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Closed - keep

Appalling. What was the closing admin thinking? No, wait, they weren't thinking or even reading, just counting. Totally fails notability, but hey, tons of *%&@#% want to keep it, so we keep it. Sometimes I despair of Wikipedia. But my hat is off to you for a valiant effort that should have succeeded. Best, Awien (talk) 23:05, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Awien, that is definitely the first time i've ever seen "regardless of the technicality of whether the subject passes GNG" used as a closing argument. Since when is whether something has notability or not a technicality? I thought that was the entire point? Silverseren^C 02:12, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, calling the notability policy a "technicality" is a good one. In fact, it's probably grounds for appeal, but that's something I can't follow up on because I'm going to be essentially without internet for a month as of tomorrow. Still gobsmacked. Awien (talk) 15:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't really care enough at this point. I've been trying to avoid conflict lately and have just been working on articles and things like that. Silverseren^C 02:07, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Bradley Manning/October 2013 move request

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Hey Silverseren, just wanted to touch base again and see if you thought you might have time to take a look at the two remaining issues over at Talk:Accenture. If you do have a moment, I'd really appreciate it! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 16:13, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry. I might not have time to get to it until this weekend. This week and last week have been rather busy. Silverseren^C 21:03, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

No problem at all; I really appreciate you trying to fit this into your schedule! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:39, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey again, I was just wondering if you had a chance to take a look at this over the weekend? I hate to nag, but things seem to be completely stymied over at Talk:Accenture and I'm not sure how best to move them along. I've reached out several times to the two editors previously involved (and who've come to consensus on one of the issues), but it seems they're now too busy to help out, so any input you have would be really helpful. Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:29, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey again, another editor was able to take a look and help out here, so this is  Done. Thanks! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 12:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy

Hello,

I see you've been very active in the Talk:Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewontin's_Fallacy section in the past, and would like if you could drop by and give your opinion on this.

Thank you.--Kobayashi245 (talk) 09:18, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Very Strong Exception to Accusation of Bad Faith

You are an experienced editor. You should know better than to accuse another experienced editor of deliberately misinterpreting another editor's point of view at User talk:Jimbo Wales. I didn't fully understand B2C's point of view, because I think it is indefensible, but really wanted an explanation. You and I both know the rule to assume good faith. For some reason, you chose to ignore it and to accuse me of deliberately misinterpreting another editor's position that I was still trying to understand (because I am not sure that it, or your position, is consistent with the facts). Please try to reason with other editors rather than accusing them of bad faith. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:29, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

My apologies then. I deal too often with editors that do purposefully misinterpret something in the way they want it to. I apologize for stating as such in regards to your post. Silverseren^C 19:21, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Luke Brugnara

Silver Seren...someone is trying to delere the article you wrote on LUKE BRUGNARA...please make sure this doesnt occur....perhaps you can get the article locked.

Thanks for letting me know, whomever you are. I'll go see what's going on. Silverseren^C 06:06, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hey - remember me?

Hi Silver! Remember me, SuperHamster? It's been forever since I've edited Wikipedia. Anyway, I was bored so I was randomly stalking myself, and found this comment by you - and honestly, as small as it was, it really put a smile on my face to see how at least one editor remembered me from back when I was active. I decided to check back in today out of nostalgia, and I remembered that I never actually gave out the awards for the Bacon WikiCup 2012 before I mysteriously disappeared. I'm really pushing the limits here with "better late than never," but I think I'll begin by awarding you with your well-deserved, beautifully sculpted trophy that you never got. I think I'll try to get back into the groove of editing, and hopefully I'll stick around. Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:16, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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• And here was I thinking I could hold on to the trophy forever... Well done Silver Seren, a very well deserved award. Worm^TT(talk) 08:26, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

• Heh, I haven't thought about that competition in forever. It seems so long ago even though it really wasn't. Thanks for taking the time to do this, SuperHamster. And I do certainly hope you get back to editing. You've helped improve Wikipedia in so many different ways. Oh, and thanks, WTT. I remember being really concerned when you jumped ahead in points there for a short time. It really spurred me on to make a bunch of new things. Silverseren^C 23:12, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Phil Fish merge

I just wrote an elaborate rebuttal, if you have the time to take a second look at this stale merge: Talk:Fez_(video_game)#Merge_Fish_with_Fez  czar ♔ 23:28, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Coal in Canada

Hi Seren,

No worries. I ultimately decided that proceeding would be too much of a risk; many editors are strongly opposed to any form of paid editing, and I don't want to damage my reputation on the project. Besides, unpaid editing is a lot more fun. Thanks for following up with me.

