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Audubon Mural Project
Congratulatiions on your excellent work and beating me to the punch. I might do a couple of the artist's pages whose work is included in the project. If you have the time it might be good to list in a new section of the mural project page all tbe artists whose work is included. Thanks again stupendous. Masterknighted (talk) 02:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, User:Masterknighted, I'd love to cooperate with you on this.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:26, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Finding content for Presidential Village - thanks
I know you get a lot of grief for...stuff...concerning AfDs, but I wanted to thank you for finding an obscure citation for the Presidential Village article (even though it was my nominiation). I paid to get the entire 1909 newspaper article. It was unknown to the town's historical society, and is helping fill in historical gaps. David notMD (talk) 13:54, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
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- fwiw, this is very clear canvassing. E.M.Gregory you should probably not go !vote now. Jytdog (talk) 03:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- Well, if it is viewed as "canvassing," rather than a "friendly notice," I would also advise him not to post any comment there. Be well.Davidbena (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- It is not even a little ambiguous. Jytdog (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- Well, with my latest comment, it should be clear that I am only interested in his honest opinion, or none at all. G-d bless.Davidbena (talk) 19:19, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- It is not even a little ambiguous. Jytdog (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- Well, if it is viewed as "canvassing," rather than a "friendly notice," I would also advise him not to post any comment there. Be well.Davidbena (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for words of support. I had been violently attacked for providing information available on Cage own web page! The content of the page actually is based of POV of the editors, not on factual evidence. They presumed that Cage is not lead by bunch of extreme Islamists that aim at paralysis of West effort fighting Islamic terror against the evidence. Charity organization CAGE demands withdrawal of UN troops from Africa! What kind of charity is it? CAGE is only showcase of inability of Western legal system to deal with political wing of the Islamists. Cautious (talk) 10:16, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Assuming good faith
Hello! You seem like a nice person but you have changed my signature into something that claims I'm an SPA. You also made the edit summary comment "puppet". Please see WP:AGF and WP:NPA. Please assume good faith. If you had bothered to look at my contribs, you would see that I am not an SPA. Badgering people who make a fair point is not in the spirit of the encyclo. 198.58.171.47 (talk) 15:54, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- Note that this IP/SPA started editing on 9 November, is highly fluent in Wikispeak, and is editing Seph Lawless and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Seph Lawless (2nd nomination), two of the most IP, sock and meatpuppet-laden pages that it has ever been my misfortune to happen on.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:01, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- Me again, the IP (mY IP reset). You have zero evidence of any ill activity on my part-- because there is none. Also, your argument is lousy: you edited those pages as well, which are "two of the most IP, sock and meatpuppet-laden pages that it has ever been my misfortune to happen on." Misplaced Pages has a policy of assuming good faith for a reason. Calling people sockpuppets and meatpuppets without any evidence is just sad, and a very weak form of ad hominem argument. Stop with the name calling. 104.163.155.42 (talk) 20:01, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
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Category:1768 establishments in New York (state)
Hi, would you object to my moving Category:1768 establishments in New York (state) to Category:1768 establishments in New York? This should fix the current red links; and neighbouring categories do not use "(state)" until 1776, see Category:Establishments in New York (state) by year. (Procedurally, with your consent, I can move the page under WP:C2E.) – Fayenatic London 23:49, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, Fayenatic, please do fix it. I did wonder but couldn't find the non-"state" category.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks... Ah, the links were not automatic as I imagined. I'll do more work on that hierarchy to get more links working. – Fayenatic London 00:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- OK, I think I have done all that is required on that set now. A lot more links between categories are now working. – Fayenatic London 12:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Grammar fix
My latest additions probably need some grammar fixes thanks.--Shrike (talk) 12:27, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
3RR
