User talk:Scope creep/Archive 4

Edits to Hikimi wasabi

Hello! You made a couple of edits to hikimi wasabi, and I can't really make sense of either. Have you perhaps pasted some random Japanese text into Google translate, and then added the resulting junk to the article? If so, please don't. But if you can explain the edits, fine, otherwise I will just revert them. (Really speaking, it is touch and go whether this is vandalism...) Imaginatorium (talk) 07:01, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Imaginatorium, It is not vandalism. I promoted it out of Afc, when it looked certain to be a candidate for deletion. You seem to have turned up out of the blue, and taken WP:OWN ownership of the article. I was planning to convert the references in part to English, so there is some idea of what they mean in English. When I started nobody was working on it. The English text are placeholders only , until I can get around to reform the whole ref properly, and check that the translations are correct with the reference desk. If you are planning to do it, then I'm happy somebody is doing it, as it needs to be done by somebody who knows the Japanese language scope_creep (talk) 10:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Edits concerning ENnies

I saw that you removed references to the ENnies in Chris S. Sims (game_designer)' WP article. Especially in the phase of a deletion request going on, I think that's a bit weird. As far as I understand, you removed the references because they are blogs. Well, the official hompage of the ENnies is structured like a blog. That's how they communicate the winners of their awards. I would ask to revert these deletions. Many other WP articles about RPG professionals reference to won ENnies. Or are you challenging the notability of the ENnies in general? Interstellarpoliceman (talk) 16:12, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Interstellarpoliceman, Blogs are Non RS in Wikipedia. They are classified under WP:UGC and as such are not available for use on Wikipedia. No I'm dont thinking i'm challenging the validity of the ENnies. I don't think the ENnies site is under editorial control. It is looks like a blog, because it written like a blog. I'll check with reliable sources, to make sure. If they say cool, then I will put it back. scope_creep (talk) 16:33, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Interstellarpoliceman, Thats it posted to Reliable Source. They will determine if they are good or bad. The whole article has had a whole bunch junk reference that are primary in nature, and are not suitable for BLP article. scope_creep (talk) 16:42, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Two thumbs up! Interstellarpoliceman (talk) 17:15, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Both the ENnies references dont mention him by name. What is the linking criteria supposed to be that makes the reference valid. scope_creep (talk) 17:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Holger Jens Schünemann: Revision

Hi, I've noticed you categorised my text as an article with undisclosed paid content. I appreciate your input to the article and I understand all your remarks that I fully agree with, but I find surprising the hidden category. The Holger Schunemann's wiki note already exists in German, so I hope there is no problem to continue it in English. This were my first steps in wiki creation, so I don't see commercial context that you do (for me the note about software made by the IT company was just objective, but I can understand also your approach). I hope we can leave Schunemann's bio without this humiliating category. Thank you for all your valuable corrections. Cheers, Aldona

Public Netbase

Hey, I could use your advice. One of my current pet projects is cleaning up the page of Public Netbase in Vienna. They were based at Museumsquartier once and that's why I have an interested in cleaning up their page (as most pages I'm working on are somehow connected to Museumsquartier). As an org they are pretty much defunct, but there are still a bunch of folks around that were part of it in the 1990s and early 2000s. I suspect some of them (co)wrote the WP article. Most of the references are to their own project pages. I'm not challenging the relevance of the org, but the page looks a bit advertise-y, does it? Interstellarpoliceman (talk) 14:47, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Interstellarpoliceman, it seems to have an advert tag added by SPA account, but it it not too bad, as as creative group that should be notable. It could do with a copyedit to check the refererences are valid and checking spelling, grammer, layout. However, whole lot of the references are invalid as they point to blogs, and there is very few secondary sources, which satisfy WP:SIGCOV. scope_creep (talk) 15:43, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Ok. I will work on some copy-editing. What concerns me most is that most of the references are to domains like world-informatiom.org and ***.netbase.org and other domains, so they are linking to their own sources. Most of the projects they did had tons of secondary coverage, but they link to their own pages. I fear I have to do a lot of research and replace all their self-references with actual valid references. Brrrr. Interstellarpoliceman (talk) 22:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

High quality references are the watch word, or phrase. Strong enough to hold for 100 years. scope_creep (talk) 22:30, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

