User talk:Melcous/Archive 7

kmo(2)

The AOPS is an official site, thank you.

KMO!!

Can I ask you why the 'business background' is removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sebee0403 (talk • contribs) 05:49, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Kmo(1)

I will tag the references soon, so please put it back. I will put back Sansae's work too. Also, in the 'Goal' page, I put the references, and I just translated the reference file!

Never Again

Dear Melcous,

Never visit the International Academy of Trenton Wikipedia page again. You are annoying me and my edits, girl. So please stop. You miss are getting annoying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alancano2006nj (talk • contribs) 16:45, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

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Ranked pairs

Hi, I have read the guidelines. This is an implementation of an algorithm, available as open source on github with a demo page. I understand that I am the developer and the one who linked it but I do not have any interest (ads, my name or anything else involving money) in the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joris.deguet (talk • contribs) 21:47, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Shamma Al Mazrui

On 5 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shamma Al Mazrui, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that on her appointment in February 2016, 22-year-old Shamma Al Mazrui became the youngest government minister in the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shamma Al Mazrui. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Shamma Al Mazrui), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Melcous,

I'm new to Wikipedia, got your talk message about my client Gavin McClurg. I created his page yesterday (I'm his athlete agent) basically copying and pasting from other professional athletes and thought I had it pretty well laid out, but if I have done anything wrong please let me know and I will immediately correct. Thank you!Cloudbase Mayhem (talk) 04:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

EBRD

Thank you for your message.

We are a new user and appreciate your guidance and advice.

We will follow the guidelines you suggest from now on.

EBRD (talk) 14:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Melcous,

Thank you for your comments and advice. I am not being paid to develop Gavin's wikipedia page, so I think that is ok, but for sure there is a conflict of interest as defined in the article you sent as I know him personally and am basically a fan and am helping him with his career. I don't understand I can add correct "sources" to the films? The films are online, and for example the National Geographic and Banff Mountain Film festival films- aren't those entities the sources I should credit? If you take a look at Alex Honnolds page, a famous climber, he has films with links just as I had and these seem ok? Could you tell me how I can fix these or should I just add these concerns to Gavin's talk page and let someone else do it?

Thank you for your help!

Cloudbase Mayhem (talk) 20:12, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Melcous

Thanks for ur edit. But I feel very confused that my edit "Sun Yang's fingerprint" in Personal Life of Sun's Page was cancelled by your opinion. Why?

Looking forward to ur reply.

Cloudbase Moncherlsx (talk) 13:20, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Melcous

My edit means "Nowdays Sun Yang has no fingerprints due to ultra swimming trainings and efforts, he works very hard."

Looking forward to ur reply.

Cloudbase Moncherlsx (talk) 17:16, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Melcous

Can u speak Chinese? I'm from Mainland, China. My Eng is poor. I want to enquire u sth.

Looking forward to ur reply.

Cloudbase Moncherlsx (talk) 12:27, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Superiorally

I've added a 'not' to your header... 8-) Peridon (talk) 12:21, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

ooh, thank you for that ... not a great word to miss! Melcous (talk) 12:24, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

I found one once while proofreading a letter that was to be printed (1200 copies) - 'now' instead of 'not'. Reversed the meaning totally. Could have been one big problem... Peridon (talk) 18:29, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

I didn't know I did vandalism. Whenever I try to make a good edit to articles, you say I did vandalism. I was only trying to help! I thought I was doing a good thing adding celebrities. ----MinecraftKitty

Terere-gb77

Hi Melcous, thank you for the notes that I read very carefully. Request of username is on its way. Your second point: I have always been aware of the problem concerning "advertising and promotion" and “conflict of interest”, and I can see only one point in my last entry on wikipedia that you may referred to with your blocking. But first of all: yes, I was writing about a topic that I am involved in, but I did not set up a new irrelevant page and I didn't make any assessments at all. My intention was to correct a mistake, that is quite obvious, if you are familiar with the subject. I added a Weblink to the gmp-company’s website as a source, that was a mistake. But you find just the same information on the website of the football club, which should be a reliable third-party source (I missed to add that). You may find that there are some more bad mistakes on that page as it is now (such as external weblink in the running text). If I didn't get the reason for you intervention right, I would be glad to hear from you. Thanks a lot and best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terere-gb77 (talk • contribs) 12:37, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Dear Melcous, I entered the correct link out of Castel di Sangro and Roccaraso, but arrived a spam message, thank you http://www.teleaesse.it/nsmvideocategory/comuni/roccaraso/ http://www.teleaesse.it/nsmvideocategory/comuni/castel-di-sangro/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teleaesse (talk • contribs) 16:53, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

--Davehabz (talk) 20:50, 19 January 2017 (UTC)== Links to the IBM Champions have all been removed ==

The IBM Champions were recently updated to include the award winners for 2017. Suddenly all of the links to their blogs for this year as well as previous years have been removed. Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davehabz (talk • contribs) 14:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Question

Hey, i saw you revert the changes in the SSD page due to not having a reference. If i add the following references do you think it would be fine to keep? or do you think the article is better without the price per GB? Either way is fine i just thought having the price might be easier than searching for it for some people or something informative to have.

These are the sources i looked at as well my own research based on trends on sites:

• http://www.computerworld.com/article/3010395/solid-state-drives/consumer-ssds-and-hard-drive-prices-are-nearing-parity.html
• https://www.extremetech.com/computing/236260-samsung-plants-to-slash-ssd-prices-to-hard-drive-levels-by-2020
• https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/internal-hard-drive/

Thank you so much for the reply, as you could probably tell i'm new so the help is greatly appreciated. RodTGG (talk) 13:45, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Links to the IBM Champions have all been removed

The IBM Champions were recently updated to include the award winners for 2017. Suddenly all of the links to their blogs for this year as well as previous years have been removed. Why? --Davehabz (talk) 20:52, 19 January 2017 (UTC)dh

HI, I left a message on your talk page a couple of days ago. Please read WP:EL - and in particular WP:ELNO and WP:ELLIST - about why links to websites in a list like that were removed - wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a directory of people's personal blogs, linked in pages, and websites. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 21:36, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello Melcous, did you delete the external link I added yesterday to the Foundation Inquieto Anacobero? I am the artist's daughter. The Foundation is a non profit organization created by me where topics relevant to Daniel Santos are shared. Please share your reason for deleting the external link if you are responsible for it. Respectfully, Danilu Santos — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.53.219.124 (talk) 17:03, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Valerie Rose Bio Page

Hello Melcous,

Thank you for your talk message regarding the bio page for Ms. Valerie Rose. Yes, I do know Ms. Rose and I am a big fan of her work. It came to my attention that Wikipedia blocked her from editing and stopped her from submitting her own photos to Commons. Why did you do that? Please advise as to how she can include common copyright free photos of herself especially when photos of nature and other photos have been posted without issue. After learning this, I subsequently decided to pen a piece for her myself. Then the commons photo that I added of her was deleted and my contribution was questioned. As such, I invite you or someone neutral to write the piece.

