User talk:My name is not dave/Archive 6
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Taxation as Extortion
A neutral point of view would admit that there is a diversity of perspectives on the subject of taxation. Among those perspectives is the *fact* that a great many people regard it as criminal in nature and a direct euphemistic example of extortion. The fact that it is legal in many regimes does not invalidate this opinion. Wars have been fought over the subject for this very reason. I suggest that rather than simply fighting over whether the section should be included in the article, that you instead suggest a compromise wording which neutralises whatever your unspecified concern happens to be. I'm open to suggestion, and if you look back through the history of this section, you'll find that we've already gone over this before. The section in question was modified accordingly to accommodate those concerns. I'm going to revert your changes yet again. I suggest you provide a more specific complaint about the wording, or [suggest how to] edit it accordingly, rather than simply knee-jerk removing the entire section repeatedly. Frankly the ideological tug of war over this is becoming tiresome to say the least.
Walid Khazen Page
You have reverted a sentence I have deleted from Walid Khazen wikipedia page. The sentence you have added back is wrong information and the reference you are stating have NO information on this. So not sure which reference state the following on line 19 "before he was deported and the embassy closed due to his illegal activities" because in all of the references that you have provided there is no such information. Please update your reference that show that the information you have added is correct in regards of "before he was deported and the embassy closed due to his illegal activities." or if you cannot find a reference please delete the sentence as it is incorrect information [User:khazen|khazen](talk/contribs) 18:22, 14 September 2017
Re: Learn Larp LLC
Hey there! My reversion was in regards to you draftifying the article unilaterally while it's pretty close to being okay. I think an AFD would be more appropriate. Either way, we'll see where it goes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ --PureRED | talk to me | 19:33, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Ally Law
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Typo on a page I made which you reviewed
Hey there! I made my very first Wikipedia page today and I've already made a mistake. I wanted to make a page for Hofmeister (which is a kind of beer) and I ended up naming it Hofmesiter. I was wondering if you would be able to change the page title as I don't have page title changing privileges (yet).
If you can do this, I'd greatly appreciate it. If not (or if you're too busy), I'll change it when I get page title changing privileges.
Regards,
MrBruceSpringsteen (talk) 15:36, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks very much! MrBruceSpringsteen (talk) 06:35, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Alistair Casey
Hi there, my apologies for not understanding the wiki process !! --- I got lots of emails !! -- please advise me how I may accurately talk about the current status and relevance and accuracy of the information on the Wikipedia page alistair casey which refers to (me) Alistaircasey (talk) 07:27, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
- Well as I said on your talk page, you cannot edit your own article, as you have a conflict of interest. You need to go onto Talk:Alistair Casey, copy and paste the following template: {{request edit}} and describe the changes you wish to make, with reliable sources. Apologies, I was wondering if you were not looking at what was going on in your user talk page. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 07:32, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Plentificlogo.jpg
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DYK nomination of Bakyt Torobayev
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DYK for Ally Law
On 19 September 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ally Law, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the British climber and YouTuber Ally Law was globally banned from all sites owned by Merlin Entertainments after trespassing in Thorpe Park and climbing the Stealth roller coaster? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ally Law. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ally Law), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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AfC
On 4 August you declined Draft:Westernisation in Hong Kong for "Fix those section headers. MOS:HEAD. Then I will accept. The provisions in § Article titles (above) generally apply to section headings as well (for example, headings are in sentence case, not title case)" This is not an acceptable reason for declining an article. We decline articles that will likely deleted in mainspace not ones that just need minor fixes.It does nott have to be perfect, or even of high quality, just good enough to pass AfD. ` DGG ( talk ) 05:33, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
- @DGG: Been told off before by Huon. I don't touch AfC that much anymore, there's one thing I find terribly repulsive in an article, and that's bad formatting. But it is a bad decline nonetheless. 81.106.34.193 (talk) 05:49, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks!
