User talk:MediaKill13/Archive 1

Thanks for the copy edits
Thanks for the copy edits. I notice that you are adding articles to the February blitz page that were not listed on the Guild of Copy Editors' Requests page. Only articles from the Requests page count for the blitz this month. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:47, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the copy edit
Thank you so much for the copy edit you have done in "Habits (Tove Lo song)". --Paparazzzi (talk) 20:15, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you again!
Thanks for the copy edit you have done in the article "Love Ballad". --Paparazzzi (talk) 01:39, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for the copy edit
Thank you for the copy edit of Unorthodox Jukebox, nice work. However by putting some "quotes" back you reverted some of the issues that the article had with copy violations regarding sources. It's ok I will fix it. Thank you once again. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 13:07, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

A request
Hello MediaKill13. I see that you are part of the Guild of Copy Editors. I hope that you can help me copyedit one sentence (LOL) that someone told me was awkward. Here it is: Professional wrestlers perform as characters, wrestling in choreographed matches as part of scripted storylines. Thank you. starship.paint ~  KO   08:56, 12 June 2016 (UTC)


 * There's nothing grammatically wrong with it, but maybe you can replace the 'wrestling' with 'where they wrestle' or split the sentence into two, something along the lines of 'Professional wrestlers usually perform in choreographed matches. They take on the roles of characters in scripted storylines.' This sounds more awkward to me though; your version made perfect sense to me when I first read it!  MediaKill13  ( talk )   12:37, 12 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you MediaKill13, I will consider all the options! Have a nice day! starship.paint ~  KO   13:17, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Ryan White article reverted
Good evening,

I am the expert in Ryan White. This article includes several errors of fact lifted from outdated sources. Often the sources offered include dead links. And the writers aren't familiar with the history of the civil rights movement, the 1973 Rehabilitation Act or public health. One user chose to reference a recent quote by Donald Trump that has been publicly refuted by Jeanne White-Ginder. To leave the article with its current errors and omissions would be to support misinformation.

Now what prompted you to revert the article and remove my corrections without doing any research to verify the veracity of my edits? --SpiderWebb2 (talk • contribs) 00:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hey, please remember to sign next time. I'm not saying that what you added was wrong, it was probably right. But you didn't add your own sources to prove that it was. The article is featured; if you're going to make massive changes to it then you'll need to cite your sources, otherwise the article will lose quality and may get demoted from featured status. Thanks,  MediaKill13    ( talk )   21:23, 28 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Correcting a poorly written article with factual errors and weak sources appears more difficult than posting such a bad article in the first place.

Western Middle School was and is located in Russiaville, not Kokomo. (I made this correction). Easily searchable, but also in Ryan's book Ryan White My Own Story.

Hamilton Heights High School was and is located in Arcadia, not Cicero (I made this correction). Easily searchable, but also in Ryan's book Ryan White My Own Story.

It is incorrect that 90% of hemophiliacs were infected with HIV between 1979-1984. The best estimate indicates that 90% of severe Hemophiliacs (those with less than 4% of the normal levels of the protein Factor 8 in their blood system) who infused regularly with Factor 8 blood concentrates were infected with HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Those who used cryo blood products were far less likely to be infected with blood products. The cryo products were pooled from far fewer donors per unit. Plasma for Factor 8 products was often collected from state prison systems. State prisons systems also had very high rates of Hepatitis infections.

Out of the entire population of hemophiliacs in the United States about 60% were infected with HIV and or Hepatitis C. Furthermore the rate of infection of HIV by Leukemia patients who received blood products was far greater than hemophiliacs or those who received plasma or whole blood transfusions.

Ryan White first came to the attention of the local and national media when his mother was involved in a class action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that provided the tainted products. Mrs. White-Ginder also went to the local newspaper the Kokomo Tribune to set up a fund to help her and her family. Mrs. White-Ginder's employer didn't offer compensation for time lost from work to care for a dependent child.

