User talk:WSDavitt

November 2015
Hello, I'm Kelapstick on the Run. Your recent edit to the page Kinross Gold appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''One such example is the section "Tasiast Acquisition - One of the Largest Securities and Accounting Frauds in Canadian History" referenced to this which says nothing of the sort. If you continue this sort of blatant misrepresentation you will find yourself blocked from editing. '' kelapstick(on the run) 06:00, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * To follow on from the conversation at User talk:Kelapstick please have a read of WP:WEASEL, it will explain why phrases like "Kinross is on the verge of insolvency" are inappropriate unless supported by a reliable source. You might find out more about reliable sources at Identifying reliable sources. Most of your references were from Kinross Gold itself, a primary source, which should be used with caution according to WP:WPNOTRS.Calistemon (talk) 06:06, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * After looking in further. Much of what you added is original research and syntheses. You are drawing your own conclusions based on corporate reporting and projected metal prices. --kelapstick(on the run) 08:17, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

My comments User: WSDavitt :

I respectfully submit the deletion of my edits was inappropriate. It would be preferable if you were selective with your edits or reword particular sections rather than removing everything. The following information was deleted:

Kinross reported in its financial statements that Tasiast was worth over $6 billion. In 2012 Kinross Gold, recorded significant losses related to value of the Tasiast. The total losses related to Tasiast was over $4.6 billion as the reported value of Tasiast was reduced to under $2 billion.
 * Kinross Gold was sued in numerous jurisdictions in Canada and the Unitied States for fraud. Kinross Gold settled out of court.  The share price decreased by 90% because of the controversy.
 * The fraud allegations relate to the acquisition of the Tasiast mine in Africa in 2010. Kinross paid $6 billion for the mine even though the technical reports reported the value was under $2 billion.
 * Kinross Gold has incurred losses approximately $10 billion since 2010.

All of the information was referenced to the various annual reports and news releases. The current Wikipedia page is out of date and does not mention.

Kinross Gold is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world and so I believe it's appropriate to have a larger article.

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Kinross Gold
Your edits have again been reverted, you edits are drawing far too detailed for an encyclopedia (i.e. we don't go through a companies annual earnings, as a financial magazine would), and you are drawing your own conclusions based on primary sources (the Kinross website and quarterly reports) rather than writing based on secondary sources. Also, you appear to be writing in order to make Kinross look as bad as possible, which makes it look like you have some sort of conflict of interest. That isn't to say that we would not include mine closures, or declining resources/reserves, however it should not make up the majority of the article, and we only would include them if they were written about by an independent publication. Look at any other major company (not just mining) and see if those articles resemble how you are editing. You will find they do not. --kelapstick(bainuu) 01:25, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

My comments: User: WSDavitt

Again your deletion of financial information is inappropriate.

The standard Wikipedia page for corporations includes a section for reporting the net income of the company. Your edit resulted in replacing the 2015 net income with the net income from 2013.

Regarding the comment that I am trying to make the company "look as bad as possible", two things:


 * 1) you are welcome to add information that is more positive.
 * 2) The information I have added is fair as it reflects the recent history of the company. As I noted in my edits, there has been a general decline for gold companies because of a substantial decline in the gold price.  Like other companies in the industry, Kinross Gold's financial position has suffered.  In addition, Kinross Gold acquired the Tasiast gold mine in 2010 for over $6 billion and within a few years the mine had lost over $4 billion.  In addition, Kinross Gold has lost approximately $10 billion since 2010.  I referenced all of these fact to the various annual reports and news releases.  Kinross Gold was sued for fraud in both Canada and the United States.  They settled out of court and paid tens of millions of dollars.

You have deleted all of this information. I am concerned about the suppression of information by corporations. I suggest that it would be more helpful to send me a note regarding your concerns and only deleting in a more selective manner.

