User talk:Meatsgains/Archive 1

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Dispute opened by Hermiod against Kgorman-ucb about men's rights

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Men's Rights". Thank you. --SarahStierch (talk) 13:19, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Welcome

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Hello, Meatsgains, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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Sorry no sources to add

If I had sources for the wood fuel page I would rework them into the article. Unfortunately I dont have sources, only experience and knowledge that there is a lot missing from the article. Avram Primack (talk) 00:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

thats a bummer, I will see if i can find any online.Meatsgains (talk) 18:40, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Link to Congo disambiguation page

When you edited the Jeffrey Gettleman article, you added a link to Congo, which is a disambiguation page rather than an article. If you know from the source material whether it's referring to the Republic of the Congo or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, could you please edit your link to point to the appropriate page? Most common usage referring to the country simply as "Congo" is about Republic of the Congo, not the DRC, but I didn't want to assume that in this case since you're probably more familiar with the topic. Thanks! LarryJeff (talk) 20:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Hey thanks, i corrected the disambiguation link in question, thanks for your help.Meatsgains (talk) 19:14, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Film Industry in Georgia (U.S. state)

Can you explain how it needs to be wikified? I was the initial author, I write a lot and I thought it was pretty "wiki". Just tagging something as needs to be wikified is not very helpful.Keizers (talk) 21:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I added a wikify tag because I thought there could be more wikilinks in the incentives and economic impact sections. I would have just added them but do not know the industry at all, so i figured I would tag it. Sorry I didnt leave a note on the talk page.Meatsgains (talk) 21:50, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Wow! Gorillas

Hi. Thanks for introducing sections at Wow! Gorillas. I've now removed the corresponding maintenance tag too. -- Trevj (talk) 11:32, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

High Bridge

I just removed the image you added to High Bridge, New York. That image appears to be of the confusingly similar High Bridge (New York City). I wish you happy editing and a damn good weekend. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:45, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about the add. Good find. Have a good weekend.Meatsgains (talk) 22:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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Talkback

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Proposed deletion of Thomas de Bodham

I have put it up formally Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas de Bodham

Update 7 Oct

So far it seems to be Keep

Mistake?

Jan Ponętowski? Ryan Vesey 21:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about the proposed deletion..definitely was an accident.

I thought so. Well have a good day! Ryan Vesey 21:37, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks you too! Meatsgains (talk) 21:39, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Jeff Smith (Mississippi politician)

I appreciate your efforts; but the edits you made were not in conformance with our style here (use of bulleted lists of trivial memberships, for example); and relied entirely upon a single source. Still: I'm glad to see somebody else working on state legislators, rather a specialty of mine. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:55, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Okay thanks for letting me know. I'll look at the style of those types of articles before editing them so that I can match it. Meatsgains (talk) 07:22, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Deletions from Hide-and-seek

Just a heads up that you (presumably accidentally) deleted the see-also section, some interwiki links and other content with this edit to the Hide-and-seek article. I've restored the content. --McGeddon (talk) 10:02, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I was adding text to the page and must have deleted it on accident. Thanks for adding the content back to the page. Have a Merry Christmas! Meatsgains (talk) 23:18, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Bunnies By The Bay

Hi. I've undone your recent changes to Bunnies By The Bay, because you removed references and added a promotional tone. Please feel free to add back the information, if it is done with a neutral tone and well supported by independent and reliable sources. Thanks. -- Eclipsed (talk) (email) (coi) 09:30, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Copyright issues

Please ensure you do not cut and paste information from other websites or close paraphrase text. I have removed the information you added to Louise Camuto as it was a copyright violation of the LinkedIn profile page. I would be careful using LinkedIn at all other than for very basic personal statistics - it is a self-published source designed to promote an individual; even if the text was not protected by copyright (which it is), the tone is likely too promotional for use on Wikipedia.--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 18:19, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Okay I will refrain from using LinkedIn as a source. Thanks! Meatsgains (talk) 02:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Copyright issues, redux

Re: this expansion from last year [1], which appears to be lifted verbatim from the Vote Smart web biography. Additionally, much of the content doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Thank you, 99.136.254.88 (talk) 14:54, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I added the information back to the page because most of the text is relevant and from a credible source. I removed some of the unnecessary text that was in list format and also edited some of the text. The format of this page is similar to most of the political candidates pages. Let me know what you think. Thanks. Meatsgains (talk) 21:09, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

What you did was refer to my copyediting as vandalism [2], when I revised it to an acceptable encyclopedic format. I'm concerned that you don't understand that, though I've explained my actions at the article talk page. I'm also concerned that you may have made similar copyright violations in the past. Please do use the article talk page to explain why a 'resume' format is appropriate for an encyclopedic biography. Thank you, 99.136.254.88 (talk) 21:20, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

