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Brandon Blackstone
Brandon Blackstone is NOT Reba McIntire’s son. Brandon is getting a divorce from Kelly Clarkson. Brandon Blackstone is Reba’s step-son by her former husband. Does that make him still her step-son if she is no longer married to Mr Blackstone? Ha. Lulu Burns, Nashville,TN
Article on Paleo Diet
AnsweredI've made several revision attempts to remove bias and opinion from the article, including citations that are links to opinion pieces which themselves make uncited claims, rather than the source material.
This page is contentious as it's a target for those opposed to meat eating. One of the reversions actually says it's intended to attack the diet:
"curprev 15:16, 22 June 2020 Alexbrn talk contribs 32,686 bytes +813 Reverted to revision 963918222 by Alexbrn (talk): Rv. removal of well-sourced material, necessary per policy to dubunk the daftness that is the Paleo diet. "
Rv. removal of well-sourced material, necessary per policy to dubunk the daftness that is the Paleo diet.
That's not informative - it's vandalism.
The disputed parts are straw man arguments which claim proponents of the health program are making assertions which they clearly not, and no citations of quotations of original sources are being produced to support those allegations.
That the Paleo Diet is a well-established target of hatred by Vegan activists is rather well known. This appears to be more of the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.159.208 (talk) 16:06, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Answered at article talk page. Please discuss there. — TransporterMan (TALK) 17:27, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
I would like editor assistance for an article I posted for Akash Nigam
My article for Akash Nigam was removed but I would like more insight on the article to understand the sections that may have been deemed promotional. --Bryanbeckford (talk) 23:37, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- It's been deleted, so I can't access or comment on the content. But I see that a related article which you created, Genies, Inc., provides little evidence that its subject is notable. Of the nine sources it cites, the first eight are all based on interviews with the company's founder, Akash Nigam, and so are not independent. Maproom (talk) 09:10, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Editing List of Places in NSW with population ore than 10000
Hello I am new to this so just letting you know in case I am doing wrong thing. You seem to have missed Parkes NSW with population just under 15000 on list of towns with population more than 10000 I will try to edit it I am a bit keen to see a list of all named towns in NSW on ABS criteria with populations for 2011 and 2016, because we are losing so many people out of these small towns. Anybody want to supervise/ help me on this?
Kind regards In2theweft (talk) 02:29, 23 June 2020 (UTC)In2theweft (Graham Johnson)
- Unfortunately, that edit was not valid ... see my edit summary. Graham87 14:58, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Advice sought from editors about the likely fate of a draft article
Draft:The Muckle Hart of Benmore (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Hi. I posted the draft of an article entitled 'The Muckle Hart of Benmore' on 13 May. The author of the article has been trying to get it published for about 4 years and is understandably anxious that it should appear on Wikipedia as soon as possible. I would therefore appreciate any information about the fate of the article and, in particular, about whether the draft meets Wikipedia's 'notability' requirement. If it is deficient in some other way it would also be useful to know what more could be done to make it acceptable for publication. I have asked these questions twice before at the Teahouse but without receiving a response (or at least I have not been able to find one). Any help or advice would be gratefully received. Thanks!Sbrnmb (talk) 12:28, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- Sbrnmb, it wasn't submitted for review. I've done that on your behalf. The references need to be reformatted. See Help:Referencing for beginners Vexations (talk) 12:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- Sbrnmb, The way the article is formatted, it looks like it has been copy/pasted from another source. Do you know where from? We need to respect the copyright of its creator. Vexations (talk) 13:08, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- You need to actually cite the references. Vexations has shown you how do to this for the first one (actually a footnote, not a reference). Without cited references, this is going nowhere. Read Help:Referencing for beginners if you don't know how to cite references, as Vexations said above. Maproom (talk) 20:57, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- My thanks to Calliopejen1 for all the work they have now done on what is now an article, Muckle Hart of Benmore! Maproom (talk) 07:23, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks to you both for all your help to get this published: much appreciated. I shall try to cite the references today. The article was written by a man called John Fletcher. I was employed by him last month to try to get it published and did a lot of work on improving the language, punctuation, etc. and bringing the references more into line with Wikipedia requirements. I then copied and pasted my final Word version of the file. It included an illustration of the stag's antlers which I thought added something but this now appears to have gone missing; can someone please advise how to add this? Many thanks. Sbrnmb (talk) 10:52, 29 June 2020 (UTC) I tried citing the references just now but it appears to me that they have already been cited and that I am simply duplicating the existing citations. Can someone please let me know whether they do still need to be cited? Many thanks! Sbrnmb (talk) 14:24, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Awo-Omamma: Health and Community Development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awo-Omamma