I will attest that Ms. Rose does in fact pass the subjective Wikipedia notoriety litmus test. The work that she has written books, produced movies, and a host of other accomplishments. This, as attested to by the link at the bottom that she forwarded to me, which is also found at the bottom of the Entertainment tab on her RosesAreREADUSA.com website. Not to mention the IMDB page that is out there ... not everyone has one of those. As well, both she and I had included inline numbered citations, which were changed to bullet points.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wh11za938wtjzir/AAB3PyJERiLL4TEy-J0fmWfBa?dl=0

I look forward to hearing back from you regarding this matter.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beckylunderlund (talk • contribs) 19:59, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Valerie Rose Bio Page

Hello Melcous,

Thank you for your response to my message and restoring the image. As I am discouraged from editing, I invited a neutral party to pen the page for Ms. Rose. As such, I also included in my previous message a link with publicity: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wh11za938wtjzir/AAB3PyJERiLL4TEy-J0fmWfBa?dl=0 from Ms. Rose's website. As well, you did not address how images could be added. Ms. Rose is the owner of the copyright for her images. She is blocked. Does this mean that she can never add images to common? I would add them for her, but Wikipedia asks for copyright ownership verification of the person uploading.

I noticed some typos in the piece that were not in the original submission. Am I allowed to correct those or must those too go to a neutral party? What is the status of the page? Is it still marked for deletion? Please advise.

Thank you in advance for your help in this matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beckylunderlund (talk • contribs) 22:53, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Ü Party page linked to Music of Connecticut Article

Dear Melcous,

Yesterday I created an article for The Ü Party. The Ü Party has been included in the Music of Connecticut article for many years alongside other significant venues and artists. I did not edit the Music of Connecticut article to include The Ü Party, but rather, created a link for it and the corresponding Ü Party article. The fact that The Ü Party was mentioned in the Music of CT article, is part testament to its significance to the state of Connecticut. If there are additional links, sources and names needed in order to prove The Ü Party's significance, I will gladly provide them in a revised version of the article. I will also need access to the article I created because, like a true noob, I failed to save my draft. Please help me make this work for Wikipedia. The Ü Party was something special and had a small, albeit relevant impact on Connecticut's music and arts scene.

Sincerely,

Michael M. Wiley — Preceding unsigned comment added by MikeMWiley (talk • contribs) 08:45, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Newbies

Hello Melcous, I am new to wikipedia, as too are some of the other people who have encountered you (I read below). I do appreciate that you are trying to make sure wikipedia pages are verifiable and unbiased, however it is very rude to delete the work I put into a page. Instead of asking me to add references, you could just do a little thing called a google search, and see that the facts I have included are in fact true. If you want references so badly, add them yourself. My job is to credit those who have worked on certain projects, and add my knowledge where possible. The way you approach editing other people's pages, and contacting them is quite rude. Instead of just linking me to a wikipedia page, explain to me, help me out. I have only been working on wikipedia for two days. I am doing this not to be mean or nasty, just to let you know that you have done it to other people, and you could just edit pages, which would take less time than deleting our work and messaging us to fix it without being clear on why or how. Kind regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sisterhoodofthetravellingpants (talk • contribs) 09:28, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Jackie Monahan

How do I then go about getting the page up, is there a link I can send WIKI to set it up

Thanks

Joey — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcassaro44 (talk • contribs) 23:37, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Regarding Deleted Article

Dear Melcous, Hope you are doing well, can you please help me i made page with name of Draft: Champion Computers Pvt.Ltd was deleted yesterday for reason G11 i don't think the content is unambiguos, advertising or promotion, it was a simple brief about Introduction and history of the company.Would it be possible to have a page reinstated? If not how can i make simple and useful page for company.

Thanks & Regards sanjeev.bhandari@championindia.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.151.246.162 (talk) 10:31, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Redirect link you added on my article

You added a redirect link on an article i wrote [[1]]. Please can you explain to me why you added the redirect Rocardho (talk) 11:39, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (Maria Helena Semedo) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Maria Helena Semedo, Melcous!

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can you make a Wikipedia page for me.

Hi mam i am PJ from chandikhol. I want to creat a wikipedia page of my village. My village name is khosalpur near chandikhol. If you can then please contact to my email jenapriyanjit@gmail.com

Priyanjit jena (talk) 11:48, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Melcous,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 814 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
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Hi Melcous- you had written me on my page regarding a potential conflict of interest on the [Dallas Accord] page. I need your assistance if you could- my involvement is as a researcher of the subject. It does involve the history of the Libertarian Party, and I am an elected representative presently in the Party and a leader in a party caucus. Some of the prior edits were done by a person in a leadership of a party caucus. But the information is old and incorrect and suffers from viewpoint bias - so what can I do with correction? I am not paid, this is Party historical work that I out of love for the subject and interest in past and current controversies. I did do the changes as a suggested edit. Some of the changes last month are not viewpoint neutral, and the article itself was badly organized, having gotten edits thrown in haphazardly. I would like to get it updated within guidelines and with viewpoint neutrality. I also disclosed potential conflict of interest in the talk page. If you could let me know anything to do next, I do not wish to do anything improper or controversial, just get this updated.

Reamsa

Hi Melcous,

I think that the information about this firm in the newspapers are relevant and very interesting for collectors, so please don't detele those links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martin2100 (talk • contribs) 07:22, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Carynannharlos (talk) 14:00, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Potential COI

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your message welcoming me to Wikipedia. It is appreciated.

I understand the rules surrounding COI on Wikipedia. I have read them extensively, but I do understand the need for the refresh with such a grey area. You say that it is best to avoid articles about your organisation directly, but I will strive to meet all of the guidelines with regards to neutrality and third-party sourcing in my article. It is permitted here WP:BFAQ#COMPANY to create a page for your organisation if you feel you can meet these requirements, which I will do my utmost to meet.

Moreover, I believe I have declared my COI on my user page, as is required here: WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE. However, if I have misunderstood this and am required to declare my COI elsewhere, I would be very much open to you highlighting where I need to post this instead and thank you in advance for your advice.

