User talk:IJVin

Welcome!

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July 2011

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You're invited! New England Wikimedia General Meeting

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Ramona Quimby merger proposal

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Helena G. Wells article

Hi! Thanks for helping to improve the Helena G. Wells article, I really appreciate it! I haven't been able to find anyone who can show me an example from the article to show me what is still "in-universe" about it and suggest a way to make it less so. Can you take a look and provide me with a suggestion? Electprogeny (talk) 23:59, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

You're invited: Ada Lovelace, STEM women edit-a-thon at Harvard

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2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting

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July 2013

Hello, I'm SummerPhD. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to A Different World because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! SummerPhD (talk) 05:37, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Worst Week. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. SummerPhD (talk) 05:42, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

December 2014

Hello, I'm Dwpaul. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Chicago (musical) without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Dwpaul ^Talk 03:49, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Polly Sherman in Fawlty Towers

You previously contributed to the article Polly Sherman about one of the main characters in Fawlty Towers. The article has since been replaced by a redirect, but I have proposed restoring the article. Please feel free to comment at Talk:Polly Sherman § Separate article for Polly? —sroc 💬 17:04, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Mass removal from category

Hi, please don't mass-remove pages from Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe original characters without explaining why or consulting the article's talk page. Thanks. InfiniteNexus (talk) 21:51, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Adding categories to BLPs

Hi. Please read WP:BLPCAT before continuing to add categories to biographies. Note particularly "Caution should be used with content categories that suggest a person has a poor reputation". Categories should also not be added to article that contain nothing to verify that they are appropriate or accurate. Absence of any mention of the categorisation also strongly suggests that is is not defining and therefore should be avoided.

Thanks. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 14:51, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

I have some bad news. There's a Category:Golden Raspberry Award winners. I'm not sure if you're aware, but the Golden Raspberry Awards are for the worst in film, meaning that anyone eligible for that category (i.e. anyone who has won a Golden Raspberry Award for worst in film, e.g. Jerry Springer, et. al.) won for a bad performance or direction or screenplay, etc. If the mere presence of Category:Golden Raspberry Award winners suggests that Jerry Springer has a poor reputation, then the same must be said for Ben Affleck, Halle Berry, Marlon Brando, Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Charlton Heston, Nicole Kidman, George Lucas, Ronald McDonald, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Al Pacino, Eddie Redmayne, and the rest of the inhabitants of that category. If that's the case, then it brings into question the reason for the very existence of the category in the first place.

But if the category is indeed allowed to exist (as it seems to be for the other aforementioned Razzie winners), then we have to ask if any of these winners can be "defined" as a Razzie winner. Leonardo DiCaprio, for example, is defined by his performances and the general recognition that he is a great actor. His Academy Award win for Best Actor is part of that definition. Would he also be "defined" by his Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple? If not, then why allow him to inhabit the category? If Prince would not be "defined" by his Razzie wins for Worst Actor and Worst Director, then why allow him to inhabit the category? Even Uwe Boll and Pia Zadora wouldn't be "defined" by their Razzie wins but rather by their contributions to film, such as they are. If that's the case, then it brings into question the reason for the very existence of the category in the first place.

But if the category is indeed allowed to exist (as it seems to be for the other aforementioned Razzie winners), then surely a navbox (such as the navbox for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star) at the bottom of an article (such as the article for the winner of the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star Jerry Springer) would be enough to warrant the addition of the corresponding category to the article.

Also, the category is absolutely supported within the article for Alan Menken, complete with sources and navbox. All of that information was in the article when I added the category, so I don't know why you yourself said otherwise and reverted it. -IJVin (talk) 07:20, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

"it brings into question the reason for the very existence of the category in the first place." - Indeed it does and I would argue that the category is uncalled for because it fails to define most people.

There are some actors who may be defined as "Razzie award winner", but for most of those whose article has this cat, they are not. So I would suggest that this category is misused on most biographies and this is not what categories are intended to do. Seriously, no-one and no reliable source has ever defined Stevie Wonder as a "Razzie award winner". And so categorising his biography in this manner, even if it is mentioned and sourced on the article (which it isn't), is not justified.

I know you mean well by adding this to bios, but its existence, and use on other articles, does not justify its use on other articles. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 19:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Has a reliable source ever defined Pia Zadora as a Razzie winner? Or George Lucas? Or Marlon Brando? If they're included in the category, then Stevie Wonder, et. al. should be as well, at least until the category is deleted. -IJVin (talk) 21:30, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

If there are categories on biography articles that are unsourced, or not even mentioned in the article, then please do remove them. A failure to source, or including non-defining categories, on some articles is not a reason to have it also done on others. Thanks. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 17:16, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