May 2016
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Jian Ghomeshi
A lot of what you added was personal analysis and opinion commentary about the Rubin Report and the trial and their fairness or lack thereof, based on original research interpretations of primary source documents like the Rubin Report itself. That's not appropriate content in a Wikipedia article regardless of what other improvements might still be needed, because it's not our role to be the originating publisher of claims that he got railroaded — we do not publish any claim about the Rubin Report that has not already been placed on the record by media coverage about the Rubin Report. We do not editorialize in our articles, or conduct our own "public service journalism" analyses of whether legal decisions or internal HR reports were right or wrong in ways that haven't already been analyzed by real media outlets independently of us — but that's a large part of what you were doing. Bearcat (talk) 00:18, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Kinross Gold
Regarding the section Fraud Allegations, Class Action Lawsuits and Settlements, where exactly in this linked source does it say something that supports "In 2012, class action lawsuits were launched in the U.S. and Canada alleging Kinross Gold overstated the value of its Tasiast mine in its financial statements and made other false statements"? --kelapstick(bainuu) 00:32, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * And in this linked source does it say "In 2015, the parties reached a settlement agreements which included a payment by Kinross of approximately $US 40 million"? --kelapstick(bainuu) 00:34, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * All of the subheadings you are adding to the sections related to the mines are not necessary, as the sections are not large enough to warrant them. They also make the Table of Contents much larger than they need to be. --kelapstick(bainuu) 00:47, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Censorship in the Canada


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 * I see you are still not adding the required attribution, as required under the terms of the CC-by-SA license. Please have a look at as an example of how it is done. Please leave a message on my talk page if you still don't understand what to do or why we have to do it. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


 * No, that's not correct. I am the original contributor and content provider of the Statutory authorization sections in both articles.  Executive Order 13769 Executive Order 13780 WSDavitt (talk) 22:15, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay sorry for the mistake then. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:17, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries! WSDavitt (talk) 22:18, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

October 2016 - Smear campaigns
Your recent editing history at Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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 * Seconding 's warning. If you want to propose a section, do it on the talk page. Also on Bill Clinton sexual misconduct allegations too  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 17:40, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * ==Smear campaign==
 * The public allegations of misconduct against Donald Trump is an example of a smear campaign. Other politicians, such as Bill Clinton and Gary Hart, have been the target of the same campaign tactic.  Smear campaigns are associated with yellow journalism which is a type of journalism that presents little well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines, scandal-mongering and sensationalism.  For example during Gary Hart's 1988 presidential campaign, the New York Post reported on its front page big, black block letters: "GARY: I'M NO WOMANIZER."




 * Please explain why it is inappropriate to note the issue of smear campaigns on this and similar articles. Smear campaigns are just a campaign tactic.  It is helpful for young readers to understand that this tactic is commonly used.
 * Please explain why it is inappropriate to note the issue of smear campaigns on this and similar articles. Smear campaigns are just a campaign tactic.  It is helpful for young readers to understand that this tactic is commonly used.


 * I make no comment regarding the accuracy or validity of the allegations.


 * In addition, the editors who deleted the content did not attempt to improve the article by adding references, they merely deleted it.


 * I believe the issue of smear campaigns is important and it is important to link articles in Wikipedia as readers can become informed.


 * Positive comments and suggestions are welcome! WSDavitt (talk) 17:56, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The main issue is that it is original research. We need reliable sources (preferably secondary sources) to explicitly call it a "smear campaign". As frustrating as it is, you cannot apply the concept of a smear campaign to these events. Sources must do that for you. But the other main issue here is the edit warring.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:12, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I respectfully disagree. I think the section of the article can be improved by adding references. Deletion is inappropriate.  I have added a reference to the statement by the Trump campaign stating the allegations are a "an attempt to smear" the candidate.
 * I respectfully disagree. I think the section of the article can be improved by adding references. Deletion is inappropriate.  I have added a reference to the statement by the Trump campaign stating the allegations are a "an attempt to smear" the candidate.


 * WSDavitt (talk) 18:36, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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Duty to warn
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October 2016
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 * I've been blocked for posting the following addition to the Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations wikipedia article.

