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January 23

Completely Appalled by your Profile

I just finished reading the page of my client at his behest and I am completely appalled, though I have read other write-ups in a variety of pages you have. I have never seen such a personal hack job in my life.

By no means is he an angel but this hack job seems another display of Chuck's ability to manipulate public writings. So much of this is untrue that forfeitures are so way off base, did you know the Feds gave him $500k on a property as they could not prove it was from illegally gained monies.

There is quite a bit of misinformation and it needs to be changed these things are not the things you mistakenly say I have no idea who this Japanese man is but he is no authority on this at all. If you are going to tell it, pls do it correctly. I can corroborate everything for you.

I have been of service to numerous high level execs of the music industry and they rely on me to make things right. And this profile is far from right. Though it is a juicy read, its not true. There seemed to be a failure to report the jury tampering that occurred and was reported by another juror on his case. There seemed to be no mention that the proffer agreement had things added to it he never said and this was raised by Shargel to the Judge. There seemed to be no mention that Shargel and the Judge had plenty of history as they used to fight each other when the Judge was the Prosecutor against John Gotti ans Shargel was his lawyer. That some of the laws violated during this case were also created by these two during the Gotti Years. There were faces they affiliated to this case that was on their board in the courtroom that had no charges against them. In the past they have tried to hang him out to dry, the difference this time was that they offered everyone charged a chance to go him if he was pegged the kingpin. A well know individual in jail in Florida was the one to expose this as they offered to drop his time down. And that person said as appealing as it is, he has no interest. I see no mention of the fact of the case he is to be charged in next, had the identical crime happen while he is in jail on Jan. 3, 2014. An associate of 50 Cents, who is a part of G-Unit was shot t death after being out of jail 2 weeks. Hmmm that sounds familiar. Like what they are going to charge him with. The fact that the Feds, asked what he could tell them about Puffy, Al Sharpton and Wyclef. Well he told them that Wyclef killed Tupac and they ran with it and then came back quite angry when they realized he made a fool of them.

There is no mention of his deeds in Haiti, his numerous awards for tv show award productions, you have some of the wrong artists mentioned, etc. And others left out. I need to communicate with someone so that this can read like the truth. I have never seen such a hack job done on someone that was not a serial murderer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.205.59 (talk) 04:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Uh... who the bloody hell is your client???? --Orange Mike | Talk 04:04, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

the client would appear to be Jimmy Henchman. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 04:45, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

and "Chuck" to be Chuck Philips. Maproom (talk) 10:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

There is a talk page tab on the article, which is where you should discuss this. You might consider reading WP:COI before adding to the article yourself. Any such additions should be sourced. Britmax (talk) 05:17, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

So far the user has not gone to the Jimmy Henchman talk page. The IP address has reverted edits without discussion. Can we freeze this at the pre WP:COI page [[1]] at least until this is resolved? I'm sorry that I'm unfamiliar with this procedure but the regular editors there were unfamiliar with the complaint until just now. How should we proceed? Scholarlyarticles (talk) 22:08, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect year

The album "Take A Ride" by Jayo Felony was actually released in May 30, 1995 not May 30, 1994 as listed on your site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.61.238 (talk) 06:45, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done AllMusic agrees with you, so I have changed the date accordingly. Arjayay (talk) 09:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Lost username and password

I have a friend who had a username and password several years ago. He made a few edits, then left. He's back, and wants to start editing again. Is there any way for him to retrieve his old username and password? If he happens to remember his username, is there any way for him to retrieve his password? Lou Sander (talk) 08:51, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Provided they set an e-mail address, and they can still receive mail sent to that address, a new password can be e-mailed, assuming they can remember their user-name. Try to log on with the username and select the "e-mail new password" option on the log-in screen. If they did not set an e-mail address, or no longer have access to it, then unfortunately there is nothing we can do. Arjayay (talk) 09:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Following on from the above answer, if they can't remember the user name but they can remember which article(s) they edited (& roughly when), the article history might help to remind them of the user name. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:33, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Harvard ref not working

So what's wrong here? I'm not seeing the problem, but the script is and so I need someone with better wibbly wobbly codey-wodey abilities than I have.

• {{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=E.|last2=Lewinson-Gliboa|first2=A.|last3=Aviram|first3=J.|title=The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land|year=1993|authorlink=Ephraim Stern|publisher=Israel Exploration Society & Carta, Simon and Schuster|location=Jerusalem|isbn=0-13-276312-5|ref=harv}

{{sfnp|Stern|Lewinson-Gilboa|Aviram|1993|pp=839–841}

(last bracket removed to display code. I forgot how you put stuff without having the code fire) Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 22 Shevat 5774 09:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Is he "Gliboa" or "Gilboa" -- John of Reading (talk) 10:06, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Ah ha! Thanks! For some odd reason my i's were losing the break between the body and dot, but here I can see them just fine. Thank you again!Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 22 Shevat 5774 10:10, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

@Flinders Petrie: You can make these errors show up very clearly if you install User:Gadget850/HarvErrors.js, as in my common.js. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:16, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

 Comment You can include code without making it fire by enclosing it in <nowiki></nowiki> tags. --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 19:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I had HarvErrors on, but it didn't show the specific issue which would need foreknowledge of the proper spelling and a few other things. It just says x doesn't like to anything.