Fact check 1: When Dr. Nzeribe came back from England, he did not have money to build any of the establishments that Wikipedia or whoever wrote this article gave him credit for. He was a graduate student who came home with a title only. Chief Martin Ohanenye (as a prosperous member of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee [UUSC])spearheaded the funding of these establishments and donated 3,000 pounds in 1958 in one swoop from his own personal funds in 1958 when Nigeria was still using British currency. Chief Ohanenye made other similar donations when funds were dry for the project. He was an affluent and a philanthropic businessman who wanted Awo-Omamma developed into a thriving town. Because these projects were in his own hometown and because of his title, Dr. Nzeribe claimed credit for the development, a point of contention. Dr. Nzeribe was the face that contractors, news media, and government officials saw.
Fact check 2: After Dr. Nzeribe failed to give credit to Chief Martin Ohanenye in 1958 (by making people think that he brought the money for the projects), Chief Martin Ohanenye decided to focus his developmental efforts in Ubogwu in Awo-Omamma, his own hometown. Hence, he commissioned the building of Saint Mary Primary School in Ubogwu and many other institutions.
Fact Check 3: Chief Martin Ohanenye single-handedly brought electricity into Ubogwu from the Owerri-Onitsha road powerline so that anyone who wanted could pull power from the main supply into their own home.
These are well-known facts as opposed to the biased article presented in Cornell Alumni News in 1969.
Please verify this information from any Awo-Omamma person who was alive around that time. There is Mr. Felix Okanome who lives in California. Others who awarded my father this plaque last year (July 27, 2019) are aware of the facts I stated about Chief Martin Ohanenye's philanthropic deeds to Awo-Omamma and Nigeria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Award_to_Chief_Martin_Ohanenye.jpg (Image of the plaque)
- Can you provide us with reliable sources as defined by Wikipedia for these assertions? Personal testimony that has not been reported in a published reliable source cannot be used to support information here, so information from "any Awo-Omamma person" will not suffice. If you believe that any of the sources currently used for the article are not reliable by Wikipedia's definition, you may start a discussion on the article talk page to have them, and any associated information, removed. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 20:56, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
shifting article
Dear community,
I have prepared the translation of the german article of the greek artist, Pantelis Sabaliotis, everything is ready but I am not sure you to publish it. I need help to shift the article from my space /corbetti) to the public room so the article is available to everyone. Is there anyone who could help me? best regards, corbetti User:Corbetti/Pantelis Sabaliotis (edit | [[Talk:User:Corbetti/Pantelis Sabaliotis|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) .Corbetti (talk) 12:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but it's not ready to be published. Per our verifiability policy, every statement in the body of the article must be given a link to a reliable source as defined by English Wikipedia and none of them are. That might have been acceptable at German Wikipedia (or just having a list of unlinked references at the bottom) since each Wikipedia sets its own policies, but it's not acceptable here. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 21:58, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Roman Retzbach
Need help for corrections and a co-editor please! --YvesMe (talk) 08:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Retzbach
- It's not corrections that are needed. It's independent sources, and evidence that the subject has ever done anything to warrant the existence of an article. Maproom (talk) 07:56, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Page authenticity being challenged by Wiki and contributors
I recently contributed to 2 Wiki pages, one of which was dropped and rolled back to the previous version. The other one currently shows a Wiki disclaimer saying the page reads like pres article, etc. Page rolled back - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhajan_Sopori Page currently marked as press release... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhay_Sopori
Content for both these pages has been provided directly by Maestro Bhajan Sopori & Maestro Abhay Sopori so the authenticity of the content cannot be questioned. Why are these both pages being questioned and how can these be rectified?