User talk:NorthBySouthBaranof/Archives/2016/December

"Fake News" vs "Falsely"

Read the sentence - we cannot say in wikipedias voice that the accusations are false. We can say that "X in NYT says that they are not true", but anything else is not only inaccurate (there is no comment regarding the "links" in any of the sources) but is editorializing. You could say that the content of the articles was "false digital information", or even describe them as "false articles", or even use the entire of "Several of the restaurant’s employees have been barraged with ugly social media comments over the false child abuse allegations" which are all quotations (although the first one would be synthesis). As an established editor, who you have dealt with in the past, you should know by now that I am not going to do something against BLP, which is against BLP. I see no discussions about Pizzagate at ANI, nor about it at BLP. By all means, go get an Admin or something. If I am wrong, then the worst I have done is remove the word "falsely" from a sentence that has no basis in the articles and makes no factual difference to the actual state of the article or its BLP position (merely putting "falsely" at the front puts the onus upon ourselves to provide evidence per NPOV). Koncorde (talk) 13:22, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Agreed with Koncorde. There's no conclusive evidence to support the claim that it's false. By stating so, you are intentionally misleading people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.237.240.164 (talk) 18:46, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Inappropriate behavior

Hello NorthBySouthBaranof.

I am an administrator of the Wikipedia Lusofona and I am here to ask you for a help with the user Andre.levy.al (talk · contribs). I am creating a summary of the user's behavior so that, if necessary, I require infinite blocking in lusophony.

I realized by another user, that Andre has a similar behavior with the Lusophone Wikipedia. This one has been making questionable edits and then it shoots offensive words, summarizing a coarse behavior and without any respect to the other users. Requiring the blocking of users just by being reversed by these and calling them vandals and trolls.

In a small review on the user's talk page I see the similarity in behavior. Funny that this had only 3 issues in Lusophone up to 15 days ago. In a short time it has been giving problems. So if possible it would be very helpful to summarize you by reporting user behavior so that I can add in the evidence in the blocking request. Thanks for listening. Le Comte Edmond Dantès ^msg 05:09, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Conde Dantes, you'll be able to find all you need at User talk:Andre.levy.al where the user has been blocked, block appeals declined, and talk page access revoked. If you need the block log, it's here. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:15, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Like I told the Ian.thomson, lusophone Wikipedia has more tolerance with users. Lock records bring succinct information. So I asked the users involved in André's PDU. Thank you for the feedback and interest to help, because the user is causing turmoil with administrators in Lusophone. Le Comte Edmond Dantès ^msg 09:54, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

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For you

For you: one pizza, and one gate. Couldn't have said it better myself. TimothyJosephWood 18:29, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Oh lord, this is all very familiar. — Strongjam (talk) 19:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

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Merry Christmas!

Hello NorthBySouthBaranof: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Class455 (Merry Christmas!) 17:31, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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How do I ask questions of NorthbySouthBaranof? SohpieRegent999 Sophieregent999 (talk) 21:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Bears ears

I was about to leave a message here when I saw your revert. Makes sense. The list of national monuments linked to to the geographic feature which has the national monument info box on it. I'll change that WikiLink now (already did it for Gold Butte, but had the same issue there). TonyBallioni (talk) 19:18, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

No problem, I should have written more so that it was less of a stub but I just wanted to get it down there. I think for smaller national monuments it might make sense to merge the unit article into the landform article (for example, Devils Tower), but Bears Ears is 1.3 million acres and encompasses much, much more than just the two buttes, so I think the article would very quickly become massively unbalanced where 90% was about the protected area and 10% about the landform. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 19:24, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nominations

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Dan Patch award category

Your edit: (removed Category:American Champion harness horses using HotCat - The award isn't a horse)

I included this Category based on the long-standing Eclipse Award. It should be in or out on both. Thanks. Mateusz K (talk) 10:41, 31 December 2016 (UTC)