Archived earlier User talk content:
01. Nov. 2006–Dec. 2009

Template:Infobox Slovak municipality edit

Hello, you copied this template from sk:Šablóna:Infobox Slovenská obec with the documentation. Please, do not spread this template between articles about cities of Slovakia, but use {{Geobox}}. I recommend you to request delete of this template as useless. --Bonnifac (talk) 20:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much for pointing out the possibility for using the Geobox template. It does, indeed, seem to have all of the capability (and more) of the template I had begun to translate from the Slovak Wikipedia. I have incorporated the Geobox template into a small article on Rovensko. I agree with your suggestion to delete the template and documentation I had made. Thanks for the helpful tip. — 09:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
I feel honored, when you copied Slovak's templates, but I'm happier to see your decission and discover of Geobox ;). I updated Slovak's infobox yesterday, seeing how awful it looks like here, but we (or just me) are trying to replace infobox with great one geobox, it's long-term job. --Bonnifac (talk) 01:50, 9 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Iceland Portal edit

 Template:Iceland Portal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. WOSlinker (talk) 15:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

License tagging for File:PPJ juliste.jpg edit

Thanks for uploading File:PPJ juliste.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 15:08, 8 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I've added Non-free poster template tag. Hope that covers it. Objectivesea (talk) 16:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Alisz Goriupp edit

 

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Alisz Goriupp, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2008-66224.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 12:51, 26 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

I did not consult, or even know about, the Worldcat page cited by the bot. In addition, the material the bot claims to identify as source material is a simple list of publication titles without creative content. The list I put into the article is more comprehensive and, I believe, adds some value by including a rough English translation of the article titles. Accordingly, I have removed the tag placed in the article by the bot. Thanks, though to CorenSearchBot for keeping article authors alert to the potential for copyvios getting into Wikipedia. — Objectivesea (talk) 13:04, 26 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Vancouver Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Meetup edit

Meine Wikipedia Seite edit

Hallo,

du sprichst auch deutsch, richtig? Könntest du mit meine Wikipedia Seite auf Englisch ünersetzen? Oder kennst du jemanden der meine Seite bearbeiten könnte, damit sie auf dem genauen Stand gebracht werden kann?

gruss Dinzey (talk) 15:40, 11 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Ich habe einen Anfang gemacht, in die Neufassung der deutschen Seite ins Englische. Fühlen Sie sich frei, um es zu bearbeiten, wenn ich Fehler in der Übersetzung gemacht haben.
Freundliche Grüße, Objectivesea (talk) 11:52, 12 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hallo Objectivesea,

Danke für den Anfang, wie können wir die gesamte Deutsche Seite ins Englische weiter Übersetzen? Wollen wir da Schritt für Schritt zusammen vorgehen? Klasse dass du das machst aber es sind viele Fehler drin. Ich könnte dir für jeden Abschnitt mal den Text geben, den müsstest du nur korregieren? 1. Personal life: Michél Mazingu-Sinda-Dinzey (October 15, born in 1972 in Berlin) he is a retierd German / Congolese International football player. Über deine Antwort würde ich mich sehr freuen Gruss Dinzey (talk) 15:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Ich habe nichts dagegen zu tun ein bißchen mehr, aber Sie müssen angeben, was sind die vielen Fehler, damit ich korrigieren könnte. Besser noch, warum nicht bearbeiten Sie selbst den Artikel?
Objectivesea (talk) 05:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hallo,

weil ich nicht weiss wie ich den selber korrigieren kann.Ich habe den kompletten Text vorbereitet, ist bei mir unter Diskussion zu sehen, im Prizip genau der gleiche Text in Deutsch übersetzt. Aber wenn du das möchtest, kann ich dir auch immer die Ergänzungen sagen? Gruss Dinzey (talk) 15:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Ich habe drei Absätze angefügt. Informationen zum Bearbeiten der Wikipedia finden Sie hier: de:Hilfe:Seite_bearbeiten.
Objectivesea (talk) 22:51, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hallo,

ich habe dir mal den Link kopiert, vielleicht kannst du mal bearbeiten? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dinzey Unter eigende Diskussion habe ich das im grossen und ganzen mal erstellt. Ich hoffe das ist so Ok. Gruss Dinzey (talk) 11:03, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Mail for the Interior edit

