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Ways to improve Grace Tallon

Hello, Shamshamster1234,

Thanks for creating Grace Tallon! I edit here too, under the username StudiesWorld and it's nice to meet you :-)

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Maud Mitchell

Hallo, I reverted two of your edits because as well as adding the cropped image you'd managed to lose all the copyediting I'd done (eg not using "th" in dates, and infobox goes at the top, etc). I then put your cropped image back into the page, so all looks fine now. Thanks. PamD 16:55, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Tadgh Quill for deletion

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June 2019

Hi. In relation to this and related edits/edit summaries:

• RE: "I deem them as reliable sources". The reliable sources guideline is what determines the reliability of sources. Not individual editors.
• RE: "you were looking for a bloody citation and I gave you one". The civility guidelines have been highlighted for you only very recently.
• RE: "and the links worked for me". The verifiability guidelines make it clear that other editors also need to be able to access the links. Other editors cannot access your private Facebook page/profile. A link that only works for you or your FB connections doesn't meet these guidelines. And, in any event, is irrelevant anyway. As Facebook posts are not reliable sources.

At this point I would recommend that you let the AfD discussion run its course. As you're just running yourself into a bit of a frenzy right now. And its worth just taking a breath for a minute. All the best. Guliolopez (talk) 13:35, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

You’re being unbelievably patronizing at the moment. The links are accessible to all. Also, guidelines are not rules, there’s a difference.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shamshamster1234 (talk • contribs)

I'm sure you mean well, but I would recommend that you read WP:BLUDGEON and consider how it applies to your deletion involvement. We want to help you improve this article and enter the Wikipedia community. Unfortunately, we have a lot of norms that one can only learn by reading policies or with experience. StudiesWorld (talk) 14:02, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

I am not forcing my point of view. Have I coerced anyone? No I haven't. Ye are not being very helpful to me, merely nonsensically critical.

I was just minding my own business before all this happened.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shamshamster1234 (talk • contribs)

Hi Shamshamster1234:

• RE: "You’re being unbelievably patronizing". I am trying not to be. Genuinely. But you're not making it easy TBH.
• RE: "The links are accessible to all". They are not. Log out of FB (or use incognito mode in your browser or whatever) and try accessing those links. It's academic anyway, as photos and FB posts are not reliable sources.
• RE: "guidelines are not rules". Wikipedia's policies (like WP:VER, WP:RS, WP:CIVIL and the others highlighted) are not optional. Wikipedia's policies are it's rules.

Anyway, per StudiesWorld and my own note above, if might be worth pausing for a bit. Have a quick look over the various links/etc. And perhaps coming back later. I'm gonna take a leaf from my own book and do the same for a bit. Cheers. Guliolopez (talk) 14:12, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing Wikipedia. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you.--VViking_TalkEdits 14:16, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

where the hell did my last comment go it has been some revert yoke has appeared

My response is as follows: WP:RS 'Wikipedia articles 'should' be based on reliable, published sources.' This is not the same as as saying that they are obliged to be based on 'reliable' (wikipedia's definition / objective view), published sources. WP:VER 'In Wikipedia, verifiability means that other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source.' Other people can check all information provided (under a particular set of circumstances. It never said all people had to be able to view it. If I'm browsing an article and lose network connection whilst reading, and a reference I click doesn't load, what happens there?

Oh I just noticed what that revert note was for. So when I revert a page with reason provided, I'm apparently 'edit warring', and when someone else does it, they're not? This section also gives me the opportunity to note the difference between a guideline and a rule. A guideline acts as a basis, a rule is something that is coerced. Note the use of the word 'rule' used in reference to 'edit-warring', which features the threat of a block. There's a difference.

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

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Hello Shamshamster1234. You've been warned per the result of the complaint. If you continue in the same way at Tadgh Quill, ignoring all advice, you are risking a block for disruptive editing. EdJohnston (talk) 14:24, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Photos

Hey. You uploaded various images to Commons as "own work" on the grounds that they were photographs you took... of other photographs, and of book covers. That's not what 'own work' means.

However, those photos can (mostly) be uploaded here. But you have to do it properly, or they'll get deleted again. For instance, you need to indicate their provenance.

