User talk:Sintaku/Archives/2014/March
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Dear Sintaku, thank you for reviewing my article. You declined it with the explanation, that "This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopaedia" I must say I tried to be neutral and provided references for all statements I was making (but obviously I didn't quite succeed). At the same time I wanted to give a background for a product, where it is coming from, what it its history, so that it is clear why the product is the way it is. These are all the things which I value in Wikipedia articles, that they give insights of the products, not just the staff you can read on the companies site. Can you somebody please give a hint on where exactly I need to improve the article?
Thank you for your help in advance Ev2geny (talk) 22:01, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Re: How did you get AFCBuddy to work?[edit]Hey! And yes I am adding manually (some) my reviews, so that I can see that all my entries are counted throughout the contest. And also I am little worried if the AFCBuddy did not count some of it. Thanks! FairyTailRocks (talk) 09:47, 3 March 2014 (UTC) Cherry Hill Plantation Warren County.[edit]Hello, Sintaku. You have new messages at Jdricha3's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. 74.66.80.223 (talk) 03:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC) March 6, 2014
Hi Sintaku, Thank you for taking the time to evaluate and edit this submission. I have having some trouble understanding your comments about the references and want to do my best to get it right. When establishing that someone holds a particular position or serves in a given role, it seems from looking at other wikipedia entries that websites that profile that person's employment or role, or alternatively reputable newspaper articles that refer to that person in that role are routinely used to reference and establish the validity of a particular claim. For example, in this entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Duflo) the first several references establish her employment or roles and responsibilities at particular organizations (e.g. refs 1-6). I originally attempted to establish evidence for these types of roles for this submission by making such references. But, your comments indicated that "I didn't go through all of them but the majority seemed to be from places he has worked at, youtube or his own publications. These are not reliable and independent," So, I attempted to replace these types of references (which seem legitimately used in other published articles) with references to independent sources (e.g. The Washington Post) that refer to the subject of the article as 'professor at MIT' or 'chief scientist at Humin.com' etc. So, given what was published in other Wikipedia articles at legitimate references and what I tried in response to your comment, how precisely am I to legitimately establish things like where this person works and/or what roles they serve in? Thank you in advance for your help. Wikicontributor74 (talk) 22:09, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate the advice and thank you for your help. I reviewed all the links you provided and though I understand some of your issues with the references I have used in this article, I am still unclear about others. For example, when referencing research, the guidelines indicate that "Articles should rely on secondary sources whenever possible. For example, a review article, monograph, or textbook is better than a primary research paper." However, the guidelines also indicate that "Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable. If the material has been published in reputable peer-reviewed sources or by well-regarded academic presses, generally it has been vetted by one or more other scholars." And, that "One can confirm that discussion of the source has entered mainstream academic discourse by checking the scholarly citations it has received in citation indexes." The scholarly articles that I used as references are published in reputable journals and have hundreds of citations. Are these considered reliable? Also, I am unclear how to establish, through reliable references, the employment and roles of this person... I thought it would be legitimate to reference the institutions websites (e.g. MIT, where this person is listed as a professor). Is this not the case? If not, how should I establish the employment and roles? I think this person is clearly notable. The guidelines there indicate that, for example, for academics, " The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research (or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon)." This person holds a named chair at MIT. Also, these guidelines indicate that "The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources." And, that "The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level." He seems to have done both of those things based on the awards listed on his MIT bio and CV and the citations to his work listed in the Web of Science and Google Scholar. How can I establish these through references? Thanks again. Wikicontributor74 (talk) 14:20, 13 March 2014 (UTC) Welcome[edit]Welcome Everyone! Hello, Sintaku/Archives/2014, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place Kristin Rudisill[edit]Hello there. Kristen Rudisill certainly sounds like an interesting and ambitious person. But for Wiki, she must quality for notability as a professor. And that means (as it happens, I'm married to an academic) she must have tenure. Try again once she has cleared that hurdle? All best to you. Gecko990 (talk) 20:12, 10 March 2014 (UTC) I'm not convinced of her notability, with or without. But perhaps you can get another editor to say yes. Gecko990 (talk) 22:17, 10 March 2014 (UTC) Willam Mandeville Austin[edit]Please let us know which copyright you have found Pierre_Francois PUECH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.251.56.242 (talk) 19:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for March 13[edit]Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Bowling Green State University Department of Popular Culture, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Masters (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:07, 13 March 2014 (UTC) Mason Smillie[edit]Hi, i deleted some stuff that was posted about mason smillie would be greatfull if you could help me delete all the deleted articles pages about him. im just an intern from his management and have no idea how this works. thanks in advance sara hayes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.99.83.236 (talk) 01:42, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
