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Hi Dianna. Thanks for helping with the daily updates to the drive page and for taking on the lion's shre of checking people's copy edits. It was greatly appreciated. Cheers, Simon. -- Stfg ( talk) 09:47, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Do you think you could delete Neccesary and proper clause? It seems like a highly unlikely misspelling, and nothing links to it. I can't quite find a CSD reason that fits, but it seems like taking it to AfD would be overkill. — Torchiest talk edits 18:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, when you move a thread from one board to another (ANI to AN, for example), make sure that you sign the "moved to" notice on the former board. MiszaBot does not archive any sections without timestamps in them. When you moved the section "About Niemti" from ANI to AN some time ago, you didn't sign the move notice message, so the section has been lingering on the board for five and a half days, far longer than it should, since ANI threads are usually archived after 24 hours of inactivity. My addition of an unsigned notice should allow the thread to be automatically archived soon. Graham 87 02:29, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Re: User talk:Electriccatfish2 #WP:AIV. One of the reasons why I don't participate as an admin on these boards is because I feel they have become too much of a playground for wannabe admins. I sometimes look in, and I see the backlog waiting for an admin comment, but I leave well alone although I know I ought to participate. I therefore prefer to work on general help desks that are less contentious. Other admins I know share the same position. Is there anything that can be done about it? -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:53, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Chip 123456 07:04, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for declining my nomination for someone else to have autopatrolled status. Your thoroughness showed problems that I did not spot, perhaps because I was overly impressed by a PhD. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 01:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
For the complete list, see User:Diannaa/Soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR91p97Mj9Y
Wow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRYsAfchkY&feature=relmfu
Why did you delete my page and saying i didnt prove it doesn't count GeorgeT2008 ( talk) 17:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
If you you redo it i can add my proof he existed but only if its undone deletion GeorgeT2008 ( talk) 17:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
First of all, sorry for spending your precious time. Upon the following problem weighed on my mind, I decided to offer a solution for Turkish people page, which is semi-protected by you. I also mentioned the matter on Talk page and informed my solution to the related users. I've just removed the two genetic-related paragraphs in the origin section of Turkish people because there is already a page called Genetic history of the Turkish people which is about the genetic studies of Turkish related people, and there is no need to mention the same or similar contributions repetitively in the Turkish people page. So it would be better to go on genetic-related contributions on the another page. If you think my solution and action is wrong, I can revert back the deletion. Sorry for this. Thanks. BozokluAdam ( talk) 05:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I am awarding you one of these, although there is no evidence that they exist and I haven't got the time to make one, but I am confident that you will bear with me until I do. If I do. pablo 17:12, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello dear Diannaa,
I am a class mate of the person who recently wrote the False coverage rate article (which you have deleted due to the "Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://astro.temple.edu/~zhaozhg/FCR_JRSS.pdf").
I have helped my friend with some guidelines on how to clean his article from copied materials, and only include text that he wrote (based on the relevant subject mater). The result is quite rough, but might be a decent start for this article.
Can I please ask you to review the current stage of this article on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Talgalili/sandbox
If you believe this is a reasonable draft, I will put it up live, after wikifying it a bit more.
With regards, Tal Galili ( talk) 19:32, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Electric Catfish 23:00, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Admin's Barnstar |
For all of your great work at WP: AIV this evening! Electric Catfish 00:46, 6 August 2012 (UTC) |
Mind blocking this one? 166.147.120.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), see [1], note the personal attack in the edit summary. He iro 00:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I have semi'd the talk page. -- Dianna ( talk) 02:14, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
And 166.147.120.29 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) is back again [3], block must have expired. Notice that the edit made inserts uncited WP:FRINGE nonsense about ancient Europeans coming to North American and extracting billions of tons of copper from the Great Lakes. He iro 22:14, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Back again as 166.147.120.27 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), see [4] where they re-inserted other fringe nonsense into an article sourced to a former Neo Nazi turned new age writer. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 128#Frank Collin, aka Frank Joseph as a reliable source at WP:RSN for background. They are definitely now using my contribs history to troll. He iro 05:20, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
For the complete list, see User:Diannaa/Soundtrack
This version kills: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Mfi3Qd1-4
Kindly, Anderson - what's up? 02:55, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Please remember to upload a Commons image to Wikipedia (and tag it {{
uploaded from Commons}}) before transcluding it on the main page. Our cascading protection doesn't extend to Commons, so a vandal can replace the file there (which has occurred on multiple occasions).
