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Thomas P. Griesa
Ok, I got the warning. But what about the defamation against my country that was in the previous edition of the entry? Did you warn that editor too?!?! That edition, besides defamatory, has no links, no info, only a complete bias article against Argentina and pro-vulture funds. This well known 'Case of the Century' is something very important, a bomb that could make implode the whole financial system to ashes, and the Griesa entry didn't reflect that. In fact, it looks like it reflects the vision of the vulture funds, like all the U.S. media. France, Brazil, the I.M.F., the World Bank, the United Nations, Mexico, Economy Nobel Prizes, magazines and specialists like the Financial Times, New York Times, and The Economist, China, Russia, Africa, everyone is on the Argentina' side, but judge Griesa, its Wikipedia entry, and the vulture funds DON'T. Please, give me an advise, what should I do as an editor?? Let the biased entry?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.48.126.52 (talk • contribs)
- All of the unreferenced and irrelevant stuff has been removed from the article. This has nothing to do with bias or any other perceived slight, it is a matter of complying with our BLP policy, plain and simple. If you have a problem with the content of an article, you discuss it on the talk page.--ukexpat (talk) 00:16, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
criticism
Hello, it was not the criticism of AIRCA that I wanted to be removed - we are all fine with being criticized. But the sentence that CGIAR (what some perceive as our competitors, but they are in fact not) are doing only research is simply not true. Many thanks, Marita — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marita Dieling (talk • contribs) 13:59, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Be that as it may, the criticism is sourced and you, an editor with a COI, should not be removing it.--ukexpat (talk) 14:02, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Is The New York Times a reliable source of information to you?
Excuse me Mr. Ukexpat, do you consider The New York Times as an "unsourced", or maybe a "violation of a living person Wikipedia entry" or a "defamatory" source of information? Or can I use it to edit the biography of Mr. Thomas Griesa, please? Would you let me?.. I'll be waiting for your answer. THANK YOU!: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/business/rulings-add-to-the-mess-in-argentine-bonds.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by HeroPsycho22 (talk • contribs) 00:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- It's a reliable source for his rulings and no more. It is certainly not a source which you can use to infer anything about his competence or motivations etc. And there is no need for the sarcastic tone - please assume good faith in your dealings with other users..--ukexpat (talk) 01:15, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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Please, I need your answer..
I need to know if I can use The New York Times as a source of information about the rare, unusual, and strange way of work of judge Thomas Griesa, that "hardly inspired confidence in the American legal system" (according to the most important financial journalist of the United States: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/business/rulings-add-to-the-mess-in-argentine-bonds.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0). I need your answer, I don't want to be blocked. I'll be waiting for your answer. THANK YOU!!
- See above.--ukexpat (talk) 00:24, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
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Getting deleted page reinstated
Hi. Thanks for your reply.
The page was:
"William Schmidt (TV writer)"
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pgh2la (talk • contribs) 19:40, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
- See the replies to your question at the Tea House.--ukexpat (talk) 00:17, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Baker Tilly International
Thank you for your message regarding my entry on Baker Tilly International. I have tried to remain neutral and used links to demonstrate the claims that are made. Please could you recommend what we could do to prevent any further issues being caused with this entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beck5471 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- Simply put, don't edit it any more. If you have suggestions for improving the article, leave a message on the article's talk page backed up with references to reliable, third party, sources (as explained in WP:COI.--ukexpat (talk) 15:37, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- Will do, thanks for the info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beck5471 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Mark Kritzmann
Hey there, I'm the editor who originally reviewed at Mark Krtizmann at AfC. 200Boston has posted an explanation here of why he unblanked the page, and since the article was close to being acceptable at AFC I'm inclined to keep it in article space and correct the deficiencies instead of deleting and making 200Boston go through AFC gain. Sound OK to you? --Cerebellum (talk) 19:08, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- I guess, but I moved the text from mainspace to userspace based on their request at the Help Desk to delete it. If it's close enough, sure.--ukexpat (talk) 19:56, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- It's fine, it can stay in userspace for now. --Cerebellum (talk) 20:03, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
And this one?!
