User talk:Lemongirl942/Archive 1
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December 2015
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Calvin Cheng. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
- Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
- Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Mdann52 (talk) 17:42, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hi @Mdann52: Just to let you know that I reverted these 2 edits [1], [2] since a lot of reliably cited content (which was added after a discussion on the talk page) was removed. And after each of these 2 edits I posted on the talk page and after the second revert I did not revert any further. If you look at the history of the article [3] , there seems to have been a chain of such removal of content within the last few hours, in particular reliably cited content [4],[5],[6], [7], [8]. There has also been a violation of 3RR rule by one user who removed a large chunk of content (see the last 3 links) and has previously been warned about edit warring on the same article. I'm not sure how to deal with this. Should I seek dispute resolution? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:08, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- That would be a good step. For reference, I am not assuming any bad faith here, I just delivered this notice to everyone involved in the dispute. Mdann52 (talk) 18:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
February 2016
Hi 'Lemongirl942" Being a Singaporean you need to take care of yourself when editing because the ISD has been known to trace IPS to real life people. Good luck. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.100.132.155 (talk) 08:46, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hi! Sorry, what do you mean by IPS and ISD? Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:33, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
Internal security department. IP addresses — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.100.132.155 (talk) 10:39, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hi! Sorry, I still don't understand what you are trying to say. Do you want me to add the statement/quotation to any article? Please mention any suggested edits on the talk page of the article and cite your sources. The statement you wrote does not have any citations. Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:58, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- I see you you are editing the pages of Singapore political people. Please google Internal Security Department and detentions. They can trace you. You seem very young. Do your parents know what you are doing? Please be careful 14.100.132.155 (talk) 12:45, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. I still do not understand the purpose behind tracing me. Just to let you know, Wikipedia is a collaborative project which can be edited by anyone. Even you! Even if you are not an adult. Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:14, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Now I am sure you are very young. In Singapore it is dangerous to offend people aligned to the ruling party in Singapore especially political figures. Don't get yourself and your family into trouble . Please talk to your parents. It is not worth wikipedia. 14.100.132.155 (talk) 15:03, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Sorry, but who have I supposedly offended and how? And why is it dangerous to edit Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a knowledge base which relies on volunteers. Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:13, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- I don't wanna name names because I don't wanna be traced either. Just be careful editing the pages of real life politicians in Singapore. People are watching. You can continue to edit Miss Universe etc but just ask your parents before you go playing with the pages of Singapore politicians pages 14.100.132.155 (talk) 15:36, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Well if you cannot name even a single person I am supposedly offending, I have to conclude that I am offending none. In addition, Wikipedia is transparent and open to scrutiny. Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:09, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- How many politicians pages are you editing???? This is not about Wikipedia. This is about your real life Anyway I am not your parent. If you don't take my concern it is ok. Good day 14.100.132.155 (talk) 16:24, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, enough. Go away. You are also traceable by all means. These messages are beyond weird and bordering to WP:NPA and WP:COI. You are nobody's parent, so I suggest you stop this now and walk away. This is highly unnecessary. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 20:43, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
- How many politicians pages are you editing???? This is not about Wikipedia. This is about your real life Anyway I am not your parent. If you don't take my concern it is ok. Good day 14.100.132.155 (talk) 16:24, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
(removed misuse of template)2406:3003:3049:2:60C:CEFF:FEDB:9328 (talk) 09:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, please provide evidence of the vandalism I have done. The content I removed was not about Cheng. It was about Lumina-Looque. You can place that content in a new article about Lumina Looque if you wish, but it does not belong to an article about Cheng. In addition, the content violated a guideline which I mentioned in the edit. Thank You. Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:24, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- (removed misuse of template) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobotRat (talk • contribs) 14:47, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- @RobotRat:Hi, before accusing me of disruptive editing, please give diffs and tell me how it is disruptive. I would take this opportunity to let you know about your latest edits. Your edit [9] reinserts a statement which is an example of WP:SYNTH and possibly violates WP:NOR. In addition, you did another edit [10] which you summarized as an "old better version" inserts a new section with the line "Please log on to http://www.nafa.edu.sg/admissions/admission-information". I fail to understand how is this an old better version since the content just pastes a link. I had removed it according to WP:LINKFARM. I would take this opportunity to request you to please undo your edits. If you feel you have a strong reason why your edits are correct, please post them here along with the evidence that it is not violating the policies/guidelines I mentioned. Thank You. Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:11, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- Instead of deleting the link, you should be replacing it with the entry requirements from the link. The sentence you deleted from NMP follows from the previous sentence and it is sourced RobotRat (talk) 17:15, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- @RobotRat:"you should be replacing it with the entry requirements from the link" Alright, so basically according to you, I should have deleted the link and then inserted the entry requirements from that link. OK, so what I did was that I deleted the link according to WP:LINKFARM. Now the next logical step would have been to insert the material from the link. You could have inserted the material too right? Instead of reverting and bringing back the link and violating WP:LINKFARM? Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:21, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
You deleted it so it is your responsibility to replace it with the material the link points towards. Not mine. RobotRat (talk) 17:35, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- @RobotRat: When you restored the material, it was an instance of WP:LINKFARM. In addition, if you did not notice, I had cleaned an orphan reference. You brought it back for no reason and increased clutter in the article. Please review your own edits before accusing others of "vandalism" or "trolling". Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:53, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Note
You may want to have a look at WP:SPI in case you have anything, like some evidence, to add where it matters. Feel free to delete my message once you've read it. LjL (talk) 15:52, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. I will keep monitoring the page for any suspected activity. Just in case I do find some evidence of any renewed sock activity, should I post it on the current ANI report or report it directly at WP:SPI? (Asking this, since I want to avoid making multiple reports). Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:38, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- SPI will be better, because people with an actual ability to verify if sockpuppetry is taking place are more likely to monitor that place. LjL (talk) 18:16, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- Lemongirl, I would suggest asking for a temporary page protection. You've had three socks randomly appear on your talk page and possibly a fourth one, which I have since reverted. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 00:58, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
- I've gone ahead and semi-protected this page for 2 weeks. Please let me know if you would prefer the protection removed. SQLQuery me! 10:27, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
- @SQL: Thank you for protecting it! I prefer to let it be semi-protected for a while. Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:54, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Callmemirela and LjL: Thank you once again for your support! It is OK to close the ANI. Apologies for not being able to reply earlier. I took a short break from editing. Hoping no more socks disturb me in the future. Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Vanjagenije. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, In Love With Shah Rukh Khan - The Book, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Vanjagenije (talk) 19:43, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Vanjagenije:, No problem. Apologies for my oversight. I didn't realise that WP:A7 is not applicable to books. Lemongirl942 (talk) 19:49, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Just a little something for all the work you have done. XD
MageLam (talk) 11:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
@MageLam: Thank you so much for this! :) I hope I can contribute more. -- Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:11, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
SG GEO Rename List
- Fixed Bras Basah Road article is about the road itself. The article about the precinct is at Bras Basah. Hatnotes might need to be provided.
- Fixed Changi Village restored (as article was originally about the Changi Village neighbourhood and not the 2014 URA planning area.
--Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:44, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
why you deleted my created page?
what happend? Adolf Hasan (talk) 18:46, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Adolf Hasan: Hi! Thank you for creating the page. It seems the article subject is an actor. For an article to be accepted in Wikipedia, the subject must be notable. In this case, for an actor, please read WP:NACTOR. (For general notability about a person you can also read this WP:BIO). I felt that the subject of the article is not notable enough to be on wikipedia. In addition, please add references to the article so that we can verify whether the facts mentioned are true. Thank You. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:51, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
I need some time to Enter his full bio. At this moment I don't have enough time to fix this. if I do this tomorrow it will be ok? Adolf Hasan (talk) 18:56, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Adolf Hasan: Hi, you can take your time. But in that case, you should use the sandbox to edit (see Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing/sandbox and use the link in the last line). Your article is currently in the main article space and can be deleted anytime unfortunately. Also, are you by any chance related to the subject of the article? (family, employer of the actor?) Lemongirl942 (talk) 19:01, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Adolf Hasan: Next time you should start an article like this in Draft space (like Draft:Mahmudul Hasan Rahat), but honestly, judging from a cursory Google search, I don't think this actor is nearly notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. Also, if I may ask, is the fact that both you and Mahmudul Hasan Rahat seem to have "Hasan" in your names a coincidence? Because if not, you may want to read the conflict of interest policy about relationships. LjL (talk) 19:05, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
The main fact is I'm new :'( Thanks for help. I'm try to improve my self. can I talk to you outside Wikipedia? I mean your fb or twitter for some question? Adolf Hasan (talk) 19:07, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Adolf Hasan: Unfortunately I am only here on Wikipedia. You can always ask your queries on Wikipedia. One of the best places to ask is Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions. A lot of helpful editors frequent the teahouse and they can answer your questions as well. Hope it helps! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 19:14, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks thanks a lot Adolf Hasan (talk) 19:16, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Speedy deletion should be avoided from your end next time.
Speedy deletion Danish Mehraj, a wrong step taken by you. Don't do it again. The work mentioned in that article is real. I have added the references also. Don't delete it otherwise my pet bird will bite you Danish Mehraj 02:05, 11 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danish.mehraj26 (talk • contribs)
- @Danish.mehraj26: Thank you for creating the article. Unfortunately, the subject of the article does not seem to be notable enough to warrant a separate article. Please read WP:BIO. In addition, it seems the subject of the article is yourself. Wikipedia does not encourage people to write autobiographies (see WP:AUTO) since there could be a potential conflict of interest (see WP:COI). In addition, please do not remove the speedy deletion template since you are the creator of the article. I have restored it as of now. Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- Lemongirl942, I stumbled across the article randomly, and noticed the AfD entry was redlinked. As in it doesn't exist. Thought I'd give you a heads up. :)
- When you nominate an article, you have to write why you think the article should be deleted. If you want to get an idea of how to format it, look at any of the current AfD discussions and copy/paste the material, changing what is appropriate and relevant to Danesh Mehraj. Just click the redlink in the template to create the page/nomination entry.
