User Talk: Bgrus22

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IMDb, reliable sources, and user reviews

Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted {{diff2|930771512|your recent edit}} to The Dentist ↗. The IMDb ↗ is a not reliable source ↗, and its contents should not be imported into Wikipedia. It's written by random people, who sometimes make up hoaxes when they're bored, much like Wikipedia. For this reason, we require citations to be to sources that are not user-generated ↗. Usually, this means articles written by professional journalists or academics in a source that has editorial control – for example, ''Variety ↗'' or the ''Los Angeles Times ↗'', which often cover American films. Second, per MOS:FILM#Audience response ↗, we don't user reviews. They are subject to vote stacking and brigading. Instead, we use professional services, such as CinemaScore ↗ or PostTrak ↗. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:27, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
:it says on wiki that user reviews are acceptable as long as they are identified as user reviewsBgrus22 (talk) 10:20, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Brownies for you! Hope you like em

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:{{re|Doug Weller}} hope youre doing well, long time no see! thanks for letting me know right now I am working on a few pages ranging from a footballer to Italian politicians. Hope thats all fine a' okay. Bgrus22 (talk) 01:19, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Bgrus22. Thank you for your work on Hava Inbar ↗. SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process ↗, had the following comments:

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<span style="background-color:black; color:orange;">&maltese; SunDawn &maltese;</span> <span style="color:blue;"><span style="font-size:85%;">(contact)</span></span> 01:03, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

:{{Re|SunDawn}} Thank you for taking the time to write this message, it is very much appreciated. I didn't realize there were other G-d fearing folks here editing on the site. I hope you stay well and safe in these trying times! Feel free to send me a message if you ever need a hand with something or to get any pages started. Oh and your page is amazing, I may be stealing some tags you have that I didn't know about :) . Bgrus22 (talk) 17:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

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Hi Bgrus22, I just wanted to let you know that I have <span class="plainlinks">added ↗</span> the autopatrolled user right ↗ to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed ↗. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested ↗ on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers ↗.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject ↗ templates, stub tags ↗, categories ↗, and incoming links ↗ to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies ↗, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller ↗ yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! '''<span style="color:var(--color-base, #202122);">Schwede</span><span style="color: #FF4500;">66</span>''' 00:32, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you so much! Bgrus22 (talk) 01:05, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Nice work on creating new articles. '''Andre'''<span style="border:2px solid #073642;background:rgb(255,156,0);background:linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255,156,0,1) 0%, rgba(147,0,255,1) 45%, rgba(4,123,134,1) 87%);">🚐 ↗</span> 08:27, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
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Still creating great new articles - thank you! '''Andre'''<span style="border:2px solid #073642;background:rgb(255,156,0);background:linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255,156,0,1) 0%, rgba(147,0,255,1) 45%, rgba(4,123,134,1) 87%);">🚐 ↗</span> 17:06, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

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25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm ~2025-31245-28. I noticed that you recently removed all content from a page. Please do not do this. ↗ Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please redirect ↗ it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been vandalised ↗, please revert ↗ it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit ↗ the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy ↗ for how to proceed. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you wish to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~2025-31245-28 ↗ (talk) 22:12, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Explanation

User:Bgrus22 - The unregistered editor is partly right, because you were (through good faith ↗ but serious error) attempting to hijack ↗ a valid redirect to an existing article, J. J. Putz ↗. Redirects should not be blanked except in extraordinary circumstances. This was not an extraordinary circumstance. Redirects should not normally be blanked even if they are thought to be incorrect. Normally issues about redirects should be taken to Redirects for Discussion ↗. If you had tagged the redirect for a deletion discussion, a more experienced editor would have given you the advice that I am about to give you. The redirect was there for a purpose, because Joseph Putz ↗ is a valid search term for J. J. Putz ↗. You want to create an article about another person for whom Joseph Putz ↗ is a name. This requires disambiguation ↗. You should already be familiar with disambiguation, but maybe you have seen it without understanding it. What I have done is to move your sandbox to Draft:Joseph Putz (soldier) ↗. If your draft is then either accepted by a reviewer or moved to article space, the redirect at Joseph Putz ↗ should be changed to a disambiguation page.

The advice from the unregistered editor to overwrite the redirect is wrong. The redirect is there for a purpose. It should neither be overwritten nor blanked. It is there for a purpose.
Robert McClenon (talk) 04:59, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

:@Robert McClenon Thank you for taking the time to address this! I did put it in redirects for discussion as I said, this unnamed user seemed to derail my attempt despite our previous discussion in their talk page. I also offered to put in the template that goes in the top of a page "this page is for x, for the topic y please go here" although I will admit I did not name it the best but he seemed to understand what I meant.
:Why make it under (soldier) when the baseball player is not known by that name while the soldier is known by his name and is more prominent amongst academic works? I think that it makes for a lower quality page when we have the tools to provide a link via template, like used at the top of here ↗. Bgrus22 (talk) 06:09, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
::I will be copying your comments here to DRN ↗, and replying to them within 24 hours. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:47, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Bgrus22. Thank you for your work on Joseph Putz (Officer) ↗. Another editor, MichealKal, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol ↗ and left the following comment:

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MichealKal (talk) 16:09, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

:{{Re|MichealKal}} May I ask why it wasnt placed in the Joseph Putz namespace? the redirect leads to a player that is not the main topic for the actual name and there is a redirect to him on the officers page Bgrus22 (talk) 17:54, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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