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Again, welcome! Fiddle  Faddle  21:49, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (March 20)
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Onel5969 (talk) 03:39, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Pointless
Please read this. An image that old can be safely uploaded to the Commons as public domain. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:22, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Problems with upload of File:Norfolkfight2.png
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Abraham Jacob Hollandersky (March 23)
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Onel5969 (talk) 00:30, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Abraham Jacob Hollandersky has been accepted
 Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:54, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
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Inappropriate categorization
Please read WP:DRAFTNOCAT. There is a good reason for that and once your article is accepted (see no reason it shouldn't be) it can be properly categorized. The policy is clear - Draft articles are not supposed to be categorized. Let me know if you have any questions.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:18, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dave Palitz has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Austin Rice has been accepted
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You know what you are doing. Start as a Draft: article by all means, but, when you are ready, assuming it to be of this standard, simply go ahead and migrate it to main name space. There is no need for the Articles for Creation banners and approval scheme for your work.

I start all articles I write in my own user space and them over them when I am ready. Fiddle  Faddle  21:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
Fiddle  Faddle  21:49, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question
Hello, Dcw2003! I'm Timtrent. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. Fiddle  Faddle  19:52, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

I have some further advice for you
Actually, "father advice"

When creating articles, know when to let go. I don't mean you should stop adding useful information, but know when to be the article's father, not its mother. It has to run free and scrape its knees, not be wrapped in soft towels. So be a father, not a mother, and step away from every article you create as soon as you deem it to be capable of surviving a deletion discussion. You will be amazed how some will catch people's imagination and they will improve them beyond your wildest dreams, and others will seem to languish for years unedited by a single other editor.

As with all advice, feel perfectly free to disregard it, but examine it closely before deciding. Fiddle  Faddle  21:49, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

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Where we have common names...
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All successful editors here have made enormous errors at the start. You've not even scratched the surface of the error lake!! Just keep on enjpying editing Fiddle   Faddle  07:48, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:JackSilverBoxer1.png


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Please read the description carefully. The picture is the most critical photo in the article, as it identifies the boxer Jack Silver. It is from 1925, according to the book from which it was taken. Of course the book was published after 1923, but it states specifically the image was created in 1925 at the latest.

The image is the only identifying photo of the boxer i have been able to locate. It is historically significant as it illustrates the article for EDUCATIONAL purposes, and it is holds a critical place in the article. It illustrates the existence of Silver as a boxer. It is also nearly public domain anyway as the book indicates it was taken around 1925, only 2 years from being fully public domain anyway. It is also cropped from the original picture, and is used SOLELY to identify Jack Silver to the reader. Please consider keeping it. Thank-you The origial picture was owned by Jack Silver according to the caption. He is deceased. Please consider keeping the image. I have also searched the library of congress for LOC public domain copies and found none. Thank-you.

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Moving from Draft
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Answer from my talk page
You must excuse wikipedia - there are guidelines that are open to interpretation, some are acted upon, and some are not. Up-loading pictures is subject to this and I have never quite understood the ins and outs of the process. This is the bane of multi-contributor wikis with no single czar. Wish I coulde be more helpful.

With regard to notability and your articles in general I will say that personally I like your contributions. Well written, referenced and interesting subjects. However, for wikipedia the main arbitrator of notability is the WP:GNG with the various guidelines such as WP:NBOX designed not as a hard and fast rule but to help define what is likely to be notable. So you could have boxers which don't meet WP:NBOX but have more than enough reliable third party coverage to meet WP:GNG and they should be kept (this may be debated in AfD) and conversely boxers who meet WP:NBOX but without much in the way of coverage being kept on the assumption that more is out there. With all your articles so far, even the once who don't strictly meet WP:NBOX I think a good effort has been made to supply the needed references. I hope this helps.Peter Rehse (talk) 20:35, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015
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Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Sid Terris. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. Cmr08 (talk) 02:01, 14 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Dcw2003, I'm not sure why you refuse to acknowledge edits I make to your articles or just ignore any attempts to explain to you that Wikipedia has a manual of style that articles follow. It's only a simple policy, WP:HEAD states that headers follow sentence case not title case, so only the first word and any proper nouns begin with capital letters. Look around at other articles if you don't understand what I mean, or maybe read the policy so you know what it says. I have already left two low-level warnings because often times newer editors don't know about policy before making the edits, but I have also mentioned to you over-and-over again in edit summarys what the policy is and you keep changing back to incorrect style. Just because you create an article doesn't mean you own the article and can have it appear anyway you want. Any other editor can edit the articles you create. I really don't want to add other warnings because I don't want to cause problems for you because you have created some very good, well re-searched articles, and I want to see you create more of them. That's why I am leaving you this message, to try and reach out to you in the hopes you will work together with other editors like me who are only trying to follow policy when editing. Other editors have also fixed headers in your articles, so that should tell you there must be something to this. If you haven't read the policy, please do so, and if you don't understand something, all you have to do is ask me. I'm only trying to work with you, not against you which is how you make it seem when you ignore editors wanting to help. Cmr08 (talk) 21:22, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

