User talk:Dtjensen

Nomination of Toby Freedman for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Toby Freedman is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toby Freedman 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 good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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June 2012

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Robert Van't Hof, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 23:02, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Frank Sinatra. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Also, Venturi is not shown to be important to Sinatra. Binksternet (talk) 04:27, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some of your wikilinks are not already articles on Wikipedia. It is always worth checking if an article exists before adding a link. Unsuccessful links appear in red. If you think that an article seems probable one day, then leave it as it is but some judgement is required here. For example [[The Four Musketeers with Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, and Henri Cochet]] could be thought as being overambitious as a title for a future article. I have also amended some other similarly unlikely red links added by you. JMcC (talk) 15:45, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Robert Van't Hof, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 19:58, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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October 2016

Article info inclusion standards and need to follow wiki conventions

Hello, I'm BilCat. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 06:11, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 06:19, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 21:09, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You appear to be edit warring to add content to Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, your addition has been challenged so you need to go to the talk page to come to a consensus, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 21:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clarifications (hopefully)

Hi DT,

Your work for Boeing and the "inside expertise" you bring to WP is certainly appreciated. Still, "insiders" in WP often have a little difficulty in contributing to their areas of expertise, as their expertise sometimes can make them too much of a "tree expert" but not enough of a "forest expert", as in seeing forests vs: trees. That is, they sometimes give too much detail about their field of expertise, and the article in question begins to look too much like a "shop talk" insider piece, and not enough like a third party piece, strong on general points, but intentionally and summarily vague on small details.

Unfortunately, WP policy sometimes uses what may seem like somewhat judgmental tones, that really don't well address the true root of the problem, thus often discouraging "insider edits." For myself I must admit, as a person who is only "generally interested" in the C-17 project, the names of the various program managers over the years seems a bit inconsequential and overly detailed. To other editors, who may feel the same way, they might use the standard WP method of discouraging such "insider edits" by referring to such edits as "unsourced" which is technically correct and may seem a bit offensive to an insider, but which method usually does in fact seem to work to keep the articles from looking like "insider shop talk" articles. Thanks for bearing with this process, and I hope you continue to contribute here in WP, and become an expert forester, as well as the tree expert that you obviously already are. Scott P. (talk) 18:04, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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