Good evening Objectivesea,

I received your YGM message on my talk, but did not find any mail. The function has worked for other users in the past, so I'm wondering if there was a problem if or you could resend. Hope you are well. The Interior(Talk) 01:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for letting me know. I'd asked for a copy to be sent to my personal e-mail address, and had not received it, so I guess I made some kind of mistake on the original attempt to send. I've just resent it, and a copy has also showed up in my e-mail box, so I think it worked this time.   Objectivesea (talk) 10:11, 22 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
Received! thanks Objectivesea! The Interior(Talk) 15:45, 22 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the WP:ETF userbox edit

Objectivesea,

Thanks for the new WP:ETF userbox. I created the task force years ago, but I was never able to garner any significant community involvement and it has long been a dormant project. Just out of curiosity, are you interested in reviving it? With a significant number of Esperanto speakers here and a productive and successful Esperanto Wikipedia, I think that there is still a lot of potential in the ETF. I'm interested to hear what you think. Take care!

TFCforever (talk) 19:37, 22 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome. I like doing little graphical things. I am indeed interested in the idea and was unaware that the ETF is considered dormant for now. I'd like for us maybe to take a survey of active Wikipedian Esperantists to determine their level of interest and respective areas of expertise. Perhaps we should write a "Goals and Objectives" or "Mission Statement" to clarify things, both what's included and what is not. For example, is the goal of the Task Force to translate into English various articles from the Esperanto Wikipedia (biographies, organizations and clubs, etc.; to translate into Esperanto the Good Articles and Featured Articles or the missing ones from the essential Top 1,000 that we find existing elsewhere; to polish existing articles; or are there other important goals not mentioned here? That is, what is the scope of the ETF?
Objectivesea (talk) 05:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Oops. I see that a lot of this ground is already covered at the ETF's main page. Sorry for the unnecessary babble above.
Objectivesea (talk) 00:15, 4 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Autopatrolled edit

 

Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:

  • This permission does not give you any special status or authority
  • Submission of inappropriate material may lead to its removal
  • You may wish to display the {{Autopatrolled}} top icon and/or the {{User wikipedia/autopatrolled}} userbox on your user page
  • If, for any reason, you decide you do not want the permission, let me know and I can remove it

If you have any questions about the permission, don't hesitate to ask. Otherwise, happy editing! Acalamari 21:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Acalamari, for letting me know about this, and for the trust you have placed in me. I'm happy to do anything that simplifies things for Administrators and other longstanding Users of Wikipedia. And happy editing to you as well!
Objectivesea (talk) 00:53, 2 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

New Page Patrol survey edit

 

New page patrol – Survey Invitation


Hello Objectivesea! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you  have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to  know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.

  • If this invitation  also appears on other accounts you  may  have, please complete the  survey  once only. 
  • If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it.

Please click HERE to take part.
Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback.


You are receiving this invitation because you  have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey. Global message delivery 12:38, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Jonas Sima edit

Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Jonas Sima. The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:15, 6 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I've added some references now. -- Objectivesea (talk) 03:32, 26 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Barnstar edit

  The Citation Barnstar
For finding tagged and outstanding refs required in Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Canadian procurement - Ahunt (talk) 22:40, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Category:Ships sunk in 1915 edit

Category:Ships sunk in 1915, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 21:55, 6 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Category:Category:Speakers of state legislatures in the United States edit

Category:Category:Speakers of state legislatures in the United States, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:59, 6 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Category:Esperanto Academy members (deceased) edit

Category:Esperanto Academy members (deceased), which you created, has been nominated for merging. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:30, 18 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

I also have nominated (for deletion) Category:Esperantist of the Year. Again, your comments would be welcome at the discussion. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:37, 18 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

John Atta Mills edit

I removed your recent addition to John Atta Mills as you had not provided a reliable source with a reputation for fact checking and accuracy to support a claim that has been contested by other editors. In addition, the content contained analysis and commentary that was not supported even by the self published websites that you had linked. -- The Red Pen of Doom 12:54, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Hans Michael Maitzen edit

 

The article Hans Michael Maitzen has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. j⚛e deckertalk 00:33, 26 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Joe, for pointing out the lack of references. I have now added a partial list of his publications, as well as footnotes pointing to his official biography page at the International Academy of Sciences. Hope that works. — 03:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! edit

  The Original Barnstar
For your excellent work expanding the article Kenojuak Ashevak, an important artist's biography which was deserving of the attention you gave it. Thank you. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 18:46, 13 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