I have no intention of editing other Wikipedia articles to shoehorn links that funnel towards my company's new article, should it be accepted. Rest assured there will not be an issue under the WP:SPAM rules.

Thank you for your time.

Michael.Englefield (talk) 16:01, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

page review

Hello Melcous
I'v just received a notification from you regarding: quote:" Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Idan Cohen. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products..." for the page Idan Cohen
Can you please direct me to the content you have referred to? and as well would it be possible for you to scan the article and feedback me if there any other changes need to be done in order to fit the article to the Wikipedia's regulations? Tnx Hadas Hadasantman (talk) 08:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Farid yazdani

Hey there. Thank you so much for helping edit the page about actor- Farid Yazdani. Just curious as to why you removed imdb as a

I have to be absolutely honest and hold my hands up as I think that I have created the entire page against the rules of wikipedia. It is very much a page which is directly related to me as it is a technique that I came up with and pretty much the entire article seems to be violating wikipedia's content policies.

I am incredibly sorry about this but had thought that as it was discussing a lot of other people's work in context to my own that perhaps it wasn't but after your message and properly reading the Wikipedia terms I realise how wrong I have been especially as I am currently turning it into a commercial product and I think that that really will go against what Wikipedia is about.

Could you please remove the page for me as I can't seem to do that.

In future, if someone were to write up an entry about the technique then I assume that that would have to be someone other than me? I only ask as the reason for the article is that I do a lot of teaching on the technique and it's a useful thing for people to find out about it. So, for instance, if a student wrote about it would that be ok (I have many students from around the world that write theses on it?

Anyhow, please do get back to me about this and as I say, I really am very sorry to have made this mistake.

Jimlefevre (talk) 09:38, 6 March 2017 (UTC) Jim Le Fevre

Need help!

Hi Melcous. My friend, new comer just made an article, title: Ban Thapene. He does not know who to ask for edition and review. Can you please take sometimes to help him to review it. Thank you very much. Yang — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banyanglaos (talk • contribs) 14:37, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Sure, I've had a look and done some copyediting. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 21:41, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Richard Warshak

Thank you for your attention to the article: Richard Warshak. You requested sources for the Education section. Cornell does not publish an online alumni directory that is open to the public. But the Cornell Alumni Magazine, volume 104, Issue 5, March/April 2002 mentions me in the Class Notes, page 94, column 1, first complete paragraph. Here is the link: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28159

Also, you asked for a citation for the statement that the Warshak dissertation “was the first study to directly compare children growing up in father-custody homes to children growing up in mother-custody homes.” A source for this statement can be found if you Google: santrock warshak journal social issues. The first hit is to an article cited by 392. This journal article was based on my dissertation. The beginning of the journal article reviews the literature at that time and demonstrates that my dissertation study was the first study to directly compare children growing up in father-custody homes to children growing up in mother-custody homes. Thus, the reference for this statement in the paragraph under Career is that 1979 article. The full reference for that article can be found as the first reference in the section: Selected publications: Scientific articles. Another source that may be relevant to add is from the New York Times. I authored an amicus brief that was influential in the decision made by the California Supreme Court. The New York Times published an article mentioning my work and quoting me in their Sunday, Front page of Section 1 article on the landmark case. Here is a link to this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/nyregion/divorced-parents-move-and-custody-gets-trickier.html?_r=0 I apologize if the format of my comments above is inaccurate, or if I am supposed to place this type of comment somewhere else.Rawars (talk) 17:53, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my comment. I was not sure if I should post my reply to my talk page or yours, but here it is.

Among the improvements you made to the page was the deletion of the unsourced statement that I served as a White House consultant on family law reform. For a source, see page 86, paragraph 3 of the pdf file accessed on this page http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED386269.pdf The document mentions my name as meeting with White House Assistant Domestic Policy advisor Bill Galston. At that meeting I was one of only three participants who were invited to deliver summaries of the scientific literature to guide family law reform. If it would help, I may be able to locate the letter in my files from the White House thanking me for the consultation and post this on my website. (My website has a photo of me in the White House, but I don’t think that would qualify as a reliable source.)

Regarding my education: The best secondary source that I can think of to document the Education section is an article published in the University of Baltimore Law Review. Because law review articles can influence statutory and case law, these articles are vetted in the greatest detail. For instance, the editors of this article verified every detail of the article including 414 footnotes. Page 1 of the article gives this information about me: “Clinical Professor of Psychology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. B.S. 1971, Cornell University; Ph.D. 1978, University of Texas Health Science Center.” The law review article is available online here: https://law.ubalt.edu/academics/publications/lawreview/volumes/6_Warshak.41.1.pdf

Every other reference that I can think of that clearly states my degree (Ph. D.), such as a psychology journal using the degree after my name, would ultimately trace back to me as the source. For instance, journal editors, or the judges who accepted my CA Supreme Court Amicus Brief, do not contact the university to determine if I accurately represented my degree. Short of posting a photo of my diploma somewhere, I am not sure how to locate another secondary source.

I looked at the Wikipedia article of some colleagues to see how those pages handled citations, e.g., Daniel Goleman. I found pages where education and numerous awards were listed without any citations. You had removed an award I received because it was unsourced. Is there some leeway in the Wiki rules about this? Short of posting a photo of the award, I can’t think of how to document it.

Some of what you deleted as unsourced commentary on books I think is appropriate and I appreciate your edits. But you also deleted the following portion and I think the reference given would qualify as a secondary source. The authors of the journal article that is quoted are independent:

Divorce Poison is widely regarded as the classic guide to parental alienation. E.g. Bernet et al. (2010) rank Divorce Poison as "perhaps the best-known book for both professionals and the general public regarding the topic of parental alienation". 

Regarding my dissertation being the first to study to compare father-custody children with mother-custody children, I think that will have to be deleted because the only possible secondary sources would be doctoral dissertations by others that would be difficult to cite.

The opening paragraph of the page states: “He is best known for his expertise on divorce, child custody, and parental alienation.” You didn’t ask for a source for this, but here are two possibilities. A sitting Canadian judge who hosts a television show introduced me as: “an internationally renowned psychologist specializing in high conflict cases.” A video of the program is available here: http://www.familymatterstv.com/season-2/high-conflict-divorce#.WL9WJGBW2p4 The comment about me is at 3:05 into the video. Unfortunately no written transcript is posted.

