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[edit]Well, that's interesting. I didn't know it was so similar. I'm not sure how "close" things should be in the "See also" section. Let me get back to you, I'm going to ask around on the WikiProject Film area. Ok? BIGNOLE (Contact me) 00:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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Well, instead of writing "Article needed," please write what you want the article to say, and voilà. Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 16:41, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
- But first, read WP:Your first article. If you do not want to write an article yourself, the place to ask for one is WP:Requested articles. JohnCD (talk) 16:58, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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Founders Fund
[edit]I noticed that your addition of investments to the Founders Fund article was reverted as unsourced. I know it's hecka work but it's a fair request to find a citation for all of these investments to verify that there are no errors and to make it easier to source and edit the section going forward. Notability probably isn't the issue as all these are wikilinks to notable companies, really just WP:V. I'll see if I can find a few,I've found one source that verified most of them, perhaps you can supply the rest. Thanks, - Wikidemon (talk) 00:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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[edit]The response to your changes has been quite strong because a lot of work has been done to properly source the article around this topic. If you read the article thoroughly and look at the quotes in the footnotes and the underlying linked sources, it should become clearer. Appreciate your contribution here, but to keep emotions down it would be better to keep it to the talk page after your bold edits were reverted. The wording in both article could be clearer, so it would be good to agree some redrafting. Scott Illini (talk) 22:47, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
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[edit]Scott, this is a copy of a message I just sent to User:GeoffreyVS
Hi Geoff, I reverted your removal of User:Scott_Illini's addition of "career politician" to the Max Baucus lede. I stumbled onto this issue because Illini reverted a similar addition that I had made to the article for Tom McClintock, with a comment identical to the one you made about Baucus. The fact that "career politician" has a negative connotation does not change the fact that Baucus and McClintock are both career politicians by any reasonable meaning of the phrase. One could hardly object to describing a member of the National Socialist Movement (United States) as a neo-Nazi just because "Nazi" is an epithet. Cheers, Lahaun (talk) 04:06, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
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- I would simply recreate your article without any images as an {{Userspace draft}} or using the Article creation wizard and once it is done, you can request it be reviewed and moved into content space. Technical 13 (talk) 23:18, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- It never had any images. If he/she would restore it we could have a rational discussion on the article Talk page. But I'm not going to start over for no reason. This admin behavior is a great way to scare away good faith Wikipedia volunteers. Scott Illini (talk) 23:29, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Please stop spamming twits. Per WPEL only links that are shown to provide valuable information for an encyclopedia reader should be included. We are not here to provide social media walls. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:59, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
- "Except for a link to an official page of the article's subject", which these are. For instance, Naomi Wolf is an author and commentator and her Twitter is obviously relevant if you took the time to look. I'm happy to stop doing this work since you asked and I have other things to do, but I do want to restore the work I already did. And BTW, Twitter has no "wall".Scott Illini (talk) 22:11, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
- Also, you obviously did a blanket revert of all my edits without really considering them, including here and here. Clearly this is not neighborly. Yes, you later reverted yourself on the non-Twitter ones, but I think it is clear that you did not consider these edits individually before blanking them. Scott Illini (talk) 22:58, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikipedia. Please familiarise yourself with the relevant policy (I would suggest WP:ELOFFICIAL for starters), rather than merely blanking content on your usual whim. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:30, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]Given this how was Angus Davis an "unambiguous copyright violation"? Scott Illini (talk) 04:31, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- That site states directly that it is made up of user contributed material. At the bottom you'll see this:
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- This means that any of the material or media may very well not be the property of the contributor, but could be taken from anywhere and placed on the site. This means that the CC-BY license isn't backed by a sufficient copyright claim and isn't trustworthy. INeverCry 06:52, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- "By uploading data and media files to CrunchBase, you grant permission to CrunchBase and other sites to access under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) and that third parties will provide attribution by linking to CrunchBase. You should not upload media files that cannot be offered under CC-BY or another compatible license." That addresses copyright. As to trustworthiness, please put the article back and I'll add some citations. Thanks. Scott Illini (talk) 19:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- That doesn't address copyright. These uploaders and contributors may not have the right to release their contributions under a free license, considering that they may not be the actual copyright holders of the material. "You should not" doesn't mean people won't or don't contribute and upload material that is copyrighted by others without their knowledge or permission. I'm not going to restore the article. INeverCry 19:57, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- The same thing can be said for Wikipedia contributors and Wikipedia content. Please restore, let me edit for 24 hours and add cites, and then let someone else weigh in on this. Scott Illini (talk) 22:44, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- The same thing can't be said about Wikipedia, because here we have to directly source content, or that content can be removed.
