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Thanks for bringing the alteration of the User:UBX/onemanonewoman to my attention. A pornographic image was substituted for the previous two images
The userbox User:UBX/onemanonewoman was altered by User:Waraji, a new user ID created at 14:35, 7 November 2008, only a few hours before the userbox was altered at 21:27, 7 November 2008, perhaps for the specific purpose of hiding the identity of the individual. The userbox was altered by Waraji to substitute the previous non-sexual image with a pornographic image illustrating intercourse. Given that the purpose of the userbox is about marriage, and not sex, this was likely the action of someone not satisfied with the outcome of Proposition 8 in California. I removed the porn and reverted it to the male/female symbols. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 19:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Given that I was the one who reverted Waraji's changes to the user box mentioned, I checked the article history, and see NO reverts let alone any edits by you, MrBell. What interests me about Waraji's message here is that it's an extremely knowledgeable message for an individual who appears to have registered on Wikipedia only four days ago. The statement about engaging in an edit war is entirely inaccurate and the threats about blocking you strike me as intimidation. If this behavior continues, it would be appropriate to bring this to the attention of Wikipedia editors, as it strikes me as a personal attack. In any case, I suggest you not only ignore it but perhaps delete it. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 02:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
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Just for future references, editing a talk page is against the rules of Wikipedia, and my talk page rules. Even if the talk page has grammatical errors that I or someone else overlooked, you are not allowed to edit them. I honestly don't care, but some people would. Uchiha23 23:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
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In response to your concern,[1] the reason for the removal of POV content[2] is well documented in Wikipedia policy. From Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought:
Therefore, the "Discussion of chauvinistic nature of userbox" can therefore be removed because such discussions are "particular feelings," do not contribute to the improvement of the Wikipedia page, and can be considered disruptive.
Additionally, your edit history[3] and familiarity with Wikipedia guidelines suggest that you have considerable experience with Wikipedia but through another account. Please, refrain. MrBell (talk) 23:20, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Please do not remove information from articles, as you did to User talk:UBX/onemanonewoman. Wikipedia is not censored, and content is not removed even if some believe it to be contentious. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page to reach consensus rather than continuing to remove the disputed material. You also have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide the images that you may find offensive. Thank you.
Civility Award | ||
I hereby award you the Civility Award for holding your temper and tongue—well, fingers—despite deliberate, provocative actions by others, and digging in and doing the research to identify the policies supporting your civil responses. (And since I know you don't drink coffee, you'll have to imagine it's hot cocoa.) -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 17:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC) |
I have placed the changes I suggest on the talk page under the "Lead" discussion.--Amadscientist (talk) 06:03, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Don't drop in for a day or two and look what happens: the userbox that we both used was speedily deleted as being "discriminatory." How about that? -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 02:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello MrBell! You have done some remarkable work on the Wildfire article over the past few weeks! To answer your first question - The Bristol architecture FA was promoted to FA status in October 2007. Standards for FAs (and across the board for other articles) have been getting more and more stringent when it comes to in-line references. There is a good chance that if the Bristol architecture went through the FAC process today, the lack of referencing in those few paragraphs that you mentioned would be challenged. However, the article is still a very good article, and is not lacking enough to be taken through the Featured Article Review (FAR) process. Hope this makes sense... To answer your second question - you could take it through a Peer Review again if you wished. However, a more common route would be to nominate it for Good Article status. You can find more information at WP:GAN, where you will find the criteria for a good article and instructions for how to nominate it. After GA, if you wish, you can nominate the article for Featured Article status, at the WP:FAC page. If you really want to, you can nominate the article for FAC right off the bat, but I wouldn't really suggest it - GAN can give you some good feedback, and, personally, FAC is something I like to work up to with an article - it can be a bit of a bear to go through at times :) It does, however, give you (or me at least) a very good feeling when you have an article promoted to GA or FA status. If you want to get some more feedback on improving the article before you take it to GAN or FAC, I would suggest posting on the talk pages of the involved Wikiprojects (the ones who have banners listed on the talk page). You may not get much of a response, but the more comments the better, really.
One further comment that I have would be that the article could still use more a globalized feel. Although there are a few examples from other areas of the world, there is still a very anglo-centric feel to the article. For example, I have heard in the past that China (and other areas of East Asia) have huge, and deadly, wildfires. I'm not saying that you need to make a list of every country in the world that has wildfires, but more information on how non-anglo countries work with wildfire (especially in the prevention and supression sections) would probably be helpful. You may still be working on the globalization part, in which case just ignore this comment :)
I hope this all is helpful. Please feel free to let me know if you have any further questions. Dana boomer (talk) 00:28, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi MrBell. In the discussion on the Rick Warren article, editors have been having a hard time reaching consensus on how to refer to Prop 8. Some prefer to include the point that it restricts marriage to opposite-sex couples AND the point that it eliminates the right to marry for same-sex couples; others prefer to include thhe first point but exclude the second. To facilitate consensus I wrote a framework of seven points on which the editors appear to agree, and three points on which the editors appear to disagree. Today I checked the Prop 8 article to see how editors handled the matter there, and I see that the lead includes both points. As one of the editors who worked on that article, you may be able to help us figure out whether or not to include both points. Would you please contribute to that discussion? Thanks! Benccc (talk) 20:37, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar | ||
For selflessly taking months to add numerous citations to an article lacking in inline citations, wildfire. Congratulations! Thegreatdr (talk) 22:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC) |
Hi,
I usually edit Wikipedia anonymously, but right now I'd like to update a picture and I can't, because I haven't modified 10 articles with my account yet. Even if I had the required 10 edits, I'm not sure I have the skills to do it.
