User talk:Wwwhatsup/Archive 7

• Archived August 19 2021

CBGBs

Hello, Thank you for writing regarding CBGBs. The CBGBs entry is missing a hugely important & culturally relevant part. I thought it would be good to add it, since it is really weird that it is not there and high profile, but less important things are included. The Goth scene was underground culture previous to the web, so things like press and media coverage were not part of it or in any way desired. There was even a no camera rule there during the almost 10 year weekly event. There were no other regularly occurring events at CBGBs at all. It's bizarre that something that helped shape the world is being overlooked. Should I ask Steve Blush, a music journalist that was there, to write something? It seems like Wikipedia doesn't want good sources from what you wrote me. I am not sure what I should do. I have noticed that cultural things in wikipedia are very flawed. There is a whole page on Post Punk that is simply wrong, since it is based on agenda ridden journalism and revisionist history. I wanted to edit it, but it is so wrong that it's impossible to know where to start. I am feeling frustrated with this system. I guess I can just continue to let things be flawed and wrong.

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Jason — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason Ledyard (talk • contribs) 12:01, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Jeff Berlin

Thank you for putting the archive link for the Jeff Berlin website. But if you look at it, there is not any content there, all the links seem broken. Am I missing something? Thank you, MarioNovi (talk) 21:35, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Screwed up or what? I've switched it to the latest good version - June 24 2012. Wwwhatsup (talk) 22:46, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Good, thank you. I wanted to find useful information for the article but it still does not have any, do you agree? MarioNovi (talk) 22:53, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Wwwhatsup. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

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I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

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Bessy

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You have a conflict of interest, and must declare being paid by ISOC and refrain from editing the ISOC wiki page

You have acknowledged on the ISOC policy list that you are on the payroll of ISOC. As such, you have a conflict of interest under Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policy, which states such acts, "undermines public confidence [in Wikipedia] and risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals and companies being promoted." You have made deeply dishonest edits to the Internet Society's wiki page. If you make these edits again, I will report you to the Wikimedia Arbitration Committee to review your edits and your conflict of interest, and provide them with access to the ISOC policy list in order to verify your statement confirming that you are paid by ISOC. Ferdeline (talk) 10:53, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Ferdeline, I am not on the "payroll" at ISOC. I am a vendor. But I have no problem adding a COI statement on that article. Where my edits differ from yours is that they adhere to WP:NPOV. Wwwhatsup (talk) 12:52, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

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RfC at Talk:Internet Society

Please see my closure of the RfC you opened in December. The article is open for further editing, but please ensure that further changes are either uncontroversial or enjoy consensus. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 02:45, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

EdJohnston, Heh. This has been pretty much my aim all along :). Hard to achieve consensus with so few editors, though. Thanks! Wwwhatsup (talk) 08:50, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

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Continued Conflict of Interest

As you are paid by the Internet Society, please refrain from editing the Internet Society article and from commenting on its talk page. Please add a conflict of interest notice to a prominent location on your profile page so all Wikipedia visitors are aware of whom is paying your bills. It is disappointing I must even make this request - again - but you continue not to be forthright about your obvious conflict. Thank you.Ferdeline (talk) 20:39, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Ferdeline, I edit Wikipedia on my own behalf, not the Internet Society's. I do not have an agenda. My contribution record is evidence of that, unlike yours. Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. After the RFC, there was an admin request for consensus editing on that article. I stuck to it. You didn't. Wwwhatsup (talk) 21:06, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Larry Wallis/Motorhead as discussed on Portobello Shuffle FB

Hi Joly, here are the links:
The other editor reverting my edit
The discussion about Lazza on the other editor's talk page before he blanked it
The discussion on the talkpage

Regards

Romomusicfan (talk) 00:28, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

I do see that Lazza is in there now. Wwwhatsup (talk) 06:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)