dcw2003 I am rather certain you did not specifically state that headers follow sentence case. This is unusual as I have worked as a professional writer for many years, and have never seen this convention. I was not trying to ignore you. I would appreciate it if you would be more patient in your reprimands, and more specific. Thank-you for your interest. I was completely unaware of this convention, and you did not specifically mention it in any of your comments. Thank-you for your words of praise. I can only say you may need to more specific in your critiques.

Thank-you


 * Actually there were no reprimands or criticisms, it was just attempts by another editor to inform you of Wikipedia's manual of style. The reason it seemed like you were ignoring me was because I had fixed the headers in numerous articles and cited policy in the edit summary but you kept adding them in all caps. Also, I am rather certain that I did specifically state that headers follow sentence case, and can show proof. You must have just missed it. In this edit to Abie Bain, I left a link to the policy and told you in edit summary what the policy was. In Sid Terris article as well with this edit, other edits I made I pointed out the WP:HEAD policy, and in others I left an edit summary explaining my changes by stating that only the first word and proper nouns begin with capitals. It took two low-level warnings, numerous reverts and edit summarys and finally a long note explaining my edits to get you attention. Maybe I should have left the note at first and skipped the warnings, but the warning are not a big deal and not really all that much of a warning, there really just messages to let an editor there might be a problem and there usually enough to get the editors attention. Now, higher level warnings can cause problems and even lead in some cases to blocks which is why I left the note rather than keep warning. The last thing I wanted was to cause problems for you because as I stated earlier, your articles are very good and want to see you continue here. I came across Jack Silver by chance, which is why I checked for other articles to read them but when I see anything that needs to be touched up, I do it. It's not meant as criticism, and most of the time it's just mistakes the editor doesn't even know they made. Other editors will also do this. Trust me when I say this, compared to the manual of style I have to fix on a lot of other articles, you have nothing to worry about. If there is ever anything you need help with, or other problems you come across, I have no problem helping you out. Just leave a message on my talk page, and I look forward to working with you here and to read your future articles. Cmr08 (talk) 23:35, 18 May 2015 (UTC)


 * And by the way, sorry for the length of my reply. I have a habit of rambling on. lol Cmr08 (talk) 23:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Edit Summary
Hi Dce2003, the edit summary is the box directly above where you save page at the bottom. Whatever an editor writes in there will appear on the articles history page next to their edit. Cmr08 (talk) 00:48, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
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Talkback
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Manual of style editing, warnings, etc.
Hi again, I want to make something clear about what I left on your talk page above. There were two low-level warnings, not three as you said on my talk page. The third was not a warning, it was a message trying to explain manual of style to you, where I even stated I was leaving the message because I did not want to leave a third warning. By leaving the warnings, I was doing what I am supposed to be doing. I left the level-one warning, when you continued, I left the level-two warning. The wording is from templates where each level gets a little stronger in tone. The list of warning templates can be found at WP:WARNING. If you find the wording vague, hard to understand, or negative in nature, I'm sorry but sending the template messages is the normal way to let newer editors know about policy. You can always go to the appropriate noticeboard and make your case there, or open up a report on me and see what happens. I doubt much since I don't believe I have done anything wrong. You can also go to the help page, and there are ways there to ask questions of other editors and get advice on editing. However, the best thing may be for you to just remove the warnings from your talk page as if they were never left there, and for me to refrain from copyediting any of the articles you wrote. Will you agree with me on this? That way the problem is solved. Cmr08 (talk) 00:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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dcw2003 Sorry Cmr08, but before reading your note, I changed the format back to US date format. Griffo lived the great majority of his life in the United States, and died there, and was a US citizen. (From age 22 to 56) The US uses the date format in the document as it stands now. I'm sorry to waste your time and apologize. I appreciate your note, and wish I'd read it in time. If you keep the tag out of the document at the top that switches it to European date format, of course it should remain in US date format. Feel free to change it back if I have violated some Wiki rules, of course, but I'd hate to take more of your time. Again, I apologize for the change. I've always greatly appreciated your time and attentions.


