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Elf

Hi Alric!

It's just great that you take pity on Wikipedia and the work of us geeks who populate it. Your edits as an anonymous user were all excellent; I especially appreciate those you made on elf! I certainly hope you will continue to improve the quality of this site! Regards --Salleman [talk] 4 July 2005 14:01 (UTC)

De Locis Sanctis

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Culture

Hi. If you have some time can you help out here? The article was a total train wreck and I made major revisions. The previous version had some material from Raymond Williams in it, but all jumbled up with anthropology and cultural studies was not named as a distinct approach or set of approaches. I deleted redundancies and fringe views and reorganized the rest so that distinct approaches were clear. That said, I am pretty weak on cultural studies. So I made a place in the article for it, but what I wrote could be off and is surely incomplete (my strength is in anthropology). I'd appreciate it if you could look at it soon and flesh out the differences between how anthropology and cultural studies understand and look at culture, clarify anything I muddled, and correct any mistakes. I do not think this article should replace the articles on cultural anthropology or on cultural studies, but I do think these disciplines provide important contexts for explaining different approaches to culture. Completely missing is a section on "cultural history," which I hope you know something about. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 00:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - I have done everything I could on anthropology's approach to "culture" and the article is out of balance, the thing to do is to add a strong section on cultural studies' approach to culture. I sure hope you can help. I hope this is a good holiday for you, Slrubenstein | Talk 23:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Nazi, Swastika References Being Purged from Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Would you mind having a look at the problem of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party's Nazi history and swastika flag being systematically deleted/vandalized? This removes an important aspect of neutrality from the article. References from many reliable sources are provided. See its talk page. The edits are being done by users with IP addresses from very similar domains. Thanks, Histopher Critchens (talk) 20:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Canterbury Tales

Nice work on the language section. I've been working on that article awhile and got stuck on the themes section. Those are always pretty difficult to write. Wrad (talk) 18:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Aha

Nú veit ég hvers vegna nafnið þitt var svona kunnuglegt þegar ég sá það í gestabókinni niðri á Þjóðdeild. Haukur (talk) 16:18, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson

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Ways to improve Mary 'Ajami

Hi, I'm Carriearchdale. Alarichall, thanks for creating Mary 'Ajami!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Perhaps you could choose some appropriate categories near the bottom of the article to help improve the overall article and make the article more easily searchable by wikipedia users. Thanks!

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Merge

Hello Alaric. As you've probably seen, I've restored the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election, 2010 article. We have individual articles for almost every national election and referendum held in countries, and I see no reason why this one should be any different. Of course, there are elements that should be covered in both articles and they should be strongly interlinked, but the election article should remain a standalone one. Cheers, Number 57 10:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Huda Sha'arawi

Hello, Alarichall,

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Thanks, Staglit (talk) 21:37, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Elf

Hi, Alaric. I am glad to see you take an interest in the Elf article. I enjoy your serious contributions.

With regard the unfortunate situation, Bloodofox is a cyber bully with a history of harassment and abusive editing. Even here is massive deletions rather than line-by-line considerations evidences his nonacademic agenda and aggression. He works persistently to delete and censor scholarly information that he dislikes. I had a bad experience earlier when he succeeded in renaming an other article without consensus and in a way that destroyed its history and information. I was unfamiliar with the administration of wikipedia, and the admins didnt seem to understand how the old article was destroyed. Heh, meanwhile I was in a panic. Please, help undo any future POV damage by Bloodofox.

