User talk:Markshern7

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 * Thanks for your additions to Duke Constantine Petrovich of Oldenburg! Do you have any of the references you used to put together the information? We like to have as much of an article referenced with Reliable Sources as we can and those would really help the article. If you have a chance adjusting the wording a bit may be good too. We like to keep the language as Neutral as possible so things like "was a pawn of" usually want to get tweaked. Let me know if you need any help or any questions and again thank you! Jalexander--WMF 20:24, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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July 2012
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is invited to contribute, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Yasin al-Qadi, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=500622937 here]. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 09:19, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Apology
Sorry for the above revert/notification. Because all I saw was the blanking of sourced info with this edit, I incorrectly assumed that you were damaging the article - however, Igloo's automatic revert process rolled back all your edits, rather than just the one, and since you'd been the major contributor to the article... I've now put you on my Igloo whitelist, so it won't show your edits for review, which should stop this happening in the future. Apologies again, Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 09:45, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Yasin al-Qadi page needs help
This is the second time that all of my contributions have been "trimmed" to the point of complete deletion. What is the appropriate process for submitting this article for peer review and reasonable neutrality checks? When the article has been fully reviewed, how does one request page protection? Thank you! Markshern7 (talk) 06:20, 25 July 2012 (UTC)Markshern7


 * Hi Markshern7. I'm afraid I have found it necessary to revert your edits again. I've started a thread on the article talkpage to discuss them. I find that much of what you've added violates our policy on biographies of living people in its current form, and I'm hoping that a conversation on the talkpage will allow us to amend your work appropriately and find a way to use some of it in compliance with policy.
 * Regarding your question, you could submit the article for Peer review if you wished. Page protection is, frankly, not going to be granted, so I wouldn't bother pursuing it. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 07:23, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

RfC Is the article neutral
This biography deals with a controversial, living person and needs careful review for neutrality and adequate documentation. A full peer review would be most welcome. Markshern7 (talk) 06:42, 25 July 2012 (UTC)Markshern7
 * I reported the article because it was bad. It violated so many rules such as WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:LIBEL, WP:NONSENSE, WP:ALIVE, and the list goes on.  For example the "Mitt Romney Connection" was 100% crap and complete drivel so it did not belong here.  You were making a lot of accusations and guilt by association without actual strong facts and the sources were not even reliable sources either.  So I recommended that it be reverted back to before your contribution to that article.  ViriiK (talk) 07:28, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. While edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, breaking the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 12:47, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Just wanted to comment
I'm glad that you took a lot of people's advices and I just want to say you're doing a good job so far. Once you are finalized in the final touch however you feel that will be, please do submit it to be reviewed by the NPOV volunteer team once you are done. ViriiK (talk) 22:57, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries
Please use edit summaries, particularly on controversial articles like Yasin al-Qadi when you are making multiple edits. Thank you! -- The Red Pen of Doom  00:02, 30 July 2012 (UTC) Thank you for the prompt, RedPen. I did not realize this tool existed, and your prompt led me to the appropriate page, which I will read and re-read in order to provide appropriate edit summaries in future.

Recent Edits
Summary of Today's changes: Two lines appended to opening paragraph, to increase balance and objectivity. New section on Early Life added, in compliance with standard biographical format.

Note: Failure to locate data on parents and family is awkward, and if new information becomes available this may be added, but it really, really, really seems that newspapers across the board have omitted the information, perhaps to protect the family of Mr. Al-Qadi, who has some very genuine privacy and security concerns that must be weighed with all due respect. All I can tell you is that I made a very dogged effort to find name of parents and came up empty. It was not my intention to "insinuate" a cover up. I wanted to post the information, wanted to find it, and the information really is absent. If you can find name of parents, please do! Please add something in a positive way. Meanwhile, I will rewrite, just as New York Times and Chicago Trib have done, with absolutely no mention of parents, because the info cannot be found! Thank you for pointing out that attempt to "document an absence" seems snarky. That wasn't the intention, but you may be right -- it adds a negative spin. I will correct.Markshern7 (talk) 01:34, 30 July 2012 (UTC)Markshern7

Coming Up: Ties to Muslim Brotherhood
I have located some useful and solid (book-based, academic) sources that provide political background to al-Qadi family. I want to add a brief section on al-Qadi family's connection to Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and United States, which helps to place the next 30 years of his life and his political associations with the Jamjoom family, the bin Laden family, and his future business deals with Alamoudi into perspective. Will try to keep it very short, succinct and well-sourced, and will try not to stray from subject. It is controversial, so please be prepared to look it over soon. Would appreciate comments on wording, neutrality, sources(will post in 24 hours).Markshern7 (talk) 01:34, 30 July 2012 (UTC)Markshern7

which edit?
hello, you asked on my talk page for an explanation of an edit. however, all of my most recent edits from Aug 8 have summaries. is there another one that you are wondering about, or is the edit summary acronyms too cryptic? please leave a WP:DIFF so i know which you are asking about. -- The Red Pen of Doom  12:17, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Your input would be appreciated
You may have noticed that I've been cutting out and organizing material at Yasin al-Qadi. I've been raising a few issues on the talk page regarding the material, and I'd sincerely be grateful for your input since you've been the primary contributor of it. Thanks, alanyst 03:30, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

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