User:Coretheapple

Gentle suggestion for new accounts interested in I/P articles
If you want to edit I/P articles and don't meet the standards set by the Arbitration Committee for that subject area (30-day account age + 500 edits), go to the article talk page and do an edit request. There is an Edit Request Wizard that you can use (link is to the button "The page is protected")

Don't email to ask me to do the edit for you. I won't reply, and I won't comply with your request. I will refer you to the Arbitration Committee. I don't know who you are, and for all I know, you may be trying to get me in trouble.

Note to myself. These are the templates used for I/P welcomes for IP users not acquainted with the rules:
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Articles I've created or substantially revised

 * Joan McCracken (expanded, DYK, GA) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]][[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
 * Michael Kidd (expanded, DYK, GA) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]][[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
 * LeRoy Prinz (created, DYK, GA) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]][[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
 * Johnny Broderick (created, DYK, GA) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]][[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
 * Chualar bus crash (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * All the Way (play) (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly (expanded, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (expanded, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Charles Winick (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Private Property (1960 film) (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (created. DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Law and Order (1969 film) (created. DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Undercover (OSS training film) (created. DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Ali Soozandeh (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * You're a Big Boy Now (novel) (expanded, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Alex Romero (choreographer) (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Newyorkitis (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Life with Father (TV series) (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Theodore Conrad (criminal) (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Twin Parks (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Babi Yar. Context (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * From Where They Stood (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * The Hustler (novel) (expanded, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Going Infinite (expanded, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Cold Crematorium (created, DYK) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
 * Harold Greenwald (created)
 * 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash (created)
 * A Good American (created)
 * Fort Lee lane closure scandal
 * BP
 * Deepwater Horizon litigation
 * Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
 * SantaCon
 * Mickey Rooney
 * Hydroxycut
 * March Against Monsanto
 * Faye Dunaway
 * Bess Myerson
 * Odette Hallowes
 * Adolphe Rabinovitch
 * Night Will Fall

Not an article, but I wrote it and I rather like it:


 * You have a right to remain silent

I am also active in suggesting articles for deletion and, when my eyes can stand it, vandal-fighting. I think that de-crapifying Wikipedia is at least as important as adding content. Wikipedia is a hotbed of fancruft, self-written articles by employees of third-rate companies, and overemphasis on subjects plucked off the Internet. It greatly underemphasizes subjects of great importance that don't have a fan base or following.

To-do list

 * College musical
 * Murder of Barbara Gibbons (son falsely accused, big murder case in Conn., 1970s)
 * Dance Me a Song notable Broadway flop.
 * Get 1963 Chualar bus crash to Good Article status
 * Bracero program requires cleanup and expansion
 * Frank Hogan long-serving New York DA, requires expansion
 * New York City Police Department corruption and misconduct incomplete, poorly written, beset by recentism. What a mess.
 * Fort Lee lane closure scandal. Bring up to GA status.
 * Shadow in the Sky
 * An essay on manipulative conduct, WP:CRYING TOWEL
 * Jerry Herman, one of the 50,000 theater articles needing improvement.
 * A Thousand Clowns (play)
 * George Freedley
 * Jules Munshin. Expand.
 * Tony Lo Bianco poorly sourced
 * Tenement Symphony (1941 song),
 * Wilfred J. Funk and his books deserve more.
 * "Wikiproject Vaudeville"?
 * David Toma notable cop, redirects to old TV series
 * Candy store of the New York City variety, redirects incorrectly.
 * Countess Dorothy di Frasso
 * Howard Teichmann
 * George Jessel (actor) expand
 * WP:ABIGDEAL one of these days I have to write an essay in response to WP:NOBIGDEAL.
 * Public Broadcast Laboratory expand
 * Alice Crimmins ditto
 * OSS Field Photographic Unit

Why I am cynical about Wikipedia
Once upon a time there was an article about a "crime family." I don't generally edit on that subject matter, thank God, but one of the members of this "crime family" was involved in a Hollywood scandal, which was in my wheelhouse.

Reading the sources indicated that this "crime family" did not actually exist. The sources did not say it existed. I couldn't find any that said it did.

I nominated the article for deletion. There was consensus that the article should not exist. Despite that, the article almost was kept as is. That's because there was no consensus about whether the article should have been deleted or merged, and typically "no consensus" is functionally equivalent to "keep." Fortunately the closer, recognizing that possibility, decided on merging it despite the lack of consensus.

But a different closer might have abided rigidly by the AfD rules, and kept an article about something that a crime family that did not actually exist.

That is what makes me cynical about Wikipedia. You can abide by all the rules, dot every I and cross every T, and be flat-out, embarrassingly wrong.

I have other reasons to be cynical, but this is the one suitable for family viewing.

Don't sell IP editors short
Editors who discount IP contributions, especially when they are not phrased properly, may be tempted to discount them. Bad move. They can find stuff registered editors haven't noticed in literally years or decades. In this post in Talk:Paul Newman, an editor found a whole paragraph that didn't belong there. It had been overlooked for years.

Awards and recognition, DYKs, etc.

 * --Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 22:35, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

  understanding for the slippery slope

Thank you, gnome with understanding for "consensus", "common sense" and the, for , moving pages, fighting vandalism, standing up in kindness, and for , - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Special:Getting Started. It  is a list of articles in obvious trouble that even beginners can fix. I've found some instances where the articles are so bad they really shouldn't be in Wikipedia at all. Editing these articles results in a tag branding the editor as a "beginner getting started," but you can avoid that by copying and pasting the URL of the articles listed there.


 * "STiki", a really great counter-vandalism tool, crated by the awesome, brilliant software maven Andrew G. West. Every Wikipedian should spend a few minutes a day using this.


 * Various studies of vandalism. Is it just bored kids or something more?


 * Three ways to core apples!
 * Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia:Maintenance
 * Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace

Thanks to User:Samwalton9 for the following, which I post below in its entirety: Good essay on hatting: Superhatting. Note "the nuclear dunk," which of course can be phrased far more politely. My thanks to User:Salomeofjudea for bringing it to my attention.
 * Category:Articles with a promotional tone is a good start. I also sometimes look at articles categorised there (or that have been G11'd) and search for particularly spammy snippets, such as "You can purchase" or "our website" (sometimes you come across a phrase that uncovers a goldmine of crap). You can also simply click through categories like Category:American companies established in 1997 to uncover non-notable topics. Those are just a few suggestions, none of them astoundingly efficient, and there are probably better ways. Sam Walton (talk) 12:08, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not about YOU good essay on COI editing.


 * To add reference to Newspapers.com to a cite, add "via=Newspapers.com" after the page number or as the last field.
 * When responding to a bot, one can add (summoned by bot)
 * Excellent copyright tools!


 * References and page numbers

Non-free copyright tags COI template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Question