User talk:Alansohn/Archive 20

Heads up for you
Requesting editor obviously inexperienced, now understands and accepts the situation so just an FYI as it was initially phrased with your name directly Editor_assistance/Requests. best. Mfield (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply there. Alansohn (talk) 05:47, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Correct details
The new sequal OVA of "Higurashi no naku koro ni" is titled "Higurashi no naku koro ni Rei" NOT "Higurashi no naku koro ni Chikai" the official site states it is titled "Rei", it is mentioned nowhere that it is called "Chikai". Also the OVA has now been released and in the Opening credits, the title song, sung by "Eiko Shimamiya" is listed as "Super scription of data" NOT "Chikai". Please revise your details and check more official sources next time before changing back to "Chikai" again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yekim (talk • contribs) 04:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Stanley Dancer
Number 388 (265 create/expand - 123 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 04:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Su Mac Lad
Number 389 (266 create/expand - 123 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 04:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Nevele Pride
Number 390 (267 create/expand - 123 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 04:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Harness Horse of the Year
Number 391 (268 create/expand - 123 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 04:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Keystone Ore
Number 392 (269 create/expand - 123 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 04:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

You're gonna love . ..

 * Mary Printz; can you also help upgrade
 * William Jorden?

Bongo matic  05:26, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll go through both. I had a busy weekend, but I will do my best to catch up over the next few days. Alansohn (talk) 05:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK twofer
Numbers 393 and 394 (271 create/expand - 123 nominations)

DYK for Robert Robideau
Number 395 (272 create/expand - 123 nominations)

DYK for J. Max Bond, Jr.
Number 396 (273 create/expand - 123 nominations)

DYK for Derrell Palmer
Number 397 (274 create/expand - 123 nominations)

unconstructive?
why for is you say unconstuctive of my edit. i try help, english teacher show us with help from she. i thank you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.18.142.130 (talk) 02:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 02:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Derek Thompson (sports commentator)
I have recieved a messege from you about editing Derek Thompson (sports commentator), I have never heard of this man, nor have I ever edited his article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.91.20 (talk) 18:56, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

wpnj members
What do you think of this?  shirulashem     (talk)   15:19, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Replied there. Alansohn (talk) 15:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Do you realize wiki-edit power is a paradox - one that no one interest it power, wants! You will never be freed of your ignorance - pitty be unto you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.251.68.7 (talk) 05:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Leave me alone
Look at the guy who I edited. I don't want you to bother me. Just leave me alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobburson (talk • contribs)
 * Stop vandalizing and we've got a deal. Alansohn (talk) 16:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

WHY DO U CARE SO MUCH IF PPL VANDALIZE UR SUCH A GEEK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathgeek515 (talk • contribs) 23:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Joke user?
Hi. I see you warned this user: User talk:Da best editor on 26th Feb. They don't seem to do anything constructive, but have amassed many warnings. I don't really see the point in their continuing to use Wikipedia as their personal joke project. Can you please tell me what is supposed to happen next, procedurally? Thanks and best wishes DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 12:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's OK thanks, I think I've got it. Warning 4 then take it to AIV if that does not work, right? Thanks, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 14:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Brilliant, thank you very much. Cheers DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 14:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for American Airlines Flight 6780
Number 398 (274 create/expand - 124 nominations)
 * If I see a worthy article that catches my eye. This one had a very interesting hook AND a New Jersey connection. Alansohn (talk) 21:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

My change to Vitamin B17
From what I have read it is not toxic and I believe it can cure cancer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ticklememo (talk • contribs) 21:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem is that there is a source from the National Institutes of Health that says it is, which you removed. If you have reliable sources that say it's non-toxic it should be added to show that there is a difference in opinion on the issue. Please do not remove the sourced claim of toxicity. Alansohn (talk) 21:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Here
Hey man, just a quick note to tell you that the IP edit in that link is fine and just here to tell you that I've reverted it. Hope you don't mind. I know how difficult it is to see if an edit is decent or not on Huggle so no worries about that :-) Regards and take, friend. Scarian  Call me Pat!  21:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the catch and the correction. Alansohn (talk) 01:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: edit to SRI International
My edit was constructive. You should put it back, or act on it. Or do something else, if that's the officially preferred way to handle a case like this. Nothing in the rest of the paragraph says anything about the subject of the heading which is correctly defined in the first sentence; it's all about clairvoyance and telepathy, nothing about psychokinesis. I for one prefer having some notation inline with the text I'm reading to point out that there's a problem with it.

As you can see, I'm not in the mood to be diplomatic, but I'm not argumentative or aggressive either. I am getting a little tired of the bureaucracy on Wikipedia, and the really bad grammar on most of the article pages. I guess that's one of the places where a professionally reviewed encyclopedia like Britannica has an advantage. On the upside, I like that if I find something wrong I can correct it. . . or at least tag it. Right?? OK, so I guess I am a little annoyed. I wonder if you're annoyed by some of the human-but-not-productive entanglements around here, too. Like, say, vandalism, which it appears is what you were going after; and that's good. Anyway, I won't be back at SRI International, so do what you think is best. Thanks for reading this. 71.242.43.9 (talk) 01:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 01:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Eiko Shimamiya entries correct details
I am refering to your constant edits and reports on the "Eiko Shimamiya" Wikipedia entry. The new sequal OVA of "Higurashi no naku koro ni" is titled "Higurashi no naku koro ni Rei" NOT "Higurashi no naku koro ni Chikai" the official site states it is titled "Rei", it is mentioned nowhere that it is called "Chikai". Also the OVA has now been released and in the Opening credits, the title song, sung by "Eiko Shimamiya" is listed as "Super scription of data" NOT "Chikai". Please revise your details and check more official sources next time before changing back to "Chikai" again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yekim (talk • contribs) 06:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have searched for sources and found none, nor have you added any of the require reliable sources required by Wikipedia policy. Providing these sources will address my concerns. Alansohn (talk) 12:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Michael Tobias
You participated very productively in the AfD for this back in January of 2008; but it's still a puling mass of self-serving publicist's swill, a hagiography of a minor figure. Could you have a hack at the weasel-words and fluff? I've reached my overdose limit for treacle. -- Orange Mike  |   Talk  17:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Mike asked me also--shall I let you continue first? my own feeling is for a much more drastic cut? DGG (talk) 18:27, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * While I wouldn't go as far as Orangemike, I do agree that this needs a lot of work. DGG, if you're willing to hack away, I will accede to your approach and look over your shoulder to follow along. There is an encyclopedic article hidden inside what seems to be a tremendous amount of puffery. Leaving it unchanged is probably the wrong approach. Alansohn (talk) 18:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do. DGG (talk) 19:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the attack
on my talkpage, much appriaciated SpitfireTally-ho! 20:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's my pleasure to watch your back. Alansohn (talk) 20:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandals on my user page. FYI: You should invest in archiving bot | here.Shawnpoo (talk) 22:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * My pleasure for the revert. I do have a bot set up, but I think something may be broken as I agree that this talk page is getting a bit out of hand. I do appreciate the investment tip, which would probably outperform virtually any other stock or bond one could buy today. Alansohn (talk) 22:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, sir/madam
...for cleaning up my page and squishing that "vandal". WadeSimMiser (talk) 22:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Letter of inquiry
Hi! I think you misunderstood my edit as vandalism, I was checking out Special:LongPages, and this article drew my attention, as it was surprisingly on 2nd place with more than 400kb content. The I saw that article was vandalized, filled with the same paragraph "over 9000" times, so I cut it off. And, btw, robots are raging against humanity, copy-pasting same paragraph in the article. 81.95.228.239 (talk) 06:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

A good one!
Bongo matic  07:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Doris Scharfenberg

Thanks....
...for reverting the vandalism to my userpage. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 15:06, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * ..again for reverting the vandalism to my userpage; 3rd time wins a cookie. :)) Lectonar (talk) 08:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talk page. :) Papercutbiology♫ (talk) 20:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's the least I can do. Alansohn (talk) 04:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Purple Heart category
Put my grandfathers name on the Purple Heart list or I will be forced to turn you in for the child pornography that you own. ALANSOHN!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Douglashill530 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Wilbert Tatum
Number 399 (275 create/expand - 124 nominations)