- Good job on nominating it though. References are mostly YouTube videos, and the others probably don't qualify as RS; I don't think it meets the requirements of GNG or BIO. Quinto Simmaco (talk) 09:51, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Quinto Simmaco: Hi! I believe the created the AfD entry. Do you mean this entry Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Danish_Mehraj or is it something else I am missing? Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, there it is! Well, it appears something went awry with the markup in the template, as it doesn't connect to the nomination entry; it shows it as redlinked. Looking on the Wikiproject, it shows up in the list of current AfD discussions, so the error is just localised to the link on the article itself. Not sure exactly how that happened. I'll correct it for you, so that it redirects to the page. No worries. :) Quinto Simmaco (talk) 10:06, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- Nevermind, it seems to be bluelinked now. I promise it wasn't just fifteen minutes ago; I reloaded the page a couple of times, and looked on another browser, so I know it wasn't my imagination. Must have just been some weird (temporary) glitch. Nevermind! Quinto Simmaco (talk) 10:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Quinto Simmaco: No worries! Thank you so much for your help. The funny thing is I experienced a similar glitch. The sockpuppet template you placed on the user's page had a red link for the sockpuppet investigation page (even though I refreshed the page twice). Weirdly, when I clicked on the (red) link it was working and linking to the correct page. I guess it could be temporary wikipedia issue or maybe a browser caching thing. Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:05, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- No problem. :) Weird, indeed. Beyond my ken. Honestly though, I'm a bit more surprised that something like this doesn't happen a bit more often. When I was a more active (than I am presently) on the help channel/Articles for Creation, we experienced something nearly every day related to gadgets, integrated tools, or scripts (including the AfC Helper Script itself) going down, malfunctioning, or otherwise acting wonky. Most people wouldn't have noticed unless they were a reviewer or an administrator, but that's pretty much a typical day for WMF Labs. Thankfully, such things rarely affect the functionality of the main site.
- Also, while I said it before, it's worth noting again... You did quite well with this whole ordeal, especially for a new-ish editor. Disruptive editors and cleanup can by trying, and you did so with grace and expertise. Drm310 and Ljl deserve their kudos too. Just nice to see everything handled so professionally, all around. :) Quinto Simmaco (talk) 04:47, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- Glad I could help, and good work to you both as well. Cheers. --Drm310 (talk) 05:17, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Quinto Simmaco: No worries! Thank you so much for your help. The funny thing is I experienced a similar glitch. The sockpuppet template you placed on the user's page had a red link for the sockpuppet investigation page (even though I refreshed the page twice). Weirdly, when I clicked on the (red) link it was working and linking to the correct page. I guess it could be temporary wikipedia issue or maybe a browser caching thing. Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:05, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- Nevermind, it seems to be bluelinked now. I promise it wasn't just fifteen minutes ago; I reloaded the page a couple of times, and looked on another browser, so I know it wasn't my imagination. Must have just been some weird (temporary) glitch. Nevermind! Quinto Simmaco (talk) 10:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, there it is! Well, it appears something went awry with the markup in the template, as it doesn't connect to the nomination entry; it shows it as redlinked. Looking on the Wikiproject, it shows up in the list of current AfD discussions, so the error is just localised to the link on the article itself. Not sure exactly how that happened. I'll correct it for you, so that it redirects to the page. No worries. :) Quinto Simmaco (talk) 10:06, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Quinto Simmaco: Hi! I believe the created the AfD entry. Do you mean this entry Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Danish_Mehraj or is it something else I am missing? Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) On the subject of those unusual redlinks, I've seen this kind of thing a bit, and it has something to do with transclusions getting caught in the server cache, when this happens, the best thing to do is purge the page cache, and the server rebuilds it (this time with the blue link). -- The Voidwalker Discuss 20:38, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Deletion of QwertyAfro page.
Hi, you sent me a message saying that this page should be deleted for a couple of reasons, and I am interested to know the reasons why the page should be deleted, and why you think it is inappropriate. BoringBanana (talk) 09:54, 13 March 2016 (UTC)BoringBanana
- @BoringBanana: Thank you creating the page. The page seems to be about a person. For an article about a person to be included in wikipedia, the person needs to be notable. (read WP:BIO). For a person to be notable, there should be multiple independent third party sources with coverage about the article subject. These are usually news reports about the person. In your case, although your article has references, they are all references to the person's youtube page which counts as a self published source (see WP:BLPSPS). As such, it is not possible for us to verify the notability of the person.
- If you do not want the article to be deleted, please add some reliable sources (news reports etc.) discussing the article subject and what is the subject notable for. Thank You. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:20, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for replying. I have found out that this page isn't notable, therefore, I am going to delete it. BoringBanana (talk) 10:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC)BoringBanana
Speedy deletion
Just a heads up that you can nominate articles under multiple speedy deletion criteria at once with {{db-multi}}, which can help get flat-out vandalism deleted, and can also save effort from good faith editors (who might rewrite an inappropriate article to address one serious problem, but not another). I saw you nominated Sachin S Tomar as A7, but later as G5, and that the latter was declined, where the former wouldn't have been. (It actually met G4 as well, per this AfD.) Hopefully it'll now disappear as a speedied redirect... --McGeddon (talk) 11:34, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
- @McGeddon: Hey, thanks for this. Sorry, I wasn't aware initially that the author was a sock or that there were similarly named pages, so I only tagged it A7. Seems like my initial speedy template was removed (by the author) and another editor inserted a G5 template. This was removed by the author was well and later I just re-added the G5 back. Will take care to use {{db-multi}} from now on since it surely does save a of efforts. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:52, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, fair enough, I guess I misread the edit history there. Thanks for helping to keep the floors clean here. --McGeddon (talk) 10:02, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Possible socks
Hey, just wanted to give you a heads up on the I5 Summit, IIM Indore article. It appears to have been recreated as I had tagged the page under G11 and the page was deleted a few days ago. It was actually created by User:Nidhidhanania the first time, but the current version was created by another single purpose account, User:Namisha Misra and the content/arguments on the talk page are pretty much the same. There's also User:RishiSinghal123, who's probably another sock. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Elaenia (talk) 23:43, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Elaenia: Thanks for the heads up. Looks good at the moment since the article has not been recreated. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
LinkSpam
Stop spamming your link on the D.R. page please. Equally, this is not a topic which you have the knowledge to contribute to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.11.143.102 (talk) 09:24, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
- I believe you imply why I just removed your spam link from the article. Yup, I removed it since was WP:REFSPAM. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:07, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
"Questionable"
I hope you understand why I've reverted you. Important the discussion remains as simple and as civil as possible, so the rules need to be absolutely stuck to. See my edit summary there. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Dweller: Ah yes, no worries. I totally agree. After looking at the previous debates on the page, I think it is better to keep it as simple as possible. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:17, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
A cheeseburger for you!
For All your efforts here Adamstraw99 (talk) 13:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC) |
FYI: AfD here. I wasn't quite happy to speedy today's version as a hoax, because the (very little) it said was true; but the previous version was another matter, and I thought it better to have both discussed at AfD, so that any attempts to re-create it can be dealt with swiftly, and anyone who comes here, say from its Facebook page, will read what we think about it. JohnCD (talk) 21:02, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Singapore public figure
Please refrain from your disruptive edits on the BLP of a public political figure in Singapore. Edits on BLP should be carefully considered as the person involved is a notable living person. Your edit on 17 Feb 2016 was a good one. Let sleeping dogs lie. 14.100.135.108 (talk) 03:32, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- Please show me evidence of my disruptive edits (if indeed they are disruptive) and also quote the policies/guidelines I have violated. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:37, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- Hello. 1) the WHOLE article is not in dispute. I read through talk page and the dispute is about inserting some incident. I actually thought that an edit a few before yours by a JamesSong was fair but someone reverted it and you seemed to have supported it. 2) It is not WP:SYNTH as sentence B does not follow Sentence A. It does not make any original claim 3) Putting 3 examples of models Elite represented is not coatracking. BUT that said, your edits were not disruptive compared to the University of Cambridge Anon. What is your opinion on how to deal with Anon vandal IPs from educational institutions? Genuine question 14.100.135.108 (talk) 03:40, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- The discussions on the talk page were by 2 editors who were constantly harassing me and were blocked. If you discount what they said, you will understand that other editors supported having that content. Are you by any chance related to the blocked editors? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:43, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- You need to provide me the diffs of my disruptive edits. Without evidence you point is null and void. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:43, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- No I am not related. I was actually looking at the University of Cambridge Anon and saw yours. Just want to re-iterate that when editing pages of living public figures let's be more sensitive. It is hard enough to be a public person in the era as it is. Let's exercise some discretion and sensitivity and compassion. A little compassion and sensitivity goes a long way! 14.100.135.108 (talk) 03:45, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- You have not provided me the diffs of my disruptive edits although you have accused me of disruptive editing. Please provide the diffs. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:47, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) So, can you provide a diff of a disruptive edit, oh familiar-sounding IP? SQLQuery me! 03:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- I do not know how to do that. I am sorry. I only know the 3 points I mentioned. That the neutrality of entire article is not in dispute, that the synthesis thing is not valid since there is no original claim, and putting 3 examples of models is hardly coatracking. 14.100.135.108 (talk) 03:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- 6 edits into being here, you're quoting WP:SYNTH, but you aren't sure how to copy and paste a diff url? SQLQuery me! 03:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- No I don't. I clicked on the blue links to see what it is about and saw it wasn't what it is about. Sorry! And I am not a stalker. Sorry if I come across that way. Apologies. 14.100.135.108 (talk) 03:55, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
What is SQL Query Me. I see that after your comments. 14.100.135.108 (talk) 03:56, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Lemongirl942 - since this is the same IP block, pretty obviously the same person / group, and they keep coming back to harass you - I'm going to semi-protect your talkpage for 6 months unless you object. I could block the IP for a while, but as above they'll just keep coming back. If you'd like me to lift this protection, please ping me, use {{Admin help}} here, or ask at WP:RFPP if I'm not around. SQLQuery me! 03:59, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- @SQL: Thanks for this. I think the semi-protection is required. Seems like its pretty much the same user quacking. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- Absolutely no problem. Feel free to ping me if they start up elsewhere. SQLQuery me! 04:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Advice needed
I added a missing hyperlink and corrected a full-stop into a comma and you reverted me. Did I do something wrong? Juicebaby (talk) 07:41, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Juicebaby: You did not add a "missing hyperlink". You added content which was a hyperlink (see [11]). For the purpose of maintaining neutrality and preventing edit warring, I would rather Jytdog do any edits. I haven't done any either except for reverting the IP if you look closely.
- Also, are you by any chance related to the previously banned users? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:44, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
No I am not related. It is a missing hyperlink because the article said he was honoured as a Young Global Leader which is Wikipage in itself. There is nothing non-neutral about changing a full stop to a comma also? Juicebaby (talk) 07:48, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Juicebaby: Not related in any way right?...Hmmm...I see. Well, I would suggest that the best thing would be to not edit the article on your own. Just put up requests on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:55, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Why do you think I am related? Anyway ok. It's a bit funny to revert a grammar and visual correction which is what I hope to specialise in on WP until I grown more familiar. Strangely enough, all the weird reverts I have had were on this page. A while back I changed Today newspaper to TODAY newspaper with a hyperlink and was reverted as well. Juicebaby (talk) 07:59, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Juicebaby: Have you heard that some ducks sleep for quite a while? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 08:05, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shivshirsatlive
Hi. I've added a couple more potential sockpuppet accounts to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shivshirsatlive. Regards. -- Whpq (talk)
- @Whpq: Hey, thanks a lot for the good work. From the behavioural evidence I just glanced though, they seem to be socks for sure. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:45, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Sharoq Ibrahim A Al-Malki - should not be speedy deleted because
The contents are real and references were added to external supporting citation, this person is a well known lady and playing a very active role in the Qatari Society. any required proofs can be provided upon requests. I suggest openning the page for free edit for other people who know her to participate and add info . Ms. Sharoq is a key note speaker at important conference conference about How Women Work ; tomorrow evening 22 March and link can be provided to it.
