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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
For reference please see Tuskegee University then section on Booker T. Washington's leadership. This is one example of how on several ocassions (now) simply indicates current name of school nothing else. Liberallefty79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liberallefty79 ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Ok, well that's understandable. I have just seen this usage so many times for so many institutions whose names have changed throughout their history or since their founding. Wiki seems to keep it simple by saying (now) this or (now) that. I may have seen (now known as) as well. Personally, this to me is even less than a first world problem. lol Thanks Liberallefty79 — Preceding undated comment added 18:32, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
LOL..exactly. -1 world problem. Yes this is great! Very good compromise for the wording. It is clear and contextual. I'm glad we were able to communicate a very effective resolution. The intent was not to edit war, but to get the wording right. Now could you take that off the history lol Thanks again.
Hi DMacks. I noticed that you deleted a number of pages related to Selleck Chemicals and their products. I have started related discussions at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Promotional_activity_by_Selleck_Chemicals and at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Manyzz. Please feel free to contribute if you have anything to add. Regards, -- Ed ( Edgar181) 19:56, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
Are you swag? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.76.165.68 ( talk) 17:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Extend PC time? -- George Ho ( talk) 05:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
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7 months ago i created one article titled as Ashvin Raja i want protection of that article because Many of them editing and spoiling my article so kidly I Request You to full protect my article ( S.C.Williams ( talk) 01:36, 23 October 2014 (UTC))
page has no valid sources — Preceding unsigned comment added by Durr-e-shehwar ( talk • contribs) 16:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I've just reverted some edits at the above article by the same editor you reverted at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - I'd appreciate a review of my revert. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 11:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't know why editors felt it necessary to completely change their view on the pharmacology of bupropion, based upon two studies. That's bad science, it's not consistent with the vast majority of the literature, I'm in medical school and physician after physician repudiates the use of the one, newest study to change a view completely. That's bad science. Don't use novelty over preponderance of evidence, because it is exactly why certain criticisms are leveled at this site. The physicians' views are anecdotal, but how many references do I need against those two. I'll get you a hundred if you like. It's embarrassing to read that page as is. Whoever wrote it needs to understand the scientific field a little better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellmeister88 ( talk • contribs) 03:48, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
The bupropion page even describes it as an NDRI. Why wouldn't it be on the drug list? You wanna debate pharmacology I will talk you into next Tuesday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellmeister88 ( talk • contribs) 03:54, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear DMacks.
United Nations have not approved Macedonia as a valid name. FYROM is the right name. I do not care if it is wrongfully used/promoted by some anti-Greece lobbies. History is on the side of Greece. Macedonia is historically and legaly bound to Greece and Ancient Greece. Alexander the Great the king of Macedonia is Greek for god sakes. Please read history and study the whole case. When we close our eyes to such an unfair matter, the whole internet community will be educated to behave unfairly to history.
Here is an analogy: Let's say I am a businessman. I cannot name a soda trade product of mine as Coca Cola or Fanta, because Coca Cola company will tear me apart in every court worldwide.
In the same manner and multiplied in importance cause we are talking about the history of millions of Greek people and not a junk product: Our neighbour country Skopje or FYROM after the disolution of Yugoslavia, wants to acquire a national identity out of thin air. How? By stealing the historical name and the whole history of Greece that accompanies this name.
If we allow them to use our Name and give away Macedonia, we give away our Land Rights. I give away name, I surrender Land. H It is very easy to understand it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Godroplet ( talk • contribs) 20:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
No problem. That was a mess. I'm still watching the user contributions. Kehrbykid ( talk) 19:58, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm thinking about merging Anti-phase domain into Crystallographic defect (or at least adding a mention of it). Before I do so I was wondering if you could give me a second opinion on the content, it has an image which is cited strangely and I can't tell if its COI editing or an outright violation. -- Project Osprey ( talk) 19:03, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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22:42, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking the first two socks of this user that keeps on pestering my talk page. However, a new sock ( User:DaMack's) is now vandalizing my talk page again. I created a new SPI case against Mamaluigi2's other socks before this happened. Kindly assist. Thanks. - WayKurat ( talk) 13:15, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I want to edit Happy New Year's Controversies section. Here's my contribution. If you find it appropriate then please add it to the section and remove criticism. Thanks.