Ok, and The New York Times and the Economics Nobel Price Joseph Stiglitz, both talking about the terrible consequences to the global financial system of the crazy decisions of the corrupt judge Griesa, is a reliable source of information? I need a straight answer, because I don't want to be blocked BY YOU for editing an entry. Here's the article: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/in-hedge-fund-argentina-finds-relentless-foe/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1. I'll be waiting for your answer.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HeroPsycho22 (talk • contribs) 13:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
- I cannot block you as I am not an admin. See my advice above, leave a message at WP:BLPN or on the article's talk page.--ukexpat (talk) 13:53, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your response to my inquiry concerning article on Alan E. Freedman. I appreciate the tone which was much warmer than the scolding I received from another responder. Back to the original inquiry, I did read the "B" criteria, but am not experienced or competent enough to apply those to the article without knowing the reviewer's specific findings. The article has 20 citations, and I believe all of them have links either to web page images or to images of documents posted to wikicommons. In viewing the article today, I see a warning that some of the citations may be unreliable. This just confuses me further, given that they are either published documents, images of hard-copy documents or framed testimonials, or images of photographs. I don't know how any of these citations could be disputed, but then I am not a Wiki editor. If you have any further thoughts on the matter I would appreciate them. BTW, the scolding I received from the initial reviewer included that I was posting my article, inquiries, and responses on the wrong pages. I am not totally computer inept, but I have found it very difficult to find the right pages to initiate conversations. And yours is the first comment that I was able to find what I hope is the correct avenue to continue. If that is so, I am grateful. Regards, Mbarrach2601:0:B100:264:F9D9:CA76:1C8B:917E (talk) 15:45, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- You have edited an article, so you are an editor - there are no special qualifications! If you need help with an assessment, the Biographies WikiProject may be the place to start - their talk page is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography. The important thing to remember about sources is that they have to be verifiable. That doesn't mean that they have to be online, but they must be available, say in a library, so that if a user wants to, they can go and read for themselves what they say. The problem with scanned and uploaded sources is that (and I am not saying of course that you would do this) they can be manipulated by the unscrupulous, which is why we don't consider them reliable. As to the correct venue for asking questions, the best are usually the Tea House (for newer, less experienced users), or the Help Desk. I hope this helps.--ukexpat (talk) 16:57, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- R.e. Alan E. Freedman article: Your response eclipses the sum of what I have received in the 2-3 months since I started this venture. Thank you so much for laying it out so clearly. Regards, Mbarrach 76.111.36.241 (talk) 18:02, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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Mark Kritzman Draft
Hi Ukexpat! Thank you for moving my draft to my new user page. I finished editing the page based on the suggestions made when I put the original draft through the Article Wizard, and so I tried just going ahead and posting the article. Now, though, when other people have search for the Mark Kritzman Wikipedia page, they come across the draft on my 200Boston user page rather than the actual Mark Kritzman user page. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? Should I delete my draft for the article? And if so, how do I do that? Thank you! 200Boston (talk) 19:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Verification, creds, links
I have several books including two anthologies I edited, won two NJ State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one in poetry, won the Kinereath Genseler Award for my book Panic (also a BOTYA finalist) with Alice James Books, and there are a ton of links to my work on line. A quick search pulls these up. If they need to be linked on the page, then that would be great, but calling the page into question is inappropriate as my creds are in line with many other poets' pages:
some Books and anthologies I have written or edited:
http://www.blacklawrence.com/rigger-death-and-hoist-another/ http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/room-and-the-world.html http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/panic/ http://www.blacklawrence.com/speech-acts/ http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/sense_of_regard
Reviews or comments on my work:
http://www.wordforword.info/vol18/Pollard.html http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/laura-mcculloughs-speech-acts/ http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue9/laura_mccullough.html http://contrarymagazine.com/2011/laura-mccullough-speech-acts/ http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/laura_mccullough_reading_recom/
Interviews of me or by me:
http://nanofiction.org/weekly-feature/interviews/2013/10/five-questions-with-laura-mccullough http://tcjww.org/2014/02/10/interview-laura-mccullough/ http://www.poetsandartists.com/laura-mccullough/ http://realitysandwich.com/389/what_men_want_interview_laura_mccullough/ http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_hicok2.php http://poetsonadoption.blogspot.com/2011/04/laura-mccullough.html
Radio or Videos of me or me interviewing other writers:
http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAYKLSZVWo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTrWCIJ8_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sRlWAN2fU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0hTQee-9w
Examples of poems online:
http://goodmenproject.com/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/everywhere-i-havent-been-anywhere-by-laura-mccullough/ http://solsticelitmag.org/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.versedaily.org/2014/aboutlauramccullough.shtml https://www.aprweb.org/poem/speaking-malagasy-isle-vanilla http://www.anomalouspress.org/8/26.mccullough.bowie.php http://www.diodepoetry.com/v4n2/content/mccullough_l.html http://www.drunkenboat.com/db18/laura-mccullough http://www.fishousepoems.org/?artist=mccullough-laura http://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/m-o/laura-mccullough/ http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2010/february-2010/307-laura-mccullough-poetry http://anti-poetry.com/anti/mcculloughla/ http://www.pebblelakereview.com/archive/2009_v6_1_health_wellness/poem_SweetSick.html
http://www.2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/mccullough.html http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=743 http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/fall_2013/contributor/laura-mccullough http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Summer03/LMCunt.htm
http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/fiction_mccullough.shtml
I teach in these two writing venues, one an annual conference, the other an MFA program:
http://www.sierranevada.edu/academics/humanities-social-sciences/creative-writing-mfa/mfa-faculty/ http://wintergetaway.com/poetry-faculty.html
Other things I have written that appear on Web:
http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/14/spring/mccullough.php
http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html 107.107.58.92 (talk) 20:38, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
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Question about warning?!