Let me know if you need any help getting the hang of it. DS (talk) 15:05, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

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Multiple articles on Mitchell-Quill family members

Hello. Me again. I have no doubt that you are very proud of your family and ancestors. That's laudable. However, you really should take another look at the guidelines relating to refraining from creating articles about yourself and your family, and those relating to using Wikipedia as a memorial site or extension to Ancestry.com or similar. Thanks. Guliolopez (talk) 11:11, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I'd like to reiterate the above; Wikipedia is not a geneology site, and you need to stop using it like one. Your research into your family's history is laudable, but this is not the place to publish it; I would suggest you consider starting your own website or blog to document it instead. Yunshui ^雲_水 00:49, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Maud Mitchell for deletion

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Nomination of Herbert 'Sean' Mitchell for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Ruth Mitchell-Quill

The article Ruth Mitchell-Quill has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Delete as failing WP:ANYBIO. Or return to draft until notability is established/set-out in article. (Not every medical doctor or consultant or professor meets the notability criteria. As with other articles created by this editor on their immediate family members, WP:NOTGENEALOGY applies)

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Nomination of Ruth Mitchell-Quill for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Duncan Smith (Irish politician)

The article Duncan Smith (Irish politician) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable local politician. Local councillors in Ireland do not meet WP:NPOL. No indication WP:SIGCOV is met. The only non-trivial coverage is the very recent (and minimal) coverage of the subject's candidacy in a by-election. Standing in a by-election doesn't contribute to WP:NPOL. Being a candidate for national office is some distance from holding a national office.

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Proposed deletion of John Maher (Irish politician)

The article John Maher (Irish politician) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable local politician. Local councillors in Ireland do not meet WP:NPOL. No indication WP:SIGCOV is met. The only non-trivial coverage is the very recent (and minimal) coverage of the subject's candidacy in a by-election. Standing in a by-election doesn't contribute to WP:NPOL. Being a candidate for national office is some distance from holding a national office.

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Proposed deletion of George Lawlor

The article George Lawlor has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable local politician. Local councillors in Ireland do not meet WP:NPOL. No indication WP:SIGCOV is met. The only non-trivial coverage is the very recent (and minimal) coverage of the subject's candidacy in a by-election. Standing in a by-election doesn't contribute to WP:NPOL. Being a candidate for national office is some distance from holding a national office.

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Hello

Hello. Me again. A quick recap about what Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons are about. Or, more properly, what they are NOT about:

• Wikimedia Commons is not a personal repository for family photographs. Per COM:SCOPE, images must be realistically useful for an educational purpose. A picture of a family member's office door/sign may be of interest to you, but is unlikely to be of educational value more broadly.
• Wikimedia Commons is not a place to upload images which were just "grabbed from the internet" or "photos of photos" or "photos of books". Per COM:SCOPE, images must be freely licensed or public domain. Multiple scans/photographs of the pages of a family memoir may be of interest to you, but cannot be uploaded where that book is a copyrighted work.
• Wikipedia is not a place to create pages on family members, people who do not meet the GNG or NPOL guidelines or who otherwise fail WP:NBIO.

Multiple other contributors (to both the Wikimedia Commons and this Wikipedia project) have attempted to draw your attention to these policies. There is limited evidence that these attempts have been heeded in any way. While all new editors are afforded the presumption of good faith (and new editors are therefore afforded a significant amount of leeway to make mistakes and learn-by-doing), if the community spends more time cleaning up an editor's mistakes (and educating them about policies and guidelines) than is considered reasonable, then it may be that the goodwill/goodfaith has run out. Cheers. Guliolopez (talk) 23:12, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of George Lawlor for deletion

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Nomination of Duncan Smith (Irish politician) for deletion

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Nomination of John Maher (Irish politician) for deletion

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Block

Hi. Given that you have ignored DOZENS of warnings on the Wikimedia Commons project (from a half-dozen Commons contributors), I am going to advise you here. On the English language Wikipedia project. On the off chance that you pay any attention. You have exhausted ALL potential claims of good-faith or ignorance of the rules against uploading material under inappropriate, misleading or just downright misrepresented licences. I will be moving for a block on the Wikimedia Commons project shortly. Bye. Guliolopez (talk) 20:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

References

Where, exactly, in the Guys' Street Directory is there mention of a cow named "Fedora" which "amazed" its owner with "3,000 gallons for three lactations"? If it is not in the Guys' Street Directory then why, please, is that the "reference" offered to support the text in that section? Also, in what sense is ANY of that stuff in any way relevant to the subject? Guliolopez (talk) 19:25, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

It's not in the Guy's Street Directory. It's in 'Views and Interviews' from 1955. That cow is not said to have 'amazed' its owner but a trial on a property was said to have 'amazed' Quill with its results.

