User talk:Ormr2014

Hi Ormr,

I hope I'm doing this right! Thanks for your comments re: Michelle Parkerson. Parkerson's work is openly identity-based and is cited in critical studies in relation to her ethnicity and sexuality: "black lesbian" is a direct quotation from Gloria Gibson's article on her (which I have now noted), and all of her films address African-American figures, many LGBTQ. Her work is distributed by feminist and African-American distributors. Identity-based art is an important strategy for many minority cultures, wherein the artist's identity is a prominent motivation for making the work and tool for reading it. This is a method of resisting racism and homophobia that erases non-dominant identities. User:Sophiemayer/Sophiemayer — Preceding undated comment added 10:23, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello User:Sophiemayer/Sophiemayer! I'm not disputing what you said, but the reference to her race and sexual preference, outside of the context you mentioned is both inappropriate and unnecessary. The context in which you used the quote, "A 'black lesbian filmmaker'" made no mention of her work with LGBTQ organizations, nor of identity-based art, nor anything else that made it relevant to the article. Furthermore, the "strategy" of overemphasizing race and sexual preference fails to meet the criteria of neutrality.

It may be helpful for you to read Biographies of living persons. Accordingly, biographies of living persons require "a high degree of sensitivity, and must adhere strictly to all applicable laws in the United States, to this policy, and to Wikipedia's three core content policies:

   Neutral point of view (NPOV)
   Verifiability (V)
   No original research (NOR)"

Ormr2014 (talk) 12:15, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ormr,

I would be interested to know for what reasons you consider the page DharmaMindBuddhistGroup promotional? It merely presents information about an existing Buddhist Group, detailing the school of buddhism it belongs to, the teacher it is affiliated with, it's location etc. I am more than happy to listen to any suggestions on how you think the information can be improved. Perhaps you consider the link to the external website promotional? JonathanODonovan (talk) 19:58, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello Jonathan,

As an organization that is not well-established under Wikipedia's guidelines, the creation of an article about the DharmaMind Buddhist Group would unfortunately qualify as spam or promotional. I did not make my decision to nominate the article for speedy deletion lightly. I also looked you up along with the organization's name on Google and came up with numerous articles linking you to that group, including a Meet Up group page at http://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Dharma-Mind-Group/members/5911865, which would qualify the article as "self-promotional" as well.

Ultimately, the decision to delete your article was not my own, but was made by an official Wikipedia Admin. Ormr2014 (talk) 20:10, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello Ormr,

This is my first wiki article so you'll have to excuse my ignorance regarding the criterion for authoring articles. Believe me, 'self' promotion is the exact antithesis of what Buddhism is about. I hope you get the joke :-)

Thanks for your polite and understanding response, JonathanODonovan. As one who also appreciates the ideas of Buddhism, I think it would be great if you could use your knowledge to improve on some of the already existing Buddhist articles! Take care and happy editing! Ormr2014 (talk) 20:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks again Ormr, best wishes, Jonathan JonathanODonovan (talk) 21:26, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ormr2014. I am SyncBeats. Thank you for your tagged. Could you help me with my arcticele as I new to this. Thank you . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.132.162 (talk) 23:40, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 06:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

The articles they were used for no longer exist and as the images were uploaded specifically for use in those articles, I will delete them. Thanks Ormr2014 (talk) 14:41, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

With reference to your flag for speedy deletion. I have mildly restructured my article with more references from third party sources. I have replaced the non-free image with a free image and a non-free logo. I have also created a talk page so that you may add more comments about how I can make the article more acceptable by wikipedia standards. Romanov is one of the most popular vodka brands in India (Trust me, I am a customer who lives in India) and it has been around for a long time with its poularity rivalling smirnoff in this countery. Thank you for your inputs. Suddhadeep (talk) 06:07, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

@Suddhadeep: My primary reason for nominating the page for Speedy Deletion is because when I searched for Romanov Vodka in three different search engines, most of what came up was promotional in nature, but little to indicate this product is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia. But no worries, my nomination was overruled nonetheless. Ormr2014 (talk) 14:52, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:37, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

The articles they were used for no longer exist and as the images were uploaded specifically for use in those articles, I will delete them. Thanks Ormr2014 | Talk 