Rainbow coloured dogs
If you don't mind too much could you have a look at University of Calgary ? I seem to have got into a revert war with UniversityDetectives over his Dog section. I thought I would drag a 3rd person in, you :) for another opinion. Thanks. Frosted Δ 14  03:10, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I concur with your concerns and I expressed mine at the article's talk page. Alansohn (talk) 04:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Im sorry
But I just think that their wrong and I have every right to fix it  Supermike KSK  20:41, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you explain this edit, which calls WrestleMania XX the "nineteen" [sic] Wrestlemania, in seeming contradiction of the meaning of Roman numerals? Alansohn (talk) 16:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

School IP Address
I recently received a warning for an edit (I didn't do it, of course). I wanted to make sure you know that this IP address is a high school IP and so anyone from students to off-duty teachers could be doing the editing. Please be sure to keep up the good work stopping malicious edits from our students, I just wanted you to be aware of why they might come up often from here. Thanks for the help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.184.167.3 (talk) 19:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage, much appreciated, cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 21:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protect SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Thank you for reverting the vandalism on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald article. I unsuccessfully tried to semi-protect the article. Do you have the clearance to semi-protect this article from the frequent vandalism it is getting? Thank you in advance if you are able to help. --Wpwatchdog (talk) 23:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Nonnie Moore
Number 400 (276 create/expand - 124 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 04:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for fixing my page, however they have decided to take it upon themself to be the editor of my talk page too *sigh* Mabuska (talk) 11:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Eric Blau
Number 401 (277 create/expand - 124 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 23:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Printz
Number 402 (278 create/expand - 124 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 23:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

DYKs
Hi Alansohn

I wasn't going to mention it, but you continue systematically not to cite me as the creator of articles you nominate for DKYs. While I may not expand the articles as much as you do, I spend time writing stubs, adding nicely formatted references, and frequently putting the germ of the sense of the person (when I don't actually write a full article, which I sometimes do). So, since there is a place for the creator, not just the expander, of an article in the DYK template, it would be appreciated if you would put my username there when you nominate an article I created, even if the creation has just slipped out of the five day window (I don't think the window applies to who is listed in the nomination, anyway).

Rgds, Bongo  matic  00:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks.
Thanks for correcting the info on the Total Drama Action article. User 71.179.87.46 also deleted an important Table that was in the article as well. --Halls452 (talk) 03:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * My pleasure to make the fix. Alansohn (talk) 02:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

revert on Hyperreal number
Hi -- Not sure why you reverted me on this. Please discuss on the article's talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.77.165 (talk • contribs)
 * Revert was a clear mistake. See your talk page. Alansohn (talk) 17:32, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Get your facts right
Automated tools shouldn't be used to warn people making good faith edits - I was reverting vandalism to the last good version - the article had been cleaned up to save it from AFD. --88.106.182.84 (talk) 22:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

1995 Pittsburgh Steelers
The changes that were made to the 1995 Pittsburgh Steelers page was done to match the standard look of the other seasons of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 02:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Capitalization
Hi Alansohn. I noticed you uncapitalized the "The"s from "The Associated Press" and "The New York Herald Tribune" in the article on William Jorden. Wikipedia's own manual of style is silent on this (I think), and this article (which uses a reasonable style guide itself&mdash;The New York Time's own) uses capital "The"s mid-sentence for both organizations. What is your reasoning? Bongo matic  00:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 14:38, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Alessandro Del Piero
I don't believe that my edit was unconstructive, just that we ended up changing (you rolled back, I removed a sentence) the article at the same time Christopher Pritchard (talk) 22:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 14:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

County templates
Can you please watch the NJ county templates? That IP that was attacking the Mercer County template has now gone for Bergen County; and I'm on vacation, so I don't know if/how much I'll be able to keep them clean. Nyttend (talk) 13:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I will keep a closer eye on these templates. Alansohn (talk) 14:31, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for reverting the vandalism an IP did to my user page. I didn't know that it had been done. Best, Vincent   Valentine  21:48, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's the least I can do for another editor. Unfortunately, it's like your house being robbed while your gone and then someone else replacing everything before you get home. The net is that your back where you started, but you still feel violated. Alansohn (talk) 21:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * True, but at least this time the vandal only added some irrelevant snippet from an article and wiped everything else. The last time it happened, it was a profanity-laden tirade along with the vandal announcing that he hoped I would die.  I think I'll take the former!  Thanks again,  Vincent   Valentine  22:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The work of deleting IP vandalism on chem element pages
Since you're involved, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion on semi-protection for element articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! S B Harris 00:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Not Vandalism
This is not vandalism: "Mantises were created by God who made the world in 6 days and then rested on the 7th." It's short, simple, and imformative —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecalamity (talk • contribs) 02:22, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

John Dyneley Prince
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. Budding Journalist 06:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

DYK for Alan Landers
Number 403 (279 create/expand - 124 nominations)

DYK for Rhena Schweitzer Miller
Number 404 (280 create/expand - 124 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 03:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for David C. Miller
Number 405 (281 create/expand - 124 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 03:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Clare Potter
Hi -

Thanks for the nomination for Clare Potter! I didn't fancy nominating any more of my articles for a while as I felt I'd been lucky enough with the last two, and didn't want to be pushy/blow my trumpet too much. (I'm British, you see.) Anyway, I just wanted to mention that following your nom, you gave me the push I needed to get a sportswear (fashion) entry up, something that had been lacking for a long time. Cheers. Mabalu (talk) 04:27, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Congregation Mickve Israel
Number 406 (282 create/expand - 124 nominations)

Just do it
I think you can do this ... sounds ok to me Victuallers (talk) 21:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Judy Blume
Under the career section of the Judy Blume page, the controversial issues listed for Deenie/Then Again Maybe I Won't and Forever were listed as "ion" and, well, nothing respectively. Unless there were issues concerning the portrayal of ions in two of Blume's works, fixing that seems plenty constructive. Thanks for adding links to menstruation and teenage sex, but check before you refer to something as unconstructive. 11:40 12 March 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.140.102 (talk • contribs)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 12:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Hearbeat
I don not know what I can do, I feel really bullied on this site!!! I feel excluded I have submitted and revised my Heartbeat article 5 times as not to offend anyone removing emotive language, and Ever Heard of Freedom of Speech? I have thoroughly checked everything put forward making sure with at least 10 people first who do have different opinions on this matter if they are happy and unoffended by the article. I am becoming fustrated with it keep being removed adam —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamthescout (talk • contribs) 17:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply 9on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Undoing revisions to Linux article
I left a clear edit summary as to why I made that edit. It was POV-pushing for Linux, and contained innacurate information. I noticed you have some anti-anonymous propaganda on your user page. Please don't allow your prejudism towards anonymous editors to drive your edit decisions. My edit had thought behind it, and if you had taken a second to read the edit summary, you would've seen that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.105.121.125 (talk) 22:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi
What part of "Urinal Waster Dumping Center" is unconstructive. Tell me, is it not true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.254.176 (talk) 19:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply at user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 20:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * First of all typ: Waste*. Second, see: |Toilet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.254.176 (talk) 09:31, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

65.117.141.218 continues
IMHO, "assume good faith" is over. --Plenz (talk) 18:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It truly disturbs me that editors like User:65.117.141.218 are given so much good faith, all of which is returned as more idiotic vandalism. Alansohn (talk) 18:59, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Islam Karimov: unexplained IP edits
Please take a look at Islam Karimov. A bit of an edit war is going on around "Islam" vs "Islom". I am not taking sides here, but I object to the unexplained changes that IP user 213.80.170.74 insists on making in an almost trolling pattern. Please decide if there is room for intervention. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 18:23, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Odd vandalism/reversion/vandalism/ editing pattern?
There have been a few odd revisions to Christian Dior today all from one user - I've reversed them all, but looking in the edit history, they were bizarre. The page was vandalised, reverted, then vandalised again and left for someone to deal with. Anyway it seemed like it should be drawn to someone more in charge's attention and I didn't want to assume a role that probably wasn't mine, I'd likely have done the wrong thing anyway. But maybe a friendly heads-up about correct editing from a mod/mod-type on the disruptive editor's Me Page would be in order? Sorry if I've done this incorrectly, wasn't sure who to ask or how to ask. Thanks. Mabalu (talk) 22:11, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Clare Potter
Number 407 (282 create/expand - 125 nominations)

