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Clarice Phelps has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Hodgdon's secret garden. Clarice Phelps, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
"deletionist at heart"
Hey, sorry to contact you on your talk page, but I wanted to point something out while also ensuring that there were no hard feelings about any prior interactions we may have had regarding the article in question.
FWIW, I think it would be a good idea to avoid using the word "deletionist" in an unironic fashion to refer to other editors, as you did here. I don't doubt that it was not your intention to cause offense, which is why I'm pointing this out here rather than calling you out "publicly" on the article talk page. Thing is, the word is something of a slur, frequently used in bad faith by people who are not interested in combating systemic anti-feminist (or anti-Asian, or anti-whatever) bias either on-wiki or in the world at large, but are rather treating the encyclopedia as a "battlefield" and trying to get one up on their "opponents" and using (I would say "attempting to hijack") causes like Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red in pursuit of that goal.
Indeed, it could be argued that it was the "deletionists" who drew attention to the fact that Phelps wasn't credited or even mentioned in the majority of third-party sources that ultimately caused said sources to amend that oversight. (And don't get me wrong -- I am thrilled that she now has an article and that that oversight has been corrected.) It's highly doubtful that the majority of the "keepist" editors who had commented in the first AFD or DRV did anything meaningful to address this problem. (And I'm not talking about you or Jess Wade, but about the people who would have !voted keep regardless of whether the subject was a Black woman whose contribution was being overlooked because of systemic bias or a white man who simply hadn't made such a contribution but would like us to think he had -- note that the "Warden" in that AFD is the same person who filed the current DYK and was one of the only "overturn" !votes in the first DRV.)
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:51, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Comparing other editors to neonazis
I'm not sure your intent in bringing up The Daily Stormer out of the blue, as you did here, was to draw a link between editors you disagree with and despicable scum who happen to hold antifeminist views you (apparently?) also attribute to said editors, but you should know that doing anything that could be reasonably interpreted as that is never acceptable.
And FWIW, I signed on to this, but I don't see anywhere either you or Andrew have endorsed it.
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:33, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
Run-on sentences
Hello HSG. I have a very minor criticism of your editing, and I hope you won't take it personally... I've noticed that you have a habit of condensing multiple sentences into single, longer sentences, perhaps in an effort to make content more concise. Unfortunately, this sometimes has the effect of making content more difficult to read as it creates complicated run-on sentences. This is a very common pattern on Wikipedia, but I'm hoping that folks will consider the virtues of using discrete short sentences, as research has consistently shown that sentence length is strongly tied to reader comprehension.[1] Anyway, sorry to bug you and thanks for your work on Wikipedia. Kaldari (talk) 15:50, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Clarice Phelps
On 22 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clarice Phelps, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clarice Phelps. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Clarice Phelps), 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.
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Precious
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Thank you for quality articles such as Shooting of Hosie Miller in 2010, Mormon studies, Jon Huntsman 2012 presidential campaign, Fellowships of the remnants in 2018, and now Clarice Phelps, performed in collaboration, for "Here she is", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2366 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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Nomination of Joe Biden assault allegation for deletion
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Inappropriate editing
Please don't use edit summaries to conduct debates as you did here. Use the talkpage for any comments you have on other edits. JungerMan Chips Ahoy! (talk) 22:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:John G. Turner
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The article Tech4Good awards has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Not seeing what makes this award pass WP:GNG. BEFORE does not reveal much coverage about the award itself, through there are some passing mentions in articles about the winners. But WP:NOTINHERITED and notable winners do not make each award they win notable as well. Btw, [2] (first hit in GNews) is written by one of the award judges (not independent), and other sources either have similar COI, or as I noted, are passing mentions only.
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The article Tara Reade has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
This article seems to run foul of WP:ONEEVENT. Ms. Reade's allegations are already detailed at length in the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. There is no need to restate them here. This article should be deleted or merged into that article. This page was a redirect until today, that should be restored.
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- I have converted this to a regular deletion discussion, as it should have been at the beginning. Its nomination page is here.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 19:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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Good catch
Thanks for catching that Reade told WaPo in 2019: "I want to emphasize: It’s not him [Biden]. It's the people around him."
" That article further quotes Reade: "Looking back now, that’s my criticism. Maybe he could have been a little more in touch with his own staff.
" What do you think about that last line? starship.paint (talk) 09:14, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
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Biden accusation
Hi. Isn't this a 1RR violation? [3]. Please revert and check the source. Maybe it's unnecessary anyway. SPECIFICO talk 19:07, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
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RE: Reade
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to assume bad faith when dealing with other editors, you may be blocked from editing. Assume that they are here to improve rather than harm Wikipedia.
I'm asking you to strike your personal comments you posted about me at the Biden allegations article. They violate the Arbcom American Politics decision, and you may be blocked or topci banned for such conduct. SPECIFICO talk 15:37, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Missing cite in Word of God (community)
The article cites "Thigpen 2002" but no such source is listed in bibliography. Can you please add? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Svick/HarvErrors.js]]
to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata (talk) 19:34, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
@Renata3: @Hodgdon's secret garden: You are looking for... Thigpen, T. Paul. "Catholic Charismatic Renewal, " International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, eds. Stanley Burgess and Eduard M. Van Der Mass: 460-467. Grand Rapid: Zondervan, 2002 dont ask...