Anyway, I look forward to working with you and others to try make the information about the Elf solid and nuanced. It is an important and fascinating topic. Haldrik (talk) 01:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Haldrik. I don't know the work of either you or bloodofox at all well and will be happy to judge matters without prejudice. As I say, including edit summaries will help! Looking forward likewise to collaborating in future. Alarichall (talk) 11:44, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Cool, I appreciate it. Haldrik (talk) 16:57, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Great blog post

Hi - I just wanted to say that this was a great blog post! KConWiki (talk) 01:27, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks KConWiki! Alarichall (talk) 11:37, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Blog post

Hi Alan, may I say how much I enjoyed your blog post? Vandalism is massively detrimental to Wikipedia, more so when it goes un-noticed. You may be interested to hear (if you don't know already) that your blog post was mentioned in the Signpost, so double congratulations! All the best, Matty.007 13:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Wow, thanks Mat! I didn't know about the Signpost thing--I appreciate the heads up. And thanks also for the barnstar! I am honoured :-) Alarichall (talk) 14:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hans

Hi. I read your excellent blog post after seeing it in the Signpost, and had a go at editing Hans Jonatan to make the refs easier to understand. A few pictures in that article would definitely improve it, and it would be interesting to know whether this one is old enough to be in the public domain. There might also exist a picture of the ruins of the house he lived in. James^x12345 14:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Hey, thanks James^x12345! For the compliment but also for the work on that entry. Good idea about the pictures. It'll be a few weeks before I can follow it up, but I'll email the people behind the website you linked to and also Gísli, who's writing Hans's biography and has some relevant photos, to see if I can get any.

Sounds great. I've also created him a page on is.wiki (one line from Google translate, my sincere apologies for the bad wording) and linked them on Wikidata. James^x12345 15:35, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Icelandic municipal elections, 2014

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Eric Julius Biörner

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Ways to improve Jean Boinebroke of Douai

Hi, I'm Irondome. Alarichall, thanks for creating Jean Boinebroke of Douai!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Interesting. Appears to be notable, mentioned in an academic work on the period. Would suggest expansion if more sources can be brought to bear. Cheers Irondome (talk) 18:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Walter de Cantilupo

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Editing of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks

As you may not know, the article Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks was recently put up for deletion. It passed easily. See the results at [[1]].

But the proposer of the deletion had a valid point in that citations were rather lacking. I have attempted to improve the article by adding some.

However the one point I am stuck on is the matter of a supposed relationship between Heiðrek and Ermamaric. I don't know the source for this theory. Perhaps you do, and might edit the article appropriately. This theory was questioned by an anonymous user on the article talk page at Talk:Hervarar_saga_ok_Heiðreks and no response was made. I rather agree with the user but do not wish to make changes based only on that.

Jallan (talk) 19:43, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Konungasaga listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Konungasaga. Since you had some involvement with the Konungasaga redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Compassionate727 (talk) 21:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Riddles (Arabic)

Hello Alarichall,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Riddles (Arabic) for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[{{{article}}}]].

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 21:32, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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Arndís Þórarinsdóttir

I don't agree, I'm afraid. I think Category:Icelandic writers ought to be depreciated - I think the category is too broad. I tried to put her in the requisite sub-categories - Category:Icelandic children's writers, for instance - and if I missed any, I'm sorry. But by and large I think all of the writers-by-nationality categories should be treated more and more like container categories; I think it's much better to categorize people by the types of writer that they are. It's more properly specific, I think. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:02, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

In that case, perhaps you'd be so good as to do this for all the people categorised as Icelandic writers? At the moment, the outcome is sexist (with all but one male Icelandic writer being included as 'Icelandic writers' whereas women tend to be marginalised as 'Icelandic women writers'). That said, I note that Icelandic women writers contains a hatnote saying 'This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Icelandic writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.' So at the moment, your policy runs contrary to that hatnote. Alarichall (talk) 07:43, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but in what way? It says "or in diffusing subcategories of the parent" - Category:Icelandic children's writers is a diffusing subcategory of the parent, no? I will do what I can to clean up the parent cat - it's far from the only writers-by-nationality category which requires it - but it's going to take some time. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply! Just to make sure we understand each other: I don't object to categorising Arndís in Category:Icelandic children's writers. But I do object to categorising her in Category:Icelandic women writers but not in the parent Category:Icelandic writers given that (a) male writers are not presently being treated in this way and (b) the hatnote for Category:Icelandic women writers makes it clear that people might belong both to the child category Category:Icelandic women writers and to the parent category Category:Icelandic writers. Hopefully your offer to 'clean up' Category:Icelandic writers does reflect an understanding of the sexism that the parent category currently exhibits! I'd be happy to sort it out myself, but don't want to do a load of edits if you're going to come and change them all!

