User talk:Melgomac
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Speedy deletion nomination of Adam Mintz[edit]
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August 2011[edit]
Hello Melgomac. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
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Your message at Requests for feedback[edit]
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Hello Melgomac. Replies have been posted to your message at Requests for feedback. Please acknowledge the feedback and ask for additional assistance if you need it. If you do not respond to the feedback, your message and the replies thereto will be archived in a few days. Thank you! Obsidi♠n Soul 11:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC) |
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Posting to my talk page as you have done is one way. You can also edit the subsection of your request and post a reply there (locate the section of your previous question and hit the [edit] button next to it). I actually prefer that you reply in my talk page though, as it ensures that I can read your replies. I don't check the Requests for Feedback page that often.
So anyway, if you need anymore help, just post on my talk page and I'll reply here.
And please remember also to sign your comments with four tildes. You can also do this automatically by clicking the signature button in the edit toolbar after your comment.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 13:17, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Referencing tutorial[edit]
| All information in Wikipedia articles should be verified by citations to reliable sources. Our preferred method of citation is using the "cite.php" form of inline citations, using the <ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references section after the text of the article. In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text and a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />. In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code </references> or, most commonly, the template, {{Reflist}} which can be modified to display the references in 2 or 3 columns using {{Reflist|2}} or {{Reflist|3}}. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article. | |
Two separate citations.<ref>Citation text.</ref><ref>Citation text2.</ref>
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Two separate citations.[1][2]
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Your recent edits[edit]
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ 04:15, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Christophorus Magazine[edit]
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A tag has been placed on Christophorus Magazine, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
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Jay Rabinowitz and the like[edit]
Greetings. Your recent edits came across my watchlist. Your contributions to Jay Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz Courthouse, unfortunately, created some issues.
- Rabinowitz Courthouse did not need to be created as a standalone article, especially since you failed to include any meaningful content in the article body which might demonstrate its need. Your response on Talk:Rabinowitz Courthouse referred entirely to Jay Rabinowitz, rather than to the courthouse. I applied a Merge to template to Jay Rabinowitz, since the entirety of the courthouse article can be accommodated just fine in the Rabinowitz article without creating undue weight.
- As for the Rabinowitz article itself, I counted three separate edits you contributed to the article body, plus seven external links, as having nothing to do with Jay Rabinowitz.
Usually, when I see this happening, it breaks down to one of two scenarios: an editor who looks at Wikipedia as being some sort of dumping ground for a genealogy project; or an editor who is really writing another article and is intent on filling every remotely related article with gratuitous references to same.
If you're promoting Seth Rabinowitz, that's fine. We'll see if it passes muster. However, what you're doing right now is turning an article about Jay Rabinowitz into an article about Seth Rabinowitz. It would only be due to apathy and/or lethargy that I'm the only one to point this out to you. It appears that you, in addition to everyone else out there, failed to notice that an article on Judy Rabinowitz has existed for over four years, floating alongside Jay's article as islands, with no effort made on anyone's part to establish relation between father and daughter.RadioKAOS (talk) 23:16, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
I pledge to you that I'm not promoting anyone nor do I have an agenda, nor is it a muse to create what you've referred to as a sort of genealogy project. Do you always assume good faith, per guidelines? That's just a yes or no question, I think.
Also, what is your point in stating the following: "It appears that you, in addition to everyone else out there, failed to notice that an article on Judy Rabinowitz has existed for over four years, floating alongside Jay's article as islands, with no effort made on anyone's part to establish relation between father and daughter" ? --Melgomac (talk) 02:46, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of John Pilla[edit]
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The article John Pilla has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Subject appears to be a non notable, deceased musician. Note that notability is not inherited.
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Nomination of John Pilla for deletion[edit]
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Pilla 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.
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The file File:Seth Asher Public.JPG has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Orphaned file, no foreseeable encyclopedic use
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Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
The article Schaeffer & Long has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
coi and advert for a company
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Nomination of David Halpert for deletion[edit]
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Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 01:26, 17 August 2022 (UTC)