User talk:Larry Hockett/Archive 9

Hey you!! please help me to develop my article!
Reverting my editing in Orange and Lemons, The Camerawalls , Mcoy Fundales please help me to back my article ! thanks i edited my article ! McoyFundales1977 (talk) 02:00, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've only edited one of those articles, and it was a very minor edit, so I am not sure if you have the right person. A couple of points to think about: 1) No one owns any of the articles here, so saying "my article" may send the wrong message to other editors. If you are a subject of any of those articles, you should read WP:COISELF before proceeding. 2) Generally, "hey you" is a somewhat disrespectful way to refer to other editors. It may be that English is not your first language, but I wanted to let you know that your choice of greeting may be coming across the wrong way.


 * I'm generally not interested in helping people to self-promote on Wikipedia, because that's not really the purpose of the encyclopedia. Is that what you are asking of me? EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:25, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

How Do I Go About Suggesting that an Article be Nominated for "Good Article"?
My question is rather simple: How do I go about suggesting that an article be nominated for "Good Article"? Davidbena (talk) 01:56, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * WP:GAN. The Instructions tab should lay out the steps for you. Cheers. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Also,, just to clarify: Usually editors nominate articles at GA after they themselves have put in a lot of work on things like expansion, formatting and compliance with the Manual of Style. Very, very few articles will "quick pass" a GA review. Usually the GA reviewer will leave at least some feedback that must be addressed within a few days; if it is not addressed, the article won't become a GA. In other words, if you nominate an article for GA, the GA review would usually occur within a few weeks and you as the nominator would be expected to promptly address any suggestions that the reviewer leaves. Let me know if that makes sense. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:33, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was very helpful. I have already complied with the instructions on how to nominate an article.Davidbena (talk) 02:39, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Alan Wiggins
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:54, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

TAFI
Could you please take a look at TAFI. I have nominated Yolanda Saldivar. Could need some more input. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 06:13, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Steve Spurrier
Got caught in some reverts, was trying to add a second source that had a timeframe on it, see here. Managed to work it in finally. RegistryKey(RegEdit) 02:05, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I just heard on ESPN that it was effective immediately, then I found a source for it on their site. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:06, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Spurrier
Spurrier did tell his team he was retiring first look it up Johnnykkudelka (talk) 03:52, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I know. The way the awkward sentence was written, you're saying ESPN told them, not Spurrier. EricEnfermero (Talk) 03:54, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

wheel wars and content disputes
A wheel war is also when two editors revert a page back and forth many times because of a content dispute. BB (talk) 04:26, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've never heard it used that way, but that's interesting to find out. EricEnfermero (Talk) 04:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Dispute opened
The IP has entered a dispute on Dispute resolution noticeboard. Spanneraol (talk) 05:06, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Joaquin Andujar
Thanks for the thanks. I was watching the TBS postgame tonite and the story about the Cardinals-Royals WS. And I was trying to remember whether he also pitched for the Astros and so I went to his article. Sure enough he did. I missed part of the story on TBS. Did they mention that he passed away last month? I saw that in the article, RIP. Freddiem (talk) 04:33, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I got home too late to watch much baseball, but I appreciate you cleaning up my weird sentence structure. Andujar was truly a unique guy. EricEnfermero (Talk) 05:03, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey, no problem on the edit. Cudos to anyone who writes articles on here. I noticed the discussion above on Steve Spurrier. I was checking out his article recently and noticed he went to HS in Johnson City, Tenn. It's the location of East Tennessee St. Univ., they just restarted their program on the FCS level this year after a long hiatus. They have not won a single game so far this year and even lost a couple of games to Div. III schools. I'm sure they would welcome him home with open arms, just so long as he didn't ask for much money. He would basically have to work for a stipend. But I would have to believe he doesn't need the money and the job would be a no pressure deal. Freddiem (talk) 05:19, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Page
Why are you trying to delete the high school page? It has credible sources and real stats why so hateful? Johnnykkudelka (talk) 01:30, 24 October 2015 (UTC) Can you please not delete this credible page? Thank you I put a lot of time in finding a sources and adding info for you to ruin it because you've never heard of the school. I have put in over 12 sources and I need help putting them into a category as references but with all the sources and credible alumni that have played at RNE you cannot delete it. Please do not delete it I put so many sources in there please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnykkudelka (talk • contribs) 01:31, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I haven't proposed that any HS lose its WP page. I did nominate a HS basketball team page for deletion, but I left an adequate explanation of my rationale on the page. (But again, HS basketball teams generally aren't notable and nothing has been added outside of MaxPreps, which doesn't cover the team in any significant detail.) None of this was done with hateful intent. EricEnfermero (Talk) 04:12, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Spanish articles on Houston high schools
Hi, Eric! I'm starting a series of Spanish-language articles on Houston ISD high schools. You can see the list at es:Houston ISD. If you want you are welcome to add or make corrections to the articles :) WhisperToMe (talk) 12:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