-Shamshamster1234 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shamshamster1234 (talk • contribs)

There are about 10 different issues here. Pretty much all of which stem (despite multiple attempts, by multiple editors over multiple months to advise of the WP:COI, WP:NOTGENEALOGY, and WP:NOTWEBHOST policies against it) from your continued use of Wikipedia/Wikimedia as a free webhost to republish family history content as if it were encyclopedic content. In the interests of keeping it simple, I will highlight the following:

1. WP:INTEGRITY confirms that the "point of an inline citation is to allow readers and other editors to check that the material is sourced; that point is lost if the citation is not clearly placed". The ONLY citation supporting that paragraph is a street directory entry. Which supports none of the text that you have added.
2. WP:COPYVIO applies to the newspaper articles that you have uploaded to Commons. In that you have claimed to have authored those 1950s newspaper snippets. When clearly that is not the case. They will be deleted in due course. Making verification yet more difficult for readers and other editors. (Already nigh-on impossible. As the pictures do not confirm what newspaper they were sourced from, etc).
3. WP:TOPIC expects that articles contain content which is relevant to the subject and of interest to the reader. Because you are close to the subject you perhaps do not recognise this, but (while your family may be interested to know how much a family member paid for a cow in the 1940s, and what they then chose to name that cow) it does not advance another reader's understanding of the "personal life" of a member of the 5th Dáil. It is entirely irrelevant.

I am pretty much done trying to help you now. Either here or on Wikimedia Commons. If you continue to insist on acting with such overt disinterest in the goals and policies of this project, then there is no helping you. Guliolopez (talk) 20:42, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

You're an incredibly arrogant individual. Relevance is subjective. The fact that you say that I fail to 'recognise' something due to the fact that I am a distant descendant of the subject is incredibly patronising. I was born 52 years after the subject died. I do not consider myself to be a close relation. I believe the information provided does advance the reader's knowledge of the subject's life. I began to contribute to Wikipedia with the understanding that it was a close knit community of people looking to add information to the website and that the goal of the community was to spread knowledge. - Shamshamster1234

Hi.

RE: "an incredibly arrogant individual". You are entitled to your opinion. Though we have clear guidelines on whether and how some opinions are to be expressed. Personally I have my own opinions on those seeking to use Wikipedia to promote their own goals. In a way that is contrary to the goals of the project. Especially when the content being added (and the manner in which it is added) is not in line with the community's inclusion criteria policies (or its copyright violation policies).

RE: "a close knit community of people". It is a close knit community of people. It is a close knit community of people precisely because we have all agreed a set of community guidelines (on what the project is about, how we engage with each other, how we work to protect copyrighted materials not belonging to us, and where the line is drawn between the goals of the community and the [potentially conflicting] goals of some unaligned contributors). Frankly, the community has limited time for those who are not aligned with its shared goals and mores. (Put frankly, it is not possible to be a member of the community while simultaneously sticking two-fingers up to the community's policies with every second edit and upload.)

RE: "the goal of the community was to spread knowledge". As has been pointed out to you (by me and a half-dozen others), Wikipedia is NOT the place for any and all information. It is not, for example, intended to be a free webhost for family history essays, for stuff better suited to Ancestry.com, or an indiscriminate collection of any/all "knowledge".

If it is "arrogant" to resort to frank language to try and get a point across to someone who is not listening, then perhaps I have strayed into that definition of "arrogance". But I will not apologise for that -- when faced with repeated and ongoing behaviour which is so blatantly misaligned with the community's policies and mores. Guliolopez (talk) 23:40, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Ferney House

The article Ferney House has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable building which fails WP:NBUILDING and WP:GNG. While some listed or protected structures may be considered notable, this building was not a listed building when it was demolished. The limited coverage of its existence relate to NUIG's "landed estates" database. Which lists thousands and thousands of often small homes all across Ireland. The limited content that was here (copvio lifted I might add from the NUIG database entry) related to the people who occupied the house. And not the house itself. The other links/refs/etc support that the house existed. Not that it meets the notability criteria.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Shamshamster1234, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Ferney House have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Nomination of Ferney House for deletion

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Blocked for sockpuppetry

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shamshamster1234. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

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