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Request for clarification

help me with a wiki page of Raghavendra Gadagkar...

dear Philosopher,

i am new to wikipedia. i am trying to create a page on Raghavendra Gadagkar.

i received your message in my talk page - user:wachak, talk page.

how do i further confirm Prof. Gadagkar's notability for wiki users? he is well known scientist from India and is on par with EO Wilson.

i appreciate your further links, guidelines.

thanking you.

Wachak (talk) 21:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I have replied at Talk:Raghavendra Gadagkar. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:59, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

thank you for helping me with wiki page on Raghvendra Gadagkar

Respected Philosopher,

thank you very much for helping with wiki page on Raghavendra Gadagkar.

i am further reading the notablity help page, esp. note 11. will adding reference to his on-line articles help? he has published in Science. he is 'Foreign Associate' of 'National Academy of Sciences, USA'. i hope linking / referencing those pages will help.

i greatly appreciate your kind help.

with best regards, -wachak

Wachak (talk) 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)wachakWachak (talk) 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, adding a reference(s) to his online articles would help also. I've cleaned up some links on his page as well - you only need to use piped links when the target of the link is different than the text you wish to show. Finally, I've added {{fact}} tags to two places in the article where I believe a reference would be useful. Regards, Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Youtube poop arctile creation

please consider this to be informative, many internet memes are an article on wikipedia, why can't youtube poop be an article?? i could help make it, just please consider doing this. Estemshorn (talk) 02:50, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

That article has been protected from creation because it has been deleted multiple times by multiple administrators as being non-encyclopedic. Therefore, I will decline to unprotect it at this time. You may, however, request unprotection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:52, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
okay, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Estemshorn (talkcontribs) 14:35, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

I saw in the history that you approved me for using AutoWikiBrowser. Thank you :-) ~Beano~ (talk) (contribs) 02:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Iowa election

Shall we work together updating the house and senate info with race results? I was originally only going to do my local ones, but I figure someone needs to do it all. CTJF83Talk 20:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah - I assume you already know, but the unofficial results from the Iowa Secretary of State's office are here. I don't believe absentee ballots are included in those numbers, though I don't know for sure, and believe at least one district (forget which one - it was in the Register) is considering asking for a recount. But yeah, if you want to take the state Senate and Iowa's congressional delegation, I can take the state House - though I won't be doing much updating until tomorrow afternoon due to my classes. Additionally, if you have time, it would be nice to put {{Election box candidate with party link no change}} on each of the bio articles. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:03, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Huh? I don't see S of State on that page, and don't remember seeing it yesterday. CTJF83Talk 21:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Oh, never mind, I understand now. CTJF83Talk 21:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Are you gonna add this type of electoral history to each page, even ones without? Also, do you have IRC, it might be easier to work this out better. CTJF83Talk 21:11, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I would like to add to each page - it's been on my to do list for a while, but with this election coming up I put it off. Also, I don't have IRC currently, but If you think it'd be easier to work on these there, I can get on it sometime tomorrow afternoon. Which server/channel? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:52, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The reason I want to use the "no change" version of the template is because that way we only have to worry about the current election. If/when past election results are added to the individuals' articles, then the "change" field can be added. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:07, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

(outdent)On a slightly different issue - do you know if there is anywhere to find the results of the constitutional amendment? I know it passed but can't find the vote count. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Just go here for an IRC with no download. Go to the room wikipedia-en and I can find you there. Just talk page me when you plan to be on it. Here is the Iowa Constitution results. Also, I was thinking, since only 25 of the 50 senators were up for reelection, and all 100 house members, you do house seats 1-75, and I'll do 76-100, the 25 senators, and the 5 US congressional members, and Tom Harkin's page. So I'll have 66 to your 75. CTJF83Talk 23:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about that - I've been a bit busier than I'd expected. I'll try to be on IRC at around 7:00 P.M. Central time (that should be 1:00 GMT). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 15:40, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
I was on, didn't see you, got off again. Try again tomorrow? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:35, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
LOL, oh ya...umm, on Tuesday I'll be on from around 11am-4pm and then after 10ish pm...Central Time, of course. CTJF83Talk 08:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Don't have time to chat now...but see you at 10-10:30 tonight? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Ya, that works. CTJF83Talk 22:16, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Come into WPSimpsons, instead of Wikipedia-en. CTJF83Talk 03:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
You want to see if you can help me take care of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Iowa? I just bought a digital camera, so I can do cities around the Quad Cities. CTJF83Talk 07:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
We should discuss changes to Template:Quad Cities. When are you going to be able to IRC next? CTJF83Talk 03:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
I'd love to talk, but won't be on for a few days. Until at least Friday I'm really busy in RL.  :( --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:14, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
LOL, looks like you're on now? CTJF83Talk 19:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Boston Tea Party presidential candidate