this is a profile on mason smillie from mtv http://www.mtv.co.uk/music/urban/5318-video-interview-shanika-warren-markland-anna-nightingale — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.99.83.236 (talk) 01:50, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Wanted to delete those articles as I cant do that is it possible to create a page for him now? as ive been asked to do that — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.99.83.236 (talk) 01:57, 15 March 2014 (UTC) Yo i didn't mean to post that[edit]Yo i was tricking my friend and didn't mean to put that on it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.235.241.107 (talk) 02:08, 15 March 2014 (UTC) ODNB ON-LINE[edit]"The online version has an advanced search facility, allowing a search for people by area of interest, religion and "Places, Dates, Life Events". This accesses an electronic index that cannot be directly viewed. Unfortunately a recent analytical examination of selected ODNB articles has revealed them to be both inaccurate and incomplete, particularly the older biographies; this issue will have to be addressed by new Editor Sir David Cannadine who takes over the editorship from October 2014." CAN YOU PLEASE CREATE AN ARTICLE ON "SIR DAVID CANNADINE" AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO HELP O.D.N.B.? 2.30.190.118 (talk) 13:56, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
War movies[edit]Thanks for the correction (even though I admit I have not understood which was), I am not a Wikipedia user so I may have done some mistakes. I guess that the page requires a bit of review, because it states that it should comprise only movies about WW2, while movies about Holocaust should be in another page, but instead there are plenty of movies about the Holocaust that are included in the WW2 movies page, and even a few movies about Nazism before WW2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.45.224.127 (talk) 14:46, 16 March 2014 (UTC) New section[edit]Sintaku - I apologize for having made amendments to the page in question. I will refrain from conducting to these petty acts of wiki-vandalism in the future. - This IP address. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.183.138.47 (talk) 15:02, 16 March 2014 (UTC) Revert disruption[edit]Hi could you explain to me why you did this revert and how on earth this could be disrupive. I was wondering because I saw this warning which to me seems hard to understand (seems wrong). QED237 (talk) 15:51, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
AWB edits[edit]Why are you making so many changes with AWB without even trying to fix those? Tito☸Dutta 17:22, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, first and foremost sorry for the lousy request-for-help-disguised-as-addition, you were right reverting it. The point is that "perform even better", while technically true, is imho subtly misleading, for the following reason. The original cipher, salsa20/20, works generating 64 bytes at a time like this: repeat 20 times: loop_body # mixes the bits as explained in the paper; details not important
repeat 12 times: loop_body # identical operations as salsa20, only repeated 12 times instead of 20
I tried to explain that, came up with an overly long explanation - bad; tried to search for a general explanation of what it means to reduce the number of rounds, couldn't find it - gave up. I'd be very thankful if you could find a way to express the above in a clear and not overly long manner.
eXosip and article for creation[edit]Link to submission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/eXosip Exact reason I declined: "References are to downloading the software. Looks like a website page for the actual software itself" What, if anything, you've done to better the submission: My initial article was rejected because there wasn't enough reliable sources. I have added 6 references from thesis document (Usage in academic research) and 5 Citations from Books to proove notability and reliablity. When I declined it: Submission declined on 10 February 2014 It looks strange to me if I had to remove the download link for latest version. Should I? Other reference are not for downloading "the" software but references to other software: does this really makes it a website for eXosip? I would be glad if you can advise me minimal changes to get the article approved. For example, should I list those third party software without any "link/reference"? Aymoizard (talk) 20:13, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I have followed your advises and made the description more WP:NPOV. I submitted again for creation. Tks. Aymoizard (talk) 08:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC) Thanks for fixing typos on Dr. M. Mohan Babu[edit]Hey Sintaku, Thanks a lot for fixing those typos :) Salsa20(2)[edit]In the end I made an account - just thought I'd let you know :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Useurandom (talk • contribs) 20:28, 18 March 2014 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for March 20[edit]Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to disambiguation pages. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC) Hello, I made some edits to OnLive's Wikipedia page recently. That article is pretty old with some out of date or incorrect information. I am admittedly new to editing Wikipedia pages, so I'm not sure about how it works even after reading some of the how-to articles suggested. And, full disclosure, I work for OnLive, and I'm aware of how important it is to keep our page factual, and not use it as a PR vehicle. I looked at the Wikipedia pages for some other companies in similar fields as OnLive to get some references on tone and style, and tried to follow their example. What can I do to make edits to the page that are acceptable and won't get reverted? I'd like be be a constructive contributor. Thanks, Robin ps. I just signed up for an account under username bonfirenation. Hopefully that will help with my efforts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.85.144.253 (talk) 19:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Sintaku, I'm referring to this note on the OnLive article's history page: (cur | prev) 23:13, 15 March 2014 Sintaku (talk | contribs) m . . (39,415 bytes) (+3,164) . . (Reverted edits by 192.195.82.76 (talk) to last revision by 50.185.207.242 (HG)) (undo | thank) I updated the opening paragraphs of the OnLive article, and you left a note that you reverted the changes because you didn't find them constructive. Sorry if I'm not replying in the right format. I'm new to editing on Wikipedia, and am not sure the best way to proceed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bonfirenation (talk • contribs) 17:41, 25 March 2014 (UTC) Here's the note you left along with your change: Hello, I'm Sintaku. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to OnLive, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~~ Sintaku Talk 23:13, 15 March 2014 (UTC)Bonfirenation (talk) 19:38, 25 March 2014 (UTC)bonfirenation |