User:Coretheapple

About me

This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 10 months and 15 days. This user is a recipient of the Editor of the Week award. This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This user has helped promote 4 good articles on Wikipedia. This user has written or expanded 26 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user uses Huggle to revert vandalism. QThis user used to have access to Questia through The Wikipedia Library. NEWSThis user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library. ?This user believes that common sense is an uncommon commodity. This user beats vandals with the STiki anti-vandal tool. Because of real life, this user will be editing on and off. This user disapproves of mindless PR firm sockpuppets spreading paid POV around Wikipedia. This user is a member of the Paid Advocacy Watch Project (WP:PAIDWATCH) This user is signed up for the Feedback Request Service. This user is a WikiJanitor. This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user participates in WikiProject Dance. This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing with ProveIt. This user makes multiple typographical errors and has to keep going back to fix them, so please be patient with him or her. This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one. This user is a member of WikiProject Espionage. This editor is strongly opposed to paid editing, but believes it is a Wikimedia Foundation issue and not his problem. This editor is becoming increasingly frustrated with Wikipedia.

Gentle suggestion for new accounts interested in I/P articles

If you want to edit I/P articles and don't meet the standards set by the Arbitration Committee for that subject area (30-day account age + 500 edits), go to the article talk page and do an edit request. There is an Edit Request Wizard that you can use (link is to the button "The page is protected")

Don't email to ask me to do the edit for you. I won't reply, and I won't comply with your request. I will refer you to the Arbitration Committee. I don't know who you are, and for all I know, you may be trying to get me in trouble.

Note to myself. These are the templates used for I/P welcomes for IP users not acquainted with the rules:

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Articles I've created or substantially revised

• Joan McCracken (expanded, DYK, GA)
• Michael Kidd (expanded, DYK, GA)
• LeRoy Prinz (created, DYK, GA)
• Johnny Broderick (created, DYK, GA)
• Chualar bus crash (created, DYK)
• All the Way (play) (created, DYK)
• Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly (expanded, DYK)
• German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (expanded, DYK)
• My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes (created, DYK)
• Charles Winick (created, DYK)
• Private Property (1960 film) (created, DYK)
• Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (created. DYK)
• Law and Order (1969 film) (created. DYK)
• Undercover (OSS training film) (created. DYK)
• Ali Soozandeh (created, DYK)
• You're a Big Boy Now (novel) (expanded, DYK)
• Alex Romero (choreographer) (created, DYK)
• Newyorkitis (created, DYK)
• Life with Father (TV series) (created, DYK)
• Theodore Conrad (criminal) (created, DYK)
• Twin Parks (created, DYK)
• Babi Yar. Context (created, DYK)
• From Where They Stood (created, DYK)
• The Hustler (novel) (expanded, DYK)
• Going Infinite (expanded, DYK)
• Cold Crematorium (created, DYK)
• Harold Greenwald (created)
• 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash (created)
• A Good American (created)
• Fort Lee lane closure scandal
• BP
• Deepwater Horizon litigation
• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• SantaCon
• Mickey Rooney
• Hydroxycut
• March Against Monsanto
• Faye Dunaway
• Bess Myerson
• Odette Hallowes
• Adolphe Rabinovitch
• Night Will Fall

Not an article, but I wrote it and I rather like it:

• Wikipedia:You have a right to remain silent

I am also active in suggesting articles for deletion and, when my eyes can stand it, vandal-fighting. I think that de-crapifying Wikipedia is at least as important as adding content. Wikipedia is a hotbed of fancruft, self-written articles by employees of third-rate companies, and overemphasis on subjects plucked off the Internet. It greatly underemphasizes subjects of great importance that don't have a fan base or following.