Thanks
Thanks for the vandal reverts on my userpage. Cheers! Taroaldo (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Barbara Parker (writer)
Number 408 (283 create/expand - 125 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 18:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Minhag America
Number 409 (284 create/expand - 125 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 07:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Union Prayer Book
Number 410 (285 create/expand - 125 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 07:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Gates of Prayer
Number 411 (286 create/expand - 125 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 07:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Mishkan T'filah
Number 412 (287 create/expand - 125 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 07:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Re: Judy Blume
Thanks for the apology about the Judy Blume correction, I really appreciate that you took the time to do so. On that note, I realize that I probably sounded a little overly annoyed and short in my message. Writing a paper at the end of midterm week will do that to you. But for that, I'd like to apologize myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.140.102 (talk) 21:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Thaddeus Dod
Number 413 (287 create/expand - 126 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 02:37, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Ernest Trova
Number 414 (288 create/expand - 126 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 02:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for George Keverian
Number 415 (289 create/expand - 126 nominations)

Alansohn protection for the SDA cult
COngradulations "Alansohn," I'm sure the Seventh Day Arrogance church appreciates your protection from anyone knowing what their cult actually preaches....that they are the only ones who are right, that anyone outside of their church (or at least that does anything on Saturday's) has lost their salvation, that by working on Saturdays you are more likely to get sick etc. All the while having members that build 7,000 sq/ft houses for single people and lie to the courts and then turn around and claim “The Bible, and the Bible alone.” But wait, even the Bible can't get it's own stories straight, so why should we expect anything different from a cult that has it's own self-proclaimed profit!?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.93.10.78 (talk) 13:57, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 14:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Mark H. Beers
Number 416 (290 create/expand - 126 nominations)

DYK for Tom Cole (writer)
Number 417 (291 create/expand - 126 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 04:08, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for About Time (play)
Number 418 (292 create/expand - 126 nominations) --Dravecky (talk) 04:08, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I need to be banned
I can't stop vandalizing pages. If you don't ban me I will do it again. It's a serious problem, I can't stop. Please do me a favor and ban me from editing pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.160.148.51 (talk • contribs)

Lol..this is too hilarious! You people are crazy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.78.146 (talk) 04:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Mark Beers
Hi Alansohn

As you can see from the history of the Mark Beers page and the history of the Mark H. Beers page, you elected to create a new article rather than expand a stub (a stub which, in fact, had a talk page with additional resources and a number of key biographical details to be added to the articles) that was clearly in existence. Even if you believe (in this case, I don't see any support for the idea) that per Wikipedia naming convention, "Mark H. Beers" is the appropriate name, a page move and/or redirect is a better way to address such a view than to duplicate an entry.

Regards, Bongo  matic  00:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I so rarely create articles with middle initials, but the medical references I had found used it so I createdMark H. Beers never realizing that you had created Mark Beers an hour earlier. Given that you had done all the research on Beers, why didn't you create the full-fledged DYK-eligible article instead of a bare stub?Alansohn (talk) 01:34, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, the article was created seven hours earlier, not one. As is frequently the case, I didn't have the time or inclination to create a full article, but was sufficiently interested by the subject to leave (at the same time) a detailed list of key items and several references. Bongo  matic  16:27, 17 March 2009 (UTC) p.s. No need&mdash;this time or any other time&mdash;to reply on my talk page or leave a  . I watch talk pages when I leave a comment.

Warnings
Sorry I didn't realize that connecting a common intrest was considered vandalism. Also I didn't see your warnings before I made more edits. Thats the ONLY reason I kept doing it Kingrattus (talk) 16:04, 17 March 2009 (UTC) I should have also listed Crib & Bib (I did on some but forgot on others).. So it should be infant, crib, bib, baby monitor & SIDS. 2 are very important when it comes to SIDS, and well SIDS is important all on its own as so many people aren't even aware of it.. baby sling is an accessory (also a safty thing) & so are bibs. Everything goes with Baby Showers, as the people who are buying something for a gift should be informed on the best/safest product. As a bad buy can cause harm or possibly SIDS (baby crib mattress for example)... I'm not trying to cause harm. Just trying to make it easier to find things (more so the important one that are related)... When I was finished with Babies (saftey for the most part), I was going to start on Security Cameras as they need updating & then onto pets. I have a list of all the pages I did change so I could go back & tweek them as needed. If you want me to undo what I did, I will, or tweek them so its a better fit (maybe I should just use infant, baby shower, & SIDS), I can do that too. I honestly mean no harm Kingrattus (talk) 19:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

ok, Do you want me to go back & change what I edited? So its only infant? I am sorry for being a pain :( Kingrattus (talk) 20:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Episodes Table
This is what I'm talking about, no one can get "confused" because it's listed with the episodes. Btw, I heard back from Discovery, they don't have a date for Season 4 finale. 70.24.233.37 (talk) 17:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jon_%26_Kate_Plus_8_episodes

Ray Hunt
Hi. You mentioned somewhere that you monitor the NYTimes obituaries. Would you keep a look out for Ray Hunt? I'm trying to expand a stub in time for the memorial services later this month. Thanks! --Una Smith (talk) 04:40, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I will keep an eye out on any additional sources. Alansohn (talk) 01:57, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Naturopathy/ThujaSol
Can you clarify why my edit is considered vandalism and why a level 4 warning? - --ThujaSol∆๏̯͡๏ 22:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Episodes Table
I've been editing/adding episodes for Jon & Kate Plus 8 for over a year now and I am not doing any vandalism. The episode table is already listed, why list it twice, epsecially now? The old expression "if it ain't broke, why fix it"?

Take a look here: Follow this link and you'll see the table of episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jon_%26_Kate_Plus_8_episodes 70.24.233.37 (talk) 00:04, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Michael Shannon (pediatrician)
Number 419 (293 create/expand - 126 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 01:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Dorothea Holt Redmond
Someone interesting. Regards. Bongo matic  02:01, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That was quick. How about George Hedges? Another interesting person. Bongo  matic  03:18, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Kingrattus
Whilst you might disagree with his edits, there are absolutely no way his edits are vandalism, although I concur that they weren't correct. Please don't bite the newbies - he has been actively editing for less than a month, and there is no way that his edits are in bad faith. &mdash; neuro  (talk) (review) 17:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 17:52, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Really, just because you don't like an edit, you're going to call it vandalism? Because I very much doubt you can prove, from an objective point of view, that the change I made had made that page any worse. Sure, maybe to your point of view, but I don't think it had that much more merit before my edit, than after.

In that case, wouldn't you just call it another pointless edit, to an already pointless page?

Unless you can find some specific guideline that spells out exactly why my change was vandalism, I think you really should stop that kind of thing. It's annoying as hell to have small changes labeled like that. 24.23.32.249 (talk) 22:51, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I am amazed by the ability to rationalize away vandalism, but your edit wasn't even a close call. Alansohn (talk) 23:01, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Once again, maybe to your point of view, but are you really so sure that all other points of view would agree? I do not think so. I think my edit had merit, even if you don't see it. 98.238.188.211 (talk) 00:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
I'm sure you hear it a lot, but thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user page. I appreciate it. TravisAF (talk) 05:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Shelby, NC
I'm somewhat baffled that my reference to Kenny Powers, a fictional character from HBO's "Eastbound and Down", was removed from the Shelby, NC homepage. In the program, Powers is, indeed, supposed to be a product and resident of Shelby. What would make such a reference appropriate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.40.48 (talk) 20:22, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Robert E. A. Lee
Number 420 (294 create/expand - 126 nominations)
 * I hate to say it, but there you go again. Bongo  matic  09:40, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

People of note
Bongo matic  10:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Kalman Bloch‎
 * John Leech (restauranteur)‎
 * Robert Soost‎
 * Glenn Sundby‎
 * Gianni Giansanti‎ (not created by me, but added the only two citations)

DYK for Steve Bernard
Number 421 (295 create/expand - 126 nominations)
 * And again. Bongo  matic  15:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