June 2013 edit

  Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 06:51, 9 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Fixed now. Thanks. Objectivesea (talk) 06:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

October 2013 edit

  Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Scott Jones may have broken the syntax by modifying 2 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • *[[Scott Jones (England rugby)]] (born 1990)]], English rugby league footballer currently at the [[Doncaster RLFC|Doncaster]]

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 12:51, 15 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

That's a smart bot you have there. Thanks for spotting my error. I've fixed it now. — Objectivesea (talk) 13:00, 15 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Re: Richard Hofstadter‎ edit

since "fellow traveller" is generally pejorative in the English context, I replaced with "informal supporter" but maintained the original link to the "Fellow traveller" article, which provides more context on the term

I completely agree. However, the problem is that the primary contributor, Rjensen, has invested a great deal of time (107 edits) adding pejoratives to the article.[1] I would greatly appreciate it if you would review Richard Hofstadter‎ for accuracy. I have previously brought this to the attention of Rjensen, who predictably waved his credentials around and tried to shoo me away. I believe he has introduced selective and I might say sneaky bias into this and other articles. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 08:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ImprovingWiki (talk) 22:00, 29 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Move of Henry Louis Gates to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. edit

I appreciate your expertise in replacing the main title header Henry Louis Gates with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. but, in the process, the article's lengthy revision history has become hidden from all but the most knowledgeable users through its current positioning as the revision history of the redirect Henry Louis Gates. To the best of my knowledge, there would appear to be two ways to remedy the situation: 1) moving the article back to Henry Louis Gates (without touching the well-situated Talk:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), then deleting what would again become a redirect, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (with its brief revision history of six entries) and subsequently moving Henry Louis Gates again into the empty space left by the deletion of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The other remedy, 2) would involve the more-complicated procedure of Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves, with the article placed in the Wikipedia:Cut-and-paste-move repair holding pen. Since I don't have the technical proficiency to handle such matters, I thought of consulting with you and then, if need be, placing it in the holding pen. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 20:16, 28 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Roman. I tried following your directions, but as I am not an administrator I do not, apparently, have the authority to do what is needed. I have requested the history merge be done, and a template acknowledging this is on the "Henry Louis Gates, Jr." page. Objectivesea (talk) 01:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open! edit

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:08, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Claire Griffiths edit

Greetings - since you created this page and seem to be relatively active I thought I would talk to you rather than anything else. Reviewing the WP:ACADEMIC I can't see on the page that this academic has notability. The references only say that she is an academic. The references almost all come from university web sites. Can you add something which shows that notability? Otherwise the page is likely to be deleted or redirected. 🍺 Antiqueight chat 14:15, 5 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Ref edit

Refs support [2] Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:53, 22 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Dr. James, for setting me straight. I don't know how I missed that. Your reversal of my edit was clearly justified. I'll try to study the references more carefully in future. Objectivesea (talk) 23:10, 22 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open! edit

Hello, Objectivesea. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Chuck Smith (Esperantist) edit

 

The article Chuck Smith (Esperantist) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

BLP with no reliable independent sources.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Guy (Help!) 11:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Claire Griffiths edit

 

The article Claire Griffiths has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

DOes not meet WP:BIO or WP:GNG

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Boleyn (talk) 07:31, 28 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Ligature (orthodontic) edit

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to Ligature (orthodontic). Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. — Smjg (talk) 22:46, 13 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I did not mean to create potential confusion for readers. I've now redirected to Elastics (orthodontics) where the usable text has been placed. Objectivesea (talk) 22:59, 13 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Claire Griffiths for deletion edit

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Claire Griffiths is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claire Griffiths until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 03:18, 16 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Chuck Smith (Esperantist) for deletion edit

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Chuck Smith (Esperantist) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chuck Smith (Esperantist) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Guy (Help!) 11:44, 26 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Henri Masson (Esperantist) edit

 

The article Henri Masson (Esperantist) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The few sources supplied are not independent from the biographical subject, throwing serious doubts on notability.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 10:34, 27 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Disambiguation link notification for April 26 edit