As a fallback (not a first-line measure), a bot cascade-protects our main page images at Commons, but this is neither immediate nor fully reliable (due to outages). Thank you! —
David Levy
02:29, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa. I'm here to inquire about the award distribution for our most recent copyediting drive. I've posted a similar question on the talkpage for the drive, but I thought it'd be better to ask one of the coordinators in person. Usually the GOCE drive awards for each participant in a drive are determined and handed out within the first ten days following the drive's closure. Is there something holding up distributing the awards for July? It's been ten days now, and the page for evaluating editors' contributions and assessing what they've earned does not appear to have even been created yet. Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! ( talk) 05:44, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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Copy Editor's Barnstar | |
For churning out more than 40,000 words in the July 2012 drive, I present you with the official GOCE Award. Excellent work! — Torchiest talk edits 02:48, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award—5th place, 5k+ Articles | |
For completing one 5k article in the July 2012 drive, you have earned the GOCE Silver Star Award. Thanks for your efforts! — Torchiest talk edits 02:48, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
Hi Dianna, thanks for helping with the barnstar preparations yesterday. It's so easy to make mistakes in that task , and I appreciated the checks. Thank you! Simon. -- Stfg ( talk) 11:56, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
On behalf of the entire Wikipedia Community, this award is hereby presented jointly to the team of Stfg, Diannaa, Torchiest, and Allens for their hard work and superb cooperation in planning and executing the highly successful July 2012 Wikipedia Backlog Reduction Drive for the Guild of Copy Editors. With very best regards: Cliff (a/k/a "Uploadvirus") ( talk) 13:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
Hi! You were one of the admins on the recent changes so I'm here to ask you to unprotect this page (she won a silver medal at the Olympics so she meets notability criteria). -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 23:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
I saw your note at WP:AIV; see the note I left at User talk:Stefan64#Ruckearly about more possible sockpuppets here and on other projects. -- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:11, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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Can you semi-protect it? The day falls tomorrow and I'm pretty sure that the vandalism I just reverted will be back as more people start viewing the article. At least, protect it for 3 days. Thanks :) TheSpecialUser TSU 07:14, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Would you like to chair the reviewers' group again? -- Stfg ( talk) 14:45, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for putting that temporary lock on this article. I just wondered, what did you mean about sourcing from blogs? World Affairs I don't think is a blog but there's a pretty aggressive editor who insists on adding a critique by Michael Totten whom I don't believe to be much of an objective source. I will bring this up to other administrators when I bring this issue up as a dispute but in the meantime if you could clarify how you rationalized the first semi-protected status, I'd appreciate it.-- Aichikawa ( talk) 16:32, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I made this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Geraldine_Page&diff=507372092&oldid=506822337 during a recent copy edit drive. I have since learned, by researching other biographical articles at WP, that I wrote the lede incorrectly. I have since made the correction. This correction is not reflected in the enclosed link, as I wanted to show my final edit during the CE drive. As I have been told by an admin any further edits by me would be considered an edit war, I could be banned. I would like your input as I did not remove any references but I did remove some extraneous words. Here is the talk page comments I left with the corresponding comments left by the contributor who disputed my edits. See: [ [7]] What is the goal of CE if there will be no support given. As to NPOV, I did nothing to change POV. Based on my extensive writing experience, I have approximately 10 years of paid writing experience and have written two books, I do believe the edits I made were relevant and professional. Please advise what my role in CE as a part of the CE drives is supposed to be. Thank you! Quill and Pen ( talk) 18:19, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Why spend a couple hours editing an article that's going to be slowly reverted. I have enclosed the page history for this aticle: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Desilu_Productions&diff=507471125&oldid=474814445 to show what I mean. Here's a link to the current version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desilu_Productions. I guess I am a bit frustrated to see my hard work undone. Any response to that one? Thanks! Quill and Pen ( talk) 03:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
It's not a matter of ownership it's a matter of why bother to spend time participating in a copy edit drive when those edits will be reverted. I do believe there was a study done by WP addressing this issue and the loss of quality contributors based on this difficult quandary. Respect and scholarship runs both ways. Quill and Pen ( talk) 18:49, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to report uncivil behavior at WP, but I am asking you to investigate, if appropriate, and take needed action, if appropriate concerning the responses by this unregistered contributor. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/194.83.172.131 Grandpallima (hope that's spelled right) gave a civil response and I am thankful for it. My comments were not meant to be uncivil, but more of questioning nature, as I am trying to figure out if it is worth participating in CE drives based on this past experience. Thank you for "listening" and trying to help. Quill and Pen ( talk) 20:03, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, Rs chen 7754 09:11, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Re this PabloX mentioned it earlier. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 16:57, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
I reverted an ip edit to the Pussy Riot article about a week ago. The edit, which was pov, unreffed, etc, was made again and reverted again by another user. The ip has been warned several times. After I reverted him he left a message on my talk ( User talk:INeverCry) saying I was pro-Putin etc. I removed it. He replaced it a few days later. I reverted this, and the ip has now reverted me on my own talkpage to replace that same message. Can you help me with this? Thanks for your time. INever Cry 17:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
For the complete list, see User:Diannaa/Soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI
Hello. I was answering some questions on the
AfC help desk, where a lost editor questioned some edits you made to
Eli Broad. For the most part, I was able (I think) to answer the editor's question. I appreciate the detailed edit summaries you listed, as it made things easy for me. I was curious about your
, where you eliminated information because it was unsupported by one source, and the other was a dead link.
WP:DEADREF says to let dead links sit for around 24 months (this was tagged as approx. 12 months old). Did you remove it before the full 24 months due to BLP concerns?
-- Ever trying to learn,
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06:47, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
Thank you for all of the help you have given me, from undeleting my userpage, to the guidance you have given me on anti-vandalism, especially the IP tools. I greatly appreciate it! Electric Catfish 16:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks very much, EC2. You (and any other interested users) can browse the collection of tools and links at the top of my userpage in the "quick links" section. -- Dianna ( talk) 18:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Diannaa, I'm not sure it this is the right place to discuss it but I noticed you've removed all nearly all of my correct citations of the last many months in just a day or two following your edit war with me on the Sean Combs page. In reviewing your history the only thread that is common to you edits in the past 24-48 hours is that they all involve my work. You err in a number of places. For instance, the original citation for the MIlli Vanelli article, and Girl you know it's True was to the LA Times. It was inappropriate for you to remove this. You also removed citations on Jimmy Henchman that are US court citations and that are well documented in other articles. You removed an addition to the Don Simpson page, changed the Hilburn page etc. The only commonality of all these pages is that I contributed to them. I believe that my understanding of the history and the references of each of these pages are correct. Moreover, I find it hard to believe that you have become an expert in each of these areas within 24 house. It appears an effort to rewrite history. I think you should reconsider your edits as they leave each page with a less accurate impression and also call into question your judgment and neutrality. I also think that another editor should be involved the in the Sean Combs page as it's had a few complaints of non-neutrality. I hope we can resolve this problem. Scholarlyarticles ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:08, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
First I want to talk about the Sean Combs article. Your edit added a lot of material on the Tupac incident. Your edit added 280 words on the incident, in an article of 3122 words, increasing the coverage of this one incident to 8% of the total article. That gives the incident undue weight; giving this incident so much coverage in an article of this size damages the neutrality of the article. So I removed it for that reason. The addition of the fact that someone had confessed to the shooting was added, as this was new material I was not aware of before. Now I want to comment about what you said about the neutrality of the article being questioned. The post you saw at the top of the talk page is dated May 7, 2012. Since May, the article has seen extensive improvement, including its promotion to Good Article status. I was one of a team of editors who did that work, which involved hundreds of edits to the article. So I am very familiar with the Combs article, its sources, and the coverage that was selected for inclusion the article. The complaint that the article was written like an advertisement is no longer valid, if it was ever valid at all. The final point about the Combs article is that your addition implied that Combs was directly or indirectly involved in the attack on Tupac. We can't include that; we could get sued. It cannot be included unless and until there's evidence from reliable sources showing that he was involved in that crime. So that's why the material had to be removed as part of my duties as an administrator on this wiki.