Good day,
I`ve received information about an inappropriate link that I`ve added or edited. Can you please specify exactly what I`ve done wrong? I would like to be sure I`m not doing anything wrong here. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreea Codreanu (talk • contribs) 15:29, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
- It looked to me like a spam link, and you removed the reference template which in turn disabled the display of the sole reference in the article, even if it is a dead link. In fact the whole article is mass of completely unsourced material and should be reduced to a stub pending the addition of reliable sources.--ukexpat (talk) 15:35, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
- I`m sorry for the inconvenience,I meant to offer the page a new live link. I will pay more attention to each individual link. Sorry once again, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreea Codreanu (talk • contribs) 15:42, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Concerning deleted article Society for Planetary SETI Research
Hello Ukepat
About 5 weeks ago I sent the following message to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. I have received no response or acknowledgement. I would greatly appreciate your help.
Horace Crater >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The note below is in response to the Speedy Deletion of a submitted article on The Society for Planetary SETI Research.
Please let me know if the material I provide below is sufficient for me to use the first few paragraphs from my website http://spsr.utsi. in the formation of my proposed Wikepedia articles. Let me know if there is any thing else I can provide to you.
Thanks
The following sentences were formed based on the website https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:CONSENT..
I hereby affirm that I, (Horace Crater), am the creator and sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the web sitehttp://spsr.utsi.edu I agree to publish a portion of that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
My name is Horace Crater. The web site is a faculty web site at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. I am the owner of the content of that web site. I wish to use only a portion of that web site ( http://spsr.utsi.edu) for which I am copyright owner (in particular the introductory descriptive paragraphs as an introduction to a proposed Wikipedia article). Since I am the owner there is no issue of copyright for that text. I am a professor at my institute and my email address is hcrater@utsi.edu. The web master here can verify the information I am sending to you. His name and email address is Richard Gulley, rgulley@utsi.edu. Hcrater (talk) 01:04, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'm sorry but I cannot help. The permissions queue is usually pretty backlogged but the OTRS volunteers will get to it eventually.--ukexpat (talk) 01:19, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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hello
please i have not been able to submit the article , i would appreciate a guide that can help me t com[let this profile .. regards Arinzea (talk) 12:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC) Arinze Arinzea (talk) 12:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- I assume you are referring to User:Arinzea/sandbox? To submit it you would click the green "Submit your draft for review!" button in the box at the top of the draft. But I wouldn't do it yet as the article is far too promotional in tone and would almost certainly be rejected. I suggest that you take a look at articles about similar companies to see how they are written. Also, if you copied and pasted text from the company's website, that's a copyright violation and not permitted. You must write the text yourself. I hope this helps.--ukexpat (talk) 12:54, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Beatrice Looi
Hi
Good day! I wrote an article about a living person on which I believed to be a notable person. I created Beatrice Looi yesterday and I was really wondering why my article has been removed/delete. I hope you can help me with this matter. Please do enlighten me.
Respectfully MarjaniMrsmarjanilee (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:27, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- As indicated by the messages on your talk page, it was deleted because it was too promotional in tone, reading more like an advert for the subject than a neutral, encyclopedic, article. Please take a look at WP:SPAM.--ukexpat (talk) 12:01, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
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