User talk:Yachty4000

Interest
Athelete biographies particarly sailing together with general sailing linked to competitive sailing. I have a background in Naval Architecture and hope my contributions help preserve sailing legacy

Swan articles
Hi there

Thanks for the recent updates of Swan articles. Keep up the good work.

Sami — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sami P. Lehtonen (talk • contribs) 17:26, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks I have about 20 new pages in draft form for each model I am just waiting for a decision on some changes to the infobox structure and I will upload together with some more pictures. Role on there Swans 50th Anniversary. Yachty4000 (talk 21:27, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Very nice work. I am hoping to get some more photos of the interiors and deck gear during the 50th anniversay reggattas. However I think the stories are more interesting for the readers than the technical specs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sami P. Lehtonen (talk • contribs) 12:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the key is to seperate the general stories from the technical stuff. The technical specification is interesting but to a smaller group of people and the infobox help with this. I like the stories to but so often I see them written with such a bias to a particarlar region the pages lose interest to the global reader. I have a load more photos but generally of the exterior with the boats at dock. My aim was simply to get one picture on each page as generally when you start something on wikipedia they then begin to be contributed by others. I will do the reamin models over the next couple of days. Enjoy the regatta I hoped to go but have other commitment and am still trying to save for my own classic swan! Yachty4000 (talk 13:35, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Yes it's very true that the text added to the articles tend to be somewhat biased which is why I have tried to keep the content that I have gathered so far (especially for 36 and 65) as neutral and encylopedic as possible. For 65 and especially for Sayula II there is about to be a lot more information available as The Weekend Sailor movie becomes public. I am currently involved with marketing of the film but I haven't found the time to open a Wikipedia article for it yet. ClubSwan50 is also a boat which deserves a well made article of it's own and if I have chance I'm trying to shoot some photos of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sami P. Lehtonen (talk • contribs) 07:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

What is radio sailing?
Hi. You created the International Radio Sailing Association article; would you be able to add a definition of "radio sailing" to that article? JanCeuleers (talk) 07:56, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: 1989 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships has been accepted
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out 1991 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships has been accepted == Draft:1985 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships 1995 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships (July 11) ==

Sonar (keelboat)
I appreciate that you want to include these championships on this page, but this information has been now removed twice as being unsourced and it is still unsourced. The policy on this is pretty clear:

In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Wikipedia does not publish original research. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than the beliefs or experiences of editors. Even if you are sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it ... All material in Wikipedia mainspace, including everything in articles, lists and captions, must be verifiable. All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. Any material that needs a source but does not have one may be removed ... All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material ...Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.

You can't keep putting unsourced information back into articles. I am happy to give you a couple of days to find sources for all these championships, but if no sources exist then it must be removed. - Ahunt (talk) 16:24, 13 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Your not looking at the big picture which is a complete table of the World Champions that can be viewed and refined by others. Many of these tables have been refined by a lot of users and often by the competitors themselves as the most accurate and upto date source. You are simply removing the template from one place it is used not requesting the deletion of the content.


 * Please put your efforts into improving referencing not just going round deleting valid contributions. For example removing the Paralympics as unsourced facts is just silly and could be corrected quickly. Wikipedia is often the only reliable source of this information as event website disappear within a couple of years. I will improved the referencing mainly by linking extensively to World Sailing results archive which isn't the best source but quick to look up to keep you happy and then restore the page. Smartshift moved all these tables out of the main article and into templates which doesn't help as for example the Paralympics is properly referenced on it page. - Yacht4000 (talk) 19:03, 13 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your response here, but I can't add refs to these as I have no idea where the refs are. If Wikipedia is the only source of this information then we run into original research problems here. If it was on websites in the past, then have you tried recovering that from archive.org or archive.vn? Ultimately, though if it can't be sourced soon to WP:RS it will have to be removed as unverifiable. Wikipedia policy leaves us no wiggle room to keep unsourced and unsourcable claims.