Kindly let me know if you notice any issue in the article or require any evidences and it will be taken into consideration immediately MrSolution (talk) 15:07, 21 March 2016 (UTC) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hww-2016-fringe-event-connecting-the-dots-east-to-west-tickets-22664617481?aff=erelexpmlt [File:How Women Work - Sharoq Al Malki.jpg|framed|How Women Work - Sharoq Al Malki.]
- @MrSolution: Please do not use Wikipedia to promote your event or the person. You are pasting an event link and the image you uploaded seems to be promoting an event. I flagged the article for speedy deletion because the person does not seem to be notable acording to WP:GNG. I would suggest you to delete the article yourself. You can do it by blanking the article. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:17, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- @MrSolution: The page is already open for free edit. But I am not able to find multiple sources to support her notability. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:26, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: the event is not mine and no intention was to promote it , Apology for posting the event link . the intention was to proof upto date activities ... the lady is very well known as active inspirational young talent and she is frequently participating in public officials and speaking conferences. many articles are usually published for he in government newspapers . you may check http://m.gulf-times.com/story/436563/Why-people-hate-HR and http://m.gulf-times.com/story/438546/Close-your-eyes-Let-s-imagine-the-Dream-HR .. if this is allowed to be posted then more links can be posted on WIKI page MrSolution (talk) 05:36, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- @MrSolution: I see. I replied to you on that other deletion page. The problem is that for a person to be notable, the person must be discussed in multiple media reports. May I suggest you to read WP:GNG and evaluate yourself? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:49, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- @MrSolution: Both the links you pasted in your last comment are articles written by her. We need multiple articles written about her. Also the sources should preferably be independent newspapers/books. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Well noted , please allow me couple of days to provide media proofs for Ms. Sharoq Malki, I will even try to contact her office and ask for proofs that I may not know about it.
- @MrSolution: Both the links you pasted in your last comment are articles written by her. We need multiple articles written about her. Also the sources should preferably be independent newspapers/books. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Request
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I would like if someone could have a look at Achu Vijayan and remove all previous revisions. Some critical personal info seems to have been inadvertently posted. (I have temporarily removed the info in the last revision). --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:00, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- I have emailed WP:OVERSIGHT, not sure if all the revs have to go or just the one. SQLQuery me! 09:40, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. The edit summary of the first revision contains the link as well. Anyway, I trust WP:OVERSIGHT with handling this. Thanks a lot for your prompt reply! (I deliberately didn't raise it at ANI since I didn't want it to attract unwanted attention) --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:43, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Apologies
[12] I sincerely apologize for having not replied earlier. I got busy, and I didn't not pay much attention to the SPI complaint. Please know that if you ever need help regarding the socks or anything else, do not hesitate to ask me anything. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 00:01, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Callmemirela: Hey, no worries! Thank you so much for helping me out previously. At the moment stuff seems to have calmed down after user Jytdog rewrote the entire article (Calvin Cheng) and had it semi-protected. I'll surely let you know in case any further socking activity occurs! Thanks once again for your help :) Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:17, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
THANKS
Hi! Thank you for your review of my article "Pooja Sharma (TV actress)" and your valuable comments. I have done many edits as you suggested. Now, as you asked, I am to inform you that - "I am not related to the subjected of the article (the subject herself/family/employer/employee etc.). I am just a fan of the person, even we are unknown to each other." If you satisfy, will you kindly remove the problem tags you put on the page. Thank you in anticipation. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 07:17, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Teampoojasharma: Hi! Sorry for the delay in replying. Your username is "Teampoojasharma" so I was just wondering if there is any possibility of WP:COI. Am I correct in saying that you have never met the article subject and are not in any way related to her? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
- Hi! It's alright; you might be busy. By the way thank you for your reply. You are right; by seeing my username anybody might be thinking the possibility of my relationship with the article subject. But, it is not like that. You are correct that I am not in any way related to the article subject except that of 'fan-idol' relationship and it is also true that we never met and unknown to each other. The truth is - I became a huge fan of the article subject by seeing her debut TV show. Since then I have been watching all her TV shows and also collecting most of the information, picture and video related to her. In fact it becomes my hobby. I have already started administering her 'fan club' under the username "teampoojasharma" for 'twitter' and 'instagram'. I found some of her contemporary and notable TV actresses got a place in 'wikipedia' and so I wanted to create an article on her that is why this article and as usual used the same username. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 19:27, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Teampoojasharma: Alright. I am not totally sure if that is a violation of the username policy, but for the moment I won't discuss it. I noticed that you uploaded an image [13] of Pooja Sharma. May I know where did you get that image from? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:32, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Sure! The image is one of the profile pictures of subject's "twitter handle". I had downloaded it months back. I had reduced the resolution of the picture and made it to fit for "wikipedia". By the way, I would like to thank you for your last edit of this article. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 15:15, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Teampoojasharma: Unless the copyright holder explicitly allowed you to do that (and agreed to release the photo under a public license), I believe it is copyright violation. In addition, you tagged it as your own work (which I assume it is not). My suggestion would be to remove the photo as soon as possible yourself. You might also wish to read WP:IUP and WP:NONFREE. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:14, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: The article subject makes her "twitter handle" "public" and anybody can access and share the contents. Many share pictures from this twitter handle. However, I am to ascertain the copyright legality. I simply tagged the picture as own work as I reduced its resolution to fit for "wikipedia". I was not clear what to be tagged. As you suggest, I am removing the picture till the matter is cleared. Please suggest me for rectification of any other problem. By the way, thank you again for helping me to improve the article and make it a perfect one. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 19:17, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
@Teampoojasharma: I'm afraid, posting an image on Twitter does not make it "public". The copyright is still retained with the original photographer and any use must require the person's written permission. Non-free images with a reduced resolution is allowed only in certain specific cases where a free image will never be found (For example, movie posters). Thank you so much for cooperating and removing it from the article. I would suggest you to delete it from the commons as well. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:48, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Thank you for your guidance. I am new here and there are so many confusions. I am trying to know wikipedia clauses but it is very vast and taking time. Please don't mind disturbing you repeatedly. (1) Can I use this image for my article [[14]] as free image? The subject on the poster is the same subject of my article. (2) I tried to delete the previous image from commons but failed; will you kindly help me to do that or you delete that for me. I will try to get the written permission as required. (3) By the way, can you now remove the "problem tag" put by you on my article? If so, please do that so that the article looks perfect. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 09:31, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Teampoojasharma: I'm going to be offline for a while. Will have a look in detail later. At the moment, for deletion you can see this [15]. Open the url of the image and select "Nominate for Deletion" (from the toolbox on the leftside of the page). In the reason, you can say that you are the uploader and you want it deleted since you are not sure about the copyright status. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:06, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Teampoojasharma: You will probably have to remove the Instagram link because only one official link is permitted WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. Generally links to Twitter are not allowed as well, but an exception is made when the person has no other official website (see WP:Twitter-EL). Another think which you can improve is the references. I see a lot of references to a site called "Tellychakar". This doesn't look like a reliable source to me though. You can try looking for reliable newspapers which report the same thing and then replace the citation. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:29, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: I just followed some articles which give more than one external link. But, as you suggested I am removing Instagram link and keeping Twitter link. So far I know the subject has no official website. The site "Tellychakkar" is one of the most reliable news source of Indian TV. You can find most articles related to Indian TV are giving this site as reference. But, as you suggested I shall try to improve references by adding other sites. As already requested please let me know whether I can use this image [16] for my article as free image? The subject on the poster is the same subject of my article. Regarding removal of previous image uploaded by me on commons, the image has already been nominated for deletion. Thank you for your valuable help and suggestions. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: After going through the clauses on "use of non-free image" I presume that the image [17] can be used under "Fair Use" criteria and used it in my article. It is for your kind information and consideration. --Teampoojasharma (talk) 22:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar | |
Has enough courage replying on a feedback within 15 minutes of it being raised on a talk page. Linrx (talk) 09:25, 5 April 2016 (UTC) |
- Thank you haha. :) I just happened to be active at that time by chance. Thanks for replying to my proposal at the notice board as well. I think it is good to discuss these issues and have some community consensus. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:28, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
We need peace
@Lemongirl942: I need you to intervene in this, Linrx has escalated the situation to an all time high, accusing me for WP:COI and cursing, even though Wikipedia is by right, uncensored. -- MageLam (talk) 11:35, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: I understand. However, you placed a level-3 warning here [18] which I am not sure was correct. Warnings are usually supposed to start from level 1. If possible please remove it or replace it by a level 1 warning. My suggestion would be to take a step back. Don't interact for the time being. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:42, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: This guy has been harassing me non-stop. I believe an admin is gonna have to intervene. -- MageLam (talk) 11:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: My best course of action right now is to strike off the name of this individual from the project list. I can't let him go on harassing me. -- MageLam (talk) 11:58, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: I'm not blaming you but you need to stop getting provoked and stop your interaction as well. Stuff like this [19] doesn't help at all (WP:FREE is not an excuse to say stuff). At this point, getting an admin involved might probably result in both of you getting short blocks. Just take a step back and do not retaliate. Just ignore for a while. You need to ensure that you maintain WP:CIVIL. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:00, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: I'm already sick of this debacle, its like Calvin Cheng all over again. I'm going to take a step back and not intervene anymore, I'll be temporarily halting my involvement in the project for the time being. If there's anything urgent, contact me. -- MageLam (talk) 12:14, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, @MageLam: - you're on Lemongirl942's talkpage. You don't need to ping or re - they'll get a notification regardless. SQLQuery me! 12:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: I understand that it was not started by you. It started with that one "rubbish" edit summary. But still, don't do stuff like this [20]. This doesn't help in a collaborative community at all. Just stay calm, do not argue back. Just provide your sources and backup your claim. The user will not be able to argue if the facts are backed up by sources. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:20, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Regardless, thanks for the help and support. I've never been put through a situation as bad as this. -- MageLam (talk) 12:27, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
You could pretty much say he is abandoning all forms of discussion at this point, the article and its associated pages have been edited without consent from the community. -- MageLam (talk) 13:15, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Hey, don't worry. No point in edit warring though. (Also, the last 3 edits were not done by that user). The changes Linrx made are here [21]. The tags were removed, which is fine. The redirect notice was removed and the other pages were redirected to a different page. While I understand that Linrx's actions were not civil, to undo the edit itself would require us to back up the assertion with sources. I am currently searching for sources, but finding it a bit hard. Let's search for a while before reverting edits.--Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:28, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
I would also prefer discussing here for the time being, I don't want unethical Shakespearean English to be thrown at me. -- MageLam (talk) 13:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- I'm basically finding it hard to work with an individual like this, I don't think our stand on this discussion will last long. -- MageLam (talk) 13:40, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- Let it be. Let's concentrate on the task at hand. We need citations to prove that "City of Singapore" and "Singapore City" is same as "Central Area, Singapore". Without citations, someone else could revert it as well. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:51, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Loubna berrada YES it is me
I read that there are some doubts that the person who edited the section loubna berrada, is me. How can I prove this ? To whom can I send my ID. The article is wrong. I am still a muslim. So I will edit that. And I was never (please read this) a politician. I was only a member of the libarel party. Every thing i done was on a volentuur basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loubna berrada (talk • contribs) 23:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC) Loubna berrada (talk) 23:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
- Who said a politician needs to be paid? They can be a volunteer.