You're invited!
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DYK for Charles S. Lieber
Number 422 (296 create/expand - 126 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 00:25, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Three in a day. Bongo  matic  00:29, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Administrator intervention against vandalism
Hello. Please be careful when making edits to WP:AIV, as it appears that you accidentally removed one of my administrator's comment. Thanks — Kralizec! (talk) 03:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See reply on user talk page. Alansohn (talk) 03:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for John Dyneley Prince
Number 423 (296 create/expand - 127 nominations) Shubinator (talk) 06:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:INCUBATOR
I invite you to comment on as well as to endorse my idea of article incubator. The idea is not new and details of the previous version can be found at WP:INCUBATOR. I would be glad if you enhance it with your experience. Feel free to improve upon the proposal that I have placed. Anasuya.D (talk) 09:44, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * , I hadn't seen the proposal before, but there's a lot to recommend here. Let me think about it and see if, when and how I will participate in this process. Alansohn (talk) 12:35, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I was trying to propose a way to retain and use the ignorant users and to convert them into knowledgeable Wikipedians whose contributions can help in enriching Wikipedia. Not that I have a concrete plan. But could you people think again about what could be done to educate these guys who do disruptive work on Wikipedia? Anasuya.D (talk) 19:31, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the update and for pushing this issue forward. Alansohn (talk) 12:54, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for New Jersey Rockin' Rollers
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February 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Monsignor Farrell High School. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Perhaps you should take your own advice and actually look at the edits before you blindly revert. I added cn's where they justified. I added them where there were no sources in the school article or the individuals'/ articles for the attendance at this school. Removing them is not constructive. Saying you were reverting my edit is the same as calling it vandalism, which it clearly was not. I didn't puyt the entries inthe order they are in, I am in the process of working though the section cleaning it up, so prempively suggesting that I will mess up your order is out of line. Yes, I know you're an experience editor and we don't normally template each other, but if you want to make jerk edits like this, and call my edit vandalism, template you I will. Meters (talk) 18:31, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * , constructive editors add content and provide sources for articles; disruptive editors template the regulars, add useless tags and blindly revert. Look at my edit history and take a gander at what you have done to this and other articles. Other than that, would you kindly stay off this talk page if you are unwilling and unable to communicate appropriately with other editors. Alansohn (talk) 18:39, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I am constructive. I check for missing sources, and often I then I attempt to find the missing sources. As I said in my first edit summary, I was checking the sourcing in this section. Since you jumped in in the middle of my work you don't know what I was going to do with this section. I don't always add sources, I don't always do it immediately when I do add them, and sometimes I cannot find sources at all, so the tags I leave but don't fix are still constructive. You, in this case, blindly went in and removed perfectly valid tags without adding sources. How is that constructive? You're adding some of the missing source now, and I thank you for that, but you should have left the tags in place until you added the sources. Meters (talk) 18:52, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * , you claim to be a "constructive" editor, but your changes to this article added about a dozen tags, but not one source. I've been able to find these with trivial effort, and if you'd devote as much time to adding sources, rather than tags and templates, this would be a far better article. BTW, the Louis Tobacco source was taken over by his successor; if you had only looked at archive.org, you might well have fond the cited source. Alansohn (talk) 19:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Again, I was in the process of working on this section. You have no idea of what I would have finished with int the end. I had realized the problem with that ref and I was trying to find the archive version. Perhaps if you had looked at it before reverting me you would not have restored the dead link. Meters (talk) 19:14, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * , all I have available is the edits actually made to the article. I added or updated about a dozen sources; you added about a dozen tags and not one sources. On the other hand, during this same time period you've edited articles for Bill Britton, Michael Cusick, Kevin O'Connor, Louis Tobacco and John Wolyniec, where you added a whole bunch of tags, while the number of sources added stands at zero. Please recognize that you are free to demonstrate a genuine effort to improvement by adding sources to the articles for these and other alumni of Monsignor Farrell High School. Alansohn (talk) 19:34, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You're obviously quicker at finding refs than I am, and I'm purposely staying away from these while you work. When you're done I'll check if the refs still need to be copied to the individuals' articles. We each work our own way. I work my way through a section checking all the refs, tagging as I go. The tags on the subjects' articles were part of my process. I check the school article, tagging tentries in bunches so I don't have dozens of edits to the school article. The subjects' articles get tagged if necessary while I have the school article open in another edit window. When I'm done checking the school article, if I'm going to look for and add refs I then do so, updating any subjects' articles I can at the same time. Meters (talk) 19:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * On Bill Britton, is a primary school source such as an alumni hall of fame acceptable to to verify a person's attendance? I wasn't all that happy with the source when I added it, so if you found a better one please replace it. Meters (talk) 19:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * , in terms of Bill Britton, a source from the school probably meets the terms of WP:SELFPUB in this context. I didn't use any self-published sources in my edits to the article for the school. The source I used for Britton from The New York Times is probably sufficiently independent to establish the connection to the school. Alansohn (talk) 20:12, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:


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 * Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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Dude
You acctually changed the twins status as Married twins you know they were joking right??? ElleanMarcuse (talk) 19:38, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Saddle River Township, New Jersey
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Berlin, New Jersey
Hello, Alansohn. I see that you are the main editor of this article. I'm writing to let you know that there has been content removal, re Sarah Dawson, by someone who seems to believe that she should be the subject of the article about a neighbouring township. In my opinion, the item should have been tagged or, better still, a question raised on the talk page so that someone who knows about the subject can resolve it. I reverted his edit but he has reinstated it because I apparently don't know what I'm doing. I don't wish to get involved in an edit war with someone like that so could you please take a look at the content and decide which article Sarah Dawson should be in (possibly both, as I have tried to point out). Sorry for the incovenience. All the best. Jack | talk page 16:33, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
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New Jersey county population estimates
Hi Alansohn, I think we went through a similar discussion but on a slightly different citation issue a couple of years ago. First of all, sorry I left the stray "ref" after the "PopEst" name tag - that caused a brief bit of confusion on the Bergen County article, I see. But the bigger picture is that it's less helpful to keep citing just two successive years' population estimates for counties because of the grossly high amount of statistical variation that occurs between two years, amplified by the fact that the Census Bureau keeps re-updating (and therefore changing) these cumulative estimates for each of the years following the decennial census figures. It also makes for a bit harder work for year-to-year changes, and leaves out the big picture, namely the estimates trend over multiple years, which carries a smaller statistical error. I understand your concern about WP:CITEVAR, so I am going to change the definition of PopEst for all 21 New Jersey counties. Best, Castncoot (talk) 15:04, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , there are three links from the Census Bureau that are relevant here; 1) Quick Facts (see link 1), 2) PEPANNRES (see link 2) and 3) PEPANNCHG (see link 3). 1) We already have Quick Facts in the articles, the QF link is self-updating on an annual basis and the percentage change from 2010 to the latest estimate is shown. 2) PEPANNRES shows the 2010 base data and estimates as of July 1 for each census year through the current year; the link is year specific and needs to be updated annually. 3) PEPANNCHG shows the estimates as of July 1 for the latest year and for the previous year, along with the change from the previous year in number and percent, along with rankings of all counties for current year and previous year plus rankings of the change in both number and percentage; the link is year specific and needs to be updated annually.The QF link needs no fixing and has been left unchanged. I had replaced the PEPANNRES link with the PEPANNCHG, I just screwed up on using the correct link. You changed all of my (improperly formatted) PEPANNCHG references to point to (correctly formatted) PEPANNRES links. My position here is that the only meaningful data in PEPANNRES is the current year estimate, already available in QF, while adding the estimates for previous years that aren't needed; PEPANNCHG includes the same current / prior year estimates, but also includes data on rankings and changes that isn't available in either QF or PEPANNRES.As an example, I changed the Warren County, New Jersey article to use PEPANNCHG (instead of PEPANNRES). I look forward to your feedback as to the better option, but as I see it PEPANNCHG is a genuine improvement while PEPANNRES adds nothing to the article. Alansohn (talk) 17:40, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Alansohn, the position I'm taking is that PEPANNRES adds more information per the multiple-year trend (and it does include the current year's data as well), but more importantly, greater statistical integrity, because the Census Bureau keeps annually retroactively updating all of the past years' post-Census estimates. Quoting only two years' figures introduces great volatility and statistical error into the mix and could mislead a reader into thinking that a county is on a growing trend when in fact this may be just a statistical quirk between two years (that might be reverted anyway when the Bureau readjusts its figures the following year). I do see the rankings in PEPANNCHG, but I believe that this is a secondary fact which a reader could verify if they didn't believe the statement in the text simply by looking at the PEPANNRES table. My greater concern is not misleading the reader by virtue of statistical issues. If displaying the rankings explicitly is that important to you, perhaps we can add on PEPANNCHG as well? Castncoot (talk) 18:19, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , in the absence of any explicit source on rankings, I will add PEPANNCHG to the articles. This will leave us with QF, PEPANNRES and PEPANNCHG in all 21 articles. Alansohn (talk) 16:57, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Super. The more information the better, such that the reader will come to his or her own conclusions based upon complete information. The New Jersey county articles can only benefit from this augmented level of information. Castncoot (talk) 01:12, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

West Essex High School
I removed Will Wosilius from the notable faculty section. The IC says he played college football at Syracuse in 66 and 67 and then 3 years for the St Louis Cardinals in the NFL.