Template deletion discussion closed as delete. Shall we go ahead with the rest of them? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

It appears that Jay Jasper has already effectively done it, leaving a lot of redirects from template space. I'll copy the histories of the templates to a sub-page of the talk page ([[/History]] perhaps?) and then delete the redirecting templates after I get back onto my laptop - I can't view the deleted history of the Boston Tea Party template from my alternate account. --Philosopher Let us reason together. via alternate account 19:28, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
After attempting to see if a template redirecting to a section could be disabled with <noinclude>, leaving the redirect available for direct access, (and not being able to do it),I reverted the Boston Tea Party redirect changing my !vote to speedy-author requested deletion. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Template - Religion

But would it really make sense to say someone's religion is: Muslim, because it is not a religion, but refers to a follower of the religion of Islam, and Protestant, a follower of the religion of Protestant Christianity. If you add Religious beliefs, it would work for both Christianity or Christian, or Islam or Muslim. (please reply on template talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.182.29 (talkcontribs)

Nishit Gupta

FYI - I reestablished the SD tag for Nishit Gupta. There is not indication of the firm listed in article in Google. In addition, the Carrier website does not list an authorized dealer for the Jammu state.

ttonyb1 (talk) 21:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 10:12, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Oughtlines

Thanks for handling that. I stumbled upon it via a link from the users requesting help category. My first thought was to blank and protect, unfortunately it brought my browser to a screeching halt (and crashed several of my programs) before I could get past protecting it... Anyway, thanks for dealing with it. l'aquatique || talk 13:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem - the first of those brought my browser to a halt too.  :( --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:38, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

I will give rollback to any editor in good standing having ~ 500 edits. I think it is reasonable as AWB requires 500 edits too. However I usually do not demand heavy participation in vandalism fighting (see WP:AN#Review). Ruslik (talk) 04:41, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sorry

I didn't know some of the user's were real(I checked in the history to see, and thats why I didnt think so) Thanks for the links though —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurasko (talkcontribs) 22:18, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:08, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Ross Newell

Dear Philosopher, thank you for your message regarding the deletion of wikipedia page for Ross Newell, the UK musician. I think this page has been unfairly deleted because Newell is fairly credited in the sleeve for music CD Read My Lips by Sophie Ellis Bextor and is therefore worthy and notable enough to have a wikipedia entry. But I am getting increasingly concerned that the user Ty (Tyrenius) is trying to block his page by suggesting Newell was not in fact a genuine musician. This is just not fair. Thank you for your help and I look forward to speaking to you more. Madeofstars, 12 December 2008 (GMT)

Have you read WP:MUSICBIO? From what you suggest, he may not meet the requirements listed there. Please point to the specific criterion that he does meet. Thank you. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:56, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I suggested to the initial deleting admin Secret that relevant material should be put into Read My Lips (album), which Newell had contributed to, and Ross Newell redirected there. He was agreeable to this.[1] He also noted that it had been recreated, but was not suitable for G4, as it was not just a recreation - it had additional verified material which contributed to notability. (This material, however, had been raised in the AfD.) However, it's still not sufficient to pass WP:N. Would you be agreeable to using it as a redirect?

Madeofstars seems to have got confused, as I've not suggested deleting or blocking the article - quite the opposite, as in the preceding paragraph. In fact, I found the references that showed he had contributed to Ellis-Bextor's work. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ross Newell.