A politician (from Classical Greek πόλις, "polis") is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government
. LjL (talk) 00:00, 9 April 2016 (UTC)- @Loubna berrada: Thank you for responding. In Wikipedia, we generally rely on reliable published sources so that the information can be verified. I have looked at some of the previously published sources and made a list of them at the COI noticeboard. I would be glad if you could have a look and comment at the COI/N thread. Please excuse me if I made any mistakes since I have to rely on a Google translation of the Dutch sources. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 06:51, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
On going edit war on Laura Branigan
This somewhat my fault, but looking over the history of the page it becomes more clear that Thomas.W and Born53 swe have pretty much took ownership of the article history. I think in retrospect I really made a fool of myself trying to fix this issue. But, at this point I'm asking for support. The Consensus sadly only addressed her age, and not where she lived. Also the links may have been dunked in conversation, but not officially debunked. I need help and advice. Currently I made the mistake of trying to edit the "Early years" heading along with the birth date and birth location. The birth date was agreed upon, but now I can't fix it do to the three strike rule. Devilmanozzy (talk) 13:48, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Thomas.W_reported by User:Devilmanozzy, a totally frivolous report against me. Devilmanozzy is obviously out to get me, filing frivolous AN3/ANI reports and forum shopping all over the place... Thomas.W talk 16:46, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Devilmanozzy: I had a look at the article. Yes, there are problems. In particular multiple claims do not match the cited sources. However, I went through the history and I don't think Thomas.W is WP:OWNING the article. I believe your recent edits were undone because it changed a huge chunk of information at the same time. Anyway, may I suggest everyone to come to the discussion table and discuss contested facts in the article one by one. For you I would suggest you to please withdraw the report on the edit warring noticeboard [22]. You can simply post "I have agreed to withdraw this report and no action is required at the moment". --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Thomas.W: Let's just all come to the talk page of the article. I understand that you undid edits by Devilmanozzy since is was a whole chunk of information. That's fine, but there are indeed issues with the information and the citations backing it up. Let's all discuss on the talk page. I also disagree that Devilmanozzy is a sock of the manager of Laura Branigan or something. Looking at the history, it doesn't seem like a duck to me. Rather he seems to have come to Wikipedia after posts here [23]. In any case, I have asked Devilmanozzy to withdraw the edit warring report. Let's just discuss it civilly on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:05, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- I would drop the claim if Thomas.W would agree to go back to the discussion table and work towards a solution instead of blocking the article. Ultimately whatever is agreed upon is final. Devilmanozzy (talk) 17:48, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Devilmanozzy: I understand your point. But till the time discussions are taking place, preferably WP:STATUSQUO should be maintained and any edits done during this time should only be non-contentious edits. Also, if an edit has been reverted once, it is best not to do it again but to seek clarification on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:52, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: I am sticking to only input on the talk page til the RfC is decided in a month or so. I am not going to directly edit the article itself, since my edits keep being called into question. I noted on the talk page what should be done and that is up to other to address. My concerns are being considered, which is a what I really wanted from the start. Devilmanozzy (talk) 22:06, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Devilmanozzy: I understand your point. But till the time discussions are taking place, preferably WP:STATUSQUO should be maintained and any edits done during this time should only be non-contentious edits. Also, if an edit has been reverted once, it is best not to do it again but to seek clarification on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:52, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- I would drop the claim if Thomas.W would agree to go back to the discussion table and work towards a solution instead of blocking the article. Ultimately whatever is agreed upon is final. Devilmanozzy (talk) 17:48, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Withdrawing legal threat
Hello! Could you please tell how can I withdraw a legal threat? Does it imply editing my comments removing these threats or is it a public announcement? In the latter case where should an announcement be done? Thanks!F aristocrat (talk) 11:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Is this article insignificant?
Hey there mate. :D So I was looking through some edits made by Gzyeah on the Boon Keng article and I happened to stumble upon a hyperlink to a article called "Subzone". Looking through its contents, I noticed that "Subzone" largely discussed about non notable promotional material from a dead website that was abandoned by Subway back in 2007, according to the article's content. Doing a Google search, I have found nothing noteworthy or anything of interest related to the article in question. The article also lacks a lot of references and inline citations. Do you have any advice on this matter? -- MageLam (talk) 13:44, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Ah, a pop culture article similar to McDonaldland. No references. But since it is pop culture, it will be harder to delete, considering that many pop culture facts may find it hard to be backed up by references. Not sure what to do either. Maybe asking for help at the relevant Wikiproject or contacting the author. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:28, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- Oh my, I never knew subway did this [24]. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:43, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Ugh, if this was released in 2016, this would definitely be a PR disaster. XD -- MageLam (talk) 14:48, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: @Lemongirl942: Shall we move the current "Subzone" (fictional place) article into new name and rebuild the "subzone" link as an disambiguation page accordingly?Kindly advise... Thank you~! Gzyeah (talk) 05:59, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: There is no need for that. The reason is because the term "subzone" itself is not well defined and it would be hard to come up with an encyclopaedic article about it. I propose just let things be as it is. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 06:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942 and Gzyeah: I hate Wikipedia articles with trivia sections... -- MageLam (talk) 06:06, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
- Let it be lol. I personally feel popular culture is over-represented in Wikipedia, but that's the way it will be for a free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. Popular culture has a higher number of editors. Also not all trivia is trivial. ;) (see Trivium). --Lemongirl942 (talk) 06:10, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Re: Updating Infobox
Hi Lemon~! I was trying to put most of the personal data into template in order to clear some unnecessary sections and/or redundant contents in the article. As the page for living leader of a country, private event might not be able to get fully citation or approved due to many factors. It could be better to focus more on the person's work and let the biography to reflect whose life story (also as per WiKi policies) accordingly. Kindly advise... Thank you!Gzyeah (talk) 06:51, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Is that "Trimmed content" really necessary for the page intro? There are already 2 sections talking about same information in body with template data beside and only few words excluded comparing to the sections. Hens I believe that we can just remove it accordingly. Kindly advise... Thank you! Gzyeah (talk) 00:19, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: And further more, do you think we should make the Lee's family tree table as an individual template? I think it would be more easier for us to manage since it related to each family members whom having available wiki link for english. Kindly advise... Thank you! Gzyeah (talk) 00:33, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: For the family tree, I don't think a template is required right now, since only 4 members have Wikipedia articles. Ancestry Templates are usually used when there are a lot of family members with wikipedia articles. Even then, in most cases, templates are still not used, see Charles,_Prince_of_Wales#Ancestry. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 08:09, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: I was going to shorten the education information in the intro. But I only removed one line at that time because I was sleepy. I will do the changes tonight when I am free.
- For the page intro, it usually contains a summary description of the person. Thus, the information in a page intro needs to be present somewhere else inside the article as well (along with citations). For example, if you see articles like Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, you will see that the intro included information about education, what the person's mail role is, and a brief mention of the appointments - and all of these are also inside the article along with citations. Same with the infobox, any information in the infobox needs to be present inside the article as well and cited. (Because we don't use citations in Infobox).
- For example, in case of Obama, the infobox mentions his 2 daughters. But the same information is also there inside the article along with citations. Let me summarise the content a bit more today. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 08:29, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: I shortened the intro a bit. The education and military career is now only 1 line each. For any more details, the users can read them in the article section on education and military career. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:10, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: Sorry, I reverted your last edit here [25]. The reason is that the term "Profession" refers to the main job the person is doing for example, Lawyer/Accountant/Engineer etc. (see descriptionTemplate:Infobox_officeholder). Thus, "Mathematics" is not a profession, although "Mathematician" could be a profession. In Lee Hsien Loong's case, this should be something like Member of Parliament/Prime Minister. However, these have already been mentioned at the top of the infobox and hence it is redundant to mention it again.
- As for the "Known For" field, if you see the description here Template:Infobox_person, it refers to what the person is widely notable for. In Lee Hsien Loong's case, he is notable because he is the Prime Minister of Singapore. Think of it this way - if you ask most people around the world who is Lee Hsien Loong, would they say "he is PM of Singapore" or would they say "he was a senior wrangler in 1973." Since it is already mentioned that he is PM, it makes it redundant to mention it again. You can look at Barack Obama for comparison since it is rated a "good article". (Actually this "Known for" field is usually used for low profile individuals whom many people may not know. PM Lee is a high profile person and it is already mentioned that he is PM). If you have any queries you can let me know. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:08, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Thanks with noted. Gzyeah (talk) 05:15, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Apology for Absence
@Lemongirl942: Hey Lemongirl, khairulash here. I'd like to apologise for my absence on the Calvin Cheng article. I was emotionally exhausted by all the arguments that arose when I tried to amend the page. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, so I didn't expect myself to argue more than I would edit. I felt I needed a break from it all. I'm so sorry once more. In any case, I'm glad to see that the article is now much fairer and better, no doubt thanks to your relentless hard work. Thanks and so sorry once more. Khairulash (talk) 16:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Khairulash: Hey! I'm glad you are back. Ah the Calvin Cheng article! I was emotionally exhausted too and initially even I gave up after a while since I was a new editor as well. Later there was a lot of drama involved, including trying to threaten me with ISD and stuff. (See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive915#Possible_veiled_threat_by_IP_editor_on_my_user_talk_page). In the end the user was blocked and an experienced uninvolved editor looked through the article and pruned it. Personally I feel it looks OK now and I didn't edit it after that since I felt my own bias (after this bad experience) might come into play. I just keep it on my watchlist in case the sockpuppets come up again and try to re-insert all that puffery. Glad to have you back though! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:01, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Wow, this is incredible. Not in a good way though, but still incredible. I'm sorry you had to endure all of that, and I'm glad it's all over. Do take care! I'll be keeping it on my watchlist too then--if anything happens, I'll try my best to help. Thanks :) Khairulash (talk) 15:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Regarding PJ Media article
Hello,
I noticed you undid my edit on the PJ Media article. How long do I have to wait for a response to my discussion post before I can make the edit?
