User talk:Indignant Flamingo/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Unhelpful following

You have followed me to two articles to refactor my research - John Trevena and Jennifer Mee and then templated my talk page inappropriately. I think this may be retaliation for my AfD nomination of an article you started, or a result of involvement on a recent proposal to delete the ARS. You also appear to have an association with others that I have had conflict with. Please discontinue your uncollegial WP:FOLLOWING and or WP:HOUNDING or you may be blocked from editing. Lightburst (talk) 20:15, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I understand that you're upset about being warned for copyright violations, after previously being blocked for copyright violations. But I didn't start Tender Buttons Press, and I've never edited John Trevena (which is a redirect to Ernest George Henham), so there's obviously some basic confusion here. That said, I did recently copyedit Eric Tessmer after seeing it linked on the Nancy Wilson (rock musician) page. I'm glad you started the Tessmer article, and I hope it grows over time. But let's stick to Wikipedia policies on copyright, okay? Indignant Flamingo (talk) 20:24, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes wrong article. Eric Tessmer is the article - along with your revert of my edit on Nancy Wilson. I have never been blocked for a copyright violation so that is a lie - I have been accused by your associate. I see what you are doing, I also see your strong opposition to ARS, and your close association with those I have had conflict with. It is transparent and disingenuous. And you are on notice. If you think you have a CCI case, please report it in the appropriate place. Lightburst (talk) 20:40, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Your block log is here: [1] Note that the block reason is "Copyright infringement". I recently argued in favor of ARS at the recent proposal to shut it down. No CCI case is required to fix copyright issues when they are blatant and obvious, as was the case with entire sentences that you copied and pasted from sources. I have no idea what "on notice" means, but if you genuinely think that these actions need to be reviewed, I recommend filing a report at WP:ANI. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 20:58, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Please read the entries here slower blocked from editing for a period of 36 hours for edit warring borderline copyvio. I was blocked for edit warring - after self reporting an edit war that involved several editors and myself adding in a properly attributed blockquote. I reported it to an admin who chose to block me- the block was excessive - since a block is not to be used as punishment - but is to protect the project - which I was trying to do. Administrators are not all created equal as you know - and neither are editors. I made the mistake of approaching the wrong one. So it has nothing to do with your following and accusations. Realize we are all here building an encyclopedia. Here is your entry from that item that I read Since you pinged me: I think that MfD is a bit petty, particularly given that one of the !voting editors was previously the recipient of generosity from admins who blocked their AfD socks and warned them about socking but didn't file an SPI. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 04:10, 22 and this other entry I can think of egregious examples of ARS involvement (e.g. Deep_voice_privilege springs to mind) Anyway, I have an encyclopedia to work on, and I think you do as well. WP:DTR Lightburst (talk) 21:35, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Glad to hear that you're committed to improving the encyclopedia. Maybe someday you and I can conspire to bring Eric Tessmer to good article status. My talk page is open to you, should you wish to collaborate. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 23:11, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I am very familiar with your brand of backhanded kindness "hey I am just here to help" ...by the way...here is a template warning for you WP:DTR and here is a kindly worded comment on the AfD about copyright problems and templating the offender. Oh, and here is a reminder of your block. And here is a revert of your "good faith edits" No thank you to your kind of help. I will keep creating content and collaborate with those who build the encyclopedia. Have a great holiday season. Lightburst (talk) 23:30, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

@Lightburst: I have never took part in the discussions on ARS, have barely had interaction with either you or Indignant Flamingo, but I have to say that I am rather appalled by your treatment of them. You have clearly taken to WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior without any sense of WP:AGF. Indignant Flamingo is a perfectly fine user, and if I see you harassing them or making these kinds of posts in the future, then I'll be certain to start a discussion about it. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:15, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@MJL: You are free to do as you like. You should probably help build the encyclopedia and steer clear of drama that does not involve you. Happy holidays to you. Lightburst (talk) 02:56, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@Lightburst: Please do not remove the copyvio-revdel template from Malford Milligan again. It's not an article deletion template. It's a request for an administrator to hide the revisions that have the identified copyvio in them. After a copyvio-revdel, the only difference is that when you look at the page history, non-administrators can't see the copyvio (the revisions with copyvio will have lines through them). For articles we're keeping that have a history of extensive copyvio, that's the standard practice to comply with our copyright policy. One more time: copyvio-revdel means we're keeping the article, and hope to improve it. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 03:41, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes, as you know I did not write that mess of an article - however you followed me there after I edited the page Dec 12. I did template it multiple times previously for lack of citations etc, and then added small tidbits like an infobox. My intent was to redo the article, when time permitted, however I looked at your contributions and saw that you not ownly followed me from Nancy Wilson, Eric Tessmer, and Jennifer Mee but you also followed me to the Malford Milligan article - so I TNT's the article. Regarding your CCI template, there were a total of 6 templates on the article and I removed them all because all problems are corrected, except for some weak sources that I used in the rewrite. I saw that you like templating so we will leave it there until some higher authority removes it. Lightburst (talk) 03:58, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@Lightburst: By removing that copyvio template, you are having Wikipedia host the offending material within the article's history. Circumstances notwithstanding, you shouldn't remove that template even if you are alleging WP:HOUNDING. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 04:09, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Sakamichi Kenshusei for deletion

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	That was some kind of spectacular sleuthing on the recent SPI shocker. It's a sad outcome, but you deserve thanks for discovering that. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 06:27, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Not the first to suspect it, just the first to fill out the paperwork. But thanks, ThatMontrealIP. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 06:55, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Page Blanking

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at HJ Lu, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you.