The edits I performed on the other articles you edited were for similar reasons. Some of the material you added has been deleted as copyright violations:
I will give a couple of other representative examples of edits that were removed or altered, and give you a detailed rationale. Eli Broad: Here is one of your additions. Some of this material was retained, but some was not. Blogs are not considered a reliable source, particularly for defamatory material. Other sources said that the money form the parking garage was not "earmarked for charities", but came from a neighbourhood development fund, which is not at all the same thing. When seen in this light, the fact that a parking garage was built across from the facility using public funds no longer seems remarkable enough to warrant inclusion in the article. So I took it out. Other material about finanicial difficulties and personnel shake-ups was retained, though in an altered form, as some of it had been copied verbatim from the source, in violation of copyright law.
Michael Hiltzik: Here's a case where a large chunk of material was removed from a biography. The material was sourced to reliable newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post. An IP geolocating to Los Angeles removed the material on August 11. I visited the article yesterday and made the decision to re-add the content as the sources in actuality are top-of-the-line. Now you have re-removed the content. Why did you do that? These sources are the best.
In conclusion, my overall assessment is that your edits so far are violating some of Wikipedia's core policies on neutrality and are in violation of our requirements for sourcing on biographies of living persons and in violation of copyright law. If you wish to get more input or an independent assessment of my actions, please post at the administrators' noticeboard for incidents. -- Dianna ( talk) 20:29, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Diannaa - If you look at the article on the Tupac attack, Dexter admitted to doing so on Henchman's orders. You edited out that part and it clearly makes Henchman look innocent when the whole point of the ahh article was that Henchman set it up. I think you should reed the article before you delete key pieces. I'm not sure what you're referring to on Hiltzig. I only took out the "unethical behavior" section as it appeared defamatory and a small even in the life of a celebrated and talented writer- I've looked at your contributions in the last 48 hours. You siimply undid everything I did. I do know a lot about Tupac, and have the articles at my disposal. Many of your reasons for erasing items seem not to actually be justified by the material you erased. You clearly have a point of view when it comes to Sean Combs and it is not becoming of a Wikipedia editor. I've asked that your work be checked. Someone needs to actually read the source material. You seem to have a conflict of interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarlyarticles ( talk • contribs) 20:47, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Also, until this conflict can be resolved by other editors (I'm requesting three at this time) I must ask you to refrain from stalking my contributions. I will match my knowledge with yours on any subject I've written about. There was no need to delete that Hilburn had been with the lA times 36 years, delete Osborne's entire page, and worst of all your deletions on Jimmy Henchman's page corrupts the entire import of the AHH article in which Dexter Isaac confessed to the shooting ON ORDERS FROM HENCHMAN. I it's impossible for someone to do such contend editing if you are unaware of this basic fart. Also your edit on Broad, stating that the article hadn't supported the content was in error. You need to read the entire article - the art of a billionaire by C. Bruck Dec 6 2010 which you can only do by buying the article from the New Yorker. Clearly you hadn't had time to do so when you erased the content. I understand that you are a higher up here but that doesn't give you the right to re-write history. You and I both know there was no copyright violation in anything I wrote on Henchman's page. To the contrary the PACEr reference to the trial is entirely appropriate. I think the fact this maelstrom occurred on yur part in response to one edit on the Sean Comb page says quite a bit. I believe that your work should be checked. Please refrain from further assaults on pages I have written on until this can be resolved in dispute resolution``` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarlyarticles ( talk • contribs) 21:02, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I wonder if you could look over the John Cornell article for any glaring GA faults? The article is my first GAN. Cheers. GFHandel ♬ 11:44, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
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Dianna (
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23:18, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Dianna, you commented on the talk page for Speer, "If Sereny doesn't know for sure, after her many years of interviews and research, we likely will never know for sure either." Where did you get that idea? Gitta Sereny believed that Speer definitely knew about the death camps no later than the 10/43 Posen speech by Himmler. Also, Speer biographers, Erich Goldhagen, Dan van der Vat, and Matthias Schmidt all believe Speer was at Posen during Himmler's speech. TL36 ( talk) 05:35, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Recently me and Animeshkulkarni pushed 59th National Film Awards for Featured list candidates. PR and FLC comments suggested that article requires copy-editing. Per suggestions, we had requested a copy editing help here but then we never got any reply. I would appreciate if you can take some time out of your busy schedule and take a look at it as reviewers are suggesting FLC withdrawal because of the copy-editing issues. - Vivvt • ( Talk) 14:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
How can you tell Amazing Grace has been scheduled? I don't see mention of it on the TFA page. Nonspecific 2 column is empty though Nonspecific 1 has an article in the column. Is there a secret way of knowing? MathewTownsend ( talk) 22:18, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I was wondering, is this only for guild members, or can anyone submit an entry? ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:38, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for semi-protecting the Michael Faraday page. It needed it. Xxanthippe ( talk) 04:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC).