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Grenen, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Nordstrand. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:11, 26 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

canvassing edit

I came across this. I know it is some months ago, but for the future, please be aware of this guideline. Thank you. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 23:43, 22 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I'm concerned at the fact that some articles on significant topics get nominated for deletion, an action this is carried out relatively promptly, apparently without appeal, while articles on banal and trivial topics can grow seemingly without limit. This can discourage people who have worked in good faith as volunteers to create and improve articles, only to see the results of that work discarded. There is no doubt that Chuck Smith, the person who was the subject of the article that I unsuccessfully tried to have preserved, is a person of significant achievement who is worthy of a Wikipedia biography. Apparently, I was in error in how I attempted to draw attention to the article's impending deletion, a mistake for which I apologize, but the act of deleting the article was, I think, extremely short-sighted. As someone who has tried assiduously to maintain objectivity and fairness through numerous Wikipedia edits, I remain saddened by this unnecessary act, which I would tend to characterize as something approaching malicious vandalism. But I appreciate your good advice in the kind spirit in which it is offered. — Objectivesea (talk) 07:23, 23 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
If you believe that the outcome was wrong, you could talk to User:JzG, who took the decision to delete it. The deleted content is still in the database, and could easily be undeleted if it were judged appropriate to do so. But you would need to recognise that, just as you rightly say that those who worked on the article did so in good faith, so also the deletion was done in good faith. Describing it as "this unnecessary act, which I would tend to characterize as something approaching malicious vandalism" is not going to get you very far. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 09:09, 23 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

By the way, regarding the user whom you tried to contact, he has not contributed since early 2013. I note that in this discussion shortly before his departure, he made no attempt to deny a claim (from user darkweasel94 in the immediately preceding comment) regarding his reason for doing so, which I will leave you to read. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 10:02, 23 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Re: edit

Hi, for anyone needing this kind of help the best (but also the quickest) reference is m:GIPBE: in short we'll grant per account access instead of allowing VPNs. --Vituzzu (talk) 10:00, 13 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Scott Bidstrup for deletion edit

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Scott Bidstrup is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Bidstrup until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Soap 01:31, 28 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2017 election voter message edit

Hello, Objectivesea. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Survey Invite edit

I'm working on a study of political motivations and how they affect editing. I'd like to ask you to take a survey. The survey should take no more than 1-2 minutes. Your survey responses will be kept private. Our project is documented at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_%2B_Politics.

Your survey Link: http://uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9S3JByWf57fXEkR?Q_DL=56np5HpEZWkMlr7_9S3JByWf57fXEkR_MLRP_a4wKZsGYD8kHcs5&Q_CHL=gl

I am asking you to participate in this study because you are a frequent editor of pages on Wikipedia that are of political interest. We would like to learn about your experiences in dealing with editors of different political orientations.

Sincere thanks for your help! Porteclefs (talk) 01:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Category:Esperanto workers movement has been nominated for discussion edit

 

Category:Esperanto workers movement, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 5 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2018 election voter message edit

Hello, Objectivesea. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Lieve Fransen for deletion edit

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Lieve Fransen is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lieve Fransen until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. MB190417 (talk) 22:30, 15 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Yujian Zheng for deletion edit

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Yujian Zheng is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yujian Zheng until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. —Nizolan (talk · c.) 20:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Deletions and robots edit

Hi Objectivesea—firstly, thank you for your extensive contributions on topics like Esperanto. But I just wanted to say that I'm not a "robot" and neither are (most!) other people who raise concerns about notability. I obviously don't have it in for early-career academics, being one myself, and if you look at my own track record at Articles for Deletion, I have very rarely nominated anything for deletion and my keep/delete "votes" are fairly equal.

You've been here for 12 years so you're definitely familiar with notability guidelines and so on but, in my opinion, the best way to avoid AfD nominations, even unjust ones like the Lieve Fransen one, is just to make sure that you obviously meet the general guideline for whether an article is notable, which I think is really simple—multiple sources independent of the subject that cover them in some degree of detail. If you can't do that for an article then it's probably not a topic that needs an article yet. I came across Yujian Zheng while looking for contemporary Chinese philosophers with articles on English Wikipedia—the number of which is very slim right now—and not while browsing for academics to delete. I'd be very happy to withdraw my nomination in advance if you can turn up some independent reliable sources for Zheng. —Nizolan (talk · c.) 18:39, 30 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2019 election voter message edit

 Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 19 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:José Leite de Vasconcelos.jpg edit

 

Thanks for uploading File:José Leite de Vasconcelos.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:27, 11 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message edit

 Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Schedule F appointment edit

On 26 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Schedule F appointment, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. federal workers could lose due-process job protections by being shifted into Schedule F appointments? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Schedule F appointment. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Schedule F appointment), 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.

Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 00:02, 26 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Disambiguation link notification for December 19 edit

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Sophie Deraspe, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages John Griffin and IFC. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 06:11, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message edit

 Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2021 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:09, 23 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Cult images edit

Re this edit, you are perhaps not aware that in Indian English (in which the article is supposed to be written) "idol" is pretty much the standard word used in English for murtis, and does not carry the pejorative load it does in UK/US English (and no doubt Canadian). If that is not used they are probably better described as cult images, the correct English technical term, although some Indians misunderstand the "cult" bit. I've not seen "worshipable" used before, & find it an odd term that at the least needs explaining. Using "deity" might be better. I see from google that "worshipable" does exist, pretty much exclusively in not-very-well-translated texts on Hinduism, but I don't see it being used to distinguish between different types of images. Johnbod (talk) 11:52, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Johnbod. I am gradually improving the non-standard English of the article, adding wikilinks and regularizing its employment of italics and quotation marks, and I have now incorporated your very helpful suggestion. Objectivesea (talk) 16:26, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Disambiguation link notification for December 28 edit

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Bicolano people, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Harrow.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Fixed now with a link to intended Wikipedia page. Objectivesea (talk) 08:27, 28 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Rename categories edit

Please see my proposal to speedily rename subcategories of Category:Enforced disappearances by country e.g. Category:Forced disappearances in Argentina to Category:Enforced disappearances in Argentina to align with the parent category per C2C. Hugo999 (talk) 04:20, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Petro De Smedt for deletion edit

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Petro De Smedt is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petro De Smedt until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Fram (talk) 14:55, 18 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Disambiguation link notification for July 24 edit

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Petro De Smedt, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Aalst.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:15, 24 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

I have sent you a note about a page you started edit

Hello, Objectivesea. Thank you for creating List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 1 of 4. User:Ovinus, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thanks for splitting up the main article

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Ovinus}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Ovinus (talk) 21:19, 27 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message edit

Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Redeemer Lutheran Church (Victoria, British Columbia) for deletion edit

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Redeemer Lutheran Church (Victoria, British Columbia) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Redeemer Lutheran Church (Victoria, British Columbia) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

schetm (talk) 05:47, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

February 2023 edit

  Your edit to Redeemer Lutheran Church (Victoria, British Columbia) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. /wiae /tlk 12:34, 19 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

February 2023 edit

Hi Objectivesea, it’s nice to meet you virtually! My name is Isabel and I’m a senior working on Wikipedia for my capstone project. In full transparency, I’m still learning the ropes and could use some guidance from Wiki experts.

I noticed you helped create an article I’ve been working on adding new scholarly literature, Food labelling and advertising law (Chile) and I was wondering if you might be able to give me any advice on improving my contributions? I look forward to learning from you. NUstudent1316 (talk) 18:23, 16 March 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NUstudent1316 (talkcontribs)

Hello, Isabel. Thank you for letting me know about your edits to the article I originally created in September of 2018. As far as I can ascertain, what you have accomplished is a massive improvement to the article, nearly doubling its length and adding many, many footnoted references.
I appreciate the mission of you and your peers to provide neutral content to Wikipedia, and I empathize with your instructor, Joseph Reagle, whose deleted article on Failed predictions is wonderful. I have also had articles deleted at the behest of certain Wikipedians who have a sort of self-declared mission to remove material — sometimes entire articles — which they consider non-notable.
My criticism of your work is very minor; in a few places I think the punctuation could be improved, for example, introducing hyphens into compound modifiers and using em dashes to set off parenthetical expressions within sentences. Overall, I would say that you have wonderful aptitude for working to improve Wikipedia as a worthwhile encyclopedic reference. The content you have added is sound, and you clearly have the requisite ferret-like tenacity to uncover many hidden gems in peer-reviewed publications.
I wish you all success in your academic life at Northeastern University and in your subsequent scholarly career. — Erik

Objectivesea (talk) 19:01, 17 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Disambiguation link notification for July 18 edit

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited David Foenkinos, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sorbonne.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:04, 18 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Esperanto translators edit

Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_July_24#Esperanto_translators. – Fayenatic London 11:08, 24 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message edit

Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply