User talk:Haemmerli

Hello, I'm Mellamelina. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to The Great Ambition have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Mellamelina (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello Mellamelina. I am contributing to wikipedia since many years. I am an an official journalist and I am a documwntary filmmaker. The interview I made with the director of The Great Ambition was done because I liked the film and I do believe it is important. I don't get one penny out of it. And I do not have any benefit by linking anything to Wikipedia besides that I like to contribute things I do believe are important. Please do have a look what it is I posted and reconsider. Or explain me in which way an interview would be promotional. And if so for what product. Yours sincerlyHaemmerli (talk) 15:02, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Adding an external link to your own interview, titling it "Thomas Haemmerli interviews Andrea Segre", rather than its actual Vimeo title of "Andrea Segre on his film "Berlinguer La Grande Ambizione", the Red Brigades and shattered hopes" does not seem like a good-faith addition. Whether or not you earn money from the video, you're promoting your own name. Mellamelina (talk) 15:15, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

After all I am a fellow film director and I started my journalistic career as a filmcritic When I put in links of to something it has to be short. When I do references I put in the whole title. And, frankly, it would be a bit ridiculous to promote my name just per se. They way I proceeced is how we handle this on the German wikipedia. By the way, you will as well see that my name is hardly appearing in the video I have posted which is a sometimes critical interview of the director of over 20 minutes. And as I have lived through that period I do now what to ask. Please feel free to erase my name where ever you like. But it would be wrong to erase the content, as you do not find an interview with Andrea Segre. I hope you we find a way to proceed. As you do I would like to stress that I work for Wiki in good faith. And if you insist on deleting the link to the interview I guess we should see for the help of an admin. CheersHaemmerli (talk) 15:36, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

The title of the original external link made no mention of the film, which is the focus of the article. Why not just title it "Andrea Segre on his film "Berlinguer La Grande Ambizione"? Or why not add content to the article's body and WP:SELFCITE if you have experience with inline citations? Mellamelina (talk) 16:06, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

As we are a collective project and I do understand that it can seem fishy when someone is posting content that is "homemade", everything you propose is fine for me. Why don't you just put it back in and name it how you think it suits. My point is only, that it would be a bit sad if the talk with Andrea Segre would be gone, I think it belongs there.

And, I am quite often a kind of Conisglieri at wikipedia editathons here in Switzerland, so yes, I know how to cite, but I am not as familiar with the English Wiki as with the German. Would it be ok for you, to put the link back in at least where the Berlinguer film is concerned directly and you name it? Grazie mille!Haemmerli (talk) 16:16, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I added it back with the changes. Thanks for understanding. Mellamelina (talk) 16:26, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Haemmerli (talk) 16:42, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to change the title of a page by cutting its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Barbara Miller. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:04, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Dear LaundryPizza03

thank you. And you are right. It was a bit confusing after having talked to the helppage for review. Because in principle I should be able to move articles to the name room. I thought it was because there had been a deleted article of Barbara Miller and that I would need another name. I have no other inicidents of copy paste. And in principle I now rather well how Wiki works, being an active member of the German since a long time. If you are able to restore the history of the Miller-making fantastic. If not, let me know, if I must take further action. CheersHaemmerli (talk) 18:35, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

History merge requires an admin, and this has been done by KylieTastic (talk · contribs). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:06, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

As for the previous deletions, the article deleted in 2018 juxtaposed three individuals with the same name, none of whom are this Barbara Miller. It is unclear who was the subject of the article deleted in 2019, but it was deleted as an unreferenced BLP. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:10, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you. Haemmerli (talk) 08:39, 16 October 2025 (UTC)