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Girish Puliyoor

Girish Puliyoor was previously up for a afd so I had to remove the BLP prod. You can make another AFD if you must. Wgolf (talk) 05:48, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@Wgolf:Yes, that error came up when I placed the tag. My removal edit conflicted with your removal. Will read AfD but likely will not AfD again. JBH (talk) 05:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
@Wgolf: I looked through the AfD. I can not for the life of me understand how that was closed keep. The two articles listed as possible sources , virtually identical so are not independent of one another and talk more about his medicated herbal hair oil. Do you have any information on any of the awards that might make him notable? I can find nothing. JBH (talk) 06:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Comment-no not really. I often have more problems with the articles about people from India then any other ones though for some reason. Wgolf (talk) 06:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
OK thanks. I will look for more sources and if I can not find any I will AfD him. Thanks for the input. JBH (talk) 06:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

JBH

Yes, I realised soon after I actually made the mistaken ping. No harm done, I think.. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 20:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Just did not want confusion. Cheers. JBH (talk) 20:34, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Richard Geller (physicist)

Hey I just noticed you marked this person as a BLP-be sure to check the dates in the article first-it said he died in 2007. Richard Geller (physicist). (I just took off the BLP sources tag) Anyway good luck with the patrolling also! Wgolf (talk) 15:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

@Wgolf:Oooppss... Thanks for catching that JBH (talk) 15:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

My first Hello!

Hi Jbhunley!

really newcomer here, and all seems to me so difficult... Let's hope to do a good job in here.

Thanks for cookies and welcome!

Cheers SaraSaraProntera (talk) 17:57, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

@SaraProntera:You are quite welcome. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Here are a couple links that might help How to edit talk pages, Common policy misunderstandings. Enjoy! JBH (talk) 18:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Help?

Jbhunley I am just wondering maybe if you could, help me out a bit since I am new to creating and Editing pages. Thanks Bobizcul09 (talk) 18:38, 20 February 2015 (UTC)Bobizcul09

@Bobizcil09: I can try to answer questions you might have, just ask here. The best place to go for in depth help is Misplaced Pages:Teahouse, they specialize in helping new users. A good place to start learning how to edit is Misplaced Pages:The_Wikipedia_Adventure. Also, here are a couple unofficial essays How to edit talk pages, Common policy misunderstandings. Cheers. JBH (talk) 18:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Ooppss misspelled your user name. pinging again @Bobizcul09: JBH (talk) 22:47, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi I have a question about LA Radio station real 92.3 fm

HI I have a question about KHHT real 92.3 fm as of today they have changed their call letters from KHHT to KRRL and I wanted to know is it okay for me to change the call letters to KRRL in the article or how dose that work? I don't want to mess up the article thank you... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert L.Hill (talkcontribs) 22:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

@Robert L.Hill: What you need to do is find a source, like a newspaper article that says that the call letters changed. Then you make the change and cite it to the the source. For something like call sign change I would say it is OK to cite the FCC database. In general it is best to not use primary sources but you can always be WP:BOLD. PS Remember to sign your talk page comments with ~~~~ the Wiki software will insert your user name, the date and time.

Enjoy! JBH (talk) 22:44, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Robert L.Hill (talk) 22:52, 20 February 2015 (UTC) thank you for your help I will look for a news source and then make the change

Moved from my user page

User:ILikeCheese01450 "hi Jbunhley it's ILikeCheese01450 you left a message on my talk page, but i was wondering, how do you submit a draft for a review?" - moved from my User Page. JBH (talk) 01:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

@ILikeCheese01450: There should be a link in your article User:ILikeCheese01450/sandbox that says Submit your draft fro review just click it and go. Also when you leave messages you want to use the User Talk: page not the User: page. If clicking the link does not work for you let me know. Enjoy! JBH (talk) 01:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Getting started/why Peter Bickford article deleted?

Seemed he was notable as book author (8 editions of Comic Book Checklist, 5 of Standard a catalog of comic as well as multiple comic book software programs.) article deleted before I could even update references. New to Misplaced Pages--can you clue me in on what was deficient in the entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasoncross17 (talkcontribs) 03:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

@Jasoncross17: Now that the article is deleted I can not see it or its history but an admin can. However to be speedy deleted at least two people (the nominator and the deleting admin) must think it meets pretty strict deletion criteria.

An author needs to meet notability criteria per WP:AUTHOR and there need to be reliable independent third party sources that discuss him specifically. User generated content, blogs and catalogs are not acceptable sources. If you can find sources you need to use them to support a claim of notability. This will at least get the article through CSD. If he does not meet the notability criteria the article will end up at a more prolonged process, Articles for Deletion. JBH (talk) 03:32, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Two questions:
- if I were to add in cites for his various books, etc. does that answer importance criteria? (He was one of the creators of Krause Publications' line of comic price guides, as well as a book on interface design for Apple--There were already cites for the software program and systems he created). His co-authorship of the various comic price guides was alluded to, but not directly cited in my original draft.
- Is there a way to retrieve the original entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasoncross17 (talkcontribs) 06:26, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Just saying what he has written is not enough. The essence of Misplaced Pages's notability criteria is that the subject of the article must be discussed by independent third parties in what we call reliable sources. I do not know anything about comics but the place to go to find people who do is Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Comics. As to recovering the text of the original article any admin should be able to get it for you. The deleting admin was Keegan. You can ask for them to userfy the article at Keegan's Talk page.

Also, as you collaborate here there are some basics for using talk pages that are not really intuitive, like indenting and signing that you need to know. This is a quick unofficial guide to get you started - How to edit talk pages it has links to the more detailed official stuff but it should be enough to get you started. Please let me know if I can be of additional help. Cheers. JBH (talk) 14:35, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Forgot to notify user of reply - pinging @Jasoncross17:. JBH (talk) 14:57, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Editing an article

Hello,

It is I, AscertainMasquer. That being said, I wish to converse with you on the matter of an article. I'm writing a page for the graphic novel/manga titled Horimiya. However, this is my first article and I would sincerely appreciate help from anyone you know. Could you offer me some advice, or perhaps refer me to someone experienced in these matters? (AscertainMasquer (talk) 21:16, 21 February 2015 (UTC))

Hello @AscertainMasquer:. Manga is way outside my area of expertise. We have a special WikiProject for manga where there are people experienced in those articles. Plus there are a lot of resources and information there. That being said all articles must pass general notability guidelines or in the case of books the notability guidelines for books. This notability must be documented by citations to reliable sources which are generally independent third party sources that talk about the topic. Self published and user generated sources can sometimes be OK to cite in the article but never for establishing notability. It is best to get your sources together before you start writing. When you start on your article you should write it either in the Draft: space or in your sandbox. If you need some help setting either of those up just let me know.