Sincerely,

Neelix (talk) 05:44, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

ARS question.

I see you are active in the Article Rescue Squadron and I wanted to get your opinion on whether what I did with Stephen Anthony Mobley qualified as a rescued article? The AfD was withdrawn after I improved it from this to this. If you think it does qualify, what steps should I take for recognition of it? Thanks in advance --Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 15:49, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, that would definitely count as a rescue, you did a great job with the article. Admittedly, I haven't done anything directly with the ARS in a while, other than just continuing to rescue articles on my own. We used to have a recognition page, but it fell out of favor and was kinda stupid anyways.

The best and simplest thing you could go with is like what I have on my userpage, with the little life preservers. You just add one for each rescued article to your own userpage, making so it links to the article in question if you click on it. Also, you can use the rescue userbox to keep tally for how many articles you've rescued.

Here's the code for the life preserver icon:

{{ARS-userpage|Hiroshi Araki}}

Just copy and paste that onto your userpage and change the name "Hiroshi Araki" to whatever the name of the article in question is. In this case, that would be "Stephen Anthony Mobley".

And here's the userbox code:

{{User:Jclemens/Rescues|215}}

Just change the number 215 to whatever the amount should be. So I guess 1 for now. And just update it for each one you rescue, along with adding a new life preserver to your page.

I think those are simple and elegant ways of both keeping track and also showing your accomplishments. And i'm sure people will randomly end up awarding you Barnstars when they see you doing good work at AfD as well. Silverseren^C 07:08, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the help and the kind words. --Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 13:57, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Notice of a discussion that may be of interest to you

There is a Split proposal discussion on the Gun politics in the U.S. talk page that may be of interest to you. Lightbreather (talk) 04:42, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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A proposal has been made to create a Live Feed to enhance the processing of Articles for Creation and Drafts. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to create a 'Special:NewDraftsFeed' system. Your comments are welcome. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:41, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

New article Barings Asset Management

Hi Silver, I've noticed you've redirected Baring Asset Management article to Barings Asset Management article. I was just reading up the WP:RM/TR to figure out how to request such change. The correct name of the company is Baring Asset Management (no 's' in Barings when written all together - people refer to it as Barings but never as Barings Asset Management). Is it ok to change the company name? or replace the article Baring Asset Management with the copy of the article for Barings Asset Management? Not sure when the confusion occurred but the correct company name is Baring Asset Management. Let me know. Thanks Kt1502 (talk) 17:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

That wasn't me. Here's the edit. Hobbes Goodyear was the one that made that change. As for getting the article moved to the existing redirect target, i've made a request for that to be done here. Silverseren^C 03:20, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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Favor, if you have time

Some months back I "helped" a self described COI editor make changes to the Brevan Howard article. The editor had submitted a draft and wanted me to approve it and replace the draft with what was there. I warned them in advance that I create my own content and don't rubber stamp things made by others, whether they have a COI or not. In that process the COI editor was disappointed with my efforts particularly regarding the location of the company. If you have any time, would you look at the talk page and give some input about the location and anything else you see that seems out of place. I'm just looking for a second opinion. I want to give the company a fair shake and have a second set of eyes on things. There is no rush. Thanks so much, -- — Keithbob • Talk • 21:02, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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Brevan Howard Updates

Hello Silver seren,

I hope you are well. I see that Keithbob has already reached out to you regarding the Brevan Howard page updates that I am in touch with him about. Due to conflicts of interest I am trying to engage as many people as possible on the talk page in order to ensure the inaccuracies which are currently in the main article, can be updated and amended. I was wondering if you would be willing to look the changes which need to be made and provide some input/comment on them to help move this forward? Any help you can give on this would be really greatly appreciated and thank you so much already for looking at the location issue of their headquarters.

Again many thanks for any help you can provide --Jenny.barrett (talk) 16:17, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Help with a few more requests at Accenture?

Hey Silver, as I mentioned over at Talk:Accenture, I've got a couple of other requests that I'm hoping to see made to the article. If you still think you'll have time, could you take a look? Thanks again for your help! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 14:56, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey again—thanks for making this round of updates. I just replied to you over at Talk:Accenture about the growth platforms, as well as an edit to the intro. If you have a sec to pop over and take a look, I'd appreciate it! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:25, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey Silver, hope you're enjoying your spring break! I just wanted to follow up and see if you thought you'd have a chance to look at this? I'm happy to look for other editors if you're busy, but since it was your wording in the first place, I wanted to get you first crack at it. Cheers! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 15:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey again, I was just taking a look at Accenture, and it looks like there's an "and" missing from the first sentence after the removal of "BPO". It should read: "Accenture plc is a multinational management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company." Can you add that back in when you have a sec? Also, editor Kkm010 has once again removed "(net)" after revenue in the infobox. Could you please revert that edit as well, given the consensus on Talk? Thanks, Silver! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 17:53, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 21:49, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Jason Russell again