Another possibility is a 1992 M magazine profile that describes me as, “One of the country’s foremost experts on child custody.” The magazine article can be found on my website, but the magazine is no longer in existence and thus does not have the article posted on their own website. Also, Maclean’s magazine (Canada) published an interview with me following my testimony in a high profile custody case. http://www.warshak.com/author/profile.htmlRawars (talk) 02:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

References

Please help to review.

Hi Melcous. Thank you very much for your correction. I learnt alots from this. I did improve this article. Can you please help to review it for approval. Regards. Thapene — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banthapenlaos (talk • contribs) 02:08, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Melcous, I have the authority as the wife of John Sculley to edit his page. The information you feel the need to repeatedly add is hurtful and not needed to improve his Wikipedia page. My husband has only done good in the world. There is enough negative stuff and if you wish to continue repeating it I will delete his entire Wikipedia page. Please help me out here. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diane0524 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Hi there, this is vstefanu and thank you for your message. How is it posible that I get added to the ' List of people by number of countries visited' page? You rolled back all the changes because I had an external link, can I go ahead and add the changes BUT without the external link?? Vstefanu (talk) 22:26, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Furra

On 9 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Furra, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Furra. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Furra), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Abdul Majid Dar

Hey, please don't revert all my edits. It is not necessary that everything should have references. I hope you won't do it again.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki222222 (talk • contribs) 20:25, March 11, 2017 (UTC)

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Removal of famous cases

Mr. Melcous, the case which is added is a famous case i have give the reference you can check it. Danishmajiddar (talk) 10:02, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Surfing in India -

Surfing in India -

I did not write anything that is not true.

Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopaedia of FACTS. What I wrote are FACTS.

So what if it is about myself? Who better to write this material?

Do you know anything about surfing in India? I don't think so.

I did provide references to everything I wrote -

I have read numerous articles on Surfing in India that are completely wrong - and the writers copied much of their information from Wikipedia

If people are so lazy, should they not have access to the facts?

Restore the deleted text as soon as possible - it is all true

Please see the references below - am I a fraud or a fake?

I don't think so - not a single word on any of these published projects in the Wikipedia on "Surfing in India" -

Thank You

JohnSeatonCallahan (talk) 13:42, 12 March 2017 (UTC)johnseatoncallahan

References

Hi

Hi Melcous. I do not know why my article Ban Thapene is declined for reciewed. Can you please help to make it to go through the process of review. Thank you very much. Thapene — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banthapenlaos (talk • contribs) 01:45, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Your Recent Revert

Hey. I am wondering what the rationale behind your revert to terrorism is. I happened to be going through the history of the article, and saw your revert. Although the user making the edit has been blocked/still is, his/her edit does not appear to be vandalism, although I am liable to be wrong. Thanks! Morphdog (t - c) 23:46, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

New Jim Crow

Melcous, I agree that the term best criticism is unsupported. However, this page seems devoid of any criticism. When I first came to the page, I was surprised by the lack of it. Perhaps there is a better criticism out there, but this was the best one I found. I am newbie on editing Wikipedia so pardon me if I am not going about this the correct way. DaddyHorne (talk) 21:47, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

[unspecified topic added without section by Wiki222222]

Hi, every information cannot have a source. Kindly check the content before removing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki222222 (talk • contribs) 08:44, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

26 topics here invisibly disappeared on 2017-03-06 -- Wikipedia bug??

I had been periodically checking back on this page in case there were any comments to the 'This user has adopted the typo "publically" to nurture' section that I added, and found today that the section was gone, so I tried to do a revision history search to see when the word "publically" was deleted, to make sure there were no comments to read before the topic was closed out, but strangely, the search found no results. I then searched manually for when the change disappeared, and found that it happened with Jimlefevre's 2017-03-06T02:38:46 revision. What's bizarre is that the diff from the previous revision doesn't show anything unusual happening, just Jim adding his "Phonotrope" section. The diff doesn't show that topics 24-48 mysteriously disappeared in this revision, and that Jim's new Phonotrope section did not actually get added to the page! This has got to be a bad Wikipedia bug, no...? --Dan Harkless (talk) 07:33, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dan Harkless, yes it has to be a bug of some kind. I did notice something odd had happened because I got a notification that User:Jimlefevre had left a message but couldn't see it, however I could see the diff in the edit history and so replied to him based on that. I didn't realise quite how much had been deleted until you pointed it out now. I have no idea what happened or how - if you have any ideas or suggestions let me know ... I wonder if it has happened elsewhere! Cheers, Melcous (talk) 08:04, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, good question. Unfortunately I don't have time right now to pursue researching where to report this, and I will also leave any manual restoration of the deleted topics to you, but I wanted to at least give you the data I'd collected while looking into it. --Dan Harkless (talk) 09:08, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Billy Meier wiki page

Hello. You have deleted information that I included yesterday to enhance the current information about Billy Meier.

I am a recognized UFO researcher about Billy Meier case. I included two links of two of my investigations (that also are registered in the US Congress Library). My links point to PDF documents (my investigations) that can be downloaded for free. I am not making publicity to myself, or obtaining any monetary benefit of it.

Please provide me more information about the reasons to delete my contribution, since I included the links as any other links in the page. May be I did something wrong and I would like to know. Or let me know if my investigations are not considered a "reliable source".

Thank you.

Rhal Zahi

Rhal zahi (talk) 19:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Rhal, to answer on Melcous' behalf, please read Wikipedia:No original research. Honestly, the policy does mean that some valuable information doesn't get added to Wikipedia sometimes, especially on niche topics, but that's in return for an overall effect of helping to keep reference material factual and unbiased. You could create a section on the article's Talk page asking other editors to check out your investigation PDFs and see if they find them worthy of adding to the article themselves. --Dan Harkless (talk) 05:13, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Dan Harkless - I did respond on Rahl zahi's talk page and suggest the same thing - making a suggestion on the talk page and letting other editors decide if the content is worth including. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 10:23, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that. Next time I'll check the appropriate user's talk page before I assume I'm doing you a favor by responding to a question you haven't had a chance to get to yet. 😉 P.S. Did you by any chance report the bug that caused all those topics from your talk page to disappear? If so, any response? --Dan Harkless (talk) 11:22, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

WIK Code

Hello!