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Dispute on Jimmy Henchman page. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 07:21, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
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All Around Amazing Barnstar | |
Dianna, I award you this barnstar for clocking up 50,000 edits on the English Wikipedia. -- Stfg ( talk) 09:11, 26 August 2012 (UTC) |
Popups and the toolserver tool give slightly different counts, but today they both exceed 50K. Congratulations! -- Stfg ( talk) 09:11, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fellow editor, this, keeps adding stuff and deleting refrences to various articles. I've tried to engage him on the actual pages but I don't think he/she understands that this is an encyclopedia. He/she keeps adding vast swathes of text from Sikh Holy books. Please could you have a word with that user. Thanks SH 14:57, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
That IP is harassing me again. If you have the time, can you please page protect Pink Floyd and my talk page from IPs. Thanks. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 19:58, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Dispicable person is too strong. I suggest 'rascal' or 'scallywag' is closer. Regards. -- Greenmaven ( talk) 07:26, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for my curiosity here. I am just another editor who spends/wastes a long time reading discussions. Can you please tell me what happened then
here? Has WMF given any importance or they have concluded it is just a meaningless spam (as it seems, I did not understand what is emergency in that post, since the Church is in Columbus, Ohio, US and that IP address editor
is in Perth, Australia... they need long travel... airport security checks.. so on.. lots of barriers before him!
--
Tito Dutta
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16:38, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. I've been going through the Christy Turlington article to improve the referencing, however I've become stuck when faced with a reference to a (now defunct) magazine. The reference in the article is named "Cookie" and is used in two places. I wanted to add a Sources section and then use something like "cite journal" so that I could then use sfn to provide a two-way link. Unfortunately, I don't know how to set the parameters in the "cite journal" template so that it will be picked up by sfn (e.g. I don't know the author's name, and I don't know how to use the Periodical parameter). I'm happy to continue with the work at the article if you could get me over this hurdle. Thanks in advance. GFHandel ♬ 22:07, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fellow editor, User:Nasir Ghobar this user keeps adding stuff and deleting refrences to various articles. Especially Ranjit Singh. No other user had agree with this user on Talk:Ranjit Singh. Still, this user removing information without any valid reason. Can you try to stop this. Thanks Theman244 ( talk) 02:22, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey, you're fairly experienced dealing with copyvio situations, right? I've got a strange one, in that I can't tell if it's a problem or not, or how to proceed with my editing. Look here for a detailed explanation. The essence of it is that I thought text in the cellular automaton article was a copyright violation, but now it looks like the book may have plagiarized Wikipedia without attribution. Any suggestions on what, if anything, needs to be done about this, or perhaps who or where I could ask? I also posted at WT:CP with no response yet. Thanks! — Torchiest talk edits 03:03, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
166.147.120.24 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) back again, see their last two contribs. Can you rangeblock them for say 30 days? If not, I'll just bring him back here every day until he gets bored from IP hopping and disruption again. From your archives User talk:Diannaa/Archive 21#Another one from the same IP range as the 3 you blocked yesterday. He iro 05:05, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I see in deletion log this "16:36, 21 January 2011 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted page Centreon (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.speedylook.com/Oreon.html)". I am the new Centreon Community Manager and I would wish recreated the Centreon page without commercial/sales messages or without copying and pasting of text resulting from the other web sites However the www.speedylook.com web site used the contents of the English wikipedia page without authorization and you can see in the footer "© 2007-2008 speedlook.com; article text available under the terms of GFDL, from fr.wikipedia.org". Can I recreate the Centreon page ?
Lpinsivy ( talk) 08:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. When deleting old revisions of images, you're supposed to remove the {{ Orphaned non-free revisions}} notice from the file page too. Film Fan ( talk) 11:18, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
When someone contests a speedy deletion, you need to wait for some discussion on it. In this case, we can add a fair-use rational, but I'm waiting for explicit permission. Please restore the Aral Sea images pending resolution. Otherwise we waste our time reloading the same images over and over. — kwami ( talk) 02:27, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Alright, I've posted some comments, there are a few more to follow, but hopefully the initial ones will be helpful. Mark Arsten ( talk) 14:43, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You are approved for access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research.
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi 15:27, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I've made some comments at Talk:Bob Hope/GA1 and put the article on hold for seven days.
Best wishes,
MathewTownsend ( talk) 22:37, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Please would you take a look at Dilazak, where two SPAs and some others are edit warring and wasting GOCE copy editors' time in the process? The history shows that GOCE member User:Tdslk copy edited it on 27 July 2012, but on 30 July User:Dilazak1 did this partial reversion, which includes a restoration of the c/e tag. On that day, User:Asarjan123 did some edits, until at 15:39 User:Dilazak1 reverted back to a version of 25 July, conceivably to undo Asarjan123's work. The revert and the version reverted to are those with size 10,303 bytes. User:Lfstevens then copy edited again later that day. The edit war then chuntered along merrily until 29 August at 05:14, when User:Dilazak1 reverted to a version that has existed at least twice before, on 10 and 11 July (the file sizes are 10,081).
