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Winston Churchill wiki page doesn't have the details of the bengal famine which was sole responsibility of Winston Churchill. Could you please edit and add the details Thanks John480 (talk) 18:28, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

doesn't have the details of the bengal famine which was sole responsibility of Winston Churchill. Could you please edit and add the details Thanks John480 (talk) 18:28, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John, you're right that the page lacks any mention of the Bengal famine. There is some work by Amartya Sen and the recent book by Shashi Tharoor. Are there are other sources you're aware of? Molochmeditates (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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On your userpage you wrote I am interested to discuss how Wikipedia should become a neutral and authoritative source on cryptocurrency topics. I find many articles to be either too promotional/overpromising or too short/narrow. I also find it hard to collect good references (and generally seems even trusted sources of news get things wrong with respect to cryptocurrency. That might just get better over time)

Really briefly - WP is vulnerable to online groups that come here and basically hijack pages to promote their group or project. This sort of activity, on the borderline between fandom (what we call WP:ADVOCACY) and actual conflict of interest (see WP:COI) has been a problem for a long time. Generally these people use bad sourcing (blogs, their project's website or forums) or no sourcing at all. As you can imagine, many pages about open source software projects are subject to this stuff.

With the rise of cryptocurrencies, that problem became exacerbated by direct financial conflict of interest and all the hype and financial speculation. In response, the community: a) added "holding a cryptocurrency" to the COI guideline linked above and later b) put the general sanctions in place, of which I have given you notice above.

Content in WP should be driven by high quality, independent sourcing, summarized neutrally, aimed to help people learn (not buy, or buy in). If you like, please see user:Jytdog/How which I wrote to help people get oriented to the mission of the WP editing community, how we work to realize it, and why we do things as we do.

Another important thing here is discussed in WP:SUSTAINED, which is part of the notability guideline. Because WP relies on independent, secondary sources, it is always going to be a "lagging indidicator" -- we don't do "cutting edge" because there are generally not great sources (high quality, independent, secondary) for us to summarize.

Some academics are starting to come out with secondary sources scoping out the crypto industry (some are awful, some are good) and sources like this will allow us to start developing better content in this topic. But there is a ton of work to do just driving out the badly sourced promotional junk, which pours in here relentlessly as online groups try to abuse the visibility of WP to promote their coins or platforms...

Happy to discuss but that is the situation, as I see it anyway....Jytdog (talk) 17:25, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think the material is too close to the "bady sourced promotional junk" that Jytdog mentions above. --Ronz (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please review this Wikipedia page? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:ODEM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff at ODEM (talk • contribs) 08:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Jeff, unfortunately I agree with the assessment of notability. There are also no quality references available other than from the crypto press, and not from the authoritative ones either. Check out this link for good references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources. Good luck!

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I don't see a claim of notability in the article, and I doubt there is one in reality. Possibly merge into Creative Artists Agency?

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Did you get a chance to look through the sources listed here and explain why you think there's a claim of notability? As someone who headed CAA for a while until his death, along with numerous other instances of notability listed in the article, the person seems quite notable to me. Can you explain your concern in more detail? Is there a deletion discussion we can use to have this conversation? I don't see it listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2019_December_10 --Molochmeditates (talk) 19:59, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The edit summary of Special:Diff/1121791128 seems to misrepresent WP:ONUS.

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Context matters. If a person is one of the largest political donors, that is relevant information in the BLP lead. This is not disputed content for WP:ONUS. If we start writing biographies by trying to achieve consensus on every single piece of content that is included, well I don't know what to tell you. --Molochmeditates (talk) 04:43, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for all your work lately. I recently created a draft for John J. Ray III. Any help would be approached! Best, Thriley (talk) 05:11, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words! I'll look for more reliable sources and expand the article. Seems like an important figure, and we should be able to provide a good biography there. --Molochmeditates (talk) 05:13, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I also started a draft for Ryan Salame. Thriley (talk) 03:08, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have you considered nominating either Caroline Ellison or Sam Trabucco to Did You Know? Articles must be made in the last seven days and contain at least 1,500 characters. It would be great to see some articles related to the FTX crisis on the front page. Best, Thriley (talk) 05:32, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion! Let me look into it - I've never done this before. Molochmeditates (talk) 15:45, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Thriley, seems like one of the requirements is that the article be in the GA category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know#DYK_rules

Looking at the criteria, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria I think the articles might fail the illustrations and stability sections. What do you think? --Molochmeditates (talk) 19:57, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thankfully articles don’t have to be Good Articles to be featured on DYK. An article archiving Good Article status is just one way it qualifies. As it states on the rules: “DYK is only for articles that have achieved one of the following within the past seven days: Created, Expanded at least fivefold, Promoted to good article status.” Articles just have to be at least 1,500 characters. Generally they should feel somewhat complete, but articles involving on going news stories are featured on DYK all the time. It’s up to you! Just thought I’d make the suggestion as it’s always nice to see other editors get into nominating their newly created articles. Best, Thriley (talk) 21:14, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I totally missed the OR for AND. Makes sense, thanks :) Molochmeditates (talk) 21:29, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it says seven days, but nominating 8, 9, 10 or even more days after an article is put into main space is usually fine. Thriley (talk) 21:34, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your help in pointing this out and suggesting the submission. I have submitted the Caroline Ellison article to DYK! I don't know the process from here on out, but fingers crossed. --Molochmeditates (talk) 05:22, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work creating articles about Caroline Ellison and associates. 329,009 pageviews in one week. Wikipedia readers will benefit. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:50, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Magnolia677 thank you so much for the note and your kind appreciative words. Means a lot. Cheers :) --Molochmeditates (talk) 05:22, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I just corrected an error on China Daily which you immediately changed without verifying the information. Then you, or someone else, falsely reported disruptive editing.

Be more careful, please, before you reedit factual and sourced information, and there after falsely report disruption. With this lack of care, the actual disruption is caused. It's simple like that.

Thank you. 27.34.13.187 (talk) 03:38, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your "information" is unsourced. You changed the direct link to a redirect link without explanation. You should start by reading the links posted on your talk page (for a different IP address I believe) before you start making changes to Wikipedia. You can also start a discussion on the article's talk page if you disagree with the linked article.

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Good luck! --Molochmeditates (talk) 03:42, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your edit at Chandrayaan-3, where you said in your edit summary:

Adding secondary sources for the claim, which note why this is notable and thus should belong in the encyclopedia article.

I just wanted to let you know, that this is a misunderstanding of WP:Notability, which applies *only* to the topic of an article, and not to its content. The content of an article has to be verifiable, but it does not have to be notable. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:20, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! --Molochmeditates (talk) 19:09, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I recently started a draft for Gabriel Bankman-Fried. Thought you might be interested! Best, Thriley (talk) 01:15, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note! I'll try and contribute. Seems to have enough sources for this. --Molochmeditates (talk) 03:17, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there. I’m hoping that as a member of WP:CRYPCUR you’ll be willing to take a look at some changes I’ve proposed to Digital Currency Group. Thanks for your time. CertifiedTurtle (talk) 22:26, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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