I hope this helps get you on the right track. If you have additionalc questions or need some help getting around Misplaced Pages just let me know. Enjoy! JBH (talk) 22:03, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello @Jbhunley: Thanks for responding so fast. I already have it in my drafts, not publishing it yet, and I just wanted some one to go over my work and help out with stuff like suggestions, etc. Thank you so much, that is exactly what I needed.
@AscertainMasquer:If you give me a link I will take a quick look at it. Also, just FYI here is a link to get you started with using talk pages. How to edit talk pages. JBH (talk) 22:24, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Question from User:Theviewsw1

The View...I have never used Misplaced Pages before and i appear to have got things wrong so apologies, i would appreciate your help in amending my entry. Theviewsw1 (talk) 23:46, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

@Theviews1: That you are willing to learn from your mistakes is a great start! :) There are a couple of issues that I locked on, the biggest of which are your username and the you creating a page about The Views apartments (or whatever they were I am going on memory). First off Misplaced Pages does not allow user names that may be considered promotional or that might be seen as being used by multiple users. The second issue was creating an promotional article/placing promotional text on your user page, that is never OK. Links to or mentions of businesses on user pages is considered spam here. As is promotional material anywhere on the site. Please see our policies on neutral point of view. Remember Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia not a directory or web host. When you write about a subject think of what Encyclopedia Britanica would say and how they would say it.

If you want an article on your business/employer you should read Misplaced Pages policy on conflicts of interest. After that you need to see if the subject passes out notability guidelines. To do that a subject must be covered significantly in independent, third party, reliable sources. PR material, blogs, user generated content and passing mentions do not document notability. The general view here is if something is significant enough to have an article someone not associated with it will write it.

My suggestion to you is to read the links on the welcome message I just posted to your talk page. You should also read our user name policy it discusses appropriate usernames and how to go about changing your username.

Give that material a read and feel free to ask me any additional questions you may have. Welcome to Misplaced Pages! JBH (talk) 00:16, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Inquiring about your mark for deletion

What was your reason for marking my username as promotion. Instead of marking a new user you should help inspire others on how to use this website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clubsforthenight (talkcontribs) 02:59, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@Clubsforthenight: Looks like we crossed in editing. I left a comment on the question you asked on your talk page. The short answer is that since our user pages are indexed many, many people try to user promotional user names or put promotional links in. Misplaced Pages does not permit this and considers it spam. Your username was the same as a web address you put on your user page and could be considered advertising. An administrator has to agree with my tagging before the page is actually deleted and you can simply remove the link and note that through the contested deletion button. See the links to policies I put on your talk page. I will also place a welcome message there with links to help you out. JBH (talk) 03:08, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

You are a pain.

Your flagging a short encyclopaedic and neutral article about a product for speedy deletion was unjustified. These are real subjects for the public to learn about. Please, go and read an article on any product and post the g11 tag there too. Just because it is a product from a small firm you feel that it shouldn't exist here whereas things like the new iPhone or the latest games console are OK? This is basically saying popular things are worthy, and lesser known items are not, thereby maintaining the status quo and entrenching knowledge of large corporations at the expense of small firms. Congratulations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Margarine123 (talkcontribs) 12:29, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@Margarine123: Please read Misplaced Pages's policies on notability. Before something can be included in the encyclopedia it must have significant coverage by independent third party reliable sources. Press releases, self generated content, blogs and such are not good enough. We also strongly discourage editing on a subject you have a conflict of interest in. Such as a company you own or work for. Undisclosed paid editing/advertising is also covered in our Terms of Use which I invite you to familiarize your self with of you have not already done so. JBH (talk) 14:37, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Just for my notes this was in reference to Hushe A-CES Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulator. JBH (talk) 16:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

About your recent CSD nominations

Hello, I have noticed you've made several speedy deletion nominations to a userpages, particularly the one about User:GeorgiDane (because that is the one that I came across). I have to say that I disagree with this nomination. You've nominated the page for speedy deletion under two criteria, U5 and G11. However, neither of these criteria are suitable for that page. The first criteria, U5, refers to pages that have nothing to do with Misplaced Pages. The user was trying to create an encyclopedia article, therefore the page is definitely related to Misplaced Pages. Many users draft their articles in user space before moving them to article space, so this is totally fine. The second criteria, G11, does not apply because the page was not unambiguously promotional, and contains encyclopedic content. While writing autobiographies on Misplaced Pages are discouraged, they are not strictly prohibited either. Speedy deletion nominations to user pages can also be bitey and rude towards new users, and I feel many of your speedy deletion nominations are quite unnecessarily harsh towards them. I also find this nomination to be unsuitable as the article is neither about a person, nor is it having an attacking or disparaging tone. Please pay closer attention to the criteria for speedy deletion, and take care not to be too harsh with new users in the future. Thanks! Darylgolden Ping when replying 13:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

I apologise if the message above is too rude, I couldn't think of a nicer way of leaving a message about this. Thanks! Darylgolden Ping when replying 13:41, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
@Darylgolden: No worries, not rude at all... Thank you for bringing up your concerns. While I understand what you are saying I must disagree on several specifics. While George Dane may be an acceptable topic writing the article on a user page is completely unacceptable (see WP:FAKEARTICLE. When I tag a user page for similar issues I use two templates Userspaceuse, Place-uw-autobio to try to explain what the issue is. If you can suggest additional or better wording I would really appreciate it.

I considered the Ecoprombank CSD very carefully. While I do agree that it is a judgement call, I explained my reasoning on the talk page of the article. It made several claims about criminal activities of named people without backing them up with sources. This is in direct violation of our BLP policy. I could not edit the article to take care of the BLP issues so I nominated it as CSD. Maybe there was a better way to handle it but there was no clean version to revert to.

