Quetstar

Linux KERNEL

Please stop making disruptive edits on the Linux KERNEL page. Linux is a KERNEL, not an OS. It even says this in the Linux documentation. 185.217.158.63 (talk) 00:17, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Can you please read the talk page? Quetstar (talk) 00:48, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

I think you should follow your own advice. Please revert the Linux kernel page back to the previous revision, and then *only revert the changes you specifically have an issue with that are related to the GNU additions* because you've reverted a lot of contributions which have nothing to do with these GNU additions, and it takes me a long time to restore them.

185.217.158.63 (talk) 14:37, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I have no intention of doing so, especially since the last user who edited the article before you came said that the edits were disruptive. You must use the dispute resolution mechanism if you want this matter to advance any further. Quetstar (talk) 21:40, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

As per your recommendation, I filed a dispute: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Linux_kernel> which you may wish to add to.

185.217.158.63 (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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185.217.158.63 (talk) 10:05, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Please stop harassing me. Stop following me around Wikipedia and immediately reverting my edits for no reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.217.158.63 (talk) 19:11, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

And you were blocked because you were harassing me, so please stop contacting me immediately. Quetstar (talk) 19:41, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at FreeBSD, you may be blocked from editing. I have told you multiple times to stop harassing me, and you won't bully me into silence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.217.158.63 (talk) 21:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Quetstar, this is just getting ridiculous now. Why have you reverted my edit on free software? GNU+Linux Mint contains proprietary software whereas Parabola GNU+Linux-libre is 100% free software, which is why I updated the example. 185.217.158.63 (talk) 19:49, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Almost all Linux distros in the world have some proprietary software, but these are optional in most cases. For example, it is possible to use Debian without its non-free repos, which are disabled by default anyway. Quetstar (talk) 23:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

You dodged my question. Why not use a 100% free software GNU+Linux distro on an article about free software? Stop with your POV edits which are biased in favour of proprietary software. 185.217.158.63 (talk) 17:56, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Once again, most distros have some (mostly optional) proprietary content in them, but the majority of the content in those is free software. Quetstar (talk) 18:10, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

April 2022 edit reverts

Hello Quetstar,

I hope you see that all of my edits are done in good faith and in an effort to make positive contributions to the Wikipedia community. Would you mind clarifying in detail what your recommendations are for neutralizing the tone of the edits you reverted for the Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning and Diligent Corporation pages? Also, do you see any issues with any of the sourcing that I may have missed, and if so, can you please name the sources?

If you would, please kindly reply on both of the respective talk pages you saw issues with, and also ping me and all who have disclosed their COI, so that we may have an open conversation and come to a consensus as a community. Thank you so much for your attention to this, Heartmusic678 (talk) 11:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

@Heartmusic678: The problem is that you seem to implement COI requests wholesale, without checking the reliability of the sources, the neutrality of the text, and the overall necessity of them, as well as undue weight issues. I would also like to state that @Hipal reverted your edits on the FreedomWorks article for similar reasons. I have no intention to take this to the talk pages nor ping any COI editors. Quetstar (talk) 19:12, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Ok. Heartmusic678 (talk) 19:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

@Heartmusic678: I have read the discussion with @Hipal and wholly agree on what they said. Please be more careful on the COI space in the future, as it is an easy way to manipulate unsuspecting editors. I will also say that I never doubted of your good faith, you just need to review them more thorougly and check the sourcing to see if it is reliable or not. Hope that resolves your matter. Quetstar (talk) 23:52, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Ok thank you, and I will. Heartmusic678 (talk) 15:44, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Amgen COI edit request

Hi! I replied to your comment at Talk:Amgen if you have a moment to take a look. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Sequoia Capital requests

Hello Quetstar. I have two outstanding requests at the Sequoia Capital Talk page that I'm hoping you can review. The first one is regarding a Senior leadership section that was recently added. The second one is regarding a proposed revision of the article introduction, which I reposted following The Banner's feedback. Any comments or guidance you can provide would be extremely helpful. Thank you. VS for Sequoia Capital (talk) 21:27, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Douglas Leone requests

Hello Quetstar. You assisted me a few months back with some edit requests I posted at the Sequoia Capital Talk page, so I'm hoping you'll have time to look at some proposed revisions I recently posted at Douglas Leone's Talk page. The first request involves a very straightforward update to the infobox. The second request involves changes to the article introduction (updating his title), Career section (lightly restructuring and updating existing claims), and Personal life section (adding one new claim). Due to my conflict of interest, I will not make any changes to the article myself, so I'm hoping that experienced editors such as yourself can help me out. I have already reached out to editors who have been active on the article in the past, but no luck so far. Thank you again for your time. VS for Sequoia Capital (talk) 00:02, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Douglas Leone Hawaii request

Hi Quetstar. Just wondering if you've had a chance to look at my response to your comment on the Douglas Leone Talk page. I understand that the change I was originally seeking may not be possible due to a lack of media coverage, so I'm instead proposing a slight rewording to remove the present perfect tense ("have been seeking...") from the existing language so that it's clear to readers this is not an ongoing issue five years later. Please let me know what you think. VS for Sequoia Capital (talk) 18:44, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

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Riot Games Entertainment Request

