User talk:Dmartin969/Archive(2023)

Tagging pages for speedy deletion
Hello, Dmartin969,

If you are going to tag pages for speedy deletion, you have to know, thoroughly, what the WP:CSD criteria are and when they apply. So please review this policy page or cease tagging pages for deletion. It also helps if you use WP:TWINKLE which will prompt you and present you with different possible CSD criteria depending on which namespace the page is in. But you can't just make up your own reason for why a page should be deleted via speedy deletion. If you use WP:PROD or WP:AFD, you can present an argument for deletion but that's not how speedy deletion works. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 07:35, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * is right. Your behavior on the Mary Reed House clearly shows you don't understand the WP:CSD policy.
 * Do you have a WP:COI with that place or its owner or occupant? Toddst1 (talk) 07:43, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * My comments above were assuming good faith in the context of your shenanigans on Mary Reed House. I looked further and see you did the same nonsense at Guy C. Barton House.   The next time you post nuisance CSD and/or PROD templates on a well-cited historical landmark, no such good faith will be assumed and you may be blocked. Toddst1 (talk) 08:38, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I mistakenly used PROD, and not AFD, and for that I apologise. Your accusation of a COI was baseless.  Furthermore, the rude comment made in your edit summary on Guy C. Barton House was uncalled for.  I am a member of Wikiproject Omaha, and obviously care about the history of the area, that does not mean that every single house needs a Wikipedia article.  You've clearly been here a while, but in that time you seem to have forgotten that civility is one of the pillars of Wikipedia.  –DMartin  08:48, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
This is your only warning; if you remove or change other editors' legitimate talk page comments again, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Reed House, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Removing my comments is completely unacceptable:  Toddst1 (talk) 09:28, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Dmartin969. Thank you for your work on Holy Family Shrine. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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&maltese; SunDawn &maltese;   (contact)   11:40, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

goings-on at AFD and perhaps elsewhere
As I said at both Articles for deletion/Guy C. Barton House and Articles for deletion/Mary Reed House, I think those deletion nominations are fine, and I do think that it is good for wikiproject NRHP and other groups of editors to be questioned sometimes.

You probably don't need my help, but I do mean it with my offer to raise issues at wp:ANI or elsewhere. Often is easier and better for someone else to raise issues, if there is a pattern to be addressed. I do apologize for what went on there.

As an aside, really: if perhaps you do have local association and/or do in fact view Wikipedia coverage of historical-ish places in Omaha to be overly generous, I would be interested in helping to address that. Although in my editing I mainly build up coverage about historic places, I and other NRHPers also know that separate articles are often not justified and can seem to be inappropriately calling for even more treatment. Alternatives such as abbreviated treatment in a city or neighborhood article, or merger of separate treatments into one list-article (leaving no redlinks suggesting expansion is wanted, at the same time as providing better treatment of multiple places in context together), can often be more appropriate. I'd collaborate to better address Omaha "landmarks" if you're interested.

I see you've been contributing since 2009, great! I hope you keep on truckin', keep on with your good work. sincerely, --Doncram (talk,contribs) 23:11, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Again, thank you. I plan to take it to ANI once the deletion to discussion is closed.  It seems they've already had to resign from being an administrator after a complaint was filed against them.  Judging by the way their user page is phrased they seem to enjoy causing controversy.  –DMartin  01:54, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism and deceptive edit summaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern_Federal_District&diff=1134103330&oldid=1134097484 stop it 89.14.39.135 (talk) 01:19, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You removed content without giving a reason. Edits that do not comply with Wikipedia policies will be reverted. –DMartin  01:34, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That's why I reverted your edits. WP:COPYVIO and nonsense insertions are no help for WP. 78.55.133.227 (talk) 02:10, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

WP:COPYVIO
Your repeated insertion of copyrighted material without proper attribution is bad for the reputation of WP. Please stop it. 78.55.133.227 (talk) 02:11, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

WP:3RR
Please ask an admin to block you, as you violated WP:3RR 78.55.133.227 (talk) 02:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Reverting vandalism is not covered under the three revert rule. Someone has paged an admin to the article's talk page to weigh in on that dispute.  If you want to contact them too you can use the Administrators' noticeboard. –DMartin  02:15, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Incidents regarding edit war on Southern Federal District. The thread is COPYVIO and admin right abuse at Southern Federal District by IronGargoyle. Thank you. Please note that this discussion was started by the anonymous user, but they did not inform everyone involved so I am. –DMartin  02:34, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

WP:CANVASS
WP:CANVASS https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Philipnelson99&diff=1134116350&oldid=1134105860 77.191.245.57 (talk) 04:03, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem. I've semi-protected for a while though.  Acroterion   (talk)   04:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Appreciate it. This is getting old.  –DMartin  04:07, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