I keep a log of all of my CSDs so I can come back and see the result. On the ones that declined or otherwise resolved (like this one) I keep a copy of the resolving edit summary. This helps me ensure I am staying within the consensus definitions of the CSD and modify my behavior if it slips away from consensus. (right now I have had sixteen out of about 300 CSDs resolved with something other than a delete or delete/block). Again, thank you for bringing your concerns to my attention. I hope this helped address them, please let me know if there is anything else I can do. I will certainly remember to exercise care when dealing with CSDs. Cheers! JBH (talk) 14:21, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Firstly, I have to thank you for staying resilient and continuing editing despite the multiple attacks by new users here. I do still disagree with your first CSD though. WP:FAKEARTICLE does state that articles should not be "should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles" but it does mention "indefinitely", implying articles staying on userspace forever without intention of creating it as an article. However I do believe that the new user is trying to work on the article on user space before moving it to article space. In addition, it also states that "Short-term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable". I think the best action you should take when dealing with userpages similar to my example is to move it to draft space, and place Template:Userspace draft on the page, which addresses the concern of the article being hosted in userspace indefinitely because drafts that are unedited for over 6 months are deleted under the WP:G13 criteria. Thanks! Darylgolden Ping when replying 11:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
@Darylgolden:

TL;DR - Thank you for your continued concern. The Ecoprombank was deleted G10. While the CSD of Georgi Danevski user page would not have resulted in a delete the user who moved it caused more problems than they fixed including loss of the talk page and leaving the user in limbo by not following up with them. PS And... They are blocked for violation of username policy: User:GeorgiDane

In general I agree with you. When I run in to a situation you describe I use Template:Sandbox msg and/or Template:Userspace. I like your suggestion to mark as userspace draft. I in fact did miss a legitimate article in user space and miss mark it once. When the reviewing admin noted this I apologized to the user and told them how to set up a sandbox and directed them to How to write your first article Which I think I will add to my 'sandbox' template.

In the specific situations you brought up we must agree to disagree. The Ecoprombank article was deleted by the reviewing admin as G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP.

The Georgi Daneveski situation was a complete hash. First when (user name) = (article name) there are very few situations I will not tag it as promotional material from a promotional user. In fact this article was written by his publisher and "posted by a third party". I would give you diffs for those quotes but the editor (not reviewing admin) who moved the article "to avoid CSD" made such a hash of things that we lost the content of Draft talk:Georgi Danevski when I asked an admin to restore the muddle of redirects that were created.

In this case I will agree that Georgi Daneveski was a bad CSD tagging. If it had run its course and simply been declined by an admin I would apologize and it would be done. The ham fisted move that was done left the creating editor in limbo, not knowing what to do because the moving editor did not contact them to say what to do from there. So I had to deal with the editor, I had to contact an admin to clean up the mess not the drive by editor who subverted normal process.

As I mentioned above please feel free to check my CSD log. There is a link there to all of my CSDs that did not result in delete and/or block. I make errors just like anyone else and it is good to have people to point them out so I can learn from them.

As to the users I have interacted with about their CSD's here two actually changed their usernames to something non promotional and will likely become productive editors. One got his article un-deleted and userfied so they can improve it. The others were annoyed spammersMy favorite is the one who wanted to un-OVERSIGHT 5 files!. There are also a few help requests resulting from 'Welcome' templates which I am always happy to see. Again, thanks for the input. Cheers! JBH (talk) 15:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

@Darylgolden: I noticed what I said above. " While George Dane may be an acceptable topic writing the article on a user page is completely unacceptable". You were right to jump on me for that. I do know users sometimes write articles on their user page. It was the USERNAME = ARTICLE NAME that I found unacceptable because it is always promotional ie advertising. Sorry for jumping down your throat. What I said and what I meant diverged quite a bit and you can't I hope :) read my mind. JBH (talk) 21:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Admin Help Request

This request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.

The above discussed move has resulted in an editor's user and talk pages being turned into redirects. I not familiar with what to do to get their pages back in proper order and I do not want to risk messing up the page histories. The pages in question are: Draft talk:Georgi Danevski - User talk:GeorgiDane and Draft:Georgi Danevski - User:GeorgiDane. (Would just deleting the redirect and recreating the page work or is there more to it?) Thank you for the help. JBH (talk) 22:23, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I've deleted the redirect from the user page (so they just have a blank user page now), and I've moved the draft talk page back to the user talk space (as it wasn't meant to be moved to begin with). That should mean things are back to normal now. Lemme know if there's anything I missed. Swarm 04:32, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. JBH (talk) 04:48, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Pistoia Alliance

Dear JBHunley

The Wkipedia entry created for the Pistoia Alliance was set up as there is already a reference to it in the section on HELM (Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules) and as such I thought it would be entirely appropriate to add a section on the wider work of the Alliance. I fail to see how this is overly promotional and as to your comments regarding it being of no value, then surely the pages for the many companies included in the page, eg GSK, Roche, etc, should all be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pistoia Alliance (talkcontribs) 14:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Pistoia Alliance: Please see our policies on notability. A topic needs significant coverage in independant third party reliable sources before it is included here. Press releases, company literature, blogs and such are not used for determining notability. Also, please see our user name policy and our conflict of interest guidelines. JBH (talk) 14:52, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Edita Mildažytė

Hello, I've removed the speedy tag you placed at Edita Mildažytė, as the woman is a nationally known television presenter in her country, so this credibly asserts notability. You can take it to AFD if you wish. Dai Pritchard (talk) 15:53, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Dai Pritchard: No problem, my error. JBH (talk) 15:56, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Judgement on encyclopaedic value of images

Dear Jbhunley, apologies for that. Can you please let me know what qualifies as an unencyclopedic image? Can you please point me to the wikipedia guidelines regarding such? I felt that the images were of encyclopaedic in nature. I don't mean to offend, I thought it was issue caused by a bot problem. But perhaps a discussion would be in order before making a judgement and deleting, right? I thank you for your understanding. योजनबुद्ध (talk) 19:14, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear Jbhunley, I just saw this "*anyone's* passport is completely inappropriate." I understand your concern, however I have received written permission from the subject now and new scans in black and white from the subject too. Which I forwarded to the emails to the appropriate department that deals with permissions. One of the passports is already terminated and now the other has the passport numbers blacked out. I feel they are important for the article as they are of historical significance I believe. They play role in claims made by the subject of legal and historical significance. So believed that they would be well put there for this purpose to shed more light on the law and history concerning it. If I may say they are more like historical illustrations of sorts in keeping with their use in the article, and only serve to bring light to certain interesting and little know knowledges for the greater community. May we discuss it a bit more before you take a final judgement? I hope you may be able to see it from this point of view. once more I appreciate your time in the matter. योजनबुद्ध (talk) 19:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
योजनबुद्ध - The issue is that they are completely inappropriate, would someone's passport photo be in Encyclopedia Britannica? Permission is irrelevant Please familiarize yourself with all of our policies starting with our policies relating to living people. This is not a subject where there can be any debate or discussion. I reported the first image to WP:OVERSIGHT and they suppressed it> That is the most drastic thing that can be done with respect to content and is reserved for very few things. I reported the other images and expect the same result. Most things here are up for discussion among editors but once it goes to OVERSIGHT there is no more debate if they choose to remove it. I see now that the images in question have been suppressed. The take away from this is do not upload these images again. JBH (talk) 19:44, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I see what you mean but I always thought the beauty of wikipedia was that it was not Encyclopedia Britannica. I understand their concerns. I wont reupload the images. Though is there a way for me to get in touch with the oversight people to discuss it further? thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by योजनबुद्ध (talkcontribs) 19:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
योजनबुद्ध - You can go to WP:OVERSIGHT and use the methods of contact found there but the chance that they will reverse their action is pretty much zero. The purpose of OVERSIGHT is, among other things to -

"1. Removal of non-public personal information... Suppression is a tool of first resort in removing this information."