This article and many of the articles cited are in error when they describe it as a long legal battle with the school system. It was actually a really short legal process and a long administrative process. The 1973 Rehabilitation Act was amended to to include an administrative appeal. The entire point was to keep cases out of the federal court system while satisfying the due process standard of the constitution. Ryan was permitted to return to school after a third party arbitrator determined that he posed no risk and should be permitted to return to school. A parent's group filed an injunction and attempted to sue both Ryan and the school if he was permitted to attend. They lost their case and a cash bond.

Kimberly Bergalis was not a prominent advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS. Ms. Bergalis sued her dentist who she claimed intentionally infected her and several other patients with HIV. The dentist died of AIDS before he could be questioned. It was her contention that mandatory testing should be implemented to prevent HIV infected medical professions from practicing. CBS's 60 Minutes did a report claiming that Ms. Bergalis had far more sexual experience than she had claimed and it was more likely that she had been infected through sexual intercourse and not intentionally by her dentist. These claims could not be substantiated. But under Wikipedia standards that would be fine to write here as long as you can provide a link to CBS and the original story.

Earvin Johnson was not a contemporary of Ryan's as a public advocate for people living with HIV/AIDs. Ryan died years before Johnson tested positive with HIV and spoke a single positive word about people living with the disease.

The French had isolated the virus and called it LAV before Dr. Robert Gallo's lab isolated the virus. In fact it was later found that Gallo had isolated the exact same virus. His lab had been contaminated. Both researchers had been sharing materials. A legal challenge against Gallo went before the courts and charges of academic dishonesty levelled preventing any lab from developing an adequate test and being awarded further research grants to work towards therapeutic treatments and testing kits.

Donald Trump did not pay for Ryan's medical and travel expenses. Everything that has come out of the Republican Party's presidential candidate gets refuted. Mrs. White-Ginder has publicly confirmed that Trump never provided such support. He gave Michael Jackson a ride into Indiana on his plane after Ryan had died. That's it!

Whether or not the general public knew much about AIDS in 1985 is completely irrelevant. They also didn't understand influenza, measles, Parkinson's disease or MS. They still don't really understand Ebola, SARS, MERS or Zika. By 1985-1986 the medical science community actually knew far more about HIV/AIDS than they did many other diseases. Paige Rawl from Indianapolis, Indiana went through many of the same problems as Ryan at her middle school just in the last decade. The young woman is an advocate for those living with HIV and is now a student at Butler University. Rawl's father infected her mother who passed on the virus to her.

I don't really care if you would be citizen journalists and editors want to delete my corrections. You are copying and pasting quotes and references without ever learning the subject matter. Whereas I have worked professionally in the media for over twenty years.

To allow these errors to remain is a detriment to society. It is spreading misinformation and creating the kind of society that allows someone like Donald Trump to be considered a serious candidate for president.

So either make an effort to verify what I have written or take down this horrible and misleading article. I'm not giving away professional journalism with proper academic citations for free. --SpiderWebb2 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hey.First of all, a reminder. Please sign your posts on talk pages by either typing these ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ), or clicking the "sign your posts on talk pages" below the save page, preview and changes buttons, or click this Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window. Also, to preserve the flow of conversation, add your message to the same section. Having said that, I once again repeat that I am not saying that what you added was wrong. Rolling back 14 revisions of a page is not something I take lightly. I checked for the difference between your and an IP's changes and the last accepted version by User:Indyguy. I only found two claims that were verifiable, while the rest were unsourced. After reverting, I immediately went back to the article and added the sourced material that got reverted. You can confirm if and when I did this if you go to . You make many claims about the veracity of what you added, but Wikipedia editors are not obliged to provide citations to claims you made. If you read WP:BURDEN, it clearly states that the burden of verifying information lies with the editor who adds it. This basically means that when you make a claim, you must research on it, and no one else. Then you'll provide inline citations to verify it. The rules are tedious and lengthy, I know, but they're necessary. A lot of the people who read Wikipedia do so because they don't have the time to do research for themselves, so we have to prove it. You gave statistics. Cite where they came from. You said that Mrs. White-Ginder has publicly confirmed that Trump never provided such support. Give us the newspaper article where that came from. I can firmly assure you that if you do this, no one will dream of removing your content, unless they're vandals . Happy editing!  MediaKill13    ( talk )   05:06, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

B.S.
See above.

