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L. Lin Wood

Hello, I've added four solid references to the mis-titled Lynn Wood, as you requested. The article still needs lots of work, but I hope you will agree that I've demonstrated notability. Let me know what you think. Cullen328 (talk)

thanks

thanks for setting my post right and the advice — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thetiesthatbind (talk • contribs) 23:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

reasons

thanks for sorting that edit out

I saw an image of a chinese woman being "executed" by the death of a thousand cuts and was appalled and felt powerless - although the photo was nearly 100 years old

surely, I felt, there must be something to be gained somewhere

But I do find the wikipedia structure slightly complex — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thetiesthatbind (talk • contribs) 22:47, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Some years ago I looked at this type of page after coming up against POV pushers at the Bombing of Dresden who called the Allied bombings a genocide. I took it on myself to try to get this sort of page in line with what the majority of sources (as opposed to fringe views say). One technique is to move the controversial stuff out into another page (Eg Genocide in history) and to write other pages to help define certain other terms eg Genocidal massacre, and to write articles like definitions of genocide and Genocide under municipal laws, to help frame the debate on the talk page and in the process inform readers [I knew I had written a useful article (at least for academics) when two academics added their definitions to the genocide definitions list:-)]. It is interesting that boring pages like definitions of genocide hardly ever attract POV warriors, while Genocide in history where the blame game can be played attract swarms of them.

The Genocide article has also lead to some other stuff, related to genocide. For example I think that these two articles are a POV fork: Armenian Genocide denial and Armenian Genocide recognition, I have been unable to gain a consensus for merging them, but at least by writing articles such as the Whitaker Report, reduced the POV presented from advocate sites on the web which were previously cited as reliable sources, but which in fact cherry picked their primary sources.

Other articles like genocide include Terror bombing now thank goodness a redirect. but that lead to the need for a legal definition of what is and is not legal under the laws of war and that leads to articles like Aerial bombardment and international law and short articles like Military necessity, Non-combatant (funny how even reliable sources write "civilians" when they mean "non-combatants").

Other similar articles that needed lots of work were Historical revisionism, Historical revisionism (negationism), genocide denial (BLP considersation) and Denialism (still needs the POV list removed), terrorism (a basket case -- but at least I got in a section on polemics that seems to have stood the test of time) and Definitions of terrorism (a much better article).

Mercenaries (that was almost just a list of what is now in Mercenaries in popular culture), there are lots of others of a similar type, which I have been involved (eg child soldiers) because nearly all of them did not have a definition section based on international law, but what they are defined as in popular culture. On other area that I have found to be a real problem is articles about almost any subject where people tack on a POV list at the end. Eg Last stand as it was and it took two RfD for to get list of massacres changed to a format which has less POV problems.

I much rather prefer editing more strait forward military history (Eg Battle in Berlin or minor campaigns of 1815) and I have been trying to disengage from all of the above as much as I can, but if you come across such articles and need a hand let me know. -- PBS (talk) 04:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Wikiproject International Criminal Law

Hi Ajbpearce! Pi and I were looking for some guidance from Wikiprojects to start a task force, but no one ever responded to our task force proposal (see here) so we started our own project. It's entirely possible that it can be incorporated into another project as a task force at some point in the future, though. – Zntrip 19:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's good advice. There's plenty of work to be done everywhere. Hopefully we can coordinate something once the project picks up a bit. – Zntrip 22:43, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thorp

Hi. I noticed your Tone tag at Edward O. Thorp. I do see a bit of puffery. Before I work on the article, I want to make sure I'm not missing anything. Can you tell me your concerns? O3000 (talk) 14:46, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It just sounded all very wrong tone. Guy probably has done some impressive things but the tone is wrong. A lot of the sources are primary sources and the language is very puffy. Compare the claim he "collaborated with Claude Shannon in creating the first wearable computer.@ With the more complex situation and language described in the article it links toAlasdairEdits (talk) 21:16, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit to Nick_Hatter

Hey Alasdair,

Hope this finds you well.

I saw someone had removed a notability warning and then you added it back.

I have appeared on national television in the UK on a very popular TV show (Trending Live on 4Music) as a special guest.

I also appeared on Cambridge TV talking about entrepreneurship and video game advertising.

Please see the talk page for Edit Requests (COI) for sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nick_Hatter#Edit_request

Would also be grateful for these Edit Requests to be added.

Also recently did an exclusive interview with a popular online magazine in the UK which will be published soon (citation TBA).

I have quite a lot of press coverage out there about me, as well as giftgaming. I am wondering if you would be so kind to review these Edit Requests and if you agree, to remove the notability warning.

Thanks so much for your contributions to Wikipedia, and I look forward to hearing from you :-)

Kind regards, Nick

--TheNickHatter (talk) 16:26, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Having had the opportunity to look at the article in more detail I agree that a notability warning was not the best course. I have nominated the article for deletion.AlasdairEdits (talk) 17:57, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear you have come to this decision, especially given the vast amount of coverage there is out there about myself and giftgaming. I will request Oversight particularly as there has been much vandalism on this page, and I think it requires careful consideration. Thanks again for contributing to Wikipedia!

--TheNickHatter (talk) 18:30, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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