User talk:DeRossitt

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Orange Mound
Welcome to Wikipedia! I'd just like to thank you for your article on Orange Mound -- you write well, and I think you did a good job. Actually, I have another reason to be grateful -- a friend and I had been planning on writing this article (see a few peliminary notes we've put together), and we were pleasantly surprised to see that someone else had decided to do a good deal of our work for us, as it were. In the next couple of weeks, we plan on adding quite a bit to your article. So thanks for getting this project (that you didn't even know about) off to a great start, and for saving us some time;) I look forward to your comments about our additions -- Wikipedia is at its best when its editors collaborate. Do you live in Orange Mound or did you once live there? Just wondering.

P.S. I like how the article is organized. --Zantastik 07:42, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Religion of the Future
Hello Derossitt,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Religion of the Future for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. MarkYabloko ''' 09:31, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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A page you started (The Left Alternative) has been reviewed!
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Speedy deletion nomination of School of London


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Ways to improve Journal of My Life
Hi, I'm Onel5969. DeRossitt, thanks for creating Journal of My Life!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Nice job, but a little too heavy on the quotations. Articles should mainly consist of prose, with quotations used to augment that prose. This article consists mostly of quotes, with prose in support of those quotes.

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 Onel 5969  TT me 16:49, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Call-out culture


The article Call-out culture has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "not notable. Sources seem to be almost entirely op-eds, it could be covered in a broader article on social media or something similar"

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Assume good faith
Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Call-out culture. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Bacondrum (talk) 02:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Issuing level 1 warning about removing AfD template from articles before the discussion is complete. (Peachy 2.0 (alpha 8))
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Administrative Notice Board Incident Report
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Bacondrum (talk) 04:19, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Phillip Stackhouse
Hello DeRossitt. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Phillip Stackhouse, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''notability is unlikely but not impossible based on the myriad of news articles mentioning him. Let the AFD handle it.''' Thank you. So Why  10:06, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Please refrain from personal attacks
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 * Got it. DeRossitt (talk) 04:50, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Andrea Long Chu
Hello, DeRossitt,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username MurielMary and it's nice to meet you :-)

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Ways to improve Before Novels
Hello, DeRossitt,

Thank you for creating Before Novels.

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"Keep up the great work starting articles about various notable books, but an article's content shouldn't be 80% quotes"

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Autopatrolled granted
Hi DeRossitt, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3ADeRossitt added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 20:15, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Would appreciate your input here, thanks!
This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding edit war. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. The thread is "Call-out culture".The discussion is about the topic Call-out culture. Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you! - Sridc (talk) 23:59, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to edit call-out culture
Hi again, I had the opportunity to read the talk page archive of Call-out culture and noticed your comments in it. It appears to me that at some point you got discouraged from contributing to the article. I understand that there were behaviour roadblocks–something I myself faced when editing this article–however now we have a mediator who is willing to oversee content disputes, which gives me hope that this article will only continue to grow to be better than it ever was. I produced my plan here about how to go about improving the article, and have also been leaving a trail of ideas for new content at the end of Talk:Call-out_culture to use as soon as (about a week from now) the article is taken out of being edit-protected. I'd like to invite you to participate in the Talk page of this article in the coming weeks, and would greatly appreciate your input (be it to provide consensus, or new ideas). Thank you! —Srid YO 20:38, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I appreciate the references. I had read the Talk page archive, not the ANI discussion, which I just did. My impression too is that Bacondrum is extremely biased towards to either deleting this article or keeping it very basic.


 * But the real problem, as far as I can understand, is that the active editors of Call-out culture lack diversity of viewpoints. Bacondrum, and two other editors, seem to be either actively reluctant to improving the article (esp. mentioning the dominant viewpoints) or, at best, totally ignorant of this topic. While I was making my first edits in this article, I was the only person who was both actively interested in its improvement and aware of the dominant group of viewpoints (most of which got reverted by Bacondrum early this year.)


 * I'm just curious though, how did Bacondrum get away with retaining their deletion changes despite majority of editors not giving consensus? Did you folks not take it dispute resolution?


 * In any case, I would not wish to repeat history here. Which is why I invited you to collaborate with me on editing Call-out culture (as soon as it comes out of protected-edit in about 5 days). I need the support of fellow editors to improve this article. And I don't like how Bacondrum is the only editor who is mostly engaging with me on the Talk page. I've been adding all the sources I can find in Talk:Call-out_culture, and I'd appreciate consensus response from other editors. If Bacondrum is the only person objecting, and 3 other editors say otherwise, it would be much easier to make a decision. —Srid YO 19:37, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Speaking only for myself, I am not interested enough in the Callout Culture article to devote time to fighting it out over edits. I’d rather be working on topics I’m really interested in. However, I thought the pre-Bacondrum article was far better than what it became after Bacondrum’s edits. And I found Bacondrum’s habits to be incredibly grating — giving the impression of barking orders at people along the lines of “we’ve got to whip this article into shape,” completely ignoring WP:NORUSH. This is someone who gave the impression of trying to WP:OWN the article and essentially holding the article hostage with an inexhaustible willingness to outlast anyone in an edit war (resulting, as you know, in multiple bans for violating 3RR). And so much of the discussion was over silliness like whether Bromwich was off limits for citation because he had previously written on fashion. It was just a very unrewarding process because we were arguing with someone who seemed incapable of discerning nuance or understanding Wikipedia policy, so the discussions would get nowhere. So I appreciate your kind encouragement to edit the article but my sole involvement has been to object to Bacondrum’s abusive and alienating editing which continues to evade Wikipedia governance. Bacondrum will surely consider that a “personal attack” but the truth isn’t an attack, it’s just the truth—and the multiple, increasingly lengthy bans Bacondrum has received show that administrators agree with me that Bacondrum’s conduct has been abusive, and I don’t think one can be faulted for stating the obvious. DeRossitt (talk)


 * Thanks for your note! So, I opened yet another ANI incident on Bacondrum, because just in the last two days they tried to accuse me of acting in bad faith multiple times (presumably to discourage me from contributing?). See Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents. I included the past two ANI's for context. Did I miss something? —Srid YO 01:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello again. I know you are not interested enough in the article to devote time to "fighting it out over edits" (I certainly can see how time-consuming and frustrating it can be!), BUT ... with a neutral mediator in place (who I'm sure will certainly nip any Bacondrum-related blockage in the bud), would you at least be interested in contributing to consensus based discussions in the Talk page? The mediator is user: Robert McClenon and he recently wrote "Also, if anyone has a suggestion for a way to involve more editors by neutrally inviting more editors via a WikiProject, that may help." and I thought of you.  —Srid YO 01:38, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

ANI where I mentioned you
Hi, I mentioned you There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Compromise. I mentioned you in relation to another editor's question. 13:59, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Blockquotes in article on Erin Markey
Hi there. I was just working on the article Erin Markey you created back in 2016. Thanks for this great addition! I noticed there are a lot of blockquotes that could be improved. I was going to attempt to pull out the essential pieces from the blockquotes and incorporate them into paragraph form with related information, but I wanted to check with you first to see if you'd like to handle this. Let me know, and thanks again! Shoestringnomad (talk) 05:18, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for the note. I don’t have time to do any editing on the Markey article so please don’t hesitate to do whatever you think necessary to improve it. - DeRossitt (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Noted! Thanks for letting me know. Shoestringnomad (talk) 21:49, 27 June 2021 (UTC)