 * The general rule when it comes to dates is that we don't change to another format if an article is already following a certain date format, but you have explained why you made the changes, so I will not revert. However, it should be pointed out that the article existed for almost 8 years and was tagged for 3 years before you ever edited the article, so there are editors who do pay attention to this. You probably didn't notice when you were editing Torpedo Billy Murphy, but the same thing occurred. You removed the tags and used a different date format and another editor came along right away and fixed template damage with this edit. So, it's still possible and maybe even probable that another editor will come along and revert your edit, but like I said, I understand why you made the change so I won't revert. Also, even after your edit, I see a couple of dates still in the other format, so you might want to check this so they are all in the same format. Cmr08 (talk) 11:28, 17 July 2016 (UTC)


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Reply from talk page
Hi Dcw2003, you can write about pretty much anything, as long as the subject is notable enough for an article. You don't even have to create the articles, if there are other topics you are interested in, you could always find stub articles created by someone else and expand them into more detailed articles. I'm sure you would have no problem finding articles to edit in the areas you mentioned on my talk page. Cmr08 (talk) 01:56, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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Frankie Klick
Hi Dcw2003, I'm not really sure what to do here. I see the Frankie Klick (boxer) article, and the Frankie Klick article which you redirected, but I'm not sure what you mean by German language article. Are you referring to an article on the German Wikipedia or did someone add an article on this Wikipedia but wrote it in German? I'm not seeing any other Frankie Klick on the English Wikipedia, so a disambiguation page would not be needed. If this is the case, then the article you wrote would not need the (boxer) disambiguation, just the name. We only disambiguate pages if there is another article with the same name. All I get when I try to fix this is a message that says I don't have permission to move because another article with the name exists, and it can't be done manually because it would mess up the article history. The best thing to do is go to Requested moves and see if an administrator can help. Cmr08 (talk) 21:09, 19 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Ok, you meant if I went to google and searched? I now see what you mean, but it doesn't matter what the titles are in other Wikipedia's, they are different websites, we are only concerned with the English Wikipedia. A disambiguation page on the English Wikipedia only lists the articles on this Wikipedia. Further to your original message, the problem with the disambiguation (boxer) can probably be easily fixed, but like I said above, it's not possible for me to do that, you will need to ask an administrator on the page Requested moves.


 * By the way, thanks to the barnstar. Cmr08 (talk) 22:51, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Edit counts
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Service awards.table
Hi Dcw2003, I just reverted these edits you made on the service awards/table page as unexplained. You removed the requirements and some of the badges for the experienced editor award level. Were you really trying to remove these or was it just a mistake? If it was a mistake, don't worry it's fixed, if it wasn't a mistake, you'll have to explain the reason. Cmr08 (talk) 09:54, 24 August 2016 (UTC)