You just can not get much more non-public than a passport. You can not put such stuff here even if the person wants to. Your argument that it is somehow a source makes no difference see WP:BLPPRIMARY. If an independent third party has not written about something in reliable source it does not get into a biography. Even if the article in question survives AfD the content will need to be drastically pruned to get rid of all of the unsupported puffery. I have directed you to WP:BLP above, I also recommend that you carefully read policies on notability, policies on verifiability, policies on reliable sources and neutral point of view. Read these for the principals they contain not to see how you can justify what you want to include. Experienced editors have likely seen all of the pedantic arguments to try to get around these policies. You need to remember that these policies are used to define describe principals and policy will not be used to subvert principal. JBH (talk) 20:08, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Thank you once again for your reply and guidance. I am still learning the ropes here still, ofcourse, so its good to get advice. I just find the subject and history very fanicinaitng, and have put a great deal of research and effort into the matter, and kept it all as neutral as possible. To be honest who ever created this article a couple years ago had done an average job on sourcing and writing. I feel after much work on it the quality and sourcing is much improved, would be a shame to lose such remarkable information now. All the best and thanks for the lessons. योजनबुद्ध (talk) 20:25, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Subpages

I removed the error message. Is that what you wanted? Deb (talk) 16:14, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

@Deb: Thank you! JBH (talk) 16:23, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Mantapiamartinez

Hello, thank you for your welcome and supervision. I hope this is the way you look the message in the UserTalk. I sent you a message because I didn't realize this possible way. Basically I want send you my gratitude. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.153.206.117 (talk) 17:29, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

@Mantapiamartinez: Hello and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for the thank you :) I will post a link to two essays I wrote for new users on your talk page. The first is on how to edit talk pages and the other is on common policy misunderstandings. They are just my take on things so are not policy but they do provide links to the actual policies/guidelines as well. I hope this helps and feel free to ask me questions. Also please remember to sign in to your account before editing and to sign your posts with ~~~~. Cheers. JBH (talk) 21:08, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Question from VarrasiJ

I work in Public Information at The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and began editing the organization's profile on Misplaced Pages. I am registered with a password. I entered minor edits, which showed initially but are now reverted. Any ideas as to what I am doing incorrectly? John VarrasiJ (talk) 20:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

@VarrasiJ: Well I see a couple big issues right off the bat. The first is that you have a conflict of interestfollow link for policy on the article and should not be directly editing it at all. What you should do is propose edits on the talk page and let other editors decide if they should be implemented.

The second is that you did not cite any references for the changes, here citing reliable sources is everything - it is not what you know it is what you can prove. And, third. The un-cited edits are marked 'minor'. That is a red flag to other editors. The only things that should be marked as minor are edits that change no information or meaning on the page. Many people (not saying you) try to slip changed through as minor edits because a lot of people have their watch list ignore minor edits. I know we all should assume the good faith of our fellow editors but some things editors have found through experience need more assuming than others. Substantive edits marked minor is one of those things. It is better not to mark an edit minor unless it is a spelling correction In some articles not even that!

I hope this helps some. Please let me know if you have further questions. JBH (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Shweta Taneja

Hi, I've removed the speedy tag you placed at Shweta Taneja, as it does make a credible assertion of notability. You can take it to AFD if you like. Thanks, Dai Pritchard (talk) 11:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Happiness

Some of your edits indicate that you are happy with knee-jerk finger-trigger-like reactions. I don't mean that in a positive sense Round here yeah (talk) 15:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Round here yeah: Would you care to be more specific? Or do you mean where you redirected Suniphile, Suniphilic and Suniphilia to Suni Islam? Those were completely inappropriate edits. If you would care to point out some other place I have been 'trigger happy' please do so. JBH (talk) 15:29, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

edited a couple of pages Hope there right

Robert L.Hill (talk) 22:11, 25 February 2015 (UTC) hello I have edited a couple of radio stations hope the formats are right on KWIN the format was mainstream urban not true the station format is rhythmic top 40 and on kssx 95.7 kiss fm san diego the format said it was rhythmic top 40 when actually the format is Rhythmic contemporary basically the same thing. but if I'm editing wrong please let me know Thank you and thanks for taking time out to read my comments to you ... im still new and learning ... have a great day...

@Robert L.Hill: Hi Robert! I am glad you are getting the hang of editing here. I don't really know anything about commercial radio stations so I do not know the difference in the formats. In general when you change something non-trivial on a page you do one or more of the following. If it is easily explained like changing text around, leave an edit summary saying what you did before you save the page (I set my preferences to always remind me to leave one). If it is something like changing the format leave a note on the talk page saying why you changed it, others can then discuss it if they disagree. Finally cite sources. You can do this as by adding a reference/footnote. Pretty much everything here is decided by reliable sources.

I would say the two most important policies to really grasp for basic editing are reliable sources and neutral point of view assuming you are not writing about people then it is WP:BLP once you really understand how those work everything becomes much easier.

It looks like you are doing great. Keep in mind if someone reverts you, ask them why on the talk page. Usually is will relate to sources or point of view and discussion and collaboration between you will give a better article than either working alone. Remember not to take any of it personally. Most people here want to build a great encyclopedia so they defend what they think it right but will change their mind with proper sources. Just remember to be prepared to be convinced of the other person's position as well.