Category:Religious movements founded in the 21st century, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:32, 6 May 2015 (UTC) Thanks for patrolling regards--Rberchie (talk) 08:21, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello Ormr2014. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Dirty Water Brass Band, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 already declined. G11 issues are surmountable if it passes GNG. Take to AFD if notability is still challenged. Thank you. Mkdw^talk 18:29, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the review of the above article. Can you be a bit more specific about what you want corrected? I am working on a project of some 100 haciendas (1300 estimated total but only 100 or so of import). Clearly if there is an issue with one, it will impact the others, as the verbiage on many is repetitive but clearly each one has its own specific details. I would truly appreciate any input on how to make them better. SusunW (talk) 20:54, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello SusunW. I was mainly just referring to grammatical errors that should be fixed. For instance, the line "The name (Santa Cruz Palomeque) is a combination Spanish terms." should be written "The name (Santa Cruz Palomeque) is a combination of Spanish terms."

The article is well-thought out and in my opinion a great addition to the encyclopedia, it just needs a little work. Ormr2014 | Talk 

Great! Thanks. I am obviously having to go back and forth between Spanish sources and English grammar on these and sometimes that makes for confusion, I admit. I forget what language I am working in all the time. ;) I have been building them slowly to get a "writing template" down so that I don't have to rewrite the guts each time. (I do not mean a programmed template, the programming on here is beyond me. But just a format so that I only have to change the relevant details.) The Spanish pages are of no help, as they tend to have no sourcing whatsoever. Thanks for the input, I'll re-read it and see if I can clarify things. SusunW (talk) 21:10, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very, very much for making the corrections. It is so much easier to see where you erred when someone else finds the mistakes. I appreciate your help. If you want to look over any of the others, please do. SusunW (talk) 21:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

You're very welcome, SusunW :). I may look over the article more later, but for the most part, it looks okay. Ormr2014 | Talk 

Hi, I'm Boyconga278. Ormr2014, thanks for creating my talk page!

What do you say about this article Vietnam at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games? Boyconga278 (talk) 03:51, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

@Boyconga278: After searching for articles relating to the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, I found many similar articles to yours, so I went ahead and removed the notability tag. Ormr2014 | Talk 

Are you adding your signature template to your posts manually? You should really just use the four tildes like the rest of us, because one thing it does is adding the timestamp, which should be mandatory for everyone in most cases.

Also: Wikipedia:Signatures#NoTemplates:

• Transclusions of templates ... in signatures (like those which appear as {{User:Name/sig}}, for example) are forbidden ...
• Substitutions of templates in signatures is permissible but discouraged, as the substituted page may be vandalized without the user knowing. ... Users who choose to substitute their signature are required to be highly vigilant of their signature whenever they sign. Substitution must not be used to circumvent the normal restrictions on signature content, including the use of images, obnoxious markup, or excessive length.

— Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 09:25, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Jeraphine - Sorry I wasn't aware of that. Many Wikipedians use template signatures, or manually typed html/css signatures, but I'll revert to the four tildes method. Ormr2014 (talk) 11:58, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

See WP:CUSTOMSIG about how to customize your signature correctly - the code you currently have on your signature sub-page is entered in the relevant box in your Preferences > User profile settings. The four tildes will then render the signature the way you want it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:22, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, you put all that fancy code into the text box at your Preferences page, and then make sure the ticky box under it that says "Treat the above as wiki markup." is checked, and, voila, next time you sign with the tildes you'll automatically get the fancy sig plus timestamp.

And then maybe do something about this. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 12:59, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ormr2014. I have already removed one deletion proposal from the article and argued in favor of my decision in the article's talk page. I maintain the same arguments. In any case I have included some more details and references. The article is still a stub and I know that much improvement is needed, but do you think there is enough referenced information now for the notice to be removed?

As for it being "promotional in nature", I think this is an accusation that applies equally well to any article on a member organization of IHEU. In any case I have added references to the association being mentioned in international reports and academic articles. I hope they add credibility to my defense. Ariel Pontes (talk) 12:03, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Ariel Pontes, Please add your arguments in favor of keeping the article in the Deletion Discussion Page. I do not believe the sources given in the article establish notability in the least and I could not find anything reputable that did so, which is why I nominated the article. You are welcome to discuss it in the appropriate place. Ormr2014 (talk) 12:09, 13 May 2015 (UTC)