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Having nothing better to do for the past fifteen minutes, I read the whole discussion and must say that I am impressed with the calm and mature attitude that Py0alb has displayed. I would say, however, that (1) this place is probably not the forum for his subject and (2) he has as much chance of changing WP policies and the attitude of obtuse editors as an ice cube on a hot griddle. Sometimes a WP:Wikibreak is helpful. This discussion was closed before I had a chance to post this. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:54, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Pending changes

I see that you were referring to Spin bowling, and that your requested edits were being disallowed through pending changes. There was quite a lengthy discussion about this on your IP talk page, so there's hardly any call to claim that you were being reverted without discussion. You were asked to provide a reference if you intended to redo the edit; why not simply comply? As was discussed in WP:HD, information needs to be verifiable in reliable sources. When a form of protection is in place on the article, a reference for any additions is necessary: when requesting any such edit, including semi- or fully-protected article edits, you must provide a source. In the amount of time you've spent arguing that everyone else must be wrong and that you're an expert, you could have simply found and provided a source for your information. GiftigerWunsch 00:10, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Py0alb, when you are not logged in and click edit at Spin bowling, this is displayed at top of the edit page in a blue box:

Note: Edits to this page are subject to review (help).

If you click the linked "help" then you get a page starting:

"Pending-changes protection" (PC protection) is a tool that is being tested on a limited number of articles during a two-month trial.

Special:ValidationStatistics currently shows that it only applies to 899 out of 3,555,545 article space pages (0.03%). It appears your whole experience and subsequent suggestion for a fundamental change of how Misplaced Pages should operate on all articles was based on a system only applying to 0.03% of articles, but your post gave us no way to determine this. You kept claiming that the specific page didn't matter but it would have been really helpful if you had revealed the page when people kept asking you for it. Your initial claim in and apparently the premise for your suggestion was: "Currently every single change that is made to improve a page requires completely unnecessarily rigorous referencing before that change is allowed". But this is false for more than 99% of Misplaced Pages articles (some unsourced edits may be reverted on other articles but certainly not always). Another time, please reveal what you are basing your claims and suggestions on, and don't assume a single experience has taught you everything relevant about a complex site with millions of pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I've undone your edit to spin bowling... Text like "one of the greatest" or "considered to be" is editorializing. We report on verifiable facts, not opinion. I love that you're editing and know the rules can be comp,ex. Have you considered the adoption program so that there's someone to help you navigate them? Philippe Beaudette (talk) 14:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

as one example, text like "considered one of the greatest bowlers of all time" would be editorializing. No source is cited. Considered by whom? Philippe Beaudette (talk) 14:18, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

This is a case where it's really important that anything that's posted to the page be corrected referenced. How is someone who comes in later to know that those words go with your reference? There's a referencing style that needs to be followed. I'd be happy to set you up with a user who can help you do that, but I'm unwilling to reintroduce that edit until the it's properly referenced, because it creates confusion for the reader. Also, please note, I'm copying the talk on my Foundation account over to this personal account. I was logged in on the wrong one. Sorry about that! - Philippe 14:26, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

• I had a quick look at the reference provided with some of the recent changes, and I've removed the statements which included weasel words, and moved the reference to the references section since it was not laid out as an inline citation. However, the page the URL directed to doesn't specifically give much relevant information that I can see, and it certainly doesn't seem to verify most of whta was added. The article is going to need some strong sources to support the added material (and in fact the existing material as well), since as it stands it's more or less completely unreferenced. GiftigerWunsch 14:53, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

I have asked on the cricket portal talk page for someone with more editing knowledge than me to assist in the renovation of this page. Py0alb (talk) 15:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Reply

You have deleted all the things which were not able to delete. So I done it, please be cool and its policy.--—just feel it 10:58, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Belated welcome

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Stefan2 (talk) 15:10, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Cup-300x225.gif listed for deletion

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Indoor Cricket image

Hello. Unfortunately you seem to have misunderstood my deletion rationale. I wrote that there is a chance of someone having a free image at hand. However, that doesn't mean that I know where to get one. Apart from that, Stefan2 was right in that the previous image you uploaded would not have passed a fair use check. This is so for the following reasons: can you comment on the specific situation shown in that image and why said situation is worth of being described and pictured in a Misplaced Pages article? Placing a fair use picture in one of our articles requires that the image provides an aspect that cannot be conveyed by words alone or that the image itself is relevant to the article in question. Neither is the case here: we can easily describe a cricket match with words alone and the photo in question didn't show anything newsworthy that should have been covered in an encyclopedic article. De728631 (talk) 19:12, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

I disagree. Its impossible to convey the nature of a sport as well in 10,000 words as it is in a single picture.

Here are the facts:

a) this picture is necessary

b) there are no other pictures freely available

c) you don't know nearly enough about cricket to be able to dispute either a) or b)

Probably the best thing for you to do now is to undelete the picture asap and apologise. Thank you in advance for doing this Py0alb (talk) 21:25, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

That is absolutely not how fair use works. The picture is replaceable in that anyone can go and take a photo of any random indoor cricket match and publish it under a free license. E.g. you could do that yourself. Therefore it is not suitable to put any non-free image into an article about the general nature of indoor cricket where there is already a free image to illustrate the article. I'm sorry but I can't undelete that non-free image. De728631 (talk) 12:10, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Civility

WP:CIVIL is not optional. I suggest you read it, then check why your comments above fall way short of it. Comment on the issues at hand, not the editors involved and always try to assume good faith. GimliDotNet 05:54, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

The image was deleted because it failed to match the policy for non free images. This has been explained to you several times. I note you have not withdrawn the above attack, no the one on De's talk page dispute being asked to. If you continue down this route of misapplying policy and making attacks on editors then you're going to end up at WP:ANI GimliDotNet 09:26, 30 September 2012 (UTC)