National Archives

Hi there, unfortunately the file you mentioned is over 150mb. Is there some specific piece of information you're after? Otherwise easier to download yourself, I think. It's just too big for me to move around easily. --Mr impossible (talk) 13:30, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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Steve Down Recent SEC News & Related Coverage Reversal of Edits

Scope creep, I noticed your recent reversal of edits to the Steve Down page I've made related to the recent plethora of news coverage related to the conclusion of an SEC investigation, which resulted in a consent to the charges. This does represent a consensus? - Anon1-3483579 (talk) 15:52, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Anon1-3483579, I know, but it is creeping back to the same pattern of do/undo that was seen 6 months ago. Why not raise an WP:RFC and determine what the consensus is. Create it on the talk page of the Steve Down and once it has run, the consensus will be established, and there will be no change, unless there os some change in life circumstances. At the moment, the continual reversions are likely to get the editors banned. scope_creep (talk) 18:26, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Scope creep, okay, I will look into this when I have a chance, thanks. - Anon1-3483579 (talk) 19:42, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Deprodding of Sasha Carrion

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Hi Scope Creep. I've added the above as a courtesy as part of some post deprod cleanup. FWIW, I didn't deprod the article myself and it was deleted last year; however, it has been just restored per User talk:Explicit#Your deleting my Sasha Carrion page. If you still believe it should be deleted, then please use WP:AFD this time. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:42, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Theroadislong, I don't think we have spoke before. How are you? It is not my draft. I'm rescuing it from the wilderness so to speak, as the article subject has a CBE. Thanks for moving it into draft space. I couldn't figure out how to do it, without doing a raw xcopy. scope_creep (talk) 15:14, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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Deletion of Jerome Lecat

Dear scope_creep, I respect your thoughts about Jerome Lecat. But i found the subject notable on the basis of few resources such as verified twitter profile of Jerome Lecat (https://twitter.com/jlecat), https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/24/scality_gets_escape_velocity_funding/, magazine-decideurs.com, https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/jerome-lecat/entrepreneur-francais-dans-la-silicon-valley-depuis-10-ans-je-s_a_22044508/ and https://www.fondationdefrance.org/fr/portrait-de-philanthrope-15 and Wikipedia also contains a page of his company Scality.

I am trying to remove the PR & self published links, Can you please help me to find the primary, blog and press releases links (that you mentioned in your comment) so that i could remove and place the good secondary resources. I would also request you to replace the deletion tag with a maintenance tag and i will try to fix the issue.DangLu79 (talk) 06:07, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Dear Scope creep, i removed the deletion tag, reason i have explained above. If you feel the tag must be there you are welcome to add this back. But i would request you to again please consider all the facts & resources before deleting the article.DangLu79 (talk) 07:23, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

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Dear ~ Winged Blades. What it is regarding, the WP:AFD, changing my vote? I read that ages ago. It a subset of a much larger superset. scope_creep (talk) 14:43, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hello and thank you for your help with Valamis article. I would like to review removed part with [[1]] The issue is next, in Great Place to Work reference page you need to select the year to see the results, and because first is always the current year, you cannot see results of previous years.

Also, why you've added <ref name="jim"> to the same year award if they are different?

Best regards Ivan.Andreev (talk) 08:18, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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Ivan.Andreev Please sign your comments with ~~~~ so folk can know who you are. Probably a simple mistake. It can be rectified fairly easily. scope_creep (talk) 08:10, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

scope_creep not notable awards removed. I have some questions: 1) what about different offices? maybe add them in an Organisation section? 2) in 2008, Arcusys merged with Puzzleteq Oy, but I can't find any reference for it in the web, skip it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivan.Andreev (talk • contribs) 09:51, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Ivan.Andreev PLEASE ADD four dashes after your message, so we know who you are. Office and office location are advertising and are not notable. If there is no reference, don't put it in. scope_creep (talk) 13:53, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Scope creep, feel free to use a gallery or hack away at anything I've done. I'm pretty much finished with anything I'm going to do with the article. It badly needs some of the "references" cut down but I was a bit reluctant knowing how long they take to make.AndrasSkot (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

