User talk:Wikidea/Archive 09
Question on abortion topic ban
editA POV-pushing anti-abortion editor who was topic banned by a 12-0 vote on all "abortion-related pages, broadly construed" has continued his POV-pushing in the Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton articles. While I don’t typically think of politician articles as "abortion-related pages, broadly construed", Trump is a Presidential nominee polling at around 50% in the polls who has provided a list of potential Supreme Court nominees and (according to the Political positions of Donald Trump article) The Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, praised Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees as "exceptionally strong," while the abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America called the candidates on the list "a woman's worst nightmare." Given this situation, the Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton articles are likely the most abortion-related pages on Wikipedia with regard to the future of US abortion policy. Shouldn’t they be included in the “broadly construed" topic ban? Gouncbeatduke (talk) 19:48, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
- Well, I'm no expert on how the administrators conjure all their policies, but if an article concerns abortion policy, it's certainly arguable that its within the ban "broadly construed" - I expect the purpose is for him/her to stop writing any material on abortion. Wikidea 19:53, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:WikiSpeak#broadly_construed for the precise definition ;-) ~Awilley (talk) 20:47, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
- Confidence inspiring! Wikidea 20:54, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:WikiSpeak#broadly_construed for the precise definition ;-) ~Awilley (talk) 20:47, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Statute of Artificers year?
editI see you created the Statute of Artificers set of pages (Statute of Artificers, Statute of Artificers 1562, Statute of Artificers 1563. From what I gather, the law is usually known as Statute of Artificers 1563 (although I did find a usage in a book chapter by Simon Deakin of the 1562 date). Is there some reason for believing 1562, under which the article now resides, is more correct than 1563? --R. S. Shaw (talk) 07:37, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
- Looks like you're right - should be moved. Wikidea 16:49, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll request the move (page histories prevent me from doing it). --R. S. Shaw (talk) 01:36, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
United States labor law
editPlease keep the pictures on the standard thumbsize in the article United States labor law. Especially for people with small screens it is annoying to get pictures at 400px. By clicking on the picture you can make them bigger anyway. The Banner talk 15:41, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- I've just check Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images - this must be something (relatively!) new that I wasn't aware of - so my apologies if I'd been mistaken. What about charts, where it's difficult to see detail without it being larger; does that count as an exception? Cheers, Wikidea 18:28, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- When you click on a thumb, it enlarges to its original size. That should be enough to make all details visible. The Banner talk 21:50, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Nordenfelt v Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co Ltd
editWikidea, you removed a unreferenced tag from above article, thereby stoping the article being picked up by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles process. You may think the article is notable, but it still needs inline citations to prove it. You seem to have history of doing this. Don't. It's deeply uncool. I'll need to escalate it next time.Scope creep (talk) 11:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Scope creep, you mightn't be familiar with Case citation in law articles - the reference is to the law report. Wikidea 11:36, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
- So in this case "AC" in [1894] AC 535 refers to a very big dusty book of "Appeals Cases" from the year 1894, which you could find in a library. They come from private reporters who provide a headnote summarising the case text, editing submissions, etc, etc. Wikidea 11:38, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Bednash v Hearsey
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Nomination of Bednash v Hearsey for deletion
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- It would have been preferable if you had simply asked politely instead, but I've added some information in any case. Wikidea 13:30, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Merry, merry!
editFrom the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:32, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Re Brightlife Ltd
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- Tag obviously placed in error, since the url relied upon to show copyvio specifically says that it is re-using material from Wikipedia. BencherliteTalk 09:49, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Capital Requirements Regulation 2013
editYou could've at least consult me before making such a change. Both the directive and the regulation were in the same article because they are considered a package, CRD IV package. And then you create a new one about the Directive which is just a blurb. Before reverting I prefer to obtain a proper explanation. Thanks Triplecaña (talk) 08:55, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
- My sincere apologies - usually nobody cares and I just get on with it! Thanks so much for the work you've put in. It's fantastic that you've been working to develop these pages (much of which is obscure to non-experts). The first main reason is that we just need separate pages for each Directive and Regulation. (Sometimes there are pages for packages, but ideally there needs to be separate pages as well for each instrument, if not breaking up the main page). Second, the CRD has really become the Credit Institutions Directive 2013 - it's title, of course, doesn't include capital requirements anymore. That's in the Regulation. So there's an accuracy point. I've added some notes to the content of CID 2013. Wikidea 09:36, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Enterprise law for deletion
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Thanks! (probably)
editI've just been using History of Europe and got floored with the length of the Intro but on reading the Talk page it looks like you basically wrote what stands today; it's a "special case" that makes anything shorter rather useless; and it was much worse before. Though it is still long I think it is a bloody good write. Clear, well-informed and observant - and I like your attitude.
