User talk:Vaparedes/Archive 1

Collaborating with your students
Just a courtesy check: I'm starting to help with RocketTestPilot's featured-biography-sorting project, and wanted to let you know in case that complicates or is incompatible with your grading plans. FourViolas (talk) 12:04, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help, FourViolas! No complications, thanks for lending a helping hand. Vaparedes (talk) 01:32, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Coms 411 Question
Hi Veronica,


 * I am part of Krista Lynes Coms 411 course. I am currently building a page on the transgender rights activist Drian Juarez, and I am having trouble as the wiki-editors say I am in copyright violation (this was on Friday orginally and after additional edits on Saturday). I only have 2 written sources and 2 video sources, so the content is not vary varied. However, since being informated of my violation I have edited everything to be different except for the names of the places Juarez went to school and the organizations she has worked for. I do not want to hand in an assignment that is being accused of copyright violation, but I am unsure how to edit my content any further because at this point I would have to change or remove the names of the organizations Drian Juarez has worked for. Have you had someone in this position before? Your guidance would be very much appreciated.


 * Thank you for your time,
 * Alanna C. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alannacrochetiere (talk • contribs) 14:03, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Alannacrochetiere, I'll leave a message on your Talk page. I'll also make some adjustments to your article draft to help it adhere to Wikipedia conventions more closely. Also, note that if you add "~" four tildas at the end of your comment, that will act as your signature. Vaparedes (talk) 16:25, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Veronica,
 * Thank you so much for your edits, advice and, overall, help! I will be in touch again if I have any further questions. This is so very much appreciated.
 * Best,
 * "Alannacrochetiere (talk) 17:46, 16 March 2015 (UTC)"

Userbox for the course
Heya! I'm getting into this, so I made a userbox for the course. It can be inserted onto user pages with, and looks like this:

I'm giving it to you here instead of posting on the course page because I felt like it should be your decision whether or not you want it used or not. --RocketTestPilot (talk) 23:01, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Wonderful idea, RocketTestPilot! I will post on the course page here and mention to students by email. May also be cool to share with the larger FTN network. Thanks! Vaparedes (talk) 01:33, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
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Great meeting you yesterday!
Looking fwd to staying in touch. Here is more info about AfrolatinoCROWD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfroLatinoCROWD I have added you to the AfroCROWD mailing list as well. --Aliceba (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Nomination of Shooting of Meagan Hockaday for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shooting of Meagan Hockaday is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Shooting of Meagan Hockaday until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. VQuakr (talk) 05:08, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Sunday August 2: WikNYC Picnic
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September 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Vaparedes! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 04:41, Monday, September 14, 2015 (UTC)

Saturday October 3: WikiArte Latin America Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon
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== Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon ==

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Feb 16: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim Feb 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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March 2016
Hello, I'm Oshwah. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to User talk:OOKbook— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:14, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

WIR A+F
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March 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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"Women are everywhere"
Hi Vaparedes. I'm an editor (not very active till now) of the Italian Wikipedia, where the gender gap is a real issue. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks, --Kenzia (talk) 14:23, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
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May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
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Ignorant editors on Wikipedia

 * Vaparedes Having some trouble adding in information about a Latina academic. Basically, her info keeps getting deleted because some male editors don't think she's important. Or that articles/books mentioning her aren't important and notable enough. Any advice on how to deal with that?DavidRThomason (talk) 21:35, 31 May 2016 (UTC)


 * DavidRThomason I would take care before making accusations and assumptions. The reasons for deletion were solely down to Wikipedia's notability policy (cf WP:GNG) and nothing else. You may have made assumptions about the gender and motives of other editors which is always unwise. If you intend to write an article about this alumna, then please go ahead and include all the required references that assert notability. Then, and only then, add the name to the list of alumni. Simple.  Velella  Velella Talk  21:42, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi . Strictly speaking, the article doesn't need to exist for a link to be added to a list. See WP:CSC on this (that is about stand-alone lists, but I think the same applies here). Cordless Larry (talk) 22:20, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. But I looked at the references given and I could see no notability there that would support an article - they were own web-site, a very local award etc. etc. and I judged that it was therefore insufficient to support a name inclusion for an alumna. I looked at WP:Alumni and guiding rules are the same.  Velella  Velella Talk 22:25, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Good. Thanks, . is blocked now, in any case. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:33, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Velella, you are misjudging sources. And do yourself a favor and read the guidelines about notable alumni. Those deserving of an article CAN be listed. An existing article IS NOT REQUIRED. Your argument is weak and inappropriate DavidRThomason (talk) 21:48, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This is about University of the Incarnate Word. Vaparedes has not edited in some time, so you might not get a response, . We are not "ignorant", and I do not know how you have decided that everyone reverting you is male. Please read Notability to understand why you are being reverted. A subject is considered notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. You have not demonstrated this for the person you are trying to add. Furthermore, once you have been reverted, you need to discuss the matter with other editors before trying to reinstate the material. See BOLD, revert, discuss cycle about this. Finally, I would advise you to explain your behaviour here, otherwise you may well be blocked for edit warring. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:48, 31 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for speaking on behalf of Vaparedes. I've already listed several sources independent of the subject. In what way are the sources not independent?  As mentioned before, a wikipedia entry is being prepared for this subject, and you seem to have this extraodrinary bias that the individual is not notable and not qualified.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidRThomason (talk • contribs) 21:52, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not speaking on behalf of Vaparedes, but rather trying to explain Wikipedia policies and guidelines. The sources mention the subject, but not in any real detail, so they do not amount to significant coverage. If you are unable to provide evidence of significant coverage, then it is not going to be possible for you to successfully create an article. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:53, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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