AndrasSkot, I don't mind doing it. It has been flagged for lousy refs, some self published.scope_creep (talk) 15:01, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi there, I'm a bit unsure about your edits on Loch Tummel. I don't think we should really be using the values from the bathymetric survey because the hydro scheme has increased the size of the loch quite considerably: Tom Weir gave a length of 7 miles, which is much longer than the 4km you've put in the infobox, and a glance at the map shows that this is the case. See also the hydroelectric section of the article. Grinner (talk) 20:29, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Grinner, Yip. I think your right. I've just checked it on Google Earth. I have made a mistake. I stupidly never noticed it, busy charging on, that is the problem. I'm change it back tomorrow. I have a couple of other reservoirs I'll need to check, that I was working on today. I'll need to check all of them. Thanks for bringing it to my notice. scope_creep (talk) 20:37, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

No worries, I think the bathymetric survey is the usual "gold standard" for data on Scottish lochs, so it's easy to forget that it can be out of date where the level has been raised.Grinner (talk) 20:45, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Yip, I thought I was the only one who knew about the bathymetric survey, but then I started to see the reference everywhere. I'm trying to get all the lochs in. I'm doing the Tay basin at the moment, although somebody has partially completed it. I'm glad that somebody is working on the list. I use this: [2], which provides everything apart from mean and average depth, and breadth and length. I have no idea where the depths for reservoirs are. scope_creep (talk) 21:04, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

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You didn't get a response. Did you find an answer to your question about categories for professors? I wouldn't know how to help.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:47, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Vchimpanzee, no. There is no biographical category as such for professors, which is unfortunate and weird really. There is category for specific professorships, for articles about a specific professorship position, but not for biographical articles. Taking a look at this category:[[Category:Professorships_by_university_or_college]]. You can see that it has positions for 12 universities, although it should contain about 110 odd. Obviously it is still under development, but where is concomitant categories for professorships. There needs to be a series of categories like Professors from Oxford University and so on. Essentially what has happened, is that the article cats are in, but not bio that fit that position. scope_creep (talk) 20:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for the pic, but shouldn't it be on Commons? Philafrenzy (talk) 13:49, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

P.S. Here's a younger one. Philafrenzy (talk) 13:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

I never saw that one. Maybe you could use both of them. Do you always take the younger person? It is habit more than anything else posting the image locally as the commons wizard never worked correctly back then. I'll start using it. scope_creep (talk) 14:19, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

There's no policy on it but generally I prefer a younger picture as it tends to show people in their prime, while the old pictures tend to all look the same. The article is long enough now to use both. Philafrenzy (talk) 17:37, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Curiously I take reverse view, when I can get hold of an image. I always tend to think when they are older, they look more distinguished. scope_creep (talk) 17:42, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

No reason not to use both as you say. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Recreating an article

Hello Scope creep, so I see an article I voted on (Crystal Newman) was finally deleted. In your comment you stated you would recreate it if it passed notability and I think it does. So please recreate it? I would help recreating it but I don't know how to recreate a deleted article. Does it follow the AFC process too? YaraBo (talk) 06:58, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi YaraBo, I suggest we start from scratch. First thing we need is here full name, dob, where she was born and what she is notable for. Or you could ask a nice admin to put the text of the article in a sandbox, where we can have a look at it. If there is sufficient sources, then we can do an article. If not them we can draft it. Try the admin first. Kudpung is a good start. scope_creep (talk) 07:49, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello Scope creep, check this link for the deleted article. Though I feel it should be toned down to NPV. YaraBo

Coolio, we have a starting point. Are all these dates accurate? I will start it on Monday. I shortly heading away for the weekend. The references look quite, for the first four anyway. I will check the rest of the article, and refs, and then we will make a start on Monday. The awards are non notable, except possibly one. Really need more in the way of biographical information, not just career highlight. scope_creep (talk) 09:11, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Scope creep. Welcome back from the weekend. I think the dates are correct because they are the ones I found in references. I also checked the references they seem good. YaraBo (talk) 08:36, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Coolio we will make a start on it. scope_creep (talk) 08:40, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

YaraBo, That is the initial article created. I will work on the rest of it, over the coming days. I checked the references, some of them are not suitable, but what is there should be a substantial article. scope_creep (talk) 11:52, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Feel free to update the article yourself YaraBo.