 * As far as putting these into templates goes, that is a bad move as AfD has confirmed that is not what templates are for. - Ahunt (talk) 19:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I have to say that I don't understand why you removed the Paralympics section tag with the edit summary "I have added even more references", when you added no refs at all to that section. I have restored the tag for now, although normally if an editor removes a "citation needed" tag without providing any refs the text would be removed. - Ahunt (talk) 20:25, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * All the paralympics have primary pages which as far as I am concerned is properly reference for this reason I feel summary tables do not require referencing.
 * Sailing_at_the_2000_Summer_Paralympics
 * Sailing_at_the_2004_Summer_Paralympics etc.....
 * I added referencing to the results that do not appear elsewhere on wikipedia Yacht4000 (talk) 21:57, 13 January 2021 (UTC)


 * The problem is that the template on the Sonar page then shows up as unsourced. Can they be moved into the template or listed at the head of the Sonar section so we at least comply with WP:V? - Ahunt (talk) 22:03, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

December 2023
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating the non-free content policy. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:00, 16 December 2023 (UTC) By repeatedly adding non-free images to Template:Yachtclub, you repeatedly introduced violations of the non-free content policy (8 and 10c) into multiple articles. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:01, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I personally consider the block a bit harsh, but this unblock request was (as I predicted) declined. If you want to be unblocked, you need to accept that your edit were wrong, not repeatedly try to justify them to people who have more experience with image rules than you do. I haven't seen any compliants -> Did you not see JJMC89 remove the images the first time before you reinstated your edits? You must have known that the images had somehow been removed, it would have been logical to figure out how/why that had happened before re-adding them Why would this ever likely to cause any form of copyright issues when used on an open source website like wikipedia? - You're right that it probably wouldn't, but Wikipedia's rules for non-free content are deliberately "more narrowly defined [...] than [...] the fair use provisions in United States copyright law", so whether something would cause real-world copyright issues is mostly irrelevant.  I am not really sure what has been broken -> The specific rule you broke is that you added images that Wikipedia considers to be non-free and thus only allowed to be used on specific articles to templates that caused them to be used on unrelated articles, and re-added them after they were removed.  why similar images used in context is ok in over 100 cases -> because those images are considered simple enough to not be copyrightable, and thus are not non-free and the rules I explained above don't apply at all.  Wikipedia could limit the logo useage to one page and it could flag up small print when editing it appears to only flag to administrators with no interest in the subject Yes, if Wikipedia had infinite administrative manpower it would make sense to add all non-free images to the MediaWiki:Bad image list and require each use to be listed as an exception there. But we don't, so the current system of ad-hoc enforcement through bot actions in common cases, human review in special cases, and some violators being blocked will have to do. * Pppery * it has begun...  21:38, 17 December 2023 (UTC)


 * * Pppery * your contribution is what I expected from the moderators who should be trying to actively engage and educated users thankyou.


 * I still think the classification of this image is the isssue it isn't really an image it is a "logo" there are I see difference in policy for this. There is no difference between this image and the other 100 plus yacht club logo but if they are the policy then I will happily accept them. I doubt any editor checked the small print of each individual image when populating this kind of template that just links back to the primary page and source. It only that small print defined by the uploader not a common policy that highlights any issue. I guess I could upload the logo/burgee under common rules from the clubs own website and then it would be ok. I personally think this administrator has gone completely over the top for the previous reason. If you look at there edit log there blantant breeches of copyright with no action against the uploader this is a minor edit. The same can be said for personal attacks on celebrities or politically motivated posts.


 * To be honest the lack of engagement is enough to put me of wanting to be involved in wikipedia. I think I may host the content on my own "sailing archive" related website using a wiki style template. Yachty4000 23:31, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

ILCA Masters World Championships moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to ILCA Masters World Championships. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and it could use more third party and independent sourcing to establish notability and some context.. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Andre🚐 09:42, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Andre I cannot edit the article and have no intention of doing so. But I fail to see how any World Championship sanctioned by an Olympic Sports governing body doesn't meet notability criteria. It meets the sports notability requirements for wikipedia. To be honest I have spent a lot of time converting these and other World Championship from unsourced tables to referenced pages with more information on event this was done in cooperation with Ahunt who had the same issue with referencing. Although as you can see from my referencing I like to have the primary source and then third party not just the later. I have no idea why this subject has come under your scrutiny. Yachty4000 10:30, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm just trying to get new pages out of the backlog. If you can send me the top 3 third party sources that demonstrate WP:SIGCOV, I'd be happy to help you get this back into mainspace soon. Andre🚐 10:36, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Long Beach Yacht Club, Mississippi
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Proposed deletion of IMOCA 60 11th Hour
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Proposed deletion of IMOCA 60 Maitre Coq 5
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Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:34, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

I cannot do anything about this and the one above as my fellow author on these can you improve them User:V.Glas. These new boats have done some more races now so there are more links etc. Role on the Vendee Globe. Yachty4000 (talk) 22:13, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of IMOCA 60 Initiative Coeur 4
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