The first claim is half wrong and the second totally wrong. Wosilius was selected in the 1967 NFL draft in April of that year. So he was definitely not at Syracuse in 67.

Secondly NFL.com profile at NFL.com has Wosilius not playing any seasons in the NFL on his player page.

Thirdly this article] of which just enough can be made out of it, that Wosilius was cut by the Cardinals before the 1968 season and that he had suffered a season ending knee injury in the first game of the 1967 NFL preseason.

WP:NGRIDIRON says an American football player is notable if they played one regular season NFL game. The things I cite above say he didn't.

If I wanted to pile on, I could not his lack of a WP article or that his Linkedin profile (Not a RS for establishing notability) says two NFL seasons not three. Bottom line- The USA today article fails as a reliable source because multiple sources contradict it....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 00:17, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , you're drastically overstating your case; the edit summary was sufficient. 10 yard penalty for piling on after saying you wouldn't. Alansohn (talk) 03:34, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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BMK Ownership issue
Think you might want to take a look at or comment on Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. BMK mentioned something about you and not knowing about maps being generated or something? --Cs california (talk) 04:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , again, kudos for your efforts to improve these articles and to tolerate the bullshit from BMK. He is the king of the edit warriors and the article owner par excellence, and loves to claim that others are committing sins he regularly violates, often on a daily basis. He is an editor who is a multi-time loser for edit warring, including in the very recent past, and who constantly gets caught with his pants down. Sadly, he has spent so much time at ANI and has brown-nosed admins so thoroughly into the deepest nooks and crannies, that his routinely blatant violations of policy are written off with "warnings" or simply ignored.You made an excellent case at ANI and that appears to have shut up BMK. Keep up the good work and don't let the bastards beat you. Alansohn (talk) 18:16, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:People from Delanco Township, New Jersey


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:People from Rockleigh, New Jersey


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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
 * 🇯🇵 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
 * Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
 * Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Apologies in advance
Sorry I had to revert your edit to Billy McFarland (entrepreneur). The Daily Mail is generally considered an unreliable source. Thanks for understanding. Lourdes 01:25, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

ANI Discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Anmccaff (talk) 17:16, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
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Nomination of Unaffiliated (New Jersey) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Unaffiliated (New Jersey) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Unaffiliated (New Jersey) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Tagging "comprised of" in quotations
OK, it's time to do something about our difference of opinion about having a hidden sic tag on "comprised of" in quotations. For a while, I was content just to let you have your way on the many articles you watch, while I tagged other articles, but now that you seem to be stalking me and effectively neutralizing my work to add these tags, it's time to get others involved.

My thought is to put an RfC about this specific issue on the talk page for the sic template, in the Style and Naming RfC category. The question would be does having a hidden sic tag on the phrase "comprised of" in quotations help or hurt the encyclopedia?

What do you think? Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 03:13, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * My preference would be to do nothing in terms of quotations, though I can't stop you from starting an RfC. There are thousands of sources across Wikipedia that use the term "comprised of" in a quotation taken straight from a source or from the title of a source. You are the only person who benefits from the use of the sic tag in these quotations. We could ask the community about whether or not nothing needs to be done, but the simpler solution would be to leave the text unchanged in the first place. While I fervently disagree about the need to fix a non-problem that is a commonly accepted and widely used feature of the English language, I have no objection to your removing, rewording or recasting uses of "comprised of" in the text of articles, any more than I would object to the senseless fixing of split infinitives or sentences ending a preposition with. There's just no need to "fix" quotations simply as part of your self-imposed Sisyphean task, as they literally ain't broke. Alansohn (talk) 03:24, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

May 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Rich Edson listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rich Edson. Since you had some involvement with the Rich Edson redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so.  Amaryllis Gardener  talk 16:48, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Charles L. Walters for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Charles L. Walters is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Charles L. Walters until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Question on bus route changes
Have a question that I'm not sure of how to handle. Yesterday, MTA Maryland started their BaltimoreLink program, which drastically changed routes in the Baltimore area. From this, ALL of the buses have been renumbered, and a vast majority were re-routed, or shortened, etc. As a result the current articles on the MTA bus routes are no longer valid. I'm going to work on creating new articles for these new routes (as I can), in the meantime what should be done to the now historical and no longer used routes? RickinBaltimore (talk) 14:25, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * , this is well outside my core competency, but I'm glad to try to help. Is there a press release or master document that lists the route changes? Alansohn (talk) 20:15, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh boy. Considering that about 95% of the bus routes changed, and almost all changed routes #'s, except one it's a mish-mash. | Here is the MTA Maryland site, and | here is the info on each individual route. Some routes have been split in 3 or 4 different routes completely. (Oh and as a side note, it's just as a mess to actually RIDE). RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:20, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * , I saw the web site listing the route changes, and this is going to be a great deal of work. Alansohn (talk) 22:21, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Try riding this new system. It's my project for the time being, going to try to get a few done here and there. RickinBaltimore (talk) 22:27, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 22
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Issue 22, April-May 2017

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WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Revisions-Jefferson Twp page
Good morning, I am fairly new to the wiki editing, I am a 52 year resident of the JT community and recently retired from the municipal gov't, I was making some edits that are more accurate to the community. I will read up on the proper instructions to edit, thank you Lscpres (talk) 13:50, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Sunday July 9: WikNYC Picnic @ Governors Island
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Tagging "comprised of" in quotations
I see you've removed a hidden sic tag from a quotation in Andover Township, New Jersey.

Are you aware that the recent RfC (in which you participated) reached a consensus that such tags are helpful?

Is it your intention to edit against consensus?

Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 06:57, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

DemocraticLuntz
Does DemocraticLuntz sound like he's going to revert his edits for densities in infoboxes on city pages? He messed up TONS of them. It's always been my preference and understanding from others that the infobox is for official population and area measurements at each Census for American cities, and that if you want to include annexations and Census Bureau population estimates that that can be done in "geography" and "demographic" sections within the page. I honestly don't know why he'd erase existing info that people worked to calculate for a far less accurate "auto" template. Is there a way to make the template more precise? How are we going to remedy this if he doesn't revert his unnecessary edits? --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:13, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * , I agree and that's exactly what I've done, which is to use data (and calculations) direct from the United States Census Bureau. There is no consistent usage, but the decision to recalculate is arbitrary and inappropriate, especially in the absence of consensus. Alansohn (talk) 11:52, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Do you know if anyone's working on correcting this? It's been weeks now and when I asked on the infoxbox settlement page about this, no one has answered.  DemocraticLuntz doesn't seem to be working in good faith given all of the complaints he receives for his edits, and it seems no one is working to fix these unnecessary edits he did using the template. --Criticalthinker (talk) 01:18, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , I had thought about this issue and also saw no response. It's hard for me to disagree with you about DemocraticLuntz's inaction on this and other such issues. Alansohn (talk) 02:01, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

July 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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DYK
Hi Alansohn. I found your name on the DYK help page. I just finished a major expansion of Unternehmen Elster. Pretty cool story. I'm not familiar with the DYK nom process, so invite you to nominate it should you be interested. Cheers, - LuckyLouie (talk) 23:47, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , the article is a fascinating one, but I'm not sure that the expansion is adequate to meet the 5x standard to meet DYK eligibility. The article is now 10,286 characters, just more than double the 4,982 when you started the expansion or only double. Please let me know if I can help with this, but I'm not sure how this can go ahead at this point. Alansohn (talk) 02:16, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, no harm, no foul. If I expand it to the required 5x (didn't realize that) I'll let you know. - LuckyLouie (talk) 02:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , check out WP:DYKRULES and let me know if I can help. Alansohn (talk) 03:38, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