Sangu

Hi Scope creep. I was just wondering why you removed this section from Sangu's article? What do you mean by saying that it's not notable? She has appeared in commercials for well-known companies; I don't think that can be labeled as minor trivia. That's what actors, actresses and models do after all. Keivan.f^Talk 15:33, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Keivan.f^Talk The reason I removed I did is due to the fact that I don't think they are particularly notable. Here in the UK famous folk in adverts are not particularly celebrated or reviewed, or commented on. I think they are considered a subform, compared to film or series. There are generic, a face selling a common product, that has been on tv 20-40-50 years. I think, in a top 100 list, possibly notable. I don't see any text on WP regards notability about except this note 5:

Moreover, not all coverage in reliable sources constitutes evidence of notability for the purposes of article creation; for example, directories and databases, advertisements, announcements columns, and minor news stories are all examples of coverage that may not actually support notability when examined, despite their existence as reliable sources.. Also particularly in these early career articles, it is a form advertising, to show that they are getting work. scope_creep (talk) 11:16, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hi This one sets my spidey-senses tingling. A SPA who created, and has spent a lot of time buffing up, a laudatory article on someone with a tendency to write in woo-infested areas. Guy (Help!) 19:41, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Guy, I read Madame Blavatsky's book when I young, it was crazy stuff, theosophy. Never really understood it. She was famous in the late 70's, that was part of occultist tradition is Russian. This stuff looks similar, a progression sort of. But if it is not, then its for bin. I think it needs an independent check from a Russian language editor. 22:15, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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John from Idegon, why did you unreview the page? scope_creep (talk) 08:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

The article is at AfD and is the creation of a sockpuppet. The better question is why you marked it reviewed in the first place. It sure shouldn't be indexed at this point, and functionality, that is what reviewing does. It removes the NOINDEX attribute. John from Idegon (talk) 16:07, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Scope creep, thanks for the thanks. I was on the point of asking User:John from Idegon User:Swarm to restore the article on the basis that your substantial subsequent edits had made it ineligible for G5. Then I noticed that you had signed up for the G5 deletion yourself. Not sure why you did that. SpinningSpark 17:51, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi SpinningSpark, there was a bunch of revdels on it, and only the last two edits seemed to be of any value, and I thought it better if it went. I have seen a couple of articles like recently, where the revision history was exceedingly poor at the start. It was the process. I truly believe the Academy was notable. It works mostly with the 1%, making a very powerful and wealthy organisation, and notable for that alone. I think at some point in the future it will get an article, particularly with the fact that it is mentioned 100's of times in the newspapers.com archive. As a learned society it was also notable. Thanks for the keep vote.scope_creep (talk) 18:19, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

G5 does not preclude recreation by another editor if you are so inclined. SpinningSpark 18:22, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

• @SpinningSpark: It was eligible for G5. Those "substantial edits" you're referring to were pretty minor. The promotional cruft was removed, and one brief sentence mentioning the fact that the Academy produces its own journal was added, but apart from that, the article was indistinguishable from what was authored by the sock. That is not to say that either of you can't REFUND it if you wish to take responsibility for it. Swarm ♠ 18:28, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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Picture at Heubach (Halterner Mühlenbach)

Hi Scope creep, you added the picture of the Sythener mill to Heubach (Halterner Mühlenbach). However, this mill is not situated at the river described in this article.

It is somewhat confusing, because the German article de:Halterner Mühlenbach describes water with two different names, namely the waters of the Heubach which then split into a small water called Umflut and the water of the Halterner Mühlenbach. Thus, the German article assumes that Heubach is another name for the upper part of the Halterner Mühlenbach.

I've found this confusing and decided instead to create two different articles for the English Wikipedia, namely Heubach (Halterner Mühlenbach) and Halterner Mühlenbach for this. The Sythener mill is situated near the mouth of the Halterner Mühlenbach, therefore the picture does not fit into the Heubach article. (You may proof this by clicking on the picture and then at "Standort", there the coordinates are given.)

Sorry for the confusion --Cyfal (talk) 12:47, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Cyfal, Its cost you a bit of time, although I wouldn't have seen it without some explanation. Thanks. Lovely picture though. It seems really idyllic. scope_creep (talk) 12:57, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. It appeared magically already on this version of the Halterner Mühlenbach, although it is not present in the source code of that version. I've added it now plus a caption. BTW, thank you for all your nice "Thanked" for my edits in Luftnachrichten Abteilung 350! --Cyfal (talk) 13:09, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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Made Bhanumathy Narasimhan's article in a neutral point of view

Thank you for your suggestions. Made this neutral point of view, can you please check this now. Thammudu (talk) 14:29, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hey, I noticed your question in the Help Desk. Please be aware, that while technically what you are doing will work, you shouldn't be doing it that way. There are accessibility issues that come with tables which require tables to have among other things, headers. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial for a more detailed explanation about this.

