User talk:Rkaplan

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Articles for deletion nomination of Flight Level Aviation

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Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. YSSYguy (talk) 15:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:FlightLevelPanel.jpg

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October 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Elizabeth Holmes, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. utcursch | talk 21:35, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - but doesn't that apply to Forbes and WLJ and the rest? None of them seem to have been reliable in this case. rkaplan

By original research, I'm referring to your personal commentary ("Though some may question the accuracy..."). The ZeroHedge issue is a separate matter. utcursch | talk 22:04, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK can you suggest another way I can word that? My point was simply - it's unfair to say Durden is an unreliable source but Forbes is reliable. The whole story in the news is that the usual reliable sources may have totally let us down and coronated a "billionaire" who is really worth almost nothing. That's what the preponderance of the news says. How do you suggest we make that point in the Wiki article on Holmes? rkaplan

We don't make any point unless it's made by a reliable source. Whether a source is reliable or not can be easily determined using the well-established guidelines (WP:RS). utcursch | talk 22:24, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well as those guidelines say: "Context matters" - Here the whole story is that the mainline "reliable" media may have let us down and may be fantastically wrong. In that "context" - per Wikipedia rules - inclusion of Durden as a source is entirely "reliable" and reasonable. If you feel othewise, let's bring this very point up in formal mediation or a formal vote or some other way that involves others to help us resolve this. rkaplan

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Rkaplan.The discussion is about the topic Topic. Thank you. utcursch | talk 22:40, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 2015

Please stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced biographical content, especially if controversial, to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Elizabeth Holmes. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. utcursch | talk 14:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did not violate policy - I added one reference, you questioned it, I added a second highly reputable reference (The Economist) to support the concept, and I asked you to take this to a formal mediation/discussion, which is in process. It is a violation of Wiki rules for you to Undo my contribution more than 3 times while the discussion/mediation is in progress. Let's continue the discussion there.Rkaplan (talk) 15:10, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of File:FlightLevelLogo.gif

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Unused logo with no article used, it's also can't move to commons because of an unused logo will be deleted as of out of project scope.

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Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Willy1018 (talk) 12:48, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]