Also, most of the edits by the IP:219.77.82.45 were not discussed either, and that IP is now blocked by Wikipedia as it is a known vandal. Multiple users before me had also restored the changes made by the vandal, but the vandal undid their restorations. I was restoring the damage did by that vandal, seeing as he/she is now blocked. The blocked vandal was also the one who added the COI tag.
Regards, Marquis de Faux (talk) 03:42, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Marquis de Faux: The COI tag was actually added by me. There has been a long string of COI edits on that article and The IP was not blocked for vandalism, but rather for COI editing, in violation of a ban. The article was subsequently vetted by Jytdog who checked for COI edits. I suggest you raise concerns on the article talk page and wait for a response. This might take some time, but I feel it is better to discuss first rather than making changes. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:38, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Suspicious IP address user for big volume of similar small edits
Hi Lemon~! I found this Hong Kong IP 183.178.39.252 had recently made many small updates to several Singapore & Malaysia related personnel articles about their traditional chinese names & incorrect pinyin format (i.e. separated pronunciations for given name using more than one character) into contents or templates via mobile devices. These revisions seem done by more than one person from same LAN/WLAN connection and in very closed time slots. I only choose some famous pages to revert or optimize the changes based on my ability as a sample, while may need you to assist for limiting & monitoring this IP in case of any vandalism issue happens in future. Kindly advise... Thank you! Gzyeah (talk) 15:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: Thank you for finding this out. I also noticed this IP doing small changes. Although the changes are technically not "wrong", they may not follow the Chinese naming convention, see MOS:CHINESE, for example [[26]]. I won't really call this vandalism though, since the user seems to be doing it in good faith. I will try to tell the user about MOS:CHINESE and see if the user responds. In the meantime, I will undo the changes for any Singapore related articles. The user has done changes for other Hong Kong/Taiwanese articles as well, but I don't want to revert them because I am not sure if MOS:CHINESE can be applied to Taiwan/Hong Kong articles. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:54, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Noted and here we detected another local (starhub) IP 182.55.160.197 recently placed several simply copied content from historical edits of the same article, which seems quite semi-vandalism and/or related to the above IP's edit behaviours. I had reverted the changes & please take a look at it when free. Thank you. Gzyeah (talk) 05:32, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Gzyeah: Noted. Thank you for your help and I will keep a watch out. I also looked up the guidelines the Chinese name format and I realised that both traditional and simplified Chinese characters can be used (using s= and t=), but in case of Singapore related articles, the simplified Chinese should be listed first. You can read more here Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/China-related_articles#Introductory_sentences. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:42, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Yes, I do know about the variables "s=" & "t=", but since here is using english as native & major language for articles, and for avoiding redundancy with considering wiki lingual rules, I would like to leave mostly "c=" in the intro to show either simplified or traditional chinese characters depends on not just where the person originally from but also the period of char type mostly in use. For example, Lim Boon Keng initially had his name in traditional way from Old China, while Lee Hsien Loong started his name in simplified way after SG learned & adopted New China's char system, and Wong Ah Fook was born in Penang where they inherited writing method at the beginning from the ROC style rather than later the PRC style. The comparison of "s=" & "t=" can be left into single template for display. Hope you understand. Cheers! Gzyeah (talk) 06:51, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Was this of national significance?
Hey mate! :D So apart from all the debating we have been doing these past few days, I've been combing through a few Singapore-related articles. Just found this one recently, regarding some kinda social phenomenon that happened in Hong Kah back in 2007. Just wondering if it is significant and notable enough to be an article on Wikipedia. Its been quite long isn't it? That old tree stump could eroded away by now. Just saying, who knows? XD -- MageLam (talk) 09:12, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Seems OK to me. Kind of borderline I would say, but I found references in 2012 [27],[28], in an academic paper [29] and also a book. The Yahoo report says the stump is all gone now. Keeping WP:NTEMP in mind, I would lean towards a weak keep I guess. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: Well I did said I was "just saying". I never was against the idea of WP:NTEMP. -- MageLam (talk)
A barnstar for you!
The Civility Barnstar | |
You're way too nice to some editors! HappyValleyEditor (talk) 18:09, 30 April 2016 (UTC) |
- @HappyValleyEditor: Thank you so much! :) I just felt she was quite old and (from what I understood), wasn't intentionally trying to promote it like the regular cases of PR editors. Of course Wikipedia guidelines need to be followed as well, so I thought to gently explain her how stuff works. :) --Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Some personal talk
Hey there, mate! :D Sorry if I may have unintentionally flared up the discussion in any way. I've never really handled a debate/discussion on Wikipedia at this length before. I'm just saying this in advance as a friend. :) GL and hopefully we arrive on a consensus! :D -- MageLam (talk) 07:17, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Don't worry, it's fine. It's natural during debates to ask questions though and it helps understand a person's point of view. Cheers! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:17, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- It's ok. Things will be more interesting this way :P Chongkian (talk) 16:56, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia Malaysia Meetup 1
As an intermezzo to Lemongirl942 and MageLam, we've planned for the Wikipedia:Meetup/Malaysia 1 already to be held on Sunday, 22 May 2016 at OldTown White Coffee, Mall of Medini, Medini Iskandar, Iskandar Puteri (Nusajaya), Johor. There is a direct Causeway Link (CW7L) bus from Singapore 2nd link to that place. The Facebook event link is: https://www.facebook.com/events/1023904374352286/ Chongkian (talk) 16:54, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Chongkian: I may not have the time to attend given my busy schedule. But I could communicate with the rest via Facebook if you don't mind. Also, my parents are kinda worried about me traveling overseas alone. -- MageLam (talk) 16:58, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- I see, it's ok. You can just click 'interested' or 'maybe' on that Facebook event page. Chongkian (talk) 00:14, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Chongkian: Thank you for the invitation! Unfortunately, I will probably be busy with a project that day. I'll surely read the minutes of meeting later! Hope the first Malaysian meetup is a success! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:03, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
AN/I notice
Hi, there is an AN/I discussion about User:JaberEL-Hour. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 20:07, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- @ThePlatypusofDoom: Sorry, I was asleep. To be honest, I am a bit surprised at being called "Western" by User:JaberEl-Hour. Anyway, with this kind of behavior, the block was inevitable. Thank you for posting at ANI! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 00:34, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Please read the guidance on Template Advert
Concerning GoDigital Media Group: Please read the guidance on Template Advert.
When to use
Add this to articles that need help from other editors because they sound like advertisements. For example, they may tell users to buy the company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, or use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords.
The advert tag is for articles that are directly trying to sell a product to our readers. Don't add this tag simply because the material in the article shows a company or a product in an overall positive light or because it provides an encyclopedic summary of a product's features.
There is no nothing "telling" readers to buy a product, there are no price lists or links online sellers, nor does the article use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords. There is an interested editor here, if you want to discuss please take it to the talk page. 009o9Disclosure(Talk) 01:35, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- @009o9: Hi! A large part of the article was sourced to press releases which are not considered independent sources. Prior to my editing, the article contained way too much information and it WAS promotional (advertising a list of clients and presenting a list of features is promotional). Content in articles is also governed by WP:NPOV and WP:WEIGHT. There was undue weight on certain aspects which I removed. As for the advert tag, I added it before beginning my editing and I will remove it once I am done. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Started a discussion at COIN --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:49, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Postmodern Jukebox
Now you are obviously stalking from my edit summaries.[30] Good luck with that, first and only warning.009o9Disclosure(Talk) 04:01, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @009o9: I hope you know there is something known as WP:BOOMERANG. Also please read WP:COI, particularly WP:PAY and WP:COIU. Please also familiarise yourself with this. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:14, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- What makes you think I have a COI on Postmodern Jukebox? I just happen to like innovative and good music and volunteer there. In AfD, you and I have ideological differences, I'm also volunteering there to expose what I feel is a broad misunderstanding of what is actually written in GNG. At this point you have proven the you are not capable of NPOV editing, regardless of content, where my interests are concerned.009o9Disclosure(Talk) 04:40, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Please show the diff where I have indicated that "you have a COI at Postmodern Jukebox". Otherwise this is a straw man fallacy. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:42, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hey lemongirl, you don't have email enabled here. If you like please pop me an email at jytdog at gmail. Jytdog (talk) 07:09, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Jytdog: Sent you an email from my gmail account. Exact same username as this Wikipedia account. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:26, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hey lemongirl, you don't have email enabled here. If you like please pop me an email at jytdog at gmail. Jytdog (talk) 07:09, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Please show the diff where I have indicated that "you have a COI at Postmodern Jukebox". Otherwise this is a straw man fallacy. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:42, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- What makes you think I have a COI on Postmodern Jukebox? I just happen to like innovative and good music and volunteer there. In AfD, you and I have ideological differences, I'm also volunteering there to expose what I feel is a broad misunderstanding of what is actually written in GNG. At this point you have proven the you are not capable of NPOV editing, regardless of content, where my interests are concerned.009o9Disclosure(Talk) 04:40, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Defender of the Wiki
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | ||
For your great work at COIN and WP:SPI recently. Thank you for defending Wikipedia! – Brianhe (talk) 23:24, 6 May 2016 (UTC) |
- @Brianhe: Thank you so much for this! I hope I can help out more. :) --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:04, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
BELL SPORTS
Hi I have a question about the template left at bell sports about COI tag. Who do you think is the paid editor is or connected contributors are identified as you put it? Maybe I can help out with this matter. Also you posted this 'and the article cleaned up'. what part do you think needs cleaned up maybe I can help with this also. 72bikers (talk) 05:02, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, sorry I didn't notice it at that time. Thank you for your help. Actually, I think the article is almost clean now. I will have a look when I have time and remove the tag later. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:00, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Ok thanks. 72bikers (talk) 18:12, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
An apology
Hey there. I do apologize for the times I had edited under the influence of anger or laziness. My actions are rather rash when such occasions arise (such as removing entire discussion sections). Sorry if I had caused you any prior inconvenience as a result of this. -- MageLam (talk) 06:57, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: That's OK! Anger gets to the best of us. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 06:58, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
I never should have gotten involved in this in the first place. I should have just retired from Wikipedia and never come back. I realized I dragged myself into a pit hole I shouldn't have been in. But given that I'm already in a sand pit that I cannot escape from, I guess I will continue to fix things while I'm still around. -- MageLam (talk) 18:23, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Wikipedia is not a pit hole. For me it is place where we can keep knowledge and pass it down generation after generation. Debates are part of Wikipedia - if there were no debates, Wikipedia would not be what it is. If you feel my edits are wrong, please immediately comment on the talk page of the article. If you feel that I inserted anything incorrect at Masjid Temenggong Daeng Ibrahim for instance, please let me know on the article talk page. At the moment I get a feeling that you don't look for references extensively. As a small advice, when you look for references, you need to search at least the entire Singapore newspaper archives, the government websites and scholarly journals. I have a feeling that when you actually start looking for sources extensively, you will understand the nuances involving geography better. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:39, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
I think it's kind of hard for you to understand. I probably shouldn't be getting into this any further... -- MageLam (talk) 03:37, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
I just feel like I'm becoming more of a burden rather than an actual contributer on the site. -- MageLam (talk) 03:56, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed
Thank you. You're so helpful. Now cleaned the article, I would like to suggest the article for semi-protection. • ArtsRescuer 17:32, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
- @ArtsRescuer: Why would it require semi-protection? Also please answer the question I asked on your talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 00:54, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
About delation of North African Arabs article
Hello Ms.Lemongirl942
This article is created by some pan-arabists his name is alhaqiqa
This person vandalized many times the berbers article and also he commented on the articles for deletion to save his article so i deleted his comment
The North African Arabs article is created to abuse berbers and to distorting facts
In a section of this article "Berberisation and Berberised Arabs" they write Racism in North-Africa !!