The article is Pentazocine (a drug also known as Talwin) and I have drawn a new picture for it, in .svg format. I double-checked with my books and I'm sure there is no mistake in it.
I believe the current picture is very average at best and we would definitively benefit from a new one. Can you give me an email so I can send you the picture and you can upload it ?
If you wonder, I'm sending you a message because you edited the page not so long ago.
Thanks.
Olivier Besner Morin (talk) 21:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC) Olivier
Hi MrBell, I'm currently doing the GA review on Wildfire, it's my 76th review since last September, I've passed 65, failed nine and two (including this one) are ongoing. There is obviously a lot of good work that has gone into the article; and it will pass GA by the end of the review, as you have all the references and citations, etc; but in my opinion there is a bit more work to do on the prose first. The Ecology, Prevention, Detection, Modelling and Suppression sections are OK. The WP:lead is a bit short, but that can be fixed fairly readily. It's the Characteristics section that worries me at the moment - I don't think that it is working.
My proposal is that the start of Characteristics be beefed up. I would start this with:
"Wildfires start when an ignition source meets a combustible material (e.g. trees, shrub, peat, etc), subjected to sufficient heat, with an adequate supply of oxygen (see Fire triangle). However, even before the flames arrive, heat from the wildfire, known as a "front", can dry and pre-heat flammable material due to temperatures nearing 800 °C (1,470 °F).[11][12] Causing flash over. Then summarise some of the characteristics of wildfires (possibly) giving one of two examples; followed by your existing paragraph - "Wildfire behavior is often complex and variably dependent on factors such as fuel type, moisture content in the fuel, humidity, windspeed, topology,[7] geographic location, and ambient temperature.[8] While growth and behavior are unique to each fire due to many complex variables, the basic characteristics can be described as follows:[9][10]"
Is this going to be acceptable to you? Pyrotec (talk) 21:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments & questions. I will reply to some of them here and others on Talk:Wildfire/GA1.
Pyrotec (talk) 18:14, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
MrBell - congrats on the GA for Wildfire! Very nice work! I had it watchlisted in case anything odd popped up with the review, but it looks like you got it through easily. Nice to see an important article getting some TLC... Dana boomer (talk) 00:24, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Just so you know, you add people to a category such as Category:American conservationists by typing [[Category:American conservationists]] on the article, not [[Category:American people by occupation|Conservationists]] or [[:Category:Conservationists|American]]. Bearcat (talk) 16:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Care to take a look at tell me what you think of my changes to this? This box could grow very very large very very easily. For example even the personnel list is non-exhaustive with other firefighters and management. I also would like to keep the template different as much as possible from the general firefighting template though there has to be some overlap. Beantwo (talk) 18:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm concerned that removing a large section from the Yellowstone fires of 1988 article may impact it's standing as a featured article, so I oppose the merge, but have no problem with using material I assembled while writing the article over to the History of wildfire suppression article but believe that the second article should be reworded in the copied section I see there. I also agree with the tag at the History of wildfire suppression article that it fails to provide a world view...so that needs adjusting or that article needs to be retitled to History of U.S. wildfire suppression.--MONGO 07:21, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, you have been one of a number of regular editors at the above article. I was its Good Article reviewer a few months back. In response to a recent proposal to split the article, I suggested it be edited down to a more manageable size and better readability rather than focussing on the split. I suggested the article was not particularly readable in its current form, and suffered from recentism amongst other things. I have just undertaken an edit attempting to implement my suggestion, in the hope that others might have a look and decide it is now in better shape. I hope you will agree. I am happy to discuss on the talk page obviously. hamiltonstone (talk) 12:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
...((subst:uw-npov1)) on User:brucejenner's page, instead of the vandalism tag, as it was POV-pushing rather then graffiti.----occono (talk) 17:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that you are affiliated with California State Polytechnic, Pomona. Are you aware that the university's article is a nominee for WikiProject Universities' Collaboration of the Month? If you'd like to see a concentrated effort on improving the article, head over to the COTM page and cast your vote. -Mabeenot (talk) 23:59, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi MrBell, Thanks for your note. Yes I'm happy to work on it. I've just got two GANs and two GARs to finish before I spend any serious time on it. Do you have a master plan, yet, for the article? Pyrotec (talk) 16:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey mate, haven't heard from you on the Wildfire prose review in a while. Are you just taking a break or are you done for good? --Cryptic C62 · Talk 14:03, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. My English is not good. I need your help with this article. There's a problem with the motto of this University. Its motto in Spanish is La Técnica al Servicio de la Patria and I want to translate it in English. The motto has changed many times, some of them are The Technique to the Service of the Fatherland, Technique at the Fatherland's Service, Technology at the Service of the Motherland, Knowledge for the Service of Country. I think that the most suitable is the first one but I need your opinion because you are a native speaker of English , aren't you? . Could you help me please? Thanks.--Aaha (talk) 21:36, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
You have a userbox that states that you believe that evolution does not have to conflict with christianity. Can you explain why you believe that? Legolover26 (talk) 20:18, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
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