So this:

• a) Alphabetic simple polyalphabetic cipher

Clear alphabet	ABCDE......
Cipher alphabet	DEFGH......

Should become this:

Alphabetic simple polyalphabetic cipher

Method?	Result
Clear alphabet	ABCDE......
Cipher alphabet	DEFGH......

Hope this helps you. --Gonnym (talk) 14:53, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Gonnym:,Hi, I have never done it that way. It has been a slow crawl up from making a box, then adding a column, and so on. I have loads and loads tables completed in the past. I will add this feature in, over the next few weeks. What about captions for files, when you have the box, does it need a top caption, that I am possibly missing. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 14:59, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

There is a much better look about them about them. scope_creep (talk) 15:01, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Could you explain what you mean by a box with files? --Gonnym (talk) 15:08, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Gonnym: When you put a file in the article, and you add a caption that appears at the bottom, do it need a header caption as well?

Also this table:

EXAMPLE	3	1	4	6	7	5	1
Clear	R	E	F	Y	O	U	R
	M	E	E	S	A	G	E
	F	R	O	M	J	A	N

How would you format that. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 15:36, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Do you mean a file image like this?

These should follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Images and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images.

Regarding the table, I have no idea what the fields mean, so this is how I would do it. If headers need to be span-ed, then they could be done as you normally would.

table title here

header	header	header	header	header	header	header	header
EXAMPLE	3	1	4	6	7	5	1
Clear	R	E	F	Y	O	U	R
	M	E	E	S	A	G	E
	F	R	O	M	J	A	N

--Gonnym (talk) 15:52, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Gonnym: Aye, should there not be a caption on top of it, like perhaps Skyo Device. I was thought there should have been one, but couldn't locate an example of its use anywhere. scope_creep (talk) 15:58, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

The caption is what you have under, but an alt text is missing from this specific image. --Gonnym (talk) 16:01, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

BTW. Two points. The first, the header "Method?" was me asking you. That isn't a good header. The second is that you can combine the second table with the first.

Alphabetic simple polyalphabetic cipher

Example	Clear alphabet	Cipher alphabet
Pattern	ABCDE......	DEFGH......
Encryption	BAD DAY	EDC CD

I'll do that, compress the page a bit, and looks better as well. scope_creep (talk) 16:12, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping me with The Mind of Jake Paul

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Any more corrections needed?

Thanks for your suggestions on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vnarsimhan/Banumathi_Narasimhan, do let me know if this is ok now or anything else is needed? Thammudu (talk) 04:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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A goat for you!

When will this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Bhanumathi_Narasimhan be reviewed again?

Thammudu (talk) 13:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

User:Vnarsimhan The wikipedia process is for somebody else to look at in review. I have done as much as I can to make it pass. It might be worth expanding the article life section. Hope that helps. scope_creep (talk) 13:41, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks very much. It was the least I could do. Anytime scope_creep (talk) 18:53, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

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Draft:Atul Manjrekar

Hi Scope creep, Please elaborate why you decline the draft. I have provided 17 references which show significant coverage. Request you to go through the references. Let me know if you need any other information. Thanks, Risu43 (talk) 08:39, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Risu43, Will do. When I looked at it, these references seemed to show somebody who was in a very early career stage, with the references a much of a muchness, but I'll take another look per. scope_creep (talk) 10:16, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Taking a look at each reference in turn:

1. Ref 1. First film as director Times of India
2. Ref 2 Kickstarted his career. Times of India.
3. Ref 3 Name drop Times of India
4. Ref 4 Day 4 Film growing, name drop. Times of India.
5. Ref 5 Debut film as director Showsha First post
6. Ref 6 Name drop - article is Aishwarya Rai
7. Ref 7 Name drop - casting Aishwarya Rai Hindustan times
8. Ref 8 Interview debut film feature India Express
9. Ref 9 Interview - same film Hindustan Times
10. Ref 10 Debut film director, interview India TV
11. Ref 11 Some controversy, same film Times of India
12. Ref 12 Debut director listing Times of India
13. Ref 13 Debut direct, interview India today
14. Ref 14 Song controversy, debut director, the pioneer
15. Ref 15 Debut director, interview, The Hindu
16. Ref 16 Debut director, inverview, Filmibear
17. Ref 17 name drop. India

