User talk:Mrriz1
latest news on dj riz-joe rizzo, billboard & variety have listed crooklyn clan(dj riz & sizzahandz)featuring fatman scoop provided the music in the award winning Super Bowl nfl100 commercial. another outstanding achievement by the canarsie notable joseph rizzo.
On Feb 6, 2019, at 2:57 PM, Wikipedia Volunteer Response Team <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear mrriz1,
You mentioned Wikileaks in your last email. The Wikimedia Foundation has no relation whatsoever with Wikileaks. That's a completely different entity. You aren't the only one who has confused Wikipedia with Wikileaks. They are totally unrelated!
As Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. However, there is a venue where you can request an article to be written if you aren't inclined to write one yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REQ
That's all I can suggest at this point.
Yours sincerely, Axl Matulic
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01/30/2019 03:08 - mrriz1 wrote:
thanks for your explanation. i am 75 years old & much too tired to try to compose an adequate,voluminous draft to have joe included. i am sure you realize that his resume is quite impressive & it is a shame that he won’t be listed in canarsie notables. i think wikileaks should adjust the criteria it uses to have notables selected. including future notables on the basis of articles written by the community which have verified by local media & members of a facebook community such as "canarsie people where are they now” should be a valid prerequisite. i feel that some people who have excelled at the highest level will not be recognized & are left out by your present standards.
no hard feelings ,just disappointment. mr riz.
On Jan 29, 2019, at 8:34 PM, Wikipedia Volunteer Response Team <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear mrriz1,
I'll try to explain. First, there is no "you guys". There is no Wikipedia staff, no central editorial authority. All the content on Wikipedia was created by Wikipedia users. Anyone can edit, including you. All the agents responding to these emails are also volunteers who do this in spare time. My actual profession is a project manager for a high-tech company. I edit Wikipedia in my spare time and I'm taking a short work break right now to write this email to you.
Here is what happened: Some years ago, a few editors were expanding the article on Canarsie. They added a list of notable Canarsie citizens, making sure to link each name on the list to an existing Wikipedia article. Someone added Joseph Rizzo and linked the name to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rizzo -- but didn't notice that our article on "Joseph Rizzo" is about an 18th century philosopher. Someone else noticed this later, and removed the name from the list, because obviously it isn't the same Joseph Rizzo! There's another article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rizzo about a former Denver Broncos linebacker... also not the same person as the Joe Rizzo in Canarsie.
None of this was done out of malice, it was all done in good faith. Simply put, an honest mistake was made in listing his name in the first place (because there was no article available on Wikipedia to link his name). Someone noticed later and corrected the error by removing the name.
If the notability of Joe Rizzo in Canarsie can be demonstrated according to Wikipedia's notability criteria (which evolved by community consensus, not by any editorial oversight body), then of course an article can be created about him and he can be added to the list in the Canarsie article.
Yours sincerely, Axl Matulic
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01/29/2019 23:25 - mrriz1 wrote:
i am not going to be upset by joe’s not being able to crack the lineup of wiki canarsie notables. am puzzled that he had already been listed by you guys while he had the same references that suddenly are no longer are adequate. joe’s accomplishments which surpass many of your listed notables speak for themselves.
he is an internationally renowned dj & producer. he is co-founder of the crooklyn clan major producers of mashups.has performed all over europe ,far east etc. he along with dj eclipse have a sirius radio show"rap is outta control”. he has performed in every major club in new york such as palladium,limelight,tunnel,pacha,webster hall etc. he performed with mc search on the arsenio hall show. he performed as a member of funk master flex’s flip squad regularly on hot 97. he was the dj for special events at the super & pro bowls.also performed at baseball & basketball all star games. he was the featured dj for trump’s birthday party at taj mahal.performed at mike tyson’s mansion, also heidi klum etc. he was inducted into brooklyn hall of fame at brooklyn night in mcc park along with john franco{mets)
he was voted in a poll re:canarsie athletes as the best all round athlete having played excelled in 3 sports at canarsie. he was alcity in hs football, all juco at nassau community college & starting free safety at hofstra
he has performed before crowds of over 100,00 in miami,new york & indianapolis stadiums.
he co wrote the #1 song in europe “be faithful” which was in the movie “save the last dance for me” & is considered one of the all time club classics.
despite this impressive resume riz is considered not noteworthy enough by wiki???