Hi, Splinemath. Redirecting a stub article to an article that already covers the topic is not "page blanking". "Page blanking" means leaving the page with no content (see WP:BLANK). That would definitely be disruptive! What I did is called "blank and redirect". You can read about it here, but basically it is a common way to handle articles that simply duplicate existing content in another article. In this case, HJ Lu duplicates content at Linux distribution, so I redirected the HJ Lu article title to the appropriate section of Linux distribution. Obviously you disagree with that. Usually we just discuss things on the article talk page if we disagree, and I would highly recommend that you do that in the future, rather than dropping disruptive editing warnings onto user talk pages. But hey, no big deal. Good luck expanding the article. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 04:09, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

You wouldn't mind taking the page to AFD, wouldn't you? ミラP 19:51, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

@Miraclepine:: I was hoping that the article creator would expand the article after reverting the redirect, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. If the article is nominated for AfD, I would participate, but in the interest of de-escalating potential conflict, I'm not going to nominate the article myself. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 21:29, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Akane Takada

On 30 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Akane Takada, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after a knee injury at the age of 12, ballet dancer Akane Takada waited more than a year to physically grow enough for corrective surgery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Akane Takada. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Akane Takada), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for A Very Stable Genius

On 8 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article A Very Stable Genius, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the title of the book A Very Stable Genius comes from a tweet by Donald Trump? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Very Stable Genius. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, A Very Stable Genius), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Copyrighted material

Sorry, Indignant Flamingo. Due to adding the text from Anime News Network, my addition was removed a whole as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. Sorry about that.

Yoga Widya 1994 (talk) 05:31, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

@Yoga Widya 1994: Please stop copying text from sources into Wikipedia. Even if you change one or two words, it is still a copyright violation. For example, your edits here and here are also problems. The text is obviously copied from ANN, and your attempts to change one or two words have introduced grammatical errors. I have reverted those edits, too. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 21:07, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Nogizaka46

Maybe if you actually followed the group, you would know that they have new members. Because judging by your edit summary, you don't actually follow them at all.203.206.30.94 (talk) 09:51, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Maybe if you read the Wikipedia guide to citing sources, you won't be reverted for adding unsourced information to articles. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 10:02, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

[2]. Like I said, you would know this if you actually followed the group. Why would you waste your time editing a page of a group that you don't even care enough to keep up with? Stick to editing pages about subject that you actually care about.203.206.30.94 (talk) 10:37, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for providing a source in your edit summary. Maybe next time you can figure out how to add a source to the article itself. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 11:13, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

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I nominate Indignant Flamingo to be Editor of the Week for this user's outstanding contributions in WikiProject Japan. This user writes biographies of women who have received an Akutagawa Prize, Naoki Prize, or MacArthur Fellowship, and tirelessly translates material from Japanese to English for our readers. I stumbled across one of his recently-created articles, Akane Takada, which was featured on the main page at Did You Know. One of his best works is Snakes and Earrings, a novel about a Japanese women interested in body modification. This user has been editing Wikipedia since June 2018 and has shown high-quality work. With over 50 articles created since he started (including 7 DYKs and a GA), I have no doubt that we will see more from him in 2020 and the years to come!

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Writes biographies of women recipients of an Akutagawa Prize, Naoki Prize, or MacArthur Fellowship. Tirelessly translates material from Japanese to English. Has had 7 articles featured on the main page at Did You Know and 1 GA. Editing Wikipedia since June 2018 and has shown high-quality work. Over 50 articles created since he started.

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• Thanks, Buster7. MX, thanks for the nomination! Indignant Flamingo (talk) 01:18, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Useful new essay to me

Thanks for pointing out WP:OWB, which I had somehow never run across. There is a lot of wisdom in there. Sad indeed. Its really hard to do those, even when they're obviously needed. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:56, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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• Replying a bit late, but thanks, Bruxton. Hope your holidays were lovely. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 08:49, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

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• Thanks, MrLinkinPark333! Very kind of you. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 19:22, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

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• Mmm, a delicious branstar. Thanks, BBQboffin! Indignant Flamingo (talk) 08:50, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Your response at RfA

The second sentence of your response was hostile and uncalled-for; I would appreciate if you struck it. (In the unlikely event it is important to you why I asked the question, please let me know.) --JBL (talk) 22:55, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Hey there, JayBeeEll. I guess I can see how you might find that hostile. I was bouncing around among three very different languages all day yesterday, which tends to make me a bit more direct in each of them, but hey, that doesn't matter, it obviously bothered you and that's the important thing, so I'm off to strike the second sentence now. Thanks for letting me know. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 01:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks very much -- I sincerely appreciate it. Happy editing, JBL (talk) 17:18, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of The Fall of Language in the Age of English

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Hi @Indignant Flamingo, I'm done spot-checking the sources, as I got through about half of them and only came up with one comment. Back to you! And then a pretty easy pass, I should think. -- asilvering (talk) 00:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work and thoughtful comments, asilvering! I've clarified the text and added one more citation (an already cited source), so that should address that comment, but please let me know if you notice anything else. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 01:52, 4 November 2023 (UTC)