that part of the list is alphabetical". Since then Spicyapplesauce have themselves edited the page, which I have reverted twice now. After my last revert, I backed up RudolfRed's reply, asking Spicyapplesauce to desist from making this change. They have now made the same edit for the third time. Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 02:43, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Kiwipete: I'm happy to help out. FWIW, when you see someone repeating an inappropriate edit, you really should leave an appropriately leveled editor warning or an explanatory note on their talk page, depending on the context. Toddst1 (talk) 23:11, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
About WP:BLP and WP:DOB you wrote on my talk page
Ok so I don't know if you saw my reply to your message on my talk page and might aswell paste it here. I was expecting for some feed back. Anyways I see what you're refering because of your recent edits remove some details of the Kansas State Reps. They aren't unsourced as you claim in WP:RS. It's located here from the Kansas State Legislature Library. It doesn't violate WP:BLP or WP:DOB since they make it public. The only thing I didn't do that I probably should had is to tag it with a reference, since some articles already put it in another sentence. Dillon251992 (talk) 18:06, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- replying on User talk:Dillon251992. Toddst1 (talk) 23:01, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the Withdraw of my RMs
I was clearly misunderstanding the basics of WikiProject Days of the year and the manual of style of dates, so Thanks for withdrawing my moves, because I didn't know how to withdraw it. Sorry for the late reply and Thanks! Jishiboka1 (talk) 05:25, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Member states of NATO
Hi, Todd. If the warning about Active Arbitration Remedies is still needed on this page, could the line "Editors may not make any modifications to the official name of this country" be changed to clarify that "this country" refers to North Macedonia? As it stands, the warning is ominous yet baffling. (I had to dig to figure out the warning's context and what country was meant, and I'm not 100% sure I understand the issue.) CAVincent (talk) 06:02, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- @CAVincent: I don't know much about WP:AE but WP:ARBMAC articles have been and always will be a cesspool in my opinion. See WP:NOTNAS-ETHNIC Toddst1 (talk) 06:26, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Mass proposed deletion of The Wire character articles
Hi, you objected to my mass proposed deletion of a bunch of articles on The Wire minor characters. I have now opened a thread to discuss these: [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters#Redirecting articles on [mostly] minor The Wire characters]]. I hope you can weigh in there if you are able. Long story short, I am saying there that I think most of the in-universe content of all these articles (which we agree are currently crappy articles—the question is whether the topics of them are potentially article-worthy) needs to go, but I think it's worth seeking input about whether that should be done by wholesale blanking and redirecting these articles, or by keeping them but deleting most of their content and turning them into stubs with a bunch of cleanup tags on the top. (I was originally going to do this at AfD, which is also what you suggested, but later on I decided not to, 1 because I can't do it anyway without registering an account, and 2 because the last time this was tried at AfD everyone just said it's more appropriate for a talk page than AfD anyway.) 61.18.156.43 (talk) 03:32, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Charles Martinet
What sources would you say would constitute as “Reliable”? For his DOB? Because trust me, I’ve been trying to search. I’ve seen stuff like tweets, personal info pages created for him, birthday messages on media etc but yet those somehow don’t count. So what would exactly count? WikiFlame50 (talk) 06:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
I’ve just provided 2 sources for his birthday. One with a full biography of martinet and an article that states he is 66 years old. No news sites have talked about his birthday from what I’ve been trying to search. They are actually reliable. They do say a lot. And for one thing, I’m not trying to be a burden. I edit soap pages mostly so I didn’t understand your terms whatsoever. But being honest here, don’t you think you could have been a bit lighter with me? I didn’t know and you went a bit full on with me with those messages. If you revert my reliable sources once again, Just tell me what sources I’m supposed to look for. WikiFlame50 (talk) 07:06, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Again I apologise, I’m not a bad user and I never try to break the rules. I just find it extremely annoying that his DOB always gets reverted when pretty much everyone says it’s September 17th 1955 and wish him HB on September 17th. It just makes no sense.WikiFlame50 (talk) 07:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- @WikiFlame50: Thanks for your acknowledgement. I don't like to be a dick here but it looks like you've had a bit of a history not understanding what is a reliable source and what is not. Numerous folks have left you messages about it but you're still not getting it. I'm glad I finally got your attention on this issue - by me being something of a dick about it.
- Look, if you're going to have any level of success here, you really need to understand this page: Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Seriously. Read it. Especially the part about Questionable and self-published sources. If you still have questions, come back and let's talk about it. Toddst1 (talk) 15:44, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
I’ve just spotted something. On Charlie Day’s page, his DOB is sourced with sites named TV Insider and Rotten Tomato, Are those sites reliable, just to ask? WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:01, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
I thought it would be better to ask instead of me getting fucked over. WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:06, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Apology
Im currently trying to make amends and make things right. I’m sorry for all the damage I caused. I accept full responsibility of my actions, all you did was tell me what I did wrong. You didn’t deserve any blatant treatment from me, I was acting like a moron and it’s not who I am. I’ve learned my lesson, I will always make sure my sources are reliable 100%. WikiFlame50 (talk) 18:43, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- @WikiFlame50: I wish you the best. You don't need to be self-effacing like this, but like Oz said, you really need to be open to learning from others. If you get a warning you don't understand, politely ask the person who issued it to help you understand or where to find out more.
- Also, I strongly recommend you stop deleting stuff from your talk page and instead start archiving it. Deleting it looks like you're trying to hide stuff. Unless it's patent vandalism or a real personal attack, you far better off archiving it or even leaving the less pleasant stuff there. That's my $0.02 worth. Now you owe me $0.02. :) Toddst1 (talk) 01:13, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Dead Air Fresheners
The group was originally based in Olympia in the 1990s, but at this point has members living in Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. They perform in all three cities (though during the COVID pandemic they've performed almost entirely in Portland, with a truncated version of the group, basically the Portland portion of the band plus sometimes one or two from out of town). If you have a better way to word that than what I've said, please feel free. Maybe just "Pacific Northwest-based"? I'm not really concerned, as long as it stays basically accurate.
If you are responding to me here, please ping, because I'm not maintaining a watchlist on en-wiki these days. - Jmabel | Talk 15:24, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
No article about the event
Thank you, I didn't understand the requirements.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 15:37, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- It seems like it would be notable enough to write an article about it though. It's not like the event was the first time 4 baseball players played together or other cruft that editors sometimes try to shove into these articles. Toddst1 (talk) 18:37, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Nick rambling
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
- He's been disrupting for months though. I tried to give detail on the NickRewind page but CreecregofLife keeps reverting the page instead of helping expand it. The section before was too short and I tried to add more info, like how the SNICK block was aired on the block. Jackthewriterguy12 (talk) 21:18, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- There was no requirement for that section to have that content you added. It was poorly written and unsourced original research CreecregofLife (talk) 21:20, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- It was not original. There was some info already in the article, so I'm summarizing it. Jackthewriterguy12 (talk) 21:24, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Please stop re-adding it. Running to random users to tell on users who oppose you in order to steamroll over them is not right CreecregofLife (talk) 21:28, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- It was not original. There was some info already in the article, so I'm summarizing it. Jackthewriterguy12 (talk) 21:24, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- There was no requirement for that section to have that content you added. It was poorly written and unsourced original research CreecregofLife (talk) 21:20, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
CreecregofLife has reverted a section from NickRewind without giving a reason, and he reverted it again. I tried to make the programming section a little bit more detailed but CreecregofLife is reverting it all. Could you please do something about him?
Jackthewriterguy12 (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- What the heck? CreecregofLife (talk) 21:15, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
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- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.