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Jimmy - another major BLP explosion, and a measure response proposal

As the Flagged Revs thing is still cooking, please take a look at, and weigh in at Misplaced Pages:Search Engine NOCACHE by default proposal or WP:NOCACHE if you could? Not open for "polling" yet, and it's just a rough form, but the gist is pretty obvious. Thanks. You'll want to read the referenced article as well. rootology (C)(T) 07:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding King Kong defence

King Kong defence has gotten some media attentions, and the currently ongoing AFD (Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/King Kong defence) is pretty much a mess at the moment; perhaps you are intrested to make your voice heard in this matter. _→AzaToth 14:54, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I have no very strong opinion, as I am not sufficiently familiar with the underlying facts. I will note, and I think this is something that nearly everyone can agree upon, that Misplaced Pages tends to track "geek" news like this much more intensely than other news, due to our demographics. This might be perfectly fine, or it might be problematic. Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't give the "in the news" block on the front page of en.wikipedia to wikinews, to encourage people to do news stories like this on wikinews rather than wikipedia. (I am not making any suggestion one way or the other as to the current deletion debate.)--Jimbo Wales (talk) 17:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I've thought similar things about news articles. I considered proposing a policy that nothing is allowed on Misplaced Pages until at least a week (or whatever - the full idea was a little more complicated that this) after it happens. That gives Wikinews a chance to do what they do best, means that there are actually some reliable secondary sources by the time we start writing and avoids that terrible style of article in which every paragraph starts "As of ...". I never actually proposed it because I don't think there's any chance of it getting implemented - people like our current events articles, even though they really belong on Wikinews. --Tango (talk) 17:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I also tend to agree with this, both the general point Tango makes and also that there is slim to no chance that anything will ever be codified by the community to implement it. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 17:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

It wasn't the fact that the article is somewhat "geek" newsy, but the problem in the particular issue is the creation of the article, the creator, and the references references; On 2009-02-18T12:03:35 Mkikta (talk · contribs) registers, and creates the article at 2009-02-18T12:21:55. The first blog (blog as reference?) was made not long before 2009-02-18T13:39:00, and it contains reference to this article in question, which most later references contains. So we have a question here which came first, and what points to what, and if the article creation was a stunt from a blogger. :/ _→AzaToth 18:01, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikinews is quite slow atm and I think shoving things over to it would really help it develop. Go for it! Computerjoe's talk 21:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Indeed that sounds like a problematic beginning, and the sort of thing we ought to discourage, but for me this doesn't definitely answer the question of whether or not the article should exist. I think it very likely that this is a short-lived "meme" that won't go anywhere and 2 years from now someone will 'prod' the article and it will go away. Or... perhaps this will become a common expression, and the article will survive. Hard to say just yet, which is a pretty good argument that it is not encyclopedic in the first place. (Note: I have thought about this some more since my comments up above, so I'm clearly coming to an opinion: merge. But this is just the opinion of one editor, not something I'd like to push very hard. Such decisions are not up to me. :) )--Jimbo Wales (talk) 18:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

Hi User:Jimbo Wales,
Thank you for your help on the talk page for the Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love.
I was wondering if you could help me expand on the article.
Son-Rise, an Early childhood intervention therapy program that was created by two parents in the '70s that got their son to completely recover from Autism and the Autsim spectrum.
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love is a docudrama about the recovery and was adapted by the book, Son-Rise (now known as Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues).
Their is not to many references supporting the movie, the most reliable references for the film is not informative enough or 100% accurate (e.g. New York Times Film Synopsis said that (from All Media Guide) Raun Kaufman was high-functioning (a lot of other sources about the movie says that to), but it is wrong, he was severe and Mentally retarded, even in the movie.
Their is more info from the book, which adapted into the film.
Could I reference a lot from the book, and use it as a reliable source since it has the majority of the information from the movie and is more accurate.
Could you also help me with the book, Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues that I haven't created yet.
Thanx!
ATC 21:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think I helped you on the talk page of that article, by the way. I don't remember it, at least. I'm afraid I don't have any knowledge that I could use to help with those articles.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 00:57, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Do you know who I am?

I'm scared if you do. --62.240.86.108 (talk) 22:40, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I know who your are - I've got a reasonable bet that you're the person who hides under the bridge, scaring small children and eating goats. Meantime I've blocked your IP for a week based on your harrasment here and this pointless thread. Please use the time to rethink why you might want to edit Misplaced Pages productively. Pedro :  Chat  22:47, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Commemorative Coins Controversy

Jimbo. Your expertise is drastically needed at the above WP:ANI/Commemorative Coins Controversy. Policy issues need to be clearly defined, free of incumberment and in a way that is clear to all. Not all editors are being candid as to purpose and the truthfulness of interpretations as presented has to be called into question. This is an important issue and needs you guidance.--Buster7 (talk) 23:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

New Idea For Featured Articles

One idea for featured articles is to have a full protected policy on all featured articles. Since featured articles are already *perfect*, any more edits after featured status would just make the articles worse. TeH nOmInAtOr (talk) 14:23, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Request civility block

is unacceptable piling on surely. Kittybrewster ☎ 14:37, 21 February 2009 (UTC)