I would advice you to self-revert your latest revert. If you have an issue with providing a page number to verify the citation, take it to the talk page.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- Did you just lure me into doing 3 reverts because you were tag-teaming to remove a perfectly valid source at Antisemitism in the Labour Party? Never mind, I can see that yoru did. Did you read the book? Did you look for the page number? I read it lase fall and I know who I lent my copy to. there must be a proverb about loaned books that never return. I added this source to The Left's Jewish Problem back when I created that page, And, true, I did not use a page number. Instead I sourced it to a book review. I have asked you to stop harassing me before, and I sincerely wish that you would.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- I actually hate fishing but that's besides the point. You included the improperly cited book yet you want me to go and find the synthed material for you in that said book? It is up to you to back any contributions with reliable and properly cited sources. Now please stop playing a victim and either fix yet another mistake or reapply the tag until you or, more realistically, someone else can.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- The cited materiel is in the book, which says what I cited it as saying. Please AGF and have a little patience. the sorucing is valid even if the page number is missing.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- So I should AGF for an editor who deliberately misrepresents sources, engages in synth, bludgeons everyone they disagree with, accuses anyone who brings these claims to attention of harassing them, says I think less of the Jewish people (with no idea of my religious beliefs or background), and, most recently, makes "contributions" with incomplete citations? Sure I'll AGF but remember it isn't a suicide pact. Have a good evening.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 23:16, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
7700 16th Street NW
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Thank you for your input. And yes, also comparing AfD rationales as suggested by the nominator are very subjective. You can find some sentence that looks the same etc. But so can be said about hundreds of other rationales for other editors probably. There are basically no case here. Anyways I will try to move on from it and ignore it further. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
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Do you have his birth date and death location from the obit? Are you able to download it? I want to add it to Familysearch and update Wikidata with the information. Do you have an account at Familysearch? --RAN (talk) 17:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- HEY, expanding article from the obit now. You might think about requesting access to a good news archive, Misplaced Pages has the power ot enable that for editors.RANE.M.Gregory (talk) 17:46, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- Which available through Misplaced Pages news service do you recommend? --RAN (talk) 18:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- I have no idea. I just know that this sort of access exists. I usually use proquest, to which I have access. But I don't even know it it is one of the services available to Misplaced Pages editors.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:22, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
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- If you need more help researching the biographies that Rusf10 nominated AFDs from this week, let me know, I think there are 10 in the AFD queue, someone will have to check the contribution history. All his recent contributions are to AFD, so maybe he does not have access to reference works. Let me know, and I will work on them before vacation. --RAN (talk) 18:57, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
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At a recent AfD, you expressed interest in this page, should I ever write it. I'm travelling over the next few weeks, and have gone ahead and uploaded my draft, which isn't quite as cleaned up as I might like, but is probably at a stage where it is not a net-negative for the project. If you are interested, I hope you read and enjoy it. Smmurphy 07:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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Jesus Fabian Gonzalez needs some expansion, and incorporation into wildfire article which currently make no mention of any arson arrests. There appears to be a strong effort to whitewash this incident as not notable and not massive cover up on the part of officials and media of what could possibly be an act of domestic terrorism, and release of a dangerous immigrant. Bachcell (talk) 15:18, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
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Translation of Luciabeslutet
Hi!
I noticed you removed my sentence about sv:Luciabeslutet from immigration to Sweden. I don't think you suggest that is was not relevant, but that you think it was not translated correctly, please feel free to provide a better translation.--Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 13:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
- User:Immunmotbluescreen The material I removed needs to be 1.) explained, if it was intended ot date the event, please add the Gregorian date; 2.) justified. Do accounts in ] refer to this event by the name of the Saint's Day?, and 3.) sourced. It needs sources. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:26, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
- I don't know if it has ever been translated before. At least it is known as Luciabeslutet (the decision on Saint Lucy day) in media, but it also have a more formal name in the Riksdag (proposition XYZ). I was going to add a source, but then I got distracted by some trolls.