[forum post redacted Drmies (talk) 22:01, 14 October 2016 (UTC)]


 * WSDavitt (talk) 20:39, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * You're blocked for one of the most blatant examples of edit warring I've seen in a while. You may claim to have no interest in promoting the guilt of this or that person, yet you kept posting your section all over Wikipedia. Well, talk pages are not a forum--nor is your free speech being repressed, or the actual edit washed away: it's still there in the history, as many times as you stuck it in the article. While you are blocked, talk pages are for requesting unblocks and such things, including friendly banter with some and discussion with others. They are not here to help you spread what you apparently wanted spread; thus, I am removing your access to this talk page. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 22:01, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Response to comment on my talk page
Assuming you're genuine and not just trying to keep false allegations on this article for as much time as possible, read WP:EDITWAR. At this point you have imposed your changes far too many times against consensus. This should be handled by discussing it on the talk page, and only once there is consensus should it the be edited in. You clearly don't have consensus, and you have massively exceeded the three-revert rule, which means someone will block you, regardless of what I want. These edits are not making the article more balanced. There is no evidence of a smear campaign. These are multiple independent news organizations, and false sexual assault allegations are much rarer than true ones. Powerful people deter people from reporting about sexual assault because of the damage that can happen to their lives. It is entirely plausible these women only chose to own up recently. If you want to prove a collaborated smear campaign, you have to provide reliable evidence so other people can verify it. See WP:VERIFY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:365C:2F00:B042:17A2:80D6:F71E (talk) 20:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what comment you are referring to? What article?  Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations


 * The section being deleted is noted below. The section merely provides the response from the Trump campaign to make the Wikipedia article more balanced.


 * It's pretty innocuous as the focus is campaign tactics. I'm make not comments about the validity of the accusation against Mr. Trump, Mr. Clinton or Mr. Hart.  Comments?

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Discretionary sanctions alert - American politics since 1932
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Strongly recommended reading
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Nomination of Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims for deletion
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Kinross Gold
Hi there. I noticed that this edit removed a bunch of lawsuit info, junk bond rating, office closures--stuff you had worked on--and added a large laudatory section on corporate responsibility. Did you see the edit(s) subsequent to yours? Brianhe (talk) 02:52, 25 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi!


 * Thanks for the comment! I really appreciate your input and agree completely.


 * It appears there is censorship going on with respect to the article. Information about the fraud lawsuit is being deleted.  In addition, information about the company's poor financial performance has been deleted.  It's a bit ridiculous that the Wikipedia article includes a discussion of freibergite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite but failed to note that the company has incurred losses of over $US10 billion during the past 6 years.


 * (By the way, the story about the Tasiast mine is fascinating. Kinross Gold purchased it for about $7 billion in 2010 even though the valuation reports (NI-43-101) stated it was only worth $1.5 billion.  Kinross subsequently incurred billions impairment charges.  In addition, they've invested billions trying to develop the mine.)


 * I also find some of the content is inappropriate. For example, the following technical discussion about the gold deposits:


 * "At Kupol, gold and silver occur as native gold, gold-silver alloy electrum, acanthite as well as silver-rich sulfosalts. Dvoinoye, on the other hand is a low sulfidation epithermal gold-silver vein deposit, and notably counts with appreciable free gold in parts of the deposit. Ore minerals and sulfides in the vein include freibergite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite."


 * And the way the editing was done is suspicious. Instead of updating a sentence or a paragraph, the entire article was deleted and replaced.


 * The end result is that the article is biased and does not have helpful information regarding this failing company.


 * Any suggestions on how to challenge this censorship? Thanks! WSDavitt (talk) 22:04, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm watching your talk page so we can just continue here. Right now the editor who made the changes on Kinross is answering some questions about other suspicious editing. The conversation just started, after I asked you the question here. This issue will probably be make its way to the other conversation. You can join in, or wait and see how things work out. Thanks for your reply. - Brianhe (talk) 22:29, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Canadian values for deletion
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Request for page : Nancy Ziegenmeyer
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992) "True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had happened to them to speak out."Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 17:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Done! Thanks so much!!!  Nancy Ziegenmeyer's story is exactly on point with the Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims article! WSDavitt (talk) 18:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Rape tree for deletion
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May 2017
Hello, I'm Fuzheado. I noticed that you made a change to an article, 2017 Manchester Arena incident, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please don't add unsourced material about deaths Fuzheado &#124; Talk 00:16, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Just a work in progress ... I've added the reference as is my usual practice. Talk WSDavitt (talk) 00:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2017 Mississauga Restaurant Bombing
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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2017 Mississauga Restaurant Bombing for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, 2018 Mississauga explosion.

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