User talk:Bfpage/archive/January 2015

Help

Hi, I am having problem to aggregate a translation on wiki, my fiancé made from portuguese to german the same legend that is in enwiki. It is an old legend, and it is all inside the context, the guy is old reviewer but his behavior is extremely abusive. I made printscreen of all mensages the she replied me. he banned me from german wiki, I would like know if there are how return and keep working in peace?

I was trying make a link to: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage

from the translation of:

• en:Giant_Water_Lily_legend Giant Water Lily legend
• pt:Lenda_da_vitória-régia Lenda da Vitória Régia

The guys says in Germany wiki do not exit legends and this subject is not important (In my opinion the importance comes from the fact complete a text about culture.)

Kind regards

--Taemaya (talk) 16:22, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I regret that after reading the above referenced to wiki-related articles I can not understand the topic. Deciding that something is not notable enough for an article is usually decided by consensus on the English Wikipedia. Importance is entirely dependent on independent sources that can be cited and referenced. Our opinion on the importance of a topic is practically irrelevant.

  Bfpage |leave a message  01:49, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi,

I noticed your profile on the teahouse page and was wondering if you would be so kind as to help me. I have been trying to get a page on Wikipedia since August. It is much harder than I anticipated. It has been denied twice. My first draft was written much better but right now I just want it published then he can make whatever changes he wants. Since we want to surprise him, I can't ask him for help. First time, my references for some reason posted under external links. While I was watching hours of videos and reading, someone was kind enough to "fix" it for me. However, I couldn't figure out how to update new entries. I posted on the teahouse site and got some discouraging news that I need notable references and that since the page is about a person, I most likely will not get it on Wikipedia. This is distressing to me because I have worked SO hard on this project. We wanted to surprise and honor him by making this page for him. There are tons of posts about him on magazines. Problem is they are VERY short sentences. I noticed that you mentioned being able to "find" articles so I was hoping you might have time to help me. Although he is NOT known here in the US, he is pretty well known in England where he works and resides. It would mean so much to me and two mutual friends, if you could help us get this page going. I would even ask them to give you Kudos on the radio program they do. I have included the main posts (and some of the minor ones) I have found on him. There are probably at least a dozen more but there is so little said. There are even a couple of mentions of him in a book by Sir Terry Logan (if memory serves me correctly that's his correct name) but again they are so vague I don't think they would be of benefit. I am brand new to Wikipedia so this can be very nerve racking. Yes I know they want us to start out editing others but hard to do when you can't find topics you can edit. I am on the verge of being homeless so I need to get this completed before I am without internet. I would be SO grateful for any help you could give.

References I have found (his name is Alastair Greener Aldbourne Wiltshire UK)

1.Passport Magazine America's #1 Gay Travel Magazine http://www.passportmagazine.com/departments/AlistairGreener.php

2. Cruise Industry News http://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/716.html http://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3707:22310-cunard-appoints-queen-elizabeth-senior-officers&catid=78:cruise-news--cruise-business-wire&Itemid=58

3. newswire - same as above. Different site. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cunard-line-appoints-queen-victorias-senior-officers-58588057.html

4. M&It (MIT - Meetings and Incentive Travel)

http://www.meetpie.com/documents/archives/MIT_774516_SPEAKER%20SPEAKS%20-%20ALASTAIR%20GREENER.pdf

5. Thursday, 17 June 2010 Marketing Cunard via Social Media http://essentialmarketingplanning.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html

6. Cunarder Departure / Warm Welcome from Peter http://www.askmrcruise.no/images/cruise_pdf/CC4229_Cunarder_July_2011_20pp.pdf

7. Grant Thomas Blog All Change at Cunard http://grantthomas.com/?p=271

8. Swindon Web TV The Swindon Show toward bottom of page. http://www.swindonweb.tv/channel.php?cid=58&sel=1

9. Swindon Web TV Olympic coverage Meet our Presenters http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=2&s=1804&ss=1809&c=11141