There is an article "Arabs" so there is no need to create another article
I realy want your your opinion
This is his comment on the debate
"Keep Be Aware! This page is put up for deletion by a Berberist which has deleted many important information of many good pages on wikipedia about arabs. I already blocked AyOuBoXe of the page because he has deleted much reliable information without any sources or explanation. This is just a childish act of a North-African Berber which is playing games on Wikipedia and trying to remove the history of North-African Arabs. "
I removed this comment because it's his article !!
My greetings AyOuBoXe (talk) 01:39, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
- @AyOuBoXe: I understand what you are trying to say. Regardless, it is improper of you to remove anything from a deletion discussion. Please let it be there. You can reply to the comment on the AfD if needed, but you don't have the right to remove it. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:51, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
But it's the article creator comment AyOuBoXe (talk) 08:31, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
- @AyOuBoXe: They can make their views heard as well. It is not forbidden. The admin who closes the AfD will evaluate each comment properly. If you have any comments, you can put a comment of your own as well. But please, do NOT edit anyone else's comment. Editing someone else's comment is considered disruptive editing and will get you blocked. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:17, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Ms.Lemongirl942
I have another point
I am very frustrated
Any amendment i do a person who's name alhaqiqa remove it
He vandalized all threads speaking about the Berbers and their culture (food etc..)
And he change anything from berber to arab
I think that Wikipedia must be neutral in this matter
AyOuBoXe (talk) 18:47, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Knowledge City
@User:Lemongirl942 7 Non-self-published sources included in the article, because removing the templates. • ArtsRescuer 15:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- http://www.arabnews.com/news/452012
- http://twocircles.net/2013jan01/markaz_knowledge_city_construction_works_start_soon.html#.V0Rt-Pl97b0
- http://www.madhyamam.com/en/node/13581
- http://www.milligazette.com/news/11690-first-unani-college-in-kerala
- https://www.e-grantz.kerala.gov.in/listofinstitutions.aspx
- http://www.universityofcalicut.info/cdc/html/Academic/AffiliatedColleges.pdf
- http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/markaz-law-college-to-be-opened-on-saturday/article6487961.ece
- • ArtsRescuer 15:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Umm, many of these do not discuss the subject in detail. I am curious if it is notable enough. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:22, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Editor blocked. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Shafinusri. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:57, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
May 2016
Hello, I'm ArtsRescuer. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Why you reverted Template:Islamism in South Asia • ArtsRescuer 05:32, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Jamaat-e-Islami Hind one added on template, for what the repetition, what are you doing? • ArtsRescuer 05:39, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Please sign your posts. And read WP:DTTR. And please please leave edit summaries. You are doing questionable edits without leaving any edit summaries. If you don't leave edit summaries, how am I supposed to understand what you are doing? And you still haven't answered my question I asked you about using multiple accounts and COI. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:38, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Lemongirl. You apparently got reported to AIV as a vandal. I was pretty surprised to see your name there, and I thought you might want to know about that. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:37, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hey NinjaRobotPirate, thanks for the heads up! Lol, I didn't know ArtsRescuer reported me (that too as a "vandalism only account"). I'm not sure if this is a good faith misunderstanding on their part, or a competence issue or some other attempt to conceal what I suspect is COI editing. The editor apparently has multiple accounts (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ArtsRescuer) and has recently nominated a bunch of articles without proving reasons. Anyway, I will keep a watch for any further activity. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:03, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Given the CU block for socking, it seems more difficult now to accept that it was a good-faith misunderstanding. Well, hopefully, this will be the end of it, but it rarely works out that simply. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:39, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, they will be coming back for sure. But at least for a while there will be peace. I went through the edits a while back and it seems they were nominating multiple articles for deletion - incidentally many were publications by competing organisations. All these sneaky attempts at promotion gets to me sometimes. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:17, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
- Given the CU block for socking, it seems more difficult now to accept that it was a good-faith misunderstanding. Well, hopefully, this will be the end of it, but it rarely works out that simply. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:39, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Ashley Reed
Moved from above Just in case you didn't get a notification of my response to your question (on my talk page), I've answered it. JustLucas (talk) 01:17, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @JustLucas: Thank you for letting me know. I will answer in a while on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:43, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Concerning your constant patrolling of SG geo articles
I would like to talk about this personally as this has become a constant issue. If you believe you are "representing" on behalf of the community for your vigilantism, you are dead wrong. The Singaporean places WikiProject is dead. There is no real community today, it is just the two of us on the same boat. I co-founded the SG geo articles improvement project as a platform to improve such articles, not to bold-revert and discuss your way through. In fact, most of your time has been spent BRD-ing all these articles. Technical move after technical move, drive-by edit after drive-by edit. All you do is add sources and move on to the next article to repeat the process. Little actual effort has been put into improving any of these articles at all (like with Radin Mas). In fact, after most discussions, very little is done to improve such articles. Most of them are either abandoned or their contents are left with very minor improvements. I've been going around adding new infoboxes and large chunks of new information, but you constantly prioritise citations over content. Rarely have I seen you discussing about what we could improve these articles, instead, a good majority of your discussions are regarding technical moves. If you're committed to this project, I wish to see you not only simply provide citations, but also provide more extra content and improvements to these articles. If you also really want this to be like the community of the past, then let's really discuss improving these articles. -- MageLam (talk) 07:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: I don't understand where have I stated that I represent the community. Neither am I a vigilante lol. (Also, I don't think of myself as a founder/co-founder of any project. I simply steward the articles according to policies/guidelines). Now coming back to Citations, yes they are much more important than simply organising an infobox. The infobox could be organised anytime. But for adding any new content, reliable citations need to be found which is harder and takes a lot of effort. The big problem with the Singapore articles is that they are not cited (many have good content, but no citations). Certain facts are disputed like with the Clementi article I was recently alerted too (and I used BRD over there as well). All of this needs a lot of research and time. And I diligently research before coming up with stuff. Are adding citations drive by edits? Maybe (but most of Wikipedia works like that). Is it bad to add citations? I don't think so, I think it is important. Without citations, any editor can remove content and it will be hard to reinstate it. I want to avoid that and hence I look for citations and add to the article. (See WP:NRSNVNA)
- When you say "Little actual effort has been put into improving any of these articles at all", I suggest you to take a step back and try finding citations. You will understand how hard it is. Adding "large chunks of new information" is good, but ultimately useless if citations cannot be found. And yes, I discuss about technical moves but that is how it is supposed to be - any move/redirect/merge is generally discussed first. You moves left a bunch of messy redirects in its wake which I noticed when an article on my watchlist showed up. I also told you previously that you need to understand some of the policies - both literally and in spirit. (Like today's WP:OR instance). Many of your edits have also resulted in loss of content. It is for these cases that WP:BRD is important and so is having patience. We improve articles a bit at a time, rather than reinventing the wheel. A lot of content is already there, added years back - the citations are not though.
- This should not discourage or frustrate you. Changes happen slowly and incrementally and patience is required. This is how Wikipedia works. Trust me, for changing a birthdate, I was involved in a dispute which went on for months. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:42, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, I believe you don't get my point. When you're involved in this project, I expect that as members, we improve content. I rarely see you bring up topics regarding the improvement of articles. Instead, you conduct technical move after technical move, with discussions that eventually lead to nothing. I want to see you discuss improving content not vice versa. -- MageLam (talk) 08:46, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Improvements can be done in multiple ways - adding citations is a way to improve content. But if you really want to improve content, then do not move/merge/split/redirect/change scope of articles. That is not improving content. I discuss technical moves because you started a bunch of them. If you didn't I wouldn't have anything to discuss. Many of your moves and edits are contested and many do not follow guidelines/policies. I have to discuss them. BRD is good way to learn. You need to have more patience.
- One reason why I always tell you to look extensively for citations is that the more you search, the more you learn. Before any improvement is done, it is very important to research diligently. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:03, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: I get a feeling you don't really research much before saying stuff. Like for example, a place (geographically) is not simply an urban planning division. If you have read scholarly works about geography and the concept of a place for example,
Authors argue that the notion of ‘place’ is a socially constructed entity invested with human meaning. There is therefore a need to understand places beyond locality alone.
(quoting Profs Brenda Yeoh and Lily Kong). Reading is extremely important here and it helps you to understand more. Unless you read more, you will only look at a something from a small lens. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:06, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
What you don't realise is that most of these discussions lead to no where. There is no proper guideline for SG places, that's why I've been suggesting we create an official one. Yet you insist to continue following the advice of Huaiwei (which is not an approved guideline). The only person I can bring to the discussion, since the community is dead, is you. And trying to get you to cooperate is the hardest thing. I need you to understand the situation we are in right now. We cannot allow this to continue. -- MageLam (talk) 09:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Also, yes I DO understand the notion of a geographical place. And yes I DO research. I am trying to address this issue by formulating a guideline that can benefit this stance and I want you to understand that I acknowledge this fact. -- MageLam (talk) 09:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Please quote the scholarly work you read about a geographical place. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:13, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Trying to be nice is real hard these days given how much trouble I have to go through everyday to improve content. You're like some kind of bouncer who guards the doorway to every article I edit. You have to understand that the only people left in this community, is us. You do not singlehandely represent the entire community (that being the long dead SG places WikiProject). -- MageLam (talk) 09:17, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam:Alright, calm. Please quote the scholarly work you read about the concept of a place. I am interested in seeing it. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:19, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Before I quote the work I've read, I do have one last thing to say. I am trying to improve the quality of every article's content overtime. I'm trying my best to include all interpretations available to give all perspectives a place on Wikipedia. I myself believe that WP:NPOV is an important principle, but I can't immediately just save a page knowing that the content I'm contributing is all neutral. It takes time to include info and research. Like with the Orchard article. I originally intended to include a paragraph regarding several interpretations to the place, but you reverted all my edits before I could contribute more. -- MageLam (talk) 09:22, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: That is the reason why we have a sandbox. Trying doing stuff like this in a sandbox. It is much easier and helpful. A page must be NPOV at all times - no relaxations on this. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:26, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm quoting this from a scholarly work I found on historical regions in Europe, I do admit the fact that there are historical interpretations to certain places and boundaries.
