User talk:Avgeekamfot

July 2023

Hello, and thank you for your edits.

Just to make sure, remember to follow the correct format for airport pages. Use “begins,” not “starts” when listing a new route. The correct format can be seen at WP:AIRPORT-CONTENT

Thank you! (VenFlyer98 (talk) 22:56, 15 July 2023 (UTC))

Interesting. Thanks for the information and link!

Badr Mohammed Al Meer moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Badr Mohammed Al Meer. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Jamiebuba (talk) 08:23, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector

You might want to submit evidence about SimplyFlying to User talk:Headbomb/unreliable. It is a good intermediate step short of getting source onto the Wikipedia deprecated list, which takes a lot of work. Best read the Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector FAQ first. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:22, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for this advice. Avgeekamfot (talk) 10:08, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Simple Flying

I saw you removed a number of citations to Simple Flying by claiming this is not a reliable source. Can you please direct me to the discusssion in which it was stated so? Jetstreamer ^Talk 20:52, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

I most recently tried to spark a wider discussion for a clearer outcome but only one editor replied. A past discussion is here. Per the suggestion of another user above on my talk page, it's also been added to User:Headbomb/unreliable. Based on my reading of WP:RS and evaluation of Simple Flying, it seems to clearly fail the requirements. Do you disagree? Avgeekamfot (talk) 10:14, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

If in doubt, let's don't use it. Thanks.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 12:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

I can't see any reason to label it unreliable. RedundancyAdvocate (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

@Avgeekamfot I cannot see any improvement on deleting the SimpleFlying references and exchanging them with {{cn}} without having a consensus.

As you have seen by yourself, the discussions you mentioned are not real discussion per lack of participants. Please start a topic on WP:Aviation about that topic.

Second before just exchanging the references with {{cn}}, please have a sufficient research first, if you find a reference that is more reliable for you to exchange it with. 80.187.75.188 (talk) 23:32, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

"In fact, among aviation enthusiasts, Simple Flying is widely viewed as a content farm which regularly publishes inaccurate and plagiarized articles."

For this claim there is also a reliable reference missing. 80.187.75.188 (talk) 23:42, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

You need consensus for a source to be reliable, not the opposite. There's clearly no consensus that Simple Flying is unreliable so I will be removing them as I see them. If you believe that its use is valid where I've removed it, you are welcome to seek consensus to re-add it. Avgeekamfot (talk) 09:43, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

"You need consensus for a source to be reliable, not the opposite."

Per which Wikipedia rule? The user Headbomb is a user and does not equal Wikipedia consensus or its regulations.

References on Wikipedia are stated unreliable or are deprecated by consensus.

I wonder how you want to know something about reliable sources as you could't give one for the quoted sentence you wrote. Just refering to "aviation enthusiasts" is not a reliable source per WP:RELIABLE. 80.187.73.104 (talk) 16:16, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

WP:CHALLENGE: "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material." Burden of proof is on you if you want to use Simple Flying, not on me if I want to remove it. Avgeekamfot (talk) 23:17, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Reading further: "it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." And "Once an editor has provided any source they believe, in good faith, to be sufficient, then any editor who later removes the material must articulate specific problems that would justify its exclusion from Wikipedia (e.g. why the source is unreliable; the source does not support the claim; undue emphasis; unencyclopedic content; etc.)"

Regarding the second quote, your articulation why SimpleFlying may be unrealiable is not sufficient. Referring to some "aviation enthusiasts" is not enough. Just stating it does not meet WP:RS without further explanation is also not enough. "it seems to clearly fail the requirements" is not a factual argument.

WP does not have a whitelist for reliable sources. But a blacklist for unrealiable and deprecated sources: WP:RSP. SimpleFlying is not listed as an unreliable source in that list. Get consensus to get it listed there. 80.187.73.104 (talk) 00:30, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

That's not how it works. You need consensus for reliability, not the other way around. Avgeekamfot (talk) 15:47, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

If you want to take a source considered reliable by everybody else on Wikipedia and flip it on its head, you do indeed need a damn good argument as to why. RedundancyAdvocate (talk) 20:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi.. There is a discussion about reliability of SimpleFlying on RSN. More opinions are welcome. Thank you. Ckfasdf (talk) 00:08, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Aerolíneas Argentinas, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Jetstreamer ^Talk 12:23, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Regarding the above, MOS:RETAIN applies.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 12:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey, assume this is regarding Aerolíneas Argentinas. I understand that MOS:RETAIN applies but the article was already inconsistent which goes against WP:ARTCON. I'm not comfortable enough in British English which is why I switched it to be consistently American English. According to MOS:RETAIN: "When no English variety has been established and discussion does not resolve the issue, use the variety found in the first post-stub revision that introduced an identifiable variety." I reviewed the earliest versions of the article which is clearly in American English ("recognizing" not "recognising", "traveled" not "travelled", "airplane" not "aeroplane") so it seems to me that, given the inconsistency in the article as it stands, standardizing things to American English is appropriate. Obviously, open to your thoughts here and will open a discussion in the talk page. Avgeekamfot (talk) 19:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

December 2023

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at American Airlines fleet. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Do not remove Simple Flying sources without a consensus on it being unreliable. Removing a source considered reliable constitutes page vandalism and will land you a block. RedundancyAdvocate (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi there, noticed you reverted a few removals of Simple Flying. Please note that per WP:ONUS, you would be the one who needs consensus for inclusion. Please stop re-adding contentious material without first getting consensus. Avgeekamfot (talk) 19:21, 24 December 2023 (UTC)