- I am also trying to crowd source the missing history section (1991-2006), if you have opinions on what it should include (I can probably find the correct sources), feel free to join the discussion. --Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 00:35, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
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Quick question on this edit, assume you mean 2021, not 2011? Wanted to check before I fixed, in case I was missing something. StarM 16:48, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- Yes. a typo. fixed. Thanks, ].E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- You're welcome. NYT site was having a moment so couldn't confirm whether it was simply a digit off or a different year. StarM 23:59, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please take a note of the EdSum here:. You did a similar thing on the 2017 page, which I corrected then. The articles you added didn´t actually show up on the saved page. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:36, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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I would like to ponder "international". This being the English Misplaced Pages, I do not think one necessarily needs international coverage to establish notability. Clearly there are many articles that are relevant only to the U.S., in fact, many are relevant only to any given state of the Union, and only with local sources, and yet they make the Wiki. I am fairly sure the same could be said of many articles about Australia, or New Zealand, England, or Scotland, or what have you. So if we take a British issue, I would think if one has several WP:RS as sources, and especially the BBC (which is national media in the UK, as are others), then that establishes notability for the UK, and UK notability is sufficient for a UK article, don't you think?
Now, a corollary to the above might be lands where the language is not English... so, perhaps on an article about Israel, in the English Wiki, local sources (in Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, Yiddish, English, or what have you) are not sufficient? Perhaps in this latter case we do need international sources? Anyway, just speculating. Maybe you have looked into this in the past and can cite policy? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. XavierItzm (talk) 07:03, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
- User:XavierItzm It is my understanding the international sources are not required to establish WP:SIGCOV, and that not only does national coverage suffice, but regional coverage often does in a region where multiple WP:RS media give WP:INDEPTH coverage to an EVENT.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:43, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
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Organization of Iranian American Communities
Hi E.M.Gregory - about your AfD comment on this page, I have also found that the nominator has long history of non neutral (attack) edits on the People's Mujahedin of Iran page. I've tried to clean up some of it but it's proving impossible as Pahlevun keeps reverting my edits. Could you have a look at this please and share your thoughts on weather you think reverting to an earlier version and protecting the page would be a viable solution? Thank you. London Hall (talk) 15:50, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
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Ramallah Porn
The link provided says I cannot edit articles relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict not that I cannot vote whether to keep them or not.ApolloCarmb (talk) 12:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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Comments on Samoon Ahmad,MD - deleted page
Thank you for feedback on the page noted, however, your points of reasoning (summarized in your last comment line)could be justified without the harsh overtones and simplification of achievements, etc. - I noticed that other users on the discussion page were quite respectful. Regardless perhaps it is your communication style and I won't take offense. I will ask for a review of the page in the future should new information with solid references come available and work on the page thru the Tea House. Editing other pages will also help me gain insight. Thanks again,MegEng (talk) 04:17, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
All Systems Down (novel)
E.M., Could you weigh in on this Afd? Very much appreciated! Bmax52 (talk) 17:49, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
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Before?
I am stretching my good faith to the brink here. Your recent tagging of The Color of Olives and Speed Sisters for notability, when performing a basic before search would easily find reliable sources, is discouraging.
- The Color of Olives: NY Times, Variety, Slant...and others.
- Speed Sisters: NY Times, LA Times, IndieWire...and others.
You know darn well the condition of an article is not an indicator of notability, existing coverage is. I am going to pretend you are having an off-day, but please perform searches in the future–for all topics.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:42, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
- a note my favorite WP:HOUND. I tagged a bunch of old, poorly sourced and unsourced articles on small documentary films for notability, sourcing. And PRODDED 2. If you think I was wrong, just source them and then remove the tags. E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:53, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
- Cute. When you are this wrong on the notability of the articles I listed, it is clear you did not perform any searches. All I asked was for you to consistently check for sources; attacking me and sighing over having to perform routine searches does not accomplish that.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 21:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
- Here's are some of the articles TheGracegulSlick took to AfD, where other editors sourced them : Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Andrew Heywood; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Scott Malcomson; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Emperor (debut EP); Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2017 Arkema plant explosion; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Miguel Tudela; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Smile and Wave; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Richie Parker. It is WP:HOUNDING when you follow a fellow editor with whom you disagree politically around looking for an opportunities to to pounce. So, yes, I should have run more careful searches before tagging for notability. But your HOUNDING is inappropriately aggressive and certainly "is disruption to another user's own enjoyment of editing."E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:26, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
- I don't know/care for your political affiliation, but whatever you have to tell yourself; thanks for taking my suggestion.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
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Harassment on this page
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- User:Bishonen, Yes, please, and my sincere thanks.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
- Done for a week, and you're welcome. Let me know if you need it topped up later. Bishonen | talk 18:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC).
