User talk:BappleBusiness/Archive 1

November 2017
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November 2017
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Party leader / chair merger
Hey, I noticed you tagged party leader and party chair for merge, but didn’t start any discussion on the talk page (typically this is done on the talk page of the target article). I urge you to create the discussion section and give some rationale for their merger. — HTGS (talk) 01:38, 7 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for alerting me! Feel free to add a comment at Talk:Party leader. BappleBusiness (talk) 00:54, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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Progress Pride flag on LGBT page
Hi, BappleBusiness.

Over this last year at BLM / George Floyd protests in Seattle, I saw a lot of white people with old-style rainbow flags. I suppose they were there to be supportive, but it felt like they wanted to turn the protest into a Pride Parade instead. And it felt once again like black and brown lives were less important.

I really appreciated it when people started using flag variants with black and brown stripes. I especially like the inclusivity of the Progress Pride flag. It says we're all in this together. (Plus I think that flag looks cool.) It seems like the Progress Pride flag and colors are becoming more of a standard these days.

What do you think about letting me restore the Progress Pride flag image?

Thank you. Chrisjazz (talk) 18:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * The idea behind Wikipedia is that it's an encyclopedia, not a place to bring advocacy. I understand your position, but it's irrelevant for a discussion about an encyclopedia, which describes the world.
 * I do think it's important to choose a symbol for the template that reflects the community at large for the purposes of the template. Luckily, the standard rainbow pride flag was made for that very purpose - to create a simple design that leaves out no one. The Progress Pride flag is performing more as a supplemental role to the community flag, to raise awareness for a particular issue (in this modern day case, the struggle for trans rights and racial equality within the LGBT community). See the "Victory over AIDS" pride flag for example, which raised awareness for the AIDS epidemic.
 * Design-wise, making the Progress Pride flag representative of the community, especially as in the stripe format in the template, becomes an issue as more and more subcommunities want to add on their mark. Look at Valentino Vecchietti's intersex "inclusive" flag, a design nightmare. I can think of multiple reasons why every subcommunity should be additionally represented on the flag. What about bi-erasure? The fetishization of lesbians? Neurodivergent individuals in the community are certainly underrepresented and misrepresented. How about nonbinary people? Yeah, they're included under the trans umbrella, but trans people are included under the LGBT community and that didn't stop them from adding a chevron.
 * When there is a simple design that represents the entire community--hell, it's entire purpose is to include the entire spectrum of identities--we should use it. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 20:05, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Design-wise, making the Progress Pride flag representative of the community, especially as in the stripe format in the template, becomes an issue as more and more subcommunities want to add on their mark. Look at Valentino Vecchietti's intersex "inclusive" flag, a design nightmare. I can think of multiple reasons why every subcommunity should be additionally represented on the flag. What about bi-erasure? The fetishization of lesbians? Neurodivergent individuals in the community are certainly underrepresented and misrepresented. How about nonbinary people? Yeah, they're included under the trans umbrella, but trans people are included under the LGBT community and that didn't stop them from adding a chevron.
 * When there is a simple design that represents the entire community--hell, it's entire purpose is to include the entire spectrum of identities--we should use it. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 20:05, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback, BappleBusiness. Yeah, no symbol will feel perfectly inclusive to everyone. I thought I was seeing a recent shift in the world from the old rainbow symbol to the new progressive pride one. Maybe not. Chrisjazz (talk) 02:51, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Edit to January 6
Hi BappleBusiness, with regards to your edit on January 6, the original change I made was part of a broader change to DOY articles. I won't revert your change this time, but could you please look at, and participate in, the discussion here? Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 07:21, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