 * There's no big deal when you make a mistake. All you have to do is click on "undo" next to the edit on the history page and it will take you to the edit window where you just click "save" like you do when saving your other edits. Doing this reverts the edit. Cmr08 (talk) 00:13, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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PT-109 and PT-59
I appreciate the detail you added as to Kennedy's wartime serve in his main article. If you have time, have a look at Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 and Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59. I have worked on both over the years to improve them and to add WP:RS cites. As with many articles, they can use some additional work. Kierzek (talk) 13:45, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * PT-109 is looking better. When I have time, I will do a little clean up, sfn the cites you added. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 13:10, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hello. Thank you for your diligent work on Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109. I've removed your px values from thumbnails twice, here andhere, with a clear edit summary and a link to the applicable policy in both cases. And yet you're still adding new px values, eg here. Have you not paid enough attention to the page history to see my corrections? Can I do anything to help you understand the use of upright or the need for its use? &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  21:47, 15 August 2018 (UTC) Also, most editors respond to a user talk post under it, rather than going to the other user's talk page; that way discussions are not fragmented. An editor posting here would generally be expected to watch the page for awhile for your response. If there's any doubt, you can use (or any of its popular aliases including "ping") within your reply to send them a notification of it. Happy editing! &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  22:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the response. I've changed all the px values again. I'll emphasize that edit summaries are an important part of communication between editors (nobody works in isolation here), so monitoring the page history is part of the necessary routine for experienced editors. It's the first thing I do when I start a new "day" at an article where I've been activeI check to see what's been done while I was away, with the option to view individual edits using the "prev" links at the left edge.

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Harry Mason (boxer)
I would invite you to discuss changes on the article's talk page rather than just re-adding the same text with incorrect date formats, grammatical errors, and unnecessary sub-headings. I don't think anything I changed was particularly controversial, so please take any issues to the talk page. --Michig (talk) 16:46, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

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Someone gave me a ton of news reports of Ike Weir. If you want we could sort something out so I can get them to you. Bitplayervesti (talk) 19:20, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

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Tom Johnson (bareknuckle boxer)
Hi, I'm sorry but I am having to revert an awful lot of what you did yesterday at Tom Johnson (bareknuckle boxer) and wonder if you are making similarly suboptimal edits to other boxing articles. I've given rationales for my changes thus far in the edit summaries, which is always a good idea & something I would encourage you to use in future. - Sitush (talk) 11:52, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

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Section headings
Hi, I know you thought my section headings too brief and too few but, honestly, I think you're making a hash of changing the layout of these boxing biographies. Have you read WP:MOSHEAD? Have you considered what happens when a long section heading is viewed using the mobile app? I see that you are doing it to a swathe of articles and it really is not the improvement that you seem to think it is. - Sitush (talk) 15:47, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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Dcw2003, the template you used states that it is for works published anonymously before 1924. Further, List of countries' copyright lengths states 95 years from publication for works published 1964–77; 28 (if copyright not renewed) or 95 years from publication for works published 1924–63 (Copyrights prior to 1924 have expired, not including copyrights on sound recordings fixed prior to February 15, 1972, covered only under state laws.), not 70 years as you have stated. Based on your talk page history, you seem to get a lot of warnings about image licensing problems. Why do you think that is? ST47 (talk) 23:04, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm also not able to verify the source you have provided for File:Harry Broome and Orme, 1853.jpg. I believe you that it is is PD, but it does not appear on the page of the book you have linked. ST47 (talk) 23:24, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * File:Maurice Holtzer 1930.JPG appears to have the same problem as the Billy Soose photo, I have created Category:Images using PD-anon-expired which are less than 95 years old for this problem. ST47 (talk) 23:28, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I am disabling your unblock request, as the block has expired. However, considering the number of messages you have received about copyright over the course of the last four years, it is astonishing that you have not been blocked previously. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 13:23, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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I'm glad you liked the article. The table is a bit redundant I guess, but I included it anyway. I think it is one of my best boxing articles. Thanks Scope Creep. What is a page curation process?

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Hi, I remain unhappy with your edits to boxing biographies and in particular the ridiculously lengthy section headings now in use, eg at Daniel Mendoza. Have you ever tried viewing this stuff using the Wikipedia app which, I'd wager, is how most people would view it? Are you aware of WP:MOSHEAD? - Sitush (talk) 13:07, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for your recent articles, including George Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:54, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Dear Dow. You should be aware of talk pages as you have commented on few several times before: . But in either case, see Help:Talk pages. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 00:27, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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===dcw2003 responds to Dcw2003 (talk)I believe I was indeed the sole author. Check the history of the PT-109 article, and you will see pages and pages of edits from dcw2003. Actually the text I copied was from the PT-109 article I wrote most of, not the John F. Kennedy, although I wrote much of the section on PT-109 in the John Kennedy article as well. I greatly appreciate your advice and information. As a secondary issue, I was wondering if you knew the tag to use if you are making extensive edits on a page, particularly one you have just begun and moved to article space and need time to complete your edits before you are deluged with warning tags for missing categories or references or other essential information. I usually keep my new articles in Draft: mode, but sometimes I upload them and don't have time to complete them before getting deluged with comments while I am trying to complete the article. Thanks!!!!
 * Template:In use is what you are looking for.— Diannaa 🇨🇦 (talk) 11:57, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