See the talk page
The fact that they are signed does not mean they are not based on press releases. Many of the journalists working in modern newspapers are up against targets, and will place copy wholesale unedited that has been provided by PR agencies (see http://badpr.co.uk for some examples and discussion of the red flags). The byline means nothing unless you find that the writer is a serious news or feature journalist with an independent reputation. That is the sorry state of newspapers today. Ironically it's one area where Indian sources are somewhat better than Western (the reverse is true for scientific journals). Guy (Help!) 12:00, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Flensburg
Do you have any references supporting the changes you've made? Deb (talk) 18:14, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- See the next edit. You have to read the German sources.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:16, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- I did. Both the sources listed in the first paragraph support my wording. I've yet to see one that doesn't. Deb (talk) 18:25, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- Look at the article form Die Welt 4 June; the articles you cited are breaking news reports, often these are inaccurate.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:27, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- If the reference is not correct, you should have removed it when you changed the wording and put the correct one in. Deb (talk) 18:29, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- Look at the article form Die Welt 4 June; the articles you cited are breaking news reports, often these are inaccurate.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:27, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- You wrote, "Please check the timeline, I was not responding to your demand). I had checked the false information that you inserted , and was making a series of corrective edits, which included a validating source (3rd in string) completed before you pinged me - although you did move awfully fast. I then added 2 more sources and a couple of edits updating/correcting inaccurate information from early reports. There really is no point in making false accusations like this when edits are time stamped. "
- Anyone reading the above can see that I made no "demand".
- Anyone looking at the timeline can see that I added no "false information", but simply amended the wording to reflect what the cited references actually said.
- Fine, you were "making a series of corrective edits" because you hadn't noticed that your initial reversion meant you were making edits that conflicted with the references - how is this my fault?
- Anyone reading this can see that I made no "false accusations" or indeed any "accusations" of any kind.
- Remember Misplaced Pages:Etiquette, assume good faith, and you'll be a much happier bunny. Deb (talk) 19:56, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
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Nomination of Christopher Filardi for deletion
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John Iadarola
Per the discussion Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/John Iadarola (2nd nomination) as Iadarola's career has grown, I have added additional sources covering his primary hosting of "True North" and "The Damage Report" series with additional non TYT sources. This is in addition to his daily hosting duties on the TYT main show. I have reactivated the article to mainspace. Trackinfo (talk) 07:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of Interstate 75 rock-throwing death for deletion
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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- June backlog drive
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Your edit on Schutzstaffel
Can you please provide a page number? Thank you, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:24, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
- User:Diannaa. I added the Chapter. I do not have the book at hand to add the specific pages, but the book is specifically about the recruitment of members from the "Germanic" countries of Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark. E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:38, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
- Hi again - that should be enough. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:49, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Alan Sabrosky
Hi. I'd appreciate if you could work (Proquest, etc.) on finding more sources for Talk:Alan Sabrosky#Sources for conspiracy theorist. Please ignore crappy sources - e.g. "Foreign Policy Journal" is crap (it isn't "Foreign Policy" which is A-class but a knockoff using the same name), and anything Sabrosky himself said is pretty much out of the door due to WP:FRIND (usually ABOUTSELF would apply even if on a crappy site - but not for a fringe subject). Please give a quote for each one (especially locked ones) - and preferably concentrate on how the source labels him - either attributed to someone else or in their own voice.
Assuming we have enough sources (we might have enough already), I would like to run RfCs on a:
- Short sentence in the lede - either attributed (e.g. to the ADL) or un-attributed per what we find - e.g. "According to the ADL, he is a columnist for Veterans Today and has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories about 9/11 and other topics".
- Minor expansion of the body.
- Category - e.g. looking at Alex Jones - "9/11 conspiracy theorists" might be apt.