" Jaya Bachchan called Happy New Year 'the most nonsensical film' at Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest. [1] Since the internet thrives on controversy, this soon went viral. Much was written about Jaya Bachchan calling Happy New Year a 'nonsensical' film. But she also added that Happy New Year is an entertaining film as well. [2] Amitabh Bachchan posted a blog on twitter to sort out any wrong reportage on the incident, [3] which read: "Her remarks about Happy New Year being ‘nonsensical’, when taken out of context, sound like harsh criticism of the film, but she was talking of two kinds of cinema that exist in India — those based on literary works and those that are pure entertainment. She enjoyed both these kinds of films, she said. An example she gave of the latter was of Amar Akbar Anthony, a film she said she enjoyed immensely, as much as she did Happy New Year. In fact, she said, she complimented her son Abhishek for his role, because it’s something she couldn’t have done herself. So if the media was at all interested in presenting the gist of the two conversations in headlines, they should have read: ‘Jaya Bachchan finds Happy New Year as entertaining as Amar, Akbar, Anthony'." [4]
Following that there were reports that Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan apologised to the Shahrukh Khan for Jaya Bachchan's 'Nonsensical' remark. The reports said that "Abhishek and Aishwarya visited Mannat, but SRK did not meet them so they had to discuss the matter with his wife Gauri Khan. SRK's behavior shows that he has not forgiven the Bachchans for Jaya's harsh remark on his film". After reading that report, Shah Rukh said that he has not read a more crappy, made up piece of journalism lately. [5]" Aryan.malik3 ( talk) 03:31, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Some vandal posed as confirmed editor last year. Can you increase protection level to lv-2 pending changes with or without semi-protection? I know PC2 is not widely accepted yet, but can we just ignore all rules to improve Wikipedia? -- George Ho ( talk) 06:59, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
I need to have that deleted because there's a duplicated on commons here. The one on commons is PD. So the non-free needs to go. Étienne Dolet ( talk) 05:35, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment you left on OneGuy. Now he keeps adding the tag back without giving any reason at all and also added new content based on a questionable source (which is a source mentioned by a scanned page of another source with unknown authors and reliability). Also other sources under the expert opinion sections are well recognized experts and organizations. Just found myself breaking the 3RR so I disengaged. I know you may not be interested in this tiger vs lion topic (in fact I am also not that interested in it as I appeared to be, but I will just appear if someone makes problematic edits to any of the animal pages I am watching. That page has the most frequent problematic edits and that's why I appear there often) but his obvious problematic edits like the addition of the tag without a valid reason should be removed. Thanks. Big Cats - talk 22:53, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi DMacks, some moment ago you just threated me to block. But I had done nothing wrong with Happy New Year. If I did any mistakes, forgive me and help me. Bye ArNab_MACHO_ROCKSS (Talk) 10:50, 16 November (UTC)
DMacks,
I made some edits back on 11/2 that included some information on Rich Media Messaging (RMM) and you rolled these back with the following message, "need independent cite". Can you help me better understand what's necessary? I look at RMM as the next step of MMS as rather than having to focus on delivering content at the lowest common denominator across handsets/operating systems, this enables the content to be optimized for each handset/operating system.
Thanks and would welcome your perspective when convenient.
--Bill--
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello DMacks. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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Ethyl sulfate. (ethyl hydrogen sulfate) Hi DMacks. Not sure if this is how to go about this, but you have shown an interest in the talk pages for this entry. I noticed that the boiling point and melting point for ethyl hydrogen sulfate are given as identical to diethyl sulfate. I am pretty sure that this is wrong, not only becasue chemically it is most unlikely, but I have found references that mix up the two compounds, and it is very likely that the data cited here have come from such a source. I cannot find reliable source for boiling point and melting point for ethyl hydrogen sulfate. I put comment on the appropriate talk page a few days ago. Stainless316 ( talk) 13:16, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! A user Blacknclick recently changed the lead image on the page calling it a better photogtaph. I undid the edit since it seems to be taken in a private setting and 'better photograph' being very subjective. I also explained to the user on his/her talk page and requested that a discussion be initiated. However, the user again replaced the image with a different one this time. The new image also doesn't seem to be taken in a public place and has no consent associated. Can you please take a look and guide? Thanks, Traintogain ( talk) 00:01, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
to which changes are you referring? whatever they are you, you can see for yourself whether i'm right or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.68.253.209 ( talk) 17:09, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
After your final warning, this was made. Not exactly vandalism so bringing it to you. -- NeilN talk to me 15:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi DMacks, sorry to trouble you but could you please go thru this articel? Mumbai Fire Brigade has a lot of content that I believe is either OR or a copyvio. I'm hoping that your experience in such matters would hep out. Thanks. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 06:40, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
{{
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07:00, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
The etymology which was added by me in /info/en/?search=Kerala was undone by various authors. I could not find proper reasons for undoing that. Hence, I had to revert those changes again. Thanks for informing that wikipedia has a terminology called edit-war. I was not aware of that, and I was not intentionally making a edit war or so. The edits I have made are genuine and there is very well a proof for that in the Kerala site ( http://www.stateofkerala.in/kerala_facts/kerala_etymology.php). To add more, this same fact is mentioned in tamil and malayalam version of the same page itself.