I was about to remove the c/e tag on the basis that we aren't offering yet another, but just now GOCE member User:MrX has done a new copy edit and removed the tag. One wonders how long it will be before this gets swallowed by the edit war and the tag reappears. I wasn't going to put GOCEreviewed on the talk page of that one in case it provoked escalation, but we do need to limit the number of GOCE editors whose time is wasted on this. Is there any was for the long arm of the law to help achieve this, please? -- Stfg ( talk) 23:14, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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I'm very sure that the Village Voice is fine as a source. I've explained in detail on SA's talk page. They have been around over 50 years. They aren't a "blog", they just use blog style software, everything is vetted and written by professionals. Quite respectable and award winning outfit, actually. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 20:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dianna! I see that you're online. Would you mind helping out with the backlog at AIV? Thanks, Electric Catfish 18:07, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
Hey, can you remove my rollback right? I have this new cell phone and I keep hitting it on accident with my fat fingers, and it's going to get me into trouble. Thanks. — Torchiest talk edits 23:47, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
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I'm not sure whether you were active in this article because the topic interests you or if you were patrolling against vandalism (etc). If the topic interests you, please consider my thoughts on its talk page about the way the article gives undue weight to the unpleasant side of the man;s life and almost none to his business achievements (if any). I feel at present that the man has borderline notability at best. There are plenty of citations to his nefarious dealings, but they seem to me to be 'bit player, wannabe gangster' single incident stuff, and I am doubtful about his genuine ability to pass WP:GNG. If you have an interest in the article other than simply patrolling it, please consider fleshing it out to whatever extent you feel appropriate. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 08:20, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Fellow editor could I ask a favour and ask you to intervene here. There appears to be a lot of WP:LAWYER and WP:PETTIFOG going on here. To top it of Nasir is just plain rude. Thanks SH 12:08, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I am not going to argue these points with you. The fact that you feel your poor behaviour is justified on every count speaks volumes, believe me. -- Dianna ( talk) 21:03, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for picking up the stuff I missed! All the best, Miniapolis ( talk) 03:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey diana can u pls delete the previous versions of the images i uploaded?-- Vuvuzuela ( talk) 04:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dianna. Thanks for helping with the daily updates to the drive page and for taking on the lion's shre of checking people's copy edits. It was greatly appreciated. Cheers, Simon. -- Stfg ( talk) 09:47, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Do you think you could delete Neccesary and proper clause? It seems like a highly unlikely misspelling, and nothing links to it. I can't quite find a CSD reason that fits, but it seems like taking it to AfD would be overkill. — Torchiest talk edits 18:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, when you move a thread from one board to another (ANI to AN, for example), make sure that you sign the "moved to" notice on the former board. MiszaBot does not archive any sections without timestamps in them. When you moved the section "About Niemti" from ANI to AN some time ago, you didn't sign the move notice message, so the section has been lingering on the board for five and a half days, far longer than it should, since ANI threads are usually archived after 24 hours of inactivity. My addition of an unsigned notice should allow the thread to be automatically archived soon. Graham 87 02:29, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Re: User talk:Electriccatfish2 #WP:AIV. One of the reasons why I don't participate as an admin on these boards is because I feel they have become too much of a playground for wannabe admins. I sometimes look in, and I see the backlog waiting for an admin comment, but I leave well alone although I know I ought to participate. I therefore prefer to work on general help desks that are less contentious. Other admins I know share the same position. Is there anything that can be done about it? -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:53, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Chip 123456 07:04, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for declining my nomination for someone else to have autopatrolled status. Your thoroughness showed problems that I did not spot, perhaps because I was overly impressed by a PhD. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 01:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
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Why did you delete my page and saying i didnt prove it doesn't count GeorgeT2008 ( talk) 17:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
If you you redo it i can add my proof he existed but only if its undone deletion GeorgeT2008 ( talk) 17:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
First of all, sorry for spending your precious time. Upon the following problem weighed on my mind, I decided to offer a solution for Turkish people page, which is semi-protected by you. I also mentioned the matter on Talk page and informed my solution to the related users. I've just removed the two genetic-related paragraphs in the origin section of Turkish people because there is already a page called Genetic history of the Turkish people which is about the genetic studies of Turkish related people, and there is no need to mention the same or similar contributions repetitively in the Turkish people page. So it would be better to go on genetic-related contributions on the another page. If you think my solution and action is wrong, I can revert back the deletion. Sorry for this. Thanks. BozokluAdam ( talk) 05:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I am awarding you one of these, although there is no evidence that they exist and I haven't got the time to make one, but I am confident that you will bear with me until I do. If I do. pablo 17:12, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello dear Diannaa,
I am a class mate of the person who recently wrote the False coverage rate article (which you have deleted due to the "Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://astro.temple.edu/~zhaozhg/FCR_JRSS.pdf").
I have helped my friend with some guidelines on how to clean his article from copied materials, and only include text that he wrote (based on the relevant subject mater). The result is quite rough, but might be a decent start for this article.
Can I please ask you to review the current stage of this article on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Talgalili/sandbox
If you believe this is a reasonable draft, I will put it up live, after wikifying it a bit more.
With regards, Tal Galili ( talk) 19:32, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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For all of your great work at WP: AIV this evening! Electric Catfish 00:46, 6 August 2012 (UTC) |
Mind blocking this one? 166.147.120.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), see [1], note the personal attack in the edit summary. He iro 00:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I have semi'd the talk page. -- Dianna ( talk) 02:14, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
And 166.147.120.29 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) is back again [3], block must have expired. Notice that the edit made inserts uncited WP:FRINGE nonsense about ancient Europeans coming to North American and extracting billions of tons of copper from the Great Lakes. He iro 22:14, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Back again as 166.147.120.27 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), see [4] where they re-inserted other fringe nonsense into an article sourced to a former Neo Nazi turned new age writer. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 128#Frank Collin, aka Frank Joseph as a reliable source at WP:RSN for background. They are definitely now using my contribs history to troll. He iro 05:20, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
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Kindly, Anderson - what's up? 02:55, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Diannaa. I'm here to inquire about the award distribution for our most recent copyediting drive. I've posted a similar question on the talkpage for the drive, but I thought it'd be better to ask one of the coordinators in person. Usually the GOCE drive awards for each participant in a drive are determined and handed out within the first ten days following the drive's closure. Is there something holding up distributing the awards for July? It's been ten days now, and the page for evaluating editors' contributions and assessing what they've earned does not appear to have even been created yet. Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! ( talk) 05:44, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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For churning out more than 40,000 words in the July 2012 drive, I present you with the official GOCE Award. Excellent work! — Torchiest talk edits 02:48, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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Hi! You were one of the admins on the recent changes so I'm here to ask you to unprotect this page (she won a silver medal at the Olympics so she meets notability criteria). -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 23:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