Risu43 I've looked at it. 17 references in an all. There is coverage in multiple newspapers, but they are name drops, interviews, and a little controversy about changing a song lyrics, from an former advert director who is making his first feature film. All indicate that is zero coverage outside the first film, with interviews and name drop being very low quality sources, essentially all the same information, i.e. a push a advertisers and branding to market the film. All of it indicates that director is non notable at the moment, probably WP:TOOSOON. Coverage had been generated mostly I think, due to Aishwarya Rai acting in it.

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Here's another.

Scope, at the page that he's canvassing you to, I've asked whether this lower-contrast version addresses some of your concerns. Can you say more about what quality problem you see, and maybe help fix it? Dicklyon (talk) 02:04, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hi TonyBallioni that will help in the ceaseless activity of removing promotions and branding. Thanks.scope_creep (talk) 14:29, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hi LikeMeercats How are you? It is peer review mechanism that Wikipedia uses to ensure each page is correct. All page updates are reviewed. There is two big peer review mechanism within Wikipedia, which are used to review articles and ensure they follow policy in terms of design and content, including the Manual of Style. The first WP:NPP is new page patrol. You review new pages, created by established authors, to ensure they are actually encyclopaedic. The second review mechanism is WP:AFC, where new Draft articles are created by editors who not autoconfirmed, i.e. new editors. It enables these inexperienced editors to create articles, where they can be reviewed and improved, or rejected if they are absolutely terrible, re:G13. They were previously two separate processes within WP, but they are currently being combined into a single system, where an editor can review an new page, via page curation or review a draft article, using the same page curation wizard. It was all designed in the last 6-9 months, e.g. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/AfC Process Improvement May 2018 The testing for the combined system, re:new page curation tools, was about a week ago, and could be live now, if not soon. The whole system is designed to improve the quality of new articles, and to enable the reviewing of incoming articles to ensure junk, spam, promotion, etc, etc, can be removed. Take a look at the following: Wikipedia:ACTRIAL, which was voted in via consensus to Wikipedia:ACPERM, which became WP:NPP. Hope that helps. scope_creep (talk) 22:51, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Scott at CommonBond, I look at them now. scope_creep (talk) 20:48, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

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Furthermore, even if the phrase were uniquely British, Wikipedia guidelines urge using language common across all regions where possible. I assume you agree that "consists of" is good British English.

Finally, the particular usage of "comprised of" you are supporting is not supported by any dictionary I've seen. The usage that is common enough to be acknowledged in dictionaries is "x is comprised of" or "x was comprised of"; not "x comprised of".

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Hello Scope creep,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

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Hi Scope-creep – Thanks for reviewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jenny_Dixon. All sources should now be fine – NY Times, artnews.com (magazine founded in 1901), artforum.com (magazine around since the 1970s), Artnet News, which with its predecessor Artnet Magazine has been around since the 1990s – all are legit. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to move things along. Jdecker12 (talk) 03:26, 15 December 2018 (UTC)jdecker12

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Hey, that is an automatic message that is sent when an editor un-reviews a page that has previously been reviewed. In this case, I immediately re-reviewed it as the un-review was an accident.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 19:49, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi MainlyTwelve I did the exact same thing when I was looking at the metadata on the page curation wizard, to find out why it was unreviewed. scope_creep^Talk 20:16, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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What's wrong with style and content in this article? Karol Szapsza (talk) 20:51, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Karol Szapsza I should have put a better description in. The lede is too long, there is no sections, the achievement section is getting undue weight within the article, and your introducing non notable people and your using the subjects gamer tag name, which may be ok per wp:commonname but his full name is available for use, and it is more professional to use it. You also introduce names, like TVP, CS:GO, Team VEGA and iNET koxXx which has no context. scope_creep^Talk 23:55, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Colin Kroll, Scope creep.

Unfortunately SamHolt6 has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

Unrevewing; this redirect has recently been somewhat expanded, and the "new" article needs improvement

To reply, leave a comment on SamHolt6's talk page.