Great to have you here and thank you for helping build Misplaced Pages. JBH (talk) 22:36, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Your Selective CSD Log

I find it intriguing that you keep a log of CSD nominations and then remove or modify those that are denied. For example User:Nuprl, which was nominated for speedy deletion by me (User:EoRdE6/CSD log #60), yet it appears on your successful CSD log, and your unsuccessful nomination of User talk:Nuprl doesn't appear anywhere, not even on your hidden User:Jbhunley/February CSDs resulting in other than delete... EoRdE6 19:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

And then you craftily edit it and make it look like you were the one who deleted it. EoRdE6 19:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
@EoRdE6: Damn you are an accusatory person. Have you seen anything on my talk page that looks like I would not respond to a polite question? Chill out. Try asking me like a human being. I am not trying to hide the error. Here is where I owned up to is on User:Coren's talk page after you reverted the CSD notice there.

Since the log bothers you so much here is a diff making everything letter perfect. Yes, I should have annotated the change but I did not think to. The links to deleted pages exist so if one goes blue again I know to check it. You could have accomplished the same with a polite note.

The purpose of the log. As it says at the very top is to track my judgement about what needs to be deleted and what does not. I mistagged the talk page instead of the user page. Damn, ooppss. The user was still a spamuser. The logs are for my reference. From your comment it sounds like I stole your lollipop or something. Misplaced Pages is not an MMORPG and I am not trying to steal your points

Why did change my link to read successful CSD LOG? Nowhere do I call it such. It is the regular Twinkle CSD Log that I annotate with errors in judging bad pages not oh shit I pressed the wrong button. I have removed entries I tagged then quickly reverted as well but otherwise that is a list of all of the CSDs I have done. Also why do you refer to my 'CSDs resulting in other than delete' as "hidden" it is linked to right at top of the fricking page. In my opinion that is much more "clever" editing than I have done. JBH (talk) 20:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Just thought I would point out the user has been unblocked and his changing his/her username, try to have good faith. Also your obsessive tracking of your CSD's and which one went wrong is what intrigues me, almost as though your planning evidence for an RfA, in which case accidentally deleting a talk page instead of a user page would be considered a problem... EoRdE6 20:27, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
@EoRdE6:Thank you for letting me know.

Assuming good faith does not stretch to someone who jumps to accusing me of being deceptive. Good faith it a two way street and linking WP:AGF after your initial posts does nothing to increase mine. While your comment "almost as though your planning evidence for an RfA" pretty much uses up the last of your quota. Never ask someone to assume good faith when you show none. I will assume you meant AGF in the user not in you. So I will strike and apologize.@EoRdE6: JBH (talk) 21:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

As for an RfA HaHaHaHa... While I have been reading the 'production' side of Misplaced Pages for years, I have been actively editing here for about 2 months and doing CSDs for, let me be precise, 9 days with the exception of 3 on 7 Feb and 1 in 2012.

I use the many log files to make sure I understand what I am doing and follow up. I started doing so because I really messed up doing PRODs when I first started so I began tracking my actions, so I could improve, ignore or AfD the ones I messed up. That is what the 'Main' scratchpad in the menu at the top of the log pages is. I, like everyone, make mistakes and I like to make sure I can learn from them even if it requires, as you say, "obsessive tracking" of my actions. JBH (talk) 20:57, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Hey no worries, just wanted to let you know what happened. I do agree with tracking CSD's and PROD's, honestly that feature should be built into MediaWiki for non-admins... EoRdE6 22:18, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
@EoRdE6:OK... all good. Thanks for bringing up your concern. I will be extra careful in my log annotations. Seriously though. If you ever have an issue with something I do/have done just ask me straight out. I may or may not agree with you but it cuts way down on ambiguities and misunderstandings by removing the subtext. It will also cut down on my prose. <g> Cheers. JBH (talk) 22:37, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Judy Clemens

Hi, I got your message about nomination of this article for speedy deletion, but there's not tag on it for me to contest. Please advise. Pkeets (talk) 06:06, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@Pkeets: No need to contest it. The reviewing admin has declined the nomination - (declined speedy - there may be enough around to warrant keeping). I miss read some of your text as the "Agatha and Anthony Award" and thought what the heck is that?? <g> instead of Agatha Award and Anthony Award. I blue linked them in the text.

I still think the article needs some citations to reliable third party sources to vertify her notability. Right now, based on the article and a brief web search, I do not think the article would pass a WP:AfD review. Cheers. JBH (talk) 11:47, 28 February 2015 (UTC) Pinging again, forgot to sign. @Pkeets: JBH (talk) 11:50, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Gigantic (video game)

Yesterday (a couple days ago?) this page I created was speedily deleted for being "unambiguous advertising" and/or lacking notability. I didn't log in until after it was deleted. Could you point me to the admin who deleted the page so I can retrieve its contents and improve it? Thanks. Takinzinnia (talkcontribs) 05:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Never mind, I found out who it was. Takinzinnia (talkcontribs) 06:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Lilia Poustovit

Hi! I'm not sure that I'm writing in the right place, but I'd like to say that your comment about autobiography is wrong. I'm actually writting about my aunt, and she contributed to the world fashion industry a lot to be here. Thanks! --Poustovit (talk) 22:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

@Poustovit: Yes, this is the right place. ...OK.... All I have to go on is the user name. While your aunt looks like an interesting lady and passes out notability criteria, you should familiarize yourself with out conflict of interest guidelines.

Right now the article needs some trimming to make to make it more neutral. I understand it can be hard, she is your aunt and you are proud of her and it shows through. The problem is it should not show through. If you would like, once you get the draft finished, I would be happy to look it over. Try to watch the superlatives when your write for example:

Lilia Poustovit (Ukrainian: Лі́лія Григорівна Пустові́т; born 9 December 1968) is one of the most successful Ukrainian fashion designers, founder of POUSTOVIT brand, the President of Ukraine Fashion Syndicate.

Written more neutrally would be:

Lilia Poustovit (Ukrainian: Лі́лія Григорівна Пустові́т; born 9 December 1968) is a Ukrainian fashion designer. She founded the brand PROUSTOVIT in 1998. She is currently the President of Ukraine Fashion Syndicate.

I know the prose is dry but do dry first then make it flow. You want to avoid is anything that sounds like promotion. When you write about your subject think of what Encyclopedia Britanica would say and how they would say it. Cheers. JBH (talk) 22:36, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


@Poustovit: I have done a quick run through on the first part of the article. Down to 'Creation of brand' I would suggest a re-write like I did with the lines above with the lines below. The stores listed in the lead (in my version) should be moved down into the body and end the lead with "...concept stores." They should go in a "History of POUSTOVIT" section. My edits can be found in Draft:Lilia Poustovit/Suggested Edits so they do not mess up your AFC review. JBH (talk) 23:03, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I followed your advice, hope it'll be Ok! Poustovit (talk) 10:37, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Poustovit: Glad to be of assistance. I hope it helps. I would suggest that you work through all of the "In..." disconnected sentences and make complete paragraphs. It will help a lot with readability. Jbh (talk) 14:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Admin Help Request

This request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.