I saw your note at WP:AIV; see the note I left at User talk:Stefan64#Ruckearly about more possible sockpuppets here and on other projects. -- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:11, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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Can you semi-protect it? The day falls tomorrow and I'm pretty sure that the vandalism I just reverted will be back as more people start viewing the article. At least, protect it for 3 days. Thanks :) TheSpecialUser TSU 07:14, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Would you like to chair the reviewers' group again? -- Stfg ( talk) 14:45, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for putting that temporary lock on this article. I just wondered, what did you mean about sourcing from blogs? World Affairs I don't think is a blog but there's a pretty aggressive editor who insists on adding a critique by Michael Totten whom I don't believe to be much of an objective source. I will bring this up to other administrators when I bring this issue up as a dispute but in the meantime if you could clarify how you rationalized the first semi-protected status, I'd appreciate it.-- Aichikawa ( talk) 16:32, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I made this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Geraldine_Page&diff=507372092&oldid=506822337 during a recent copy edit drive. I have since learned, by researching other biographical articles at WP, that I wrote the lede incorrectly. I have since made the correction. This correction is not reflected in the enclosed link, as I wanted to show my final edit during the CE drive. As I have been told by an admin any further edits by me would be considered an edit war, I could be banned. I would like your input as I did not remove any references but I did remove some extraneous words. Here is the talk page comments I left with the corresponding comments left by the contributor who disputed my edits. See: [ [7]] What is the goal of CE if there will be no support given. As to NPOV, I did nothing to change POV. Based on my extensive writing experience, I have approximately 10 years of paid writing experience and have written two books, I do believe the edits I made were relevant and professional. Please advise what my role in CE as a part of the CE drives is supposed to be. Thank you! Quill and Pen ( talk) 18:19, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Why spend a couple hours editing an article that's going to be slowly reverted. I have enclosed the page history for this aticle: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Desilu_Productions&diff=507471125&oldid=474814445 to show what I mean. Here's a link to the current version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desilu_Productions. I guess I am a bit frustrated to see my hard work undone. Any response to that one? Thanks! Quill and Pen ( talk) 03:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
It's not a matter of ownership it's a matter of why bother to spend time participating in a copy edit drive when those edits will be reverted. I do believe there was a study done by WP addressing this issue and the loss of quality contributors based on this difficult quandary. Respect and scholarship runs both ways. Quill and Pen ( talk) 18:49, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to report uncivil behavior at WP, but I am asking you to investigate, if appropriate, and take needed action, if appropriate concerning the responses by this unregistered contributor. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/194.83.172.131 Grandpallima (hope that's spelled right) gave a civil response and I am thankful for it. My comments were not meant to be uncivil, but more of questioning nature, as I am trying to figure out if it is worth participating in CE drives based on this past experience. Thank you for "listening" and trying to help. Quill and Pen ( talk) 20:03, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
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Re this PabloX mentioned it earlier. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 16:57, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
I reverted an ip edit to the Pussy Riot article about a week ago. The edit, which was pov, unreffed, etc, was made again and reverted again by another user. The ip has been warned several times. After I reverted him he left a message on my talk ( User talk:INeverCry) saying I was pro-Putin etc. I removed it. He replaced it a few days later. I reverted this, and the ip has now reverted me on my own talkpage to replace that same message. Can you help me with this? Thanks for your time. INever Cry 17:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. I was answering some questions on the
AfC help desk, where a lost editor questioned some edits you made to
Eli Broad. For the most part, I was able (I think) to answer the editor's question. I appreciate the detailed edit summaries you listed, as it made things easy for me. I was curious about your
, where you eliminated information because it was unsupported by one source, and the other was a dead link.
WP:DEADREF says to let dead links sit for around 24 months (this was tagged as approx. 12 months old). Did you remove it before the full 24 months due to BLP concerns?
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Thank you for all of the help you have given me, from undeleting my userpage, to the guidance you have given me on anti-vandalism, especially the IP tools. I greatly appreciate it! Electric Catfish 16:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks very much, EC2. You (and any other interested users) can browse the collection of tools and links at the top of my userpage in the "quick links" section. -- Dianna ( talk) 18:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Diannaa, I'm not sure it this is the right place to discuss it but I noticed you've removed all nearly all of my correct citations of the last many months in just a day or two following your edit war with me on the Sean Combs page. In reviewing your history the only thread that is common to you edits in the past 24-48 hours is that they all involve my work. You err in a number of places. For instance, the original citation for the MIlli Vanelli article, and Girl you know it's True was to the LA Times. It was inappropriate for you to remove this. You also removed citations on Jimmy Henchman that are US court citations and that are well documented in other articles. You removed an addition to the Don Simpson page, changed the Hilburn page etc. The only commonality of all these pages is that I contributed to them. I believe that my understanding of the history and the references of each of these pages are correct. Moreover, I find it hard to believe that you have become an expert in each of these areas within 24 house. It appears an effort to rewrite history. I think you should reconsider your edits as they leave each page with a less accurate impression and also call into question your judgment and neutrality. I also think that another editor should be involved the in the Sean Combs page as it's had a few complaints of non-neutrality. I hope we can resolve this problem. Scholarlyarticles ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:08, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
First I want to talk about the Sean Combs article. Your edit added a lot of material on the Tupac incident. Your edit added 280 words on the incident, in an article of 3122 words, increasing the coverage of this one incident to 8% of the total article. That gives the incident undue weight; giving this incident so much coverage in an article of this size damages the neutrality of the article. So I removed it for that reason. The addition of the fact that someone had confessed to the shooting was added, as this was new material I was not aware of before. Now I want to comment about what you said about the neutrality of the article being questioned. The post you saw at the top of the talk page is dated May 7, 2012. Since May, the article has seen extensive improvement, including its promotion to Good Article status. I was one of a team of editors who did that work, which involved hundreds of edits to the article. So I am very familiar with the Combs article, its sources, and the coverage that was selected for inclusion the article. The complaint that the article was written like an advertisement is no longer valid, if it was ever valid at all. The final point about the Combs article is that your addition implied that Combs was directly or indirectly involved in the attack on Tupac. We can't include that; we could get sued. It cannot be included unless and until there's evidence from reliable sources showing that he was involved in that crime. So that's why the material had to be removed as part of my duties as an administrator on this wiki.