Ah, I think I did <noshow> or some nonsense and wondered why it didn't work. Thanks!Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 22 Shevat 5774 23:59, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

G13. Abandoned Articles for creation submissions

Can someone please tell me where the discussions took place to create that fairly-new CSD criteria? I can't find it. Thanks. 88.104.27.18 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:28, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

This and this appear to be the main discussions, as well as various other talk page messages around that time. Samwalton9 (talk) 11:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Perfect, thx. 88.104.27.18 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:48, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

unable to find the link

the link for changing the languages is not found on my account page(sandbox) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banda Tejaswini (talk • contribs) 12:53, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

The ULS is now opt-in: Preferences → User profile → Enable the Universal Language Selector. --  Gadget850 ^talk 13:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Square brackets in URLs

Dear editors: From time to time I come across a situation in which a reference will not display properly because the URL contains square brackets. I've been looking up the percent codes and fixing these manually, but today it occurred to me that others may have had this problem and that it may be possible to call upon a software tool that someone had developed. Is there such a thing? —Anne Delong (talk) 13:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

i have just recently had that same issue. dont know what to do about that-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 14:18, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I am sure a bot could be written to do that, or it could be semi-automated using WP:AWB.--ukexpat (talk) 14:21, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I think that using {{urlencode:string}} might do the trick, see m:Help:Magic words. DES ^(talk) 15:56, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

The use of urlencode has been discussed many times. It will fix the bracket issue but break slashes. Per the URI specification, the character "/" is supposed to be interpreted as a path separator while the character "%2F" is supposed to be interpreted as the ASCII character "/" and not as a path separator. Thus, many encoded links will not work, such as an arXiv link. --  Gadget850 ^talk 16:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Can you give me an example URL with a bracket? I might have something. --  Gadget850 ^talk 16:48, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Here is a whole bunch: http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=526&tx_pxresults_pi1[sport]=BSW&tx_pxresults_pi1[season]=2012&tx_pxresults_pi1[event]=WC&tx_pxresults_pi1[searchmode]=2&tx_pxresults_pi1[event_id]=29900. With percent encoding: http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=526&tx_pxresults_pi1%5Bsport%5D=BSW&tx_pxresults_pi1%5Bseason%5D=2012&tx_pxresults_pi1%5Bevent%5D=WC&tx_pxresults_pi1%5Bsearchmode%5D=2&tx_pxresults_pi1%5Bevent_id%5D=29900. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

guerillabookworm.com

Dear editors: While checking out some abandoned Afc drafts that are being deleted, I came across this article which had a copy-paste duplicate at Afc. It doesn't appear to be very encyclopedic, but a couple of the references looked like they might be book reviews, so I decided to check them out. However, when I click on the links, the web site wants me to download a piece of software (I'd rather not). Is anyone familiar with guerillabookworm.com, and is it a reliable place to find book reviews? —Anne Delong (talk) 13:54, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

the WP:RSN reliable source notice board is probably a good place to go. you can search the archives to see if is been discussed before. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 14:18, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't look promising: [2] . Dru of Id (talk) 15:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. I left a message there. This article doesn't have much in the way of reliable sources. —Anne Delong (talk) 21:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Malik Shabazz removed my article edit

Dear Sir or Maddam,

I think Malik Shabazz has stepped over the line by not leaving my article edit on the American Jews section "as is". The American Jews page includes a subsection about famous jews in finance which omits Bernie Madoff. I think that it is important to include him in this section because he was one of the most famous financiers of his generation and by linking to his article readers can see the atrocities he committed to other jews.

thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.57.24.103 (talk) 16:57, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

The article history says that your change is not supported by the source that was cited. You should discuss this on the article's talk page. See WP:BRD. RudolfRed (talk) 17:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

You added him to a list of German Jewish bankers but he isn't German. And he didn't even have an article before his arrest in 2008 so I doubt how famous he was. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:18, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I suspect that he had more than enough coverage to qualify as notable even before the scandal broke, whether anyone happened to write an article or not. He is surely notable now. But of course WP:BLP and WP:V apply. DES ^(talk) 17:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I didn't add him to a list of german jewish bankers, the subsection was jews in finance. To say he didn't have an article until 2008 means he isn't famous is a red herring. I'm pretty sure that Lorde or Lady Gaga didn't have an article until 2008 and they are both very notable. (also a red herring) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.57.24.103 (talk) 17:56, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Your edit [3] was to the list following "German Jewish bankers began to assume a major role in American finance in the 1830s when government and private borrowing to pay for canals, railroads and other internal improvements increased rapidly and significantly.". All the others in the list are German, and also much better fits to the description. Bernie Madoff is alive so when you said "he was one of the most famous financiers of his generation", I assumed "was" meant one of the most famous financiers (a stronger claim than just "famous") when he was a financier before his arrest and conviction. Lorde was 12 in 2008 so that's an odd example. If you mean Lordi then their article was created in 2004.[4] Lady Gaga was created two months before the release of her debut album in 2008. Bernard Madoff founded his firm in 1960. Category:American Jews has thousands of articles even without subcategories. Would Madoff have been important enough as a financier and not a fraudster to be mentioned in American Jews? I doubt it. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:35, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