A crap article is being allowed to stay and spread misinformation. Don't care about signing my posts and such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpiderWebb2 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, it's been signed by a bot. Like I'll keep saying, if you think the article is crap, go write what's true, and prove it. When you say that you're not giving away academic citations for free, then you may be misunderstanding the purpose of Wikipedia. No contributor who provided the countless citations on Wikipedia was paid. I personally wasn't, and I've provided quite a number. This is a volunteer project, and we're all working towards the same goal. You need to ask yourself if you are too.  MediaKill13    ( talk )   19:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Problem
Hello I am in wikipedia for more than 30 days and have over 500 edits then why I am not given extended confirmed right? Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!? 15:20, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You already have extended confirmed rights. To check your rights, go to your contributions (there is a link at the top of the page) then scroll down until you see a bar saying "subpages, user rights, edit count" etc then click user rights. You will see "extended confirmed user" next to your name. Alternatively, you can go to my sandbox at User:MediaKill13/sandbox then click the link written "To check user rights" then type your name in the box.  MediaKill13    ( talk )   07:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok I got it. Do you have another sandbox that shows edit counts of a user like in User:MediaKill13/sandbox(that shows rights) ? Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!?  08:09, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I haven't created such a link yet, but if you go to your contributions, the 'edit count' link will be at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a page called "X's tools" where you can see your edit statistics.  MediaKill13    (<font color="#000000"> talk )   10:13, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * — Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!?  10:21, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia Supreme Court
I wouldn't be terribly worried about that. Although I am 1 for 2 at ANI over the past month, so no qualms about going that route if need be.

I do plan on opening an RfC as was suggested. I don't see anything being resolved with a local consensus. I may work that up tonight if time permits. For now it's off to the hardware store. Renovations await! All the best. Timothy Joseph Wood 17:44, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I do support opening an RFC immediately, only that I don't know how to do it myself . But anyway, assuming that this case blows out into something unpleasant, I reiterate that I do not want to practice my legal skills in said Supreme Court. Also, if the page is subjected to some nasty form of protection, I won't like it. And I don't want to get topic banned, since this is one area where I do a lot of editing. <font face="Lucida Handwriting"> MediaKill13   <font color="#000000"> (<font color="#000000"> talk )   06:10, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Those types of sanctions generally only happen when someone violates policy, has policy explained to them, and then disregards and continues to violate it. Moreso, it usually takes multiple warnings and egregious violations. At any rate, if you'd done something wrong I'd be the first to warn you, agree with me or not. Timothy Joseph Wood  10:50, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
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Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News
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Wiki Loves Pride 2017
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GOCE July 2017 drive bling
You were just shy of the next barnstar, so you've got a nice rollover for the drive in September! – Reidgreg (talk) 12:21, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Treaty of Pontotoc has a new comment
<div style="border:solid 1px #9accf6;background:#f1f9ff;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:1em;color:black;margin-bottom: 1.5em;width: 100%;"> I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Treaty of Pontotoc. Thanks! Legacypac (talk) 10:46, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Treaty of Pontotoc


Hello, MediaKill13. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Treaty of Pontotoc".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 10:46, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks!
I know this is coming obscenely late, but thanks for that ! Two years ago I didn't bother checking my talk page and with time, I forgot about your comment. Anyway, happy editing carreer and see you at the Guild! ;)  Double Plus Ungood (talk)  03:31, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

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June 2018 GOCE newsletter
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