User talk:Pebblefire

Welcome![edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jennifer sichel[edit]

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Jennifer sichel requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Issue resolved[edit]

Hi Pebblefire. I'm Mz7, one of the other editors here, and I wanted to let you know that the issue raised above with the Jennifer sichel article was most likely a misunderstanding. It has now been resolved, and the Jennifer Sichel article most likely will not be deleted. Thank you so much for your contributions to Wikipedia! Please let me know if you have any questions; you can contact me on my talk page. Mz7 (talk) 06:45, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Pebblefire, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Jennifer Sichel have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Some of the content in the article too closely matched the text found at http://www.teamusa.org/para-rowing/athletes/Jenny-Sichel and http://www.usrowing.org/bio/jenny-sichel/, so I have removed it. Thank you. Mz7 (talk) 06:54, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse![edit]

Hello! Pebblefire, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Mz7 (talk) 06:55, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

January 2017[edit]

Hello, I'm Toddst1. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Teachers College, Columbia University, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Please note that the verifiability policy mandates that unsourced material that has been challenged, such as by a "fact" tag, or by its removal, may not be added back without a reliable, published source being cited for the content, using an inline citation. The cited source must clearly support the material as presented in the article, and the burden is on the person wishing to keep in the disputed material. So if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so, following these requirements! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 21:10, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 2017[edit]

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Suspicious Account & Possible New IP Addresses of the Notorious "RabidMelon" (Blocked Account)[edit]

This account (User:Pebblefire) may be the possible re-appearance of the notorious User:RabidMelon which had controlled (confirmed & blocked) around 10 sock puppet accounts . User:RabidMelon account had been blocked indefinitely earlier this year by administrator Bbb23, and what's more it was first blocked in 2010 (but was somehow unblocked in 2011). However, earlier this year (2017) a new account User:Pebblefire was created and several IP addresses based on New York (probably Bronx) are possibly linked with this account:

74.108.157.211, 74.108.156.96, 74.108.153.85

Upon preliminary review, much of the editing behavior & language of User:Pebblefire and the possibly related IP addresses highly resemble that of the blocked account User:RabidMelon and its sock puppets. Like the old account User:RabidMelon, the new account User:Pebblefire along with the possibly related IP addresses seem to belong to some individual related to Columbia University. For a direct instance, in the talk page (User talk:74.108.157.211), the following claim was made:

"...because I work at Columbia, the fancy, big name school reputation must also give me equal knowledge in Wikipedia policies and I should just "know" how to figure my way around the website is absolutely absurd! Perhaps the big name is a great smoke screen as to showing you that not every staff member, student, or faculty is a genius at an Ivy League institution that there are a wide variety of expertise in different fields. When it comes to HTML related internet activities, I consider myself a beginner. "

This looks like a big lie. The user seems like an "experienced" Wikipedia editor, but often in disguise. He/she appears fairly aggressive at some places and fairly "reasonable" at other places. Finally, this is not a formal accusation against anyone, but a serious warning that the activities of User:Pebblefire and the possibly related IP addresses are being closely watched. 205.208.120.58 (talk) 18:03, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding affiliates in the drop-down box[edit]

Hi Pebblefire. Recently you have made changes to Columbia University's article and added Teachers College under the dropdown box of graduate/professional schools, which I reverted back to the original revision. While you are correct that it is part of the greater Columbia Community, adding affiliates in the box straight-up is a subject of debate (many believing that it should be there with the word affiliate in parentheses, many believing that the word affiliate diminishes it's identity so you can't do that, and many believing that it should not be included etc.). I don't know if you followed the conversations of the talk page, but the same went for the other affiliates as well, so this is not specific to Teachers College. The consensus is to include only Columbia's schools in the drop-down boxes retrieved from the official website [1] "three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, a world-renowned medical center, four affiliated colleges and seminaries." I specifically tried to contribute a lot to improve all the schools' presence in the article. All the schools including Teacher's College is very well represented under the appropriate sections :) (Nochorus (talk) 22:23, 19 March 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Hi Nochorus, I appreciate your input, but that information simply isn't true. The original argument was to take off "(affiliate)" but was not to take off the schools completely. When I created the drop down menu for the undergraduate schools, the administrators agreed that the best course of option was to include "all or nothing" as in all affiliates are either taken off or added on. The discussion was that, as you stated, "(affiliate)" is to be removed because some users felt that it isolated those members as part of the Columbia community. The other discussion was whether to do "all" or "nothing." The agreement was reached to include "all" because it is the most consistent with primary sources, namely, the charters and statues from the Board of Trustees of Columbia University.

Even more so, Teachers College varies from other affiliates in that the college awards Ph.Ds. These Ph.Ds are actually conferred by the Columbia Graduate School of Arts & Sciences as a doctorate in education (even though the academic syllabus and research is done at TC). Furthermore, Teachers College is not only a Faculty unit of Education (like Barnard the JTS), but it is an official Department of the University as the Department of Education (as cited again, in BOTH the faculty handbook and the charters and statues amendments) because no other school in the Columbia umbrella awards degrees in education. Lastly, Teachers College is governed by the Committee on the Master of Arts in Education, which other affiliates are not. This committee is precisely what allows TC to award education degree under the Columbia name (other affiliates do not have this because they have repeated subjects that is also represented in the College, i.e. BA in Sociology at Barnard vs BA in Sociology at Columbia College). We cannot keep having the same debate over and over and over again. This has been happening for a few years now and new editors keep coming in attempting to change it. This edit should be locked.Pebblefire (talk) 11:33, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

March 2019[edit]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Bbb23 (talk) 14:00, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for socking[edit]

I've blocked you indefinitely for again socking with IPs.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:39, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]