List of People from Newark, New Jersey aka Michael Brown
I'm not trying to sound snarky but HIS Wikipedia article clearly states he's from Newark and yes I know that cannot be used as a valid reference but since there is no citation in that article that confirms he was born in Newark would that part of the article be subject to deletion/removal too? YborCityJohn (talk) 05:59, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , his article claims that he's from Newark, without any reliable and verifiable sources to support the claim; yes, there were two references on the sentence in his article, but neither link mentioned Newark. The absence of a reference to support the claim led me to spend a lot of time doing Google searches, none of which ended up finding a source to support his being from Newark. It may be true, but I (and anyone reading his article or the people from Newark article) would have no way to confirm that. As such, the connection between Brown and Newark should either be removed or, at a minimum, be tagged as requiring a citation.This isn't about being snarky. It's about implementing one of the key foundational principals of Wikipedia. Alansohn (talk) 12:05, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Sunday July 30: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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DYK for Carmen Cincotti
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Re Beaches vs. shore communities
You know what? I noticed both categories on the Margate City, NJ page, so I figured to make them all consistent by adding it, since Ventnor lies on the beach. However, those two categories are basically the same. The only entry I noticed that wasn't an actual municipality in the Beaches of Atlantic County, NJ category is Chicken Bone Beach which is just a section of AC. I support merging these two together, as well as with the other counties that lie on the ocean. User:Hmains created the beaches one, as he is known to create so many sub categories, some necessary and some unnecessary. Hope your summer is going well and thanks for reaching out! Tinton5 (talk) 04:25, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , though I think that there is a difference. Margate City is a shore community and a beach, and for all such places it seems unnecessary to include both categories. On the other hand, Chicken Bone Beach is a named beach within a shore community. Are there shore communities that have no beaches? Maybe this should be handled by putting one as the parent of the other, though it's unclear how that would be structured. Alansohn (talk) 12:31, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Watch out for a user making unnecessary changes
This user has made a lot of unneeded changes to many NJ-related categories and articles. Tinton5 (talk) 00:41, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * , I saw these same edits and rolled my eyes. I'll see what I can do and keep my eye out. Alansohn (talk) 01:01, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

What is uncommon?
Population density of x people per square mile. What requires explanation to a reader? We may as well start linking "mile". Tony  (talk)  09:44, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 23
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WikiCup 2017 September newsletter
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Al Di Meola 1: Preliminary discussion
I know that you're eager to discuss my mistakes. I look forward to learning from your many years of experience. Now that the emotion of the moment is over, we can get to work. After reverting my edits, your accusations were:


 * "extreme concerns demonstrated here"
 * "pattern of removing sourced content and categories"
 * "pattern of butchery"
 * "obvious failure to understand basic policy"

On that last point, you claim I lack the ability to sign a Talk Page and that this is indicative of my extreme incompetence, "the tip of the iceberg". I do have that ability. Proof can be found on my Talk page and the Talk Pages of others where I have signed my posts properly. Although you have only my word for it, when I edit I use macros that are triggered by groups of key presses, but I didn't have that program with me at the time I wrote to you. I was away from my usual computer and workspace. I had recently finished extensive editing on another article that was written in a slapdash manner in broken English. I was about to go to bed when an email about your revert popped up on my laptop. It was 2 am. I couldn't remember how to sign a post because for so long I had been using a macro. Maybe when you're my age, you'll understand how details and trivialities can be forgotten at a moment like that.

Per the rules and procedures of Wikipedia, I want to discuss individual edits rather than resort to barely explained, massive reverts. We can discuss the rest of that iceberg you mentioned.

You were right that there is a conflict with birthplace. That's something we'll have to resolve given that our sources disagree.

Your edit summary reads, "rv extensive removal of sourced content and unjustified removal of categories." I've already discussed the categories, and that is connected to the matter of birthplace. When that is resolved, the categories can be resolved.

Your other point is removal of sourced content. That comes later in the article, but there are preliminary but important points to make. After I changed the content that was sourced to All About Jazz, I explained my edits in the edit summary and on the Talk Page. The gist is that AAJ profiles are often, if not always, copied and pasted from the musician's web site, so that web site should be sourced, not AAJ. The AAJ profiles, of course, have no author or date attached, which is true of information on many musicians' web sites. That information is often promotional. I replaced the AAJ material with reliable, sourced material. If you want to address this subject now before moving on to others, that's OK. Is there other sourced content that I deleted unjustifiably? –Vmavanti (talk) 18:11, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Al Di Meola 2: Lede, first graph
My understanding is that the article should begin with the full, formal name of the subject, then the birth date in parentheses. The birthplace either shouldn't come next or doesn't have to, esp. given that it's already in the infobox. I'm not sure if this use is de jure or de facto. In the infobox and text, big cities are piped as are states and popular countries.

There's some question about whether Latin jazz is an appropriate genre for Di Meola. For example, AllMusic doesn't use that classification. It uses as genres jazz, pop/rock, and international. I don't know what "international" means in this context. AM then lists styles: "fusion, guitar virtuoso, jazz rock, world fusion, contemporary jazz, guitar jazz, jazz instrument, South American traditions, and tango". I don't know who at AM assigns these categories. Greg Prato's biography at AllMusic, the first source in the first graph, uses the terms "acoustic Latin music", "jazz fusion", "acoustic-based world music", and "Latin infused", but he doesn't use Latin jazz, which I associate with other kinds of musicians. I believe that is one change I made. Maybe you can give me reasons why you think he is a Latin jazz guitarist. The popular album he made with Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin has elements of flamenco. Wikipedia, in an article that someone considers Good, calls de Lucia flamenco, classical, and jazz.

The second source in the first graph is Music Feeds. I'm not sure that's the best, most impartial source that exists, given, for example, that Di Meola is called "a bona fide guitar hero, perennial poll winner, and virtuoso of the highest order." Sounds more like a love letter than an encyclopedia entry. I'm not even sure what "guitar hero is", bona fide or not. I'm not clear on the difference between a virtuoso and one of the highest order.

I'm not fond of the term "fanbase" because it's the sort of slang one finds on TV, in newspapers, Rolling Stone, and Downbeat. Per Wikipedia documentation regarding formal tone, I prefer something like "fans around the world". Regardless, it isn't the sort of sentence I would write because it sounds like cheerleading, and encyclopedias don't make good cheerleaders. Many people have fans all over the world. It's a cliché that says almost nothing. It isn't something I would say in an article, let alone in the lede. I suspect "fanbase" should be two words and that "solid" fanbase is redundant. We can talk about the use of slang versus formal tone, or we can talk about the use of slang as a sign of weak, lazy prose, or both.

I have doubts, too, about the accuracy of "earned him success." I wonder if that could be better phrased. Earned? A problematic word if there ever was one. The album referred to, Friday Night in San Francisco, came out in 1980, so it isn't a good summary. It's simply mentioning one album. His career is much more than that.

I can't find anywhere in the Prato source that says Di Meola is an Italian with roots in Cerreto Sannita. What source was used for that?

I look forward to our fruitful exchanges. Thanks. –Vmavanti (talk) 18:22, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Al Di Meola
My changes were individual and explained. You made one big revert wthout sufficiently addressing my many edits to a poorly written, poorly sourced article. I challenge anyone to compare my version and yours.--vmavantis –Vmavanti (talk) 05:33, 10 September 2017 (UTC)


 * , there are extreme concerns demonstrated here, including a pattern of removing sourced content and categories. The inability to understand how to sign a talk page post is just the tip of the iceberg here. The pattern of butchery and the failure to understand basic policy is obvious.Start with the 11th line of the article, where you have modified his place of birth to Bergenfield, a fact not supported by the sources in the article; followed by your removal of categories for his place of birth and current residence. It's downhill from there. Alansohn (talk) 05:18, 10 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Cheap shot. I didn't sign properly because I'm away from my computer and didn't have my usual tools. What started as a simple edit here and there (not the Al Di Meola article, another) turned out to be a mess by someone who could barely write English. As I was going to bed, an email popped up. It's very late where I am.

–Vmavanti (talk) 05:33, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Let's start with your massive revert. If every one of my edits is wrong, I want to see arguments for every one. Undoing all those edits at once is bad form. Although I made many changes, I submitted them piecemeal. Any of them could have been analyzed via the history and changed individually with explanations. If my changes are unsound, I'll hear the arguments. It's a chance for me to learn. So let's stop the quick judgments and the melodrama.


 * I have a book in front of me, the Great Jazz Guitarists by Scott Yanow, which I cited. It says Bergenfield. AllMusic says Jersey City. How do I resolve that? I trust Scott Yanow, but I know he's made mistakes. He writes for AllMusic, which makes many mistakes. I don't consider Bergenfield versus Jersey City a subject that warrants the accusation of butchery. I'm OK with mistakes. Maybe this is a subject for debate where sources disagree. I need to know that. Naturally I would remove the categories that referred to Jersey City. I find many categories that are wrong, many that overlap, and many that are pointless. Of what practical use is "Living people"? What reader is going to consult that? Categories can be subjective. "20th century musicians" is another category so large that it serves no purpose. It's just one big info-dump. How can person be from two places? When categories overlap, I use the more specific one (jazz guitarist versus jazz musician). Sometimes categories exist without being cited or even mentioned in the text. Sometimes categories raise problems that can't be resolved. Often the list of categories is too long and done in a slapdash manner. Sometimes reducing them seems like it can only be a benefit.