Hi not-dave, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! Cheers, ansh666 19:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
DYK for Bakyt Torobayev
On 23 September 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bakyt Torobayev, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Kyrgyz politician Bakyt Torobayev stood as candidate for speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan in 2016 along with Kanat Isayev, the result was a tie? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bakyt Torobayev. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bakyt Torobayev), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Category:Jacob Rees-Mogg has been nominated for discussion
Category:Jacob Rees-Mogg, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. AusLondonder (talk) 03:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Oops
I rev-deleted the oops for you, on the assumption you don't want to advertise your IP. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 20:57, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, but I did that on my user page to tell folks where I would be editing from during my enforced wikibreak, and the IP's contributions list is full of edit summaries stating ATTRIBUTE EDIT TO MY NAME IS NOT DAVE😉 My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 20:59, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
- Ah, OK, I'll revert it as unnecessary - I just thought I'd act first and ask later in case you did want it hidden. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:09, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
A page you started (Myktybek Abdyldayev) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Myktybek Abdyldayev, My name is not dave!
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response made
check my talk page. 78.144.82.158 (talk) 18:46, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
CB birthplace.
Ivanhoe is incorrect. The Family moved to Carn av. Ivanhoe in '71 just before Genevieve arrived after Cate was born elsewhere in Melbourne. Ivanhoe is a bit of bio fluff/puff
Regards, R.D.B.A. Ctually-There.
Ecclesonthames (talk) 18:53, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
- @Ecclesonthames: Alright, but do you have a reliable source to support that assertion? My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 18:57, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Yes, I lived within 3metres of the article's subject for about 17y.
It's just one of those accreted errors that creeps into the record. Journos doing lazy research, read an article that says foo was raised/grew up in X, it gets repeated and repeated until one day, another lazy journalist or website decides to fiddle with their copy & paste and flips raised to born. CB was born in Melbourne (of which Ivanhoe is a sublocality, but she wasn't born there. Likely it was in a central hospital while the family was in Hawthorn, but nobody left alive who knows!)
- @Ecclesonthames: Ah, okay, but here's the gripe -- we need something that is published (see WP:PUBLISHED), which is like a news article or something like that. We could cite you, but we have a guideline called WP:BLPSPS, which states
Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets—as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article
. So a good compromise to go on is finding a source that just says Melbourne. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 19:45, 25 October 2017 (UTC)- This one. Read Help:Referencing_for_beginners#Inserting_a_reference for a guide, and see if you can add it yourself. Have fun and good night! My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 19:48, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Well I think I qualify as I'm named innit.
But you do two seconds googling on the search terms "Cate Blanchett" "Melbourne-born" and whacko
Just don't put my name on it :) like I said I get stalkers ;)
3rd iraqi kurdish conflict
that wasnt original research. do you want me to show you the video, it's 8 minutes long of the captured soldiers and everything i said matched the video. im new to wikipedia so dont know how to implent video sources. also, these iraqi sources by al sura are not reliable sources and are clear propaganda.
- @ObjectiveKurd: I'm out of my depth here now, but you can use
{{cite AV media}}
for videos. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 19:25, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Robert Mugabe
Hello My name is not dave. Just wanted to pop by and say thank you for taking the time to undertake the GAN of Robert Mugabe. There seems to be a problem with the actual passing of the article as a GA, however. I think that one or two of the steps listed here have not yet taken place; if you could correct that then the article will officially pass. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 11:19, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
- Alright; I'm not finished yet though. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 11:37, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, righty ho. My mistake! Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:00, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
- No worries. The article is big and I do have a life, so I am liberally using the recommended seven-day limit My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 12:02, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, righty ho. My mistake! Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:00, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
DYK for Myktybek Abdyldayev
On 31 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Myktybek Abdyldayev, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2011, Myktybek Abdyldayev was part of a group of Kyrgyzstan deputies who sacrificed rams in front of government headquarters? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Myktybek Abdyldayev. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Myktybek Abdyldayev), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Muhammad Sumair Kaleem
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.
