User talk:Velella



Just a Thanks
Keeping track of misinformation and spam and stuff is probably not something a lot of people think of. Let alone look for it, record it/make official & thorough record of it, report it, remove it, research it, double-verify it, change it, wait for approval, record it, put it all together tied in a nice wikiBow add added to your database next to all the others. Geez you can make a whole movie out of just one text of misinformation. This is the foundation of Wikipedia and you are pertinent to it. I just want to say thank you for your work because it is literally free and you did nor do not have to do this (unless I'm an idiot and you actually work for Wikipedia then quadruple my appreciation) but you are for sure here for integrity sake. That's the real thanks right there. Th5tW1k1Guy (talk) 00:29, 25 February 2024 (UTC)


 * - Much appreciated. ...and for the record I am just a volunteer like most others here. Best regards  Velella  Velella Talk 07:37, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Velella! BTW(rules of paranoia), Robert Geers claims are all S**T! 208.71.200.78 (talk) 23:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Paulo Bertran
Thank you for your guidance! I'm improving the article and will late publish it. Luiz265 (talk) 17:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

What?
How does saying that a tree has a trunk and the trunk supports branches which are above the ground not "make sense"?Emphasis01 (talk) 00:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Your edit created the following text "'A tree trunk that typically supports many secondary branches clear of the ground by the trunk, which typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another'" which is not a sentence as it has no verb. In any case it was better before IMO.  Velella  Velella Talk 07:34, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Strikethroughs at Articles for deletion/Swaady Martin
Hi, I noticed you struck through a few votes at this AfD for them being confirmed socks. I took a look at these users and it seems like they aren't blocked? TLA tlak 08:44, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Silly me, just saw the investigation. TLA  tlak 08:45, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * - In your close of the Afd at Articles for deletion/Swaady Martin you stated that " ....do not strike out any "votes"/arguments unless the editor is a confirmed sockpuppet of a block-evading editor" and reinstated the vote!s struck through. However the two editors had already been confirmed as socks here. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk  21:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah it seems like Liz missed the investigation, same as me. Maybe it's worth putting a link to the investigation in the AfD in the future? TLA  tlak 23:52, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Edits to Edgar Louton
Hi, thanks for your edits to Edgar Louton, I am inclined to disagree about notability but agree about third party. Kindly take a look at the many newspaper sources from the decades, as well as the book closely detailing his ministry which sold many copies. Thanks. I think it would be better to say that in order to verify the info we need sources that are more clearly objective, but definitely notable. 41.10.86.248 (talk) 11:57, 20 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not too excercised about this. Maintenance tags rarely produce much improvement to an article although it does give interested editors a notice that the quality of the article is less than satisfactory. I was originally going to nominate at AfD but had a change of heart. I still believe that it is an AfD candidate unless it is substantially imrpoved, but I am not going to get into a fight about which specific maintenance templates are used in the meantime. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 12:37, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

A Press release of RR group of Institutions
https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-lucknow/20220425/281715503175215 Rrgilko (talk) 13:45, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * So, its a press release. What of it ?  Velella  Velella Talk 14:24, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
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George John Seaton Article
I notice you have once again deleted my article. As asked, my sources have been converted for easy access for the readers. There are 25 induvial sources, and some are mentioned multiple times. Why is it that you keep deleting my article? I have gone through Wikipedia's editor training, and I am working on this research project at one of the most prestigious universities in the US. I am not trying to misinform any readers and that would never be my intention. George John Seaton was a prisoner and slave that is not widely recorded in history. Our goal as a class is to inform readers about their stories and about who these induvial were. I understand that if you search George John Seaton on a public search engine he does not come up. That is the point to writing an article about him on Wikipedia. My sources are being pulled from Washington University in St. Louis library which is highly reputable. Please let me know why you are continuing to delete my article. I have worked hard over the last week to reinforce any of the issues you found in my previous draft. I did not think this would be a continuing issue. Jeorgiaobrien (talk) 18:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * - Firstly, I have not deleted the article(s) that you started. I have moved one version to Draft so that you could work on it there in relative safety. The second version, that you created quite separately from the Draft, I have nominated for deletion because it does not, in my opinion, meet the notability requirements of Wikipedia. An admin will decide in a couple of weeks or so whether it will or will not be deleted.
 * I did provide advice when I moved the first version to Draft, but I guess that you have chosen to ignore that advice. This is fine, you are under no obligation to follow advice of experienced editors but equally, I am not obliged to give any special consideration to a project that you have spend significant time in writing. The Wikipedia rules on notability take no heed of the amount of work or of the University that you attend. Follow the rules and all will be well. Fail to follow the rules and you may fare less well.
 * If you would value some more advice I would suggest carefully sifting through your sources, putting aside any that are written by the subject or which use their writing as their source and look for reputable sources that discuss the individual. Having found those sources, include direct verbatim quotes from those sources (in inverted commas) either in the reference itself, so that it appears in the footnotes, or in the main body if that seems appropriate, or even on the talk page so that other editors of less prestigious Universities can satisfy themselves that the notability criteria are met. I have no wish to impeded your University career but I am not prepared to change the rules to help effect that.  Velella  Velella Talk 18:34, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Human Contraptions
Okay, how about these sources to add on to the ones that I already had?

