User talk:Neils73

List of peace activists
Congrats on your great work on the page! I didn't go through all of your edits, so don't know if you added anyone during your work, but if so please list the List in the "See also" section of their article. That's a page I've done lots of work on after finding it in a condition in need of additions, and the summaries are one thing I didn't get to on everyone as yet. There's another page I've focused on which needs lots and lots and lots of summaries, but I've been hampered with computer problems. Would you be interesting in doing a little work on the 'List of suffragists and suffragettes' ? If so, wow!!! Could use help. If you happen to do a few please add the following to their See also sections (in most cases you'd have to add the see also): 'List of suffragists and suffragettes', 'Timeline of women's suffrage', 'List of women's rights activists' (although not everyone one the list is included on that page, which is, hopefully, for major activists) and whatever other pages seem appropriate. I've also added the hashtag link to 'List of suffragists and suffragettes#Major suffrage organizations|Women's suffrage organizations', and in many cases have added the template 'Suffrage' as well to link all the pages together. It's a wonderful learning experience, as I'm sure you went through when you worked on the peace activists page. Good to meet you, and if I was an admin I'd give you one of those spinning barnstars! Randy Kryn 15:07 11 July, 2013 (UTC)
 * p.s. Hi. A suggestion on the summaries - which is why they take a long time to do - is to make them each as unique as possible. I guess I look at these summaries as "Hall of fame" entries for the people listed, so saying, for example, 'peace activist' seems redundant. As I type this I realize that many past entries I've done have to be improved and enlarged. So an idea, in short, is to take as much time as you (and me!) need to get the perfect description of each entry. On the suffraists page I thought that doing five a day would be about right, but then I got booged down in computer problems. Have you checked out "List of women's rights activists"?, another page with good summaries needed for some. Lots to contemplate for two notes, so thanks, and again, good to meet you. Randy Kryn 16:35 11 July, 2013 (UTC)

Hi Randy: Thank you for your nice comments. Good to meet you too. Thanks for the kind gesture as well. I am glad to know that you are satisfied with my work. I'll be contributing to the pages you suggested and please don't hesitate to contact me if they is anything that should have been done differently. Neils73
 * Hello again, and my apologies for not checking your talk page sooner. Hopefully I can be on-site more starting next week (fingers crossed), and I will assist in fleshing out the Suffragette list. This is such a major list that my hats off to you for doing so much good work on it. Hope to "see" you around the page (and I kick myself for not putting in the Lucy Burns data long ago, she is such a major figure along with the great Alice Paul and the Pankhurst's from England). Cheers, Randy Kryn 18:10 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Just checked the edits in the Suffragist and Suffragette list page, and you're on fire! I don't know why lots of people haven't dived into that one, it's so important and so historical. I've been working on other projects here and elsewhere. Would be nice to work on it again. If I knew how to give those award banners I'd pop about half a dozen of them right here! Randy Kryn 19:27 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Randy: Thank you for passing by. I can see the value in the Suffragist and Suffragette list and I am having good time editing it. As a matter of fact, I spend good time editing all pages on my Watchlist. Don't worry about the award banners. Your comments are my awards. Will talk again soon!Neils73

November 2013
Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=582890148 your edit] to Widad Akrawi may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 ""s. If you have, don't worry: just [ edit the page] again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:A930913/BBpreload&editintro=User:A930913/BBeditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:A930913&preloadtitle=BracketBot%20–%20&section=new my operator's talk page].
 * List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 00:15, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=1&Itemid=50|title=Contact us - Dr. Widad Akrawi |accessdate=22 November 2013}}

Hi BracketBot: Thank you. I returned to the page and fixed the broken syntax. Good to meet you!

File permission problem with File:Dr. Widad Akrawi Addressing the United Nations.png
Thanks for uploading File:Dr. Widad Akrawi Addressing the United Nations.png. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:42, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi Sfan00 IMG: Thanks for info. Good to have you here!

Unspecified source/license for File:Dr. Widad Akrawi Addressing the United Nations.png
Thanks for uploading File:Dr. Widad Akrawi Addressing the United Nations.png. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 17:45, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Suffragists and suffragettes
You are doing a yeomans job with the page, thanks from another editor who liked working on it and should get back. I'm glad the British summaries are being done because of the movie starring Meryl Streep which will focus on the British suffragettes. Nice. I'll try to get back into the summarizing. Randy Kryn 13:05, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Widad Akrawi
Dear Neils, we all welcome your help here at the Wikipedia, and you have certainly made a number of helpful contributions. However, almost every article you recently worked on, has been stuffed with gazillions of mostly unreliable, often redundant, and therefore worthless sources. Articles where this is the case include: You're regularly summarized your edits with "adding links". Exactly that's what you're doing: adding links as if Wikipedia was a link farm, only there to give some blogs' and websites' SEO efforts a push. Now I'm not sure if you do this on purpose or if you had some recent negative experience with other Wikipedians that caused you to pile up as many references as you can. Maybe just noone told you.
 * Widad Akrawi
 * Defend International
 * International Pfeffer Peace Award
 * Persecution of Yazidis by ISIL
 * Persecution of Assyrians and Copts by ISIL
 * Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency
 * Kobanî
 * Death of Alan Kurdi
 * Yazidis

But note that this is not helpful, neither is it neutral, it really is disruptive. It forces others to clean up articles after you worked on them, and trust me, I will go and clean up every single article you recently worked on.

So please, look at my track record and you might see that I'm fully on your side supporting human rights issues and everything, even the Kurdish cause. But this is an encyclopedia, so this particularly problematic pattern has to stop. You usually only need very few, but good references to support specific non-obvious claims. We want to see these good references from you, meaning: relevant, reliable references – if possible, from authoritative sources, otherwise from the best sources available.

Thank you for your understanding, and please feel free to me for any clarification you need. Regards, PanchoS (talk) 16:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * So, partial cleanup of the Widad Akrawi article cost me three hours of my life. Hope the other articles are slightly less work. :/ --PanchoS (talk) 19:06, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Some of the sources were perfectly valid, and quite reliable no matter whether still online or not. In a way, your edit however proved your good faith, so I'm sorry I thought otherwise before. It just looked like a massive WP:PROMOTION campaign. Now I'm really happy to welcome you back to Wikipedia! You may want to dig into some more of our guidelines such as WP:RS, WP:DUE, WP:BESTSOURCES or WP:WTW, but keep it up, and WP:BeBold! Regards, PanchoS (talk) 11:50, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi ! You might be baffled that I reverted your last edit again. :) However, this time you removed too much. ;)

Hi PanchoS Thank you. I'll have a look at the guidelines and rewrite the article until it sounds as it should. Regards

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)