An IP who is pushing for luridity in that BLP posted on the talk page, apparently alleging that you and I are in cahoots to vandalize the BLP <g>. Collect (talk) 18:41, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

How am I supposed to help? They're wrong and violating BLP. End of story. Silverseren^C 20:08, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

No need to do anything -- just that the IP specifically mentioned your name. Cheers. Collect (talk) 21:14, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Tit torture again

Please check it.--118.170.90.27 (talk) 12:56, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Help again at Accenture?

Hey Silver, hope you're well. Yesterday, I posted a few updates that I'm hoping someone can make to the Accenture article at Talk:Accenture. Although the edits haven't been made, they do seem to have again attracted the attention of User:Kkm010, the editor who had previously ignored the Talk page consensus and made a number of edits to the article that contradicted that consensus (as discussed here). Yesterday and today, he's again made a slew of edits to the infobox which contradict what's already been discussed on Talk. If you have a sec, could you take a look and see what you think, both in terms of this editor reverting/undoing what's been established by consensus, as well as the updates I proposed? Thanks so much! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 14:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

The edits I made are necessary and valid. I also provided credible source for those edits.--♥ Kkm010 ♥ ^{♪ Talk ♪} ߷ _{♀ Contribs ♀} 14:34, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

And I notice that they still have not made a single comment on the talk page, yet they post here in response to this? Yeah, i'll get right on it. It's really simple, if Kkm010 is not going to actually join the talk page discussion and engage the consensus that has been made there, then I am just going to continue reverting them every single time. Silverseren^C 16:47, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Silver—really appreciate your help! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 18:07, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of RfC and request for participation

There is an RfC in which your participation would be greatly appreciated:

• Talk:Gun_control#RfC:_Remove_Nazi_gun_control_argument.3F

Thank you. --Lightbreather (talk) 15:29, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Ken Ham

Please see [1]

The IPs so tagged on the talk page has made a total of six edits and 8 edits for the two most active addresses -- four to the talk page. One was a reply to MrBill at an appropriate noticeboard [2], and the IP appears to dislike tagging people as "pseudoscientists". I happen to suggest that tagging every IP who disagrees with an editor as an "SPA" is futile and not worth doing unless the editor also tags the IPs who agree with him. .

Our favourite expert on pseudo-everything also seems intent on this similar activity [3]

At [4] The battleground is occupied extensively with the nominator and a series of brand new, single purpose accounts. - - MrBill3 (talk) 08:46, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

The account does not appear to be a vandal at all, and the accusation that all IPs are SPAs except when they agree with the editor is not really a great idea per a discussion you had opined in. It would be one thing if MrBill tagged all the SPAs (i.e. almost all IPs) but he is selective -- only pointing them out when he disagrees with them :). Collect (talk) 13:01, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Silver seren

I have just taken User:Ocaasi/Seren as an opportunity for side commentary. This useful page might benefit from further discussion and publicity. I would welcome your responses to my bolded questions from user talk (and it looks like there was one other unaddressed late entry). Frieda Beamy (talk) 18:58, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Selection shadow

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:51, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Extant Organizations/Noticeboard

Someone suggested at the Village Pump that I boldly create Wikipedia:Extant Organizations/Noticeboard, a noticeboard to discuss articles about organizations that may be subject to non-neutral editing. Basically it's the corporate version of BLPN, where both adverts and attack pages can be brought to the community for broader scrutiny. Except this board does not currently relate to a specific policy like BLPN does, except NPOV, V, etc. (though it could refer to this essay I wrote or something). You participated in the prior village pump discussion that led to consensus for Template:COI editnotice, which is now widely used. Although this noticeboard is not COI-related, I thought you might have an interest in this as well, in whether the noticeboard should be kept and/or in participating in it generally. CorporateM (Talk) 18:37, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Help with a few things at Marxent Labs?

Hey Silver, Hope you're doing well. I'm wondering if you might be able to weigh in on something. I recently drafted an article on behalf of Marxent Labs, which went through Articles for Creation—with a comment that I as the writer of the article had a financial COI—and was taken live. After the article was put into the mainspace, I added a {{connected contributor}} flag to the Talk page, making my financial COI clear. I then uploaded the logo for the company, and asked an editor, User:Stefan2, to move the logo into the article. He did so, but also added a {{COI}} flag to the article. Because everything was vetted through AfC and I've made no edits myself, I feel like the flag is misplaced here, as it implies that there's something shady going on. I reached out to Stefan2 on his Talk page, to see if he had any specific issues with the article that made him place the COI flag, but haven't heard anything back.

