User talk:NickDimou

A cup of tea for you!

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thought this little beverage might fuel your edits! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Keep up the good edits Endofskull (talk) 13:50, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you very much! :-) NickDimou 17:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for checking dead link

Thanks for doing this. Wordpress said the URL didn't exist when I checked it yesterday. Glad to see it back up. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 15:14, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing it! :-) NickDimou 16:54, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Saving dead links

Hello — I noticed you deleted a few source citations from the article Maserati Bora because the URLs no longer reach valid Webpages (that is, because of link rot). May I ask you to check the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for older versions of those pages, so that we can link to those rather than losing the citations completely? There's even a {{wayback}} template to make the conversion easier. Thanks!  Unician ∇  10:11, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• What you propose is much better. Fixing is always better than deleting. Thanks! NickDimou 13:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Removing citations

On Yadkin Valley Wine Festival, you removed a citation because the google link was broken. That is typically not the best solution. Using the template {{dead link}} is typically the best solution for any broken link and let it set awhile. Or just fix the link. In this case, google just changed the URL, as the source is a book and the book didn't disappear. I just searched by the ISBN and found the new link in a few seconds. In the case of broken web links, sometimes they aren't broken forever. A website can be updating and just haven't updated or added redirects, or just down temporarily, making you think the link is broken when it is just down temporarily. Or it may be broken, but using the info from the old link, you can usually find the page in the new website setup with just a little effort. These are just generally best practices because they note that the link is broken, but they give someone a chance to actually fix it instead of just losing the source. Dennis 2¢ 12:10, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• I just saw on High Rock Lake where you gutted a great deal of sources. Good grief, don't do that. I've reverted you. Later on, I will fix them. All of those are easily repairable, but chopping out all the sources if they can be fixed is not something we want to do here. Most of those are just that the pages have moved and you just have to find the new page. It isn't like the domains ceased to exist. Dennis 2¢ 12:19, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• Ah, now I get it. I sent an article you created to AFD and now you are gutting all the sources on articles I created. This is not a good idea, and I strongly suggest you change your tact. WP:HOUNDING is worth a read, since that can get you blocked pretty quickly. Dennis 2¢ 12:59, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• Yes, I would have to agree that try to repair them is a better practice. This advice of yours will help me understand better when editing articles. :-) Thanks NickDimou 13:33, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

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Letting us know.

Nick thanks for letting me know about the article of Pablito Greco. I will forward your email in 2300+ emails, so we are going to have more people that have met him, writing their opinion also. When we will see you again in NYC? Take care.192.240.96.131 (talk) 17:59, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

WP:Canvassing

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you.

According to this Diff you have engaged in off-wiki email canvassing. This is Stealth Canvassing, which may be viewed more negatively than ordinary canvassing. Alsee (talk) 19:04, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• That does look like canvassing, based on what the IP has said here and at the AFD itself. You might want to read WP:Canvass. Seriously, mainly tons of emails to get people to "vote" to keep an article will get you blocked around here, it is considered disruptive to the process. Wikipedia isn't a democracy; majority does not rule here. Dennis 2¢ 19:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• Take a breath guys. Everything is good and in normal condition. This is not a public vote, because this is not an election or something similar. Some friendly reminders were send to let people know about an AFD in Wikipedia. This particular AFD concerns a non-typical person, that many people out there care for. That's why we've build this article at the first place. To showcase all the extraordinary aspects. The value, especially in education. Letting people know, has nothing to do with democracy or voting. Everything must be transparent. I know you agree. Nick 23:05, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

  I don't think you understand that policy. Notifying persons with the specific goal of garnering support is clearly against policy. Based on the email note, it looks like the person is intending to notify hundreds of people on your behalf. If hundreds of people show up and clog up the AFD, you can pretty well expect to be blocked for canvassing. It isn't about "breathing", it is about understanding the policies here, and why we have a policy against canvassing for support. This isn't the first time I've seen this type of canvassing, by a long shot. It won't change the outcome, as it doesn't matter how many new editors "vote" (their votes will simply be thrown out), it is about the fact that all that bogus traffic prevents a normal discussion. That is the part that makes it disruptive. Dennis 2¢ 23:50, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

  • Check my latest position https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pablito_Greco. Nick 01:38, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Citations

Self-published itunes electronic books are not acceptable sources for most purposes. Inserting a low quality source across multiple articles may be viewed as promotional or search engine optimization. Please see our guideline on CITESPAM. Alsee (talk) 05:14, 2 October 2014 (UTC)