January 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Jerry Springer, you may be blocked from editing. Sundayclose (talk) 16:48, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Neither Springer's article, nor the Golden Raspberry article, provides a source. Please stop. Sundayclose (talk) 16:49, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Please check your previous edits for addition of unsourced edits so other editors don't have to clean things up. Sundayclose (talk) 16:58, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Please tell us if you will check all of your previous edits for unsourced additions and remove them. I removed a number of them, but there are others. Wikipedia is a collaborative project. Refusing to communicate is not an option here. If you continue to edit without cleaning up previous edits we may be discussing it WP:ANI. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 01:17, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Since you have continued editing without responding here, that clearly indicates that you have no intention if editing collaboratively. That is unacceptable on Wikipedia. Therefore, this serves as your final warning: If you make unsourced, disruptive, or other problems edits, you will lose your editing privileges without further warning. Sundayclose (talk) 16:34, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

May I edit your scolding, pretty please? You wrote "if" instead of "of." Considering my edits since January 25, 2022 have been related to formatting (italicizing titles, adding or clarifying links, changing verb tenses regarding a currently running series from future to present), I can only assume that those sorts of things now require discussion. Is it OK that I italicized and linked the titles of the TV show Lost and the graphic novel Watchmen on the page Elaine Lee? Should I have run that by you, Sundayclose? Is that sort of unsourced formatting alright after I did a Bad Thing by placing Golden Raspberry Award winners in Category:Golden Raspberry Award winners? Maybe you should ban me from editing. Who knows what kind of formatting I could wantonly correct in the future if I'm left unleashed? -IJVin (talk) 06:06, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

My talk page

This is the only time I will give you this warning. Stay off of my talk page. And that includes responding to this message. If there is an issue about an article, discuss it on the article talk page, not mine. Should you be tempted to ignore this warning, read WP:Talk page guidelines#Personal talk page cleanup and WP:HARASS. Sundayclose (talk) 17:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Remember when you told me not to edit and then I edited some formatting mistakes without asking you and that was so heinous that you gave me a final warning? That's why I was asking if I could edit some more. I didn't want to break the rules that you laid down, especially since you were so adamant about how I had fixed some italicization and capitalization. Am I allowed to edit formatting mistakes or not? After all, you gave me a final warning for doing exactly that. Pls respond senpai. -IJVin (talk) 20:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Also, sorry about the harassment. I can't imagine how annoying it must be to get notifications about final warnings regarding basic grammatical edits. -IJVin (talk) 20:40, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:ScreenActorsGuildAwards EnsembleTVDrama 2020–2029

Template:ScreenActorsGuildAwards EnsembleTVDrama 2020–2029 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 08:53, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Christopher Columbus

I noticed that you have removed the category Monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus from a number of articles about statues of the man, such as here. Can you explain why? I don't understand. Thanks. --Slugger O'Toole (talk) 13:10, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I should have explained. The statues are already in the Category:Statues of Christopher Columbus, which is itself within the Category:Monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus. If an article is in a subcategory, then it is necessarily already in the super-category and placing it in the super-category is redundant. As an analogy, if the article for the TV show The Good Place is in the Category:American fantasy television series‎‎, then should it also be in the Category:American speculative fiction television series when the former is contained within the latter? Again, I should have discussed this prior to my actions. I'm sorry. IJVin (talk) 18:50, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

November 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Danica McKellar. Sundayclose (talk) 01:26, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi IJVin! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 01:27, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

SpikeCon moved to draftspace

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Second notice - Inappropriate use of "minor edit"

Hi IJVin! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 01:07, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Read WP:MINOR before marking any more edits as minor. If in doubt, don't mark it as minor. You never go wrong if you don't mark an edit as minor. Sundayclose (talk) 01:07, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:SpikeCon

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Categories

Hallo, Patricia Benoit (director) is on my watch list so I noticed your recent category change.

Please note that Category:American women screenwriters is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American screenwriters, so that this article should also be in Category:American screenwriters or one of its subcategories. I have added her to Category:21st-century American screenwriters. I note that Category:American women television writers and Category:American male television writers are both also non-diffusing, though curiously, and inconsistently, Category:American male screenwriters is not (probably a mistake which ought to be changed).

I see you have been doing a lot of work on articles in these categories, and encourage you to go back and add people to appropriate missing categories, such as the "by-century" subcategories. Thanks. PamD 07:19, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Stop removing categories without a reason

You’re removing of Category:American television writers from certain pages is completely unwarranted unless you have a valid reason which you don’t. Bob3458 (talk) 14:11, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on List of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees

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British vs English

This excess of tribalism must stop. Do not change British to English without strong reasons, strong enough to be clear from the article. A birthplace within the English part of Britain is not that reason. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:13, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

How about if they're referred to in the article or categories as English or English-born (etc.), then that means they're English (etc.) emigrants. -IJVin (talk) 07:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

English-born does not even imply that they are British citizens, necessarily. This sort of non-source-based inference has no place on Wikipedia, and especially not on biographies of living people. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:43, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

What about when the article and its categories explicitly call the subject English or Scottish, etc.? -IJVin (talk) 07:49, 29 January 2024 (UTC)