 * I don't believe I have been reckless, but if I have, I'm willing to correct it. My purpose is always to improve Wikipedia, not to shore up my ego or any other kind of self-aggrandizement. I'm certainly not going to vandalize anyone's work. Contrary to this post, I don't have strong feelings about the jazz articles I've been working on. In fact, subjects I care most about I avoid because I want to remain impartial. Nothing here is life or death to me. My biggest complaints are about drive-by edits and the poor quality of the music articles, which don't seem to be done by regular editors but by anonymous readers. I know that's how WP works. But the laziness, the refusal to cite, or to cite properly, the unwillingness to learn even the basics about Wikipedia documentation, and then to engage in irrational debate based on nothing more than "I want it this way." I learned to document sources a v. long time ago when I was thirteen. What's with these readers?

–Vmavanti (talk) 06:09, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't consider any Wikipedia entry mine. Every article is everyone else's. There's no private property here. It's a bad idea for editors to list articles on their user pages as if they owned them. I have created a small group of entries. I consider none of them mine. I try to build a good foundation. I want to learn from my mistakes. I don't mind making them because that's often how I learn best. What annoys me, besides what I've stated, is the frequent thoughtless edits. When someone makes an edit without explaining it to me, that's annoying, especially when their change makes the article worse, because then my hard efforts are erased. I would much rather see a change with an explanation than a massive wipe. It's late here. I regret any impropriety real or perceived. But it can't be that all my edits were wrong. They were certainly well-intended.


 * , in your attempts at clarifying your position I think that you have an understanding of editing but I think that there is a fundamental disconnect regarding categories. The following statements best define the problem here, "I find many categories that are wrong, many that overlap, and many that are pointless. Of what practical use is "Living people"? What reader is going to consult that? Categories can be subjective. "20th century musicians" is another category so large that it serves no purpose. It's just one big info-dump. How can person be from two places?"As stated at Biographies of living persons, "Editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page.[a] Such material requires a high degree of sensitivity, and must adhere strictly to all applicable laws in the United States, to this policy, and to Wikipedia's three core content policies: Neutral point of view (NPOV), Verifiability (V), No original research (NOR). We must get the article right." As

–Vmavanti (talk) 23:01, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There's nothing there that I disagree with. Nor have I violated those principles, as far as I know, as least not intentionally. I've been more careful with BLPs that many of the people who contribute to Wikipedia. I'll go out on a limb and say that every article I've worked on I've improved. My goal isn't to finish them. My goal is to move them forward. I know that as time goes by, other people will edit the articles and change what I've done. Wikipedia belongs to everyone and therefore no one.

stated at Category:Living people, which you feel to be "pointless", the category is intended to aid in monitoring WP:BLP and that "This category exists to help Wikipedia editors improve the quality of biographies of living persons by ensuring that the articles maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and are properly sourced."While you deride the category system, it is a fundamental mechanism for editors and readers to navigate across articles with common shared characteristics.My suggestion is that you edit the content of articles, where there appears to be some level of competency, but to leave categories alone, where it seems that your lack of understanding and appreciation of the system leads to needless butchery. I will restore a version of the article that includes all of your edits to the content of the article along with all of the categories that existed before your recent edits. I hope that this can be a fruitful compromise. Alansohn (talk) 21:25, 11 September 2017 (UTC) –Vmavanti (talk) 23:01, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't deride the system. Please read more carefully. Look at the text. I said, "many categories that are wrong, many that overlap, and many that are pointless." I find entries that are overrun with categories. You know what I'm talking about. I'm sure you have the same complaints that I do. I don't dislike every category. If someone wants a list of American jazz guitarists, they can find that. That's useful. I understand how entries and categories intertwine. I didn't say all categories are pointless. I didn't even say that Living Persons is pointless, though I may have implied it through a rhetorical question. I did ask about its usefulness. Now, if there are technical reasons for Living Persons as a category, which you seem to imply, I didn't know that. "This category exists to help Wikipedia editors". How? Editors are always trying to improve BLPs. Most of the articles I work on have maintenance templates. If it has a BLP template, then I know that person is alive. If there is no death date, then of course that is another way. Or if I'm familiar with the name. Or if I have used sources that tell me the person is alive. There are many ways for me to tell, not simply the bracketed category at the bottom. But, as I said, if there are technical reasons, having to do with programming, then that's another subject. In your mind criticism of certain categories equals dismissal of all of them, "the system". In your mind, the deletion of one edit equals butchery. In your mind, a mistake in signing one post equals "tip of the iceberg" incompetence. I find that kind of hyperbole and accusation irresponsible, even if it is unintentional. You gave me advice. I have advice for you, but I'm keeping it to myself. Thank you for responding. I appreciate all the work you've done, but like the rest of us, you make mistakes.

Picture
Hello, I'm new to Wikipedia. I was wondering if you knew how to add a picture to the page I started on Mario J Cerrito III. I saw you helped edit the page and I'm thankful. Do you know how to help me with attaching some sort of picture? Thanks! Jugger21i (talk) 18:15, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * , is there a picture in the public domain? Alansohn (talk) 20:26, 30 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I found a bunch on google images can they be used? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jugger21i (talk • contribs)


 * , they need to be in the public domain. You can't upload a picture owned by someone else. Alansohn (talk) 14:54, 31 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm new to Wikipedia. Interested in South Jersey notables, as I'm from South Jersey. Sorry, if I'm bothering you but I saw you also have interest in things south jersey. I created the page for Mario J Cerrito III and after google searching the name a few times I have noticed it doesn't show up anywhere on google search. Is there a way to see it on google? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jugger21i (talk • contribs)


 * , I find the same issue with that article not popping up in Google, but I don't know what the solution would be. I'll see what I can find out for you. Alansohn (talk) 16:35, 6 September 2017 (UTC)


 * thanks so much, friend!
 * found this. It states that unpatrilled pages will not be indexed by search engines. I'm not sure if this page has been patrolled yet, do you know if it has been or how we can get it to be? Here is the page I found info on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol
 * , I'll see about marking it as patrolled. Alansohn (talk) 14:02, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * any luck on getting Mario J Cerrito III patrolled so it can show up in search engines? Thanks!
 * thanks for your help!
 * , glad I could help. Alansohn (talk) 17:41, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * was it patrolled?

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Pros and cons of 2010 and 2000 census
Living in MA but reached in to NJ for a bit of light editing. I noticed that in NJ, all of the towns and cities I looked at had 2010 and 2000 census demographics. In most MA articles, only 2010. What is your opinion of having information from both censuses (censi?). Just curious. I have no intention of looking up 2000 census information for hundreds of MA towns (nor deleting same from hundreds of NJ towns). David notMD (talk) 15:51, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * , data from any one census will be a snapshot. Providing the data for both 2010 and 2000 allows the ability for readers to see changes over the decade, not just in terms of population, but in the makeup and characteristics of the municipality. I support the use, which is mixed across articles for places in the United States; some have both, some have only 2010 and there are plenty that only have 2000 details. Alansohn (talk) 16:44, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

List of people from Bayonne, New Jersey
I noticed you redirected the split out article I created for Bayonne. I've split out plenty of "list of people from X" before and it's never caused an attribution problem, given that I make clear what I'm doing on both ends. The list is clearly getting big given that it's 20k, squeezed into two teeny columns, and doesn't even include everyone from the Bayonne categories. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:30, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * , you're an admin and you know how Wikipedia is supposed to work, despite a remarkably low edit count. That no one has held you to account doesn't excuse the failure to do so. This is a list far too small to justify a split. Alansohn (talk) 04:35, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:BOLD is policy for a reason. No need to be rude about my edit count. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:22, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Just citing an apparent lack of experience in such matters. I assume that if you know about WP:BOLD, that you're equally familiar with WP:BRD. You B'ed and I R'ed. Now it's time to D. Alansohn (talk) 15:15, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK for St. Cecilia High School (New Jersey)
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 * hello Alansohn! The article I created for south jersey notable Mario Cerrito iii was put up for speedy deletion.... I put a lot of time and energy into making that a good article can you please comment on the deletion discussion page to have it kept! He deserves and article. Thanks Jugger21i (talk) 20:56, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Why did you delete reference to Eugene Emond in the Fair Lawn Page?
Dear Alansohn - why did you delete the reference? Eugene (my father) live in Fair Lawn for over 49 years? his accomplishments are well listed on the net. my email is trust2deal@gmail.com - stop deleting my edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trust2deal (talk • contribs) 21:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * , what's needed is a reliable and verifiable source establishing a connection between Eugene Emond and Fair Lawn, New Jersey. There's no mention of Fair Lawn in his article and I have been unable to find a reliable and verifiable source in multiple Google searches. Alansohn (talk) 21:20, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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Petoskey, Michigan
You are WP:Edit warring and are at WP:3RR. WTF? stop it. You know better. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 21:02, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * , you twice added -- I presume inadvertently and as I noted, in good faith -- a source that is a circular reference to the same Wikipedia article you're trying to source. All the credit to you for adding the reliable source that the other editor refused to add, but your first two edits added a source that violated WP:CIRCULAR and should have been removed, as stated in the edit summary. Alansohn (talk) 21:09, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * If you say it is circular, who am I to say otherwise. But the NFL is not a circular source.  That you are disappointed with the other editor's response (I share your concern) is understandable  But his lack of etiquette does not mean you WP:Own the article.  I'm glad this episode is now concluded.  Ciao.  <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 21:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, Im Kirias Joel.