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Hi SamHolt6 I dont think I reviewed that page? scope_creep^Talk 00:56, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Scope creep: its an unusual scenario, as a logical redirect was created, but today the redirect subject died and as such editors have been building a new article on top of the old redirect. I have unreviewed the article as such, but wanted to make sure I left a supportive note to whomever reviewed the redirect in the past. Anyways, its no cause for concern. Best.--SamHolt6 (talk) 01:06, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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You nominated Mandar Jàmsandêkar for AfD but it looks like you did not provide the required notice on the article being nominated. Could you please check to see that you've completed the nomination process? Thanks. Bakazaka (talk) 20:36, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Shunda xu

Hi Scope-creep – Thanks for reviewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISCO_BCOS. I have received your comments regarding the intention to delete this page and would like to know what actions should I take to avoid such from happening as I am of an amateur level to the Wikipedia editing. Do appreciate your advice and looking forward your feedback Shunda xu (talk) 08:52, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Shunda xu Sorry for not replying earlier. The reason I sent it to Afd, is that very large amount of these types of articles regarding cryptocurrency (in the large hundreds) and a larger amount for blockchain implementation have appeared in the last couple of years, and it has been decided by consensus that they will not be notable unless they have extensive coverage. There are so many software startups at the moment that are creating blockchain implementations, in the 10s of 1000's at least. Everybody has jumped on the bandwagon and created articles. Unless your product has something unique about it, the article about it will unlikely survive. I knew personally of 5 companies that are all working on blockchain implementations for a specific area. In the last couple of years, a new policy on WP was created called WP:NCORP to address articles about startups, who had real coverage and whose references were all about funding and shareholders. It is likely your article would fall under it. Your product would need to have real coverage from third parties who are independent sources and who are impartial about your product. That would be the only way it would survive. I think if you can find those people, your article has a chance of surviving. At the moment it has no chance, and the references only confirm the existence of the product, not why it should be notable. Hope that helps. scope_creep^Talk 09:11, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sreyash Sarkar

FYI, many of the voters at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sreyash Sarkar are now blocked per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rbhu23. You may want to reopen the AfD because the sock votes are invalid and you might have a good chance at deleting the article. Regards Flooded with them hundreds 16:25, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Flooded with them hundreds You know something. I wouldnt even have spotted then. What with Christmas shopping, mental traffic jams and stuffed up with a winter cold, I wouldnt have seen them if they were all standing on my feet, at the same time. I dont plan to reopenit. It has two references, which are top flight, effectivly tier 1. The dude is a poet, no doubt there and notable to boot. Thanks for spotting them. I'll call you in again I suspect if there is socks operating. If I suspect there is socks operating I will give you a shout for a second opinion. scope_creep^Talk 17:01, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Flooded with them hundreds scope_creep^Talk 17:03, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

As you wish. Merry Christmas! Flooded with them hundreds 18:30, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

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Xmas

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John Emery

Hello, Scope creep.

• Do you actually believe "PROFLIC" is a valid English word, rather than "PROLIFIC"? I've corrected it twice, and you have, apparently mindlessly, reverted it twice.
• Do you actually believe that John Emery should be sorted under J for John rather than E for Emery? And that a Defaultsort is somehow unnecessary? Again, my two perfectly correct fixes have been reverted.

Looks like a case of silly season insanity to me, but maybe you have a better explanation. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 01:14, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi JackofOz Season greetings. I've got to say that I absolutely missed them. It was the mistake, in the date of birth, in the lede which caused the revert. scope_creep^Talk 01:22, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. But I still don't see that I made any mistake in his date of birth, at all. All I did was change the format of the date from the American "October 3, 1915" to the British form "3 October 1915". And similarly with his death date. Since he was a British person, and since the British format appears in the infobox, this seemed eminently suitable to me. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 03:30, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi JackofOz That is excellent. I never knew that was an American format. But you left a } around instead of a ). I known it is minor, as in inconsequential, I know, but I recently underwent a damascene conversion when I found out several of the articles I wrote were cack, and was show a bunch of errors in them, to make me improve, which I have done. Hope that help. scope_creep^Talk 12:49, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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Which categories? Please compare Oxford Street. Xx236 (talk) 08:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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