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Date formats for modern US military
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John R. Thistlewaite
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In the future, if you disagree with an editor moving an article you have created into Draft space, please simply inform the editor and move it back. Otherwise, we are left with two versions of an article, one in main space and one in Draft space. It's better to retain the page history rather than have you do a cut & paste and create a new version of an article. Thanks very much for your new article. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:34, 17 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, Dcw2003,
 * Okay, so now we have both John R. Thistlethwaite and John R. Thistlewaite. Please select the article with correct spelling of this person's name and change the other page into a redirect. We can't have two identical articles with different spellings of a person's name. Thank you. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 17:49, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

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Andrew Weissmann's Where The Law Ends
You are, of course, aware that WaPo, The Atlantic, Slate.com, are all Leftwing progressive sources. Sad you saw no need to cite non-biased sources. I'll try to fix that but then I guess any sources I use (National Review, Victor Hanson Davis, Washington Times, etc.) will all by adjudged non-RS, unreliable, etc. I guess Larry Sanger is right. MurrayGreshler (talk) 03:29, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your comments, and apologize for what may be adjudged Liberal Sources.  I also quote a Federal Judge, but then I guess you'd consider her biased because she's from a District of Columbia Court.   Murray, there are no non-biased sources in a larger sense, my friend when it comes to politics.  And yes National Review is one of the most conservative newspapers in America, and was once the brain child of William F. Buckley, one of the most conservative, if brilliant, political commentators in America. I appreciate your work.  All the facts in the document have been verified hundreds of times by all kinds of sources.  Manafort himself admitted he gave polling documents to Konstantin Kilimnik, so I would think he's a reliable source.   He's admitted it more than once.   If the FBI isnt a reliable source than I guess we're all sunk and they've given the odds that Kilimnik was a Russian agent at about 80% reliable.    So I'm not certain sourcing is the only issue here.   BY THE WAY I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK AND YOUR ATTENTION TO DETAIL!!!      Good luck to you and thank you for holding wiki to high standards.   You are a gentleman and a scholar.   My best to you always!! Dcw2003 (talk) 13:31, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * Dianna-
 * Thank-you for editing wikipedia articles. I'm afraid I have some information to convey to you which you may not like hearing.
 * The entire first paragraph of Bonnie Adair (which I did not write) is copied from the following website word for word with not a single modification:
 * www.usms.org/fitness-and-training/articles-and-videos/articles/profiling-bonnie-adair?Oldid=1544
 * This is common in most of the wikipedia websites I've seen and edited, but since the source is not carefully or fully cited, editors like you rarely comment. I've edited over 1000 wikipedia articles and written over 120 from scratch.  I know what I'm talking about.
 * My edits were modified in sentence structure, grammar, and order, but were entirely deleted because I was careful to include the full path to the source as I always do.
 * This seems a bit odd to me, but then I probably edit more articles than most editors. Actually it seems very odd and discriminatory.  Perhaps you can see why.  I apologize for the tone of this note. Dcw2003 (talk) 10:35, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Let me also add that the entire Bonnie Adair article as it now stands is copied word for word from the sight I listed below without a single word being modified. But you didn't catch this because the source article in Masters swimming was not properly cited. I mean every single word!! Dcw2003 (talk) 10:40, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Dcw2003. The reason your edit got flagged is because we have a detection system that uses the Turnitin service to locate copyright violations. It compares all additions over a certain size to material available online. It does not compare with citations present in the article; it compares with the rest of the Internet and content they retain in a database. In other words, it would have detected the overlap even if you had not cited a source.The article from its creation was copied from this website so I have listed it at WP:CP. You are welcome to do a rewrite if you wish. See the template below for instructions.  — Diannaa (talk) 15:18, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Dianaaa-
 * You didn't seem to read or understand a word of my note. The entire document Bonnie Adair is PLAGARIZED word for word.  I didn't write any of it.  According to your response, it should have been caught.   IT WAS NOT.  It rarely is. EVERY SINGLE WORD.  This is a direct contradiction of what you replied to my note.  Perhaps it is difficult to communicate through these text messages.
