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[edit] Tea Seed Oil

A commercial website bearing informative material relevant to a topic is still informative. You closed minded people who run around banishing external links that are extremely useful for those seeking information are making wikipedia non-authoritative. Reconsider your reversion and include the link to a commercial website that provides clear, unbiased information on the benefits of tea seed oil in a categorical manner with clear explanations and links back to wikipedia. If not, I'll appeal it.

I removed my comments because I felt they were inappropriate and presumptuous. I do not consider that an apology, specifically because see how well conditioned I have become to being harassed by editors in open projects like Wikipedia. I certainly do understand the immense number of spam and vandalism edits that must flow through here, but just as it is incorrect for me to assume a quick presumptuous edit is the result of a closed minded self-righteous groupthink editor, so too is it incorrect to mark all commercial outbound links as non-informative.
I am absolutely open to discussion on the matter, although I do not think it is such a large point that it is worthy of a lengthy debate. There is little non-commercial information on Tea Seed Oil out there and if there is, it tends to be somewhat incomplete or not well organized. Even if such a resource were found, the concise comparisons available on the link I posted (including the many PDF comparison charts available on the site) are an invaluable asset and certainly help to educate anyone interested in Tea Seed Oil on what exactly it is.
I do not have a Wikipedia account as I do not engage in much on here. I am affiliated with the company in question, but only on a voluntary basis. I partake in many voluntary positions (just like Wikipedia editors as yourself) that are, according to me, philanthropic in nature and promote the spread of true accurate information. Companies with similar ideals should not be penalized for attempting to commercialize this information to help increase its exposure.
Regardless of my own personal beliefs, I do believe that if you check the page in question thoroughly you will, yourself, learn quite a bit about Tea Seed Oil and find that it is indeed a very helpful addition. As a result, I "recommend" you reconsider your position. I appreciate your open communication and am pleasantly surprised by your willingness to discuss. --24.83.0.119 09:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tobias Picker

Thanks for the helpful feedback. I left response on my talk page. Sandy 13:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again -- I moved the sentence to the end of the article, and tried to give a bit of context. Hopefully it's not sticking out like a sore thumb anymore! Still learning ... Sandy 02:04, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 23:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Excessive (?) wikification

Hi, about the removed wikilinks. I don't think I wrote "abusive"; if I did it was a mistake, I meant just "excessive". Wikilinks do have a cost: the visual clutter, the cost of editing, the extra load in the server, and (mainly) the cost of fixing existing links when an article is renamed or split. On the other hand, the value of a wikilink is proportional to the likelyhood that a reader will click on it. So, I would say that some links are clearly worth their cost; some are not worth adding but not worth removing either; and some (like air) are excessive. I even believe that I saw this written somewhere in the Wikipedia style guids. All the best, Jorge Stolfi 21:14, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tea Tree Oil

Edit appeared at time I saved it, and still there now that I am looking from a different computer (no interventing additional edits in the article's history). I wonder if issue of not clearing the browser cache on your computer and downloading/reloading the new version, except you stated of that you tried in both IE and Firefox... certainly IE can sometimes play-up like this, but have no knowledge of Firefox's quirks :-).

See Wikipedia:Bypass your cache re wikipedia's own involvement in this browser activity - the article gives instruction on clearing caches in IE and Mozilla/Firefox - hope that helps :-) David Ruben Talk 12:12, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gabriel Macht

I'm curious about your noting in the intro to the article on Gabriel Macht that the actor is Jewish. Is this kind of thing commonly done in Wikipedia... noting the putative religious conviction or affiliation of every actor or every person — particularly in the intro section — as if this were particularly important to the general reader? Is this done only for Jews? Do you differentiate between, say, Episcopalians and Presbyterians when you add similar information for Protestants or do you keep it on a general level? If a person is non-observant or changes affiliation, is this similarly noted? Is there something about Gabriel Macht as an actor that is clarified by stating that he is Jewish? Please explain what's going on here. If this a special interest of yours, please expand. I'm sure others aside from myself are curious about this. Myron 01:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Macht was still placed within the recently deleted category Category:Jewish American actors. This was because someone had undone the edit to remove him from that category and place him in Category:American Jews and Category:Jewish actors. What I did was to partially undo that edit, with an edit summary to indicate the first category had been deleted.
That's the beginning and ending of my interest: a simple housekeeping task. If it's changed something else on that page which other editors didn't want changed, then feel free to do whatever's needed. Just don't put him back into the deleted category. --Mark H Wilkinson (t, c) 08:15, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
This totally clears up my question. For some obscure reason, your housekeeping for the deleted category restored the offensive material that apparently had been placed there by an anonymous visitor with a long history of all sorts of disruption on Wikipedia and who had been inserting similar material in other articles. Thank you very much for straightening this out. Of course, this leaves the issue of some system bug causing unintended consequences, but I have no idea where to look for a solution for that. Myron 09:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
That may have simply been carelessness on my part -- I was focusing on the categories when I undid the last edit. --Mark H Wilkinson (t, c) 10:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

The ethnicity of notable people is noted throughout Wikipedia, i.e. random examples like Stephen Colbert, David Caruso, Art Carney, Steve Buscemi. There is no requirement that I can see this be relevant to their careers, any more than their birth place or who they are married to requires that. Being Jewish is an ethnicity, there is no debate about this. See the article Jew, "A Jew is a member of the Jewish people who are an ethnic group originating in the Israelites of the ancient Middle East". I don't see why that wouldn't be included in Macht's article when Colbert or Buscemi are describe as Irish-American, that's not fair. And the idea that because there is hatred for a particular ethnic group means that no people can be mentioned as being of that group is ridiculous, considering how many ethnic groups are hated throughout the world (and isn't that letting the haters win?) King Mondo 03:14, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AIV

Thank you for making a report about 209.254.39.10 (talk · contribs · block log) on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Thank you! WODUP 04:40, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] International Creative Management

Thanks for the note. I felt that a very minor "article" which claims to be "one of the biggest" and unverified, together with a long list of present and former clients which again is unverified and added by an anon. user raised the spectre of spam. Obviously the subject is significant enough (assuming good faith and the article is correct) to warrant inclusion, but it still is merely a resume of the company's activities. You're welcome to disagree with me and remove my tag. Different editors have different opinions.--Richhoncho (talk) 13:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)