User talk:AOC25

August 2010
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September 2010
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Gollum
Hi, I reverted your edits on Gollum. Please see the manual of style of the middle-earth project for more information on why these articles don't follow the general MOS guides. Carl Sixsmith (talk) 06:21, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Tenalbum.tiff
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Speedy deletion of MetroPCS
Just a quick note to say that I removed the speedy deletion tag from this article. The article has some overly-promotional passages but mostly it's just neutral statements of fact, and the company is definitely notable. I believe the article is quite redeemable. Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 02:15, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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db-spam tag on MetroPCS
Looking at the history, I see that over the last three weeks, you have added the db-spam tag four different times to the article. At least two of the users who have removed the speedy tag were admins. Also, the RFPP request that was filed to prevent removal of the speedy tag has been declined.

Continually re-adding the db-spam tag is disruptive. As mentioned at WP:DEL, "If there is a dispute over whether a page meets the criteria, the issue is typically taken to deletion discussions." The speedy is clearly disputed. Please, if you feel the article merits deletion, at this stage it is not appropriate to re-add the speedy tag - take it to WP:AFD. --- Barek (talk) - 23:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

MetroPCS
Hi AOC25, I am not clear why you would remove most of the sourced content from this article. Would you please consider discussing this on the article talk page? Of course there is no general rule against removing sourced content, but in this case you removed a large proportion of the article by word count. It seems odd to do that and leave an "expand" tag.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 03:07, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Gay-rights-organizations-1.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Flashbuilderanswes.pdf
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VERIFYING JEFF JONES FILE DELETION TAG
I, AOC25, put the tag there because I made a mistake by putting on it when it was in fact copyrighted by the site, which in fact says on the bottom it is copyrighted. Thank you, –AOC25 (talk) 22:24, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Pearl Jam album cover (Ten).tiff
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 * As there are copyright and other issues linked to this image, please do not use it on the Pearl Jam article, as the change will be reverted back to the current album image. Feel free to discuss this further on the talkpage of the Pearl Jam article. Thanks.  Lugnuts  (talk) 19:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Pearl Jam album cover (Ten).tiff
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Fair use rationale for File:Pearl Jam album cover (Ten).tiff
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Copyright
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Non-free files and userspace
Please, please, please stop adding non-free images to userspace, as you did with File:PearlJam-Ten.jpg. This is strictly forbidden by WP:NFCC #9. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:10, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Ref improve tags
You seem to be adding ref improve tags to articles which are generally well-referenced. Almost every article on WIkipedia can be improved by additional references, but the tag should be used on articles which are actually poorly referenced and need to be pointed out to other editors. Please take a little more care in adding this tag in the future. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:11, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm looking at your contributions, and I would say that you generally don't have a good idea when to tag an article - I've removed almost all the tags you've added as being inappropriate. I would suggest that you stop tagging articles until you have a better feel for when it is appropriate to do so. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:18, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It appears that you've added a refimprove tag to almost every article you've edited. This is not appropriate, please stop. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I generally attempt to add tags to brief unreferenced statements, but when there are entire sections that either had no references or relied on an amount not appropriate for their size, and multiples of these, I add tags to them, and I usually try to make sure that the references already provided cannot suffice before doing this. I would say an alarming number of articles actually need these, including Citizen Kane and William Randolph Hearst. Please look at the references provided before removing the tags. I am not perfect and a few articles I added the tag to I do not doubt I should have looked at closer, but in these articles' cases, I think the tag is appropriate, particularly in the case of William Randolph Hearst. Thank you, —AOC25 (talk) 23:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

List of best-selling video games
Hi. Please stop (if only for now) changing the format of List of best-selling video games. I will explain in a moment (it is going to be a long post). Alphathon  /'æl.f'æ.ðɒn/ (talk ) 15:54, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Right, on to the explanation:

First, there is nothing wrong with putting everything in a table. The problem is that the tables being used are being assigned numbers - this constitutes synthesis since there is not a source that places them in that order. This is a problem already (with the ordered lists), but one that we are working on. The solution we have is a much more in depth table format that assigns a column for each of the name, sales, publisher, genre etc, but doesn't assign each game a number. It was discussed some time ago on the talk page, so it should be in the archive somewhere. I am part way through converting it on my userspace (User:Alphathon/List of best-selling video games) at the moment, but it's rather time consuming.

On a side note, the "top console games" lists are also going the way of the Dodo, since they are also OR.

Alphathon  /'æl.f'æ.ðɒn/ (talk ) 16:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The reason numbers shouldn't be assigned is because be have no way of knowing if a game is, say, the number one seller (unless a source specifically lists to the top 10 sellers of all time for a platform or something). Listing them by number implies (even if it doesn't explicitly state) that the number corresponds to its position in the overall sales history for that platform, since not all numbers are up to date (necessarily) and there may be missing entries or errors. There are likely many more games on the PS3 for example that have sold more than 1 million copies, most of them probably multi-platform titles, so we have no idea where on the list they would go. Anyway, as I said before, assigning them numbers also constitutes synthesis, that is drawing a conclusion from a source or sources that the source(s) itself doesn't/themselves don't indicate. Alphathon  /'æl.f'æ.ðɒn/ (talk ) 16:36, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * How does it qualify under F3? AOC25 (talk) 17:06, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Unblock request
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