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2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

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Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:50, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Recent removal

Your recent removal of the Doctor of Chiropractic degree from the lede at 'Doctor' here seems inappropriate as it stands. You removed the chiropractic doctorate because "not an example in widespread use", yet you left DPT and PharmD in the lede, which are only found in one country, the US? I would say remove all non-international degrees, or leave them all. I previously tried restoring the chiropractic doctorate (awarded in Canada, US; Switzerland & Denmark), but you have removed it again. This time I tried also removing the DPT and PharmD doctorates (used in US only). I think consistency is important so as not to appear like DC is being removed due to POV.2001:56A:75B7:9B00:D3:7051:DE4:DD01 (talk) 05:53, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Your logic at Arnoutf's talk page seems sound Drchriswilliams, but you are applying it inconsistently. I clearly stated this inconsistency in my comment at Arnoutf's page, but you seemed to overlook that point and have simply reverted my edit rather than work to improve the article by making it consistent according to my comment. Where are physiotherapists properly called 'doctor'? or pharmacists? These professions as 'doctors' is a purely US-centric concept; yet you only remove the idea that chiropractors may be called doctor, when this title is used in multiple countries, like Canada, US, Switzerland, Denmark, etc. 2001:56A:75B7:9B00:D3:7051:DE4:DD01 (talk) 06:03, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Your reintroduction of DC to the lead did not improve the article, so I reverted it. Yesterday, Arnoutf had removed this item, before you restored it. This list was added to the lead of the article without explanation back in March 2016, by an IP address that has not been used for further edits since. The lead section has a few examples and it will not be helpful to readers if that list becomes exhaustive. As I highlighted elsewhere, there are some other issues specific to the DC degree. For example, in the UK, the professional regulatory body, the General Chiropractic Council advises that chiropractors exercise caution about what title they use when advertising, see here. This was after an ASA judgement in 2013 on a chiropractor who went to the United States and obtained a DC degree. If you have issues with other information (that other editors have added) on that page that you feel would benefit from discussion then I would suggest you can raise them on the article's talk page. Drchriswilliams (talk) 06:15, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences

The page name of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences was incorrect because it has "Post Graduate" on the place of "Postgraduate". As you see in the Institute's website(www.sgpgi.ac.in) the name is "Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences". So I moved the content of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences to Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Thanks. Khy92(talk) 08:47, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

@Khy92: It is not appropriate to delete content from a page in the manner that you did. A move of content to the page with the "Postgraduate" title has been requested and I anticipate that an administrator will move it in due course. Drchriswilliams (talk) 09:01, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Drchriswilliams, you may be interested to know that Khy92 has been blocked as a likely sockpuppet of Kh94h (talk · contribs), who was blocked ≈2 days before Khy92 was created. 220 of ^Borg 15:50, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm glad that someone made the link. After I picked up the copy-paste and deletion I had been watching things unfold. Thanks for the update. Drchriswilliams (talk) 16:02, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Medical Women's Federation page

Thanks so much for reviewing and improving the MWF page - I love the detail about the international interest in the early years. I'd love to try and get it on DYK as I think there are a few interesting pieces of information about it, but I've never done that before - if you're not too busy, I'd really appreciate your help/advice, as your talk page suggests that you're a bit of a DKY veteran! Zeromonk (talk) 16:02, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Judging by your work so far, you shouldn't find submitting a nomination to DYK too tricky. There is a seven day window from creation to submit an entry. You'll need t choose an interesting fact to use as a hook; you can submit more than one and reviewers will often suggest improvements. If there was an appropriately-licensed picture that could be included too. Drchriswilliams (talk) 16:44, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice, and for following up with the nomination - I'm sorry to have dropped the ball on this (I just had a bereavement in the family late last week and the deadline for nominations completely slipped off of my radar). I'm so grateful to you for getting involved, thank you! Zeromonk (talk) 07:57, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

No worries, I figured that your absence of response had been due to more important matters arising. The nomination for MWF has been submitted to avoid missing the deadline. You can still add an alternate hook (on the nomination page) if you think of a more interesting way to present a factual aspect linked to the MWF. As I mentioned before, I'm sure you will quickly get the hang of the DYK nomination process. Drchriswilliams (talk) 08:16, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Bonar Bridge F.C.

