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Can you please explain what you meant by this edit summary:

Revert to earlier version; look in the contributor's notes; the author himself seems to approve of this so-called "auto-biographical" version

Obviously someone would approve of their autobiography since...well...they wrote it. Please take a look at WP:AUTO to see why I had reverted it to the previous state. Writing about one's self in the manner that was done in that article is highly frowned upon on Wikipedia. Metros232 14:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I noticed you added a stub tag to both these articles. Tagging an article as a stub means that the article is very short, but both of these articles are long enough to not qualify as stubs. I have removed the tags. VegaDark 19:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pleasure :) Glen 16:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you there! Anytime, just say the word :) Keep up the great work! Glen 02:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, first of all I apologise for the unsolicited nature of this message, but I noticed your name as a contributor to the above article. I was doing a bout of New Page patrolling today when I came across an interview article at William Styron - interview. At first, the copyright alarm bells were ringing (as they had been all day, to be honest), but after the author of the article asserted that he owns the copyright to the original article (being the interviewer himself), the next problem is whether this has any encyclopaedic worth to the Wikipedia project. Seeing as I know nothing of the subject, I assured the author of the article that I would try to gather some opinion on the matter. If you have any comment, could I ask you to leave it at the article talk page, please? I am still making enquiries as to the validity of the copyright claim and it may be that the article ends up on Articles for Deletion. However, I feel obliged to at least try first! Thank you for your time. Bubba hotep 19:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for the input on this. I don't take speedy deletion tasks lightly and I knew this might have a place somewhere, as the author's enthusiasm would indicate. Credit where it is due, it was my "fountain of knowledge" Alf who lead me in the right direction (again). I will be sure to let you know what happens. Cheers. Bubba hotep 22:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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No, this was a legitimate offering of "good" links. I'm not trying to add spam. I'll have to read up on this to see why this may have detected spam.???? Christian Roess 15:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bot probably latched onto "Abu Ghraib" or maybe "Smurf" as a reason for flagging it. Just a thought. GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:46, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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(and all the others of course) for your article on Donald Allen's anthology. For some mad reson I have begun recently to map (de:User:Radh/US Lyrik in Westdeutschland) the German reception of US-American poetry (all kinds of poetry, but basically after 1930 only) in post-45 Germany up to 1978. At the moment I mostly have to rely on internet sources and your work really helpes.--Radh (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I replied to your question. Psychiatrick (talk) 15:08, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The saga continues... as mysterious as ever. —Zujine|talk 00:21, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your comments on the WP:BLPN. Note that ANYONE can undo a change to a redirect, just like ANYONE can WP:DEPROD an article - you don't need any approval to do so. Ideally, in a friendly collaborative world, you shouldn't do either, especially to a BLP, without ensuring that the resulting article ends up satisfying all the requirements of WP:BLP, and explaining why you are doing so. WP:PRODs can only ever be applied once, so if anyone in the future wants to delete it, then they have to go to WP:AFD. Of course, they could always switch it to a WP:REDIRECT again, but that is unlikely to occur if you can show that this persons notability isn't solely associated with one band - ie they have solo releases or have been in another band. See the note in the WP:MUSICBIO guideline.

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Deletionist User:Bobrayner has deleted the entire contents of Death of the Liberal Class, replacing it with a redirect to the book author's (Chris Hedges) Wikipedia page. I reverted his changes. Based on the deletionist's edit history, I suspect the deletion of being an apparent partisan edit by that user from a conservative bias similar to other previous deletions for other articles. As I noted in my edit summary, this suppression of disagreed-with "liberal" content ironically seems to be an example of the book's main point. He then deleted the article's contents again and I reverted it again. I asked that the deletion of the page's content be discussed before he deletes it again. Looking at that user's edit history, he/she seems to be good at making up short edit summaries citing Wikipedia guidelines to justify what seem to be biased partisan deletes to suppress content -- including labeling changes by me as "sock" when they are not (that being an undeserved slur perhaps intended for you as the main author of that article). I suggest you discuss the deletion of the article's contents with him/her on the article's talk page as that user may well delete the contents again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.29.90.187 (talk) 12:29, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your work in getting the Sidibé's biography to a good standard for ITN. Stephen 05:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm very sorry if I'm mistaken, but I think it was you who removed two perfectly good WP:RS (with the information they conveyed) from the Papa Wemba article - presumably because they were both in French. If so, please note that non-English sources are perfectly acceptable (and kind of inevitable in the case of Wemba)...—Brigade Piron (talk) 15:25, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know Brigade Piron. I agree with you. I'll check back through my edits to see if I can restore those two removed sources. What I was trying to do was get this article in shape so that it can be featured on the main page under Recent Deaths (RD).. But I certainly don't want to take the soul out of the article. Christian Roess (talk) 01:19, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Good luck with the article. —Brigade Piron (talk) 21:50, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you Stephen, the recognition is much appreciated, for this and for the Malick Sidibé article recognition you offered above. Cheers. Christian Roess (talk) 10:18, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks again Stephen, and good work keeping an eye on things over at ITN. Christian Roess (talk) 12:03, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for fixing my nomination for in the news... First time i've nominated something. I was bound to mess it up somehow! --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:55, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