What do you think? Should the COI flag be removed if there's not be any behind-the-scenes editing by COI editors like myself? I certainly pride myself on following all of Wikipedia's policies (and then some in following Jimbo's bright line), and feel that the COI flag isn't an accurate representation of the content in the article. As I mentioned to Stefan2, if there are specific issues in the article which seem problematic, I'm happy to discuss, but if not, I feel that the flag should be removed.

I've also posted a couple of other issues at Talk:Marxent Labs if you have a quick second. Thanks, Silver! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 17:39, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Tag removed. Regardless of whatever else with that article, including your involvement with it, the mere fact that he added the tag and didn't put an explanation on the talk page on what the issues are with the article for that tag to be there, which is a requirement for that tag and for most others (except orphan, as one example, that's self-evident), but the mere fact that he didn't do that means right away I should remove the tag for lacking an expressed merit. And I have done so. Silverseren^C 20:44, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey Silver, thanks so much—I really appreciate it! Also, do you think you might have time to take a look at the Talk page requests? The first one is very short, and involves a (rather embarrassing) typo that I'm honestly pretty anxious to see corrected. Thanks again for your help on this, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey Silver, thanks again for taking care of the orphan issue—much appreciated! I've just noticed that the external links to Detroit Venture Partners and Speedway at the bottom of the article don't work; it looks like an extra "/" was introduced at the end of each at some point. Do you think you could fix them? Sorry to be a nag here... Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 17:43, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Following up about Verizon

Hi Silver seren, Thank you for making the update to Lowell McAdam's title on the Verizon Communications article's infobox. I'm wondering if you think you might have time to take a look at the other corrections and improvements I listed out in my Talk page note? I've had quite a bit of difficulty finding someone to help here. If you don't have time, do you have any advice for locating someone to help? Would it maybe make it easier if I prepared an updated version of the infobox that an editor could copy and paste, replacing the old one?

Thanks so much, VZBob (talk) 15:16, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

• Sorry, i've been trying to find time to help out all this week, but it's been a rough week. It's 3 AM right now, so I have to head to bed, but I promise you i'll go over the rest tomorrow (Friday). Promise. Silverseren^C 07:56, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi again Silver seren, I posted a note on the Verizon Talk page, but wanted to reach out again here to thank you for making the infobox edits. I'm very pleased to have that information updated and accurate. As you suggested, I'll reach out to other editors with my concerns about the tethering addition.

Again, thanks so much. VZBob (talk) 14:03, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Silver seren. I wanted to touch base with you again about the tethering paragraph that I mentioned in my note at Talk:Verizon. I reached out to other editors to see if someone might be willing to help out, but I haven't received a response from anyone as of yet.

I'm wondering if you might be willing to compromise on my suggestion about the tethering paragraph, and simply add in the detail that the payment to the U.S. Treasury was voluntary. Does that seem acceptable to you, if the rest of the language remains as it is in the current article?

Thanks so much, VZBob (talk) 14:44, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

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Frieda Beamy (talk) 00:50, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for informing me. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. I don't use my watchlist all that often nowadays. I usually just check PAIDHELP directly and not the main Wikiproject page. Silverseren^C 01:10, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Suzanne Olsson

I noticed that you have taken interest in pages about Suzanne M. Olsson in the past, and have the page history of that article at User:Silver seren/Suzanne M. Olsson. You may therefore wish to contribute at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne Marie Olsson. – Fayenatic London 10:28, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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I noticed that you had previously contributed to Talk:Criticism of the Israeli government/Archive 2#Better name for article? and thought I'd let you know that a similar discussion has opened at Talk:Criticism of the Israeli government/Archive 2#Request move. Gregkaye (talk) 16:11, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Help with Heritage Action

Hi Silver, I am wondering if you still thought you'd have time to take a look at my draft for the Heritage Action article. Also, if you haven't been back to Paid Editor Help, I responded to the message you left me there.

If you don't have time to review my work, do you have any ideas of places I might take this draft to? I'm feeling a bit short on ideas. Thanks! Morzabeth (talk) 16:34, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi again Silver. Thank you for your reply at Paid Editor Help. I understand that reviewing takes a bit of time and I appreciate it. I will update my draft to better explain what the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act does when I have a little more time this evening.