 * www.usms.org/fitness-and-training/articles-and-videos/articles/profiling-bonnie-adair?Oldid=1544
 * The source path is directly above.  Word for word copyright violation, but no flag at all.  Completely contradicts everything you said in your note.  And you also verify what I've said.  My flagged violation was flagged by a computer program not a human being.  Please be a human being and try to comprehend what I'm saying here.  Sorry for my tone. Dcw2003 (talk) 15:49, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I acrtually do think I understand what you are saying: You are saying that there was copyright content in the article before you even arrived. I checked, and that is true. It was copied from this website right from the very first edit, which took place in 2007. The source document is dated 2002. So this is what we call a "foundational copyright violation". It was not caught by our Turnitin service in 2007, because that system was not in place until June 2016. I know it is not your responsibility to re-write the article but you are welcome to do so if you like. If nobody cleans the copyvio, the article will either be deleted or trimmed back to a stub by the patrollers who work the cases listed at WP:CP. The template below implies that you added the copyvio, but I know that's not the case. I only added it here because that's where the instructions are located for how to properly do a rewrite. — Diannaa (talk) 16:02, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your understanding and insightful reply. I'll stop bothering you.  I see frequent serious copyright violations in wikipedia articles written before 2016.  I sometimes change or modify them but that would take eternity.  I strive to never copy information word for word from a newspaper or online source.   Ever.  Never.  Thanks for your understanding.  I modify the text in a number of ways; sentence structure, order, wording, grammar and frequently content.  But a computer program may still consider my text changes a form of plagiarism.  Thanks for reading this.  A computer program is not a human editor. I am.  Thank-you. Dcw2003 (talk) 16:13, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * OK, fine so you found where it was plagarized from. I already told you this in my note previously.  Can you imagine my frustration?   I edit text from an online source carefully, add a few bits from newspaper sources, and get cited for copyright issues, when the entire article initially was COMPLETELY PLAGARIZED word for word!! How do you know the program was citing the part of the article I NEVER WROTE?  Thanks for reading this. Dcw2003 (talk) 15:54, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * In other words, you deleted what I wrote, but the ACTUAL COPYRIGHT VIOLATION WAS NEVER CITED, DELETED OR FLAGGED!!! I hope I'm making myself clear. Dcw2003 (talk) 15:56, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry for my frustration. I did not write the portion of the article that was plagarized.  I did note it was plagarized but left it alone, though it was annoying to me. Don't know why the truly word for word plagarized portion of the article was never flagged until recently.  The portions of the article you deleted were not plagarized.  I changed the text dramatically from the sources I used.  I always do this.  I hope this doesn't aggravate you, but its difficult communicating via text messages.  Thank-you for your consideration. Dcw2003 (talk) 16:02, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Hello, Dcw2003,
 * If you object to an article being moved to Draft space, please move it back to main space rather than starting a new article in main space. As it is, we have two articles on the same subject with different page histories which should be avoided. It's fine, especially for an experienced editor, to object to a draftification but please just move the article back. Thank you. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 02:14, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem. Someone inadvertently moved this article to Draft space before I could complete it. I should have started it in Draft space rather than Main Space, but I was in a hurry I suppose. I'll be careful about this in the future.   I follow your line of reasoning thoroughly. Dcw2003 (talk) 17:58, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, I'll stop this practice.  I just type quickly. Dcw2003 (talk) 17:36, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Are you still actively editing the Mann article. I've had it on my "to do" list for years and will take a crack at picking up where you left off. Cbl62 (talk) 17:50, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Working on it a little bit. I've added quite a bit, including all of the infobox on right, death information, honors section.  He was an amazing coach.  I worry that a previous writer may have included a lot of pledgarized material, so I've reworded some of it.  I hope you don't rewrite or delete much of my additions, but I'm confident you'll do fine.  Thanks for your help. Dcw2003 (talk) 17:53, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't want to interrupt your flow. Go ahead and finish your efforts and I'll come back to when you're done. (It's been on my "to do" list for about 15 years, so I'd have to say there's no rush at my end. Cbl62 (talk) 18:01, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It had NO references when I started or practically none, which was a frustrating experience. It was also challenging piecing together his coaching resume in the infobox, but I think I'm extremely close to where he coached and when. Prior to University of Michigan and Detroit Athletic Club, there were many teams and places he coached, like Harvard and Yale, but few exact years of service.  