Well...to the point that "male writers aren't being treated that way". They will do. I'm getting around to it - it's a slow task (made slower by the fact that my computer has been giving me troubles this weekend.) But I intend on parity with both - I'm not singling out women writers in any way. It's just that we have the categories in place for women writers which we don't, as much, for male writers, so it's easier to start there and work my way away from it.

As for the point that people might belong to both categories...well, yes, technically they might. But I think having people in a generic "writers" category, when they're already in subcategories, tends to make things needlessly confusing. There are times when it's appropriate, yes, but I think the category tree for Icelandic writers is diverse enough that breaking it down is easier. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:59, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I'll see if I can get it done myself :-) Good luck getting the computer to behave! Alarichall (talk) 17:18, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Notifying of Proposed Deletion of Studentergarden.. or something similar..

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Adding journal and book sources easily

Hi, are you aware of this simple method of citing sources? You only need to enter either the ISBN or doi and click a button for the rest of the fields to be populated automatically. I see that you've been around on WP for a long time and probably have your own preferences and workflow … This is just an FYI in case you are unaware of this tool. Have fun :)--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 13:45, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Cpt.a.haddock! I didn't know. I've always been a bit backward with referencing so it's a useful tip. Alarichall (talk) 13:47, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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A page you started (Ála flekks saga) has been reviewed!

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Looks good. I've replaced the duplicated reference with the same one twice (using refname) and added more citations, using Google books links where possible. Also added some Wikiproject tags on the talk page. Hope that's all OK.

Thanks Blythwood! Alarichall (talk) 21:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Duplicate refs

Just been reading through all your great articles and tagging them as reviewed...but there's no need to type in every reference five times! Just use the cite tool (which lets you paste in an ISBN and build the ref, too), type a name for the reference into refname, hit preview, and then you can choose the reference from 'named references' and insert the same one in anywhere. Blythwood (talk) 06:25, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not entirely convinced about this method. I see that the changes you made to Sigurðar saga fóts have removed the precise page numbers from some of the references, leaving readers to hunt around the article trying to find where particular issues are discussed. I should probably get round to seeing what other options Wikipedia has for referencing, but I'm quite comfortable just putting in full and precise references each time, in the knowledge that if that if one section of the page gets rewritten, the references elsewhere won't be affected :-) Alarichall (talk) 12:38, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for doing all this reviewing though! Alarichall (talk) 12:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

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I don't understand. The article is written in English, not in Icelandic, so I can't translate it into English. I see that the note added to the page also says 'This article is written in Iceland. If it is intended for readers from the Iceland language community, it should be contributed to the Wikipedia in that language. See the list of Wikipedias.' But the article meets the usual criteria for notability for books, and I don't see why English-speakers should be deprived of an opportunity to read about it. Alarichall (talk) 14:27, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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See WP:WTAF. If you plan on writing the article, do it first, then link to it.

RE - all the links you're adding to Sovereignty goddess, in multiple articles are redlinks. Best to leave the text as is until the article exists. See the link above for how to proceed with this. Thanks. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:18, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Ta! I'll remember this in future. Alarichall (talk) 21:33, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 16:41, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Just a little note WP:FILEUPLOADWIZARD very helpful for adding covers to book articles. It is okay to use jpgs from the web, no need to take a photo of the book. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:38, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! That's helpful :-) Alarichall (talk) 11:20, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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About elves and what not

