User talk:OperaJoeGreen

OperaJoeGreen first post
I am setting up the talk page. My User page is User:OperaJoeGreen (signed) OperaJoeGreen (talk) 08:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Stars and planets
Hi! First, I want to say that I'm very happy with the energetic clean-up work you've been doing. I hope ultimately it can extend to some of the related articles as well.

With regard to the deletion discussion, I have to admit that I'm not really very good at predicting how those discussions are going to turn out, but my current impression is that the pro-delete viewpoint is not prevailing. It would be unusual indeed for a deletion to take place while a clean--up is in progress -- the pro-delete side has to shift its position from "this is a mess" to "clean-up is impossible, the whole concept is flawed". The goalposts seem to keep shifting: first it's "where are the sources?"; then it's "where are the secondary sources?"; then it's "where are the good secondary sources", "good" being of course a subjective decision that that side would like to make.

I don't personally see how deleting the pages would help make Wikipedia better. I've worked to eliminate a lot of listcruft myself, but to my mind listcruft consists of lists of tangential and superficial references that don't illuminate anything about the subject beyond "this is popular". I think that these lists illuminate, or have the potential to illuminate, something important about the changing worldview of humans with regard to the universe around them.RandomCritic (talk) 01:25, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Deleting tags
Actually, it is that easy. Just delete the code. Anybody can add them, anybody can remove them (although if someone feels strongly that the removal is erroneous, they're likely to reappear).RandomCritic (talk) 01:44, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

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Nebulae in fiction
Hi. Several issues with Nebulae in fiction: --Mirokado (talk) 17:37, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Please use plain text for trademarks etc, see MOS:TM. In particular something like the Youtube logo should only be used on the Youtube article.
 * Please don't misuse things like the |date= parameter in a cite template for other information. Those parameters generate metadata which would become unreliable.
 * Please check copyright status before linking to Youtube, see WP:YT. Generally if a professional product has not recognisably been uploaded by the author or the organisation for which it was made, it will be a copyright violation and cannot be used here. I have removed the link for the Xenomorph game music.
 * Please rethink the use of bold and purple for nebula names etc, see MOS:BOLD and MOS:COLOR. Purple and blue are particularly bad choices in any case for highlighting text as they are often used by browsers for visited and unvisited links. We generally stay away from "clever" per-article conventions like that as it makes articles idiosyncratic for the reader and difficult for editors. There are other uses of bold which contravene MOS:BOLD which I think can also be removed.

Thank you, OperaJoe! More coming! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlbphd (talk • contribs) 04:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I need help with an overly aggressive editor.
I am very depressed. An editor name DragonflySixtyseven decided that all of my scientific work and discoveries (cited nearly 470 times by reputable and verifiable sources) were not important enough to be noted in Wikipedia. So not only did he remove my profile page, but then he took it one step further and decided to remove the Rome's Revolution page, first put into production by an editor named Andrew and tweaked by you. You or another editor also improved the paragraph on using the Grey Drive to convert xenon atoms into Hawking Radiation providing a higher specific impulse than a traditional ion drive. How is this not notable? It is novel, it is valid and my book is outselling three of the books above mine.

I am at a loss. A little guidance, please.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlbphd (talk • contribs) 17:08, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: Your questions
1. I don't personally know anything about User:Nikkimaria, but his record of contributions shows that he's been around for a long time, and has been fairly active, but since January of this year he's been cutting a wide swath through a very large number of Wikipedia articles, almost exclusively deleting material, with uninformative edit summaries such as "cleanup", "cull" and "rm non-RS". The latter summary seems to go with deletions of references.

2. I would start by reverting the deletions and asking (in the reversion, in Talk, possibly at User talk:Nikkimaria) for a detailed discussion regarding the material to take place on one or more talk pages. Given the general character of these deletions, I'm not confident that that would be productive, but it's a necessary starting point.

3. Further steps can be found at WP:CONTENTDISPUTE. Either the noticeboard or a request for comment seems like a reasonable next step, if discussion is non-productive. Only if those fail would a mediation request be warranted.

4. I think you'd make a great administrator. For a guide as to how to get started, go to WP:GRFA, which also links to other guides on the same subject. The actual application structure is at WP:RFA. If you decide you want to do this, I suggest you read through these guides before doing anything further in the current conflict you're involved in, as it might influence the strategy you choose to take. Best of luck, and don't hesitate to ask me if you need anything else! RandomCritic (talk) 19:11, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh, in addition, you'll probably find it very helpful to look at the cleanup tagging guidelines at WP:TC.RandomCritic (talk) 19:21, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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