To-do list

• Kidnapping of Luis Armando Albino
• College musical
• Murder of Barbara Gibbons (son falsely accused, big murder case in Conn., 1970s)
• Dance Me a Song notable Broadway flop.
• Giant (Edna Ferber novel)
• Get 1963 Chualar bus crash to Good Article status
• Bracero program requires cleanup and expansion
• Frank Hogan long-serving New York DA, requires expansion
• New York City Police Department corruption and misconduct incomplete, poorly written, beset by recentism. What a mess.
• Fort Lee lane closure scandal. Bring up to GA status.
• Shadow in the Sky
• An essay on manipulative conduct, WP:CRYING TOWEL
• Jerry Herman, one of the 50,000 theater articles needing improvement.
• A Thousand Clowns (play)
• George Freedley
• Jules Munshin. Expand.
• Tony Lo Bianco poorly sourced
• Tenement Symphony (1941 song),
• Wilfred J. Funk and his books deserve more.
• "Wikiproject Vaudeville"?
• David Toma notable cop, redirects to old TV series
• Candy store of the New York City variety, redirects incorrectly.
• Countess Dorothy di Frasso
• Howard Teichmann
• George Jessel (actor) expand
• WP:ABIGDEAL one of these days I have to write an essay in response to WP:NOBIGDEAL.
• Public Broadcast Laboratory expand
• Alice Crimmins ditto
• OSS Field Photographic Unit

Why I am cynical about Wikipedia

Once upon a time there was an article about a "crime family." I don't generally edit on that subject matter, thank God, but one of the members of this "crime family" was involved in a Hollywood scandal, which was in my wheelhouse.

Reading the sources indicated that this "crime family" did not actually exist. The sources did not say it existed. I couldn't find any that said it did.

I nominated the article for deletion. There was consensus that the article should not exist. Despite that, the article almost was kept as is. That's because there was no consensus about whether the article should have been deleted or merged, and typically "no consensus" is functionally equivalent to "keep." Fortunately the closer, recognizing that possibility, decided on merging it despite the lack of consensus.

But a different closer might have abided rigidly by the AfD rules, and kept an article about something that a crime family that did not actually exist.

That is what makes me cynical about Wikipedia. You can abide by all the rules, dot every I and cross every T, and be flat-out, embarrassingly wrong.

I have other reasons to be cynical, but this is the one suitable for family viewing.

EDIT: Here's one other reason that's worthy of mentioning. An anti-Semitic slur remained unnoticed in an article on a U.S. Army division for 14 years, even though it was unsupported by the sources provided. I only stumbled upon it because a notable actor (Frank Sutton) had served in the division, and I was curious to read about his service. Very discouraging.

How many other articles have misinformation in them that has gone unnoticed for over a decade?

Don't sell IP editors short

Editors who discount IP contributions, especially when they are not phrased properly, may be tempted to discount them. Bad move. They can find stuff registered editors haven't noticed in literally years or decades. In this post in Talk:Paul Newman, an editor found a whole paragraph that didn't belong there. It had been overlooked for years.

Awards and recognition, DYKs, etc.

Awards and Recognition

	Teahouse First Birthday Badge
	Awarded to everyone who participated in the Wikipedia Teahouse during its first year! To celebrate the many hosts and guests we've met and the nearly 2000 questions asked and answered during this excellent first year, we're giving out this tasty cupcake badge. Earn more badges at: Teahouse Badges

--Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 22:35, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

	First place winner of the 2013 Wikipedia apple coring contest!!!
	It is so good to work with you at the BP article. I hope you stick around. Gandydancer (talk) 15:46, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

		Mind the Gap Award
		For saying the right thing, at the right time, in the right place, to the right people. ```Buster Seven Talk 19:16, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
	Congratulations, Coretheapple! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Pratyya (Hello!) 05:10, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		An old school barnstar for an old school defense of old school values at Jimbotalk. Don't be afraid to think outside of the box, sometimes the most effective course of action is an enforceable compromise. best, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 22:58, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

understanding for the slippery slope
Thank you, gnome with understanding for "consensus", "common sense" and the slippery slope, for removing puffery statements, moving pages, fighting vandalism, standing up in kindness, and for expressing your regrets, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Your common sense approach is refreshing. Keep up the good work!!! Atsme (talk) 23:15, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

		The Bronze STiki Barnstar of Merit
		Congratulations, Coretheapple! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 5,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:50, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your help at WP:ANI and for helping me get a sense of perspective on my talkpage. The vitriol shocked me for a second. Rest assured, I will continue to go and improve the encyclopedia. :) OrigamitePlease talk here 00:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

		The Anti-Flame Barnstar
		Your week seems to have been just lousy with acrimony and bad energy involving tendentious editors, seemingly as a consequence, at least in part, of dedicated efforts at WP:ANI. For keeping your calm and staying on point, I offer you one of the most well-earned barnstars I've yet awarded. Made from asbestos, same as your hide. ;) Snow (talk) 10:20, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week, for "old school values and a common sense approach focused on what will help Wikipedia survive the long haul". Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