But I would like us to have a complete list of sources prior to the RfC.Icewhiz (talk) 08:32, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
- User:Icewhiz I have added a JPost article reporting on one of the ADL reports on Sabrosky, and an academic journal article by a fellow 9/11 Israel-is-behind-9/11 conspiracy theorist. He published his FRINGE theories not only in Veterans Today, but on blogs and in newspapers in Iran and some of the Arab oil states. He sometimes got FRINGE theories published a letters to the editor in reputable newspapers, where letters debunking him also ran. He is most widely cited by fellow FRINGE theorists. A number of self-published FRINGE books discuss and/or cite him, haven't hit on any published books or self-published books by notable authors that cite his FRINGE stuff.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:28, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:28, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
- We can't use any of the FRINGE publications (either his (ABOUTSELF would conflict with FRIND) - and certainly not by others (not a RS, and specifically prohibited by BLPSOURCES)) - we need to stick for the RfC and discussion to good independent sources. Lets give it a day, and then formulate a question for an RfC (or pre-RfC edit suggestion - perhaps we'll get agreement without a RfC).Icewhiz (talk) 11:39, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
- OK. just fyi, one of the places he has published a lot of fringe is salem-news.com. It is not the reputable local paper The Salem News, it self-deacribes as "serving Oregon and the Pacific Northwest" but has published this ] remarkable list of Sabrosky FRINGE.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:47, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Loehle (non) notability
Hi E.M.Gregory, when you tagged Craig Loehle for notability you used the option for "products and services", which sounds a bit odd in relation to a person. You may want to consider replacing {{Notability|Products}} with {{Notability|Academics}} or perhaps {{Notability|Bio}}. I thought about changing it myself but wanted to ask first in case you had something specific in mind. It's not a huge deal but it does affect which notability guideline gets linked in the template. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 01:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you!
For the barnstar. Before I blush more than what I'm already blushing, which historical figure of my DYKs did you have in mind? I sent several to DYK this week. --1l2l3k (talk) 16:26, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
- Ops, I think you meant this. I actually had a LOT of fun reading about him and his son. Thanks for seconding my research, his son is definitively notable. --1l2l3k (talk) 16:30, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
- User:1l2l3k. Yes. It's truly nice to work with editors who make the effort to look for sourcing at AfD. Oh, and I agree that these articles on old-time characters are fun, searching them takes you into such odd corners of history. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:32, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Sabrosky2
See - metabunk (+ I see this repeated elsewhere (e.g. Yahoo answers) - but I can't find the actual source, but the degree to which this is repeated probably indicates that someone at the press office in the college probably did release something) - per metabunk - "Sabrosky has deliberately inflated his role in the military and has used that ruse to promote a hateful, fact-free conspiracy theory. In fact, while he did work as an administrator at the U.S. Army War College, he was not, as his job title seems to indicate, the director or dean of the college. Far from it. According to the Press Office of the Army War College, in the mid-1980s, Sabrosky served as a civilian administrator at a research department of the college, supervising the publication of papers written within that department. His job title was "Director of Studies" because he supervised publishing studies done within a department of the college. He was a mid-level civilian manager at a military college, without access to the sort of highly classified material of the sort he now fraudulently claims to have."
.Icewhiz (talk) 11:39, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
A cup of tea for you!
Just wanted to thank you for your diligence at AFD. I appreciate the time and effort that you put in there. Marquardtika (talk) 14:42, 12 August 2018 (UTC) |
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Your recent editing history at Eugene Gu 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 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.
Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Jytdog (talk) 20:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, well, aggressive whitewashing of well-sourced information is a problem. Given Jtdog's behavior, this message is rude and inappropriate.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
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Islamist radicalization in European prisons
Thank you for creating this article. I thought that you'd like to know that this content was merged into Conversion to Islam in prisons. I thought the material was out of scope at the article and have undone the merger. Buddytula (talk) 17:02, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for un-merging it. Conversion and radicalization are separate topics.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
You may be interested in some recent comments on the talk page. Buddytula (talk) 15:00, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
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Greg Atkinson
Hi, thank you for commenting on Greg Atkinson's article. I believe he is notable but I understand it happens within a certain community, but based on the many articles, podcasts, conferences he has participated in I consider him notable like others in the same circles who are in wikipedia. Would you reconsider your vote to delete? I know he has more articles published in the past but some of them have been deleted because they were published a while ago and the website no longer exists (like Carthage Press and Rock Hill Herald). I've just edited the article to include two more news sources. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barbarabcarneiro (talk • contribs) 16:05, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello E.M.Gregory, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
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Deletion nomination for Colin Broderick article
Dear E.M. Gregory,
Hello! I am glad to have seen that you voted to keep the article on Colin Broderick. I added my opinion there, too. I've been an editor here for years but I take off from editing for long periods sometimes, and so I am not well-versed in all the procedures. I was taken aback by discovering that nomination today because I just put a lot of effort into cleaning up that article only the day before! I had never heard of Colin Broderick before, but the more stuff I found about him, the more I believe he is notable enough to be in Misplaced Pages. If it gets deleted, oh well, that's how it goes - but I hope it doesn't, because I spent so much time trying to improve it! It was a complete mess before. I hope I didn't come across as too indignant in my defense to keep it. Anyway, I liked what you said about it so I thought I'd say hello. Cheers! nycdi (talk) 05:10, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of Mark Judge (writer) for deletion
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- Thank you, E.M.Gregory, for having the initiative to create this article. I did some more research, and added sourced material from before 2018. Hopefully it is better than when it was a stub. Have a great day, Sagecandor (talk) 02:54, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
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For taking the initiative to create the Mark Judge (writer) article. Thank you for your article writing contribution to Misplaced Pages. Sagecandor (talk) 23:05, 23 September 2018 (UTC) |
Nomination of Democratic Socialists of America candidates, 2018 election for deletion
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Thank you for your edits
I appreciate you re-inserting the state elections back, I was in the middle of creating a tabular edit myself, however, I kept getting edit conflicts when I refreshed the view and now lost it. In the future, could you use the {{busy}} if you are going to make multiple consecutive edits in a row on a page that was recently marked for deletion? Shushugah (talk) 00:15, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
- User:Shushugah gosh, yes, dunno where my mind was. I was rushing because I know I won't have much time for editing the next couple of days.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:44, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Judge (writer)
E.M.Gregory, you did the initial creation of the Mark Judge (writer) article, which was subsequently expanded by at least an order of magnitude by SageCandor, who was subsequently blocked as a sockpuppet of Cirt. SageCandor had six nominations in process at DYK, five of which have been summarily closed. The sixth, this one, is the only one where another creator is listed, and in the discussion at WT:DYK#Multiple DYK nominations in process by newly checkuser-blocked sockpuppet: how to proceed?, it has been proposed that as a co-creator, you should be given the opportunity to take over the DYK nomination.
Are you interested in doing this? If so, we really need to hear from you there saying that you are interested (or not interested) soon—seven days is a standard wait period. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:21, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Your opinion
Regardless of your opinion on this, would you please take a look at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Illinois Policy Institute? Personally, I suspect the "delete" editors are applying a ridiculously high standard on the article, but I could easily be wrong. I trust your judgment on this. --1990'sguy (talk) 20:44, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
AfD
Hi EMG: It appears that you may have pinged the wrong person at this AfD. The person you pinged only provided deletion sorting. Did you mean to ping the nominator instead? North America 21:29, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Mark Judge (writer)
Hello! Your submission of Mark Judge (writer) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
E.M.Gregory, some issues have come up in the course of this nomination; as Sagecandor is blocked and you thought the nomination should continue, it falls on you to address these issues. Please respond on the nomination page as soon as possible. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:54, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Nice plural!
I like your precision here! Cheers DBaK (talk) 18:18, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Were you canvassed?
