User talk:Shoehorn~enwiki

Hello there Shoehorn, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

I appreciate your efforts to update the animation pages. I should also reassure you that Wikipedia wants you to be bold with your updates! You don't have to add "suggested cut" to various paragraphs -- go ahead and change those paragraphs the way you want them to look. You have every right to change articles around and re-write them, as much as I do or anyone else does. If it ends up making the article better, then go for it! --Modemac 13:12, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess I'm being a bit didactic with the pages. They're notes for myself as much as anyone else. -- Shoehorn

I especially appreciate the obscure math terms. Places like planetmath and mathworld become worthless once a person begins to specialize and read papers.. --Orthografer 21:58, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Cochran

Do you have a source to back up the NaNoWriMo spamming? He's editing it out of his page. Email [[1]] me when you get this. Thanks! Will 00:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, found a Google cache of the original NaNo thread. Thanks. -Will 00:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Banville

On the The Sea (novel) page you added that it is the eighteenth novel by John Banville. Maybe you can provide some references to this.

According to John Banville's page on Contemporary Writers, The Sea is only the sixteenth book by the author. The list thereof is of course probably incomplete. Your clarification is highly appreciated. MarkBeer 01:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My count was simply based on the list of books here on Banville's page. I see that now The Broken Jug has been labelled as a play, and God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist does not appear on the Contemporary Writers page. Shoehorn 18:29, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

spelling

Thanks for pointing out my Luaka Bop spelling error! -- Mikeblas 11:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

R.C. Young talk page

Thank you for your comments and invitation to respond. One of the prime reasons people don't trust Wikipedia is that it rarely enforces its own self-regulating policies. There is no evidence whatsoever that Mr. Young has ever edited Wikipedia or ever visited here. A woman on a blog (an unreliable source by Wikipedia's own official policies) fabricated this allegation, which is the sole source of the negative information. The Living Person's Biography policy clearly states that all poorly sourced negative information must IMMEDIATELY be removed from talk pages and articles. Period. The other information being deleted regards a particularly ugly incident in which a Wikipedia administrator attempted to 1) blackmail a user (against Wikipedia policies) and 2) attempted (falsely) to "unmask" a user (also strictly against Wikipedia policies).

The page in question violates all of the following FIVE OFFICIAL policies:

1) Good faith is not assumed

2) BLP policy is not followed

3) A blog with false information is used as a source

4) An editor is blackmailed by an administrator

5) An administrator falsely charges that an editor is Mr. Young

Thus, the material you keep adding back in contains no less than five violations of official Wikipedia policies. How can this possibly be justified?

Do these policies mean nothing? Do you understand why so many editors have left Wikipedia, why no college or university admits Wikipedia as a reliable source, why Wikipedia's reputation among the general public keeps plummetting?

It's because Wikipedia sets up all of these elaborate policies to protect living people, and then five of them are violated over and over and over again.

I am assuming good faith here and working from the assumption that you are a fair-minded person who wasn't aware of what was going on with the talk page in question. Please help to ensure that it follows these five official Wikipedia policies. Thank you.John Bryson 08:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, don't feed me some irrelevant argument about the reputation of Wikipedia among college professors.

Second, it is pretty clear to me that there were some shenanigans involved with Robert Clark Young's page in the past, and the comments on the talk page document this. Either the edits were done in bad faith, or the talk page comments were made in bad faith. Either way, the comments document the event, a rather meager event that is hardly worth censoring. Ironically your actions only serve to draw attention to the episode.

Third, I find you motives to be highly questionable, given that your sole edits are to the RCY talk page and editors involved in that discussion. Are you by chance a representative of Mr. Young?

Finally, I actually checked out a library copy of One of the Guys, but after reading the opening chapter and the Wikipedia summary I completely lost interest. Shoehorn 22:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Andrew Gross

Hey,

I noticed you recently created an article on Andrew Gross. I was, however, a little concerned that it fell outside the scope of Wikipedia:Notability (people). When you get a sec, could you review the page and check that Andrew does in fact fall under the category of 'notable' and, if so, add a little more to the article to indicate why. Cheers, --DWZ (talk • email • contribs) 08:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gross is the coauthor with/ghostwriter for James Patterson for five bestselling (NYT #1) books. Being a writing celebrity is a sad claim to notability, esp. since his first solo book hasn't been published yet, but I'm confident he would be considered notable. Shoehorn 08:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Runescape_skillvslogxp.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Runescape_skillvslogxp.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. But|seriously|folks 04:24, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. You might want to check out Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_September_21#Image:Runescape_skillvslogxp.png again. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 14:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Shoehorn! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 290 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Norman Rush - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

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02:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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18:49, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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