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Sheldon Chumir article

Thanks for your advice Orange Mike. I tried to nutrealize the article as you suggested. I agree, it was a bit flowerly. This was caused by probably two things. 1)Sheldon Chumir died in early 90's, as such most of his material are point form fragments that people he has worked with remember fondly. (a better source would be the data of his work with the 10 years he was an MLA), 2) He died with lol internet coverage, or no internet coverage. In this day and age of hash tags and tweets politicians can post. Chumir's work was lost to the sands of post internet politics (meaning. I'm going to have to march down to the Glenbow museum and manually scan these and file them over to the UofC, or something). I could barely find anything on him despite his work. I datamine this information and write descriptively with facts as per the scientific method, and let the reader make up his own mind. This was probably the reason why the orginal author of the article wrote a very non-descriptive article, because he had very little facts (only 3 sources), to go with. (because that's all that exists again... until we dive into that mountain of paperwork. The archieves were only since released in 2003. so this is the problem. Most news articles from wayyyy back machine don't exist anymore, and this is a sad fact of archaeology we lose our artifacts and data to the sands of time. Dust in the wind :_C Tears in the rain... As well, Calgary at the time was a small cities, he lived a remarkable life, but it was short. Thus he gets no grand memorial like say Martin Luthur King a fellow civil rights fighter.

So please understand we're trying to do the best we can with what little we have. (again until someone is brave enough to look the data up). But this man was remarkable, as was ANYONE who advocated to make the world a better place. He spoke about AIDs, when it was emerging, he spoke for the homeless, founded the civil liberties, and his foundation provides free care for the mentally ill. He was very active for ALL human rights. Certainly as the archives open up then we can scientifically express how significant he was. But thanks for your and future editors patience with this and other Canadian politican's pages.

Anyhow, can you please take a look at the page and let me know what you think now. Again it's under construction.... more data will flow in, as I make a more detailed search, and eventually soon the neutrality will be neutralized.... Thanks in advance. Sammycat

Help desk

Bearing in mind good faith, I'm not sure your characterization of "Notable people from Austria include Adolf Hitler; notable people from Wisconsin include Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein and Scott Walker; notable people from Cambodia include Pol Pot." was appropriate. Especially when you take into account the question posed, and the fact that all but one of those people are serial killers, mass murderers, or other persons of that type. I personally think it's on the verge of straying afoul of WP:BLP policy. If these were completely random, my apologies, likewise if they were from a random list I couldn't find. Thanks ~Charmlet 21:27, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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He didn't say he was a WP admin--he just said he was an admin of the Scholarship Program, which is a frank admission of COI. If you want to edit what you said on my talk p, just do so. DGG ( talk ) 22:22, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Look more closely: he explicitly said, "I am an administrator of "Schulich Leader Scholarships" and a 'newbie' Misplaced Pages page administrator" (emphasis added). I think he has us confused with the various social media, where you control what is said about you. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:34, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

you're right, he said that--but I'm not sure he intended it in the sense you use, meaning rather that he is the administrator in the program responsible for getting them a WP page. At worst, he's confused the roles of author /editor and administrator. Since we call contributors "editors" not "authors" , which is a highly unusual way to use the word "editor", it is not unprecedented that he expects someone called an editor to be in charge of the material. That would be the case almost everywhere else in the world. we perhaps have ourselves at least partially to blame for using our own version of English. I try to avoid the word "editor" in talking to a newbie. DGG ( talk ) 00:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Mayhap. I deal with a stunning number of noobs who think they can control the article, image and/or presentation of their organization, company, musician, lover, client, whatever; so maybe I'm more sensitive to the possibility that we're facing that delusion again. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Reinstate Misplaced Pages Page

I would like to have the Misplaced Pages page titled Richard R. Pieper reinstated, so I can provide the proper references and citations.

--Suearmbruster (talk) 02:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Not done and will not be done The article was not deleted for lack of references and citations, but rather because the subject does not meet our standards of notability for an encyclopedia article. Additionally, it was written in a fulsome and smarmy manner that failed our requirements of neutrality and our prohibition on promotional editing. Bluntly, it read as if it were written by a press agent, or perhaps a doting mother with a business background. It was full of petty awards and trivial achievements, with nothing of substance to tell us that this person was ever actually notable in any way on a planet of six billion people (many of them good people who will never merit encyclopedia articls about them). --Orange Mike | Talk 14:14, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) More like 7 billion, jsyn. — Confession0791 22:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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(talk page stalker)] left a message in error to your user page by User:2601:9:5B00:2EF:E9EB:F141:67EC:7EC3. Just relaying the message to you 8) Hell In A Bucket (talk) 06:30, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