10. West Berkshire Heart Support Group Newsletter Autumn 2013 Page 6 Bottom of right side and Page 7 left side http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heartbeats-berkshire.co.uk%2F2013%2520Autumn.pdf&name=Alastair+Greener&showads=1&lc=en-gb&lg=en&rg=gb&rip=us

11. The Cruise Report "Brand Overview Cunard Line" SHORT Page 2 Right side http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pocruises.com%2Fpdf%2Fthe%2520cruise%2520report%25202009.pdf&name=Alastair+Greener&showads=1&lc=en-gb&lg=en&rg=gb&rip=us

12 mirror.co.Uk Captain Greybeard http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.mirror.co.uk%2Fcaptain-greybeard%2F2009%2F09%2Fdesign-secrets-of-queen-elizab.html&name=Alastair+Greener&showads=1&lc=en-gb&lg=en&rg=gb&rip=us

13. Moonraker Probus Club of Devizes 2012 Last article on page April 2012 Cruising Industry http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moonrakerprobusdevizes.org.uk%2FEvents%25202012.htm&name=Alastair+Greener&showads=1&lc=en-gb&lg=en&rg=gb&rip=us

Paragraph written http://www.lymington.org/whatson.html

Cunarder http://www.cunard.com/documents/cunarders/cunarder_march_2010.pdf Port Canaveral March-April 201 Page 6 possibly 7

Swindon Web TV "Our Presenting Team" http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=2&s=1804&ss=1809&c=11141

http://www.portcanaveral.com/general/magazines/March_April_2011.pdf

This shows that he also co-authored a book http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Queen-Victoria/Chris-Frame/9780752496986#overview

Briefly mentioned

Micro Filmmaker magazine http://www.microfilmmaker.com/author/sinead-cranna/

Sea Letter Cruise Magazine Under Entertainment http://www.sealetter.com/Dec-01/goldenp2.html

Title of article "We are Cunard has a new host" http://cruisediva.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html Mr Ocean liner. Basically just shows that he acted in it.  :( http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Ocean-Liner-Times-Miller/dp/B0043GIX4W

Vacations Magazine https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ew0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=Alastair+Greener+Magazine+articles&source=bl&ots=Q-oodP6dngds_&sig=dfI2xlUEnWK7w5vN1gnwbNZMcVg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xybfVIuWCM38gwT1i4TIBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Alastair%20Greener%20Magazine%20articles&f=false

Jane Reynolds blog - AG's radio program http://janereynolds.co.uk/index.php/2011/11/26/jane-reynolds-weekly-magazineblog-th-nov-3/

Lesley Holdship's Blog Swindon Web TV http://www.raspberryroulade.com/blog/index.php?id=1436865852501331861

Not sure if this would work because it's from an organization

http://bc-training.org.uk/meet-the-team/

Thank you for your time. KatieCollins (talk) 17:03, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

I would be glad to help you out. Do you have a copy of a draft of your article as a word document? It might be better to work on this article via email to get it into good shape before you or I re-submit it. Send it to me at: ignore the $=# symbols in the following email so that my email address isn't inadvertently 'harvested' by some spidering-spam-generating bot: #bar=bara$f$p#age@gmail.com

  Bfpage |leave a message  17:09, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

The Quick Brown Fox changes

The four changes I made to the Quick Brown Fox were to provide online links to sourced material:

The "Scouting for Boys" book is available online at the link provided. The "Fox Typewriter" article is available online at the link provided.

One of the edits was when I made a mistake in typing the URL that I had to fix. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.253.196.32 (talk) 01:18, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Good Faith Fanatic

Hello Bfpage, I have a question about your section User:Bfpage#I am a Good Faith Fanatic. You write "It cannot be accepted in the presence of obvious evidence to the contrary (vandalism)." What can not be accepted? Do you mean "It cannot be refuted"? That would fit nicely to my reply at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#I Need Hope: Obviously, the behavior of many people on Wikipedia gives reason to see the glass as half empty; but it is clear from what has been created that the net effect has been positive. — Sebastian 02:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

On my user page, under the section - I am a good faith fanatic, I cut and pasted the content of that section directly from a Wikipedia policy page. I believe that it means that if someone edits in the statement, "Porky pig is the president of the United States", it is okay to assume that this is not a good faith edit.