I moved a draft article from User:Samira Koppikar to Draft:Samira Koppikar using the button on the AFC tag. The associated talk page was moved as well. I was able to remove the redirect on the user page but not the talk page. Draft talk:Samira Koppikar only needs to be moved back to User talk:Samira Koppikar.

If this is something a regular user can do please leave me a note on how to do it if I run across a similar situation. If not how do I just get to the User talk page to remove the redirect? I tried undoing the edit that placed the redirect on the talk page but that did not work. Thank you for cleaning up my error. JBH (talk) 19:12, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

The "undo" links don't work to undo moves (or page creations), but you can manually move a page back if the redirect created by the original move hasn't been edited in the meantime. If the redirect's history is non-trivial you'll indeed need an admin to delete it before moving back the page; {{db-move}} is the appropriate speedy deletion template.
I have moved back the user talk page to its original location. Huon (talk) 19:23, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
@Huon:Thank you for the information and help. JBH (talk) 19:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Samira Koppikar

Hi, I just noticed this accidently, while surfing thru. As far as I am aware only users with reviewer rights can accept or decline any AfC submissions. But does not have reviewer rights - see link - - he only has rollback right. Just for you information. How can he decline or comment on for any AfC? May be you would like to educate him on this. Thanks! Jethwarp (talk) 02:29, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jethwarp: Thanks for the comment. Actually the reviewer right is for reviewing edits to articles protected by WP:Pending changes. The people allowed to review AFC submissions are listed in WP:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Participants. Mahensingha is listed there and is able to review AFC requests. They are certainly qualified to do so and seem to pretty good at it. We just happen to disagree on how Draft:Samira Koppikar was handled in particular and we have worked together to solve the issue. Cheers. JBH (talk) 03:03, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the info - I was not aware of it. But I think Misplaced Pages should change the policy about, which editors should qualify for such a serious job and increase the total no of edits or total no of articles created by one user - who can enlist oneself at WP:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Participants. Anyways, it was nice to talk to you. Cheers!!!Jethwarp (talk) 13:10, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Ius Laboris

Hi, Jbhunley. Thanks for patrolling this article. But I'm wondering about the tags. Has anyone disputed the neutrality of the article? It doesn't even have a talk page yet. About the written like an advertisement, I was afraid that might happen. But the first thing a client wants to know a law firm is, how is rated in Chambers? So I wrote the rating in Chambers. And the fact is that this network selects the top-rated law firms in each country. That's how they get in, and the network's reason for being. Don't you think we should mention that? Thanks. – Margin1522 (talk) 23:47, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

@Margin1522: That you even consider "...the first thing a client wants to know..." is what makes it an advertisement. That is why it was tagged as such. As the editor who patrolled the page I am the one disputing the neutrality. You should not be thinking about customers at all. When you write about a subject think of what Encyclopedia Britanica would say and how they would say it. Jbh (talk) 23:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
OK, I realize from discussions at AfD that many editors on Misplaced Pages have an extreme aversion to saying anything good about organizations engaged in profit-making activities. Let's ask another question. Are they any good? The legal profession has a well functioning ranking system for recognizing the best firms. General reputation, outcomes, service... These firms are good. Chambers has 150 researchers who investigate these things, and that's what they say. It seems like we should be able to mention that they are good. I could have loaded the article up with cites to the effect that they have cooperated with this or that organization and published this or that study, for the purpose of getting the requisite three cites from independent reliable sources. But I like the system we have for academic journals. There is a rating system, and if they rate high enough they pass, and if they don't they fail. It's a better indicator of notability and makes for a cleaner article. – Margin1522 (talk) 00:14, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
@Margin1522: The text is not as bad as I thought on first reading. I have removed the tags. I did remove the direct competitive comparison starting "Unlike..." though. If you want to compare it to other types of firms please find some sources that make the comparison.

On the down side, I took a closer look at the sources. You need to find several reliable sources to verify their notability because the ones you have not are not sufficient.

  • The Chambers and Partners is a WP:SPS per "Firm profile submitted by Ius Laboris"
  • The FT source is just a list.
  • The Legal 500 ref is a marketing guide so looks like not WP:RS
If you have been hanging out at AfD I am sure you know why the above issues are a problem. As it it I seriously doubt it would pass an AfD. Jbh (talk) 00:39, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
This is true. Part of the problem is that the two leading directories both allow firms to contribute descriptions of themselves. I have toned it down a bit more, as I now see that it was likely to trigger the "spammy" reaction. Thanks for the comments. – Margin1522 (talk) 08:46, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Calvary at Saint-Herbot near Plonévez-du-Faou and the Chapelle Saint-Herbot

Thank you for your encouraging comment Weglinde (talk) 08:22, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Tjuan Benafactor

I actually did see him/them mentioned in the players not paid love of the game article that was referenced — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jholky (talkcontribs) 15:04, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