- I offered to add citations.Scott Illini (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- The same thing can't be said about Wikipedia, because here we have to directly source content, or that content can be removed.
- The same thing can be said for Wikipedia contributors and Wikipedia content. Please restore, let me edit for 24 hours and add cites, and then let someone else weigh in on this. Scott Illini (talk) 22:44, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- That doesn't address copyright. These uploaders and contributors may not have the right to release their contributions under a free license, considering that they may not be the actual copyright holders of the material. "You should not" doesn't mean people won't or don't contribute and upload material that is copyrighted by others without their knowledge or permission. I'm not going to restore the article. INeverCry 19:57, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- "By uploading data and media files to CrunchBase, you grant permission to CrunchBase and other sites to access under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) and that third parties will provide attribution by linking to CrunchBase. You should not upload media files that cannot be offered under CC-BY or another compatible license." That addresses copyright. As to trustworthiness, please put the article back and I'll add some citations. Thanks. Scott Illini (talk) 19:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- Here we have oversight, which CrunchBase directly states they don't have. I'm not going to restore it. If you want to ask someone else, feel free. INeverCry23:07, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, we have oversight, we can request citations, we can flag content, etc. You are actively pre-empting that oversight process. You are penalizing authors for having first authored content on CrunchBase, and declaring that content poisonous because it was first posted elsewhere. That makes no sense. If I first posted something on WikipediaPrime, and then migrated it here, you would delete it because WikipediaPrime lacks "oversight"? But if I first posted it here, that would be okay? Your demand that content be exclusively posted to Wikipedia first negates the collaborative value of creative commons licensing. Scott Illini (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- You're not understanding me. I'm saying that the contributors of CrunchBase can steal the work of others and post it on CrunchBase as their own under a free license if they want to. In any event, I'm not going to restore the article. Period. INeverCry 00:02, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- That work is a valid Creative Commons work. It is no different than a Creative Commons image, and such images are added to Wikipedia all the time. Your personal theory that CrunchBase is a den of nefarious activity is unwarranted and unsourced. Scott Illini (talk) 00:20, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- You're not understanding me. I'm saying that the contributors of CrunchBase can steal the work of others and post it on CrunchBase as their own under a free license if they want to. In any event, I'm not going to restore the article. Period. INeverCry 00:02, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, we have oversight, we can request citations, we can flag content, etc. You are actively pre-empting that oversight process. You are penalizing authors for having first authored content on CrunchBase, and declaring that content poisonous because it was first posted elsewhere. That makes no sense. If I first posted something on WikipediaPrime, and then migrated it here, you would delete it because WikipediaPrime lacks "oversight"? But if I first posted it here, that would be okay? Your demand that content be exclusively posted to Wikipedia first negates the collaborative value of creative commons licensing. Scott Illini (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- Here we have oversight, which CrunchBase directly states they don't have. I'm not going to restore it. If you want to ask someone else, feel free. INeverCry23:07, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Means of Production
[edit]The correct phrase is, "the means of production," not "means of production". I notice that you've been changing all pages with "the MOP", to "MOP" without the "the". This is just plain wrong and I've undone your edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sigiheri (talk • contribs) 20:28, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
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- And since the article wasn't deleted, I'm just reiterating this point. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 02:23, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Capitalist state AfD
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Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
[edit]I don’t think I am miss reading Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities. Maybe my wording was bad but here is what the source says. Both sources mention the census but only Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities is clear about why.
