User talk:Dwilso

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Abbreviating state election data

Hi, Dwilso, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I notice that you have recently been deleting some of the data from various states' pages: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and perhaps others. You give several reasons: "I can't read the last paragraph because the presidential results interupt it. So I cut it short. 1980 - Present", "1980- 2004 is a more current trend", "Deleted election results in 1960's decided to move to current trends."

Please stop doing that.

All evidence is that this is valid and correctly sourced information, which is highly appropriate for an encylopedia. Certainly many people are interested in such material. I shall now go to work putting some of the information back. Tim Ross (talk) 12:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Ford and Jaguar

First, Ford is selling both Jaguar and Land Rover, but you only mentioned Jag. Second, the article you referenced only talks about why they SHOUDL sell them, not that they have. In reality they have NOT sold either one yet, e.g.: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/FREE/552207794/1023/rss01&rssfeed=rss01 When the time comes I hope you'll use the right reference and remove Land Rover as well as Jaguar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davert (talk • contribs) 18:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Really, I think either Ford or Tata WILL tell us. Right now Tata has just announced that they won't buy anything until they get price guarantees on needed parts from Ford. Very smart of them not to be too trusting! Davert (talk) 13:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

List of countries by the number of billionaires

Hi, with reference to your recent edit on the mentioned page, I would like to seek a clarification as to why my edit was reverted. I'm quite sure the information currently on the page is inaccurate. For example, India I'm sure has only 53 billionaires. I don't know how the figure of 74 was arrived at. Moreover even if you tabulate all the figures, they don't make up the total of 198 as shown on the table. I hope you can do a fact check and get back to me. Have a nice day!  S3000  ☎ 18:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Those numbers were also mentioned on BBC news, I saw it some time ago! It said India features 13 new billionaires in the forbes list, in addition to the 40 last year. I'm very sure that India has only 53 billionaires. Anyway, before I go ahead editing, could you please furnish me with a source showing those figures are correct? Of course it has to be referenced from Forbes as the list is based on Forbes. I'm not too sure about American billionaire figures, but I'm quite sure about Asian ones. Thanks.  S3000  ☎ 10:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually it is clearly stated in the article you sent as what I mentioned earlier. India has only 53 billionaires. Thats what Forbes reported too! This source you sent me says: Asians accounted for 211 people on the list, up from 160 last year, with India counting 53, up from 36 in 2007, and China, which had just 20 billionaires last year, now boasting 42. And China too has only 42, not 48 as stated in the article! Moreover, I don't quite get your argument on the currency aspect. Firstly it is already stated in the article page that The following is a list of known U.S. dollar billionaires in 2008 as of March 2008. Secondly, we have to compare all the billionaires globally to a single standard. For example, does it mean an Indonesian would be a billionaire (to global standards) with just 1.0 billion Rupiah (which is around US$110,000)? Perhaps the most you could buy in Indonesia with that is a new BMW 5 Series. My point is we have to have a fair basis of comparison, using just 1 type of currency. Only then will there be a basis of comparison. Thanks.  S3000  ☎ 12:19, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Could I revert those edits back to the previous version? Are you cleared of your doubts now?  S3000  ☎ 14:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Lolz, was that said with sarcasm or something? How am I to get a list of millionaires? There would be millions worldwide!  S3000  ☎ 09:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Protection Template

I noticed you placed {{pp-semi-protected|small=yes}} onto Globalization. Placing that template on a page does not protect the article at all. The only way to protect an article is to have admin privileges. If you feel an article needs to be protected because of vandalism please report the page to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. I removed the template you added. Jons63 (talk) 12:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Rewriting history

You will quickly get a Wikipedia-wide reputation for complete lack of credibility -- a reputation just ahead of that of a vandal -- if you alter the comments of other users on your talk page, as you have been doing consistently including several earlier today. Just a word in your ear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.164.118.95 (talk) 18:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

You are incorrect, I am free to edit my "talk page", as I want, please read the WP:TALK policy, and make sure you read the 8th bullet point from the bottom. Thank you Dwilso (talk) 00:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Guess again, Sunshine. Edits like this and this affirmatively change the meaning of someone else's comments, and aren't looked on favorably under any interpretation of the policy. But hey, you know what? It's up to you. I quit editing at this place a couple of years ago in part because of just such folks as you. Just one more debit to the credibility account of Wikipedia editors at large. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.245.84.187 (talk) 05:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

My apoligies, I will be reverting my edits back again.!! ok. Dwilso ^talk 06:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar :) WhisperToMe (talk) 05:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks as well also. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstars

I was just wondering how many Barnstars you are going to give yourself? It is very bad form to make it appear with your edits that someone else said something. I wonder what User:Jamesontai, User:Husond and User:Moeron would think if they came to your userpage and saw that it says that they gave you barnstars but that edits adding them to your userpage was made by User:Dwilso.