Figured I'd drop you a note in regards to Muhammad Sumair Kaleem's page since you reverted Sumair1981's multiple attempts to remove the speedy deletion tag [1]. Meatsgains (talk) 02:01, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
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Do you have pro-Russian views? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.37.74.249 (talk • contribs)
- It is irrelevant to what you and I think. What you did was change content but kept the old reference, which meant that the content misleads readers as to thinking the BBC source says that. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 19:17, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- That's fair. I'll go ahead and update the references then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doubloons (talk • contribs)
- Actually, I have some questions. With the BBC source, why did you make the decision to write "claimed by Ukraine" instead of "denied by Russia"? In that very source, there is a sentence that reads: "The Kremlin has repeatedly denied Ukrainian and Western accusations that Russia has sent tanks and troops to the region to help the separatists." I'm not trying to grasp at straws or start any sort of argument, I'm just genuinely curious. The same can be said about the Reuters source immediately after that one wherein it is stated, "The Kremlin denies it is involved in the conflict, which has killed over 4,300 people.". Also, an issue with source 16. It cannot possibly be attributed to Ukraine. It's not a response or claim made by the government of Ukraine, it's a video clip taken from a news airing by Russian state-owned television network Russia-1 and posted on a Ukrainian website. I believe that presenting source 16 as a source for any sort of Ukrainian claim is dishonest at best. That source should certainly be revised. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doubloons (talk • contribs)
- @Doubloons: I have no idea. I wasn't the one who wrote that. I'm just a boring recent changes patroller who saw someone do a classic mistake of changing referenced content to something else without changing the reference to reflect new content. Since you are here to discuss I'll actually read the source in question (why don't I do this all the time???), I think you are right here -- but I think since it states both, it might be best to say both.
- Also, please sign your posts. There's a big message at the top of the edit window telling you about this and indent them, you'll note that the increasing amount of colons has some sort of effect as how this paragraph is displayed in reader mode. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 20:11, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- Actually, I have some questions. With the BBC source, why did you make the decision to write "claimed by Ukraine" instead of "denied by Russia"? In that very source, there is a sentence that reads: "The Kremlin has repeatedly denied Ukrainian and Western accusations that Russia has sent tanks and troops to the region to help the separatists." I'm not trying to grasp at straws or start any sort of argument, I'm just genuinely curious. The same can be said about the Reuters source immediately after that one wherein it is stated, "The Kremlin denies it is involved in the conflict, which has killed over 4,300 people.". Also, an issue with source 16. It cannot possibly be attributed to Ukraine. It's not a response or claim made by the government of Ukraine, it's a video clip taken from a news airing by Russian state-owned television network Russia-1 and posted on a Ukrainian website. I believe that presenting source 16 as a source for any sort of Ukrainian claim is dishonest at best. That source should certainly be revised. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doubloons (talk • contribs)
- That's fair. I'll go ahead and update the references then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doubloons (talk • contribs)
Ways to improve List of members of the Supreme Council (Kyrgyzstan), 2015–present
Hi, I'm Boleyn. My name is not dave, thanks for creating List of members of the Supreme Council (Kyrgyzstan), 2015–present!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Can you please add you source? Lists also need sources per WP:SOURCELIST.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.
Boleyn (talk) 20:52, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Ways to improve Janarbek Akayev
Hi, I'm Boleyn. My name is not dave, thanks for creating Janarbek Akayev!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This has been tagged as needing additional references.
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Alexandria, LA Census edit
Hi, I made a mistake thanks for pointing it out. I will now add the census citations where they need to go thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JACKSONVILLE (talk • contribs)
- @JACKSONVILLE: No worries. Please sign your posts, as instructed above this edit box and indent them with one more colon than my message (if you want to reply with anything). My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 19:05, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
MFD for promotionalism? -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 12:58, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
WP:LTA/BF101 Redirect
Hello! I noticed you tried to nominate WP:LTA/BF101 for deletion however your request never seemed to be listed on the page for October 21st, so I removed the deletion notice. On a side note is there any particular reason you think this LTA redirect should be deleted? --Cameron11598 (Talk) 20:55, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Cameron11598:Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2017_October_20#Wikipedia:LTA.2FVXFC. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 06:52, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
- Oh in the future you should probably list each re-direct you are nominating that way the deletion notice gets removed at some point. --Cameron11598 (Talk) 17:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
A goat for you!
I have no idea what compelled you to make your userpage lean like it does but hey its very creative, have a goat...