User talk:Simon Kidd

GA Review

You recently promoted Kevin R. D. Shepherd to GA status. I am writing to let you know that I have initiated a GA review, because I feel the article's sourcing, which is heavily reliant on primary sources, may fall short of GA requirements. You can find the review page here: Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment/Kevin_R._D._Shepherd/1. Regards, --JN466 21:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

COIN thread

Further to the COI concern I mentioned at GAR, please comment at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#User:Alex_jamieson.2C_User:Simon_Kidd_at_Kevin_R._D._Shepherd so we can resolve the matter. Thank you. --JN466 02:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Climatic Research Unit hacking incident

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shepherd

Please be careful. Try to reword the references you are adding with minimal use of his name, or they will sound a little too promotional. DGG ( talk ) 16:21, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

warning

Do not speculate on Wikipedia about the outside identity of Wikipedia editors DGG ( talk ) 19:51, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mabo Day

The article Mabo Day has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

nothing here to indicate Mabo day exists. Content other than opening sentence is copied directly from the Eddie Mabo article.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. noq (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Nomination of Mabo Day for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mabo Day is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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License tagging for File:Simon Kidd.jpg

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Your comments on Lord Meher as a reliable source.

See the Lord Meher Talk Page for my comments. I do not like the way you have approached this matter. --Nemonoman (talk) 13:55, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

MdA

Hello Mr. Kidd, See you removed an old reference. Didn't know what it was. Which, btw, what was it, and why did you remove it?! Take care,--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 15:22, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi again, thanks for getting back to me. But don't see an explanation on the talk page you identified nor on RS/N. (dont know what that is.) If you have time, perhaps a sentence of explanation? If not, I have no problem with your removal of the cit as I'm sure you have good reasons. It looks from your talk page that you do lots of fascinating work on WP. Bravo,--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 18:45, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

On thinking about it I suppose a "devotee" is not a reliable source, which you intimate in your edit summary??--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 18:53, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Simon Kidd, you are removing valid information from articles without any decision having been taken in the RSN. Also mind you that it is one thing to remove the reference itself and another to remove the text it supports. The way you are editing is definitely after an agenda and the information you remove along with the references (instead of leaving it there and placing an "unreferenced" tag) is not proper at all. A decision was taken about Kevin Shepherd and the admins who took it removed some of your references and the text they supported. You are now acting on your own with no decision taken about Kalchuri. You are also acting against consensus. Hoverfish Talk 21:16, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Please, make sure you understand better Wikipedia:Disruptive editing before continuing on this course. Hoverfish Talk 21:20, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Simon, thanks for taking all that time to explain the problem to me. Hoverfish sounded like a WP authority or something and of course it didn't occur to me that you might be having a debate, with two points of view. I appreciate your including the WP criteria for citing 3d party sources. And it certainly seems to me that "devotee published material" doesn't pass the test. In any case, I won't do anything. Happy Easter,--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 19:25, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for checking my work on MdA's interest in Indian mysticism, philosophy, practice. As for the source debate with Hoverfish, should probably take that up on one of your pages. Take care, --Classicfilmbuff (talk) 21:58, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

The Biographication of Meher Baba

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