User talk:Orangemike

Nomination of Crescent English School for deletion

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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

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User:CambodiaCSC

Hi Mike - just a courtesy note to let you know I've unblocked this user to allow a change of username. All the best, Yunshui 雲‍水 08:30, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Unblock request of SLEPhoto

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ANI Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. You may wish to respond here David in DC (talk) 21:28, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Just out of curiosity

(and because I had to turn a request down that you sorted out instead) - "see OTRS ticket #2013120610010869". How? I don't think I've ever seen an OTRS ticket. Peridon (talk) 21:29, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

You have to be one of those who are authorized to read OTRS messages. The request came from somebody who was. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:34, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Ah. I did wonder... He must have thought I could read it. And I was right that I couldn't. Peridon (talk) 21:40, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Think you hit the wrong button

I was surprised to notice both the "edit"/"edit source" buttons and the gold lock on Jessica Nigri, since I'm not an admin. 'Twould seem that you selected the "template editor" option when protecting it. I assume that was an accident? — PinkAmpers&^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 01:44, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Peter Tippett Page Revert

Thank you for your reply to my post related to COI. What are our rights to request that the Peter Tippett page be pulled down? I spent close to 5 hours organizing Tippett's information, tracking down as many links to his older/archived information online that I could, and beginning to reshape his page to at least contain updated, accurate information. While I can understand the need to modify some of the more "positive" information (however true it may be...he is widely acknowledged as a thought leader in cybersecurity...serving as an advisor to the POTUS is the very definition of "leading thought," IMO), why did the entire set of edits have to disappear with the wave of a Wiki editor's wand? Why not point to the specific phrases or statements that are concering and ask that I edit them out? This is what makes Wikipedia a nightmare, a quicksand of regulations I quite frankly don't have time to get mired in. What are our options? Because leaving a page up that, in its currently weak and incomplete state, actually detracts from Dr. Tippett's reputation and public currency is not an option, and I believe he would want to pursue whatever options are available for having it pulled down or edited.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lea M Sims (talk • contribs) — Lea M Sims (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

You are welcome to suggest improvements to the article on the talk page of the article (i.e., Talk:Peter Tippett). Neither you nor Tippett "owns" the article, and you certainly don't have a right to ask that the article be "pulled down" just because you don't like the way he is described. I'm sorry if you feel like we are not being helpful in the way you would like; but while we really do welcome efforts to genuinely improve our articles; we summarily reject efforts to pretty things up at the behest of the subject of an article, or anybody else for that matter. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:57, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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Standards Boost Business page

PLEASE give me back the Standards Boost Business page. I know it was denied and I was going to edit it to better fit Wikipedia guidelines. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Standards_Boost_Business&action=edit&redlink=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by ENeiman (talk • contribs) 14:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

The deleted advertisement was completely useless. It was not an article but an ad, a piece of totally shameless advocacy with no redeemable value, written by somebody at ANSI and "sourced" to ANSI and related entities. It was also filled with jargon like "C-suite executives" and the like. You would be better off starting a totally new article, drawing exclusively on reliable, outside third-party sources (if any) who have covered the subject. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:03, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

ENeiman, often editors will tell marketing reps at smaller organizations to re-write their article neutrally, using third-party sources and in most cases this is bad advice. Unless the organization is covered in substantial depth by independent sources like The New York Times and the like, Wikipedia just doesn't want to have an article on the topic. OrangeMike's advice to re-write the article using third-party sources has the effect of stringing you along as you try to create an article up to Wikipedia's standards that never will be, because the sources he is asking for just don't exist. I strongly advise in the most polite and sympathetic way possible that you just give up - it is not a good use of your time or ours. CorporateM (Talk) 16:24, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Alexander Besher‎

Hello - do we need to keep the autobio tag given that you've cleaned up since the autobio edit (and I did the same in Dec, and someone else back in 2011)? Babakathy (talk) 08:14, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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WikiALPHABETSOUP

WP:OMG!  :-)   If you think it's a good idea, and have a moment, create WP:ALPHABETSOUP as a redirect there for me. I'd definitely use it, since not everybody knows what OMG stands for. Update, there *already* is an alphabetsoup shortcut, which leads to the official cabal-approved "List of OMG there are soooo many of them Wikpedia Acronyms". So nevermind my request, that is even *more* fitting as a landing-site. But I figured you might want to know that WP:ALPHABETSOUP isn't just a made-up shortcut. It's not just a good idea, it's the law, as the saying goes. <grin> HTH. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 00:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello

CAn you please take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kikabak? It seems to be the same guy with the one you blocked yesterday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/OhGodNotThisShitAgain 86.127.26.109 (talk) 08:20, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

A number of editors have reverted that particular editor's particular edit to that particular article. It was only the scatological username that was a problem with OGNTSA, not his/her edits. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:30, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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Unblock request of Elaineturner

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Suburban Express

Can you have the page pending changes indefinitely? I see that it is also semi-protected, confusing the readers. --George Ho (talk) 20:09, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

What's up with the second reversion of the Cheesehead article?

With you being an administrator, i'm extremely surprised you made a reversion of the Cheesehead article, the second by two editors in the last couple days. I do NOT want to get into an edit war, and I wanted to know 1) Why you reverted it a second time without discussing it on the talk page, or 2) Why you did not message me on my talk page to discuss the reversion, and/or 3) Why you did not include a reason for your reversion in the edit description. All of these omissions I would expect from a neophyte editor, but NOT from an administrator. I see that in 2009 you were performing similar reversions, and consensus on the talk page was to include the reference to the usage.

• Your reversion appeared here
• sock reversion appeared here
  

My entry that you reverted is a well defined, well sourced, historical reference to the word Cheesehead in print, from nearly 20 years prior to the usage being usurped by current football fans (one of whom I am - I live in Wisconsin and am a GB fan). You cannot ignore the history of the word, it's usage in world war II, nor it's historical reference in one of the preeminent books of the latter 20th century. I would like an explanation from you on your reversion, and I am still considering restoring my edit in the absence of an explanation, but I want to make sure we do this in a consensus matter and not skirt the edges of WP:3RR. Thank you! Timmccloud (talk) 21:03, 22 December 2013 (UTC)