November 2015 newsletter
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Swango
Should we take him out of the category "Medical practitioners convicted of murdering their patients"?Rathfelder (talk) 15:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didn't realize there was a parent category issue. EricEnfermero (Talk) 15:02, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Jesse Ridgway (McJuggerNuggets)
I undid your revert of the blanking of this article and replaced it with Speedy G7. Seems like a good faith request to delete the article by the author to me. No point in forcing it to stay as an A7 (notability) speedy. Meters (talk) 02:01, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * You have a good point. Thanks. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:10, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The author's username makes me wonder how good faith anything he or she produces is, but if he's willing to blank it let's take the easy road. Meters (talk) 03:56, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed. To clarify, when I got to the article, I don't think there was any CSD tag at all, as it had been removed by the article creator, if I recall correctly. I was thinking that either A7 or G7 would easily result in deletion, so it seemed appropriate to revert to the one of those two choices that had more recently been there (which turned out to be A7, if I have it right). I agree with you that G7 is an easier road though. EricEnfermero (Talk) 04:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Sjossuwjowbwkwkamamakakajkaja Vandalism
Haha, I was just in RTRC monitoring stuff and realized he's been doing vandalism for a couple of times so was about to report him to the admins however apparently you were a couple seconds ahead of me. Dat GuyWiki (talk) 10:43, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you
...for helping with the tourist site spammer. Much appreciated! 2601:188:0:ABE6:78F9:225E:C72:122C (talk) 05:47, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem! At first I thought this might just be a big misunderstanding of policy by a new user, but the user talk warnings and reverts seemed not to slow the user down at all. EricEnfermero (Talk) 05:49, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Response to Your Message
Hi,

You sent me a message regarding poor edits to some Dallas Stars (I think that's its name?) page, but I guarantee you that I did not make any such changes to that page as I've never been to that page (I have no interest in sports). Additionally, I'm the only one who uses this computer, so I'm sure that those edits were not made by this computer. I believe you have the wrong IP address. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.191.182 (talk) 16:22, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It's the right IP address, but sometimes IP addresses change frequently and this edit was in July. I don't think there is anything to worry about. EricEnfermero (Talk) 16:43, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
  "Successfully de-orphaned!"