I am not sure what is the right process to make the changes for this situation. Any guidelines or help would be appreciated.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jophine89 ( talk • contribs) 08:17, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello DMacks,
I'm Phoenix Aspacio I didn't mean to remove the "Article for Deletion" message in Oikyo Linux Aricle I'm just editing the article find some word that might cause something like copyrightvio to prevent it's deletion. Please help me what should I do to prevent this from happening?. Thank you and God bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aspaciop ( talk • contribs) 08:29, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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Deathcore does not involve singing vocals, only screaming and growls, since when is this disruptive? Its true, you need to change it because the way you edited it is incorrect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itstylerrivera ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi DMacks
I made a few changes to the Vince Offer page and I tried to put references for most of them I was able to. Which change are you specifically saying I used a poor source for? I am actually Vince's brother in law and I am making changes he requested... but I know that Wikipedia needs refs also. I am very new to editing.
I don't have a citation for his daughter baby because the press never picked that up... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awchassy ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks DMacks for reverting the page back it put me in the state to read all the page editing material as I wasn't really aware of the fact I was promoting the its products. But most of the editing was non promotional. I will be very grateful if you give me a little guidance besides products and services what was disrupting material in the article so that I can recreate the page properly.-- Omerahm ( talk) 17:15, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Sure I will be careful from now on. Need to remake the page all over. Omerahm ( talk) 17:29, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Never mind! See you. CaTi0604 ( talk) 07:08, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you reverted my (IP's) edit here. I'm curious why you think a lobby group paid by cities who have municipal electric monopolies is a reliable source regarding municipal electric monopolies? (NPOV says we say what other reliable sources say.) DimeCadmium ( talk) 06:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I have raised this issue with the Mediation Committee.How do I check the status of it? Also,in the meantime,can I continue to edit the articles I find in poor taste in the page of disagreement under any circumstances(providing edit summary,replying on talkpage,etc)? 08:26, 15 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankisur2 ( talk • contribs)
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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Happy holidays and happy new year to my Editing Wikipedia "WikiProject New York City Public Transportation", editing coleuge(I have trouble speeling this word, it means two people who work at the same place.). From, very friendly, Doorknob747 00:56, 17 December 2014 (UTC) here is a gift of something rarely seen: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_interior_of_a_busy,_R160B_R_train.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doorknob747 ( talk • contribs) 23:28, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Please explain to me how to update a page when I have doccumented information, and they delete it without a valid explanation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshclark82 ( talk • contribs) 07:03, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
I submitted a mediation as well. I know I'm new to Wikipedia. But am having a hard time understanding why accurate, constructive, and documented information isn't "good enough" for Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshclark82 ( talk • contribs) 07:07, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Beverly Hills High School has many notable alumni that are missing from the page.
Ryan (RJ) Francis director, actor, wrote, producer) has been in the film and TV industry for many years, all the way back to childhood. He can be easily found. Sam Nazarian was recently in the news as a night club mogul and multi- millionaire. Shifty Binzer and Doug Miller from the band Crazytown are alumni. Jeremy Booth is a high ranking MLB scout with the Seattle Mariners and former minor league baseball player. Michael Moore is a former 1st round MLB draft pick and played football and baseball at UCLA.
