Talk:Worthington, Minnesota

Re: Deletion of material from Worthington, Minnesota wikipedia page.

I recently deleted three videos I previously posted as external references, and also deleted the IP address for an article used as a citation. All of these were on the Worthington, Minnesota wikipedia page. I did so because some unknown person (under numerous names) has continually attacked me on that page for the past three months (see edit history). Hopefully, if my name does not appear on the Worthington, Minnesota page, this vandalism will stop.

Ray.lowryRay Lowry 21:17, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Big red building?

Does anyone know what that very large, red building (it looks new) is in Worthington? Its clearly visible from I-90, and I heard it was some sort of museum or otherwise education and/or entertainment-related complex, but that its supposedly closed now. Anyhoo, does anyone have anything more concrete about it? KevinOKeeffe (talk) 22:38, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

It seems that its something known as the Prairie Holdings Center.

http://www.newportlabs.com/company-overview KevinOKeeffe (talk) 22:43, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Worthington, Minnesota wikipedia edit was correct

I recently made some changes on the Worthington, Minnesota Wikipedia entry. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthington,_Minnesota)

Specifically, I correct some factual errors and added detail to the history of the town's King Turkey Day Celebration. This was only the second time I have edited a Wikipedia entry and did not realize I needed to explain the edits. A volunteer editor (Ckruschke) deleted the entire section. I tried to undo the edit, but I suppose that isn't possible for me to do, at least I could not figure it out.

The changes I made are accurate because I personaly know a man who co-founded the turkey race that I was writing about. He in fact is the person to pick up the turkey and cross the finish line.

If you need more help in verifying that I am correct, please contact me and I will explain further.

Anonymous Editor - I deleted the entire King Turkey section because I was unable to independently verify any of the information via a web search. This is the crux of the delete - information on Wiki is supposed to be sourced (by a book/magazine/newspaper reference) and verifiable by later readers/editors (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). My guess, and your words above confirm this, was that much or all of the information was first-hand knowledge which in Wiki speak is called "original research" (i.e. I know Joe Friday and he's a great detective so I'm going to weave my personal knowledge into the Wiki article on Joe). Original Research is verboten on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:No original research).

So - nothing personal. Your "Turkey Day" info may be 100% legit. However, you need to reference your information for it to be put (and stay) on Wiki. Also a suggestion - if you want to continue to edit Wiki (and the more the merrier in my mind), you might want to start by reading the Wikipedia Manual of Style. It's kind of long, but it will help you get started and it lays out alot of the overall do's and don't's for new editors. I'm by no means an expert, but I've learned alot in 5-6 yrs on Wiki (alot of it by screwing up) and it always helps to goto the Wiki source documents if you have a question.

Feel free to drop me a message on my talk if you have any further questions or comments about this page or Wiki in general. Yours - Ckruschke (talk) 16:47, 9 July 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

Please reinstate the secton on King Turkey Day but remove the phrase '...and in all the years to follow..." when referencing the name of the turkey. This will not be a substantial change but will reflect the facts. I thank you for your suggestions. I only made small edits on a different Wikipedia entry. May I ask how many characters need to be changed before the red light comes on and an editor takes a look at the changes? The reason for the question is that I made edits on a Wikipedia entry about a business that my father previously owned. These were also first hand "original research" edits, but maybe it was a shorter edit?

Sir - I think you missed my point. In order to reinstate ANY of the information, meaning the ENTIRE section, you or someone else will need book/magazine/newspaper references to corroborate this information. Although you were the most recent editor to add information to this section, I am referring to the entire paragraph - I couldn't independently verify any of it. I'm sure there are newspaper articles on this, but I didn't readily find them and I have no time (or interest) to do a more in-depth look.

Referring to how much of a change needs to be made, if you make ANY change (including just adding or deleting a space), it will be marked as a change. However, that doesn't mean that anyone will look at it. There are many of us who "watch" pages and thus any change to the page would show up on our "Watchlist". That doesn't mean that anyone will look at it - sometimes a week goes by w/o me even looking at my watchlist (I mean we are doing Wiki "for fun"). So to answer your question, maybe you made the edit on a page that very few people watch or no one "cares" about - there are pages I watch but a change has to be prety significant for me to look at it - so your edit may stand for weeks or years until someone comes along and flags or deletes it because it isn't verifiable. It's hard to tell.

Oh, it would be helpful for the conversation to "sign" your comments. You do this by typing in four tilde's (Ckruschke (talk) 18:05, 10 July 2013 (UTC)) in front of your name at the end of your insertion (like I put four tildes in front of "Ckruschke" at the end of this) and then later people know that this is what I said. Conversely, your two comments above have no signature so the only way anyone can figure out who inserted these edits is to go into the page History and look at the notes. Again no being difficult - just trying to help. Yours - Ckruschke (talk) 18:05, 10 July 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

Continued inclusion of non-notable people

My Homie The D.O.C has violated the WP:3RR rule in attempting to continue to include non-notable individuals. I've suggested, as per guidelines, that he self-revert. Onel5969 (talk) 12:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Please see the guidelines for notability at WP:NOTABILITY. Your continued disruptive editing may get you blocked from editing. Onel5969 (talk) 02:29, 20 May 2015 (UTC)