User talk:JRCBaker

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March 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Gregory Short, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 03:14, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Please do not assume ownership of articles. If you aren't willing to allow your contributions to be edited extensively or be redistributed by others, please do not submit them. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 03:15, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Gregory Short, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Goalbox (talk) 04:05, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Gregory Short, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Goalbox (talk) 04:10, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Gregory Short. Goalbox (talk) 04:15, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Upon reading your comments, I've stopped editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JRCBaker (talk • contribs) 04:28, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Gregory Short. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement. Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. TJRC (talk) 14:04, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

April 2017
Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Gregory Short. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. TJRC (talk) 17:15, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
 * If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Aprl 16, 1017
JRCBaker (talk) 22:09, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your direction.
 * I am not engaged in an article dispute or with editor.
 * I am using the sandbox, not the existing article for my revisions and minor edits.


 * The article's edit history shows how you are continuously replacing the article with your preferred text, apparently copied from your sandbox. This is not what the sandbox is for. It is a place for you to test edits, not to cache the version of the article you want on Wikipedia.


 * Your continued reversions of multiple editors' changes in favor of your own preferred text, which often re-introduces errors that have been repaired, or violations of Wikipedia policy, is bordering on vandalism. You need to stop doing it. If you continue, I will move to have you blocked. TJRC (talk) 01:15, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

April 17

 * I am confused about "continuously replacing the article." Perhaps I am misusing the sandbox in such a way as to revise the original article: I access the Gregory Short article, select the sandbox link, scroll down to Edit this page, the white background appears, revise text, save and mark the Minor Flag or describe the changes e.g. update links. Yet, you find dated revisions to the old article by me.
 * If the article could be deleted to resolve this problem, I would continue to work on drafting in the sandbox. If you like, we could mark the deleted article page as 'Under Construction' or eliminate it entirely. Thoughts?

JRCBaker (talk) 06:14, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Gregory Short has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Gregory Short. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 05:25, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gregory Short (May 18)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Gregory Short and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the or on the.
 * You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Robert McClenon (talk) 05:26, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:Gregory Short
Draft:Gregory Short, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Gregory Short and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Gregory Short during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 23:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:Gregory Short
Draft:Gregory Short, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Gregory Short and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Gregory Short during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Alexander Iskandar (talk) 03:20, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

I am not ready to delete this draft. There is an example composition to add as a subsection to the Biography.

JRCBaker (talk) 22:16, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Gregory Short. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 02:24, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Gregory Short, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 14:27, 22 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Re: Maintenance Templates issue


 * I do not know if these are the maintenance templates
 * {{multiple issues|

{{refimprove|date=December 2014}} {{notability|Music|date=December 2014}} {{tone|date=December 20}} JRCBaker (talk) 18:27, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, those are the maintenance templates. Leve them there unless you either address the issues, and explain how you addressed them; or can indicate why you think they don't apply. TJRC (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Gregory Short
JRCBaker, you seem to be devoting all your time to memorializing Gregory Short, without regard for Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and without regard to other editors' contributions to the articles. I'm going to assume you're just a little astray here, and need some guidance.

I'm going to include links to a number of Wikipedia policies, guidelines and relates essays below; please click on the links if you're unclear on them.

Did you know Dr. Short? If so, you may have a conflict of interest (COI) that makes it hard to maintain the neutral point-of-view that Wikipedia requires of its articles. You don't seem to be editing any other articles, so you don't seem to be here to improve Wikipedia overall – you seem just to be interested in lionizing Short.

You seem to be maintaining your own preferred version of the article at User:JRCBaker/sandbox, and then periodically you copy that into the article itself. Do you realize when you do that that you are throwing away the work of everyone else on Wikipedia who is editing the article?

Some of the changes you have been casually discarding include bringing the article into standard Wikipedia style guidelines (stop calling him "Dr. Short" in the article, for example; per WP:SURNAME it's just "Short") and man other editorial changes. You have also been deleting more verifiable sources. And the sources you provide are not online – or at least you don't bother to include links to them if they are – and you remove the links that others have added. There is no requirement that sources be available online, but if they are online, you should keep those links as an aid in verifiability.

You also are marking all your changes as "minor", when they are not. Please read Help:Minor edit. Minor edits are things like "typographical corrections, formatting and presentational changes, and rearrangements of text without modification of its content". That's not what you're doing.

You need to understand that there is no ownership of articles at Wikipedia. If you have a COI, you should probably step away from this article and leave it to editors who do not have a conflict and who can write with a neutral point of view. TJRC (talk) 21:49, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Gregory Short for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gregory Short is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Gregory Short until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TJRC (talk) 22:50, 22 May 2017 (UTC)