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Women in the Ottoman Empire

Hi Captain, that is entirely a mistake on my part. My intention was not to verify sources so much so to polish the grammar and sentence structure. Please make any adjustments you deem fit. Regards.

(I am also working on Women in the Ottoman Empire, which is quite facsinating; it too needs more sources and some TLC. Captain Eek 06:59, 3 August 2018 (UTC))

Most welcome, glad to be of help, regards & bestwishes (Courtesy of User:Vinvibes Captain Eek 06:54, 3 August 2018 (UTC))

Draft:Jesse Bogner exchange w/Vinvibes

Help

Hi, can you help me with my article Draft:Jesse Bogner? It has been placed in draft and I would like some guidance as to how to get it approved and published. Thanks in advance, regards, Vinvibes.

Draft:Jesse Bogner

To establish notability of the author I have mentioned several sources from the Internet, which are newspapers, interviews and posts. These are noted tabloids like Huffington Post, The Jerusalem Post and so on and have mentioned them as references. So as per the rules mentioned here, about 7 such valid references have been provided to prove that this chap is indeed renowned enough.

Style of writing might be lacking since this is my first time. So do you think I should alter the language a bit to render it more academia like than what it is at present?

Thanks in advance, regards, Vinita.

Reference related query

Hi, can a YouTube video wherein the author is being interviewed by a journalist be used as a credible source of reference? Also this source - https://www.wired.it/play/libri/2016/11/17/jesse-bogner-un-ragazzo-casa-kabbalah/ - wherein he has been interviewed by a journalist? Awaiting inputs, thanks, regards, Vinvibes (talk) 15:05, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Howdy again User:Vinvibes! If the youtube video is from a credible source, yes (see Misplaced Pages:Videos as references for more info). I note that the wired interview is in italian. The English Misplaced Pages does allow using foreign language sources (see Misplaced Pages:Verifiability#Non-English_sources) however: "Editors should not rely upon machine translations of non-English sources in contentious articles or biographies of living people. If needed, ask an editor who can translate it for you."Captain Eek 19:21, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Nice user page

Nice user page. I like it a lot. Just stopping by to say that! :-) Wingedspy (talk) 00:12, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

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Welcome, and thanks for your work on Townsend v. Sain! I'm doing a bit of editing on the article at the moment – you've done a great job, particularly for someone so new to Misplaced Pages. You're right that the article is probably too primary-source heavy at the moment, but there's a lot of potential here. I look forward to working with you on future articles! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 19:55, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Noah's Ark and BCE

I'm pleased you reverted to the stable BCE version but your reason is confusing: "Although CE and BCE are more accurate, most Misplaced Pages users are not familiar with them, and Misplaced Pages thus uses BC and AD." Of course we use BCE and AD, and we have a guideline at WP:ERA. If you want to change the stable version, you need to do it by getting consensus on the talk page. As I said, this seems to be a BCE article so would need a reason particular to this article to change it and agreement on the talk page. Doug Weller talk 16:56, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

(facepalm) I misread/wrote that, that's my fault. Also thanks for pointing out WP:ERA, I thought we had one but couldn't find it earlier. Captain Eek 17:03, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

No problem, I've made similar mistakes. Doug Weller talk 18:55, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Hey- Thanks a lot for the review! I think its improved my confidence towards editing here more, so I might stick around; And that's all thanks to you! 💵Money💵emoji💵 13:24, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Events at Chemnitz in August 2018

Hi Captain,

You write that my contribution about the events in late August 2018 was 'less than neutral and has been removed'. I thought that everything that I have written was supported by references and thus corresponded well to what has happened. Can you please tell me what was factually incorrect or 'less than neutral' in what I wrote?

Wickology — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wickology (talk • contribs) 01:43, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Howdy Hello Wickology! Thanks for reaching out to me. My concern with your edits was generally regarding something known as due and undue weight. Just because something has been written doesn't mean that its fair to include it in the article. For instance, just because one person criticizes something and a news article is written about it doesn't mean we should cover it. When writing an article our job is not to give equal coverage, but rather the coverage that something is "due". I felt like the mentioning of criticism of the concert was not due weight, although perhaps I was in error. I also took issue with the mention of Coca-Cola, mainly because it wasn't relevant or noteworthy. I also was concerned by your use of what we call words to watch and weasal words, words like "suppossed". The main reason I left this message was your changing of "far-right protesters" into "protesters" and adding "far-left" in front of "counterprotesters". Misplaced Pages is not censored nor political and thus your edit seemed to be putting emphasis on the left while excusing the right, a clear POV problem. Captain Eek 05:55, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Captain, thanks for your clarification. I mostly agree with your criticism of me removing "far-right" from the "protesters". Originally, my feeling was that the "far-right" label referred to all protesters, but I now see it is not true. Yes, there was indeed a small minority of far-right people who got into fights with far-leftists, so the sentence in itself is correct the way it is now. I still feel that the whole paragraph creates the impression of rampaging far-right mobs, chasing foreigners, whereas the large majority of the protesters were completely peaceful. But then again, the next paragraph mentions a criticism of this impression, so I am OK with it.

