User talk:Melcous

Help with page move?

Hi again Melcous. I noticed that you have the page mover right; might you be willing to move Neville Lancelot Goddard to Neville Goddard per WP:COMMONNAME? I'd like to do it myself but it's obstructed by the target article being a redirect. He is not commonly referred to with his middle name included. Feel free to examine the article's sources to verify for yourself. Thanks. Left guide (talk) 09:21, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Left guide, I'm quite new to page mover rights, so this was my first round robin move. Hopefully it was all done ok - let me know if you think I've missed anything? Melcous (talk) 11:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

It looks perfect, thank you so much for helping! :) Left guide (talk) 11:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

UCBC

Hi, hope you're well?

I disagree with the notion that the information you keep removing is not notable, the boat race is a televised national event therefore the names of participants who went to University College is notable information for an encyclopaedia.

Furthermore I do not understand the continued removal especially when many other Oxford College Boat Clubs have had this information on their pages for many years. Any further information you could share would be much appreciated, thank you! OxfordRowing (talk) 14:39, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

@OxfordRowing: thanks for discussing this, but the place to do so is on the article talk page, particularly as I am not the only editor who has disagreed with the inclusion of this content. Consensus needs to be sought before it could be put into the article again. But to your questions here briefly, the boat race being nationally televised might be a good argument for why the race is notable, but has nothing to do with whether it is ok to list non-notable participants. Also see WP:OSE which is always an argument to avoid. Thank you Melcous (talk) 22:32, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Deshkal Society

Dear @Melcous,

I have edited the languages and tone of the content as it has required for wiki page. I request you to kindly revisit the page Deshkal Society as you have added the ADS TAG there. ThePerfectYellow (talk) 08:40, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Dear @Melcous, I request you to kindly visit the oage again and remove the ad tag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThePerfectYellow (talk • contribs) 19:58, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

@ThePerfectYellow: I revisited the page after your previous message, and I do not believe the issue has been resolved. The lead, and the the entire article, read as if they are written to promote the society and its work, not from a WP:NPOV. Melcous (talk) 22:39, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

@Melcous

Thanks for your valuable comment. I will re-edit this page and let you know the update here. ThePerfectYellow (talk) 09:04, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Yossi Erblich

Hi,

I noticed that you placed a template on the article indicating several issues, and I would appreciate some help and clarification.

I didn't understand why the article was marked as "written like a resume" – isn't this the typical style for biographical entries?

Regarding the "notability guideline" – a notability discussion was held on the Hebrew Wikipedia, and many editors argued that the subject is notable enough. Isn't this sufficient to justify translating the article into English?

I would appreciate guidance on how to improve the article. I saw that you have created quite a few biographies on Wikipedia, and I would love your help to advance in this area :)

Thank you,

אייל (talk) 19:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi אייל and thanks for your message. Having an article or discussion on another language wikipedia does not mean something is necessarily notable here - see WP:OTHERLANGS. Notability needs to be demonstrated according to the criteria here. On the Resume like tag, I added that before a number of changes were made and some of them have addressed the issues so I will remove that. Thank you Melcous (talk) 02:32, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Pradeep Jeganathan

Dear @Melcous

I have added the required references and paragraph of Publications. I don't think the comment you make on his Notability is right. He is from Sri Lanka and have done anthropological work in South Asia. Kindly reconsider this and remove the tag. ThePerfectYellow (talk) 18:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

@ThePerfectYellow:, Notability is not a matter of what you or I think. It needs to be demonstrated that he meets WP:NPROF, which is very specific, or other notability criteria. Please read through this, and then I would suggest putting on the talk page of the article a succinct explanation of which of the listed criteria you believe he meets, with sources to verify that. Thank you Melcous (talk) 22:52, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I have read this WP:NPROF. You need to understand how anthropology works and practices. They don't work in bulk like the other academician or subject experts. Here writing one article takes a minimum of two years because they adopt ethnography as a method of collecting data. You may not find Pradeep's works in terms of quantity as compared of others but the impact of his writing is so large. His writing on violence is a core subject in many anthropology departments.

I again repeat myself that reconsider all this. Also here, in the current edit, I have added content with references to reputed libraries and publications. Sources are from Jstor, google book, and Libraries.   ThePerfectYellow (talk) 05:40, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

@ThePerfectYellow: and again, discussion about this belongs on the article's talk page, not here. My understanding about anthropology is not the issue here, WP:NPROF applies to all academic disciplines. If you can demonstrate with sources how he meets one of the listed criteria there, please do so ... on the article talk page. Melcous (talk) 11:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)