Thank you for raising those page issues! I now know that my username is quite misleading and will change it immediately! Thank you!! 😁

(How do I change my username?) 😬 🤔

Thank you so much! WIKCodeOfficial (talk) 12:49, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Travel References

Hi Melcous

You undid an edit to the people who have been to the most country page claiming the reference is not valid but the reference is verification from the "Most Travelled People" website after going through their verification process. It also seems that this website is used to verify other travellers. What, in your opinion, is a valid reference for verification of countries visited? Many thanks. Jaidan70 (talk) 09:26, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Removal of Maitenance

I was under the impression I had edited the sources to be less closely related to the association. I apologize if I over stepped the bounds, I had felt that the issues had been resolved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.143.50.42 (talk) 14:10, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Economic Liberty Act - sources

Dear Melcous, I don's understand what do you mean for unsourced - what kind of source can be counted as as a normal source? I am trying to describe there a law, which is very important one and the text describes why it is important. As for the law itself - there is only official Georgian text of this law and a unofficial but correct English translation. I was trying to put there some of the opinions - they are deleted. So, please let me know what kind of text can be put in there? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjandieri (talk • contribs) 21:54, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Page deleted?

Would you mind telling me why my page was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Astraontheair (talk • contribs) 05:24, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Answered at User_talk:Jo-Jo_Eumerus#Page_deleted.3F. Primefac (talk) 16:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

As you can see, I'm very new to this. I did not create my page...someone created it for me years ago. I don't understand why after all this time it would be deleted. If something was wrongly posted or incorrectly uploaded, I don't think that it requires the page to be deleted. Please let me know how we can get it un-deleted and what changes need to be made and I will gladly get that taken care of. Astraontheair (talk) 01:25, 1 April 2017 (UTC)AstraOnTheAir

It was deleted because it was determined that you do not meet wikipedia's notability criteria, so it is not about what was posted or uploaded but about that basic criteria for this project. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place to promote yourself - you can do that on your own website if you so choose. Also, wikipedia has a conflict of interest policy, so you should not be writing about yourself, nor should other people be creating an article on your behalf. Melcous (talk) 01:58, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

I am an on air radio/tv personality and have been for many years. I actually came across the wikipedia page that was created for me - not BY me. It's not self promotion what so ever. there's no difference between me or any other talent that's out there in the world. So again, please tell me how after about 4-5 years did the page just all of a sudden "need" to get deleted? Astraontheair (talk) 02:48, 1 April 2017 (UTC)AstraOnTheAir

Wikipedia editors are all volunteers. Something might exist for a time before it is noticed that it does not meet wikipedia's criteria, but that is not a reason for keeping it. I am not an administrator, nor am I the person who deleted the page, but I can see that it was nominated for deletion back in 2015 not long after it was created because it was seen as promotional. Why was it brought to people's attention again more recently? Ironically, because you edited it - the fact that an editor with a conflict of interest was editing an article that appear to be a "puff piece" is actually what brought it to people's attention and brought about the discussion that led to the decision that it didn't meet the notability criteria. At this stage, the fact that you, the person the article was about, are arguing about its deletion, also has the effect of making it seem that it is/was self-promotional. Generally, people who are notable enough will have articles written by independent editors because people want to know about them. If and when that happens for you, then the article might be re-created by someone else. If you really believe you are notable now, you could try requesting that someone create the article at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/By profession#Radio personalities, but again, notability would need to be established by reliable sources, and given that it has been deleted by community consensus, it would then be scrutinised carefully for the same issues. Melcous (talk) 05:23, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

silver bullet

What's wrong with it? What needs to be changed? Chade076 (talk) 09:04, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. This is my first time doing a wiki. The =edit one was not a test but I did mess up when trying to creat it. The other one I will redo asap to make it proper. Any help and guidance is always welcome. Chade076 (talk) 09:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Lusus (programming language)

Hi Melcous, I'm so sorry if some problems arose in lusus page. I tried to perfected it, I am thinking to have did a mistake putting the link to the developer. As soon as possible I'll insert the references (at the moment we can insert, if you agree, "lacking of reference". --LorenzoBia (talk) 12:23, 2 April 2017 (UTC)LorenzoBia

hello melcous. I am a student of Santragachi Kedarnath Institution. so I know about the school. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankur Paul (2) (talk • contribs) 15:05, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

LususX2

Yes, I'm the author of the language, I'm confirmed. But i dont want advertize as it has written in message, I have written as in previous pages of mine till now. As you requested, I have added the table of the valutation in the talk, so everyone could give his opinion. I have erased the message, not for a bad thing, but because i think it is exagerated for a few lines, I hope you understand me. I don't write into the page no more, if you want, because so other people can discuss. I simply add some references, like as one minute ago I add one esternal reference. --LorenzoBia (talk) 15:08, 2 April 2017 (UTC)LorenzoBia

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		Thanks for expanding this article: [2] -- Samir 00:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Improper maintainence template

You have placed a matentaince template without citing what aspects of the Wikipedia are subjective in nature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:658C:FB00:289D:9D5B:A33E:9BB7 (talk) 10:14, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Looks like...

Onefineart came back and wasn't happy with you removing their spammy/coi junk. XD CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 17:46, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Chrissymad, a lot can happen while one is asleep ... I think it was actually Mediapub who was engaging in similar behaviour yesterday. Either way, appreciate the eyes on it! Melcous (talk) 23:06, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

{u|Melcous}} FWIW I've started removing OFA as a ref anywhere because it's a paid version of myspace for artists and not RS. ;) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 23:10, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Request to kindly support

Dear ma'am,

I read on your page that you try to do do the right thing. I thank you for reviewing the article I created and for not nominating it for deletion. But someone else has taken it to the discussion for deletion . I am a new user and my article may have faults which I will gradually learn and solve . I wish to request you to kindly support to keep the article without deletion as the topic has very reliable sources which are leading newspapers in India , and the fact that the works of the person are part of s museum is no ordinary feat at such a young age . I am trying my best to improve the article thpugh I have seen many trivial articles in Wikipedia which no one has problems with . So I request the urgent help if a knowledgeable reviewer like you to help the article from deletion . Thank you . Crazypredator (talk) 12:18, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Jora Jora possible conflict of interest

Hello,

About reverting 5 edits on Wikipedia Jora Jora. I am aware that these links points to my personal website, but this is a personal enthusiast page, and the only one which holds information about the Jora Aircraft for the time beeing. The information on the page also is for people reading about the plane, and there is no business relations. The only links on these pages are to the previous distributors which now have stopped catering for parts since the last Jora Airplane was produced in 2006.