In certain instances, present-day regional structures reflect ancient divisions and identities. In others, little more than the name of the ethno-territorial entity has survived and the borders and social structures of the area have been totally altered.
— Sven Tägil, Regions in Central Europe: The Legacy of History
It is of course, important to take in all interpretations and I'm trying to find a way to explain this by formulating the new guideline. Look at Bethesda, Maryland for instance, on how a single article can handle numerous interpretations. -- MageLam (talk) 09:47, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: Let's just get back to formulating this guideline shall we? I really don't want this to be troublesome for the both of us. -- MageLam (talk) 09:54, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Interesting. I will read it. One of the several ones I read was this and it helped me to understand how the URA carves planning areas based on economic and practical factors, rather than a sense of place. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:57, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: Hey, I do kinda feel a little sorry for you today. First you had to handle me, then you had to a handle a vandal. *Sigh* Troublesome... -- MageLam (talk) 10:03, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: Anyways, I do wish to request for your feedback on the guideline. I want to see some community progress and ensure that we are heading the right way. -- MageLam (talk) 10:42, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Lol, don't worry haha. If you look at my talk page you will realise that I am used to vandals by now, particularly those who indulge in COI editing and get caught. Anyway, I will provide feedback soon. It's just that I am doing some background reading on the topic as well. I also found something interesting today - the government apparently uses Mukims as the subdivisions when laws are created. Like for the Central Water Catchment. I am interest to see how that tallies with the URA maps --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:01, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: Alright then. I'm just going to say this for now. If you want to restore any content, restore it, just please don't do anything with it until we formulate the guidelines. I will try to resist myself from making anymore further moves, forks and redirects (which I personally find hard, but given the current situation, I will resist). Both me and you have caused enough havoc already, so let's all be calm and civil about this. We can decide what to do with them once the guidelines are formulated. I'm going to contribute my part and restore the Bukit Purmei article for now. Anyways, sometimes, I personally feel like a reincarnation of Bonkers The Clown, a great contributer who just dosen't know how to handle conversations with other editors. And look what happened to him, what a pity. -- MageLam (talk) 11:20, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: No worries. One of the reasons I am currently hesitating from changing articles is because of the guideline discussion. Hence, I stick to adding citations. You know very well I am generally calm and OK with a lot of stuff. Just had a look at "Bonkers the Clown" btw. I would probably have tolerated such a user for a while, but most of the community has far less patience. (I observed some recent ruckus where the community blocked an otherwise good content creator for borderline trolling). Which is why I suggest you to read policies/guidelines and understand how BRD works. I don't think you are a troll like Bonkers, neither do you have any bad intentions. It's just that sometimes your editing is a tad reckless and pointy, possibly caused by anger. I know very well that you don't mean it though, which is why I stay calm. I am personally fine with it and I understand it, but most people won't. Some would just find any excuse to inflame a conflict and if you get provoked it boomerangs on you. I think on Wikipedia, editors learn to deal with conflict after a while - some learn it early, and some in due course of time. In my case I was literally thrust into it, so I had to learn quickly. Also because I edit quite a bit in the project space (Wikipedia), it leads to conflict sometimes, but also teaches me how to collaborate and how evidence is the only thing which speaks in disputes. Anyway, I will look at the guidelines. One thing I want you to research - try finding out if the Planning Areas/Subzones are used as points of geographic reference. This is probably the most contentious part and I searched the newspaper archives extensively, but my results were that in most cases New Towns, "housing estates", HDB neighbourhoods/precincts or constituencies/wards have been used for geographic reference. I found very limited information for support planning areas. Subzones were literally mentioned only 1 or 2 times. I would like you to do a similar study on your own and find out what is used for geographic reference. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: I'm gonna head on down to the library now to investigate the paper you presented to me earlier. I will see what I can report on. -- MageLam (talk) 12:23, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: *Sigh* Was unable to find a copy. What a waste... -- MageLam (talk) 12:52, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Oh no! Ahh, let me see if I can find a way to get a non-copyrighted version of it. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:32, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Regarding drive-by edits
Just a little get away from all the heat for awhile. Thoughts on these guys? -----> AnonymousChiBai, RafiPrime12
Apparently, one of these folks love to edit via the mobile app. -- MageLam (talk) 08:02, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Thoughts as in? Actually I haven't really seen their edits. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:22, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
You should really see AnonymousChiBai's edits. He just edits pages without any citations and just leaves them as they are. If they are reverted, he/she isn't really bordered to do anything about it. Same can be said for RafiPrime12. ACB recently did an edit on the Bukit Batok Single Member Constituency page, where he removed Desmond Lee's name and replaced it with Murali's despite a hidden warning clearly stating that it shouldn't be changed until he assumed office.[31][32] After I reverted his edits, he strangely didn't respond back like the average editor would. These two editors in particular have largely remained silent in fact, while conducting their drive-by edits. Probably you should look through their edit history and see what they have contributed so far. -- MageLam (talk) 16:41, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Well, ACB just got blocked! Username violation apparently... -- MageLam (talk) 16:49, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I guess its just RafiPrime12 to talk about now. -- MageLam (talk) 16:51, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: RafiPrime12 seems to add info but doesn't add citations for them. The info added is not necessarily wrong, but it is always better if citations are added. There seems to be no policy violations at the moment, but I will keep a look out --Lemongirl942 (talk) 02:45, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: I believe I've found ACB's new account, can't say its a sockpuppet though given the good faith edits. It was created on the same day ACB's old account was blocked. Also, given his signature move of conducting drive-by mobile edits without leaving any summary behind, I can conclude in other words that this is indeed him. -- MageLam (talk) 23:03, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: I strongly advise you keep a lookout on his new account. His editing (although in good faith) may be slightly disruptive. -- MageLam (talk) 15:39, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Duck for sure! But gonna AGF and let it be for the time being. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:47, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: You might want to keep your eye on this guy by the name of Hillview. He has some kind of particular COI (from what I can tell) on Hillview, Singapore and his only contributions so far are to this one particular article (he very rarely edits any other article). His edits are done impromptu every two to three months and he occasionally comes to inspect this one article every now and then. I wouldn't necessarily consider his edits diruptive, rather, I would say that this user's actions are odd. -- MageLam (talk) 20:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
on deleation of dinesh soi page
hi
I have added five news sources on dinesh soi page so how can it doesn't meet Wikipedia nobility policy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akash Dahariya (talk • contribs) 13:11, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
Dinesh Soi Page
Hello
I added new Sources for my wikipedia page of Dinesh Soi . Check them and remove the notice form my page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akash Dahariya (talk • contribs) 14:05, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Akash Dahariya: I cannot remove the notices as the page has been nominated for deletion. Please read WP:AFD. Also for notability we need reliable sources. For what is a reliable source, please see WP:RS. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:03, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi Lemmongirl, thanks for sticking around the JNU pages and watching over the vandals and goons. Highly appreciate your help! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 18:12, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hey Kautilya3, thank you! The 3 pages are on my watchlist and I occasionally have a look at the changes. Today's changes were grossly indecent and honestly, I was surprised at the intensity. I guess I will watch the pages more frequently from now on! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:52, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
- Well, there are nationalists, communalists, fundamentalists and what have you. They own the God-given truth! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 18:56, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey
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Response
I see no reason why you shouldn't reopen the case with evidence.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:32, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you Bbb23. I will do so shortly. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:19, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
on dinesh soi
what you suggest how can i fixed the problem with dinesh soi page.Akash Dahariya (talk) 12:54, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Akash Dahariya: The problem is notability. The actor in not notable and it cannot be fixed unless the actor gets some major acting credits in some popular movies. See WP:ENT and WP:GNG. Also, please do not create a new section. Henceforth you can reply in this section. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:59, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Actually he is a casting director working in some films and television.I also improves the article.In his IMDB Prolie all details are given .Akash Dahariya (talk) 13:43, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Akash Dahariya: I see. If he is a casting director, then there needs to be coverage in reliable sources (the criteria remains same). I am not very well versed with reliable sources in India, but if Dinesh Soi is notable, I would expect an article about him in the Hindu/Times of India/Hindustan Times. And the article should contain a significant mention - not a 1 or 2 line mention. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:03, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Lemongirl942: Sir I am also not much know about reliable sources and I also think about your given news sources wedsite .but my page dinesh soi has link of tellychakkar.com ,tellyscoop.com and Tribune India famouse news site so it is not fullfill the wikipedia cateria .and I saw many artist page which have tellychakkar and tellyscoop sources like Krip Suri and MATS University which are standing on wikipedia very well.so, what would you suggest ? Akash Dahariya (talk) 09:23, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Art4em SPI
Hi Lemongirl942: I've no background with the Art4em SPI. I looked up LG Williams here while looking into her co-curatorships, compared the Williams AFDs with the Friedman AFD and associated material, and decided I'd used more than enough good-faith time and energy in a conceptual art piece. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 05:42, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hey Hydronium Hydroxide! Sorry, I had actually meant to tag User:Freshacconci (who had commented on a previous AfD) over there but I guess I had mistakenly copied your username. Struck it out (see diff) now. But regardless, thank you so much for pointing in the right direction. I can understand how frustrating it was and that it exhausted your good faith. Frankly, this is a long term POV pushing case and I will let the SPI take its own course! We can go back to editing! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 08:21, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
- Lemongirl942: No worries, and thanks for your work too. Cheers ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 08:44, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, Detective Lemongirl
The Detective Barnstar | ||
Hello, Lemongirl. I've seen you around a bit, and I've been continually impressed with your diligence and unfailing politeness—not to mention your solid editing skills. I particularly appreciated your recent investigation into Wwwwhatupprrr. Thank you for the example you set and for all your hard work. Best. Rebbing 20:26, 6 June 2016 (UTC) |
- Hey Rebbing! Thank you so much for this! To be honest, I am still learning and finding my way around. But I am glad to be of help. I had noticed you in discussions (through your unique signature), though I never interacted. I remember having a look at your user page previously where I saw this image (on the right). I really like your choice in art. Personally, I love magic/fantasy and this cute image appealed to me a lot. Thank you for making my day brighter! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:03, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- I love that I'm around enough that people remember me. Editing can be lonely at times, and it's nice feeling like I'm actually part of the community instead of just doing my own thing. I gravitate towards sparsely-watched (or at least sparsely-edited) articles, which is nice in that I rarely encounter conflict in those areas but not as nice in that there's little interaction with others.
- I've finally started talking to my friends about Wikipedia. Saying that I edit Wikipedia as a hobby sounds lame, but when I explain what that actually entails, people are usually intrigued, not laughing. Yesterday, mentioned the Wwwwhatupprrr issue to my best friend (and fellow nerd)—we often IM about work issues throughout the day—and I explained how AfD works, how consensus works, and the huge volume of COI editing that goes on. She thought it was all really interesting: as a casual Wikipedia reader, she had no idea about the backoffice stuff or how decisions got made.