The edits I performed on the other articles you edited were for similar reasons. Some of the material you added has been deleted as copyright violations:
I will give a couple of other representative examples of edits that were removed or altered, and give you a detailed rationale. Eli Broad: Here is one of your additions. Some of this material was retained, but some was not. Blogs are not considered a reliable source, particularly for defamatory material. Other sources said that the money form the parking garage was not "earmarked for charities", but came from a neighbourhood development fund, which is not at all the same thing. When seen in this light, the fact that a parking garage was built across from the facility using public funds no longer seems remarkable enough to warrant inclusion in the article. So I took it out. Other material about finanicial difficulties and personnel shake-ups was retained, though in an altered form, as some of it had been copied verbatim from the source, in violation of copyright law.
Michael Hiltzik: Here's a case where a large chunk of material was removed from a biography. The material was sourced to reliable newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post. An IP geolocating to Los Angeles removed the material on August 11. I visited the article yesterday and made the decision to re-add the content as the sources in actuality are top-of-the-line. Now you have re-removed the content. Why did you do that? These sources are the best.
In conclusion, my overall assessment is that your edits so far are violating some of Wikipedia's core policies on neutrality and are in violation of our requirements for sourcing on biographies of living persons and in violation of copyright law. If you wish to get more input or an independent assessment of my actions, please post at the administrators' noticeboard for incidents. -- Dianna ( talk) 20:29, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Diannaa - If you look at the article on the Tupac attack, Dexter admitted to doing so on Henchman's orders. You edited out that part and it clearly makes Henchman look innocent when the whole point of the ahh article was that Henchman set it up. I think you should reed the article before you delete key pieces. I'm not sure what you're referring to on Hiltzig. I only took out the "unethical behavior" section as it appeared defamatory and a small even in the life of a celebrated and talented writer- I've looked at your contributions in the last 48 hours. You siimply undid everything I did. I do know a lot about Tupac, and have the articles at my disposal. Many of your reasons for erasing items seem not to actually be justified by the material you erased. You clearly have a point of view when it comes to Sean Combs and it is not becoming of a Wikipedia editor. I've asked that your work be checked. Someone needs to actually read the source material. You seem to have a conflict of interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarlyarticles ( talk • contribs) 20:47, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Also, until this conflict can be resolved by other editors (I'm requesting three at this time) I must ask you to refrain from stalking my contributions. I will match my knowledge with yours on any subject I've written about. There was no need to delete that Hilburn had been with the lA times 36 years, delete Osborne's entire page, and worst of all your deletions on Jimmy Henchman's page corrupts the entire import of the AHH article in which Dexter Isaac confessed to the shooting ON ORDERS FROM HENCHMAN. I it's impossible for someone to do such contend editing if you are unaware of this basic fart. Also your edit on Broad, stating that the article hadn't supported the content was in error. You need to read the entire article - the art of a billionaire by C. Bruck Dec 6 2010 which you can only do by buying the article from the New Yorker. Clearly you hadn't had time to do so when you erased the content. I understand that you are a higher up here but that doesn't give you the right to re-write history. You and I both know there was no copyright violation in anything I wrote on Henchman's page. To the contrary the PACEr reference to the trial is entirely appropriate. I think the fact this maelstrom occurred on yur part in response to one edit on the Sean Comb page says quite a bit. I believe that your work should be checked. Please refrain from further assaults on pages I have written on until this can be resolved in dispute resolution``` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarlyarticles ( talk • contribs) 21:02, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I wonder if you could look over the John Cornell article for any glaring GA faults? The article is my first GAN. Cheers. GFHandel ♬ 11:44, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
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Dianna, you commented on the talk page for Speer, "If Sereny doesn't know for sure, after her many years of interviews and research, we likely will never know for sure either." Where did you get that idea? Gitta Sereny believed that Speer definitely knew about the death camps no later than the 10/43 Posen speech by Himmler. Also, Speer biographers, Erich Goldhagen, Dan van der Vat, and Matthias Schmidt all believe Speer was at Posen during Himmler's speech. TL36 ( talk) 05:35, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Recently me and Animeshkulkarni pushed 59th National Film Awards for Featured list candidates. PR and FLC comments suggested that article requires copy-editing. Per suggestions, we had requested a copy editing help here but then we never got any reply. I would appreciate if you can take some time out of your busy schedule and take a look at it as reviewers are suggesting FLC withdrawal because of the copy-editing issues. - Vivvt • ( Talk) 14:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
How can you tell Amazing Grace has been scheduled? I don't see mention of it on the TFA page. Nonspecific 2 column is empty though Nonspecific 1 has an article in the column. Is there a secret way of knowing? MathewTownsend ( talk) 22:18, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I was wondering, is this only for guild members, or can anyone submit an entry? ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:38, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for semi-protecting the Michael Faraday page. It needed it. Xxanthippe ( talk) 04:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC).
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Dispute on Jimmy Henchman page. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 07:21, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
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Dianna, I award you this barnstar for clocking up 50,000 edits on the English Wikipedia. -- Stfg ( talk) 09:11, 26 August 2012 (UTC) |
Popups and the toolserver tool give slightly different counts, but today they both exceed 50K. Congratulations! -- Stfg ( talk) 09:11, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fellow editor, this, keeps adding stuff and deleting refrences to various articles. I've tried to engage him on the actual pages but I don't think he/she understands that this is an encyclopedia. He/she keeps adding vast swathes of text from Sikh Holy books. Please could you have a word with that user. Thanks SH 14:57, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
That IP is harassing me again. If you have the time, can you please page protect Pink Floyd and my talk page from IPs. Thanks. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 19:58, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Dispicable person is too strong. I suggest 'rascal' or 'scallywag' is closer. Regards. -- Greenmaven ( talk) 07:26, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for my curiosity here. I am just another editor who spends/wastes a long time reading discussions. Can you please tell me what happened then
here? Has WMF given any importance or they have concluded it is just a meaningless spam (as it seems, I did not understand what is emergency in that post, since the Church is in Columbus, Ohio, US and that IP address editor
is in Perth, Australia... they need long travel... airport security checks.. so on.. lots of barriers before him!
