User talk:PD Slessor

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Happy editing! Fahads1982 (talk) 16:26, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrolled granted

Hi PD Slessor, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account for a 90 day period, at the end of which you may apply for permanent extension for the right. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Chetsford (talk) 19:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I am getting back to making articles, but would love to do NPP and help with the back log. Easier to review than create sometimes. May I request? @Chetsford PD Slessor (talk) 09:45, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, but can you make the request at WP:PERM? For NPP I have to add you to the distribution list (in addition to applying the permission to your account) and I can't do that from your Talk page. Chetsford (talk) 03:53, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Chetsford Done. I left a message on your talk page. PD Slessor (talk) 05:02, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There was no justification for it.

The reason for why barry took off my edits is simply hypocritical. He's allowing the "Megamind memes dominate the internet 12 years after release" and "Ahead of its time" sources on there (in which I literally am the one who put those 2 sources there in the first place.) But he's not allowing the objectively better one with more information on it. Nobody has said anything bad about the current edit I've made and nor do I see anything wrong with the edit itself. 2603:6000:B800:EB4:D508:179B:1BEF:736E (talk) 03:56, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Take it to talk page, and consider making an account. The page in question has historically been the victim of vandalism and disruptive editing. If you are 100% confident in your edit, feel free to revert, but be prepared to takeit to ANI if your edit is undone again. PD Slessor (talk) 04:09, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kenyan Life

First of all, thank you so very much for creating articles about Kenyan politicians; biographies of Africans are unfortunately underrepresented on WP. With that being said, I noticed that you have been using the source "Kenyan Life" for some of these biographies, sometimes to reference a controversy the subject was involved in. This site is not a reliable source; it does not offer a clear distinction between opinion and reporting [1], and hosts blatantly promotional content [2]. Biographies of living people can not have contentious infromation sourced to unreliable sources; and regardless, anything useful reported on that site probably also exists on a reliable newspaper source (as was the case for Joe Mutambu. To be clear, you are good at writing articles, and most of the sources you use are reliable. Cheers, Mach61 (talk) 04:30, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the comment. My mother was heavily involved with an American NGO that worked in Kenya, and growing up always showed us photos and said we would go when we were a little bit older. She unfortunately passed, but had a heart for Kenya and did everything she could to raise awareness for it. I, have still not been to Kenya unfortunately, and did not realize that source wasn't reliable, but I will make sure to make a note of this. PD Slessor (talk) 05:11, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]