User talk:Njyoder

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Proposed deletion of Ocular effect

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Ocular effect, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. —Cel ithemis 07:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I

You should be aware of this thread about you on the AN/I board.

Having looked into it a bit I can say that you certainly need to dial back the hostility. There is never any good purpose served by things like saying someone lies, stating that you will not assume good faith, complaining that someone wrote 'de facto' without the space, et cetera. It just serves no useful purpose. You're being angry and saying things bound to make the other person angry... none of which is good for a cooperative project. People can, and do, disagree. Just don't be disagreeable about it.

As to the matter(s) in dispute; the fact that a discussion board may be notable (based on Alexa, Google, third party references, et cetera) does not make it also a reliable source. If any random person can post any random thing there then that posting is no more a reliable source than any posting on any other forum. An individual blogger might theoretically be found to be a reliable source, but that again is different than being notable. Generally something is only considered a reliable source if it has independent fact checking in place or if the information it is cited for is something directly related to the subject which they would have no apparent reason to lie about (e.g. if a celebrity says we have their birth place wrong we can generally take them as a reliable source for where they were born).

On the other hand I can't see what would be 'disruptive' about this edit. The comment would have been better placed in the edit summary or on the talk page, but it's not the first time I've seen comments in the text and I don't see how it disrupts anything. Just not standard practice and probably a bad idea to use in most cases because we don't want articles cluttered up with old comments that people don't remember the relevance of. --CBD 14:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He's consistently demonstrated that he's acting in bad faith, thereofre I said I will ignore things he's saying in bad faith. He's also lied several times--he's backpedaled and changed his argument as new evidence was presented--his original stance was that no criticism section should exist at all and that there was no notable criticsm for the PayPal article, even though the article itself has long included a class action lawsuit in it. He'll refuse to engage in any sort of productive debate and instead will just repeat his original assertions over and over without backing them up beyond saying 'the rules agree with me' (see argumentum ad nauseam). Furthermore, he utterly refuses to clarify his own interpretation of any policies (as a deliberate attempt to avoid making any concessions). If you want to talk about not being useful, go tell him that he's not contributing in any useful manner. He's even violated 3RR without even so much as apologizing to acknowledging that he is selectively obeying policies. He's just carrying a grudge and trying to get people to support him and this really isn't at all appropriate for AN/I. It's even more inappropriate for you to use that to discuss content disputes over this matter--if you're going to acknowledge notability, you better go tell him that, otherwise you're just encouraging him. He doesn't even want to link to any sites unless there's proof that they're super duper notable--he even rejects things such as pagerank for measures of popularity and when I found multiple news articles mentioning the website, he said the mentions weren't prominent enough. You missed the point of my argument as well, I wasn't using the forum as if it were a newspaper, I was using it to demonstrating that criticism for freezing accounts and other things were common enough to be worthy of being mentioned int he article. -Nathan J. Yoder 03:45, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Drawing conclusions on how common a criticism is is OR research. You have to let reliable sources draw those conclusions for you.--Crossmr 04:11, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, you're even harassing me on my talk page? Why ignore where this guy disagreed with you? Determining the commonality of a viewpoint is REQUIRED by WP:NPOV in order to give due weight. How the hell else are you going to determine it? Reliable sources aren't going to provide you a statistic on the proportions of views for all the articles of Wikipedia and you can find many that would disagree, too, (remember that source that said that many people criticized paypal and you rejected it because the author didn't considre them valid, even though commonality is the only criteria for notability) because they're not based on anything scientific, unless they're an actual study. Go ahead, try to find policy supporting what you're saying about commonality--I bet you will conveniently fail to find anything specific and will just say "It's in the policy pages somewhere" again. -Nathan J. Yoder 04:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]