Thank you, user striving to be "unbalanced in service of the truth", for quality articles on academic biographies in health care from Elmer Ernest Southard to your latest Karen Daley, for copy-editing with, adopting "a typo to nurture" (accomodation), and for "Successfully de-orphaned!" - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC) A year ago, you were recipient no. 1056 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Looking for good article status
Could you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Organizational_learning again? Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterhmasters (talk • contribs) 16:23, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I could take a look and might make a few minor changes, but my preference is not to review the same article twice for GA. The best course is for you to renominate the article at WP:GAN. I'm glad to hear that there has been continued work on the article. Good luck to you! EricEnfermero (Talk) 08:48, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Reverted Jerry Rice edit.
Check out Mike Ditkas page. It has the same thing (About the McDonalds) and it hasn't been reverted. Get a link to his page at the Mike Ditka page. And Rice has been in McDonald commericals. Tybomb124 (talk) 20:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * If I were to put something inappropriate in two articles, that just makes me wrong twice. The rationale for the revert includes WP:NPOV and WP:V, but it's also not appropriate to include a line-by-line description of every celebrity endorsement or TV commercial. I am confident that you can come to understand why both edits are inappropriate. We just have to wait and see whether you will. EricEnfermero (Talk) 20:51, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Jason Heyward
Thanks. I could see lots of edit warring, but couldn't see what had been and what was lost, so just deleted what had been left. Glad you could see past my blindness and correct the thing; cheers, LindsayHello 09:27, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem at all. That would have been a ridiculous number of edits to look through if you didn't know where that problematic fragment came from. I was sort of on the fence about whether that bit belonged in the article anyway, but I figured I would stick it back in since there's really not much mention of this player's non-baseball life. EricEnfermero (Talk) 09:34, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

"Unconstructive"
You told me that you undid my edits on the sandbox because it was "Unconstructive" then proceeded to tell me to use the sandbox for experementing, which is exactly what I was doing. Or maybe you're just a bot??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.233.154 (talk) 03:23, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I hate that the warning template created confusion, but you may just have to employ common sense and use the sandbox for constructive experimenting. EricEnfermero (Talk) 03:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
This kitten is going to Lafayette College

Naraht (talk) 15:29, 25 December 2015 (UTC) 

John Henry MacCracken
Thank you very much for creating the article of Lafayette College President John Henry MacCracken. Naraht (talk) 15:27, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem! It was interesting to learn about him in the process of writing it. In a lot of areas on WP, we are saturated with articles and should just focus on improving the existing ones, but when it comes to academic biographies, there are some big holes that we still need to fill with new articles. Merry Christmas. EricEnfermero (Talk) 05:29, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Reverting Vandalism
Whenever you revert vandalism with Twinkle, can you leave the user a note on their page. Thanks. //nepaxt 22:36, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I often think that a user warning turns unnecessary attention toward the user for the single instance of vandalism, which seems like it could escalate the situation rather than letting it die. With that said, on your prompting, I took a look at WP:WARNVAND. I didn't realize that the wording was that explicit. Even though I think it is a bit misguided, I can follow it as a matter of policy. EricEnfermero (Talk) 22:53, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

January 2016
Hello, I'm D'SuperHero. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Portal:Saudi Arabia, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''SELF REFERANTIAL CONTENT REMOVED. PLUS NO NEED FOR OTHER EDITS.'' SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 07:17, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * What type of referencing do you think would be useful for Portal space edits of this type? I don't spend much time in portal-related editing, but your links to topics such as "referencing for beginners" don't really help us to get to the heart of the issue. EricEnfermero (Talk) 07:21, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I mean you can add further WikiProjects links related to KSA, not like add something to our WikiProject which deems so promotional. Furthermost, thanks for the time. SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 07:34, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you should note the sequence of events here. You made a change without leaving any edit summary at all, and when that change was reverted, you responded to me with a templated warning about making a change without citing a source... on a page that doesn't normally require sources, even under criteria such as WP:WIAFPo. The whole thing could have been avoided if you left a basic edit summary ("per WP:WIAFPo #4") on your original edit. I don't think there is anything else to say. EricEnfermero (Talk) 07:46, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

!!!
I have done some changes in Wikipedia but are not things that are irrelevant or not confirmed..Every single thing that I have posted are things that have been confirmed..I am a new member and I don't know how to use that thing properly..so excuse me if I did something that was not right. Dimitraver (talk) 17:47, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * As you certainly know now from the warnings and information left on your talk page, we add information to Wikipedia biographies that is sourced (info that is followed directly by a reference); confirmed or unconfirmed, that's not the important part. It is best to avoid editing controversial aspects of Wikipedia pages - like relationship status, religion, sexuality, or criminal history - until you learn how to use WP referencing very comfortably. From your message, I cannot tell whether you have a specific question; if you do, just ask me and I'll try to help you. EricEnfermero (Talk) 03:33, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