Hello Alaric Hall, I am considering to do a GA assessment on the article Elf, but i'd like to check one thing first. I noticed you have only recently been editing the article, mostly adding your own work. Are you familiar and have you checked the accuracy of the other citations? The reason why I ask is that a GA assessment can be quite an ordeal if the nominator is not familiar with all the sources cited.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 15:02, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I am starting the review. I hope you are ready.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 22:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Sorry I didn't see this in time. There will have been some references that I inherited from earlier versions of the entry and didn't check, but most of them I did indeed check. I hope it doesn't prove a waste of your time and thanks for your hard work on Wikipedia either way! Alarichall (talk) 08:50, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Alarichall, it is okay, i've started here.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 09:20, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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Alarichall, if you haven't got any time to look at the assessment, let me know now, so I can just fail the nomination and we can get it over with.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Sorry, I didn't realise you expected me to be responding as you went along: I thought I should wait until you'd finished. I appreciate all the very helpful feedback. I'll be happy to work on the article over the next fortnight or so, if that's okay? Alarichall (talk) 13:25, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hello again

Hello Alarichall, do you have any time to do a GA assessment yourself? I have an article about a half-historical, half-mythical person called Maudgalyayana that I have submitted for GA. Might be of interest to you. (If you feel I have been too hard on you in the last assessment, you can take revenge now, lol.)--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 17:13, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Are we still on speaking terms, Alarichall?--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 14:37, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey ho! Thanks for this prompt, and for the invitation. I'll see what I can do but I don't have much time this week. I reply to messages from you much faster than from most people at any rate! Alarichall (talk) 15:40, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! If you are too busy it is okay—we can leave it for some other time.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 06:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi there @Farang Rak Tham:! It has been a very long time, but I'm on holiday for the next couple of weeks so I thought I'd ask if there's anything you'd like doing on here? I never got to repay you for your help with the elf article! Alarichall (talk) 18:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Actually I pinged you briefly a few months ago, remember? Some discussion on the WikiProject Religion. But you are right, we didn't talk for a while. I remember the elf article as quite a rewarding GA, because it reminded and revived my Tolkien passion a bit. I only have two articles about Thai people, not sure if you'd care to review: it's Luang Por Dhammajayo and 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations, but the latter contains mostly Thai language sources.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:00, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll leave a comment on your talk page accordingly. Alarichall (talk) 16:44, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Le Roman du Comte d'Artois

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Alarichall, thanks for creating Le Roman du Comte d'Artois!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This appears to have no sources. Is the 'external link' actually your source rather than a friendly suggestion? If so, can you change the title from 'external links' to 'References' or 'Sources' so this is clear? If it isn't your source, can you pelase add your source.

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Can you please answer the above? Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 20:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry. Actually, my source was a conference paper I was listening to. Obviously you're right that the page needs to cite written sources. TBH I've been hoping that someone who knows more about it will work on it eventually. But obviously at some point I might have a chance to look this stuff up properly myself. Alarichall (talk) 21:32, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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Jaufre and Talat / Talac de Rougemont

Hello Alarichall Sorry for inappropriate addition to your quote. Thanks for moving (and not deleting) note re. Talat de Rougemont. Intrigued by this character and wonder whether he derives from some (lost?) character from Welsh Mythology, given association with both Yder and Gilfaethwy fab Don / Girflet filz Do. regards Flobbadob.

Shaftesbury Act

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A disambiguation page would be useful: bolded alternative titles should be access points whether by redirect, hatnote or dab page. I'd have done it myself but I'm on my phone and partner is busy on the laptop! Thanks. PamD 13:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC) PamD 13:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Good point. I'll sort it. Alarichall (talk) 13:48, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Union Atlantic

Hi! Union Atlantic was listed at WP:CP because of the very long quotation, which I've just removed as quite out of proportion to the length of the page. Now I find that you were never notified. I'm truly sorry about that (and yes, I should have checked that before I did anything else), but don't feel that it is appropriate to restore the quote. In general, quotations should make up – at most – only a small percentage of article text, and should only be added where they are the subject of discussion in the article. This, of course, is more breached than it is observed. Question: are you sure that this book is notable by our standards? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:17, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I'm not sure there were any copyright problems here (depends what you call 'excessive') -- although I recognise it's bad style to have long quotations in Wikipedia entries. But anyway, I've paraphrased it now. I also added links to reviews -- again, I recognise that if I'd done a better job on this article in the first place, you'd have been spared asking; on the other hand, in the time it took you to ask about the book, you could have established its notability! I guess you'd see this article as an example of Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself; personally I'd see it as a case of Wikipedia:If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But no harm done. Good luck with future editing! Alarichall (talk) 00:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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Updating the 2018 UK higher education strike article

