User talk:Geo Swan/archive/2013-02

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Done Geo Swan (talk) 20:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Uyghur guest houses suspected of ties to islamist militancy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chiswick_Chap Geo Swan, I am wondering why such an article should exist here now. I've read your user page, and suppose that most probably you wouldn't think of creating such a thing today. No? Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I try to give all serious questions about my contributions a serious answer. Could you be more specific as to what you are curious about? Thanks. Geo Swan (talk) 17:39, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I mean, do we still in 2013 believe that an article about "Items of class A" that are involved in a possible relationship to "An abstraction" fairly belongs in Wikipedia? Is it still the case that what we could call a "candidate relationship" between some pair of entities of that kind is to be considered encyclopedic, or is it rather something too speculative for an encyclopedia? Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:00, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bounty Edit

Thanks for your message, and sorry about the delay getting back to you.

I was trying to consolidate some of the names of the Bounty ships into the correct naming format used by WPSHIPS. I do not know how to merge edit histories... but a good way around it would be to cite information from an external source via references to maintain attribution. Apart from that, I don't know how one would maintain attribution for specific edit content.. usually by posting informtion into a wiki page you accept the reality that your work will be edited mercilessly by tireless editors. If this is still an issue, we might be abe to find an admin to help find a resolution on this? I don't mean to cause problems, just fix it :) Silivrenion (talk) 05:52, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I responded at User_talk:Silivrenion. Geo Swan (talk) 16:53, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks... I was trying to disambiguate the Bounty versions. If the name of the ship is not officially Bounty II, it shouldn't have that article name in wikipedia, according to the disambiguation options (which is why I redirected content to a new page with the correct data formats and used the year on the bounty page to distinguish between the different ships) Since my edit, it seems my disambiguation was merged with the entire word Bounty, but all three Bounty ships have their own pages with the correct naming at this point. Looking back at this, a renaming of the pages instead of copy and pasting content to a new page probably would have been good. I thought that people can't hold licenses to content submitted without either references or independently on the images used... textual information probably shouldn't be cited through the edit history since it breaks things, right? What if I wanted to add more content to your area of submission and didn't know where that is on the page? I've just never heard of it! Sorry for the fuss :P. Silivrenion (talk) 16:59, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 17:01, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Osama Nazir

The page didn't say that. It discussed the subject's arrest by Pakistani forces and linked the subject to several terrorist attacks. Sherurcij created the page in 2005, you don't appear in the edit history. The article was completely unsourced and I was invoking the "unsourced negative BLP" part of G10. I have no problem if you want to recreate or restore the article provided any new version is properly referenced. Hut 8.5 22:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

I'll look at those references again. Geo Swan (talk) 03:16, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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