GA of Red Dwarf
Mate, i didn't found the even first or second archive of Red Dwarf. Talk:Red Dwarf/GA3 is not showing anything. Can you please state a link for this? Thanks SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 12:38, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Talk:Red Dwarf/GA3 is a red link because there have not been three GA nominations for that article. (The article passed its first nomination.) You actually want to look at the archives of the talk page. In this case, Talk:Red Dwarf/Archive 3 is the page you want. It's the 15th section, "Good Article nomination". EricEnfermero (Talk) 12:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * At least link it there na to avoid further chaos. SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 12:47, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to link to it, but I don't think there was chaos. I'm surprised it wasn't linked automatically. Maybe it was the age of the review; the formatting must have been different that many years ago. It was easy to manually locate the review though, and I think it's really just a lesson to ask someone with a little more experience the next time you're seeing something that doesn't look quite right. EricEnfermero (Talk) 12:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough mate. Thanks once again. SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 12:58, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

editing
Eric I apologize I am new to this process 23Athlete (talk) 06:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem. You thinking about changing it back per the guideline? EricEnfermero (Talk) 06:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Joe Harasymiak
Thanks, the reason why the unsourced tag went up was at that moment there were no sources, so it wasn't quite carelessly tagged-but thanks for adding them. Wgolf (talk) 02:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * If you look at the article history and consider the age of the article in relation to the amount of improvement that was occurring in the minutes prior to the tag, and when you look at how many hits come up in a Google search for this unique subject, I think you'll understand why the tag was not so helpful. Article tagging tends to be overused in easy-to-source articles, but that's especially true in a case like this where there is ongoing work from a particular editor. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hank Aaron edit
Hey, I just want to know why you think the information about Aaron playing in total of six different positions is not worthy of being put on the page. Chief baseball editor (talk) 00:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Whenever you have a question like that, one of your best bets is to go back to the article, then click on View History near the top of the page. You'll see the list of edits made to the article, as well as the edit summaries - the comments that we should be leaving with each edit.


 * In this case, the issue was that the added sentence was sandwiched between two sentences that have to go together to make sense, which disturbed the chronological order of the article. We can't say that he made spring training appearances, then he played six MLB positions, then that led him to signing an MLB contract. He signed the MLB contract before he became a six-position MLB player, of course. We certainly want to cover the positions that he played, so it's not unworthy information, but we already cover it elsewhere in the article. Let me know if you have more questions. EricEnfermero (Talk) 00:27, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction/reversion on the Segway PT article!
Oy, what an embarrassing misreading on my part! Looking at the sentence now, I can't imagine what I was thinking. The question of whether one sentence is trying to do the work of two can be left for another day. Best, Michael (talk) 18:26, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries! I had to read it a few times before I was confident one way or the other. EricEnfermero (Talk) 03:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
idk happy Felinetines day... Also, please forgive my behavior. I am new to this and i just wanted to have a little laugh. I'll try my best to not do these things :) Raegan31712 (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2016 (UTC) Raegan31712 (talk) 00:01, 12 February 2016 (UTC) 

Irrelevant warnings
Hello You are giving me warnings for unconstructive edits however I am just testing templates on the sandbox. 82.17.48.214 (talk) 01:11, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * They seem like they've been quite thoroughly tested at this point. Do you still have doubts about how deletion templates work? I'd be happy to help. EricEnfermero (Talk) 01:15, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I was not testing if they work haha I was testing how I should place it and that procedure for my self 82.17.48.214 (talk) 01:20, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That's really what I was asking. Any lingering questions? EricEnfermero (Talk) 01:21, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * No I'm pretty much a pro now 82.17.48.214 (talk) 01:22, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into the local language