It seems odd that you popped up in a bunch of AfDs just like that. Were you asked to participate? Simonm223 (talk) 13:36, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- I watch the CRIME AfD list. I consider this a rude, aggressive question to post on the page of an editor who does an enormous amount of work at AfD. Don't you know how to run an AfD stat check?E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:41, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- Whatever. I don't appreciate personal attacks on the AfDs themselves either. Simonm223 (talk) 13:43, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
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Eucalyptus Restaurant
I think it's a better article, and great pictures! I did some editing to sharpen the focus. Time to nominate for DYK? Yoninah (talk) 23:04, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- User:Yoninah I would be honoured if you would.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:07, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- @E.M.Gregory: are you finished expanding it? Yoninah (talk) 23:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- User:Yoninah, Yes, I think so. There's an old journal article by a well known food writer that I can't access, and several encomiums in cookbooks, including Joan Nathan, that I can't access or I would have looked and possibly added. Aside from those, there are quite o lot of news stories, of the "5 great restaurants in Jerusalem" sort that don't add any real information. But I'm not big on overciting. So, yes, I'm finished.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:05, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- @E.M.Gregory: OK. My friend has Joan Nathan cookbooks; which one is it? Yoninah (talk) 00:36, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: King Solomon's Table, p280 ff. the part I can see looks significant, about Mesopotamian dishes his mother taught him.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:43, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- I'll try to check tomorrow. Meanwhile, I nominated it at Template:Did you know nominations/Eucalyptus Restaurant. Since the chef doesn't have his own article, I'm not sure how to work in his name and picture to the hook. But if you have other alt suggestions, let me know. Yoninah (talk) 00:46, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- This may or may not be a reliable source, but it describes the "flipping ceremony" that goes on at the restaurant nightly. Wait, here's a Washington Post article about it. More sources: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Canadian Jewish News. Please verify the date of establishment of the restaurant. Yoninah (talk) 01:07, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: It's true. I've seen him do it. He's a showman. A 2006 article in the Jewish Quarterly states that he trained as a chef in the Army, at the Army culinary school. ("Chef Moshe Basson, whose famous Eucalyptus restaurant in Jerusalem closed because of the effects of the intifada, joined us at Arcadia and took us on a tour of Jerusalem. He explained what has been happening in the kitchens. Like most chefs, he had trained in the military catering school, Tadmore. It was common for young men, usually Sephardim, to go into cooking through the army (the lowest, often stigmatized grades were cooks and drivers)." but I can't access an author or citation. On the photo, I wrote an ALT lede including his name, is that enough to let us link his photo? I'll look at those articles. Oh, and the restaurant did close in 2003, a lot of restaurants in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the country did, because of the bombings. I can source that. It didn't seem to add much, so I didn't add it. But I can source it if you think it's a good thing to add.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- Of course it is. Here are more sources: NPR, Forbes, The Media Line (Linda Gradstein again). Yoninah (talk) 01:28, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- I deleted your alt because we don't put redirects in the hook. However, if you expand the description of the restaurant with some of the new sources, I could think of something citing "the chef". Yoninah (talk) 01:15, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- Will do.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:20, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: King Solomon's Table, p280 ff. the part I can see looks significant, about Mesopotamian dishes his mother taught him.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:43, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- @E.M.Gregory: OK. My friend has Joan Nathan cookbooks; which one is it? Yoninah (talk) 00:36, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- User:Yoninah, Yes, I think so. There's an old journal article by a well known food writer that I can't access, and several encomiums in cookbooks, including Joan Nathan, that I can't access or I would have looked and possibly added. Aside from those, there are quite o lot of news stories, of the "5 great restaurants in Jerusalem" sort that don't add any real information. But I'm not big on overciting. So, yes, I'm finished.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:05, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Eucalyptus Restaurant
Do you really think that this isn't advertising? One of Basson's signature dishes is maqluba ... the pot always glides off, revealing a perfectly cooked mound of layered vegetables and rice topped by perfectly browned chicken. Deb (talk) 13:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- It's food writing. This is the way food writers write. I could add half a dozen WP:RS with just this sort of description. He's a notable chef, but also a performer, a raconteur, a showman - and food writers for the world's major media go all purple prose over him. E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:00, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Linda Sarsour
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