Hello there Drchriswilliams I keep on noticing that you are deleting things on the Bonar Bridge F.C. page. I do understand that you may deal with vandalism but these are constructive comments on that page please bare that in mind. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.187.105 (talk) 23:54, 29 June 2016

Wikipedia requires that Information which appears in articles should be supported by reliable sources. Drchriswilliams (talk) 23:16, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

uFundingPortal

Hi Drchriswilliams, I do not understand why you have kept deleting the changes I made for uFundingPortal as you indicated in today's email. In this morning, I only inserted uFundingPortal, an equity crowdfunding platform, into the table that shows all equity/debt crowdfunding platforms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_crowdfunding_services). But, now the newly inserted row for uFundingPortal is deleted. If listing a platform in the table is inappropriate, should you delete other rows in the table as well? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom ufp (talk • contribs)

Your edits appear promotional. Wikipedia is not a directory, see WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Drchriswilliams (talk) 14:59, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

In the table of "Money for business ventures" on the page of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_crowdfunding_services, there are 17 rows that have similar data entered as I did for uFundingPortal. Should they be classified as "promotional" and be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom ufp (talk • contribs) 15:10, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I have explained to you why I reverted your edit and have pointed you towards relevant Wikipedia policy. Since you ask, I have previously removed similar material from these pages - where it appears to be promotional - and other editors do likewise. Drchriswilliams (talk) 15:30, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

If you or other editors want to enforce the policy, you should make consistent for all data entries. Otherwise, it does not seem to be fair. In other words, when you delete my data entries, you should delete other data entries with the same problems. If not, that will certainly create confusion because the data I entered are in the same format as others. I would like to know when you will delete other 17+/- rows in that table. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom ufp (talk • contribs) 15:44, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

If further edits appear promotional, I will attempt to deal with them in an appropriate manner. Drchriswilliams (talk) 15:57, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I do NOT think that it is fair! If you do not want to delete their data, you should NOT delete mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom ufp (talk • contribs) 16:20, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Medical Women's Federation

On 7 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Medical Women's Federation, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Medical Women's Federation was formed in the UK in 1917 and has acted to address workplace and educational grievances of female doctors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Medical Women's Federation. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Medical Women's Federation), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:49, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Notability of GMC Software

GMC Software is already among the most well-known companies in the field, and its popularity is growing. I am working in the field, not paid (at all) or related to the company in question any more than other companies already included in the list, that is I have work with their products. No promotion here. For notability evidence, I would have appreciated that you did your homework yourself:

• https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_Software_AG
• http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24903518
• https://fr.finance.yahoo.com/actualites/neopost-gmc-software-class%C3%A9-parmi-154500245.html
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/gmc-software-technology 16k followers
• https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/customer-communications-management-software/vendor/gmc-software-technology firm size 500M-1B
• more: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=GMC+Software&t=ha&ia=web and scroll down the list.

They are certainly not less notable than other entries already in the list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.239.43.182 (talk) 13:32, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Lists on Wikipedia contain existing articles. For it to be included it fist needs to have one. GMC Software might pass WP:CORP and WP:GNG. You might be interested in creating the article yourself. See WP:YFA for a tutorial on how to do so. It is also good to listen to more experienced editors than you, and not engage in snark talkback; remember we are a collaborative project. Also familiarise yourself with WP:COI and let us know if you need further guidance. Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 15:09, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

The material on Enterprise output management and Customer communications management is of very poor quality. There are multiple claims that are almost completely unverified. There have also been improvement notices placed on these pages for years, without significant improvement occurring. I have been trying to think where to start but there is no easy way in. The links above are not examples of reliable sources. Drchriswilliams (talk) 15:14, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

FoCuS, thanks for finally providing a clue for the reason behind your reverts (at least Drchris provided some in his own reverts). I have actually read about WP:COI before the edits and explained my position above, please state clearly your doubts if you still have some. I will indeed follow experienced contributors advice as long as such advice is reasonable (and not just some argument from authority). As far as I know, this collaborative project also provide guidelines such as WP:AGF and WP:DONTBITE. Unjustified reverts are a great way to discourage newcomers, as it shows absolutely no consideration for their work. Unfortunately my own experience dealing with faulty behaviour from experienced people is that sometimes biting comments are necessary to draw their attention on what's wrong with their approach: note that you only got non-neutral comments after repeating you reverts with absolutely no justification.

