User talk:VickiZ

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Delrina Nomination
Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, I just wanted to thank you for your support of the Delrina article. And just in general, nice to hear from you!

I often think of the times when I worked on your team as a writer, especially since I am now in the same position myself over at a certain graphics card manufacturer.

Cheers! 8-{)}

Giller Prize
Okay, fair enough; I didn't realize this was the first time they'd ever publicized it. Bearcat 17:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Griffin Poetry Prize
I have restored the prize logo. The article is about the prize, so I believe this is the correct logo to display. Your Trust logo could be placed within the article where there is mention of the Griffin Trust. Clerks. 20:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. Clerks. 12:48, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * My pleasure. I usually do try to write up at least a quickie stub for any Canadian writer who gets nominated for any of the major literary awards but doesn't have a Wikipedia article yet. I don't always have the depth of knowledge about some writers to do much more than that, but even a quick stub is better than nothing at all :-) Bearcat (talk) 21:51, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

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September 2013
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Social media
You'd have to ask the people who drafted WP:ELNO (see point #10 specifically) rather than me — but I can tell you that one example of the issue is Facebook, where one generally has to be a member of the site (which not everybody who uses Wikipedia is) and "like" the page (which not everybody should be required or expected to do) in order to actually see all of the relevant content that's posted there. Furthermore, any remotely intelligent web designer in 2013 will already provide the relevant social networking links on the organization's primary webpage anyway, so our disallowing them as external links is not preventing any user who does want them from accessing them. Bearcat (talk) 18:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of Cougar Software for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cougar Software is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Thanks, Stesmo - I've added comments and questions to the deletion discussion page. VickiZ (talk) 20:38, 13 August 2014 (UTC) "Would like the opportunity to bring this page up to appropriate editorial standards and am trying to seek more third party information on the industry and subject matter area in which the company works. Any feedback or examples that you can offer, Stesmo, would be greatly appreciated. As the company is in a similar space to MRI Software, would like to find out why the Cougar Software article is not tagged as 'needs work' etc. rather than 'to be deleted' ... VickiZ (talk) 20:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC) Copied from Articles for deletion/Cougar Software"
 * Hi, Vicki. I've quoted your comments&questions to this page so we can have a dialog here. Before nominating Cougar Software for deletion, I spent about 20-30 minutes reading the article, following the references & links and searching via Google & Google news for evidence of notability. Unfortunately, I did not find anything that I felt would meet with the Notability (organizations and companies) guidelines. If I had found evidence of notability that hadn't been included, I would have gone with a Notability tag similar to what you've pointed out MRI Software has. I haven't looked at MRI Software to see if they have solved the issue referenced by the Notability tag to see if it should be removed or if MRI Software should be nominated for deletion as well.
 * This nomination is not a reflection upon you as an editor or upon the company. If you haven't participated in an AfD, you may want to check out Guide_to_deletion. The AfD nomination is a request for other editors to look at this page, investigate if the article, sources and searches show it should stay a Wikipedia article and discuss it for a week or so until an administrator feels consensus has been reached. If the consensus is to Keep the article, it stays. Additionally, you absolutely can edit the current articles and add independent, third-party, reliable sources to show Notability. The AfD process is open to all editors... Including you. If you feel the page should be kept, you should add your Keep message along with a statement you are the author. Stesmo (talk) 22:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you again, Stesmo. I appreciate your time and thoughtfulness on this issue. I think there is genuine notability for this company in the industry and space in which they work, but I do need to apply more rigour to evidence / independent information that confirms that the company is indeed notable. And certainly, if you or other editors noting this discussion can contribute - to either fleshing that out or, in all honesty, exhausting that possibility - that would be great. I note in the Guide_to_deletion that if the reason for deletion is not something spurious but simply a dearth of independent verification, I can presumably revisit adding this page in future when and if more of that sort of information is at hand. Your insights and reassurances are really appreciated. VickiZ (talk) 23:06, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi again, Stesmo. I recall that you were very kind and instructive during this discussion about this particular page being flagged for deletion. I believe it was eventually deleted in 2016, but was surprised to discover recently that it was restored about a year later. I imagine you're very busy on other assignments in this very busy environment, but if you have any general insights into how a page like this gets deleted and then restored, I value your thoughts. VickiZ (talk) 16:39, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

September 2014
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Paris Passion magazine
Hello VickiZ,

In the history page of this article I noticed you introduced some information on March 2009 ("Robert Rotenberg was managing editor") which suggests you are well informed about the staff of the journal. In there any chance you were yourself a member of the staff and were living in Paris in the 80s'? In that case we may well have met. If that is not the case, please forget my question ; yours, LouisAlain (talk) 15:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, LouisAlain and thank you for your note. I only know that Robert Rotenberg was involved in this publication - I was not involved in it myself. VickiZ (talk) 20:01, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer VickiZ, LouisAlain (talk) 05:32, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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August 2021
Hello VickiZ. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ted Cadsby, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Hello Vexations. Thank you for your thorough and instructive attention to these recent edits, including your input on additional citations. I've updated my user page per your recommendation. I also appreciate the suggestion re: the articles for creation process. VickiZ (talk) 21:20, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello again Vexations. Can you clarify how best to present published articles (Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star)? I added links to the publication web sites to illustrate that he has written on the subjects mentioned in the article. Thanks! VickiZ (talk) 14:02, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Ted Cadsby for deletion
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