User talk:Deadpans

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December 2018
Hello, I'm Philipnelson99. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Teaneck Fire Department— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:04, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Teaneck Fire Department. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:15, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Regarding edits to Teaneck Fire Department
My apologies, after more closely reviewing your edit and the edit summary I see that it is not vandalism. I hope you will forgive me, I saw that you were changing the name from Quick Attack Response Vehicle to Quick Attack Vehicle and I assumed it was vandalism. Apologies ~ Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:23, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

I would also like to remind you that Wikipedia has a no original research policy. I believe the specific contribution stating the model name falls into this category. In the edit description you state that you have visited and found this information yourself. I caution you against doing this in the future. ~ Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:38, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Unspecified source/license for File:Current TFD HQ.jpg
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WP:NOR
Hi Flashplate, an editor left you a reminder above, in December 2018, re: the imperative for sources vs. original research. You do realize that unsourced content may be removed. Thank you, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 01:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Flashplate. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 01:38, 31 March 2020 (UTC) --- Good Morning,

If you read the edit history of the page and also view the photos on the page they show verifiable photos of the truck in questions and its naming. The lettering on the truck shows what it is called. When I am able to find sources via the internet I provide them and I have been attempting to go about the best way to provide sources that are in magazines, books, documents etc.

There is not a conflict of interest, just an interested fire buff. I will go through the article and anything that is copied and not allowed as per wikipedia's guidelines will be deleted, made sure to fall inline with the guidelines or be narrated and cited correctly.

Flashplate (talk) 12:49, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

April 2020
Your addition to Teaneck Fire Department has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

--- As stated above, currently in the process of correcting the violations or deleting said information if it did not/could not fit within the guidelines.

Flashplate (talk) 21:09, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Flashplate, you do understand that Wikipedia is not a blog. I'm not sure how to proceed, since you've added a lot more unsourced content. Is there any reason it, and much of the article, should not be reverted? I'm asking, before I take this to a noticeboard and request more assistance. I'm also wondering whether any of the sources you're using were written by you. That's relevant. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:47, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

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The purpose of the page in question is only to provide information regarding the fire department. It is not being used as blog, only attempting to provide pertinent information. The source that is being used is a web page that has loads of information regarding box alarms, not just for the town in question. I do not understand why that is a bad source if it is being considered as such. If it is ruled to be such I will gladly remove said information. Lastly, that website that I am attempting to use as a source was created loooooong before the Wiki TFD page was created and was also first used as a source long after the TFD page was created. I am not the author of the website in question nor do I have any relation with the author, nor do I even know who created it.

Flashplate (talk) 02:22, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. Pertinent information is welcome, but lengthy passages of unsourced content--and that which is not of broad interest--aren't appropriate for the encyclopedia. I haven't removed said blocs of content, but they're the reason I made reference to blogs. We don't accept WP:OR, and that's what most of the article appears to be. re; quality of sources, WP:RELIABLE is our guide. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 02:58, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

- Both guideline pages you provided will be reviewed and all information On the page will be reviewed and corrected accordingly. Should information be unable to be corrected it will.be removed. You will see adjustments in the coming days and weeks.

Flashplate (talk) 21:31, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

July 2020
Hi Flashplate! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Teaneck Fire Department that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 07:22, 19 July 2020 (UTC)