Drchris, did you just sneak what should actually have been labelled "list cleanup" in some rather trivial edit labelled "reduce unverified claims"? Also could you please explain what you would personnally consider a "reliable source" for this subject (the links above were only to make a point about "notability")? From your other contributions it does not look like your own field of expertise includes document automation and CCM. The actors behind these technologies are little known from the general public, and it's not quite an academic subject either, but without them you would not get your bank account statements for example. Otherwise I agree that these pages are of rather low quality and would benefit from some heavy rework (probably merging with other pages). Still, a list of major international actors in that field has to be somewhere.

But if it's already such a fight to add a single line that should not have been controversial in a list that was already there, maybe I should save the time and frustration and just join the ranks of disheartened ex-future-contributors?

Cheers, 78.225.149.66 (talk) 17:39, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

New contributors who look to build the encyclopaedia are always welcome. New material that gets added should always receive some scrutiny. Please bear in mind that Wikipedia articles suffer where company names for promotional purposes or unverified statements are added. The edit you refer to was not a list clean-up; the article is not in itself purporting to be a list. But, as you must be aware, the article only contains details of one source. That source is a report from ten years ago, and even then only available to view by people who may have purchased it. Have a look at WP:RELIABLE which will give you an idea about the sort of sources that English Wikipedia demands. Articles should be based on "third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Drchriswilliams (talk) 17:56, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Drchris, from the Gartner link above you can jump to Magic Quadrant which is a recent report (21/12/2015). The page shows a table of contents with current major actors. On the website of the company I tried to list, there is a link to download said report for free (not posting the link to avoid promotion). It may help you to update these pages.

Unfortunately there is not a lot of current, relevant, independant, published, peer-reviewed information in that underexposed but very competitive and rapidly evolving trade. Public information is mostly general, useless commercial communication. Even software companies usually do not make factual information about their products (or the actual history of their company) easily available. For comparison, have a look at (warning: ugly page) Computer_reservations_system which is about as specific and technical, but with a much greater awareness from the general public. Sources there are not that great either. Please keep that in mind while you check for verifiable information: working in the field, I would check claims by placing a few calls to peers rather than expecting anything at all from search engines, websites, publications or books. So, should the current lack of academic-quality sources prevent improvements in articles, or is it possible to first write down the knowledge, then have other experienced volunteers with time and access to librairies document the references? The current president of the foundation said recently to a french media that one doesn't need to have a Ph.D to contribute [1]. I don't think he meant that one should first write a Ph.D thesis.

Cheers, 78.225.149.66 (talk) 19:54, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Martyn Bennett

On 15 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Martyn Bennett, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Scottish composer Martyn Bennett, who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion, was sometimes called the "techno piper"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Martyn Bennett. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Martyn Bennett), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:12, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks for your overhaul of the Martyn Bennett article - something I started last year but never found the time to properly finish...so glad someone else has done to for me :) GiantSnowman 07:08, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

A page you started (Scottish National Trail) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Scottish National Trail, Drchriswilliams!

Wikipedia editor Jergling just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Seems notable and interesting, not sure if there's a precedent for walking trails being notable. Nice article, either way.

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SYHA

Thanks for adding references and making improvements to the article. To overcome the situation where the References section had an uninformative link to every citation, I've used harvnb templates. You're welcome to undo this change if you prefer it the other way. . dave souza, talk 09:24, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Dave, I think the table entries will need to be individually referenced where possible. I saw the long line characters developing beside the NLS reference details in the reference section. I agree with your proposed solution to this. Drchriswilliams (talk) 10:17, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Sir Duncan Rice Library

On 8 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sir Duncan Rice Library, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Sir Duncan Rice Library (pictured) in Aberdeen is cube-shaped, clad in glass, and built upon Scottish stone? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sir Duncan Rice Library. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sir Duncan Rice Library), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 19:57, 8 August 2016 (UTC)