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16:38, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. I've been going through the Christy Turlington article to improve the referencing, however I've become stuck when faced with a reference to a (now defunct) magazine. The reference in the article is named "Cookie" and is used in two places. I wanted to add a Sources section and then use something like "cite journal" so that I could then use sfn to provide a two-way link. Unfortunately, I don't know how to set the parameters in the "cite journal" template so that it will be picked up by sfn (e.g. I don't know the author's name, and I don't know how to use the Periodical parameter). I'm happy to continue with the work at the article if you could get me over this hurdle. Thanks in advance. GFHandel ♬ 22:07, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fellow editor, User:Nasir Ghobar this user keeps adding stuff and deleting refrences to various articles. Especially Ranjit Singh. No other user had agree with this user on Talk:Ranjit Singh. Still, this user removing information without any valid reason. Can you try to stop this. Thanks Theman244 ( talk) 02:22, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey, you're fairly experienced dealing with copyvio situations, right? I've got a strange one, in that I can't tell if it's a problem or not, or how to proceed with my editing. Look here for a detailed explanation. The essence of it is that I thought text in the cellular automaton article was a copyright violation, but now it looks like the book may have plagiarized Wikipedia without attribution. Any suggestions on what, if anything, needs to be done about this, or perhaps who or where I could ask? I also posted at WT:CP with no response yet. Thanks! — Torchiest talk edits 03:03, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
166.147.120.24 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) back again, see their last two contribs. Can you rangeblock them for say 30 days? If not, I'll just bring him back here every day until he gets bored from IP hopping and disruption again. From your archives User talk:Diannaa/Archive 21#Another one from the same IP range as the 3 you blocked yesterday. He iro 05:05, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I see in deletion log this "16:36, 21 January 2011 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted page Centreon (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.speedylook.com/Oreon.html)". I am the new Centreon Community Manager and I would wish recreated the Centreon page without commercial/sales messages or without copying and pasting of text resulting from the other web sites However the www.speedylook.com web site used the contents of the English wikipedia page without authorization and you can see in the footer "© 2007-2008 speedlook.com; article text available under the terms of GFDL, from fr.wikipedia.org". Can I recreate the Centreon page ?
Lpinsivy ( talk) 08:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. When deleting old revisions of images, you're supposed to remove the {{ Orphaned non-free revisions}} notice from the file page too. Film Fan ( talk) 11:18, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
When someone contests a speedy deletion, you need to wait for some discussion on it. In this case, we can add a fair-use rational, but I'm waiting for explicit permission. Please restore the Aral Sea images pending resolution. Otherwise we waste our time reloading the same images over and over. — kwami ( talk) 02:27, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Alright, I've posted some comments, there are a few more to follow, but hopefully the initial ones will be helpful. Mark Arsten ( talk) 14:43, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi,
I've made some comments at Talk:Bob Hope/GA1 and put the article on hold for seven days.
Best wishes,
MathewTownsend ( talk) 22:37, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Please would you take a look at Dilazak, where two SPAs and some others are edit warring and wasting GOCE copy editors' time in the process? The history shows that GOCE member User:Tdslk copy edited it on 27 July 2012, but on 30 July User:Dilazak1 did this partial reversion, which includes a restoration of the c/e tag. On that day, User:Asarjan123 did some edits, until at 15:39 User:Dilazak1 reverted back to a version of 25 July, conceivably to undo Asarjan123's work. The revert and the version reverted to are those with size 10,303 bytes. User:Lfstevens then copy edited again later that day. The edit war then chuntered along merrily until 29 August at 05:14, when User:Dilazak1 reverted to a version that has existed at least twice before, on 10 and 11 July (the file sizes are 10,081).
I was about to remove the c/e tag on the basis that we aren't offering yet another, but just now GOCE member User:MrX has done a new copy edit and removed the tag. One wonders how long it will be before this gets swallowed by the edit war and the tag reappears. I wasn't going to put GOCEreviewed on the talk page of that one in case it provoked escalation, but we do need to limit the number of GOCE editors whose time is wasted on this. Is there any was for the long arm of the law to help achieve this, please? -- Stfg ( talk) 23:14, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Vanished 6551232 CCI is down to its final 25 articles. If we can tackle one a day each we can get it done in a week, and two a day will get it closed by the end of the weekend. Let's see if we can get this done and cut down a bit on the CCI backlog, we've been doing great so far. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 18:29, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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Nice to finally see another one closed. :) -- Wizardman Operation Big Bear 04:32, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm very sure that the Village Voice is fine as a source. I've explained in detail on SA's talk page. They have been around over 50 years. They aren't a "blog", they just use blog style software, everything is vetted and written by professionals. Quite respectable and award winning outfit, actually. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 20:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dianna! I see that you're online. Would you mind helping out with the backlog at AIV? Thanks, Electric Catfish 18:07, 2 September 2012 (UTC).
Hey, can you remove my rollback right? I have this new cell phone and I keep hitting it on accident with my fat fingers, and it's going to get me into trouble. Thanks. — Torchiest talk edits 23:47, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
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I'm not sure whether you were active in this article because the topic interests you or if you were patrolling against vandalism (etc). If the topic interests you, please consider my thoughts on its talk page about the way the article gives undue weight to the unpleasant side of the man;s life and almost none to his business achievements (if any). I feel at present that the man has borderline notability at best. There are plenty of citations to his nefarious dealings, but they seem to me to be 'bit player, wannabe gangster' single incident stuff, and I am doubtful about his genuine ability to pass WP:GNG. If you have an interest in the article other than simply patrolling it, please consider fleshing it out to whatever extent you feel appropriate. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 08:20, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Fellow editor could I ask a favour and ask you to intervene here. There appears to be a lot of WP:LAWYER and WP:PETTIFOG going on here. To top it of Nasir is just plain rude. Thanks SH 12:08, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I am not going to argue these points with you. The fact that you feel your poor behaviour is justified on every count speaks volumes, believe me. -- Dianna ( talk) 21:03, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for picking up the stuff I missed! All the best, Miniapolis ( talk) 03:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey diana can u pls delete the previous versions of the images i uploaded?-- Vuvuzuela ( talk) 04:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)