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Welcome

Hi Yfever, I saw your new article, Cameron Lindsay, and yes, you are doing it right. You didn't get everything right (there are so many things to get right, it would be utterly impossible to get everything right). I did some scaffolding around the article, but it would be great if you could find some references for it, everything on Misplaced Pages should be verifiable. We currently have a policy that all biographies on living people should contain at least one, and though I'm sure there are some to be found, I still tagged the article, identifying it as a biography currently without sources. One you put at least one reference to the article, just remove that tag. You can find some information on how to format and place references at WP:CITE, but don't swear it. It's far more important that you find the sources and get them into the article than to format them properly. I hope you like Misplaced Pages, and stick around! best, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Yfever (talk) 04:52, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

NZ profiles

Hi; rather than delete NZ football profiles from pages that still refer to the old nzsoccer site as you did to the Glen Moss article, could you instead find their current one at the new NZFootball site here. Thanks. Also, Cameron Lindsey is borderline for notability under subject specific notability guidelines as he has not actually played for Phoenix yet. I have tagged for now, but unless he plays in the next few weeks he is likely to be nominated for deletion. It wouldn't hurt to set about finding sources to back up notability. ps, I have added a welcome template up top which gives a few quick links you may want to get to as a relative newcomer. Cheers --ClubOranje 06:34, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! All advice much appreciated. Isn't Cameron an official member of the squad? I just assumed that anyone who made the squad qualified for a page, since everyone else, I think, has one. Yfever (talk) 09:07, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Yep, he is an official member of the squad, but hasn't played yet, which is why I pointed you at Misplaced Pages:NFOOTBALL#Association_football, which is the result of consensus after multiple discussions at WT:NSPORTS and WT:FOOTBALL. (search the archives if you are particularly interested in the discussions). WP:FOOTBALL is a wikiproject which you may like to join if interested in football; it is a good place to get help on football related subjects. BTW, I responded to your other query at my talk page. --ClubOranje 08:11, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

merge discussion

I started a merge discussion for an article you created, see Talk:James_R._Flynn#merge_Race.2C_IQ_and_Jensen_here. --Enric Naval (talk) 11:12, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

AfD/Merges, R/I arbitration, discretionary sanctions

Based on your responses in the merge/AfD discussions, it appears that you may not be aware that this topic area has been a morass for quite some time, and went to arbitration last year. This topic area has been plagued by single purpose editors coming here to present their agenda. If you're unaware of this, I suggest you review WP:ARBR&I. Of particular note is the fact that these article are subject to higher scrutiny, and discretionary sanctions can be applied for editing behavior which might go unnoticed in less controversial subject areas. This section discusses the discretionary sanctions which apply to this topic area. aprock (talk) 20:50, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Wow! That is a lot of stuff! Thanks for pointing it out, I think. ;-) Yfever (talk) 02:30, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Added an extra note for you

FT2  21:02, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement

I have filed an enforcement request against you here Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Yfever asking that a notification of the arbitration decisions and sanctions imposed on editors in these involved articles is given to you by an administrator. Professor marginalia (talk) 06:01, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Deletion review for How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?

An editor has asked for a deletion review of How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. aprock (talk) 23:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I will definately participate. Yfever (talk) 11:18, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Accounts

This is not your first account. What is your earlier account? Hipocrite (talk) 13:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I have used Misplaced Pages for many years but never registered before. Does just using create an "account"? If so, I don't know how I would identify mine. Is there some tool for doing so? Yfever (talk) 11:15, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Race & Intelligence Arbitration Enforcement

The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose discretionary sanctions (information on which is at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions) on any editor who is active on pages broadly related to Race and intelligence. Discretionary sanctions can be used against an editor who repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Misplaced Pages, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in further inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions, which can include blocks, a revert limitation, or an article ban. The Committee's full decision can be read in the Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence#Final decision section of the decision page. Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page.

--WGFinley (talk) 18:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I think. I like to think that I am behaving correctly. Have I done anything wrong? Please let me know. Yfever (talk) 11:17, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

When a case is closed on AE you can't continue to comment on it (as it states), I've removed your additional comments. No, you are not being sanctioned at this time, if you continue tendentious editing as listed in the report, you could be. Read the decision, read how editors in this topic area need to behave and use that information going forward. Violating it could lead to sanctions in the form of bans from the topic or blocks from editing. --WGFinley (talk) 15:05, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Page number check

I've requested the page number be provided for the citation you added here. I tried to find it myself first but couldn't. Thanks. Professor marginalia (talk) 21:20, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Notification

I see nobody's notified you that you're being discussed in an arbitration amendment. It's common courtesy to notify editors about this, so I'm notifying you now. The amendment thread is here if you want to defend yourself from the accusations there. -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 01:43, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Cameron Lindsay for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cameron Lindsay is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Cameron Lindsay 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 template from the top of the article. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability 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 template from the top of the article. aprock (talk) 18:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Mark Arsten (talk) 16:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

The thirty years paper

Hello Yfever. I noticed a few weeks ago there was an article about Jensen and Rushton's thirty years paper written by you, and I see it's deleted now. I think I understand why it was deleted: Misplaced Pages usually covers academic papers only if they're very famous, and this one must not quite qualify.

I wanted to make a suggestion, that you can take or leave as you choose. Even though the thirty years paper didn't merit its own article, I think there are other works by Arthur Jensen that probably deserve articles but don't have them. Jensen's book Bias in Mental Testing has almost 2,000 citations in Google scholar, but there seems to be no article about it here.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=835677067402023693&as_sdt=5,33&sciodt=0,33&hl=en

Jensen's book The g Factor does have its own article, but it's only one sentence long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/The_g_Factor:_The_Science_of_Mental_Ability_(book)

If you are interested in writing articles about Jensen's papers or books, I think it could benefit the encyclopedia if you were to write/expand either of these articles. I could help with it, after I figure out how to use the tools here.