There are many searchable articles on all of these people. Your page needs to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpabooth15 ( talk • contribs) 16:20, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Opps, I include it in commons to assure attribution, but always strip it from my EN contribs. Thanks for your comment and watching out. Happy Holliday's & Cheers! talk→ WPPilot 22:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
For reference please see Tuskegee University then section on Booker T. Washington's leadership. This is one example of how on several ocassions (now) simply indicates current name of school nothing else. Liberallefty79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liberallefty79 ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Ok, well that's understandable. I have just seen this usage so many times for so many institutions whose names have changed throughout their history or since their founding. Wiki seems to keep it simple by saying (now) this or (now) that. I may have seen (now known as) as well. Personally, this to me is even less than a first world problem. lol Thanks Liberallefty79 — Preceding undated comment added 18:32, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
LOL..exactly. -1 world problem. Yes this is great! Very good compromise for the wording. It is clear and contextual. I'm glad we were able to communicate a very effective resolution. The intent was not to edit war, but to get the wording right. Now could you take that off the history lol Thanks again.
Hi DMacks. I noticed that you deleted a number of pages related to Selleck Chemicals and their products. I have started related discussions at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Promotional_activity_by_Selleck_Chemicals and at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Manyzz. Please feel free to contribute if you have anything to add. Regards, -- Ed ( Edgar181) 19:56, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
Are you swag? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.76.165.68 ( talk) 17:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
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For your awesome contributions on Wikipedia, I'm giving you an Anti-Vandalism award for your great effort of fighting against vandalism. Keep up the good work, DMacks! :) -- Allen ( talk to me! / ctrb / E-mail me) 00:35, 22 October 2014 (UTC) |
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7 months ago i created one article titled as Ashvin Raja i want protection of that article because Many of them editing and spoiling my article so kidly I Request You to full protect my article ( S.C.Williams ( talk) 01:36, 23 October 2014 (UTC))
page has no valid sources — Preceding unsigned comment added by Durr-e-shehwar ( talk • contribs) 16:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I've just reverted some edits at the above article by the same editor you reverted at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - I'd appreciate a review of my revert. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 11:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't know why editors felt it necessary to completely change their view on the pharmacology of bupropion, based upon two studies. That's bad science, it's not consistent with the vast majority of the literature, I'm in medical school and physician after physician repudiates the use of the one, newest study to change a view completely. That's bad science. Don't use novelty over preponderance of evidence, because it is exactly why certain criticisms are leveled at this site. The physicians' views are anecdotal, but how many references do I need against those two. I'll get you a hundred if you like. It's embarrassing to read that page as is. Whoever wrote it needs to understand the scientific field a little better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellmeister88 ( talk • contribs) 03:48, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
The bupropion page even describes it as an NDRI. Why wouldn't it be on the drug list? You wanna debate pharmacology I will talk you into next Tuesday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellmeister88 ( talk • contribs) 03:54, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear DMacks.
United Nations have not approved Macedonia as a valid name. FYROM is the right name. I do not care if it is wrongfully used/promoted by some anti-Greece lobbies. History is on the side of Greece. Macedonia is historically and legaly bound to Greece and Ancient Greece. Alexander the Great the king of Macedonia is Greek for god sakes. Please read history and study the whole case. When we close our eyes to such an unfair matter, the whole internet community will be educated to behave unfairly to history.
Here is an analogy: Let's say I am a businessman. I cannot name a soda trade product of mine as Coca Cola or Fanta, because Coca Cola company will tear me apart in every court worldwide.
In the same manner and multiplied in importance cause we are talking about the history of millions of Greek people and not a junk product: Our neighbour country Skopje or FYROM after the disolution of Yugoslavia, wants to acquire a national identity out of thin air. How? By stealing the historical name and the whole history of Greece that accompanies this name.
If we allow them to use our Name and give away Macedonia, we give away our Land Rights. I give away name, I surrender Land. H It is very easy to understand it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Godroplet ( talk • contribs) 20:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
No problem. That was a mess. I'm still watching the user contributions. Kehrbykid ( talk) 19:58, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm thinking about merging Anti-phase domain into Crystallographic defect (or at least adding a mention of it). Before I do so I was wondering if you could give me a second opinion on the content, it has an image which is cited strangely and I can't tell if its COI editing or an outright violation. -- Project Osprey ( talk) 19:03, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for blocking the first two socks of this user that keeps on pestering my talk page. However, a new sock ( User:DaMack's) is now vandalizing my talk page again. I created a new SPI case against Mamaluigi2's other socks before this happened. Kindly assist. Thanks. - WayKurat ( talk) 13:15, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I want to edit Happy New Year's Controversies section. Here's my contribution. If you find it appropriate then please add it to the section and remove criticism. Thanks.