I believe these pages to be valuable and valid for the people searching for the Jora Airplane, and since there is no business relation from that page at all. I therefor will ask for undoing the changes where the links to the operation manual and the information page om my pages to be reinstated. Experimentiv (talk) 13:16, 9 April 2017 (UTC) Nostalgeek

Speedy deletion declined: Victorious: In Concert

Hello Melcous. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Victorious: In Concert, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: context is clear: Tour by cast of Victorious. As such, significance is indicated. Thank you. SoWhy 17:06, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the message SoWhy, and yes the redirect is a much better option - I should have thought of that instead. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 21:55, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

No worries. Just remember that WP:ATD, as part of the deletion policy, applies to speedy deletions as well. Oftentimes such articles are prime candidates for redirecting or merging, something any user can do. Regards SoWhy 06:19, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

Hi Melcous, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 00:43, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Content of JINESS Joint-Institution Network for Student Success

Hi Melcous,

This is project team of JINESS project. Noted the message from you about the wiki content of JINESS (Joint-Institution Network for Student Success). This is a non-profit project funded by the HKSAR Government and jointly organised by 5 higher institutions in Hong Kong. The objective we create this wiki is to introduce our project to public and build up the awareness in Hong Kong, not for promotion. Please consider not to remove our wiki content if possible.

Thank you!

JINESS Project Team — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jiness.hk (talk • contribs) 10:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

XYZ Physics

Hi Melcous, Thanks for looking over my XZY Physics page. I was hoping you could help me better understand what changes I should make to improve it. I noticed your maintenance tags, and I attemped to address them by adding references from a peer review journal and a press release from an international laboratory, adding many links for people new to the topic, and attempting to change the tone of the page. After improving my page, I removed your maintenance tags. I'm new to wikipedia, so I'm still learning the proper procedure. Could you please futher explain your concerns with the page and why you replaced your tags after my changes. Thanks!Mgkurth (talk) 04:59, 14 April 2017 (UTC)mgkurth

International Academy of Trenton "Please do not add or change content, as you did at International Academy of Trenton, without citing a reliable source" - melcous

Ms. Melcous,

You said, and I quote, "Please do not add or change content, as you did at International Academy of Trenton, without citing a reliable source." Well, I am the source. I went there myself. This is not too much from the official website. This is my information I got myself. If I were your boss, Melcous, I would say "You're fired." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alancano2006nj (talk • contribs) 23:22, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Undone your edits

Hey Melcous i have just undo your recent changes in Zebronics page. Since you have stated that the company is not notable however the company is a notable one you can see this for a reference [[3]]. But i agree that the page content needs some change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samantha.r (talk • contribs) 14:19, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Map of International Academy of Trenton

Hello Melcous. I apologize for my earlier statements. You are Apple and I am Microsoft. I need your help to make a map where the International Academy of Trenton is located. It is located at 500 Perry Street Trenton, New Jersey 08618. We need a map of the city, state, and country. Thanks for your help Melcous. Alancano2006nj (talk) 20:32, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

RE: Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) edits

Hi there, you made some edits saying that the stated goals shouldn't be part of the wiki page. Don't you think that the organizations self-stated purpose or goals should be there? I see them often on a variety of pages.

Thanks for your good work!76.69.152.251 (talk) 00:40, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

BC Civil Liberties Association

Hi Melcous - Thank you for recent revisions to my additions to the BC Civil Liberties Association page. I noticed that you have removed the links to the publications that that the BCCLA prints and directed me to Wikipedia's guide on external links. I have read the guide and I am uncertain what exactly you're taking issue with. Under "What can normally be linked" it states "An article about a book... should link to a site hosting a legally distributed copy of the work, so long as none of the § Restrictions on linking and § Links normally to be avoided criteria apply." The publication section of the page is about books published by the association and was linking to the site hosting legally distributed copies of the publications. Under "Links normally to be avoided" the only potential issue I see is "Websites of organizations mentioned in an article —unless they otherwise qualify as something that should be linked or considered". It appears to me that the "unless" portion of that is satisfied.

Can you provide greater clarity on why you feel the links conflict with the guidelines?

Also, I am not sure how you are making these edits, but you should know that they are resulting in incorrect italicization of other portions of the paragraph that you're editing.

I look forward to hearing back from you. AoJ.KM (talk) 06:35, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Melcous. You have new messages at Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi's talk page.
Message added 13:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

— O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis 13:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

STOP IT, MELCOUS! You are the most annoying Wikipedia User Ever!

Stop visiting and deleting History on the International Academy of Trenton Wikipedia page! It's info from the school itself! You are probably trying to annoy me on purpose. Alancano2006nj (talk) 02:12, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Perfect Potion Page

Hi,

I'm new to wikipedia and i'm only trying to fix the page. I am trying to put in the citing that was suggested.

I removing the maintenance templates to fix them.

I am trying to make the necessary changes. Also I am not an owner of the business just a vegan fan of them.

TJ — Preceding unsigned comment added by TJ Wilkshire (talk • contribs) 03:39, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Melcous, I'm a researcher at Sydney Uni and would like to get in touch ---- Doctor 17

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Creation of Wikipedia Page

Hello Melcous. Recently I created the article stub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaan_Agrawal, about a prominent cuber in our community. However it got flagged for being an autobiography, which it is not. In addition, the page was flagged for notability. Within the speedcubing community Agrawal is a fairly well known figure, and other cubers are listed on Wikipedia with similar accomplishments. Should these tags be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubeslayer98 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

The edits I made to the Hocopper page are accurate

Hi,

Regarding you undoing the edit I did of HotCopper.

I was the founder of HotCopper more than 20 years ago. I started Hotcopper in 1993 and the information about it's history is wrong. I would like it fixed.

I am currently on the page as it is but not really cited, so please fix it.

Or do I will need to take legal action to do the corrections? I may not have the funds to apply for a court order but I will make an issue of the incorrect details about HotCopper with the media. I do not want to cite Wikipedia regarding this error.

I had the first forum of any kind in Australia and maybe the first finance forum in the world.

I have not had a relationship with HotCopper since 2000.

I have a legacy, being one of the first Internet pioneers and the founder of HotCopper.

I believe my legacy should be recognized in your site.

Please do it.

Regards

Ron Gully

Rongully Rongully (talk) 10:06, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Replied on editor's talk page Melcous (talk) 10:12, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

OK,

I am an old man now. The edits I made are accurate. I have no capacity to do the research you require. How can I get someone to do the necessary research. I will cooperate fully. If not fixed I will loose my legacy. It's a small legacy, but it is all I have.

