User talk:Rogerzzip

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Hello, Rogerzzip, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Bbb23 (talk) 19:09, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Rick Snyder. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. --Bbb23 (talk) 19:11, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

References to youtube and your personal website are not allowed in Wikipedia, therefore Rick Snyder's references, for example number 6, are faulty. The article needs a more work. Rogerzzip (talk) 19:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Some citations to YouTube are impermissible copyright violations; others are not. I'm not sure what you mean by "your personal website" - whose website are you speaking of? WP:SPS is also tricky and needs to be applied carefully. Finally, I know that at least one of the things you removed was sourced to a secondary source, although not all of the assertion. You need to be careful about removing material, and you need to explain what you're doing in the edit summary. As a new editor, I would proceed cautiously.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok. This paragraph is unsupported "In 1997, Snyder returned to Ann Arbor to found Avalon Investments Inc., a venture capital company with a $100 million fund, along with the co-founder of Gateway, Ted Waitt. Snyder was president and chief executive officer of Avalon from 1997 to 2000. He then co-founded Ardesta, an investment firm, in 2000, becoming chairman and chief executive officer."

So is this paragraph "From 2005 to 2007, Snyder served as the chairman of the board of Gateway. During 2006, Snyder served as interim chief executive officer while a search for a permanent replacement was made. His tenure on the Gateway board ran from 1991 to 2007 until Gateway was sold to the Taiwanese manufacturer, Acer Inc.."

Please advise. Rogerzzip (talk) 19:24, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Here's what I advise you to do. Take a look at the article as a whole and the sources as a whole. Based on my quick review, the problem is not that material is unsourced, but rather that sources are not always repeated after each assertion. Thus, for example, you'll find most of the material about Avalon and Ardesta in a source earlier in the section. What would be best would be to repeat the source after the Avalon/Ardesta sentences. Also, at the same time, you can insure that all of the assertion is supported by the source and only remove any pieces that are not. Finally, if you think something is completely unsourced anywhere in the article, as long as the material is not truly contentious, you'd be better off leaving the material in and tagging it as unsourced so it can be fixed rather than immediately removing it.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:32, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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Helpme requests
Should http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad be deleted or merged into another article? They have blogs and their own etherpad site referencing it, which isn't allowed in Wikipedia. Rogerzzip (talk) 21:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No, the solution to having inappropriate links in an article is to edit it, not delete it. If the article doesn't meet criteria for inclusion in the project, or if it contains major copyright violations, that's a different story, of course. Perhaps you could either make the edits or bring up the question at Talk:Etherpad. Thanks for checking in advance, rather than simply nominating the article for deletion, and welcome to Wikipedia! Frank  &#124;  talk  16:43, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

There are no other sources which have appropriate links, from my search. I have no opinion if it does or doesn't meet criteria for inclusion. Where can you find that out though? Do you think it can be merged under "Google acquisitions"? What's the process? Rogerzzip (talk) 17:44, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The appropriate place to discuss this is Talk:Etherpad, although I confess I don't understand what you're trying to say about "sources which have appropriate links". As for criteria for inclusion, you can check WP:CSD, WP:PROD, and WP:AFD, but I caution you strongly to read, read, read before trying to delete any articles. Using a helpme tag is probably among the less efficient ways to do all that anyway...if you jump in on the talk page of the article, you'll get the attention of people who have a direct interest in the article itself. Frank  &#124;  talk  18:42, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Should http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeetha be deleted or merged into another article? It has SPS (IMDB site is SPS) and BLP since 2007. What's the process for nominating deletion? Rogerzzip (talk) 18:25, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No, it should not be deleted. First, IMDB is listed in the External Links section, so it's not used as a source, and even if it were, it wouldn't automatically be disallowed (depending on what it is used to reference). Second, as I stated above, the response to a problem with an article is not deleting it, but rather fixing it. As an additional note, you can link to an article without the "external link" icon (the arrow) appearing, by using the shortened intra-wiki format (wiki-link), like this: Sangeetha. See WP:LINK for details. Frank  &#124;  talk  18:47, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

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