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Your big red button

Your script for finding unsourced BLPs is a great idea but over half of the ones it kicks out are not eligible for BLPPROD because of their creation date. I had to start using Twinkle to automate the check. You might want to edit the script to check creation date. Otherwise... I love it! JBH (talk) 21:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

It's not my script, I lifted it off another user's page, but I agree it's great. I'll see if I can find out who first made it and let them know about checking the creation date.Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I looked into the templates used and I might be wrong. I think PROD reason-Unsourced BLP and a BLPPROD are two different things so maybe it is a non-issue. JBH (talk) 21:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

I think it sends the worst possible message to people. A link to WP:BEFORE would be better. Or to the Cleanup Listings. Encourage new editors to delete stuff isn't ever going to end well. The-Pope (talk) 15:32, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

SWH

Hey, all citations are given to extremely reliable sources. Please give your reasons on talk rather than removing because "you don't feel like it". SWH 03:36, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Nope, a lot of that was unsourced and you sneaked in some stuff, as well as removed other sourced material. And I did start a discussion on talk.Volunteer Marek (talk) 04:30, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

You should realize that lead section should summarize the article's content. And I didn't sneaked in some stuff. Your accusations are groundless and assumed bad faiths. "Other sourced materials" were added by myself when the international studies were absent. SWH 05:44, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok. Just leave it. Now I added sources in the lead. SWH 06:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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I saw your revert and added some commentary to the talk page regarding the use of the word "forcible" in the annexation of Crimea lead in. I am sure you made a good faith revert and would like to discuss the matter further. Best... Lipsquid (talk) 05:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

New article

Have you seen this AfD candidate? -- Nug (talk) 20:38, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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Polish United Workers' Party flag

For the Polish United Workers flag I gave a source for the flag. I understand that you don't think the source is reliable but that is just your POV, unless there is a source that says that the flag that I added, I personally think that there is no reason for it to be removed. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 07:14, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

That's not how it works. Whether a source is reliable or not is not a matter of POV but a matter of whether or not it satisfies the criteria at WP:RS. This doesn't look like it. And it's not to others to come up with a source which says your source is wrong, it's up to you to show that your source is reliable. You can bring it up to WP:RSN and ask for input. But because the onus here is on you, please don't start edit warring without actual discussion.Volunteer Marek (talk) 18:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I understand. My apologizes. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 20:53, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Aleksandr Dugin

Do you think this Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection would help? The vandal has the ability to IP hop, so blocking his/her IP will not stop him/her. How long should we ask for page protection?-- Toddy1 (talk) 06:53, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Unless it's permanent semi it won't help. He'll wait it out or just create accounts. Pending revisions would help but I don't know if that can be put in for this article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:12, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Murder of Boris Nemtsov

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Murder_of_Boris_Nemtsov&diff=649783334&oldid=649782567 Xx234 (talk) 07:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Nemtsov - political positions etc.

Hi Marek. This is an article many editors have been filing at, tempers getting quite high at times. I have repeatedly tried to introduce new mini-headings and have been "shot down" by more than one co-editor. What I want to say: every word there has been published with a LOT of work and consideration. Erasing large bits is not always appreciated.

I.e.: the "political positions". It is very relevant who he was politically. I don't think his appetite for young blondes got him killed. Nor was he of any significance as a private person and single citizen. So his political positions certainly ARE important, so much so that they belong in the lead (or lede, whatever). Apart from logic, there seems to be a consensus about it - which isn't always self-understood :)

There is a long paragraph on his political career further down, but that's smth. else. We're speaking here about the lead, which even a hurried reader would look at.

About the bold pseudo-headings: as people add to the article daily, I tried bringing in some order, so that single topics don't get scrambled together. But creating proper ==Headings== splits that bit away from the lead, which is NOT what's required here, as I have hinted at already. It's part of the "in a nutshell" lead, still.

OK, that's my two pennies' worth of opinion. Have a nice day - or shall I rather say miłego dnia? :) Arminden (talk) 10:40, 16 March 2015 (UTC)Arminden

Thanks for the note and I understand your reasoning. The problem is that the lede is suppose to summarize information rather than be a list of stuff. It should probably only mention only the most significant positions he's held.Volunteer Marek (talk) 18:01, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Anti-Katyn

It's a disaster. I have corrected several basic errors.Xx234 (talk) 14:05, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps a sock?

Hi,
I'd like a second opinion before collating hundreds of diffs and taking this to SPI, and few opinions could be better than yours. Is it possible that Zozs is a Jacob Peters sock? I think there are strong similarities in both the editing style and the POV being pushed. What do you think? Maybe I'm too close to this problem to get a good perspective. bobrayner (talk) 22:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

There are similarities and the thought occurred to me. But there seems to be one key difference in the POVs being pushed. Zozs wants to argue that "Stalinism wasn't real Communism, it was capitalism in disguise" (or that Marxism-Leninism wasn't) if I read them correctly. Jacob Peters on the other hand loves his Stalinism, and would probably take issue with that.Volunteer Marek (talk) 22:06, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

That's a good point, thanks; but isn't exactly distancing Stalin from the shining light of true Communism, and edits like this seem to underline (at length) that Stalin was Marxist-Leninist and that M-L is communism. Hmm. Are there any other good "tells" for Jacob Peters socks? bobrayner (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Do you accept such language?

Dont be a jerk and stop following me around with jerkish POV. Take it to the talk page if you disagree with the sources, and dont revert me again, this is your last warning? Xx236 (talk) 10:13, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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