Nomination for deletion of Template:Global financial crisis timeline
editTemplate:Global financial crisis timeline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 13:13, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
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Mead v Tilley
editWhy Maroonbook infobox and not SCOTUS case? Rhadow (talk) 18:32, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
- It's just the generic infobox - one good thing is it allows individual pictures, should they be desired, rather than the SCOTUS logo. The Maroonbook is a case citation method. Hope that helps. Wikidea 19:15, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
The article Long Island Care at Home Ltd v Coke has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
No references
Major cleanup required
Should use SCOTUS case infobox
Supreme Court Justices have their own articles; they should have wikilinks. Standard for WP is not lastname, initial.
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- Hi Rhadow, you can read about case references at Case citation. Wikidea 19:14, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hello idea -- And we we can read together Template:Infobox SCOTUS case and MOS:LAW. I got beat up really badly the first time I tried, too. Rhadow (talk) 20:27, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
SCOTUS cases
editHey there -- thanks so much for taking the time to create new articles about SCOTUS cases. Just as a heads up, you should make sure that the article format conforms with MOS:LAW and WP:SCOTUS/SG. Also, the article titles should be the titles that appear in the official reporter for the case. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks again for your contributions! Best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 19:21, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
The article Armour & Co v Wantock has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Massive cleanup required
Standard for article name v.
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Renaming of article on ERISA
editHello, Wikidea. I noticed that you unilaterally moved Employee Retirement Income Security Act to Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This change should have been discussed beforehand on the article's Talk page, especially given that it appears to violate WP:COMMONNAME. Would you please undo the move and open a discussion on that Talk page? NewYorkActuary (talk) 16:38, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Renaming of article on Japan's Labour Standards Act
editHello again, Wikidea. Despite the obvious controversy and lack of consensus regarding your unilateral page moves, I see that you've done another one today. I've reverted it. Please allow consensus to form on this issue before making any further such moves. Thank you. NewYorkActuary (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
- There's no problem with moving pages, often with simple adjustments - like adding the dates. Wikidea 16:23, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Clist trust care
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Healthcare in the United Kingdom)
editWhy have you moved the article? Rathfelder (talk) 19:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Rathfelder, simply because it's poor grammar. The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't recognised as a spelling in the UK. I'm agnostic to be honest but I think that's correct. Wikidea 20:03, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
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This and this were massive violations of WP:POINT. The issues you have can be resolved, as I have done for you on other pages. Removals of the warning without resolving the issues will be treated as a furthering of this point, beating a dead horse and a failure to listen. Stop now. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:40, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
- I asked you to stop, you continue to push your point (diff). With reference to Wikipedia:editing restrictions and your blocklog:
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- What on earth are you doing, and how dare you? I deleted the links to beconlib - I thought that's what was supposed to happen. You are acting disgracefully, and I fail to see how you can exercise a discretion to block me when I'm in a dispute with you - maybe you don't understand what a conflict of interest is. Wikidea 17:22, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
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Request reason:
Beestra is acting as judge and litigant at the same time. On UK company law I deliberately changed the page to remove the links that he was objecting to as I did on UK labour law, english contract law, UK enterprise law, and UK insolvency law - I cannot understand what on earth he is doing. He is an absolute disgrace. Wikidea 12:24 pm, Today (UTC−5)
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Adding a further personal attack in the unblock request is not the way to get unblocked. only (talk) 23:42, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
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- I have taken an administrative decision at your initial request, and shown you that that the language of said request was inappropriate. You don’t want to hear that decision, you don’t want to hear the reasons, you You then continue to harass by putting notices on my talkpage and userpage, you first keep on removing notices without resolving, you insist that I solve the problem for you. After I show you how to solve the problem, you even post the exact same request again. That is not being in dispute with me, that is being disruptive. And I have asked you to stop. The link you are now using is millimeters short of plain blacklist evasion, and there was good reason why I chose a site like ibiblio in the first place (and I am now aware of an even better solution).
- So, no, my actions were administrative. You tried to personalize the dispute through abusive language, but edits like this are just plain vandalism (and maybe I should have blocked a long term editor like you already just for that). —Dirk Beetstra T C 02:24, 8 December 2017 (UTC)