By the way, is there a consensus that Board Game Geeks, which you've been relying on to add a lot of trivia, is a reliable source for Wikipedia articles? I'm also concerned that you may also rely on primary sources for references. I'm not adding this to be difficult, but I suspect there's an edit history that merits some discussion. 99.136.254.88 (talk) 21:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

And to reiterate my concern from the top: not only is bullet point listing not appropriate for the body of a biography, but you've persistently restored content and format copied directly from another website. That's decidedly not how articles are done here, and persistent copyright violations do lead to sanctions. Thanks, 99.136.254.88 (talk) 22:10, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I didn't mean to mark your work as vandalism, sorry about that. I must have done it by accident when I was looking at the previous edits on the page. I will refrain from using bullet lists on pages. I have been using Board Game Geeks as a reference because there is such little information on the internet about board games, however it is not where I have been getting all of my information from. I will use more references and shy away from just using one. Thanks. Meatsgains (talk) 22:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay. Well, you know, bullet lists are appropriate for...lists. As for references: stick with objective reliable sources. If you can't find any, 9 times out of 10 it's a sign that the information isn't important enough to add--otherwise you're adding stuff that someone is eventually going to delete because the references don't meet guidelines. The administrators who followed up at Rick Kriseman and the talk page gave a quick clinic on the subject. 99.136.254.88 (talk) 00:31, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Alright well thanks for the help. I'll be sure avoid lists unless of course they are necessary. As for references, I'll try and use as many credible sources as possible. Thanks again. Meatsgains (talk) 01:51, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Robert S. Stevens

Hi Meatsgains, your edit from a year ago to Robert S. Stevens (judge) mixed up a 20th Century California State Senator turned judge with a 19th Century U.S. Congressman from New York. I have moved the info you added to Robert S. Stevens. However, your content needs to be reworked into the existing article at Robert S. Stevens, so I hope you'll be able to revise it accordingly, so it doesn't read like two articles pasted together. Thanks, OCNative (talk) 11:41, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay, good find. I can see how the two can be confused with each other. I'll be sure to edit the Robert S. Stevens article. I will incorporate the new information with the existing to and merge some of the sections. Thanks! Meatsgains (talk) 14:52, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

David Ridgen

Hi there. I see you tagged the David Ridgen article, but I didn't see "a short note on the talk page describing the issue, and suggesting an approach to fixing it if you know how". Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems. Thanks. Richard Apple (talk) 04:55, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

I wrote on the talk page for David Ridgen explaining why I added the tag "needs sections". Let me know what you think and feel free to divide the page into sections yourself. Meatsgains (talk) 20:38, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Notion Press

Dear Meatsgains, I seek a suggestion from you. I am around here editing articles for more than a year, but still not familiar with rules (yes I am guilty!). I wanted to create a page for Notion press, chennai, a self-publishing company. It was deleted. I wrote it 'encyclopedically'. I just want to know from you whether it qualifies for the notability criteria. It has got a few newspaper sources (4 to 5). A daily stated it's first of its kind in free publishing in India. Can you please help me in clarifying this? The article is available here Thanks a ton :) --Challengethelimits (talk) 01:45, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Prod reasons

Hi Meatsgains; I see that you've just prodded a few articles such as Gecko Device. Please note that per WP:PROD, when you put a proposed deletion tag on an article, you need to provide a clear, non-generic reason (it's a parameter, so it will look like {{subst:Proposed deletion|concern=reason for proposed deletion}}). Otherwise, it's not clear to other editors what needs to be done to improve the article. Could you please go back and add reasons for the article's you've prodded recently? Qwyrxian (talk) 02:48, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey, I went back and added captions to the proposed deletion tags on the two recent pages I put up for deletion. Could you let me know if the captions are specific enough or if they need to be more detailed? Thanks! Meatsgains (talk) 04:13, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, the one on Gecko Device is wrong, in 2 different ways. First, poor grammar is never a reason to delete an article, unless its so bad that it's literally impossible to determine what is being discussed. Second, the article does have sources; they're all listed at the end. Granted, 2 of them probably don't meet WP:RS, but the Times of India one likely does. I'm going to think about it, but I may de-prod that one. Qwyrxian (talk) 13:36, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

The grammatical errors on Gecko Device can be fixed, I agree. I'll try to fix what mistakes I can. I didn't realize the page had three different references. Not sure exactly how I missed them but one of the references is a blog, which is a non-RS. Anyways, thanks for the help. Meatsgains (talk) 22:09, 11 November 2013 (UTC)