It was a passing incidental mention that said the new owner had a stage name. About the only thing it is good for is that the guy owns the team. It does nothing for notability but if you want to use it to say he is optimistic about his ABA team go for it. Jbh (talk) 15:12, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much for your review of Guththila Kavyaya. Pradeep583 (talk) 11:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of List of PNAC Members associated with the Administration of George W. Bush for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of PNAC Members associated with the Administration of George W. Bush is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of PNAC Members associated with the Administration of George W. Bush until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GabrielF (talk) 14:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello, you may not be using your time on this wisely, see Alanscottwalker (talk) 16:09, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
@Alanscottwalker: Thank you. I did rename the article to Political appointees in the administration of George W. Bush that were members of PNAC yesterday. DHeyward noted a problem with the new name by removing Dick Cheney from the list and Ubikwit changed it back to List of PNAC members that served in the administration of George W Bush I guess that change did not get noted on the AfD page.Ubikwit noted the change at the top. I missed it. I will make note of it there. Do you have any suggestions for a proper name? I think we are pretty much stuck with 'member' backed up by WP:POVNAMING. Jbh (talk) 16:41, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
I am rather at a loss to understand, how those of you who put the work in won't bend on that and creatively find a more acceptable terminology also consistent with the facts and that will not hand those who want to throw your work away a club. You know the sources and what varying ways you might refer to them ('connected', 'were signers of PNAC documents' or something, perhaps). As for those who do want to throw your work away, probably best to take the advice of those more sympathetic to the position you are in - I repeat, policy allows you to change the name now, and until you get it "right" enough. Alanscottwalker (talk) 16:55, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
We're working on it. "Connected" might work; it isn't very different from "associated". I think that the current version is succinct, and I see that you have thrown your support behind the term "members", which seems to be what is under assault. If we don't use "PNAC members", then it seems you wind up with "People connected to/associated with PNAC that...", or something along those lines, which seems to dilute the import of the relationship.
One alternative approach might be "Members of the Bush administration that were associated with/connected to PNAC".
I think that JBH has done an excellent job in explicating what the individuals on the list have been doing to earn their RS "members" designation, and Fyddlestix and me have contributed to elaborating that as well. If you have any suggestions, by all means, please join in. Until we have something better, I'm inclined to think simple is potentially the least problematic.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 17:18, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
(edit conflict) @Alanscottwalker: The naming issue seems to have been a problem dating back to when this was a list in the PNAC article. The problem is that there are no terms which someone will not complain about. 'Signatories/Signers' is too loose (50 or so people). Connected is too loose (huge list of 'people who signed a letter or contributed a paper). Both of which Collect objects strongly and continiously to. 'Signatories of the 1998 Letter to Clinton on Iraq and/or PNAC Statement of Principles' is unwieldy. Other names that is has actually been moved to are.
  • List of Members of the Administration of George W. Bush who are strongly associated with Project for the New American Century
  • List of PNAC Members associated with the Administration of George W. Bush
  • List of PNAC members that served in the administration of George W Bush
  • Political appointees in the administration of George W. Bush that were members of PNAC
There is no obstinacy here, I and, I believe, the others are truly at a loss. The only title that has not been tried that has been suggested on the talk page is:
  • List of PNAC members that served in the administration of George W Bush
I just can not see a good way to avoid 'members' or 'associated with' particularly since, as far as I can tell, all of the strong sources use one or the other. The issue seems to me to be one particular editor will use quite literally any pedantic claim to keep this table out of the encyclopedia. Take a look at the 5 previous times this material was discussed on the PNAC talk page and at BLPN.Diffs exist near the top of the page in Fyddlestix first comment at AfD. He was recently joined by a long dorment account ODear Not saying one is a SOCK of the other, not even by implication who, if I were less involved, I would tag as an SPA. Maybe you can see something that we can not. That is the value of new eyes. Jbh (talk) 17:28, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Continue working, but while yes, 'members' passes for deletion as renaming articles is another process, it obviously will not fly, so don't take my 'just policy' support at AfD to heart - it appears it will not get you anywhere, you're not dealing with one editor anymore. Paraphrase is what we try to do. And actually, no, signers who went in the administation is a subset - not the whole set. -- Alanscottwalker (talk) 17:35, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
(edit conflict)By his own admission, Dear ODear apparently was an alternate account of Is Not A. The latter having been blocked when that came to light, it's just Dear ODear now.
On naming: my two cents are that we should limit the table to: people who either founded/staffed PNAC, people who signed the statement of purposes, and people who signed the Iraq letter. Those are the only criteria that the more reliable/reputable sources use to tie people to the group, and I think we should stick to that. If we stuck to those criteria, the table could be titled "signatories of key PNAC policy statements with ties to the Bush Administration" or some such. Everyone currently in the table signed either the Statement or the Letter, so I think that's all that's needed. Note, however, that Ubikwit is currently trying to expand the scope of the table, using some less-than-stellar sources. I don't think that is helping the case for keeping the table. Fyddlestix (talk) 17:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
It's probably a moot point anyway, the AFD discussions seems to be headed for a "delete." Fyddlestix (talk) 17:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
I agree that the Milosevic letter may not be "key", but the Rebuilding America's Defenses certainly was, and the contributors are described as "Participants" on the last page of the doc, etc. They weren't just "signatories", they helped produce the document, and that is an important fact. Some of them also signed other documents, increasing the weight for their inclusion as "members". That report also seems to be the most substantial document they produced, it seems, and generated as much controversy as the Clinton letter. Recall that it is the only document that has its own dedicated section in the main article.
I'm not sure what to think about the "War on Terror" letter, but I've only seen one source tying one administration member to it thus far. I think signing multiple letters speaks in favor of inclusion, but we should defer to secondary sources, I suppose.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 17:58, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
It is debatable who he is the 'alternate account' of since when the ODear account started editing after the is_not_a block it had about 10 edits and had last edited in 2012. The claim that is_not_a was the alternate of a nearly three year dormant account is not, in my opinion, supportable. I have no idea who the original account was but ODear it was not.
On the naming issue as Alanscottwalker noted, the discriminator is 'served in the administration..' not signed a document. So I suggest we try:
That might work, but let's make a new list if we're going to brain storm this here.
If delineating the subset is deemed to be an issue (which I don't see with the current title), then inverting the application of "members" would seem to be more direct, so let me list that again.
  • Members of the Bush administration that were associated with/connected to/members of PNAC
In light of my awakening to the import of the aforementioned report--which was not signed by anybody but produced by a large number of participants (who are listed on the last page), six of whom (that I know of) went on to become members of the Bush administration. They all seem to have signed other letters, but since this was a document they participated in producing, it is significant in an additional register.
  1. Stephen Cambone
  2. Eliot Cohen
  3. I. Lewis Libby
  4. Abram Shulsky
  5. Paul Wolfowitz
  6. Dov Zakheim
--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 18:42, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

JbH: ::::::::Better, you could make it shorter by striking "policy", and perhaps "or letters" or "PNAC statement and letter signers . . ." But all of you strongly agree then do it, then present it at the AfD (you heard them). Ubikwit just cover that document in the main article. Alanscottwalker (talk) 18:47, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

