User talk:MarshalN20/Archive 14

File:Peru Kit 2.png listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Peru Kit 2.png, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Kelly hi! 10:46, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Peruvian general election
Hello. I have noticed that the article Peruvian general election, 2016 was nominated at In the news/Candidates, to appear in the "In the news" section of the main page, but at the moment it is rejected because of its poor quality. Perhaps if the article is improved in time it may be promoted. I will try to help a bit, but as a Peruvian you must be more familiar than me about this election and the related information, and your help would be far more valuable. Have in mind that the time to do this is a bit limited, in just some days it will be yesterday's news and won't be considered for the In The News section. Cambalachero (talk) 12:37, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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Attack
Isn't it interesting that, when you call someone on his nonsense, it's an attack because he is a registered editor, with a NAME and all. But when you're not, then it isn't an attack to have your, fully reasonable, edit reverted multiple times. Note also that the editor I supposedly attacked elected to remove the entire conversation rather than answer it. Because acting like a spoiled child not getting its way is a reasonable act, and such a very good sign. So, to reiterate: The word 'eponymous', meaning: "of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named" is a completely reasonable, and neutral, word to describe the restaurant Trader Vic's, owned by 'Trader' Vic Bergeron. The word was used in the article in question (Mai Tai, until it was, erroneously, removed. I replaced it, and no less than two editors decided, with no logical reason, that this was 'promoting' the restaurant and/or person. I argued that this was so much nonsense, and that if one cannot use that word, then any connection between Donald Trump and Trump Tower, or Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company had best be removed too. They were entirely unwilling to see any other point of view than theirs. So, where from here? After all, commenting on content and not editors are all well and good until the editors in question will not see reason, are not willing to see any point other than their own, and threaten to have you blocked. 31.208.103.192 (talk) 10:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)


 * There's plenty of noticeboards available (WP:AN/I, WP:NPOV/N, WP:RS/N) to take your case without there being a need to resort to insults. You can even open a WP:RFC (request for comment) or ask for a WP:3O (third opinion).
 * In this message you again insult the editor by associating him with "a spoiled child". Please stop.
 * Certain users do get away with insulting other editors and break many of the established rules. However, that is not a justification for those actions. We need more people (and administrators) to stand against the bullies that make their way into Wikipedia rather than join their ranks.
 * Have a good day.-- MarshalN20 T al k

Falkland
Hi Marshal. I saw your message on my talk page, but it wasn't clear what you were wanting. I also saw that you removed an improvement to the etymology of Falkland for no reason. Perhaps you might help me out and tell me why you regard academic research on a Fife place-name to be unreliable or otherwise explain why you performed this edit. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 17:24, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Here is more information on the source: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_219418_en.pdf
 * Simon Taylor's Place-Names of Fife is a source of the most reliable kind, a peer-reviewed work written by the leading expert on Scottish place-names after decades of work. It is up-to-date in terms of methodology and research. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 17:36, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Marshal, you don't seem to understand the purpose of WP:BRD. It is a guide to the editing process, it is not a reason itself for blank reverting fellow editors improving an article. You need to specify some reason for your edit otherwise no editor has any reason to accept your reversions. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 18:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

WP: BRD
Dear Marshal, please revisit this page WP:BRD. You cited it as a pretext for edit-warring, but if you had actually read it and followed it you wouldn't have created these issues. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 21:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Credit where credit's due, this is exactly the type of edit WP:BRD calls for. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 22:05, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Austria Emperorflag.png listed for discussion
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Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News
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Let's do this.
Featured article candidates/Belgium national football team/archive2

Kareldorado (talk) 19:13, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Bicycle Kick
Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Bicycle kick has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I did archive most of the article's URLs where allowed. As to your request: "I need help checking if the sources in the bibliography are still relevant (in use) at the article." This is not something that any copy editor would be able to do since the reference material isn't at hand. Surely if a previous editor removed some cited text they would also remove the reference? If I have misunderstood you please leave me a note on my talk page.

Kind regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:38, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 350 articles in just six days. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:22, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
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 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873
Hallo MarshalN20,

would you be so kind to explain why did you revert my changes to the article Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873? . Thanks in advance, -- Keysanger (talk) 18:07, 20 November 2016 (UTC)


 * . Even your message here reflects POV-pushing. The article's title has already been changed to its real name. You have to stop drop the stick and move on, otherwise I will report your behavior to AN/I. You may consider this your final warning.-- MarshalN20 T al k 18:11, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873
You are called to participate in the discussion about the Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873 to Dispute resolution noticeboard. -- Keysanger (talk) 15:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Causes of the War of the Pacific
Please be aware that an Requests for mediation/Causes of the War of the Pacific case has been brought up which concerns you. -- Keysanger (talk) 14:46, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
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Pending changes reviewer granted
Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
 * First place – $200
 * Second & Third place – $50 each
 * Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are, , and.

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If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the Barnstar on Draft:David Breskin!!
Hello MarshalN20,

I wanted to thank you for adding a positive comment to my conversation with editor Robert McClenon regarding my draft new article submission for David Breskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:David_Breskin

You might be able to tell that I am brand new to editing on Wikipedia. :-) It's been a really challenging learning curve and I'm afraid I've inadvertently taken some missteps, though not because I haven't tried to read up on all the guidelines, templates, etc.!

I've tried to fix the things that Mr. McClenon and Missvain found wrong with my draft. I hope they find it vastly improved and perhaps even approve-able!!

Anyway, your nice barnstar lifted me when I was feeling particularly defeated by this process.

Thanks.

All best!

Cahadley (talk) 23:52, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Comment by Shivani
Hi MarshalN20, My name is Shivani Raman and I am a student in a class called Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities at Rice University. As part of this class, I am planning to make a contribution to Wikipedia by revising and adding to the article "Mineral Industry of Peru." I am reaching out to you to ask if you have any general advice in regard to adding to articles, or if you have any insight on Peru that would relate to my article topic. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you! Sraman195 (talk) 18:59, 27 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the very late response! I just noticed your message on my talk space. I was in Lima during this summer working at various local archives for my doctoral research, and have been quite busy ever since then. I've visited the Rice campus a few times in the past; a professor from rice was key note speaker at the conference where I won an award for my research on Peru. As for advice, I recommend that you first become familiarized with Wikipedia's pillars (if you have not done so already) to get the basics of what is expected of your participation in the project and editorial contributions. As for article content, my recommendation is the same as for any other research project you embark on: read, read, and read some more; in other words, understand the topic before working on it (in particular, learn about the available literature). Lastly, add many pictures to your work; if there is one thing that Wikipedia allows, and which other academic endeavors generally don't (due to space requirements), is the use of pictures to illustrate your work. That's all that comes to mind at the moment. Best.-- MarshalN20 T al k 16:10, 26 December 2016 (UTC)