• Would you like it if someone started adding things that had your signature after it that you did not say?

It is also hard to believe that your user page has been vandalised 46 times since every edit so far to your user page has been made by User:Dwilso along with most of the edits to your talk page. You are working towards losing a lot of credibility here. (I notice someone else also left a message about you doing things that will hurt your credibility on here) You are free to do what you want, but this is just a friendly notice of how your edits might be interpreted. 68.163.57.108 (talk) 01:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand why your hostile toward me, let us establish Peace and harmony together!! and remember that I mean you no "harm" whatsoever. thank you! Dwilso (talk) 05:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I apologize if I have came across as hostile. I was just trying to explain how your edits might be perceived by others. Once someone loses credibility on wikipedia is very hard to gain it back. Your initial efforts here on this page and on your user page could hurt your credibility if noticed by the wider community. Even though I assume good faith and believe your edits were not with malicious intent, others might not agree with me. I came to this page to see who I was working with on the List of Japanese Cars and noticed the things I pointed out. Again I apologize if I came across as hostile, it was not my intent. 71.242.86.2 (talk) 13:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of German Cars

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Speedy deletion of British cars

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AfD nomination of British Cars

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Wild Cities

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Image copyright problem with Image:WHITEHALL.jpg

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Top Ten mutual funds

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General Motors Dispute

Hello, I have changed the GM page numerous times and had the sources to back it up from the NYT, Wall Street Journal, Wards, GM and Toyota and several others that will show that GM was in fact the largest automaker by sales in 2007. This idiot continually deletes my posting and puts in a source that only talks about a single quarter of last year when toyota briefely passed GM. But that was changed at the years end. So I dont know how you wish to proceed. Please Advise either on here or send a message to mmadmax1984@aol.com

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.236.228.115 (talk) 00:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

You are correct, It is the largest automaker, I apoligize, for the reverts I have made, Thanks . Dwilso 02:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Top Ten mutual funds

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Nominating articles for deletion

I notice that you've stuck AfD tags at the top of of a few pages (such as Serie B 1965-66). If you wish to nominate an article for deletion, however, you also have to create a space for discussion and update the AfD log. If you absolutely believe these articles should be deleted, then you need follow the full three-step process outlined at how to list pages for deletion. And thanks for the rather undeserved barnstar, by the way. Best, Gr1st (talk) 13:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

AFDs

You added AFD tags to two articles I created (Health in Kyrgyzstan and Health in Jordan), but did not create the necessary AFD pages. Do you mean to complete these nominations? If so please do so ASAP so that I and others can weigh in. I do not think that these nominations will succeed, as these are notable topics (see Category:Health by country) and the articles are sourced. I think you may be better off if you just remove the tags from the articles. Mangostar (talk) 15:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. you may want to read Wikipedia:Deletion policy. Mangostar (talk) 15:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Misleading edit summaries

Misleading edit summaries such as the one here is simply unacceptable, and goes against the principles of the project. Please do not repeat this behavior. Additionally, forced image sizes do not conform to WP:Images. --David Shankbone 13:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

I have no Idea what your talking about sir, Let us discuss this on the talk page. Thanks. Dwilso 13:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Too POV

I'm not saying you're wrong, but honestly I don't understand how what I am putting in isnt neutral. I am simply stating facts.--Lucky Mitch (talk) 05:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Creation of lists

Hi again. I notice that many of the articles you create are lists of various kinds. For the second time in a few days, however, you have essentially created a page which already exists elsewhere on Wikipedia (first it was Fastest Growing Economies when List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate already existed, then it was Debt Countries when we already had List of countries by external debt). If you intend to create any more articles, can you please take a few minutes to check whether Wikipedia already has a similar page - for something as important as GDP growth or national debt, the chances are an article will already have been created. One more thing - can you try and ensure that future articles have an appropriate name? "Debt Countries", for example, doesn't really make much sense. Wikipedia:Naming conventions might be able to help you out with the titling of new pages in future. Regards, Gr1st (talk) 12:14, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Chionites

Hello Mate, Just thought I should let you know that it is not very good practice to undo contributions under the comment "added comma". ATB 82.6.29.26 (talk) 04:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Your signature