Hi, hopefully you've seen this already but the strike article is now featured on the In the News section of Wikipedia's front page in the Ongoing section. I'm told for it to remain there it needs to be regularly updated everyday. I'll do my best but better if both of us or others can contribute to keep it spruced up and uptodate each day if possible. Thanks again for all your hard work on this. Cheers! Stinglehammer (talk) 23:07, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Noted, @Stinglehammer:. No worries! Alarichall (talk) 11:13, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

PS if you find yourself wanting to work on the article yourself and short of inspiration, it would be good to integrate references to the House of Commons report, as a good, well balanced, authoritative source, into the background sections. The report is linked in the external links. Obviously I'll try and work on this myself, but thought I'd mention it. Alarichall (talk) 23:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

@Alarichall: Possibly you've already seen this but the article has now been removed from the In the News section. A good run while it lasted but a tad alarming some ITN voices did not see this as ever being newsworthy. Anyway, I've updated with the new strike dates announcement for 16-20 April and wish I could have found time to do more. Thanks again for your editing efforts on this over the last few weeks. I daresay there will be more to report on this story and more updates to add in due course. Thanks again! Stinglehammer (talk) 20:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Töfrahöllin. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Caution for plugging own book/report on multiple articles. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 10:01, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi there @Thomas.W:! I take your point that Wikipedia editors referencing their own academic publications is sensitive. Re your deletion of the mention of útrásarvíkingar in Vikings, would you be happy if I reinstate the prose with different references? (I cited my piece because the pages cited refer quite comprehensively to past work, but I can just as well cite that work directly.) Re your editing of Töfrahöllin, we now have an awkward situation where the identifications of sources that I made are still in the article, but now with no reference. What would you prefer here? To remove the information entirely, or to reinstate the reference? I don't think we can have it both ways! Alarichall (talk) 11:33, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

In Vikings it would be OK to reinstate the material with different sources, and in Töfrahöllin it would be best to remove it all, if there are no "neutral" sources available. Wikipedia has very strict rules regarding COI editing, including that editors should never add their own material (even people who are widely acknowledged as experts in their fields have been indefinitely blocked from editing here, and had their websites/publications blacklisted, for doing it...). I haven't looked at the rest of your edits, but the same rules would of course apply there... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 11:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

We can do that then. But, for future reference, I think you might have misread the COI guidance on citing yourself. It says 'Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive. Citations should be in the third person and should not place undue emphasis on your work. When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion: propose the edit on the article's talk page and allow others to review it' (Wikipedia:SELFCITE). This is very different from your idea that 'editors should never add their own material'! Alarichall (talk) 12:18, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

