User talk:JohnRTroy

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Hi, just wanted to let you know, if you want to thank another user, or comment, its better to do so on their user talk page. In the case of User:N. Caligon and the note you left on Talk:John Byrne, its a better practice to leave these on the users talk page, User talk:N. Caligon. This is mainly only for registered users, as IP's will change for other people. In this way, you can have an off article topic discussion directly with the user, and it will notify them of messages next time they are on. Thanks for you understanding. <>Who ?¿? 08:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

John -- just saw your message on your website -- contact me -- slayers750@yahoo.com -- I am the user tbo452 on myspace!!

Filmography/actor navboxes

I noticed you had added an Eddie Murphy navbox to his page that contained his full filmography along with a list of albums. To save you a lot of work, please note that we do not use actor and filmography navboxes. See WT:ACTOR for a compilation of the large number of links to deletion discussions that resulted in the deletion of such boxes. I removed the films from the navbox but left the albums, which are accepted on articles. Thank you. Wildhartlivie (talk) 14:31, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Gioia bruno promotion pic 2007 001.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Gioia bruno promotion pic 2007 001.jpg, which you've sourced to Karina DelBel.. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Ankheg

Hello,

Because you participated in the previous AFD for Ankheg, I am notifying you that it has been nominated for AFD again. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 14:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lamia (D&D)

Hello, as you took part in the 1st AFD for Lamia (Dungeons & Dragons), which closed on "no consensus", I'm bringing to your attention that after a second AFD with the same result, a discussion on whether to merge or not has opened on the article talk page. BOZ (talk) 11:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Al Plastino

No reason? Read the talk page where you misrepresent the CDC. You cannot seriously be suggesting that flu vaccines cause GBS. If that were the case, no one would get flu vaccines. Do you think vaccines cause autism, too? Read the talk page rather than edit-war.

You and other family/friends are tag-teaming and I won't violate WP:3RR. But I can see we need to take this to ANI. --Tenebrae (talk) 21:14, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

Placing a response since it's on my talk page, just because this is my zone. For the record, it's unfortunate you felt the need to escalate things to admin twice in a 48 hour period. The fact of the matter is, I did not know enough about GBS and was actually trying to research it. There does seem to be some concern about the GBS virus at least affecting one prior vaccine. There are side-effects, even if they are rare, to vaccines, such as Encephalitis and allegic reactions. ( http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110525/full/473436a.html ) I am certainly not one of those people who are anti-vaccination. But we have no idea if they were saying he had a pre-existing condition and the virus triggered it, and I was giving the source the benefit of the doubt. I strongly suggest you learn not to over-react to criticism. JRT (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a matter of reacting to criticism. I'm a professional journalist and I know both the basic standards of trustworthy, responsible journalism and the even higher standards that an encyclopedia must uphold. And to see untrained people violate so many standards of both areas and then refuse to understand they're being irresponsible is frustrating. If you wouldn't perform surgery or try a case in court without training, why would anyone think, once they get into contentious areas of scholarship, that they have the training and tools to perform journalism or encyclopedia-level research? Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and that means having to rise to professional standards, not lowering the bar. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:43, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On that level, I can understand. JRT (talk) 20:10, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Look, I'm sorry for getting frustrated. Please feel free, not that permission is needed, but please feel free to delete this talk-page section and let's try to put this behind us.

The ANI-page sections will get archived soon enough, if they haven't been already, and so will Al Plastino talk page. Maybe this difficult episode will fade away. I sincerely wish you pleasant and constructive Wiki'ing. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 10:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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February 2014

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Al Plastino. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. -- Atama頭 21:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive831#Legal threats and insults regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

Help

Hi John. I noticed that you seem to have run into a few arguments recently regarding properly citing content to credible sources before adding it to Wikipedia. Also, that you have made ~1,000 edits, but nobody has really welcomed you to Wikipedia or offered to help. Meanwhile an acronym soup of policies and guidelines are being dumped on you.

So I thought I would offer myself up as a potential contact if you need help in the future, have questions, etc. I noticed that you felt the Mass Effect 3 Controversy section was overblown and I agree. Such things often occur from disgruntled fans. For example a whole paragraph is devoted to a medicore source regarding a forum post (or something like that) and it has some speculation, which about why certain people retired and we prefer to avoid speculations in most cases.

Anyways, I just wanted to let you know there is someone around that can help. CorporateM (Talk) 22:17, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have one question for you CorporateM. Could you evaluate what I wrote today in the Al Plastino Talk Page. I'm not asking you to weigh in on that conversation, I'm simply want to make sure I'm obeying the etiquette standards of Wikipedia as expected in the talk page. I was going to stay out of it but I had a final concern based on the comment and I want to make sure I'm making my arguments well or at least politely.

ArbCom elections are now open!

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