No I meant Lorde, that was the point that it was a red herring to say that in 2008. The guy was chairman of the Nasdaq and made incredible returns through the recession, had he not been uncovered I think he would have been. Are you suggesting we start a subsection of American Jew fraudsters? If so, I'm offended.

I'm not suggesting a whole subsection for fraudsters but mentioning Madoff in a list of old German financiers is odd when he isn't German and is far more known for fraud. The following paragraph about Jews in the more recent hedge fund industry would probably be a better fit. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:01, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Since he's part of the discussion, I'm just going to ping User:Malik Shabazz and he can reply if he so chooses. Dismas|^(talk) 23:19, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. As I noted in my edit summary, the source cited doesn't mention Madoff (not surprising, since it was published in 1967). The IP editor seems to be oblivious to the sentence, let alone the paragraph, in which he added Madoff's name ("I didn't add him to a list of german jewish bankers"). Actually, that's exactly where you added him. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 01:49, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Feedback on Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)

Someone made 23 days ago this feedback: It is never clear how new revelations come to light. Does Snowden feed these news organizations regularly with new documents or are they releasing these documents from a stockpile? I responded to it by adding this content and this source. Is there any to give this reader that his question has been answered i.e. a way to show at the feedback post site that the issue is resolved? --P3Y229 (talk • contribs) 17:48, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

news tips

Dear Complaints about law enforcementThank you so much! Kind regards Je Hwa Jin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.241.49.210 (talk) 19:02, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Requested images near me?

Helloooo Help Desk!

Many moons ago, I encountered a tool (or a page, or a device.... it was many moons ago) where I could plug in a geographic location, and it would provide a list of all articles with Template:Image requested located within X distance of the specified location (I assume by comparing the geographic coordinates in the article).

Does this tool still exist, and if so, where can I find it? If not, is there some other way to determine articles needing images that are Close To Me(tm)? Thanks in advance. -- saberwyn 19:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Is this the tool you have in mind? Deor (talk) 20:26, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Looks to be it. Thanks muchly! -- saberwyn 07:39, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Edit username

Is it possible?--78.156.109.166 (talk) 20:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, see changing username for more information. --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 20:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I can't log in.--78.156.109.166 (talk) 09:54, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Hmm...have you tried resetting your password? If you have, then you could try creating a new account. --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 20:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

No.78.156.109.166 (talk) 20:31, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

How come some templates don't show up on my phone?

When looking at the mobile version of Wikipedia, certain templates including {{ElectionsAL}}, {{ElectionsAZ}}, etc. don't seem to show up. See for example the mobile version of Alabama gubernatorial election, 2014 vs. the ordinary version. Why is this? – Arms & Hearts (talk) 21:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

May be due to it being in the navbox table class. - Purplewowies (talk) 22:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, that makes sense since the same seems to apply to navboxes at the bottom, which I hadn't noticed. Why though? Was there a discussion where this was decided? – Arms & Hearts (talk) 01:19, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I tried looking for discussion and couldn't find any. - Purplewowies (talk) 01:23, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

See Bugzilla:53437. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:17, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Need help with changing the Page Title and URL for company page

Hi there,

I need some help with revising our company’s Wikipedia page. I have updated the basic information but need assistance with changing the Page Title and the url of the page.

Current Title and URL: Cloud9 Analytics Cloud9 Analytics

We need to change it to: C9 Inc. and we would like the url to be C9 Inc.

Please advise, thank you! Rachel — Preceding unsigned comment added by C9 Inc. (talk • contribs) 22:27, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Firstly, read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (and Wikipedia:Username policy - we do not permit usernames which imply representation of a group). 'Your company' does not have a Wikipedia page. 'Our encyclopaedia' appears to however - though as it stands it is entirely unacceptable as encyclopaedic content. We aren't here to provide free advertising space, and the first issue that needs to be addressed is that the article provides no evidence whatsoever that the company meets the relevant Wikipedia notability guidelines - this needs to be demonstrated by citing third-party published reliable sources. When this issue is dealt with (assuming it can be), and the article is rewritten as neutral encyclopaedic content, we can sort out problems with titles and logos. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Stubified pending rewrite from WP:NPOV with reliable sources. DES ^(talk) 23:50, 23 January 2014 (UTC)