  Bfpage |leave a message  04:41, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

I see, thanks. That's WP:AGF, which now reads "This guideline does not require that editors continue to assume good faith in the presence of obvious evidence to the contrary (vandalism)." — Sebastian 07:41, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Pittsburgh and Morgantown ArtAndFeminism Editathons

Hi Bfpage. Great to see your energy in organizing a much-needed Pittsburgh meetup! If you would like to volunteer with a place that's relatively close to Pittsburgh, Wikipedia:Meetup/Morgantown/ArtAndFeminism could use help from an experienced Wikipedian for their March 7 event, and organizers can help with travel. Also, there is someone who wants to organize a Pittsburgh ArtAndFeminism Editathon sometime in April, maybe you can work together. If you'd like to get in touch with these people via email (most aren't active Wikipedians), I can connect you if you send something to Special:Email/Pharos.--Pharos (talk) 21:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much! What a kind offer. I work during the day into early evening and so would not be able to attend such an event in Morgantown. My interest in art is much broader than just art and feminism, and want to keep the invitation to the Pittsburgh meet up as broad as possible. I have to admit that I don't understand the concept of having a Wikipedia meet up with people who aren't Wikipedians or interested in becoming one.

Best Regards,

  Bfpage |leave a message  04:58, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, we want to support all topics in art, and in all fields, we're an encyclopedia after all :) I think the idea is that people who go to a topical editathon like this are interested in becoming Wikipedians, and are starting on that path by editing during the event, and will hopefully continue after. I'm also a huge fan of meetups that are as broad as possible, but in a complementary way also try to support topical events where there is interest and they can possibly engage newer Wikipedians. (Fwiw, the Morgantown event is on a Saturday, not sure if that helps.)--Pharos (talk) 18:17, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Rollback and pending changes reviewer granted

Hello Bfpage. Your account has been granted the "rollback" and "reviewer" user rights. These user rights allow you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes and quickly revert the edits of other users.

Rollback user right

Please keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin).

Reviewer user right

The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection enabled is located at Special:StablePages. You may find the following pages useful to review:

• Wikipedia:Reviewing, the guideline on reviewing.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes.
• Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.

Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of reviewer or rollback. If you no longer want either of these user rights, contact me and I'll remove it, alternatively you can leave a request on the administrators' noticeboard. Happy editing! — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

PS: Regarding your recent editing disputes – not to say that you would, but I just wanted to make it clear that rollback should never be used in such cases. Refer to Wikipedia:Rollback#When to use rollback for what is acceptable use. Your counter-vandalism efforts look great. Thanks for helping out. — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Okay looks like I messed up. Judging by your request that you had been using STiki, I thought you had requested rollback, when you had actually requested pending changes reviewer. That being said, my compliments of your STiki usage still stands, so I leave you with the rollback bit. Just again do note what is acceptable use. As for pending changes reviewer, that does not grant you status or changes the way you edit. It merely allows you accept/deny pending changes at Special:PendingChanges. Hopefully we're both on the same page now. Thanks and sorry for the confusion on my part :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:42, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote of confidence. I won't be pushing any buttons until I've read all of the instruction manuals!

  Bfpage |leave a message  05:45, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Scrotum article

Your recent edit works for humans, but flies in the face of many other mammals. How is the scrotum above the penis for a dog or horse, for two examples? Superior/inferior are more correct terms in biology and medicine. In the case of both of the above and in humans, the scrotum would be inferior to the penis or the rest of the body. Agree?Wzrd1 (talk) 13:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

I totally agree with you. In this article I suggest we begin every section by describing the human scrotum and then in a paragraph in the same section we describe the differences that exist in other mammals.

  Bfpage |leave a message  22:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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