	The Civility Barnstar
	You are awesome! Atlantictire (talk) 19:39, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

		The Silver STiki Barnstar of Merit
		Congratulations, Coretheapple! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 10,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Ugog Nizdast (talk) 05:45, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		for speaking truth to power, and maintaining calm in the face of heat and antagonism. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 14:44, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	I appreciate your contributions regarding my topic ban as well as your thoughts on Arbitration Enforcement. --MONGO 13:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

DYKs

On 3 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Private Property (1960 film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1960 crime film Private Property was "condemned" by the National Legion of Decency? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Private Property (1960 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Private Property (1960 film)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 5 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a documentary on Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's troubled 1972 concert tour was completed in 1974 but released theatrically in 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 6 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Law and Order (1969 film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Frederick Wiseman intended his 1969 documentary Law and Order as "a chance to do in the pigs", but as he made the film he came to understand the "fear that cops live with"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Law and Order (1969 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Law and Order (1969 film)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 28 September 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John Ford (pictured) portrayed an Office of Strategic Services officer in an OSS training film that he directed in 1943? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 17 March 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ali Soozandeh, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ali Soozandeh was inspired to film Tehran Taboo, which explores sexual double standards in Iran, by a conversation he overheard on a train? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ali Soozandeh. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ali Soozandeh), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 13 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article You're a Big Boy Now (novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that David Benedictus dedicated his 1963 satirical novel You're a Big Boy Now to "the only girl I've ever loved—wherever they may be"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/You're a Big Boy Now (novel). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, You're a Big Boy Now (novel)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 17 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Newyorkitis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that treatment for the symptoms of Newyorkitis was being offered at a New York YMCA in 1908? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Newyorkitis. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Newyorkitis), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 26 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Life with Father (TV series), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Life with Father was the first network television series originating in Hollywood that was broadcast in color? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Life With Father (television series). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Life with Father (TV series)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 7 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Babi Yar. Context, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the documentary Babi Yar. Context shows rare footage of buildings being destroyed by retreating Soviet forces in the main street of Nazi-occupied Kyiv? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Babi Yar. Context. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Babi Yar. Context), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 19 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Hustler (novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite claims to the contrary, novelist Walter Tevis insisted that the characters of "Minnesota Fats" and "Fast Eddie" in The Hustler were fictitious? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Hustler (novel). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Hustler (novel)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 16 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Going Infinite, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried? You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Going Infinite), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 7 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cold Crematorium, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cold Crematorium: Reporting From the Land of Auschwitz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cold Crematorium), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Useful links and resources

But can it core a apple?[1]

• Special:Getting Started. It is a list of articles in obvious trouble that even beginners can fix. I've found some instances where the articles are so bad they really shouldn't be in Wikipedia at all. Editing these articles results in a tag branding the editor as a "beginner getting started," but you can avoid that by copying and pasting the URL of the articles listed there.

• "STiki", a really great counter-vandalism tool, crated by the awesome, brilliant software maven Andrew G. West. Every Wikipedian should spend a few minutes a day using this.

• Various studies of vandalism. Is it just bored kids or something more?

• Three ways to core apples!
• Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
  
• Wikipedia:Maintenance
  
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace

Thanks to User:Samwalton9 for the following, which I post below in its entirety:

• Category:Articles with a promotional tone is a good start. I also sometimes look at articles categorised there (or that have been G11'd) and search for particularly spammy snippets, such as "You can purchase" or "our website" (sometimes you come across a phrase that uncovers a goldmine of crap). You can also simply click through categories like Category:American companies established in 1997 to uncover non-notable topics. Those are just a few suggestions, none of them astoundingly efficient, and there are probably better ways. Sam Walton (talk) 12:08, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
  

Good essay on hatting: Wikipedia:Superhatting. Note "the nuclear dunk," which of course can be phrased far more politely. My thanks to User:Salomeofjudea for bringing it to my attention.

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about YOU good essay on COI editing.

Tools and copyright stuff

• To add reference to Newspapers.com to a cite, add "via=[[Newspapers.com]]" after the page number or as the last field.
• When responding to a bot, one can add {{sbb}} (summoned by bot)
• Excellent copyright tools!

• References and page numbers

Non-free copyright tags COI template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Question