Hey there Dwilso, thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. You may not know this, but it is actually discouraged to have a signature that is larger than the default text size. Currently, you signature is using "font size 5". The problem with using a large font, (besides drawing unnecessary attention to yourself), is of a technical matter, in that it breaks up the line spacing on some computers, making for sloppy copy. Please adjust your signature, per relevant guidelines, in your preference tab to make it the default size, by removing the font size parameter. Using a different color, etc, is okay. Thanks, happy editing, Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 17:33, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for making your signature smaller. However, as best as I can tell, you are still using a "font size 4". Please remove any font "enhancements" from your signature, and allow it to be the same size as the rest of the text on talkpages. Thank you for your cooperation, Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 23:31, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Pixelh8

I have noticed you have nominated the Pixelh8 article for deletion, the article has been edited and now contains links to both his CNN intervie and his BBC as well as links so several other UK and International Magazine articles about Pixelh8. It also contains a link to Nerdapalooza and Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 DJ who play Pixelh8's Music. We hope you will have a look? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiddenyouth (talk • contribs) 23:51, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Maricopa County

Please do not introduce errors into articles, as you did to Maricopa County, Arizona. Nyttend (talk) 13:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Maricopa County, Arizona, you will be blocked from editing. Nyttend (talk) 20:36, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Maricopa County, Arizona, you will be blocked from editing. Nyttend (talk) 20:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you really believe Maricopa County, Arizona is bigger than 24 States. You need to do your research!! Dwilso 20:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Kobe Byrant

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George W Bush

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Lou Dobbs

I am currently wondering why my edit to Lou Dobbs was reverted, shouldn't the 'lede' paragraph, include major controversies. In that case there are numerous sources and articles that call Lou Dobbs a populist, and a protectionist. I don't know why wikipedians like yourself protect people like him. Dwilso 07:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I know basically nothing about Lou Dobbs other than what's written in the article. I've seen him on television once or twice, and have no real opinion. What I have a problem with, however, is the wording that you used. Especially in cases of biographies of living persons (see WP:BLP), we have to take care not to go out of our way to engage in character assassination (ie. calling Dobbs a "racist" while providing absolutely no context for the comment), or making statements that don't match what the references say (ie. calling Dobbs a "populist" while providing a reference that only states that he has adopted a "populist approach" to a single social issue). Further, you need to review WP:WEASEL, which is pretty clear in stating that the use of words like "some" to describe a person or people who are making a statement, is very strongly discouraged. If you're going to write content in a biography of a living person, it's extremely important that you do so in a fashion consistent with what those content guidelines state. -/- Warren 18:30, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the barnstar

any particular edits that prompted this minor honor? Anastrophe (talk) 00:23, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Nothing in particular, besides your Second Amendment, and Gun Control edits. Dwilso 00:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar, redux

And thanks for mine, too! Much appreciated. Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 03:05, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: GM

I don't understand precisely what you're asking. Can you clarify please? Gr1st (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

The yahoo and Google search engines that I use are tedious, Because they have duplicate articles on General Motors. Dwilso 18:39, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

As I work for neither Yahoo! nor Google, I'm not sure how I can help you with this. On another matter, I notice that a user by the name of Viper55 seems to have a remarkably similar editing pattern to you. I hope that you are not also operating this account - if you are, please read Wikipedia's policy on sock puppetry before editing further. Gr1st (talk) 18:45, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, apparently 'socket puppet' are bad, only if they are used deceptively., But thanks for your help anyway. Dwilso 19:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Misleading edit summaries

Please do not add misleading edit summaries when editing. You described this revision as clarified sentence, when it was clearly nothing of the sort - you deleted an entire paragraph. Please ensure that future edit summaries accurately describe the changes made. Regards, Gr1st (talk) 14:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, apparently there was a "tag" that said to clarify and clean up the paragraph below. That's exactly what I did. Thank you for your cooperation. Dwilso 00:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Please, it seems like every move I make and every edit I do, You watch me, Daily and Nightly without mercy. Please stop!! Thanks. Dwilso 00:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Olympic athletes

Please see my comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clifton Emmet "Cliff" Cushman. --Eastmain (talk) 17:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Credibility Determinations

Just a general question. Who makes the determinations if something is significant/important. I have read the lil link you admins cite routing people to read the blurb about credibility. That stuff leaves a lot of politics behind what it credible or not when it comes to awards and tangible recognition. If the Brooklyn Brawler (pro wrestler), who has probably won 2 matches in hes 15 year career, is significant to have a page then everybody should. Just to make it clear, I chose your name at random. There has been no action on your part towards my account.--Sikadelic (talk) 22:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)