User talk:Loltardo

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions ask me on my talk page or you can just type {{help me}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Fences&Windows 23:08, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of discretionary sanctions

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

As a new editor, you've made a few controversial edits on recent American politics and you have issues with sourcing and editorialising. I wanted to note these issues early so you can take note of our policies and guidelines and continue as a productive editor.

It was your attempt at a creation of a biography of J. Hutton Pulitzer that I first saw and it was rightly reverted as noted here. Please read WP:BLP and WP:RS. You used poor quality sources like IMDB (user generated), primary sources like patent lists, and Pulitzer's own blog posts and it reads as a hagiography. The statement "Pulitzer is a Google Scholar" is bizarre - it is supported by a search of his name in Google Scholar, which is a literature search engine. There is no such accolade as being a "Google Scholar". You added a note about him to another article that also uncritically promoted his work based on a primary source. Compare to Draft:J Hutton Pulitzer, which was started prior to your attempt and which I've expanded based on secondary sources after it was raised at WP:BLPN.

At Political Research Associates, your edit was opinionated. See WP:OR and WP:NPOV for guidance on avoiding injecting your own commentary into articles. At PolitiFact, you used National Review as a source without attributing the opinion to NR, which is expected per Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources due to the partisan nature of NR. Fences&Windows 17:47, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

June 2021

Hello Loltardo! Your additions to Maloca have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. (from https://www.gaiaamazonas.org/en/noticias/2019-05-31_maloca-the-big-house-of-the-amazon/) Thank you. firefly ( t · c ) 16:25, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Stub tags

Please note that stub tags, whether {{Stub}} or a more specific one, should always go at the end of the article, not the top - see WP:ORDER. Thanks. PamD 22:52, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome and advice

I generally support your efforts to edit Wikipedia, so I have a few points of advice to follow that may prevent you from getting reverted.

A lot of editors agree with WP:BRD. Boldly edit, but if reverted, then discuss on the talk page.
It will be difficult to add content to articles if you can't find sources for it. And not necessarily the sources you believe, but the sources Wikipedia counts as reliable (see WP:RS and for the discussions of specific sources, WP:RS/N).
Another way to edit Wikipedia is to look for content that may be Original Research (WP:OR), or has a "Citation Needed" tag, and remove it if it has been tagged for several months or more.

(And don't focus too much on the Snopes/Babylon Bee stuff. Many contributors have tried to achieve a consensus for edits but were unable to do so.)

05:40, 11 August 2021 (UTC) TOA The owner of all ☑️

August 2021

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Kodak Black, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:53, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 2021

Hello, I'm SaltySaltyTears. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Rumble (website), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. SaltySaltyTears (talk) 16:47, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 2021

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Pierre Kory, you may be blocked from editing. — Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 23:11, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Disruptive editing accusation

Hello Shibbolethink,

This is in response to your post above accusing me of "disruptive editing." I am requesting further clarification on this charge as this was in response to a single, one-time, very minor edit I made to an article, Pierre Kory, by simply tagging a single word as editorializing language per the Wikipedia [guide on editorializing language].

Please provide me with the following information:

How and why this isolated incident constitutes disruptive editing, especially considering its one-off nature with NO back-and-forth or even limited dispute with any other users/editors (other than yourself on my talk page (not the article's)).
Why the tagged wording in question does not constitute editorializing language as detailed in Wikipedia's Manual of Style/Words to watch. To be clear, the topic under discussion here is the use of the adverb

erroneously" in the following statement, "During his testimony in December 2020, Kory erroneously claimed that the antiparasitic medication ivermectin was a "wonder drug" with "miraculous effectiveness" against COVID-19." in the article's first paragraph.

As the WP Manual of Style states, "This kind of persuasive writing approach [adverbs] is also against the Wikipedia: No original research policy (Wikipedia does not try to steer the reader to a particular interpretation or conclusion), and the Instructional and presumptuous language guideline (Wikipedia does not break the fourth wall and write at the reader, other than with navigational hatnotes)."

In this case, it is clear that the adverb "erroneously" serves to steer the reader toward a particular interpretation or conclusion. This is particularly troublesome given that the science around this drug's efficacy (or lack thereof) in treating COVID-19 is not settled. Therefore, simply stating "...Kory claimed..." would be more appropriate from the perspective of impartiality and neutrality.

Looking forward to your clarification. Thank you. Loltardo (talk)

I appreciate your passion about this topic. The reason I gave you this warning is that you should be extremely careful wading into the fraught and complex editing environment of COVID-19 treatments as a relatively inexperienced editor. There are many rules (including discretionary sanctions as referenced above for politics, which also apply to this COVID-19 area) which could get you tripped up. For instance, the reason this is disruptive has more to do with the history of the page itself rather than any history of you as an editor in this topic. That particular passage has been vandalized and removed and edited with non-reliable sources many times. We, as a community, expect you to have read these discussions and considered the history of the page before making an edit like that, in such a contentious topic area, to such a contentious passage.

You appear to know there is controversy, but you have characterized the controversy as more unsettled than it truly is. We have enough studies and evidence to know that if an effect exists for Ivermectin, it is likely small. It cannot be detected in relatively large studies when high quality control groups are used. This indicates that, if an effect exists, it is likely very small. See the WP:WikiProject COVID-19/Consensus page to read more about the sources which show this. It is uncontroversial among the scientific community that Ivermectin is not a wonder drug.

Please be more cautious when wading into long-standing disputes, and when entering into areas with such high levels of controversy. it is typically these areas which so often result in the banning or blocking of users who could very likely have contributed positively to other areas of the project without issue. — Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 02:39, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in COVID-19, broadly construed. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

— Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 02:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the insight, warning, and clarification! Loltardo (talk) 02:43, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Sue Ane Langdon edit

I have reverted your addition of a date of birth to Sue Ane Langdon. In addition to Wikipedia's basic principle of citing sources (Wikipedia:Citing sources), a special need for citations applies with regard to elements of a biography of a living person (WP:BLPPRIVACY). Feel free to add a date of birth when it is accompanied by a citation to a reliable, published source. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:03, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is IMDB considered a reliable, published source? I just thought it was odd that a famous person's Wikipedia page had no birthdate, so did some research and wanted to add it. Loltardo (talk) 00:11, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your wanting to supply that information. Unvortunately, IMDb is published but not reliable. See WP:IMDB for some comments about that source. The problem is that IMDb, like Wikipedia, is user-generated. You might also want to look at WP:USERGENERATED for other sources that are in that category. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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