What I wrote is what most other editors seem to feel, and the edits by you that I reverted were sourced only to your own material, which definitely is "excessive", especially since your comment further up in this thread says that other sources also exist, at least for your edit on Vikings. Doing it on multiple articles also qualifies as citation spamming, which is a blockable offence here. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 12:45, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, sort of. As it says at WP:REFSPAM, 'citation spamming is a subtle form of spam and should not be confused with legitimate good-faith additions intended to verify article content and help build the encyclopedia.' That is to say, legitimate, good-faith self-citations that verify content and help build the encyclopaedia are not citation spamming. Alarichall (talk) 13:03, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:REFSPAM also says "Citation spamming is a form of search engine optimization or promotion that typically involves the repeated insertion of a particular citation or reference in multiple articles by a single contributor. Often these are added not to verify article content but rather to populate numerous articles with a particular citation", which seems to be a good description of the edits in question, especially since you admitted you could have used other references. And your wikilawyering over it isn't helping your case... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 14:18, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Ah well, I guess we'll just have to agree to differ over what constitutes spam. I'd just finish this discussion for my part by encouraging you to go carefully undoing accurate, relevant, good-faith edits in future! I've been editing Wikipedia for years and won't be going anywhere, but it's the sort of thing that could put off new users contributing relevant expertise. Alarichall (talk) 15:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Thomas.W, kind of odd to post such a heavy tag without any explanation. In this default form, it doesn't inform of anything, and only leaves questions to people not involved. What is the conflict of interest?--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:04, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Having looked at the section above, i think I can understand a little more. Out of curiosity, may I ask on which policy you base your understanding that no scholar may refer to his own publications while editing on Wikipedia?--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:11, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@Farang Rak Tham: The general conflict of interest rules can be found at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, and the shortcut to using own sources (which is a subsection of the COI rules) is WP:SELFCITE. Using own publications as sources is allowed "within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive". What is excessive or not is generally interpreted very restrictively, though, and the posts that led to the section above this were way over the line. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:32, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

So where did Alarichall go wrong? I don't see any violation of SELFCITE with these edits, which is the only wiki article I see you referring to. I do think your revert here is problematic, as no spamming took place. Please add more explanation plus links, as I am getting a bit suspicious here.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:42, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

I have no intention of entering into a detailed discussion with you, since you AFAIK aren't directly involved. You asked general questions, and I answered the general questions, but that's as far as I will go. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:54, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I suspect that Alarichall has added his books or articles to too many wiki articles. However, you should provide more than one example, so other editors can follow, especially when you are accusing someone of a thing like a COI, which can lead to serious measures quite easily. It also seems a far stretch to go from a violation of selfcite to a full-fledged COI, especially when it concerns a scholar in a field with nearly no real-life consequences, and no political or economical interests. To put it bluntly, someone having an certain scholarly opinion about dwarves or elves is not a COI—at worst, it is UNDUE and should be tagged as such. Similarly, an article from a university is not spamming.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:57, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Also, I find your usage of terms like wikilawyering questionable, as well the conflicting tagging which you did in the edit linked above.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:57, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thomas.W, I was looking at this talk page for another reason, then saw your tags. I don't have any direct involvement in the why and what of these tags, but since these tags are public and may affect the tagged editor's reputation, you should provide sufficient reason—even when editors not involved ask. Not providing sufficient reason for a tag like COI can easily be understood as form of tendentious or uncivil editing.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 23:04, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

I removed the COI tag per WP:UNRESPONSIVE and WP:CIVIL, as the person tagging has been unwilling to explain his tag. I suspect the advertising/promotion tag is unwarranted as well.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 12:30, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

@Farang Rak Tham: You seem to have misunderstood how quite a few things work here: it's not up to you to decide if a COI-tag and a warning for promotion/spamming posted by another user is warranted or not, you have no right to remove a tag that has been posted by someone else on another user's talk page (the user, i.e. in this case Alarichall, is free to remove it, but you're not), and I have no obligation to give a detailed explanation for it to you, other than pointing you to relevant rules, as I did. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:08, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Farang Rak Tham. I've been a bit confused about what to make of these accusations, so it's good of you to make your own enquiries and offer a view. Alarichall (talk) 16:46, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Thomas.W: I have no objection to the removal of this tag, so no harm done there. I actually wasn't sure if I was allowed to remove it myself. Alarichall (talk) 17:11, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

User's are allowed to remove anything from their own talk pages, except declined unblock requests while still blocked. Removing content is simply seen as a confirmation of having read whatever messages/warnings they have received. Removing content from a page doesn't delete it, though, everything can still be found in the page history, easily accessible for anyone. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:19, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

That makes sense. Since I wouldn't want anyone to imagine I have something to hide, I'll leave them here. Alarichall (talk) 18:43, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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Wow, thanks @Cdjp1:! I appreciate it. Alarichall (talk) 16:51, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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