I looked through many many newspaper articles and online articles to find this information.   No place of birth or death either before I started, which wasn't too hard to find since I use newspaper archives extensively. Dcw2003 (talk) 18:02, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It even lacked birthdates and death dates Dcw2003 (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * For such an important figure, it's surprising that the article was left for so long in such a sorry state. Cbl62 (talk) 18:11, 2 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Question: Most of the sources I've encountered refer to him as "Matt Mann". The differential on Newspapers.com is more than 10-to-1 in favor of "Matt" over "Matthew'. See here vs. here. Per WP:COMMONNAME, articles should be titled according to the name by which a historical figure was commonly known. E.g., Bill Clinton (not William), Jimmy Carter (not James0, etc. What has your experience been in terms of which is more common here, Matt or Matthew? Cbl62 (talk) 18:11, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Matt Dcw2003 (talk) 18:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Most of my newspaper articles come from newspapers.com.............And I've read at least 30 on Mann by now. Dcw2003 (talk) 18:18, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * Thank-you for your kind words.  Perhaps we can correspond more occasionally.  Do you know much about copyright issues with photos?     I'm learning more, but I've had trouble finding photographs that fit the proper copyright requirements.   I'm looking for paths that have lots of public domain photos of swimmers or swim coaches or Olympians.   Anyway, Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you
 * Dcw2003 (talk) 15:58, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank-you for your kind words. Perhaps we can correspond more occasionally. Do you know much about copyright issues with photos? I'm learning more, but I've had trouble finding photographs that fit the proper copyright requirements. I'm looking for paths that have lots of public domain photos of swimmers or swim coaches or Olympians. Anyway, Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you
 * Dcw2003 (talk) 16:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Of course we can correspond more, just get me on my talk page. I am not well-versed in photo copyrights, but I will try to help if I can. Have a good day! &maltese; SunDawn &maltese;    (contact)   07:25, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Of course we can correspond more, just get me on my talk page. I am not well-versed in photo copyrights, but I will try to help if I can. Have a good day! &maltese; SunDawn &maltese;    (contact)   07:25, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * You're welcome.  I greatly appreciate your appreciative comments!!
 * I work really hard at this and have been writing wiki articles now for close to 10 years.  I was a technical writer previously.  I was a college swimmer and a masters swimmer and I've been writing articles on swim coaches now for a couple of years.   I try to find 20-30 references per wiki article I write, and piece together as much information as possible.
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 * Thank-you so much.   I worked hard on both these pages.   Did you find any spelling or grammatical errors?
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 * Dcw2003 (talk) 14:40, 1 June 2024 (UTC)You are welcome.
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 * Thanks for your comments and review.
 * I write a great deal, and try very hard to change the contents of online sources I use as carefully as possible, but sometimes things slip through as I write relatively long wiki articles.
 * I've added two sources for Marshall's 4 x 100-meter freestyle world record. Actually, I believe we can quote Wiki as a source if we quote the source used by wiki instead of wiki itself.  I couldn't find the wiki source on the page.  The information on Marshall's 4 x 100 freestyle world relay record I provided was accurate according to the two new sources I've found to support Marshalls 4x100-meter freestyle relay world record.  As the meet was with East Germany, the dual match in 1974 was significant and prophetic.   East Germany, also known than as the GDR was the American Women's team closest rival in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.  The East German women's team was later found to have been using steroids, though they won nearly all the Gold medals, and the American team performed below expectations as a result.  Shirley Babashoff wrote a book about the 1976 Olympics and her belief that the East German women's team had been using steroids, which has since been verified.   The Olympic committee never changed the official results, though they tried to make certain ammends to the American team. Dcw2003 (talk) 15:25, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Dcw2003 (talk) 15:26, 7 June 2024 (UTC)Sorry, forgot to include my return address.

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