Top of page 105 Bar-Hebraeus’ figure is a mangling of Eusebius’ report of a census of Roman citizens and does not refer to the number of Jews;
Bottom of page 106 and Lo Cascio now makes a strong case that Beloch was wrong about the Augustan census figures. This is an extremely fragile chain of argument. I do not believe we have the first notion of how many Jews there were in the ancient world, Jonney2000 (talk) 04:53, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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Bitcoin
[edit]fyi, since you were bitten with your first edit on Bitcoin: I filed a 3 RR report re Fleethams edit wars over the last month here--Wuerzele (talk) 10:53, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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HI, i had a lok at this page and cant see how it meets the criteria for Speedy deletion as an attack page, the page in question is a redirect to another page which itself doesnt appear to be an attack page either. Was this tagged in error, if not let let me know and we can try to figure out what needs doing with it. Amortias (T)(C) 09:38, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]Your removal of this photo here -- well the reason that photo was included was to try to keep the article balanced. Right now almost all of the diagrams and photos and charts are pushing the agenda of the critics. If you wish to delete this photo, please replace it with another one which makes the pro-law enforcement case.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:54, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
RFAR evidence
[edit]Hi, Scott. You probably noticed I reverted your edit at the Lightbreather case evidence page? There are strict rules for those pages, and you can't edit another person's section. I'm not a clerk, but I saw it so I spontaneously reverted it; if I hadn't, an arbitration clerk would have done it a little later. (And in fact I probably should have left it to the clerks.) Anyway, I'm sorry, because you obviously added evidence in good faith. Perhaps you thought you didn't have enough material to create your own section? That's what you have to do, though. The individual sections can be small, that's not a problem. An alternative might be to contact Faceless Enemy and ask them to take ownership of your example, and add it to the section themselves. Regards, Bishonen | talk 08:51, 13 May 2015 (UTC).
Ammophilinae
[edit]Scott, I turned your redirect into an article. The subfamily contains six other genera, so is not identical to its best known genus. Thus, a stub article is better. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 03:28, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
article names
[edit]Please stop tweaking the names of climate change articles. Instead, how about starting a thread at the most-watched of all the climate articles, i.e., Talk:Global warming to see if there is consensus for an article title name standardization? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 08:23, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Scott. Could you please stop adding external links in the body of Collegiate Network, per our guideline on external links? --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 04:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]Is that a joke? It's hard to imagine a more obviously unsuitable source. If this only covered in one ideological corner of the blogosphere, it shouldn't be in WP. (To say nothing of matters of weight, location, etc.) --JBL (talk) 20:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
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- What an utter embarrassment. --JBL (talk) 11:47, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]Scott, I've been having some issues editing the Southern Strategy article. I would be interested in your take on some of the material I've been trying to get added to the article.[[1]] Thanks Springee (talk) 03:22, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]There's only the one Colorado Springs clinic, and it was protested. The source used there confirms that. It's not synthesis to say that the videos and reactions to them are related to the shooting, especially since reliable sources say so for us. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:12, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry I didn't see the one tiny sentence about immigration for Indians. Still, the rest of it seems to be only about Hispanics. Has she made any statements about immigration from other countries/continents? Right now, it sounds like she would discriminate against her own ancestors, or against Asian start-up founders in the Silicon Valley, etc. Let's look at our initial misunderstanding as an opportunity to expand the section, shall we? Can you find anything? To be honest, I have not found anything. Please ping me! Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 22:37, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
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[edit]Thank you for a straight-forward and descriptive edit summary that tells it like it is. I am going to try to keep it in mind for the future. Best, BMK (talk) 01:55, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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