User talk:Seraphimblade
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[edit]Wasn't the Total.Caddy12459 account pro-Ashton Forbes and the MM919 against him? I reverted one for BLP violations and the other for adding Forbes' non-notable opinion to an article. Polygnotus (talk) 08:22, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Looks like bad hand sockpuppetry to me, but I suppose it could be different people. In any case, though, it's very unlikely that two brand new editors would, at the same instant, come across the same article on the same non-notable individual. Seraphimblade Talk to me 12:17, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, interesting. I hadn't considered that. Thanks! That Forbes guy was promoting a free energy scam on his YouTube.
Polygnotus (talk) 19:39, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, interesting. I hadn't considered that. Thanks! That Forbes guy was promoting a free energy scam on his YouTube.
You'd expect this to be a really short article, but I guess the topic is actually "human rights violations in China". Anyway, there is an editor who keeps posting the same stuff over and over again. Can you help them understand why they get reverted, ideally without blocking them? Should I request page protection? If you are busy I'll ask someone else of course. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 02:44, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- Polygnotus, it looks like there's an ongoing discussion about this at Talk:Human rights in China. I might suggest expressing your thoughts there, at least as a first step. Seraphimblade Talk to me 02:51, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- OK, thank you again! Polygnotus (talk) 02:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
File:MammalTalkBand.jpg
[edit]Hi Seraphimblade. Since you speedily deleted Mammal Talk, perhaps you could take a look at File:MammalTalkBand.jpg? I can't see the article, but my guess is that the image fails WP:FREER and could be deleted per WP:F7. I did tag it for speedy deletion per WP:F5, and it probably doesn't matter in the end; however, {{rnfu}} is faster and does let the uploader know that they'll need a free image if they want to someday take another crack at creating an article about the band. Do you think this meets F7? -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:06, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Marchjuly, I would agree with you. If it turns out the band is notable and a non-promotional article is written about it, since the band still exists, someone could take a free image of them, so it would fail NFCC#1 as replaceable by free media. Though at this point, it probably makes little difference, since it will be deleted as F5 anyway, but certainly something to consider if it comes up going forward. Seraphimblade Talk to me 07:17, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for taking a look at this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
October 2024
[edit]Hi Seraphimblade. I've answered your question in my talk page. Lgrave (talk) 11:41, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Lgrave, thanks for letting me know (and I'd believe you well enough at that; I've certainly seen fan-type editing cause the same types of issues as COI editing). My advice would be to find reliable and independent sources (IMDB isn't one), and stick to presenting facts that such sources verify in a neutral tone (so, no "proud Latina" or anything like that). If there is not a substantial quantity of reliable and independent source material about this individual available, that would indicate they are not notable and it would not be appropriate to write an article about them. Seraphimblade Talk to me 12:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)