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Happy editing! 〜 Adflatuss • talk 17:01, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Hope you are well. Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, so I'm just getting started here. I see some areas on the page for the Mirage-Treasure Island Tram that I think could use added info. I just need to do some research but I want to improve it. --NevadaExpert (talk) 17:03, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sentence case

Hi, thank you for your contributions. I note your creation of Category:Integrated Resorts in the United States and related subcategories.

Wikipedia uses sentence case; see WP:NCCAPS. I don't believe "integrated resort" is a proper name (?) The category name should therefore be Category:Integrated resorts in the United States; same idea for the subcategories. 162 etc. (talk) 21:42, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s fine and should be corrected. --NevadaExpert (talk) 21:43, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can find the instructions for doing so at WP:CFDS. 162 etc. (talk) 21:47, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 7 § Category:Integrated Resorts

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 7 § Category:Integrated Resorts on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 03:14, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of casinos

Please check Google maps or the local GIS before adding more casinos to cities. I have reverted two of your recent edits. Having a city's mailing address does not mean it's located in that city. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:33, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I work in the industry and I know where these places are. If this doesn’t comply with Wikipedia standards then maybe the page for Harrah’s Southern California shouldn’t list valley center as it’s location (which it does). The page for the Hard Rock Resort in Hollywood FL should also have its listed location on its page changed. I’ll be glad to fix that. --NevadaExpert (talk) 00:44, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed the locations listed on the pages for those two resorts. You are correct since these resorts are located on reservation land. But there are lots of Native American casinos on reservation land, meaning the listed locations on those pages would need changing. Technically speaking, it would be correct to fix this in my view. However, perhaps this requires discussion. This may very well need to be addressed on a case by case basis. My employer is a property with a commercial casino, so I’m not sure if I can determine how to list locations for Native American casinos. But let’s discuss and hopefully we can come to a solution. --NevadaExpert (talk) 00:55, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"I know where these places are" - please read WP:Verifiability, not truth and provide reliable, verifiable sources. Personal knowledge is not enough. Cabayi (talk) 09:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

February 2025

Hello NevadaExpert. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:NevadaExpert. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NevadaExpert|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. All your edits are casino-related, and you wrote: "I work in the industry". Please explain. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:11, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not being paid for this, nor do I expect compensation. These are simply edits on pages since I am familiar with the topics on the pages I edit. I am simply using my knowledge to help improve these pages and to help Wikipedia provide the best and most detailed and accurate pages on these topics. Sadly, we live in a time where there is so much misinformation out there and I feel that I have a duty to help make sure people have the truth out there. Wikipedia should be one of those places. Personally speaking, the idea of being paid for this would go against my personal values. My commitment is to facts and helping pages which are on topics I know about to be the best and most accurate they can be. I’m one person, but I believe in Wikipedia and supporting Wikipedia to be a place for facts, especially at a time when facts get ignored by those who are in positions of power. We can all make a difference and this is one way I do that. --NevadaExpert (talk) 19:17, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You literally said, "I work in the industry". Magnolia677 (talk) 19:30, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did say that, but I’m not being paid to edit. All I was saying before is that my knowledge can be helpful because of that. Like I said, getting paid to edit Wikipedia would go against my values and commitment to facts and the truth. And I agree, if someone is being paid to edit pages, it would make it hard for them to be objective. This is why I am a firm believer in making sure things are factual because there are people out there who would be very happy to ignore and deny facts when it suites their purposes. We have an obligation as individuals to support facts. NevadaExpert (talk) 19:35, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let me see if I have this straight. You work in the casino industry, and every edit you have made has been to improve a casino article...but you're not a paid editor. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:02, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s correct. I already answered this question twice and that is what I have stated. NevadaExpert (talk) 00:23, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just because someone's edits focus on the industry they work in doesn't mean they're a paid editor. That's a failure to assume good faith. People who work in an industry tend to be knowledgeable about and have an interest in an industry. If anything, we need to encourage people with expertise in an area to contribute. oknazevad (talk) 16:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 2025

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in List of integrated resorts, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You have re-done this change even after it was reverted. See MOS:NOSECTIONLINKS. CodeTalker (talk) 02:51, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What I was reverting was the section that ended up reading “New York (state)|New York”. It would simply read “New York”. That was the error that needed correcting. It is fine now and it has been properly fixed as suggested. --NevadaExpert (talk) 13:59, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have just started the talk page for List of integrated resorts. I can see that there were certain formatting issues that you fixed and I’m cool with that. There are some spots where I tried to improve. I started the List of Integrated Resorts page after it was suggested that I do so. So much of the work on that page has been from me, but I would love it if other editors came onto the talk page so we could discuss ways of making it better. If you are interested, I would love the opportunity to talk with you on the talk page for that article. Sometimes it helps to have second opinions and fresh ideas. NevadaExpert (talk) 20:58, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding references

Just want to say I appreciate greatly your consistency in including a reference with each addition. With that said, including the access date is needed to prevent loss of citations if and when a website changes. Using a template like template:cite web can make it easier to keep track of what should be included in a full citation. (Also, there's no space between a period at the end of a sentence and the following citation.) oknazevad (talk) 16:53, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]