User talk:Ianlopez1115/Florentino floro

If you want to contact me about my recent adoption of User:Florentino floro (or any other related issues in that matter), this is the right place. PUT NEW MESSAGES AT THE BOTTOM PART AND PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THIS TALKPAGE. Thank you. -iaNLOPEZ1115 · TaLKBaCK · Vandalize it 07:03, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

inappropriate news items

Hi Ian, I have written to Florentino Floro in the past and indicated that I don't think it is appropriate for him to add news items to pages. I do think that adding up to date information on a subject can be useful, but floro has a worrying habit of adding the same item to multiple pages, often where they don't really help. This is speculation on my part, but it seems that he reads news, finds a bit that he thinks is interesting and wants to add it as many places as he can. I have tried to be patient in telling him how I feel about this kind of edit. But I get frustrated when I do not think he understands what I mean, partly because the behavior continues. See, for example, this recent edit to the Svalbard entry [1] and the same one on pliosaur [2]. I can tell he wants to contribute content, and that is admirable. But wanting to contribute is not a good reason to add useless content. Wikipedia is not a news archive, and these types of edit are clutter at best. Let me know if I can help. maxsch (talk) 05:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I already admitted my mistake, and I thank all of you for making me learn this. If you look on my limited edits (well due to the fact I am writing a book), I do not edit anymore petty news which are not encyclopedic. So, I think I do edit now in accordance with Wiki 5 pillars. Regards. - --Florentino floro (talk) 07:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Here is another example of an inappropriate edit.[3] The 107th anniversary of something is not particularly notable. The fact that it took place on March 28th doesn't tell us whether the province was founded that day or whether that is just the day someone chose for the party. If you kept this up, there would be one of these every year: "Romblomanons celebrate 41st, 42nd, 55nd, 73rd, 112th anniversaries!" And at different hotels each time. What's perhaps worse is that this edit actually contradicts information in the body of the article that says the region was organized into a political district in 1853 (that's 155 years ago) and a separate province in 1917 (91 years ago). So what are they celebrating the 107th anniversary of, exactly? This is petty, unencyclopedic news, and you did it yesterday. I would like it if your adopter would look at this stuff instead of just making me out to be a bad guy here. maxsch (talk) 17:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)