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Requesting More Help on Article

I created the article Criss Jami and want input from another experienced user on what the article needs. User Tedickey https://en.wikipedia.org/User:Tedickey seems to bully my edits. First he added (arguably) necessary tags, but when I tried to fix the article according to those tags he restored those and added more which I can verify are false. The article needs a 3rd opinion. If it's that poor of an article then I do request deletion. Ahnold T (talk) 18:38, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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Need your help on Churches of Christ

Mike,

If you have time, there are some big edit recently done to the churches of Christ page taking out references to Restoration movement, which I think is defining for churches of Christ. What are your thoughts?

Flofor15 (talk) 21:28, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

help on deleted page "B-Open"

Hi Orangemike, i hope you are ok, yesterday i posted my first wikipedia page related to the company i work. my purpose is not to promote my company, rather to promote the greek software market (as you know, we are in middle of a crisis in the country and we really try hard to become more extrovert and competitive and to meet global standards). could you please assist me on selecting a better approach on the article, so it will not violate wikipedia's guidelines? would it be a solution if i add a sentence for competitors in the greek market? many thanks in advance for your time on this, kind regards, Dimitrios

istoidea (talk) 09:44, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

The problem is that you are the worst possible person to write about your own company (with the obvious exception of a marketing/PR person, with that trade's toxic aversion to dispassionate and impartial description). Additionally, in addition to the natural bias in favor of your own company, you admit yourself that you wish "to promote the greek software market"; and promotion of anything is contrary to what we are trying to do here. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:50, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately in this capitalistic world, the meaning of beautiful words, such as "promotion", has been confined and deprived. I firmly believe wikipedia is a major mean for promotion; promotion of knowledge that is. Terribly sorry for the trouble created, i will try to write a different article, hopefully, more aligned to wikipedia standards. --Istoidea (talk) 08:15, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Jerry Dale Ruff

Why did you move User:Sruff to Jerry Dale Ruff? It doesn't look anywhere near like it's ready to be an article (and it can't be BLPPROD'd because it's too old) Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:48, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

It seemed like the fastest way of dealing with a blatant COI WP:FAKEARTICLE that was an obvious speedy. --Orange Mike | Talk 04:24, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

I think you went too far

This is going way too far. Compare him to a thief, sure. A fraudster, fine. But a rapist? There is a huge difference between what Versability did and what you compared it to. Not analogous at all! The worst Versability has done is annoy people. Howicus (talk) 15:32, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

I said it was an analogy. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:34, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

At your request, I've changed the word from "rapist" to "robber". He's stolen our good name, and issued an invitation to imitate him in vandalizing and degrading Misplaced Pages. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:45, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, that's much better. I appreciate your understanding. Howicus (talk) 02:31, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Member being harassed

Hi Mike, I hope to find you well. We have never gotten an opportunity to meet, and I am sure we would be able to speak under great terms. I write because you made an interesting comment that I would like to discuss with you, and shed a few things to light. You said that I should only comment on content and not on contributors. To let you know, I am a very peaceful person, and I am only interested in exploration of knowledge. However, there is an individual that is stalking and harassing me for the past few days. This person is following me on Misplaced Pages everywhere I go like a fanboy, commenting on everything I do, reverting any contributions I make, and simply being disruptive. I wasn't trying to be out of line with the forum, as I am very amicable. But I think, you or anyone would be equally disturbed that there is an individual who is seeking to undermined all you do with conviction, and respond to things that you have not asked this person for. I have repeatedly told this individual to stay away from me and that I don't request his communication. Still, the person persists. This is out of line. This very person was the one who was also at Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions, hence my response. I know you are filled with things to do, but I would appreciate that you can assist me with this matter. I don't care for insignificant online debates that have no real life bearing on things that really matter. However, this person is obstructing me from making any contributions and creating an unfriendly environment which goes against the site. I bet that he will even come here to comment, because he is obsessed with my history log. If he doesn't then, he read my last statement. Either way it doesn't matter. I hope you can help in a constructive manner and have this person simply stay away from me. Thank you, and peace NYCWikiKid (talk) 15:50, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You should probably report this to WP:ANI.--ukexpat (talk) 16:04, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

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(artist) dab

Your comment on misuse for DJs of the (artist) dab reminded me to do something about the worst of those as well, per WP:MOVE and WP:CRITERIA. e.g. to Emancipator (musician). Revertable of course if anyone seriously cares. Best regards. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:24, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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