I Need Help
hello Dmartin969. I need help outhere and since you are an experienced member I'm assuming you can help me out here. My question is how do you add a photo on an article, e.g. someone picture or album artwork CJ ROKA (talk) 06:02, 20 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Welcome to Wikipedia! You can find instructions on adding photos to the encyclopedia at Help:Pictures. Only certain specific images are allowed on Wikipedia, you can find the rules at Image use policy.  Most importantly: photos must be freely licensed or in the public domain, this is going to exclude most images you would find online.  In some rare cases copyrighted images can be used under fair use, but make sure to read that policy carefully if you intend to upload something copyrighted.  If you have any images that are your own work and that you are willing to share, you can upload them to Wikimedia Commons, I'm active over there too at commons:user:dmartin969, if you need any help wiht that project. Feel free to let me know if you have any more questions. –DMartin  06:10, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Category:Places named for the Holy Family has been nominated for deletion
Category:Places named for the Holy Family has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 17:50, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Allways name the reason of the edit/revert in the summary
Re.: your revert of vandalism on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vectorskin2010fan&diff=next&oldid=1134705582

The revert itself was warranted.

What I was missing was the reason for the revert, in the summary.

At the top of the history there appears only WHAT has been done but not WHY. The concerned or interested has to scroll down and study the actual difference to understand.

I learned that, in the summary of an edit, we should always give the reason, especially for a revert. I'm not sure, whether the recipient of a revert notification can immediately see the reason/summary in the notification, but he can at least see it when he clicks on the notification.

It's just one "word": "vand" which should be added.

I know there is lots of vandalism to be corrected, and few who do this job and it seldom gets thanked, but you probably also know that a notification about a revert instantly raises the adrenalin level i.e. causes stress.

If I reverted vandalism on the user page of someone else, I would (probably) write: "3rd party vandalism".

Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 11:43, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Your user page / box: Two spaces after a period
Hi Dmartin969

A: Are you serious to place this box under the heading "Serious"?

B: If I may ask: Where do you do this; because: in the WP it is not possible, not even in Talk or on one's own pages.

Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 12:58, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Ricketts/World Series
When you own something, anything the entity does on your watch goes on your docket.

Sports team owners are considered as champions because nothing major happens (trades/free agents/hiring coaches and front office) unless the owner signs off, since he pays the bills.

He's not a player, but he pays the players on the field...he didn't hit the home run, but he signed the guy that did, so if the Ricketts family didn't sign the check to bring the player in, the player doesn't hit the home run to win the game, and the Cubs don't win the Series. Vjmlhds (talk) 15:07, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I looked at all the other team owners' pages and it isn't included in any of their infoboxes. He also isn't even the primary owner, his brother is(and it's not in his infobox either).  I'm not saying it isn't worth mentioning in the article, but including it in the infobox is not necessary and not standard.  –DMartin  17:49, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


 * If you look, you'll see it IS in Tom's infobox. Now full disclosure, I added it - but in 2018 - and it's been there ever since (and also full disclosure, I haven't touched Tom's article since 2018 either), so its been in Tom's infobox for 5 years with nary a fuss, so there shouldn't be any with Pete either. Vjmlhds (talk) 23:59, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

DELTA
I responded to your Delta comment on my Talk page, just to keep it together. Ex nihil (talk) 19:13, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Lola (given name) edit-warring
It was pointed out to me that strictly speaking you were both edit-warring, in that User:LiteraryEditor414's edits were not vandalism. They were disruptive in the sense that they were removing the sourced Spanish origin from the infobox, but ideally you should have redirected LiteraryEditor414 to the talk page to review the sources and discuss how an addition origin could be added, provided that there were reasonable sources for that. (I'm assuming this could be a case like Karen (name) where there are unrelated language variants that happen to be spelled the same in English). In the future, please be wary of going over 3RR when another editor's edits are in good faith. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:07, 15 March 2023 (UTC)


 * At the time the edits were indistinguishable from vandalism. The only time they used an edit summary they implied that hey were trying to censor Wikipedia, which is something I'm always very keen to prevent.  One of the notes I left on their user talk specifically said to use the articles talk page, and linked to it.
 * Not trying to get defensive, just explaining my thinking process. –DMartin  14:17, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of School Districts of Omaha, Nebraska


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on School Districts of Omaha, Nebraska requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. – dudhhr talk contribs (he/they) 21:43, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * So I was trying to create Category:School Districts of Omaha, Nebraska, and seem to have created this page accidentally. Thank you for noticing.  I support this deletion.  –DMartin  21:46, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Citation Needed


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