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Generation Z Date Range Edit War?
Over on the Generation Z date range, editors had put down the 1997-2012 age range at the top due to the United States Library of Congress officially citing the Pew's definition as of 2022. Many other institutions as well. Even the Millennials wiki page has the 1981-1996 definition at the top in the first paragraph. However, an editor who has a history of committing edit wars on this as well as other pages is vandalizing the page as well as having a history of adding outdated sources (such as Pew's 2015 definition) for unknown reasons. This can be seen on that Wiki's talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GhostlyOperative (talk • contribs) 23:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Neutrality on Factory Model Schools
Hello! I wanted to follow up regarding the neutrality tag you added to the "factory model" page. I'm happy to work through your concerns on the article's talk page. If you no longer have any concerns, I'll go ahead and remove the tag. EdHistory101 (talk) 20:59, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hi, I have a question!
Do you get paid to be an active editor of Wikipedia? 2600:100A:B10A:17DD:101:34D5:CE26:B136 (talk) 07:21, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi! No, I am not paid.
 * Almost all editors are volunteers; they donate their time to contribute to the project. There are a small number of editors who are paid by parties other than Wikipedia, but they have to disclose this relationship and are (like all editors) governed by restrictions on conflicts of interest. There are also staff of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that operates Wikipedia), but as far as I am aware, their jobs don't involve editing.
 * I don't need to be paid, because editing is a lot of fun, and you can contribute as much or as little as you want! Let me know if you have other questions. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 19:15, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Space Song


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GeorgeNotFound draft
Hello it's PantheonRadiance. I noticed that you apparently edited the GeorgeNotFound draft, which just so happened to be right around the time I was also working on the draft myself - earlier today at around 12 PM PST. However, I didn't notice that you revised it until after I saw an edit conflict once I submitted my revisions to the draft. As much as I appreciate your edits to the draft, seeing as how several of the sources still contained references to other unreliable sources like Dexerto and Sportskeeda along with some replaceable primary sources, I decided to copy over portions of my work into the draft.