Hello! I'm stopping in to ask if you've had a chance to look at my latest reply on the Riot Games Talk page. It's been a little bit since we last spoke, so I'll briefly recap: I put forward a draft for a new Entertainment section for the Riot article. You suggested folding some of the information from that draft into the existing History. I've written some new copy that does just that, and am now waiting for other editors to review my suggested framing. If you'd like to help out, that's great. If not, that's fine too. Either way, I appreciate the guidance you've given me so far. Thanks! JHixson at Riot Games (talk) 00:59, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Black Box Corporation Page COI Issue

Hello Quetstar, I have not understood, where there is any COI issue in the page edited? The information is absolutely correct and not a single point or event word mentioned violates any rules. I have event created Edit request in the talk page to request if you find any incorrect or inflated information. Even the logo update is as per the current information. In fact post undoing from your end has brought back the old logo of the company, which is no longer in use. The idea is to keep the information on wikipedia relevant, any outdated or incorrect information will defeat the purpose of Wikipedia pages. If you find any incorrect word or language used in updating the page, please undo it or edit it, but please help in keep the information about the company relevant and correct. AMR1978 (talk) 06:06, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

March 2023

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Please start discussing on the talk page rather than arguing through reverts and edit summaries. As the person first implementing change, the WP:BURDEN is on you do start up a discussion and get a WP:CONSENSUS. Sergecross73 msg me 15:07, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

@Sergecross73 Roger that, thanks. Quetstar (talk) 03:06, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Riot Games Criticism request

Hello! I'm stopping by to ask about the Criticism and controversies edit request you recently closed on the Riot Games Talk page. You cited the "sensitive nature" of the section as your reasoning. I think I understand what you mean. It's definitely a tricky request. My hope, with the revised section draft I put forward, was that I could:

1. Reorganize the section for clarity without removing the well-sourced existing content, which definitely belongs in the article
2. Add some new information—sourced from strong journalistic outlets like the Washington Post, the LA Times, and Kotaku—on steps the company has taken in an attempt to remedy some of its workplace issues

I'm crucially not trying to rewrite history, or get rid of content that's critical of the company. My goal is to add additional context, based on more recent developments, and make the section a little bit more readable. Would you consider re-opening or reviewing any part of what I proposed? Perhaps just adding some or all of the new information, without reorganizing the section?

Of course, I understand if you simply don't think a COI editor should have a hand in researching and drafting material for a section like this one. In that case, I'll drop the matter and move on. But I thought I would at least ask. Thanks for taking a look at my work in the first place. Take care. JHixson at Riot Games (talk) 19:37, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Capitalisation of honeycomb.io

Hi there - would you mind explaining why you reverted my formatting only edits? I do understand the COI policy, and believe that my edits to align lowercase capitalisation of "honeycomb.io" are in keeping with the policy to make non-contentious edits only and there's not a reason to revert them just for being COI edits (obviously, puffery would be a reason to revert, but that's why I don't make substantive edits with meaning changes on articles I have a COI on). Cheers. lizthegrey (talk) 21:17, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

@Lizthegrey Wikipedia's Manual of Style requires that company names be capitalised. Exceptions to that are, to my understanding, only made in rare and individual cases, such as eBay. Since the nature of your edits involved making changes normally contrary to the MOS, you should go through the COI request process to see if an exception can be granted. Quetstar (talk) 21:51, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Aha, thank you, MOS:TMSTYLE was what I was missing. Appreciate the pointer! In that case, it may be better to have the article refer to the company first as "Honeycomb" and then secondarily as "honeycomb.io" to sidestep this problem of sentence casing. I'll submit a COI request to have that change made. Much appreciated. lizthegrey (talk) 21:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Submitted a requested move at Talk:honeycomb.io#Requested move 26 May 2023 as discussed. lizthegrey (talk) 18:58, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

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You and NEDOCHAN keep being reverted on Lucy Letby without good reason

Hi @Quetstar: have you seen what the user on Lucy Letby has done again? Despite there being no clear consensus and four editors including you, I and @NEDOCHAN: objecting on talk (Talk:Lucy Letby#Lucy Letby Introduction - Suggested edit), Sirfurboy has just reinstated his own version of the lead excluding "serial killer". There is clearly no consensus for his edits (there's actually more editors objecting than supporting) and I think it shouldn't be allowed - but I can't edit the page myself to revert. @NEDOCHAN: and @Quetstar: can something be done to stop this editor just reinstating his edits despite no consensus on talk? As you say NEDOCHAN, the talk page discussion is definitely not an example of proper consensus. 109.144.211.224 (talk) 22:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Edits reverted. Quetstar (talk) 23:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Quetstar, as you have just started editing this page, you won't be aware of the sockpuppet, User:BarehamOliver and the recent history of User:MeltingDistrict, likely the same sockpuppet or else a meat puppet of the same person. As MeltingDistrict, the editor revealed themself to have a deep personal grudge against Richard Gill, and also demonstrated they were following his Twitter feed [1]. After being banned for socking in an RfC to manipulate the outcome (including IP socking), they returned as an IP to continue their vendetta against Gill. Their IP was banned Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1141#Ban Evasion - Trolling IP, but it was always clear they had access to some other IPs, and as they are following me around, and this page has a connection with Gill, the sockpuppet's presence is expected.

This message on your talk page is the classic MO, therefore, of MeltingDistrict, who has an indefinite ban from Wikipedia. I am sure you don't wish to be manipulated by a sockpuppet. Request that you restore the wording we had revised in talk and that no registered user had raised an actual objection to. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:43, 5 December 2023 (UTC)