I agree to your criticism of me using words like "supposed", too.

I also agree that I was going into too much detail about the concert - mentioning Coca-Cola was probably indeed "undue". Still, I think that mentioning that there were criticisms against the concert because of far-left musicians playing songs with violent texts is not of "undue weight". The concert was squarely in the context of the events of that week and criticisms of it deserve mentioning in my view. Major German and German-language newspapers (like Bild and Neue Zürcher Zeitung) wrote articles criticizing the concert because of this. Thus, this criticism was definitely not the viewpoint of a tiny or insignificant minority. However, maybe I went into too much detail about the individual bands. I'll reformulate it in that way that I'll use a single sentence (instead of two) and will not mention the names of the bands. Wickology (talk) 09:36, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for the help, especially the Links which help explain things. Is123Biblio (talk) 08:06, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Pots and kettles

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You can talk! Look at this

I would get your own house in order before you start throwing accusations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/User:CaptainEek/sandbox

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That's what I was trying to remove. (from unsigned IP)

I see what the issue is and I have now fixed it. Captain Eek 07:18, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

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A heads-up

An anonymous IP stubified the Mathew Golsteyn article, on the 19th.

I made a request at WP:BLPN#Mathew L. Golsteyn, asking if anyone thought that big excision was defensible. Short version, only one person tried to defend the excision, and I think their brief reply falls short. Two other contributors advanced argument for why the article should be redirected -- not really helpful when considering whether to restore some or all of the excised material.

Anyhow, I thought I'd give you this heads-up, in case you hadn't notice.

I don't think we have interacted before. Hello! Geo Swan (talk) 23:59, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Howdy hello Geo Swan! Thank you for letting me know about that BLPN conversation and the stubification. It'll be interesting to see where things go from here.

Thanks for quickly noticing and fixing the sources I broke on Mathew Golsteyn, that was my mistake. I hope to have many more pleasant interactions with you in the future!Captain Eek 00:18, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

hi

Thanks for what you brought up. I want this matter to get its full airing out. struck for socking and other high crimes --AndInFirstPlace 03:27, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

House of Este

Hello, thanks for helping editing the page; I do not know how to use Misplaced Pages so I am not sure how to address your clarification. Collateral agnate is who stands in the nearest degree of kinship in this case the House of Este/ Ercole 3. How can I clarify this I erase your “ clarification needed” and replace it with a citation where I explain this?

Thanks. Araldico69 (talk)

Araldico69 You can simply delete the clarification template and clarify the text inline, by either adding internal wikilinks (say to a page describing "agnate"), or explaining it. Captain Eek 11:01, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

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@Ronhjones: Howdy hello! I got the photo from ikfoundation.org. According to this link, all content on ikfoundation is under a CC 3.0 license. Do I need further attribution/permission? I didn't mean to upload an improperly sourced file, I was under the impression that it had been freely licensed through the ikfoundation, but if its not I am a fan of deleting it right away. Captain Eek 04:41, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Click the CC link on https://www.ikfoundation.org/ilinnaeus/citingsources.php it goes to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ - that's is an incompatible license for images here. There are 7 CC licenses, we only accept 3 of them (cc-zero, cc-by, cc-by-sa) Ronhjones  16:43, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Ahhhhh, didn't realize the distinction, but I do now. Didn't realize there were so many types of CC licenses! Then I am a fan of deletion and am sorry for uploading an improper file. Captain Eek 20:58, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Lucas Pouille

Hi, this is 2406:3003:2001:2d06:c0cf:5d23:f48f:b551

I did not remove content from the Lucas Pouille page. I merely transferred the content from 2019 to 2018, which I feei is more appropriate.

