User talk:HAL333/Archive 2018

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I know its been a while since you added this S. Rich, but I would like to thank you for doing so. I don't think I even knew how to respond to this at that point. It really helped me enter the world of Wikipedia. Thanks and Happy New Year! HAL 333 20:38, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

June 2018

Hello, I'm Doniago. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Owen Wilson, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! DonIago (talk) 12:49, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Roosevelt (film) (December 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by AngusWOOF was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of films). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Film hasn't started principal photography WP:NFF

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December 2018

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have recently shown interest in discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect: any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or any page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

- SchroCat (talk) 23:49, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@HAL333: An Arbcom infobox remedy is available to prevent disruptive commentary in areas where experience shows that a lot of time has been wasted with pointless arguments. I will contact the administrator who placed Talk:Stanley Kubrick under discretionary sanctions to have that remedy enforced if you continue referring to the issue. We get it—you want an infobox and others don't. Any further comments would only be disruption. Johnuniq (talk) 04:40, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Infobox sanctions

Hi HAL333, I see that you've been made aware of the potential for discretionary sanctions in the infobox topic area. I've been concerned that your behavior is rising to the level of disruption, and I'm afraid your decision today to start edit warring at Stanley Kubrick when you haven't been involved there many months smells an awful lot like WP:HOUNDING. If you persist in being disruptive regarding infoboxes, I'm going to file a case at WP:AE and ask that you be sanctioned by uninvolved administrators. Sanctions can include topic bans, interaction bans, and/or blocks. I will document your history of starting infobox discussions and refusing to accept consensus, edit warring to remove edit notices intended to help other editors, hounding, and your history of canvassing in this topic area. --Laser brain (talk) 01:35, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Laser_brain I hope you realize that that "edit-warring" does not pertain to infoboxes whatsoever. I don't understand how you could've gotten that impression. Additionally I have no interest in hounding anyone. I have been rewatching Kubrick's films recently and have had a renewed interest in Kubrick. There is no other motive concerned. Some of the edits I have made have been kept, such as the bit I added on Ridley Scott collaborating with Kubrick. I haven't touched the infobox. The edits I made to that article were entirely wholesome, purely with constructive intention. Note that I have not reverted their most recent overturn of my additions and have not violated the 3R rule. Also, I have not refused to accept any consensuses. If an rfc doesn't go my way (I have only ever created two on the topic of infoboxes, I believe) I accept the decision. And yes, I canvassed less than 10 editors on a single occasion, hardly a "history," as you snidely put it. I was/am a fairly new editor and was not entirely familiar with every policy, I apologized and made appropriate recourse. I will now make the case for each of my edits on the Kubrick talk page. Thanks. HAL 333 02:12, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

You don't have to breach 3RR to be edit warring, and the surrounding disruption doesn't have to be about infoboxes. No one is going to believe you just randomly appeared at Kubrick after you've been in a dispute with those same editors at a different article. --Laser brain (talk) 03:26, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Laser_brain I don't appreciate you accusing me of lying. I invite you to visit my contributions, and you may see that they are sporadic and sudden and often related to film. My first edit to that page was back in 2018. Every single edit to that page, from 2018 to 2020, was purely constructive, and I honestly don't care what you believe. I have no intentions to violate the infobox sanctions and merely want to improve the page.HAL 333 03:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Stanley Kubrick, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. MarnetteD|Talk 17:16, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

~~You have been around long enough to know that is not how conversations are clsed on a talk page. MarnetteD|Talk 17:16, 12 March 2020 (UTC)~~
- Surely you have been around long enough to know what archived means. They were already closed. I hope you realize that all that content is already in Archive 13. Maybe check next time. You know what happens when you assume. ~ HAL 333 17:24, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello @HAL333:, I am Thatstinkyguy, an editor and supporter of an infobox for Stanley Kubrick and others. Just yesterday, I launched this sandbox project: User:Thatstinkyguy/Project: An Infobox for Stanley. Hope it shows others the value of these boxes.
- Thatstinkyguy (talk) 15:54, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, I appreciate the idea. Of all of the infoboxes for directors, I am particularly fond of James Cameron’s. ~ HAL 333 21:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Don't appreciate it too much, will you. It's been deleted. Cassianto^Talk 22:26, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Color Purple (2020 film)

Hello, HAL333. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Color Purple".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. kingboyk (talk) 00:29, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Will do. ~ HAL 333 03:44, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — MarkH₂₁^talk 05:42, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. ~ HAL 333 03:44, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Good luck

Your IB attempt on Mozart is going to be a tough row to hoe. Good luck that! A.S. Williams (talk) 18:28, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. It's an uphill battle. ~ HAL 333 22:30, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

It needn't be; just go and find something else to do. Cassianto^Talk 17:50, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

I hope you forgive me that I refuse to fight ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:04, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Of course. I can respect that. ~ HAL 333 21:15, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Today is Handel's birthday, enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:56, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Today's Alte Liebe became especially meaningful after yesterday's funeral. - Life is tooooo short for any infobox discussions. I learned it the hard way (just try to find the talk). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Republic of Ilirida

Hi. You made a comment against merging on the talk page of Republic of Ilirida. The discussion where you posted the comment was made years ago. There is an ongoing discussion in the last section of the talk page on a requested move and some editors have proposed merging. You might want to give your opinion there. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 08:55, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Should’ve scrolled down a little more. ~ HAL 333 15:21, 17 March 2020 (UTC)