Thanks for weighing in on Coral Thiell question
On Talk:People of Praise. One of the other editors suggested I create an WP:RFC to get outside opinions beyond those looking at the page, so I plan to work on that over the next several days. Novellasyes (talk) 01:02, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
- P.S. I appreciate your wordsmithing on Reimers. Very hard to get it exactly right and precise, without taking 10 pages to do it! Novellasyes (talk) 15:30, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- I finally got the RfC constructed on the "People of Praise" article relative to the Coral Thiell situation. Novellasyes (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
- You're the best for fixing my mess! Novellasyes (talk) 13:24, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for your edits to CRT!
Thank you for your edits to Critical Race Theory. I see that several of your edits have been reverted. I hope you don't feel discouraged by this. It's common on pages where some authors strong ideological perspectives. Your numerous citations and lists of references speak volumes to your dedication to accuracy! We need more editors like you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by DenverCoder19 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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Woke
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Article could be tagged —
(refactored from Talk: Woke)
... {{Unbalanced}}. Not that it will be.
A contributor couldn't drag nuanced critique of the current tumult for change into our wikiarticle on Woke to save his or her life: The only content that is allowed must be as completely-slanted pro. Interpreting guidelines in pro hoc fashion to do so. ... ... ... Oh no! The word woke is being used sometimes as a derogatory epithet!: Aw c'mon; get out of here: This just means that change is being effected! Eg: I'll quote Britannica on the word: hippie. "The term hippie was soon applied by local journalists to this new subculture, and the word gained national (and soon international) recognition in 1967 thanks in large part to the frequent use of the epithet by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. The term can be descriptive or derogatory and was not initially used by the youths to describe themselves."
In the sixties, in reality most folks were more conservative than those of its cultural avant-garde, yeah? Yet: Who represents, in our historical imagination, this decade's cultural impact? Daresay: hippies – (plus the V-for-victory sign rebranded for "peace"; the Briton Gerald Holtom-invented monogram of /n/ and /d/ for "nuclear disarmament" in semaphore of central vertical for /d/ and downward lines on both sides for /n/]; etc.) Yet, yes, Who'll end up considered avatars for the present decade and its pro-equality effervescence?: the woke!; even so, our wikiarticle oughtn't to be subtly pro nor con this present opinion surge.
Although I'm subtly thus myself, I still believe that WP actually should bend over backward in service of the elusive quality of neutrality; hence, I'm I'm somebody who really wishes Wikipedia:Neutrality of sources were THE No ONE policy and not some mere "essay." ... Barring that, I dig when periodicals simply are up and front about their across-the-board editorial slant: My favorite example of which being reporting in the Economist, whose editorial stance (according to WP, not a reliable source) is supportive of "radical centrism, favouring policies and governments that maintain centrist politics." (Oddly enough – or, not really! – if we look up WP viewership vs. even mag subscription/viewership statistics, they'll see that our own Wiki article is going to get exponentially more page views than anything in even subscription and online viewership of even such an influential a mag as the Economist, articles such as ours on WP win hands down! Even more of an impetus for super neutrality, IMHO!)
Tomorrow's – as it's dated! – Economist "says" (which mag, also, btw, is still un-bylined: so that, it says, its journalists can continue speaking in a collective voice; thus, an expression like "the Economist says" really means just that!) — anyway, tomorrow's Economist[4] includes material about the Brits' current premier that's in a tone so refreshingly neither particularly pro nor con! For a subtly "pro" portion thereof, take the piece's 3rd graf, talking about Boris's likenesses to Benjamin Disraeli, reading, "Disraeli could never resist the temptation to poke fun at the priggish and pompous, who were hardly in short supply in Victorian England. He mocked his first patron, Peel, for long-windedness ('he traces the steam engine always back to the tea-kettle'), and his great rival, Gladstone, for self-righteousness. Mr Johnson loves taking a pop at neo-Victorians, whether the great and the good spouting platitudes or woke warriors itching to take offence."
Just imagine our WP article's having gumption enough to include a reference, no matter how oblique, to one instance from among the reams and reams and reams of observers' reports about often-overzealous Jacobins within the current tumult [Wikipedia: "Jacobin is sometimes used in the Anglosphere as a pejorative for radical, left-wing revolutionary politics.[3]"
] such as the Economist so-gently skewers as "the great and the good spouting platitudes or woke warriors itching to take offence." I can dream, can't I!--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:34, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
- I've moved this comment here because Article talk pages should be used to discuss ways to improve an article; not to criticize, pick apart, or vent about the current status of an article or its subject. There are ongoing discussions for improvements on the talk page already, based on existing policies and guidelines. These lengthy messages of yours are becoming disruptive. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 21:05, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
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, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | tålk 13:47, 21 October 2021 (UTC).
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I really and truly will avoid anything like casting aspersions on any other editors in talk page discussions and do commit never so to do in the future and I ask for the chance to prove that I understand that going forward I cannot do anything interpretable as such. In fact, were I to slip up and again were to do so, I'd be extremely dissatisfied with myself, with my submitting to my being re-banned without even contesting it. If such a request cannot be granted, I request that some definite time period instead be imposed.--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:43, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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- ? HSG, did you go to my AE comment, as I asked you to in the block notice, to see my specific block reason, which was wasting other editors' time? Did you not hear that? I don't understand why you don't address it in your unblock request. I didn't block you for casting aspersions. That was not the problem I saw. Bishonen | tålk 08:47, 22 October 2021 (UTC).
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Hello garden, this is a comment in response to the request at Clpo13's page. Topic bans, even if indefinite, are not necessarily forever. After some time of constructive editing in other areas, an appeal may be credible and pass (i.e. 3-6 months). As they said, "you should demonstrate this in other topic areas" is a common expectation. —PaleoNeonate – 09:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
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