you're welcome Zackmann08, happy to be of help. Christian Roess (talk) 18:52, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Very late for in the news. Sadly, references are hard to find online. I tried checking Google News but got zero results. Some English coverage on the websites of newspapers Manila Bulletin, The Philippine Star and Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Tagalog ones in tabloids like Tempo, Bandera, Journal. Most links have rot though, you'd have to check Google's cached copy. Plus, there's entertainment, if not gossip, news on the ABS-CBN, pep and Rappler sites but needs careful checking since some of the writers are using Wikipedia as a reference. Carl Francis (talk) 08:02, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

thank you kindly Carl Francis, for responding and jumping right in to the editing. You've been doing a lot of hard work getting this cited and referenced. Terrific! I hope we can get it "in the news". Christian Roess (talk) 18:07, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice work on the article! You beat me to the punch, I was planning on creating it this week.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 21:23, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Have a ref for that quote? :-) The old material was sourced from [2]. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 14:38, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

yes, just added it from The Guardian's 2003 review of the Collected Poems. Christian Roess (talk) 14:42, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perf, thanks so much! Just posted to RD. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 14:59, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

thanks Ed!Christian Roess (talk) 15:00, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for 4 3 2 1 (novel) article. Did you know you can use WP:FILEUPLOADWIZARD to add covers? It is okay to use jpgs from the web, no need to take a photo of the book. Cheers In ictu oculi (talk) 20:21, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

poetry and other art

Thank you for quality articles such as Hans-Ulrich Obrist bibliography, Irving Petlin and Michael Heller (poet), for contributing to ITN, for templates and article project tags, for L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E pictured, and a poetic way to begin a new year, - Christian, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1759 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:19, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The article Oliver Feltham has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Hi Christian Roess! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Graywalls (talk) 19:06, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I’ll follow your lead on this!Christian Roess (talk) 20:39, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Six years!

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Hi Christian Roess! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Michael_Palmer_(poet) that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. BBQboffin^{grill me} 06:44, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thank you. That makes sense. Christian Roess (talk) 06:50, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Christian Roess. Please take a look at the discussion at c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright#US Library of Congress YT channel because it directly concerns File:JoyWilliamsLOC2021.jpeg that you uploaded locally to English Wikipedia in December 2023 as non-free to use in the article Joy Williams (American writer). In principle, (English) Wikipedia's non-free content use policy doesn't allow non-free images of still living persons to be uploaded because such a thing is considered to be a violation of non-free content use criterion #1 as explained in WP:FREER and in item # 1 of WP:NFC#UUI; so, this file is eligible for speedy deletion per speedy deletion criterion F7. However, based upon the source you provided for the screenshot, there is a very good chance that it might actually be a public domain (PD) image if it's an original work created by an employee of the US government as part of their official duties. For reference, I had actually tagged the file for speedy deletion, but then self-reverted after further looking at the source. Since the file belongs on Wikimedia Commons if it's really PD, I asked about it there. You're invited to participate in the discussion at Commons and offer any insight or clarification you feel is needed; you can also probably uploaded a much high resolution of the screen to Commons under the license discussed in that discussion. You may even use the same file name if you want. If the screenshot is truly PD, there's no need for a local version of the image to be hosted by Wikipedia when a much better higher quality version can be hosted on Commons; so, the local file will you uploaded eventually be deleted. If the screenshot isn't considered to be PD, there's no justification for the non-free use of this file's nor any other non-free image of Williams per relevant Wikipedia policy, which means the local file will (perhaps in a few days) be deleted. My suggestion to you is to tag the local file you uploaded for speedy deletion per speedy deletion G7 and then upload a better version of the file to Commons under the license c:Template:PD-USGov-LOC-created. If you use the same file name for the new Commons file you upload, the system will automatically use it to replace the local non-free file after it's deleted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:31, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback on this. I’ll see what I can do. Hopefully soon, but I’m up to my eyeballs on some work-related projects I am trying to take care of first that are due by Friday noon. Gotta pay the bills! Christian Roess (talk) 19:50, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]