User talk:Quantpole/Archive 2

Hello, I have edited my contribution and stated that Christ: The Dark Years is a book etc. I am new at Wikipedia but am willing to learn. Can you tell me other changes I should make so that my article meets the wiki guidlines. I could not see how to make a contents box and am not sure if I would put the table of contents into it. Can you point me to the directions for this if you have time? Also should I make a wiki page of myself the author? The book is published by Dominion house a small publisher in Virginia. I am not concerned with promoting the book on wiki but i would like it to be included on wiki. If you have time can you offer advice or edit my article so that it meets the guidelines?

Thanks Brian D Diederich

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Since you have contributed to List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom, this is to inform you of a discussion which I have started at Talk:List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom#Criteria for inclusion. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

While you've done a more than excellent job cleaning up the article, I still can't quite see how it deserves to remain on Wikipedia. That being said, bully for you - your version is the best one that I've seen to date, and with just a little more work, it'd be keepable. :) Lithorien (talk) 16:12, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

:Hey, no problem. I don't care that much about the article, and it is a bit on the edge of notability. If you don't think it should stay, fair enough. Quantpole (talk) 17:00, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Hey Quantpole, I remember you voted in an AfD of Adam Lyons, and did a lot of cleanup on the article. There is a similar AfD going on with a guy called Jeremy Soul. Any input from you would be interesting as there is the usual meatpuppetry going on I think, so some fresh eyes would be useful regarding the notability and sources on it

Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jeremy_Soul DRosin (talk) 19:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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Yeah, well, there might less info now, but I am planning to expand them later, with the information I got from Metro Transit's website, and other sites.

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hey mate, i have tried everything, really everything to deter user:stayplus12 from vandalizing Samir Geagea, reverts and notices are doing no good, i tried to RPP to no avail so far, nobody seems to care, what do you suggest i do, thanks mateEli+

Are you an admin? im not familiar with wikipedia and would like some help editing pages. Any idea where i may get some help? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.210.118.184 (talk • contribs)

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her real birth date is 1970 this is well known 1974 and 1976 are fake dates created by her PR.Miss-simworld (talk) 00:29, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

:You could well be right. However, unless this is backed up by reliable sources we cannot include it. In looking into this I've seen dates of 1967, 1970, 1972, 1974 and 1976 given for her birthdate, all of which are not from the best of sources. Quantpole (talk) 08:44, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at {{#if: | Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/{{{2}}} | Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Shelton }} and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

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All first class cricketers are notable on wikipedia, as a moment's research would have shown you. Your nomination simply wastes everyone's time. Have a nice day. Nick mallory (talk) 11:55, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, I will. Quantpole (talk) 12:09, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

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I have just added sources to my addition. So your message is misplaced. This person is Jewish that is sourced in the text, and also in the text you can read how Chomsky refers to his right-wing jigling, btw. So do not remove correct information! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miqoutaciks (talk • contribs) 13:03, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

:This is not sourced: "He often wrote about Greece with air of supposed superiority, describing its people as all but inferior and scarcely being able to hold up his contempt." and is nothing like encyclopedic in tone. Calling his writings "right-wing" is unsourced. "Kaplan argues for position of cultural imperialism, describing local people as unworthy savages, that need and deserve only foreign ruleWhy the Balkans Demand Amorality, The Washington Post, February 28, 1999., showing almost racist contempt for everything un-Jewish and un-American." is not supported by the reference (but rather is a point of view reading of that source) you have provided and is again completely unencyclopedic. We absolutely do not allow negative point of view edits in articles on living people. Quantpole (talk) 13:08, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:25, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

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This month we need to concentrate efforts on Biographies of Living People (BLP) as detailed at WP:BLP. There is currently ongoing discussions about what should be done with nearly 50,000 unsourced articles on living people that have accumulated and being tagged with the {{tl|BLP unsourced}} template. Options range from deleting all of them immediately to a period of grace for the articles to be sourced. There is also discussions as to what should be done, going forward, with new articles on living people that are created without sources. Do have your say on these discussions here, if you are interested in biographical articles.

As a project we have not tagged many biographical articles but looking at the articles of people under the Yorkshire category an estimate of 150 of these are tagged as unreferenced. This does not include those related to the various sports people who play for the many teams in the area. Obviously those articles relevant to the project we would want to save from the axe and so we need to concentrate our efforts on referencing articles that have been tagged as unreferenced. Once articles have been given some references then the tag can be changed to {{tl|BLP sources}} or removed, if full referencing has been done.

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You are invited to join the discussion at {{#if:. DrKiernan (talk) 09:14, 18 March 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

I was about to put a speedy on Sheba Akhtar when I noticed that you had removed the speedy that you had earlier put there. The article seems like a resume of someone who is not very notable. Can you explain? Thanks. Peter Chastain (talk) 11:14, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

:I put the speedy on but then did a quick look around and there seems to be some stuff about her. It's a terrible article but I'm not sure what it would be speediable as. I originally put A7 but there is an assertion of notability. I guess a G11 would be OK as a resume only promotes someone, but I'm not sure if that applies to people. If you think there's a valid speedy tag then feel free to go ahead. Quantpole (talk) 12:06, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

:I've removed the resume stuff now. Still needs more cleaning up though. Quantpole (talk) 12:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

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• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Biographies of Living People

As a follow up to last month's feature on BLP articles a BOT is now creating project listings of those BLP articles that are tagged as totally unreferenced. The listing for our project can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Unreferenced BLPs, I have added a link to this from the project side-bar for easy access to the listing. There are just five articles remaining on the list at the time of going to press, so well done.

;General Election

The next General Election will be announced sometime during the month and so we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to this. There are two main sets of articles relevant here, firstly the constituency articles and secondly the articles relating to the candidates that are standing for election. Taking the first group there are a number of boundary changes relating to the constituencies in the area that will be implemented at the time of the General Election. These changes need to be reflected into the settlement articles that are affected by the change. I would suggest that the settlement's history section is updated to include details of the former constituency when adding the new one so that information is not lost. All of the constituency articles will need to be kept up to date with the list of candidates that are standing for the election. Much of the basic work on this has been done but new candidates will emerge until the closing date for candidates to declare. Note that the order of candidates should be maintained in ballot paper order prior to the result being declared so that we do not favour any of the parties in the election. So even if A. Aardvark is standing for the "Lets do away with wiki" party then they should appear first regardless of if we support them or not.

On the second set of articles, those on candidates, we are back to issues relating to BLP, NPOV and to avoiding them, or their supporters, using wiki as an electioneering medium. We should be vigilant to remove anything that ventures into this area as quickly as possible. There may be articles for candidates who are standing that are not tagged for the project so it would be good for these to be tagged so we can keep an eye on them. It is also a good time to improve the articles on the candidates as they will no doubt get more hits during the election period. Those of you in the UK may also see some of the candidates out on the campaign trail and it would be good to get a photo for their article if possible. It does not have to be a Yorkshire related politician as there are lots of articles about politicians that needed photos or updates to dated images.

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