" Jaya Bachchan called Happy New Year 'the most nonsensical film' at Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest. [1] Since the internet thrives on controversy, this soon went viral. Much was written about Jaya Bachchan calling Happy New Year a 'nonsensical' film. But she also added that Happy New Year is an entertaining film as well. [2] Amitabh Bachchan posted a blog on twitter to sort out any wrong reportage on the incident, [3] which read: "Her remarks about Happy New Year being ‘nonsensical’, when taken out of context, sound like harsh criticism of the film, but she was talking of two kinds of cinema that exist in India — those based on literary works and those that are pure entertainment. She enjoyed both these kinds of films, she said. An example she gave of the latter was of Amar Akbar Anthony, a film she said she enjoyed immensely, as much as she did Happy New Year. In fact, she said, she complimented her son Abhishek for his role, because it’s something she couldn’t have done herself. So if the media was at all interested in presenting the gist of the two conversations in headlines, they should have read: ‘Jaya Bachchan finds Happy New Year as entertaining as Amar, Akbar, Anthony'." [4]
Following that there were reports that Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan apologised to the Shahrukh Khan for Jaya Bachchan's 'Nonsensical' remark. The reports said that "Abhishek and Aishwarya visited Mannat, but SRK did not meet them so they had to discuss the matter with his wife Gauri Khan. SRK's behavior shows that he has not forgiven the Bachchans for Jaya's harsh remark on his film". After reading that report, Shah Rukh said that he has not read a more crappy, made up piece of journalism lately. [5]" Aryan.malik3 ( talk) 03:31, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Some vandal posed as confirmed editor last year. Can you increase protection level to lv-2 pending changes with or without semi-protection? I know PC2 is not widely accepted yet, but can we just ignore all rules to improve Wikipedia? -- George Ho ( talk) 06:59, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
I need to have that deleted because there's a duplicated on commons here. The one on commons is PD. So the non-free needs to go. Étienne Dolet ( talk) 05:35, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment you left on OneGuy. Now he keeps adding the tag back without giving any reason at all and also added new content based on a questionable source (which is a source mentioned by a scanned page of another source with unknown authors and reliability). Also other sources under the expert opinion sections are well recognized experts and organizations. Just found myself breaking the 3RR so I disengaged. I know you may not be interested in this tiger vs lion topic (in fact I am also not that interested in it as I appeared to be, but I will just appear if someone makes problematic edits to any of the animal pages I am watching. That page has the most frequent problematic edits and that's why I appear there often) but his obvious problematic edits like the addition of the tag without a valid reason should be removed. Thanks. Big Cats - talk 22:53, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi DMacks, some moment ago you just threated me to block. But I had done nothing wrong with Happy New Year. If I did any mistakes, forgive me and help me. Bye ArNab_MACHO_ROCKSS (Talk) 10:50, 16 November (UTC)
DMacks,
I made some edits back on 11/2 that included some information on Rich Media Messaging (RMM) and you rolled these back with the following message, "need independent cite". Can you help me better understand what's necessary? I look at RMM as the next step of MMS as rather than having to focus on delivering content at the lowest common denominator across handsets/operating systems, this enables the content to be optimized for each handset/operating system.
Thanks and would welcome your perspective when convenient.
--Bill--
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello DMacks. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
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Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
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Ethyl sulfate. (ethyl hydrogen sulfate) Hi DMacks. Not sure if this is how to go about this, but you have shown an interest in the talk pages for this entry. I noticed that the boiling point and melting point for ethyl hydrogen sulfate are given as identical to diethyl sulfate. I am pretty sure that this is wrong, not only becasue chemically it is most unlikely, but I have found references that mix up the two compounds, and it is very likely that the data cited here have come from such a source. I cannot find reliable source for boiling point and melting point for ethyl hydrogen sulfate. I put comment on the appropriate talk page a few days ago. Stainless316 ( talk) 13:16, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! A user Blacknclick recently changed the lead image on the page calling it a better photogtaph. I undid the edit since it seems to be taken in a private setting and 'better photograph' being very subjective. I also explained to the user on his/her talk page and requested that a discussion be initiated. However, the user again replaced the image with a different one this time. The new image also doesn't seem to be taken in a public place and has no consent associated. Can you please take a look and guide? Thanks, Traintogain ( talk) 00:01, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
to which changes are you referring? whatever they are you, you can see for yourself whether i'm right or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.68.253.209 ( talk) 17:09, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
After your final warning, this was made. Not exactly vandalism so bringing it to you. -- NeilN talk to me 15:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi DMacks, sorry to trouble you but could you please go thru this articel? Mumbai Fire Brigade has a lot of content that I believe is either OR or a copyvio. I'm hoping that your experience in such matters would hep out. Thanks. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 06:40, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
{{
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The etymology which was added by me in /info/en/?search=Kerala was undone by various authors. I could not find proper reasons for undoing that. Hence, I had to revert those changes again. Thanks for informing that wikipedia has a terminology called edit-war. I was not aware of that, and I was not intentionally making a edit war or so. The edits I have made are genuine and there is very well a proof for that in the Kerala site ( http://www.stateofkerala.in/kerala_facts/kerala_etymology.php). To add more, this same fact is mentioned in tamil and malayalam version of the same page itself.
