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Snug Harbor Cultural Center

do you have a minute to come back and help figure out how to handle this article?Elan26 (talk) 21:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)Elan26

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I agree with WhatamIdoing, and will point out to you again the need to choose more appropriate sources. However well written and accredited, information pages from hospital websites or HMOs, or even pages at the NIH, are tertiary sources. On Wikipedia the medical community gives primacy to high-quality secondary sources, preferably from high impact peer reviewed journals.

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Twin Towers 2

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How to Request an undeletion of a valid image.

Please help me with... The page in question is "The Poetry Society of New York." I want to request an undelete. There is no copyright. The people who founded The Poetry Society of New York gave me written permission to use it because there was no legal claim to it an it can be used by the public. Please advise?

richardw 16:26, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

The image was uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons; if you want to contest the deletion, you will need to do so over there. That said, if "there is no copyright", we'd need evidence to that effect. I rather doubt the logo of an organization established in 2015 was first published before 1923; thus we would need to see evindence that the copyright holder released it into the public domain or under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify the logo for any purpose, including commercial purposes. Going by the deleting admin's comment, there was a claim that it wasn't copyrighted because it was too simple to meet the threshold of originality; the admin disagreed with that claim, and after checking the Society's website (presumably it was the book-to-bird logo?) so do I. WP:Requesting copyright permission explains how to demonstrate that the copyright holder has released an image under an appropriate license. Huon (talk) 17:49, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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Rajveer Purohit

With respect to this article, what is the evidence that he is of any significance in transgender surgery? I see no significantly cited publications in the field., or references to his work in the field

Otherwise: I have followed up you good edits by shortening the long list of citations to the 3 most cited articles by objective data, as is standard practice, and removing a paragraph about minor work.. and removing duplicate and excessive categories. There's more to go.

When there is major material available, it detracts from the significance of notable people to include minor material. WP articles are not intended as complete CVs. DGG ( talk ) 00:13, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you for the assistance. You have made very helpful modifications and I've learned a thing or two -- much appreciated. Regarding your core question, and as someone who also finds that CVs belong on job boards, not encyclopedic works, the subject was selected by me for these reasons:

• He is a director at a prestigious medical university;
• He was an early director in training doctors in gender reassignment (today's politically correct term seems to be gender affirmation), and the first at Mt. Sinai;
• He was the first person to lecture, as a visiting professor Ethiopia, on gender reassignment -- in other words, in a continent where sexual practices and "deviancy" are still punishable by death;
• He is published and peer reviewed;
• He is of interest to the transgender community and those who may be searching Wikipedia to find out who the distinguished medical "players" are in the field;
• While the book he appears in does sound like a novelty of sorts, it's actually a quite serious topic and led the doctor to establish credibility in the global press; and
• With increased curiosity, acceptance, and demand for gender reassignment and related gender studies (that didn't even exist 10 years ago because they were taboo, perhaps), it seems that those who are on the front line of the societal change should be easily accessible.

Well, those are where my thoughts were. Globally recognized, professionally established in a high position, someone who can clain "the first one who..." with regard to several elements.

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No. I've been meaning to write a short bio on my page identifying my background, interests and what brings me to Wikipedia. Perhaps I should do that sooner than later if people think I'm a paid agent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.249.227 (talk) 18:51, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back! I ask in part because you have uploaded multiple images of people as your "own work" - which suggests (in order to have photographed them) you have some connection to them. So yes, it would be good to clarify. Alexbrn (talk) 18:54, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you, I will certainly investigate and correct. I'm not aware of directly importing text (my page development process would make that difficult), but one never knows... so I really appreciate that you brought it to my attention. --richardw 13:28, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks! When I started editing this page, it was a stub someone left with only only one paragraph, and https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn2/kahn.asp was one of the sources. I didn't notice any problem and probably made it worse. I will make corrections ASAP. --richardw 13:44, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

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Blocked for sockpuppetry

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Request reason:

With respect, I want to appeal to blocking my account on the grounds of sockpuppetry, which does not apply to me. My reasoning to request an unblock on my account is comprised of the following points.

• As a general note, I never have, in thirteen years or more of editing and improving and policing Wikipedia pages, done anything, consciously, in a malicious manner. To the contrary, I think I have been a good Wikipedia contributor and community member. I have removed from pages what was other people did that was malicious or appeared to be sockpuppetry.

• Wikipedia has blocked other accounts suspected of being cohorts of mine (or me). One of the accounts noted is, indeed, another account that I established (I don't think I want to make the username public here, but I will if required). I did not establish this additional account for deception but to ensure that at least one account would be there if someone harassed the other.

• I used to have a high-profile position in politics, and that is why harassment is a reasonable thing to have a backup plan for. Note that I have never edited a page about politics, precisely to make sure I didn't violate terms of neutrality.

• The other people on the list of suspected puppets are neighbors. I taught them how to use Wikipedia as an editor because they were interested in doing something useful in their spare time. Similarities in style are the result of me having trained them how to do it themselves. For example, if we all use "wordsmithing" in the description of an edit (as indicated in your report), it's because I told them while teaching them the ropes that if they made some tweaks that might improve the writing, "just say it's wordsmithing." I don't think it's uncommon or suspect for a trainee to listen to his or her tutor. If it is unacceptable, then I take full responsibility. They should not be held responsible.

• In the charges for sockpuppetry, Mt Sinai hospital came up a something that smelled fishy. It is not fishy. I have never been treated there, nor do I know anyone there other than a nurse (now passed away) who, in 1987, administered chemo to my sister before my sister died. She made my sister laugh. I suppose I work on Mt. Sinai's Wikipedia presence out of respect for that nurse -- but certainly not out of bias. I also have a bit of a medical background (as an editor of translations at the Policlinico of Milan), so it's not peculiar to speak on these topics. Actually, comfort in this area it's not peculiar for anyone who has ever swallowed an aspirin.

If, over my years of contributing to Wikipedia, I acted in a biased manner; if I irresponsibly raised interest among people who wanted to edit and I irresponsibly passed along some advice; if I used one of my accounts to start a debate with the other (whatever that means), then I would wholeheartedly agree with your determination to block me. But I have not been biased, irresponsible or duplicitous. I seem instead to have flipped out an algorithm and gotten some friends in trouble.

I respectfully request your reconsideration. richardw 23:04, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

That doesn't fit the evidence from the server logs. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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