If you haven't had a look at Talk:Heritage Action there have been two responses from editors there. I would be curious to hear your thoughts as well. I am willing to make any changes necessary to my draft, but their feedback seems fairly vague at the moment, and the specific points that have been raised don't seem accurate to me. Thanks, Morzabeth (talk) 21:04, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

I know you mentioned that you were fairly busy at the moment but I wanted to reach out to you again to see if you might have any advice as to how to proceed with my request at Talk:Heritage Action. I've closely reviewed the feedback from the two other editors and have made updates to my draft to incorporate some of their suggestions, however I feel that a lot of what they're saying simply doesn't apply so I'm not sure how to move forward. I'll be leaving both of those editors a note in just a moment, but as of right now neither of them have returned to the discussion.

Also, if you have not seen, I updated my Heritage Action draft as you requested. Thanks, Morzabeth (talk) 21:07, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Heritage Action, take two

Hello Silver, it's been awhile since we've been in touch! I am writing here in place of Morzabeth, who had worked diligently this summer to find consensus for updating the Heritage Action article. (An aside: I don't know if you knew that Morzabeth works with me—my user page lists her, and hers mentions me, not that I expect you went looking) While the proposed new draft is not my work directly, I've been closely involved with the development of this article, and I am very familiar with the work that went into it, and feel confident I can take responsibility for its content.

So, she's stepping back from client work for off-wiki reasons, and I'm taking her place in trying to see if we can get the article updated. She ran into some mixed feedback on the article's Talk page, which she addressed only to receive no follow-up replies. Meantime, she had visited around to just about every forum one is supposed to use—multiple wikiprojects, Heritage-related Talk pages, COI/N, and others, but this stalled out anyway. Question: since you had viewed her draft favorably before, is this one where you'd feel comfortable acting boldly, or would you have some other advice for me on what to do next? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 20:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Seeing if you might be able to help with another Verizon-related article

Hi again Silver seren. I'm wondering if you might be able to help me with another article related to Verizon, Verizon Enterprise Solutions. As you can see, the current article is very short, so I drafted a more detailed version and uploaded it to my userspace. I've reached out to Wikipedia editors and relevant projects, but as yet, I haven't had a response from anyone who has time to review the draft and implement it if it looks okay.

Do you think you might have time to take a look at this?

Thanks so much, VZBob (talk) 19:02, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi Silver seren. Sorry to follow up again on this so soon, but it looks like another editor has replied to my request at Paid Editor Help, saying that they've nominated the Verizon Enterprise Solutions article for deletion. I replied to their note, clarifying what I was asking, but I'm not sure what else to do. Any help you could provide here would certainly be appreciated.

Thanks so much, VZBob (talk) 13:21, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

This has been done. VZBob (talk) 13:19, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Jack Welch Early Life and Early Career

Hey There! I'm part of a school project for Cornell University and my group and I are looking to flesh out Jack Welch's page as it seems to be lacking a lot of information. If you would like more information on our course, you can find the course page here. The group members are Kateheinle, Sjoo446, The_Da_Crook and myself, and as of now we are all focusing on different sections of the page. My current focus is on Jack's early life and early career and I saw on the article's talk page that you had recently had some input on that topic as well as many others. If you have any suggestions on what might need revision or addition, I'd love to get some input as we are all very new Wikipedia users looking to make this article more informative for readers. Thanks so much! Mzw3 (talk) 03:00, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate opened

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recent ArbCom evidence

You are free to add whatever evidence you wish to the arbcom case. But I thought your last reply about CwbinTn was a bit harsh. He is a new editor that didn't quite understand what he was doing, several experienced editors pointed out the problems and he self-reverted. That should be something he is commended for (backing off and self-reverting), not attacked for. --Obsidi (talk) 05:14, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Except I don't believe he reverted because of the other users, but because of the Gamergaters yelling at him on the IRC chat for posting it. It's less about CwbinTn and more about the collusion going on off-wiki. Silverseren^C 05:20, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The 4 Percent Universe

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DYK for The 4 Percent Universe

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Books and Bytes - Issue 9

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I have started a Dispute Resolution discussion for American Sniper

Please see here David A (talk) 08:41, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

You can comment on the draft here Talk:American Sniper (film)#Draft of commentary. The draft is still in the works. I just chose to write about veterans after writing about the ADC's statement, but there will be a broader section in which Moore and Rogen's statements are covered since they drew backlash in general, not just from veterans. It might go in a pro-war/anti-war section, though I'm not sure what to name that. I'll also do a section about the portrayal of Chris Kyle, and perhaps one about sniping, if there's enough coverage. Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 01:42, 12 February 2015 (UTC)