Ty 04:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments Ty which have correctly highlighted that I had completely misunderstood your part in the closure of Ross Newell's wikipedia entry. I now understand that Newell will not be allowed a page here until he has proven himself to be of more notability in his career choices. I am very sorry for any upset this has caused you, and hope you can accept my apology. Best wishes. Madeofstars 13:04, 13 December 2008 (GMT)

I'm re-creating it as a redirect - was there any information from the history that you needed for merging or have you completed that? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:22, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I had a look at the deleted version and retrieved suitable material from it to incorporate in the album article. Sole author of the last version was User:Madeofstars and I've logged that info in an edit summary and on the article talk page. Ty 06:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Philosopher for your kind help in this matter, and for doing so with such speed, this is great news. Madeofstars 13:04, 13 December 2008 (GMT)

Glad I could help. If you run into any other issues, let me know! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 10:22, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom vote

I'm slightly surprised by your oppose vote. If I can take a little of your time, I'll explain why:

  • My BLP comments are basically a risk assessment exercise, reflecting my experience in real life publishing. I don't think the current arrangements are commercially prudent and I would change them if I owned Wikipedia.
  • They don't represent a POV, because I really don't have one on BLP. (See my discussion with Seraphimblade starting here for more information.)
  • Even if it did reflect a POV, I would not ignore other considerations (current community consensus, WMF's rather hands off approach etc) to impose it on ArbCom. I have no history whatsoever of POV pushing.
  • For clarification, I do not think that ArbCom ought to be making policy though the effect of some decisions will inevitably result in policy evolution. The best way forward is a much better partnership between ArbCom and the community it serves. If I'm elected, that is the goal I'd be working towards.

I'm sorry if this is a bit hurried or a bit unclear. Feel free to probe :)))) --ROGER DAVIES talk 17:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Which suggests that the route forward might be to abstain? It is almost impossible to predict from hyptheticals and, to put it bluntly, sound-bytes how someone will act in reality. The key question is whether, on balance, if elected, I am likely to relentlessly push a personal POV and if you are leaning in that direction looking to see what actual evidence there is of me having done this in the past. There is no evidence whatsoever that I support judge-made policy creep and, in fact, I'm on record as saying that I don't. However, the final call is of course down to you :)) thanks for thinking about it. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks :) I do understand your concerns, especially given the three-year term of office, and the enormous influence the committee has. --ROGER DAVIES talk 10:13, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

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Small CfD problem

Hi; I'm just been perusing recent CfD closes at WP:CFD/W, and there's a small problem with the implementation of the Category:Football logos to Category:Football (soccer) logos rename that you closed at CfD. (Nothing that is your fault, however.) Although many of the included files were moved by the bot, the bot cannot move hundreds more of these because the category is assigned to those files via a template. The only way I know of changing those is to manually change {{Non-free logo|football logos}} to {{Non-free logo|football (soccer) logos}} one each page. As I said, there are hundreds of them left, so this is looking a bit dodgy as far as being something that a closing admin should have to do. Any suggestions? Do you know of an easier way to make the changes that I'm totally oblivious to? If not, we may have to place this in the CFD manual work queue and try to solicit help with it. Thanks! Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

It's a simple matter to do with AWB, but as you say there are more than 1,000 articles left in the category. I've noticed situations like this a few other times, though with fewer numbers of edits needed; perhaps I'll look into getting a bot flag on an alternate account so I can handle these sorts of problems. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Request created at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Philosopher-Bot. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 07:40, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks; I'm fairly clueless when it comes to AWB, being a Mac user. Good to know it do-able somehow. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:56, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Cat notifications

No, I didn't realize that I had notified a bot, but I hadn't realized that I was notifying myself either until after the messages appeared on my talk page. DuncanHill (talk) 05:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Deleted too speedy - Let us reason together

Philosopher, you speedily deleted my page i was working on Heimishe Kretchme.
I clearly noted on my talk to another user that I am in the middle of gathering resources and will be citing references soon, only to come back to learn that you deleted the page I worked on. Please restore it so I can revise it. I would love to contribute to WP, please help me enacting. (Kretchmer (talk) 01:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC))

Replied on your talk page. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:29, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Philosopher. I was away a few days. I think its much better now, let me know if it can be moved. User:Kretchmer/Heimishe_Kretchme Thanks Kretchmer (talk) 06:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