Cheers

Rongully Rongully (talk) 10:25, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Don't know where else to put this, but I need help

Hey there Melcous, I was just wondering if you would be kind enough to revert the edits made on this page back to the most recent one made by Myself? Someone keeps trying to push their political agenda, and is editing far faster than I can keep up with (my limited janitorial powers consisting of little more than the Undo button). I know this may seem randomly timed, but you were the first person I could find with rollback powers, and in this scenario I need someone with a little more power over the site than myself. MuganiHakHakHak (talk) 13:08, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Melcous

I am a fan of this man writing (no conflict of interest) and as you can see from the content of the article, there are no promotional editing going on here. The information provided here is very basic, mostly to be used by students who have to read Arion Golmakni's book as an assignment, and write a report. I even tried adding his picture here once, which was deleted for technical reasons. As you can tell, I am not a master in Wikipedia editing. Thank you for your help Solacers (Rose)Rose2017 15:38, 4 May 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solacers (talk • contribs)

Please stop.

We are trying to update the Institute of Contemporary Music's Performance Wikipedia's page, to make all the information accurate and true. Your revision of edits are hindering this. Please stop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.168.123.138 (talk) 15:46, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) please refer yourselves to WP:MEAT, WP:COI and WP:UPE. Many thanks. — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 15:53, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Page with many errors

Hi Melcous, thank you very much!I saw that you corrected the page I did and that I made many mistakes. Thank you for your work and to help me! I put the voice citation needed I hope I did it right. Best Giuseppe Ferlito (talk) 08:31, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Posting Guidance for Technical Papers

Hi... I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service and using my National Scenic Trail experience as the Continental Divide Trail program manager, I have developed a National Scenic Trail Planning Handbook. The material that is currently found for the Continental Divide Trail page promotes use and organizations that are related to this National Trail, but doesn't provide information about how National Scenic Trails should be planned and managed as related to the requirements of the National Trails System Act. Is there an appropriate place to post on Wikipedia a technical paper? Instead of web-link, could it be posted as a reference? Is there a Wikipedia posting review board where I should send this type of question? I appreciate the help! Thank you, Greg Warren

P.S. For reference, here's is the link that you or someone deleted from the CDT page: http://nstrail.org/management/nst_planning_handbook.pdf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NSTrail (talk • contribs) 01:44, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Re: Lee Lin Chin

You sent me a message regarding my edits to Lee Lin Chin's Wikipedia page. I have never edited this page. 88.13.249.219 (talk) 18:46, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

new wiki page set up

--Louisshi (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2017 (UTC)louisshi Hello Melcous, I'm new to wiki and got a few notification from you. I have been trying to edit the page for Eman Lam (dancer). Let me know how could I improve the page and references you would need. As for reference, SCMP is the only English newspaper in Hong Kong. Could you please advise on how to edit Eman Lam as (dancer/comedian) for the heading? Apology on the previous editing if not up to standard.

Load bank

Hi Melcous, Thanks for your message. I'm not trying to get links in google, nor am I trying to do self promotion, but I was adding in a fact about the problems that generators have when they are not load tested. Carbon build up and wet stacking is a problem and it's relevant to the article 'load bank'. I see a company called simplex has 3 web links, which I don't have a problem with, but why are they not seen as self promoting? Their link takes you to a page that allows you to get a quote for their load banks. I hope you can help me with this, Thank you Crestchic (talk) 14:46, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for the further information, I will certainly follow these instructions. Crestchic (talk) 14:58, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Too trigger happy

As the artist who was asked by Bluestorm limited, I have the online resource to the artwork they comissioned, which should be listed in the Embassey Court listing where it attempts to list all the artwork they have comissioned. Without my edit, this entry is now incomplete and does not show the history of the building or the complete list of artworks commissioned. Next time take the time to do the research before you report something, this entry on Embassey Court is now sadly incomplete which is disappointing for the owners, Bluestorm limited that is a company made up of the residents who worked hard to renovate the building and celebrated the renovation by commissioning my installation Murmuration at Embassey Court. The title of the artwork might have given you a clue that it is a correct edit. Now you have altered the page to leave it inaccurate and incomplete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IngridPlum (talk • contribs) 20:59, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Help Using/Finding/Executing Request for Wiki Volunteer to Edit Page Charissawest (talk) 15:32, 19 May 2017 (UTC) May 19, 2017

Good Morning,

I am a volunteer on the social media team for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_the_Moon and I added a page for its director https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_M._Thompson earlier this week, but it keeps getting flagged (apparently?). I was told there is a way to go to a talk page somewhere and request help from Wiki volunteers to edit the page, but am very unclear as to how to go about this. I've used Wikipedia for research before, but this is my first attempt at adding anything to it. Could you kindly advise how we can go about this so that this new page is not deleted?

Thank you.

Best, Charissa

Possible paradigmatic differences with Melcous

Dear Melcous–

You raised the following three concerns about my page Dialogic Pedagogy that I do not fully understand: 1. A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (May 2017) 2. This article is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings about a topic. (May 2017) 3. This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (May 2017) I may not understand because I’m very new to Wikipedia – this is my first page – or because you and I have different paradigm regarding Wikipedia. I’d appreciate your reply, patience, and guidance.

It seems to me that Wikipedia tries to be an authoritative text about the subject – an approximation of universal truth. Am I right? If not, please correct me. If so, I understand why you are demanding a genre of impersonal, decontextualized, “objective” language, expressed in your rubrics #1 and #2 above. In contrast to this paradigm, dialogic pedagogy that we try to articulate here is inspired by Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, who argued against the authoritative, positivist, monologic, decontextualized, objective paradigms behind classical encyclopedia genre. In contrast, Bakhtin argued for personal, authorial, subjective, unfinalized (and unfinalizable), open-minded inquiries “where truth is tested and forever is testable.” This is a genre of my article. Writing in the classical encyclopedia genre, which you seem to demand (points #1 and #2), defeats the notion of the Bakhtinian dialogism and dialogic pedagogy that we try to articulate in the article. Behind our article, there is a growing international academic community of 450+ educational researchers and practitioners united by the peer-reviewed online international journal of Dialogic Pedagogy (please see http://dpj.pitt.edu). I’m the Editor-in-Chief of this journal. If my description, analysis, and judgment of your paradigm and genre demands are correct, I respectfully ask you for diversity and tolerance of diverse paradigms and genres on the Wikipedia. I wonder if you may be interested in bringing my concern to the Wikipedia’s organizers and leaders for their collective consideration. I think Wikipedia is a terrific democratic public project that should be based on paradigmatic plurality and tolerance, reflected in plurality and tolerance to the genres.

This paradigmatic tension also leads to your feedback based on generic, decontextualized application of pre-designed rubrics (like Platonic ideas), based on your personal tacit authorial judgments and concerns, which can be very interesting and important for me. It can be very useful for me, if you contextualized your concerns by making comments on the margins of my article (if it is possible). If it is not possible, can you put my article in Word, please, and make your comments there, please? You can send it to me via attachment (ematusov@udel.edu). I’d highly appreciate your help.