That would work, as none of the six would be lost from the list, but let's ponder that title.
Do you see anything problematic with the sentence-inverted version I suggested?--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 18:52, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
You mean the words "associated with/connected to/members" in a title? Alanscottwalker (talk) 18:57, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
No, those are selections of possible alternatives at that juncture in the title. I meant overall, but of course, if you have separate opinions on the use of those several alternatives, by all means, opine away to your hearts content.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 19:00, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
JbH's has the chronology right, I can see someone arguing that 'no they were not in the admin and signed.' Alanscottwalker (talk) 19:02, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Well, maybe I'm just to sleep-deprived and can't think straight, but it seems to me that such a reading would amount to a grammatically incorrect reading of the phrasing including "that", which definitely limits the scope (of the subset) in both the above-proposed version and the current version.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 19:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
I think, 'you are writing for the . . . ' and you should just keep that in mind. I don't have much more time to say anything on this. Good luck! Alanscottwalker (talk) 19:12, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
(edit conflict) I think 'associated with' has been roundly shot down by people at AfD so 'associated with\connected to' would face the same or worse opposition. per ASW what does everyone think of:
  • PNAC statement and letter signers who served in the administration of George W Bush
    who served in the administration of George W Bush
I see no real issues with this particularly if the list is tied tightly to the PNAC article. Possibly someone could link the list into place in the PNAC article. Many complaints is that the list is a POV Fork while the intention is for it to be a sub-article. Jbh (talk) 19:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Is it just me or does "statement and letter signers" sound awkward?
I would favor something along the lines of simply "PNAC participants", assuming that members is considered a fail (I'm not convinced of that given the plethora of increasingly growing RS cites).
If the PNAC wants to portray themselves as a loose collective without members, we have to rise to the challenge to describe them as a cohesive group. I think we're on the way, but not there yet.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 19:17, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Right now I am more concerned with addressing as many of the Delete complaints as possible. While I think we have policy solidly on our side the shear number of Deletes will possibly influence a closing admin. Also quite literally anything that would make the article look like a POV Fork rather than a sub-article-list might be an issue. A MERGE would be the best objective outcome but, from my reading of Collect's comments such as BLP is an "absolute policy" I think we will be right back where we started and fighting *what* to merge.

I find the perennial obstinate pedantic sophistry this content has been subject to incomprehensible. In a less experienced editor I would have dealt with it at ANI but in this situation it would turn into a drama infused political nightmare. It only took 3 minutes from the time I told Collect take the article to AfD and articulate his arguments there for another long term editor to pop up and do it using his SYNTH argument. My frustration with this is pretty high as I am sure it has become increasingly easy to tell. I guess this is nothing compared to the edit war last month at Danish pastry over what to call the bloody things.

Oh, to get back on topic. Yes it does sound a bit awkward. How about:

I agree that we need to beat the merge angle as well as the delete angle. There are 21 people on the list, so you're original concern about UNDUE is in play only because the table is too big and requires its own article so as not to overwhelm the main article.
I don't like the "People..." phrasing, as mentioned above, because it dilutes the import.
At present I don't have any better ideas than inverting the sentence...
I appreciate ASW's participation, but I'm not convinced that "members" is ruled out, because too many peer-reviewed sources use that characterization.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 20:09, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I understand where you are coming from. Right now I am exploring the ideas that ASW is bringing up because his view point to closer to those who must be convinced. It is a way for me to break out of my POV and prevent tunnel vision. Since this article and PNAC has been more confrontational than collaborative I try to keep from getting into a mental rut. Since I think this information belongs in the encyclopedia I am trying to look for ways that address the concerns of those who can be won over while I have ceased to care about the opinion of the obstinate few since they will not ever change their minds and contribute nothing to the solution. This has become a situation where politics and compromise are as important or more so than simply being 'right' so I think we should proceed as if 'members' is out for the title since so many have complained about the term. I have seen several admins vote Delete in this AfD with, in my opinion, a less than firm grasp of the policies involved. Like it or not my bet that the name is the linchpin issue. If that can be addressed many of those Deletes drop out. The next issue is the POV Fork issue, that can be mostly handled by placing a link to the list in the proper place in the PNAC article. I dropped it into 'See Also' when I created it but it needs a better, more integrated place, I just do not know where it would fit best. Maybe a sub-section or an in-text prose link. If those two things are addressed it will be very hard to close the AfD as Delete.

For possible titles how about -

  • Signers of PNAC's policy documents who served in the administration of George W Bush

or inverted -

  • Advisors and members of the George W Bush administration who signed PNAC's documents

Jbh (talk) 20:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I'd prefer the first of those two. I think that it is short and compact, and addresses the issues.
Let's wait for Fyddlestix to weigh in on this.
I'll try and look at the link scenario tomorrow.--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 21:16, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
OK thanks... I'll ping @Fyddlestix: Jbh (talk) 21:31, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
I like the first one too, although I would swap "signatories" for "signers." Fyddlestix (talk) 23:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Works for me. Jbh (talk) 23:31, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
@Ubikwit: If you are OK with:
  • Signatories of PNAC's policy documents who served in the administration of George W Bush
would you please make the move. Thanks. Jbh (talk) 11:42, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
OK, done.
Check this source (entirety of p. 15) in relation to the discussion at my Talk.

The number of figures associated with PNAC that had been members of the Reagan or the first Bush administration and the number that would take up office with the administration of the second President Bush demonstrate that it is not merely a question of employees and budgets. Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty, Stuart Elden, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2009, p.15]

--Ubikwit見学/迷惑 12:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Dead horses...

In good faith, I would interpret this not as a threat, but as a suggestion to "stop beating a dead horse". Now I don't think the state of the horse is clear yet (wether at AN/I or in the clip), but interpreting the edit as a threat seems to be a sign of the general lack of good faith in this conflict, and is unlikely to contribute to a constructive resolution. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 17:50, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@Stephan Schulz: Thank you for the advice. Yes, good faith is pretty much gone at this point and I really regret that. Like I said here and when I posted, I would not consider it a threat from Collect or anyone whose online track record I was familiar with. ODear on the other is re-activated dormant account that started editing after the blocking of User:Is_not_a an 'alternate' account of an unknown user. I have no clue what is going through their head. I asked them to strike the comment for clarity, they are active now and have not done so. Threats of getting me with rules - fine, no worries. Even the faintest hint of RL from an unknown user I have zero-tolerance because things like that can spin badly out of control without the slightest warning. I have taken enough risks in my life to know that you mitigate the ones you can. I admit I am sensitive to such things. Jbh (talk) 18:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
I can understand that, but I'm not sure this approach is mitigating anything. In a pinch, you might ask for clarification in a less public place (like their user page). More heat is not, I think, what we need. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 19:11, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
I am sorry that you misinterpreted a joke.
Perhaps your exaggerated reaction may give you some empathy about the state of living persons who are targetted by Larouchites and troll armies, and who have had their kids' names etc. put on their articles. Consider what happened to Richard Flacks. Dear0Dear 19:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. Consider the matter closed. As I said it was a funny video. Yes, I do understand their plight my opinion on BLPs is pretty strict but I do admit to not wanting to allow Public figures to PR manage their public acts. Anyway glad that's done with. Jbh (talk) 19:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@Stephan Schulz: Matter is closed. Jbh (talk) 19:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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