Have replied on the IP's talk page. Captain Eek 09:53, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

ANI

Damn you were faster than me. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 10:31, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Glad multiple folks were on it! Feel free to merge our ANI's. Crazy the stuff people do on this website... Captain Eek 10:32, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Well I'm not surprised as I've seen something much worse! ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 10:33, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

House Shoes

Hi, so I can do this correctly please explain to me how it is improperly sourced. Also I am confused about “defamatory” statements as it is a simple fact. Is it “defamatory” if you go to Hitler’s page and it describes the Holocaust? 72.211.214.127 (talk) 07:09, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages requires that articles about living people be documented primarily by reliable secondary sources (such as news articles, books, and journals). The source you provided was a tweet by the subject. The only thing we can add on Misplaced Pages from that tweet is its text. We cannot add commentary about it, as that would constitute original research. Unless you can support the claim you made about the subject with a reliable source we can't add it. Articles about living people face special restrictions due to laws about defamation. Everything we say about living people must be truthful and accurate, lest the person sue us for incorrect defamatory statements. Captain Eek 07:18, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

I understand now. I did not originally write or source that edit, I just thought it was being removed to hide it and thought it was unfair. If I have some free time I’ll put a edit that only includes what he said in Tweet(s). 72.211.214.127 (talk) 07:30, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Aaah, I looked at the page history and I see what happened here. Thanks for working with me on this. I will reach out to the original poster and let them know our policies. Captain Eek 07:35, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for Given Some Guideness. Ritesh748 05:10, 30 January 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ritesh748 (talk • contribs)

Thank you for protecting my record (Martin_Daňo) --Martindano (talk) 09:14, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

John Gilpin

... was a citizen

Of credit and renown.

A train-band captain eek was he

Of famous London Town.

Awien (talk) 22:43, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Awien Hehe you're the first person to make that connection! Very clever. Captain Eek 00:08, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Or possibly we had a similar education? Awien (talk) 02:42, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Template Use Suggestion

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List of Lego Movie 2 characters

Hello Captain Eek. Marquis De Potter here. Just so you know on the page I noticed something was incorrect therefore Copied the segment and deleted it, later I then pasted it on the correct area. Sorry if this caused any confusion. Marquis de Potter (talk) 11:10, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Marquis de Potter Ah! I see what happened here. So that someone doesn't accidentally revert your edits in the future, make sure that when you move a section that you do it in a single edit. Don't delete it in one edit, and re-add it in the next edit, because editors can think you just straight up deleted it. I was using our fast-paced anti-vandal software called "Huggle", and I likely got to your deletion before you had a chance to re-add it. Sorry for the misunderstanding, and happy editing! Captain Eek 18:54, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

RE: List of Lego Movie Characters

Yes Captain Eek. It was one of my first edits on Misplaced Pages but now I get it. Marquis de Potter (talk) 07:31, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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Response to ANI notice

Hello CaptainEek. This is just a response to the message that you had left me on my talk page. I am a regular contributor to the National Hockey League's teams season pages. Since October, NicholasHui has been persistently adding inaccurate information in regards to a player's point total located in the player statistics section. I will refer to this page 2018–19 Edmonton Oilers season, as one of the examples. I had informed NicholasHui about them not adding accurate information in regards to the player statistics. I find that their information is often incorrect, which leads to me having to correct the information that they have provided. I have told them to stop adding incorrect information on their talk page and also within the page's history log. However, they continue to add information from either no source, or poor sources. I told them to use this website, (Statistics), as it includes all of the player statistics from every National Hockey League team, and is also the most reliable source. This is only the first issue. A second issue that this user is also involved in, is that they are unable to reorganize the player statistics section, which is supposed to be organized from a player's point total (most points to least points, or in other words, top to bottom) system. This user occasionally refuses to reorganize the statistics section based on most points to least. For example, in the player statistics section, under "Pts", one player will have a total of ten points, while another would have eleven points. The player with eleven points would be positioned underneath the player with ten points. This is supposed to be vice versa. The editor refuses to reposition the players based on which player has more points. I had also discussed this situation to the editor, but they still occasionally refuse to do as I have told them. Another user like Sabbatino also discussed this issue with NicholasHui when he was using his former account Portmannfire. I honestly don't know why he is complaining about me when I am the one that is trying to fix his persistent errors. Please visit the Edmonton Oilers page that I had provided you with earlier in this message, so that you will have an understanding of what I am talking about. If any clarification is needed, please feel free to contact me. Just a reminder, I do correct the errors that NicholasHui makes. So if you don't see any physical evidence, just know that I correct the errors. Yowashi (talk) 22:01, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Non-free images

Hello, CaptainEek ,

I had to remove a non-free image that you added at WP:ANI. Please review WP:NFCI. Limit yourself to freely licensed images in such situations. Thank you. Cullen Let's discuss it 06:28, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Cullen328 Oooooh heavens me! Didn't realize it was being used under fair use. Thanks for cleaning that up, my bad there! Captain Eek 06:35, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Gilgit article

I started a new section at Talk of the Gilgit article. Asked there that an editor knowledgeable in the situation edit the article. Achieving NPOV more complex than just stating in India or in Pakistan. David notMD (talk) 10:42, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		I hereby award this barnstar to CaptainEek for having the flexibility to swiftly re-evaluate their views, and for being collegial with others who disagreed with them. FeydHuxtable (talk) 22:18, 8 March 2019 (UTC)