Finally, about #3. I plan to work on external linking of the article (I already linked it to Dialogic Learning wiki article, unless you took it off) after we resolve your concerns #1 and #2. Also, we plan to introduce more articles of the field of the Bakhtinian dialogism that are not currently presented on the Wikipedia. How many external connections make it not an orphan?

Sincerely,

Eugene Matusov

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Eugene Matusov, PhD Editor-in-Chief, Dialogic Pedagogy Journal Professor of Education School of Education 16 W Main st University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716, USA

Publications: http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/vita/publications.htm DiaPed: http://diaped.soe.udel.edu DPJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DPJ.two/

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ematusov (talk • contribs) 22:39, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

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Proposed deletion of Kwon Hyun-bin

Hello, I have removed the BLP prod tag you placed on Kwon Hyun-bin, as the article now has a whopping one source. I only did this because the article now meets the very low bar required to remove a BLP prod, and I would have no objection to a regular prod or AfD. Thanks, —KuyaBriBri^Talk 13:52, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Help Creating New Page?

Good Afternoon, You had helped me a bit in trying to create my first page last week and I am hoping to get some help or direction again. One company that I do contract work for would like me to create a page for their CEO, first, and then for their company if that goes well. However, given my first experience last week, I believe I will be a COI in this case again, and want to understand how to ask volunteers to create a page for me. Starting with the CEO, to see how that goes, and then with the company. I have the bio with a few links/references ready to go, but I'm not sure who to send it to or how to proceed. Can you kindly direct me on where to request a page be created by Wikipedia volunteers? Thank you kindly. Charissa Charissawest (talk) 16:06, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

I made a request here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Business_and_economics/People_in_business#D or do I show it like this Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Business_and_economics/People_in_business#D ? I have a full bio here: https://docs.google.com/a/charissawest.com/document/d/15SFBUimpNMWFtzmL-Vt63kYLHCKWxX-CQDApzETVVAo/edit?usp=sharing Would you be able to help me create this page? If this goes well, I will make the same request for the business.

Again, my association with this business is a remote, independent contractor. Thank you kindly. Charissawest (talk) 17:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Here is the full bio in case that is helpful, or tell me if I can begin creation of the page myself if I can be deemed not a COI. I have not ever met or spoken with this individual: James Demetriades became passionate about computers at the age of 9, when his father, an inventor, entrepreneur and rocket scientist would drop him off at the Caltech computer room for the day. At the age of 22, Mr Demetriades’ first job was to design and manage the development of all the software for Healthnet, the largest HMO in the United States, for a small startup outsourcer. By 25 he had 65 developers reporting to him and he left the company because the products were complete. He then went to work for a hospital software company where he led their hospital integration practice. There he became the chairman of the HL7 ADT and finance standards organization. This standard became the global standard for the integration of healthcare data. At the age of 26 he started his own software company, SeeBeyond, that invented and patented numerous technologies in the software industry, including composite, client server based integration technology, distributed integration technologies, and cloud based integration and development products. These integration products were ranked number one in the world by the Gartner Group. James Demetriades grew SeeBeyond, which he started with 5,000 dollars, into the world’s largest organically grown and self-funded integration software company in dozens of industries around the world, including GM, Porsche, BMW, Pepsi, NY Columbia Presbyterian, JPMorgan Chase, Unilever, Air Liquide, the British NHS, Aetna, the Cleveland Clinic, and about another 10,000 customers. He has experience working in dozens of industries as his company solved his clients’ complex global integration needs. As the company grew he decided to build a unique and extremely powerful board of directors to help the company successfully continue its growth and development. This board consisted of the CEO of Accenture, the president of Oracle, the president of PeopleSoft, a retired managing partner of E&Y, and the EVP of business development and strategy of EDS. James Demetriades then took his company, SeeBeyond, public and enjoyed the many adventures of being the CEO and Chairman of a 1600 person public company. With offices in 35 countries, Mr. Demetriades successfully sold the company to Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle) in 2005 for 386 million dollars in cash. James Demetriades also founded and manages his own groundbreaking venture capital investment company, Kairos, real estate development and management company, Multiversal, and his own unique children’s internet education media company, that he created called Inspero.net. He serves on boards of numerous technology companies in a variety of industries. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, with a second major in Computer Science and minors in Marketing and Mathematics, from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He is also a founding member and past Chair of the healthcare HL7 ANSI standards group. HL7 is the global standard for healthcare information exchange. Mr. Demetriades is a chef and enjoys hunting, fishing, reading, playing computer games, and has been a winning competitive yacht sailor and was a founder of the Transpac 52 yacht class, the grand prix class of carbon fiber racing yachts. He has won Big Boat Series, Long Beach Race, and numerous other regattas. He is a Life Member of The Associates of Caltech and a member of the President’s Circle, a life member of the NRA, a life member of the Safari Club International and past member of Young Presidents’ Organization. Jim is also a real estate owner, manager, and developer. He has been active on a variety of philanthropic and political initiatives. Jim Demetriades has been a technology industry pioneer for the last two decades. He has been quoted and mentioned in InfoWorld, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times Times and CIO, among others.

Sources: Crunchbase - https://www.crunchbase.com/person/james-demetriades#/entity LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-demetriades-7527b628/ Kairos Ventures - http://www.kairosventures.com/james-demetriades/ Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=88670&privcapId=330694613 Charissawest (talk) 18:08, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest...

Hello, I understand why you tell me to avoid writing about my own company Gasolina studios . But doing a quick research about other companies like mine that are on the Wikipedia, I found that their founders are usually the ones starting their company pages. I'm trying to keep the information as objective as possible, could you please let me know in a little more specific way how I could improve the page and thus avoiding its deletion?

A couple examples:
Mantarraya Productions - Created by Jaime Romandia (User Jaimonr)
Estudio Haini - Created by Tonatiuh Moreno (User TonaMoreno) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joe Alanis (talk • contribs) 14:22, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Cassowary links

Hi, I updated the link to Cassowary.net since the old one doesn't work anymore (this linked to my old homepage). It's where you can download the software, so I don't think it should've been removed. Thanks! Jovermeulen (talk) 01:14, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!

HI Melcous,

Thank you so much. I am a newbie here in Wikipedia and I wanted to help in citing and putting in more information for each topic. Thank you for the corrections. Will take it constructively! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carriedelvalle23 (talk • contribs) 07:37, 2 June 2017 (UTC)