User talk:Splinemath
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-- need some advice --
[edit]I get alot of stupid deletes on pages i tried to create, and adding information on current pages. To create a new list of manufacturers of a certain product type, I copied the page of Piano Makers and the page was deleted. It was identicle, just substitute Piano for my product type. I added to a list of what a store sells. It already had "xyz sold clothes, appliances, and outdoor equiptment". I added boats(that they sold in the 60's and cited a page, and the person deleted all the items calling it "promotional material" ?!??!?!?! My best is where i tried to create a page of the school i went to that was razed 20ish years ago and it was deleted because it is "advertising"?!?!?!?!?
Am i going about this wrong or is wiki just edited by idiots?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The 0utsider1 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
- Try to have two or more secondary sources for each page you create.-Splinemath (talk) 06:03, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
February 2020
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Speedy deletion nomination of Bela (company)
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"Jew" vs. "Jewish person"
[edit]Hi Splinemath,
Regarding this edit, I'm sure you mean well, but there's nothing wrong with the word Jew. In fact, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition (2000),
It is widely recognized that the attributive use of the noun Jew, in phrases such as Jew lawyer or Jew ethics, is both vulgar and highly offensive. In such contexts Jewish is the only acceptable possibility. Some people, however, have become so wary of this construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a noun, a practice that carries risks of its own. In a sentence such as There are now several Jews on the council, which is unobjectionable, the substitution of a circumlocution like Jewish people or persons of Jewish background may in itself cause offense for seeming to imply that Jew has a negative connotation when used as a noun.[1]
Hope that's helpful. Jayjg (talk) 20:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
The article Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Nomination of Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of OneSwarm
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- ^ Kleinedler, Steven; Spitz, Susan; et al., eds. (2005). The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style. Houghton Mifflin Company. Jew. ISBN 978-0-618-60499-9.