User talk:Ljdowning/Archive 1

Speedy deletion nomination of Wendy Sandler


A tag has been placed on Wendy Sandler requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://signlab.haifa.ac.il/index.php/2013-01-16-09-49-17/wendy-sandler. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

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 removed 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. red dogsix (talk) 02:35, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

I think it is completely unfair of you to remove this entry so quickly. I am not online 24 hours a day. I stopped working yesterday evening, and I was going to polish and rework the entry today, to make it less like the web page I took the information from (as well as making other changes) only to find that the work I put into this page yesterday was already deleted. It is entirely unfair of you to delete the entire page when only a sentence or two was directly copied - and again, I was aware of that and was about to polish it. I spent over an hour looking up citations and additional information and also creating links from other websites to this one and vice versa. Can you please restore the page so that I can continue editing it? I'm angry that all my work was lost. I certainly did more to create that page than take a line or two from Wendy's webpage. I see now, though, that I shouldn't save a new entry for review until I have done more polishing, and I'll remember that in the future. I went to the talk page of Reddoggsix, the person who flagged the entry for deletion, and I see that almost all of the entries on his talk page concern people protesting his recommendation that their entries be deleted. Does no one review the reviewers?

Referencing Wendy Sandler
Hi, Ljdowning: user:Meatsgains tagged the page as needing more references. I only added to the talk page to indicate the subject was a living person. The kind of references required to show notability are independent ones that are not written by the subject or those connected with her. Google scholar does not show any notability as everyone ever cited is listed there, (even me). So you need to find some more references, perhaps from others in her field of work that she did not work with, that discuss her work. Also newspaper or magazine articles about her would be good to show notability. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:09, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Graeme, I have added newspaper and magazine articles along with her Google Scholar citation index. I think all of this should both establish notability and provide external references to her work. Could you have another look and see if this helps? I'm trying to learn as I go how much and what kind of referencing avoids the referencing template. Thanks for your help.

TheFamousPeople.com as a source
Hi Ljdowning. I've been looking over the use of thefamouspeople.com as a source or link in Wikipedia. There have been concerns of it being spammed, and doesn't appear to be a reliable source per Help_desk/Archives/2017_May_29. I noticed that you've added it, and wanted to let you know why I removed it. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 21:26, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

I would agree that this is not a good source. Did I really enter it as a citation? on which page? In any case, I've noted your comment, and I"ll be careful to avoid this site in the future. Thanks for the tip.  Best,   Laura
 * I should have left you a diff or some other indication. It was to Don Gummer. --Ronz (talk) 00:18, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Carlota S. Smith


A tag has been placed on Carlota S. Smith requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004530.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:09, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

URLs
Hey. Note that the external URLs you tried to add to the Catherine Callaghan article are badly broken, such that it's impossible to figure out where they're supposed to be pointing. Can you fix those? Thanks. DS (talk) 16:31, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know. I think I've fixed the one to the Catherine A. Callahan Collection of Miwok Papers. The other one was a link to a film that featured her (unrecognizably) for just a few seconds, so I deleted it. I hope the one link works fine now. I'm a newbie at Wikipedia editing, and I really appreciate the help and advice.


 * That's okay. Three things: first, when you leave a message - even when on your own user talk page - you should sign it by leaving a string of four tildes (which the system will expand into your signature). Second, when you're replying to another message, it's very useful to offset it. This is done by preceding the first line with one or more colons; note that I've prepended one colon to your reply to my original message, and two colons to my reply to yours. Third, if you'll look here, you'll note how I've changed the formatting of the URL. DS (talk) 00:47, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi, A few weeks ago, I created a new page for Renée Toole Kahane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Toole_Kahane

As far as I can tell, this page has not been reviewed and approved for publication on Wikipedia. (There is already a rather schematic Wikipedia page for her in the German Wikipedia; maybe that's why the new English page seems to have been overlooked?) Can some more senior editor have a look and check that the page has been created? Let me mention now that the page for Renee Toole Kahane is very similar to the page for her husband, Henry R. Kahane. I worked on both and made them similar because, as one of the references I found on their work says, their research careers were "inextricably intertwined." You can't say much about the research of one without talking about the other. The main difference in the biographies is that, as was typical of the time, I guess, Henry is the one who had the more traditional academic career, becoming a professor and achieving other honors that his position made possible. Thank you in advance for your help in getting Renée Toole Kahane's page published on Wikipedia. Ljdowning (talk) 08:40, 15 September 2018 (UTC)ljdowning