CSD article dropdown problem

Thank you for involving User:Random832 in trying to solve this problem. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Charles Thomson

I reverted your edits to that article, as it was the same material as on Stella Vine and it's not in a satisfactory state as yet. It needs more work and there's no point doing two articles at the same time. Also it may need to be adapted to fit the different subject. Let's get one right first. Ty 18:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Ditto Stuckism. Ty 18:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Out of interest, if Wikipedia is a democracy, then surely you don't have ownership over those two pages? As you told me the other day? So I should be allowed to edit as I please. I was going to add in some phrases to help them fit in, but you have removed them before I had the chance. I also don't even think they were that out of context when you consider the opening paragraph of Thomson's page contained the comment he was briefly married to Stella Vine, but the remainder of the article has no information. The sections I added are fully referenced, showing both sides of the debate and all very clear as fact. I look forward to speaking with you. Madeofstars 18:43, 18 December 2008 (GMT)

Hi Philosopher, I need your help and advice please. I believe that user Ty is stopping me from adding relevant, referenced from valid sources, information to the pages on Stuckism and Charles Thomson (artist). Please assist me. I moved the above conversation thread for you info, to allow other editors to be aware of this, which shows I have been stopped from making edits to those page. I am still awaiting a response from Ty regarding why this is, and whether he claims ownership to this page. Madeofstars 18:56, 18 December 2008 (GMT)

Two things - first, Wikipedia is WP:NOT a democracy. Second, I'm sure that Ty, as an experienced editor isn't intending to WP:OWN the articles (though it's always possible to do so unintentionally). I'll watchlist your user talk page, but I think I'll wait to look at the substance of the edits until Ty has had an opportunity to reply to you. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:29, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

This is the fourth talk page I've found Madeofstar's post on. Just for completeness I'll post what I have already on the other three:

I will take the above comments and the edit summary "I have been prevented from editing this page" as a misunderstanding on your part through lack of experience. Please refrain from pejorative edit summaries with no basis in fact. You have a habit of jumping to conclusions. You have not been prevented from editing. You have done so. So have I. Your edit was to insert material. My edit was to remove it. We are now discussing. A perfect example of WP:BRD. The material was copied across from Stella Vine. For one thing it's a violation of GFDL as it's not stated to be copied from that article, so there is no credit to the work of other authors who may have contributed to it. However, worse than that, it has bias and inaccuracies and needs more work on it. In that state, there is no point in it being in three articles and having to do every edit to the passage in triplicate. Does that not make sense? I suggested getting it right in one article, namely Stella Vine, first.

My edit summary when I removed the text from the articles was "Let's get it right on Stella Vine first." I hope this clears things up. Ty 19:50, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

  • Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

 

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We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.

We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.

Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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Formatting Help

Hello! My name is Christian and I am a student at Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA. For one of my classes, I have been tasked with creating a Wikipedia article. One of the first pieces of advice I received was to ensure my formatting matched with the standard formats of the various WikiProjects, or else it would be quickly pulled down. For your WikiProject, what formatting requirements must be met? My subject is a living person, but someone who has been moved into Witness Protection. I'm not sure to what extent to follow the guidelines of the regular Biography section, versus the Biography of a Living Person guidelines, and I would appreciate your help. Thank you!

CTCopper (talk) 13:18, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @CTCopper: "subject is a living person, but someone who has been moved into Witness Protection" I'm sorry but that makes no sense. Upon which source material will you be basing this biography? Don't you think there's an ethical question here? If the subject is living, WP:BLP applies. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) Chris Troutman (talk) 13:32, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: I argue this page is important for a number of reasons, but I am eager to hear counterarguments. My subject is Jorge Salcedo. Salcedo was a massively influential figure in the dismantling of the Cali Drug Cartel. There have been books written about him, and he has been portrayed on multiple television shows and documentaries, including perhaps most famously on Netflix's "Narcos". I understand why a lesser figure might not be a good subject, but one as influential in such a noteworthy historical saga as he is, especially when his importance has been emphasized by other public works previously, makes a great subject for such a site as this. There are second hand sources, such as At the Devil's Table which cover his life and his contributions. Again, this is my current perspective on this issue, and I am willing to hear others.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

  Technical news

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  Miscellaneous

  • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
  • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.