Thanks again :) -- Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Reply
Please try not to be so mean Pokeuser212121 (talk) 01:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No intent to be mean. I'm happy to help you with any aspect of WP editing. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:04, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – March 2016
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Apologies
My most sincerest apologies Eric, I was carried away and assumed that I was helping. If you look online, you'll see that John Oliver proved that Donald Trump's name is actually Donald Drumpf legally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IAreggano (talk • contribs) 19:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It seems like there was a significant misunderstanding. Oliver did not weigh in on the legal status of the Trump name. If you find that you're having trouble making distinctions like this, you may want to use article talk pages to suggest your edits instead of actually making them on articles themselves. That way, other editors can point you in the right direction when you are getting carried away and you don't yet recognize it. By editing articles directly with such a shaky grasp on what is helpful and what isn't, you may send the wrong message about your intentions here. EricEnfermero (Talk) 19:19, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Samuel V. Jones
Hi Eric. You deleted my edits to Samuel V. Jones based on my edits not being neutral. Many of the edits you deleted, however, were very objective. For instance, it says he reached "Major" in 20 years. That is a factual error so I deleted the 20 years, which makes the information, more accurate. How is that not being neutral? I also mentioned that one of his publications garnered 185,000 "likes" on Facebook, which is quite an achievement and easily verification by going to the link to the article. How is that not neutral and objective? It seems to me that the more accurate the page, the better it is for wikipedia. Can you please advise me what's wrong with those two edits? Anonymous2016Jan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous2016Jan (talk • contribs) 03:09, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * There were quite a few syntax and neutrality issues to clean up in the entry, so the "Major" edit may have gotten overlooked among the problematic additions. Generally we don't measure a publication's encyclopedic value by its number of Facebook likes. I moved your questions to their own section at the bottom of my talk page. EricEnfermero (Talk) 04:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Eric. I appreciate your points about neutrality. I don't understand how disclosing that an article garnered 185,000 "likes" is not objective or neutral, especially since Wikipedia has an internal page that explains "Facebook likes." But putting that aside, can you explain why you deleted, "public intellectual." I included the term, "public intellectual" because its clear that the nature of Samuel V. Jones publications meet the definition of public intellectual that Wikitionary claims to use. Without question, Samuel V. Jones is a "person whose written works and other social and cultural contributions are recognized not only by academic audiences and readers, but also by many members of society in general." The publications on the page and responses to them indicate that news editors, judges, and other professionals outside of academia, "recognize" his work. How is my adding the term, "public intellectual," behind the term, "American lawyer," not objective or neutral? I think it's much more accurate to say he is a "an American lawyer, public intellectual, and professor of law at John Marshall Law School. Respectfully, I'd urge you to reconsider that point.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous2016Jan (talk • contribs) 17:16, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I didn't intend to suggest that all of the edits I made were due to issues with neutrality. The use of public intellectual is problematic to me because the general reader doesn't use the term much, so it doesnt really help us get to the point of who a person is (which is the purpose of the lead). Opinions even vary on the definition of the term. Some argue that it would be redundant to describe any author as a public intellectual.
 * While I agree that a Facebook like is a phenomenon worthy of a WP entry, I think that any Facebook user would be able to identify why this isn't the best measure to describe published works. Usually we only see people adding this type of information about social media when the other measures (book reviews, citations in the literature) just aren't there. EricEnfermero (Talk) 18:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Question
Are you really a nurse in "real life" or did you just like the alliteration? Yours, Quis separabit?  16:40, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just passed the ten-year mark as a nurse. A lot of my contributions here are nonmedical, but I do enjoy skimming through medical entries and looking for little things like capitalized genteric drug names and such. EricEnfermero (Talk) 16:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016
Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made&#32;to Special:Contributions/74.194.225.94: you may already know about them, but you might find Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. - the <em style="font-family:Matisse itc;color:red">WOLF  child  14:07, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I only issued one warning because I reverted a series of edits that had already been made. Unless I am missing something, it didn't make sense to issue additional warnings when the user had (at least at the time) stopped editing disruptively. EricEnfermero (Talk) 16:13, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Tom Greenwade
I had that one on my list of articles to create. I guess I can scratch it off now. Good job. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:22, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I actually got the idea from reading your Virdon DYK. I don't get to create a lot of new baseball entries because I am usually not fast enough to write one after a rookie's first MLB appearance. It was fun working on this one. I just wish I could have found an image that didn't cut off his chin. EricEnfermero (Talk) 01:55, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – April 2016
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DYK for Ned Garvin
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Panama Papers
Hey Eric,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm reverting your revert of my small edit here.