(access this on archive dot ph for no paywall)





I also was able to find that it was screened at two different noteworthy film festivals:





Being discussed in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Screen Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, and the National Museum of Australia - and being screened in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival should be enough to establish that this show is notable enough to have an article.--LadybugStardust (talk) 22:34, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I have made no edits to Human Contraptions so am unsure what you now expect?  Velella  Velella Talk 16:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * You rejected the initial draft. Remember?  Anyways, I already added new sources and turned it into an article.--LadybugStardust (talk) 17:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Snowdon
To separare the subject from its verb with a comma is simply wrong. Do you write " Paul, is a boy" or "Paul is a boy" ?? To do it again when you reverted my edition twice is wrong and 2x stupid. Please read a grammar book and restore my edition. Or do whatever you want, I do not care... Mschlindwein msg 23:34, 18 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Page stalker here. New comments should be placed at the end of a page. As to your point, Velella observed there was a parenthetical clause. The question should be: Do you write "Paul, from down the street is a boy" or "Paul, from down the street, is a boy"? The answer to your question can be found in many books and web pages. E.g. Normally a parenthetical element has a comma before and after it. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:26, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Follow Up
I have not heard any recent feedback from you regarding the George John Seaton page. The talk page for deletion has been nominated for relisting due to the immense changes that have occurred in the last few weeks. Please review the article again and comment your thoughts to this editor. They are hoping to hear back from you, and it is helpful for me to make any last changes before my semester comes to an end. Jeorgiaobrien (talk) 00:28, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Snowdon
There are no two commas “issue”, since one comma is inside the parenthesis and the other one is outside them. This means you are separating the subject “Snowdon” from its verb “to be —> is”. The sentence reads “Snowden, is a mountain…”, which is wrong not only in English, but in all languages I’m aware of. Or do you think that writing “Einstein, is a physicist” is correct? 😏🤦‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ If you do, ask your English teacher and put my correction back. I’m done with this point, I do not like to waste my time with stupidity. Mschlindwein msg 20:24, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Inshorts
Can you explain why four days after the AfD was closed as keep rather than add any of the sources identified you started a new AfD? That's literally disruptive behaviour. I'm also curious why you're so obsessed with getting rid of this article while the project is full of so many unsourced articles. I hope you read the close of the new AfD very thoroughly. AusLondonder (talk) 01:10, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Superphosphate
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Container Garden
Removal of my content and edits comes with significant surprise. I'm not writing a manual, only adding encyclopedic content. I have enhanced a number of horticultural pages and do not understand why this effort to update and enhance a poor out-of-date page has been removed. Satin66Flower (talk) 17:22, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Pls see the edit summary for reasoning.  Velella  Velella Talk 20:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Update Mamadou Doumbia (footballer, born 2006)
Hi Velella hope you are well. On 10 November 2023 you rejected an article for a footballer on this page: Mamadou Doumbia (footballer, born 2006). I have no reason to object to it as it was a short page with little to no detail, 1 source. Since then the player in question has signed for a professional club in England (Watford, joining in the 2024-25 Watford F.C. Season) and is the only player on the squad without a page. It has 10 sources now, with a lot independent of football (BBC, Leadership News, Watford News) and big channels like ESPN. I am new to Wikipedia and first draft I've submitted and assume you re-assess it? Although I have no clue. Backdoored (talk) 14:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Backdoored . Thanks for your note. I very rarely review draft articles more than once, to try and avoid bias. However, I have been keeping an eye on your Draft and it did seem to be improving in notability. I have no expertise in football related topics so will leave this to another, more appropriate editor to review.  Regards   Velella  Velella Talk  15:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Via XX Settembre
Hello Velella. This redirect is incorrect; I purposely "orphaned" it as it had incoming links from articles unrelated to the topic. I intend to write a first entry on one of the streets by that name. However, currently, the redirect is technically incorrect and goes against the guidelines on redirects. Therefore, either it should be deleted because it's incorrect and misleading, or we can keep the version that will soon have at least one blue link. -- teatroge ( dm ) 23:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Carreg yr Halen for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Carreg yr Halen 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/Carreg yr Halen until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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 until the discussion has finished. Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 18:19, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Updates on draft Jan Poolman
Hello Velella, I have worked on the draft of Jan Poolman and added several sources upon your comments. Could you please have another look at it? The Dutch wikipedia page is published for a while now, but I would like to have the English page also published.

Jan Poolman is at the same or even higher level than Hanneke Schuitemaker (former head & VP Viral Vaccines at Johnson & Johnson) and Jaap Goudsmit (former Scientific director at Crucell, later Janssen), both have an approved English and Dutch Wikipedia page.

Draft:Jan Poolman - Wikipedia

Thanks for your reconsideration and time!, wikicluck44 Wikicluck44 (talk) 06:44, 26 June 2024 (UTC)


 * - Thanks for the offer, but I try not to review drafts more than once to avoid any personal bias I may have from influencing the outcome. The only ones that I generally do re-visit is the disasters which need to be kept out of Wikipedia or very substantially improved. I am sure that someone else will review the article soon, although having ad a very quick look, I would find those very long headings very off-putting. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 07:15, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * Best wikicluck44 Wikicluck44 (talk) 16:22, 1 July 2024 (UTC)