I am not sure what is the right process to make the changes for this situation. Any guidelines or help would be appreciated.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jophine89 ( talk • contribs) 08:17, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello DMacks,
I'm Phoenix Aspacio I didn't mean to remove the "Article for Deletion" message in Oikyo Linux Aricle I'm just editing the article find some word that might cause something like copyrightvio to prevent it's deletion. Please help me what should I do to prevent this from happening?. Thank you and God bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aspaciop ( talk • contribs) 08:29, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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Deathcore does not involve singing vocals, only screaming and growls, since when is this disruptive? Its true, you need to change it because the way you edited it is incorrect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itstylerrivera ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi DMacks
I made a few changes to the Vince Offer page and I tried to put references for most of them I was able to. Which change are you specifically saying I used a poor source for? I am actually Vince's brother in law and I am making changes he requested... but I know that Wikipedia needs refs also. I am very new to editing.
I don't have a citation for his daughter baby because the press never picked that up... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awchassy ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Extend PC time? -- George Ho ( talk) 03:04, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks DMacks for reverting the page back it put me in the state to read all the page editing material as I wasn't really aware of the fact I was promoting the its products. But most of the editing was non promotional. I will be very grateful if you give me a little guidance besides products and services what was disrupting material in the article so that I can recreate the page properly.-- Omerahm ( talk) 17:15, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Sure I will be careful from now on. Need to remake the page all over. Omerahm ( talk) 17:29, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Never mind! See you. CaTi0604 ( talk) 07:08, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you reverted my (IP's) edit here. I'm curious why you think a lobby group paid by cities who have municipal electric monopolies is a reliable source regarding municipal electric monopolies? (NPOV says we say what other reliable sources say.) DimeCadmium ( talk) 06:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I have raised this issue with the Mediation Committee.How do I check the status of it? Also,in the meantime,can I continue to edit the articles I find in poor taste in the page of disagreement under any circumstances(providing edit summary,replying on talkpage,etc)? 08:26, 15 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankisur2 ( talk • contribs)
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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Happy holidays and happy new year to my Editing Wikipedia "WikiProject New York City Public Transportation", editing coleuge(I have trouble speeling this word, it means two people who work at the same place.). From, very friendly, Doorknob747 00:56, 17 December 2014 (UTC) here is a gift of something rarely seen: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_interior_of_a_busy,_R160B_R_train.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doorknob747 ( talk • contribs) 23:28, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Please explain to me how to update a page when I have doccumented information, and they delete it without a valid explanation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshclark82 ( talk • contribs) 07:03, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
I submitted a mediation as well. I know I'm new to Wikipedia. But am having a hard time understanding why accurate, constructive, and documented information isn't "good enough" for Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshclark82 ( talk • contribs) 07:07, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Beverly Hills High School has many notable alumni that are missing from the page.
Ryan (RJ) Francis director, actor, wrote, producer) has been in the film and TV industry for many years, all the way back to childhood. He can be easily found. Sam Nazarian was recently in the news as a night club mogul and multi- millionaire. Shifty Binzer and Doug Miller from the band Crazytown are alumni. Jeremy Booth is a high ranking MLB scout with the Seattle Mariners and former minor league baseball player. Michael Moore is a former 1st round MLB draft pick and played football and baseball at UCLA.
There are many searchable articles on all of these people. Your page needs to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpabooth15 ( talk • contribs) 16:20, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Opps, I include it in commons to assure attribution, but always strip it from my EN contribs. Thanks for your comment and watching out. Happy Holliday's & Cheers! talk→ WPPilot 22:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)