"EricEnfermero (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 714039350 by Wearmysocks (talk) no hyphen after an -ly adverb)"

"highly-placed" refers to Chinese officials, therefore is not an adverb so this rule doesn't apply.

Thanks though! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wearmysocks (talk • contribs) 15:59, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's worth arguing or reverting, but I am curious about the rationale. I think that there is a misunderstanding of the rule at work here. Of course the compound form "highly placed" modifies the noun that follows it, but that's not the applicable rule. The question is whether the first of the two words (highly) is an adjective; it's an adverb rather than an adjective. EricEnfermero (Talk) 16:31, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Editing in my response:

Absolutely. Very minor, not worth fussing over, and I just did some research and it turns out I was wrong so I've reverted back to highly placed. However I'll explain my rationale.

Highly-placed forms a compound adjective describing the noun that follows, Chinese officials, therefore the -ly rule doesn't apply as it only applies to adverbs.

As I said, according to oxforddictionaries.com I was wrong here. I assumed that together they formed one compound adjective, and didn't think of highly as an adverb for placed in regards to this rule.

Thanks again!


 * No problem. Lots of -ly words aren't adverbs, which confuses the situation even more. EricEnfermero (Talk) 17:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

West African College of Surgeons
Hi EricEnfermero,

Thanks for tagging the above article. I am currently fixing the close paraphrasing problems. Could you please take a look, if its better in its current state? Thank you. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 16:45, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The biggest problems that I noticed were in the lead, so I would start there. I would take out most of the lead, then read WP:LEAD again. Then I would look through the body of the article and then write a new lead that summarizes the most important points in the body. I would leave out things like the first fellow (who doesn't seem to have a lot of independent coverage anyway and who isn't mentioned at all in the body). The incumbent president isn't even really necessary in the lead, and that might take away some of the temptation to lean too closely on source material. Since the article is short and consists largely of two lists, I would expect that a pretty short lead would do the job.


 * I realize now that you were working to improve the entry, but most non-novice editors would have taken a different approach to removing the close paraphrasing tag, only removing it after clarifying that the issues had been addressed. Issues are still easily identified. Ex: "in four surgical disciplines... from both Anglophone and Francophone countries" is simply switched around, when it would be easy to actually rephrase in our own words. Another example: "620th fellow on the Roll of the College" - other than a caps change, this unique wording appears right in the lead. I think that starting over with another lead will help, but if we're only this far into the entry, I'm not too convinced that this issue has been corrected. EricEnfermero (Talk) 17:15, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Eric. I will work on it when I get home. I'm on transit now. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 18:45, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi EricEnfermero. Could you please, take a look at the article again. Thanks. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 10:16, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I just made some syntax fixes and changed the wording in one place where it was easy to avoid the original wording (referring to having a conference at the same venue as a previous event - there are many acceptable ways to word this). I clarified a couple of potential factual issues related to the organization's founding. As far as I can tell, the close paraphrasing is okay. The category may not be correct, as "college" in this sense is a professional medical organization but the category probably refers to groups of academic colleges and universities. EricEnfermero (Talk) 00:12, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. I am so grateful. Warm regards. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 00:17, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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