- I'm glad you liked the fairy picture. I love magic, fairies, wings, and cute things. Cheers. Rebbing 08:00, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
regarding Pritam singh Politician
regarding Pritam singh Politician | |
the page again which you created Pritam singh, politician that has been made on the place of Pritam singh actor n Host.... Here's the link u get confirmation on this-- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Bigg_Boss_8 ( see the contestant list Pritam Singh... politician Page was created on dis one that's y I just removed this page transefrers it to Other page naming as Pritam singh Politician. Arunsingh2728 (talk) 07:21, 8 June 2016 (UTC) |
- Hi Arunsingh2728. The page named Pritam Singh has existed since a long time. It is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name Pritam Singh. If you want to create a new page for the actor named Pritam Singh, you need to create Pritam Singh (actor) --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:41, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Sorry
I really am sorry if my phrasing was offensive. I didn't mean it to be. I'm quite frustrated at AfD based on the absolute barrage of deletions logged by WikiProject women. It seems way over the top and I get a little hasty and hissy sometimes. Sometimes I do speak too sharply and in shorthand. So mea culpa. Montanabw(talk) 08:47, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hey Montanabw! Thank you for posting here. It's OK I now understand that it was never your intention to offend. I'm really really sorry for my outburst as well. I am usually calm and composed and I don't know why I literally exploded. Apologies for that.
- Coming back to articles about women, I am personally passionate about writing articles about women (and I am currently drafting 3 articles, all about Singaporean women). Yes, I understand that sometimes even articles about notable women are nominated for deletion (see Jessie Chung, Ibtissam Lachgar, Elayne Angel, Cheryl B. Schrader). I will watchlist the alert page and save articles wherever possible. However some of the articles (particularly those created at editathons) like Janelle Heatley Hinnant and Hollis Heath are borderline or do not meet the notability standards. I usually hesitate to nominate these as they are good faith attempts. However, someone will eventually nominate them and at AfD I always try to be neutral.
- I find this a no-win situation: An editor works hard to create an article, but the subject doesn't pass notability standards and hence it is deleted. I have been recently thinking of a solution to this problem. One way is to evaluate notability prior to creating the article. I believe there are many low hanging opportunities - women who pass notability standards quite well, but somehow we just don't know. I will try to create a list of notable women who don't have articles. In addition, the information about notability should be mentioned in the talk page of the article (once created), so as to keep a record to be readily used during AfDs. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:02, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
- You may want to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red that is accumulating precisely that sort of list! The solution is probably to work on the GNG guidelines. Just like we have NSPORTS, that now, though only a guideline, basically is gospel that someone who played one season of professional cricket in 1985 for, say, Manchester, is inherently notable, perhaps we need clarification for people who did their notable things in relative obscurity. Right now, I just unleashed a bit of snark at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Norris. I cannot believe someone AfD'd that one! Grr! Grr! Grr! Montanabw(talk) 17:31, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Merge and delete
Hi Lemongirl. I saw your actions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malayan Hymn and just wanted to draw your attention to WP:MAD. Basically the Wikipedia license requires us to keep track of the contribution history of kept edits to the encyclopedia. Therefore we can't merge an article and then delete it as that would remove that history. There are ways around it that are detailed in the linked essay, but as you have already completed the merge (kudos for the edit summary) it needs to be redirected or kept now. AIRcorn (talk) 02:41, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Aircorn. Thank you for essay, it was informative. I was struggling with that as well - how to show attribution and yet remove the redirect. The problem in this particular case is that there are 2 possible redirect targets and both of them are equally plausible. To be honest, my first preference was to simply delete the article (without merging) as it is about a school song for which no secondary citations exist. But since a merge was explicitly suggested twice, I went ahead and did it. I'm not sure what can be done now, but here are some possibilities
- Undo merge, delete Malayan Hymn as no reliable secondary citations exist.
- Convert Malayan Hymn to a dab page. Create individual redirects such as Malayan Hymn (Malayan Colleges Laguna) and Malayan Hymn (Malayan High School of Science) to add to the dab page.
- Record history of contributors at talk pages of merge targets. Delete Malayan Hymn.
- I personally prefer choice 1 as ultimately the information added does not have reliable secondary citations. Failing that, choice 3 is OK as well. I don't prefer choice 2 - maintaining a disambiguation page for a non-notable school song (for which no reliable secondary sources exist) is a bit too much. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:23, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
- I think I will post this on the AfD page so as not to fragment discussions. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:24, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
It's been awhile
It has been a week since we last got into contact, how are things going for you? I've noticed your recent activity on WP:AfD and WP:DS, quite a commendable job there! The project has been pretty quiet these past few days, in fact, there was barely any activity at all. Anyways, I've done a bit of research into city and census boundaries recently and I think I've found our model city. When you're free, do come down and finish off the last assessment before we move onto the next point, just refer to the last two messages I posted. I'm hoping we can complete this guideline soon so we can all move on. -- MageLam (talk) 00:39, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Hey! Sorry. Yeah, AfD and COIN kept me busy for a while and today I was totally occupied. OK, I will have a look at it soon. I have some new thoughts about it as well. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:11, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
I kind of find it odd that we are writing a guideline on a user sandbox. Most guideline pages are usually a sub page of a WikiProject. What do you think of this? -- MageLam (talk) 12:26, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Guideline drafts are usually prepared in userspace first before an acceptable version is ready. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:38, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Well, then where do we move it to after it's completed? -- MageLam (talk) 16:42, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: If it is a formal guideline, then it needs to be ratified first. After it is done it can be moved to project space. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:45, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Anyways, got any idea how we can get other contributors to help us out? Also, how are we going to gain consensus from the larger community? -- MageLam (talk) 17:21, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Usually promoting a formal guideline takes extensive consensus from the community (and from my experience, a painful process). The first step of course is to create a draft guideline. Then certain important stuff needs to be specified like what are problems the guideline is trying to solve, what exactly are the advantages offered by the new guidelines and whether it complies with existing policies/guidelines. RFCs are usually done for these particular points to gauge consensus and the draft is improved accordingly. Once, a version has stabilised it can be put to vote as a whole. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:48, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: Problem is, given the current sunset state of our community, how are we going to achieve this? -- MageLam (talk) 11:41, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Oh haha, let's draft it first. Right now we haven't event drafted it properly which is the first step. On a side note, I looked up Punggol Park and found sources saying it is park of Hougang Town. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:21, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Can we discuss on this a bit more? I think I may have found a solution. -- MageLam (talk) 15:52, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: Take a break and I will have a look at this later. I think reinventing the wheel is not sustainable. We don't do that in Wikipedia anyway. A good way to proceed is to suggest amendments to the existing Singaporean places guideline. Small amendments are easier for me to evaluate rather than an entire new guideline. The Singaporean places follows existing guidelines/policies so I will need to only evaluate each amendment you propose. That is much easier and sustainable. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:15, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
@Lemongirl942: I'm sorry, as I've explained earlier, proclaiming a wall of text on a WikiProject page as an official guideline doesn't automatically make it one. An official guideline is something that has been approved previously. However in this case, this isn't. It is not like the MOS, where feedback and careful consideration was made by the entire community before final approval. In the case of the WikiProject, a page with text was created, and a group of editors agreed on a template, while others didn't, like as if it was an essay. If we are creating a formal guideline, we gotta start fresh. There is no "reinventing of the wheel" here. (see WP:NOTPOLICY) -- MageLam (talk) 20:21, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
- @MageLam: There was consensus on that Wikiproject and we respect the consensus (consensus is not temporary, it doesn't go away simply because the editors have become inactive). I don't see sustained opposition over the years to the existing consensus. Of course, consensus doesn't have to be static, but the burden of proof lies on the person trying to overturn the consensus to show how it contradicts policies. Till that time, we respect it. Often when creating a formal guideline, we work up from essays. From my analysis, the Singaporean places Wikiproject tends to respect key policies like NPOV. Hence, it is easier to add to it and ensure the policies are adhered to. You draft on the other hand violates multiple existing policies and guidelines. I prefer to work up from a clean version. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 00:12, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Conflict?
I don't really do the COIN thing, but someone may want to look into this edit. TimothyJosephWood 15:54, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, Timothyjosephwood. Thank you! Yes, there is a conflict of interest here. There is also a problem with the content itself - the IP claiming to be his daughter added a bunch of information without citations. I am going ahead and reverting this. I will also leave a message to the IP to propose changes on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:08, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, looks like this could be vandalism/trolling. Check out the contributions. Stuff like this and this seems to be sneaky vandalism. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hmm...looks like a shared IP for Southern Company Services in Atlanta. That explains the lengthy history and mixed bag of constructive edits (ex.) and vandalism. Anybody's guess what the edit on Lee Anderson was. TimothyJosephWood 12:18, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- That may well have been a COI edit though. I looked a bit and found part of it was copied from here. In any case, since there were no secondary sources, I have reverted it and watchlisted that article. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hmm...looks like a shared IP for Southern Company Services in Atlanta. That explains the lengthy history and mixed bag of constructive edits (ex.) and vandalism. Anybody's guess what the edit on Lee Anderson was. TimothyJosephWood 12:18, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
yes there was consensus
Alas, I should have known that this would have resulted in a huge fuckup. And it has. If you take the time to read the wall of text, the people ssaying "Keep but change" carry the day. I see your name in the "No change", which is exactly why you reverted me. And this will go on and on and on and on and on. And on. As fuckups do, whenever someone supports the fuckup, and no one wants to go through the time and trouble of another RfC. So. It's a fuckup. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 09:40, 6 July 2016 (UTC) PS Please note that the editor who closed the RfC has been editing.. since... 19 March 2016. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 09:47, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Lingzhi:, I was in the middle of posting on the sockpuppetry talk page actually. I understand your position, but consensus has to be respected. The RFC was closed as "Consensus to not remove WP:FAMILY from WP:SOCK has been established." by User:Music1201. I see that your change removed a part of it - the first sentence, and not the whole of it. But then, I don't see any conclusive evidence that part of it has to go either. This is an important policy and in my initial days on Wikipedia I was harassed by a woman and her grandson who threatened to send the secret police to my door. So the sentence that you removed is important. I don't mind if the community decides that it has to go, but till now, it seems that the community is not really willing to remove it. I really do not mind a fresh RFC to decide this issue specifically and if you launch one (specifically for this), I would be glad to participate --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:55, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
- I see User:Music1201 closed it. If it is a disputed close (although I personally don't think so), then a second opinion can always be asked right? --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:56, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
For your always spot-on opinions at AfD! HappyValleyEditor (talk) 21:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC) |
- Thank you HappyValleyEditor! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:11, 7 July 2016 (UTC)