Thanks for your efforts, PantheonRadiance (talk) 04:14, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for notifying me! I made some changes to meld the best from both our edits. I tried my best to not include the unreliable sources when I readded content, but feel free to get rid of that if you see it. I also reworded some stuff, most notably the fanfiction paragraph, but I didn't remove any information. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 05:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thank you so much, and I love the new edits you made to the draft! Also, in retrospect I came off a bit too brash towards you, and I apologize for that. I saw that George's article was deleted via AfD and had been rejected a couple times, so I just wanted to make sure every source in the draft came from a RS (and I may or may not have been a bit taken aback when I saw the edit conflict as well lol). Anyway, I personally feel he meets GNG now, but you're welcome to submit anytime you feel it's ready for mainspace. PantheonRadiance (talk) 02:15, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries! I'll send the draft through the AfC process and hopefully it will be approved! ~BappleBusiness[talk] 22:05, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Disruptive edits to the Gen Z article
Hi, there’s a user that’s going berserk removing a lot of sources in order to establish some sort of range dictatorship. This user is trying to silence any Gen Z range they can other than 1997-2012 to fulfill this. Right now there’s a wall of sources that only this user deem fits and as a matter of fact no news agency actually define these ranges so why are they allowed to take up this amount of space? Why can this user randomly just remove articles from the same news agency just because a different writer had a different range? Wikiboo02 (talk) 02:01, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Could you raise this issue on the Generation Z talk page so we can have a community discussion about the sources added? The additions do concern me. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 06:40, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I intend to create a discussion in the talk page about it but no one is active. Should I create one anyway? It’s impossible to add new references despite them being from October 2022 and reliable (Forbes and Bain & Company) he wouldn’t accept them. He says they’re unreliable and accuses me of vandalism saying that I could be banned. Instead he undid everything and warned me a bunch of times. He’s making his own edits of course. He’s violating the disclaimer that says that we should reach a consensus and that there should be consistency in the ranges provided by a source. He’s constantly talking about another user that was banned previously and same thing could happen to me if I continue. Wikiboo02 (talk) 22:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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Something needs to be done about the Gen Z article
Hi there BappleBusiness, I’m a new user so please forgive me if I’m interrupting but I’m not sure I’m going to get the support I need in the talk page as no one is editing the -age except for this specific user who is now on a rampant spree we’re he removes any citation that was there in favor of new ones he found that he thinks are better. I’m surprised no one is doing anything and I don’t want to engage in edit warring with him as it doesn’t lead anywhere. He’s now accusing me of things I haven’t done and warning me in the edit log saying he will report but it’s obvious that I haven’t. Tried providing citations but he removes them and adds his own. Accuses me of not following the 18 month rule but his citations are all new with no consensus and definitely no 18 month rule satisfied. They also remove citations from this summer claiming they’re outdated and doesn’t allow anyone else to add citations. Should I contact an administrator? Please I need help with this disruptive user, can you help reverting his changes? Wikiboo02 (talk) 22:24, 20 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @Wikiboo02, I will create a section on Talk:Generation Z so we can discuss this in a more centralized fashion. I'm busy in my personal life at the moment, so I haven't looked at the sources you or @GhostlyOperative have added, but I will revert to the WP:STATUSQUO until we come to a consensus at the talk page. Also, beware of WP:CANVASSING. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 22:57, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I will read about Canvassing. Again, I’m so sorry for the drama. Wikiboo02 (talk) 22:59, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, I don't think you are canvassing, I just know that it's a common mistake among new editors. ~BappleBusiness[talk] 02:56, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I think there's a sockpuppet on the article page now who's making edits and reverting other people's edits. This user is editing things without fully disclosing it in the edit comments. Can you check it out and revert it to status quo? Wikiboo02 (talk) 14:40, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I made an edit on the talk page and don’t know if you were notified or not. Can you please tell me where I made disruptive edits? As for now I’ve only been accused but I haven’t added anything to the page since you rolled it back to status quo. I only tried to undo some new edits. I also gave some details on the Center of Generational Kinetics as I saw you only listened to Zillennial’s reasoning but some of the things he’s saying are misleading. Wikiboo02 (talk) 05:34, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * As you can see in the edit history I only reverted edits by WaterIguana, he didn’t just remove Generational Kinetics source from the top as we all agreed on, instead he put it in another place where it wasn’t before as well as removing something completely unrelated in the Asia section where he removed 1996-2012 from the McKinsey source even though it’s correctly cited. Can you please go to the page and check WaterIguanas edits and you’ll see what I mean. I think he’s deliberately using the fact I mistakenly reverted all his edits as me targeting the agreed upon replacement of Generational Kinetics and his addition of a Cosmopolitan article. Can you please roll back to the status quo including the Asia section and then let him add the Cosmopolitan article? That way we can ensure no one’s editing while there’s a dispute. I think as per Some1 and your suspicions there should also be a sock puppet investigation. Apparently an IP that appeared in GhostlyOperative’s last investigation is now on the Zillennial page and talking about WaterIguanas edits and encouraging them to protect it. Wikiboo02 (talk) 07:48, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikiboo02 I really don’t know what is going on here with the Gen Z article. It’s not a page I’m currently working on. The sources that are put up in the Zillennial article including the Cosmo article were all discussed with admins in the Cusper page prior. Those sources will stay up until discussion with the admins demonstrate a solid reasoning for taking down said sources other than random editors personal preferences of what should be up in the Zillennial article or not. When it comes to the Gen Z page that’s a separate matter. If the issue is using it as a citation for the mention of Zillennials in the Gen Z page? The article does discuss Zillennials by that name if it’s being used to cite the Zillennial name Centennial357 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:13, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Regarding sock puppets editing the Gen Z article
Hi BappleBusiness, I don’t know if you have noticed has created new socks. One of them was blocked and the other one RRTortuga is reported but it’s a duck and the evidence is obvious. In this case, is it possible to revert the edits if it’s obvious the accounts are sock puppets? Especially when they’re trying to edit the same part. Wikiboo02 (talk) 09:30, 26 December 2022 (UTC)


 * If it's obvious that the accounts are sockpuppets, you can revert the edits since it would be considered vandalism. BappleBusiness[talk] 00:10, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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Gen Z Politics: Latin America
It would be nice if you could add a reference or 2 to your "Latin America" contribution to the "Gen Z Politics" article. - Joaquin89uy (talk) 07:18, 27 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @Joaquin89uy, I actually moved that sentence (and its lack of sources), which was written by someone else, from the Generation Z article. My fault for not adding citations at the time or clarifying that move in the edit summary. I've added some sources now; let me know if you think we need more. BappleBusiness[talk] 02:53, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Awesome. Will check 'em out. Thanks. - Joaquin89uy (talk) 03:29, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

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