I have changed the article about Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the information about satmar rabbi's request to his followers to move out from williamsburg.

The website I cited is "ivelt" but I don't rely on ivelt's accuracy. In the attached link you see a photo of a page in the "Book of speaches" from Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum last month, written by himself. There you see his words to his community to move out to upstate.

Hope it's clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiryas joel (talk • contribs)
 * , I saw the revert and I'll look through the sefer. Any coverage of the Satmar Rebbe's request in mainstream media? Alansohn (talk) 17:19, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

, It's interesting how this news has been misreported. In the hasidic community it shaped a storm and it's talk of town. Will be a major history event if satmar community leaves williamsburg.

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Bennetts in Crown Heights
Hi Alan, See page 4, 4th line down. The Bennetts lived at 698 St. Marks Avenue. Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianThibodeaux (talk • contribs) 14:06, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - See this source where Robert Bennett states "I was the first child of Nancy Walsh Bennett and F. Robert Bennett. Mother was a housewife and Dad worked for a bank. We lived at 698 St. Marks Avenue in what is now known as the Bedford-Stuyvesant section." Alansohn (talk) 14:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Alan, I saw that. He is accurate about his address. I found the family living there in the 1940 census. But he simply got the section of Brooklyn wrong where his old house is located. 698 St. Marks Ave is clearly not in Bedford-Stuyvesant but within the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. See the second paragraph of the Crown Heights webpage: "Crown Heights is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Empire Boulevard/East New York Avenue to the south." Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianThibodeaux (talk • contribs) 14:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , looking at the address on a map, I'd agree that it's Crown Heights. Thanks for providing the details, as Bennett didn't mention Crown Heights anywhere in the book. Alansohn (talk) 14:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, *. I am not sure who does what now? :) I've created a few pages and made some additions, but have not dealt with many issues like this. Do I (you) click the undo button? Please advise. Thanks, Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianThibodeaux (talk • contribs)
 * , I added both Bennetts back to the Crown Heights article. I reinserted and expaned the reference with an explanatory note about the address and neighborhood. Thanks for adding these entries and for bringing the issue to my attention. Alansohn (talk) 11:49, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Mayors of locations in New Jersey
Here are all the mayors of New Jersey that we have as positions at Wikidata. --RAN (talk) 00:52, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * only about 500 more to go. It's a nice start. Any ideas on expansion? Alansohn (talk) 00:59, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I am working on automating it. These were just ones where we had at least three articles in Wikipedia for a mayor. Wikidata rules allow every political position to have an entry. --RAN (talk) 01:07, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , I don't know much about automating the Wikidata process, but I would love to learn and assist. Alansohn (talk) 01:24, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Bill Winters (American football)

 * , thanks for the updates. The Winters vs. Kahl-Winter name change created some challenges for me, but I will make best use of these sources to expand the article. Alansohn (talk) 20:53, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Any others?

 * towns adjacent to towns with the same name, usually over a political split. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs)
 * Such as Andover Borough / Township, Berlin Borough / Township, Boonton Town / Township, Bordentown City / Township, Burlington City / Township, Chatham Borough / Township, Chester Borough / Township, Clinton Town / Township, Egg Harbor City / Township, Freehold Borough / Township, Gloucester City / Township, Hopewell Borough / Township, Lebanon Borough / Township, Mendham Borough / Township --- Audubon / Audubon Park, Barnegat Light / Barnegat Township, Englewood / Englewood Cliffs, Haddon Township / Haddonfield. Haddon Heights, the Cape Mays and Wildwoods. And there's more.... Alansohn (talk) 02:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I will update them in Wikidata with the "not to be confused with property" We recently did something similar with doppelganger people that were born and died on the same day. Some were aliases of the same person, some direct duplicates, and most were just coincidental. Did you see the Mendham township woman complaining to Chris Christie about the non merger? --RAN (talk) 02:43, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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Christopher Collins
The reason you probably didn't find much under Christopher Collins is that the professional name (as well as his birth name) he uses is Chris Latta if you do a search on Google and Yahoo etc... using Chris Latta there are plenty of sources. YborCityJohn (talk) 16:12, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , I looked up all combinations and permutations -- "Christopher Collins", "Christopher Latta", "Chris Collins" and "Chris Latta" -- and could find nothing to connect him to Orange, New Jersey. What reliable and verifiable sources have you found? Without those sources, I'm not sure why the entry was added. Alansohn (talk) 16:18, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Haddon Township Police Department (New Jersey)
I received an automated message saying you had proposed a speedy deletion of this article. I went to the page to contest the deletion, but could not find the button usually found in such cases. May I presume you removed your proposal yourself?&#39;&#39;Paul, in Saudi&#39;&#39; (talk) 09:35, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , another editor contested it here. Alansohn (talk) 13:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Yahoo Sports Blog
Please stop trying to add the Yahoo sports blog as a reliable source. A better source already exists, but I'm telling you something you already know, as you're an experienced editor. The only possible reason I can see for you to keep reverting is some sense of "my version is better" without any factual basis; that smacks of WP:OWN, and I hope I'm wrong about this, because an editor making millions of edits hopefully wouldn't engage in behavior like that. Rockypedia (talk) 17:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , both sources are appropriate and each provides different details. The source you're adding is already in the article. Alansohn (talk) 17:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw that, and made the appropriate changes. And no, a sports blog is not appropriate, especially when the blog is simply referencing the actual article which is already a source! Rockypedia (talk) 17:47, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As for WP:CITEVAR, see this RfC, which clearly established that vertical and horizontal cites can co-exist, as they are considered different styles, not different formats. Regardless, why would you use that as partial cover for including a blog when the actual reliable source is available, and all that's needed? Rockypedia (talk) 17:50, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , you've changed both WP:CITEVAR and WP:DATEVAR to reinsert your preferred format. I'm not sure what your edit war here is about, other than to impose your preferred style. Alansohn (talk) 17:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * If you really really need to have a horizontal format on that page, since it appears you think you own it, I really don't care to edit war about that. And change the date format, too, fine. But you should definitely be aware of that RfC, which it appears you weren't. The bigger point here is the blog as a source, and you using the CITEVAR and DATEVAR as some sort of distraction is ridiculous. Again, you've made millions of edits, and you know better than that. Then again, I now see you've also been blocked a few dozen times for petty arguments, so maybe this is in line with how you operate. I don't know. Just leave the blog out. Rockypedia (talk) 18:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Again, you said "violation of CITEVAR" in your edit summary. It's patently not a violation. Did you even bother to read this RfC? Rockypedia (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , I've dealt with abusive editors like you before. You know you're dealing with a genuine WP:DICK when the The claims made are directly contradicted by the claimed source.The RfC in question explicitly cites both WP:CITESTYLE -- "While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-date referencing, the Vancouver system and Bluebook." -- and WP:CITEVAR -- "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change.". Both of these guidelines explicitly contradict your claims. If your contribution to this encyclopedia is to violate policy and change citation formats, please help us all. For now, get lost and fight some other edit war to impose your bullshit preferences. Alansohn (talk) 18:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I stumbled by this because back in the early days of finding a source with veracity, blogs are pretty much the bottom of the barrel no no choice. Blogs are just that a blog,a diary, if you use a blog as a citation, you are citing known unverifiable material....Besides, they are an off shoot of Yahoo Sports groups, which used to be the largest flame war on the webCoal town guy (talk) 18:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * , I do believe that this is based on a misunderstanding of an RfC and I have refactored my comment above. Alansohn (talk) 21:54, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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