Marts 22nd. 2020: From messages sent to me as edits on this page I can see that something or someone has posted in my name, which may be dangerous of course. How can I prevent this or how can I report?
[Written in 2004:] I am astonished - so much well written information available. First time I got help from wikipedia was when looking for Bernoulli and other physics history, this time an article about the horrifying "Caligula" film not by Gore Vidal helped me a lot (though not enough!)
I would very much like to contribute to a site of knowledge like this but I need to know much more about how it works and who is writing/editing etc. As far as I could see there was several bad additions to the article about "Caligula", the film, additions which were not included. These stupid remarks could have replaced or damaged the currently presented article! The article is good as it is. I wouldn't call it censorship but simply good editorship and hope that the staff (whoever they are) keep up the spirits.
For now I am not in a position to contribute economically but that may change.
My full name is Donald Jan Axel, and I am living en Denmark, Vejby, which is in the northern part of Europe, southern Scandinavia. I work as teacher, lecturer, programmer, music-writer (long time since, though).
Thank you to all honestly writing people.
I am amazed how much solid knowledge I can get from this.
I do not know how much spam there is coming in here but I can see that e.g. RFID companies and conferences want to advertize by adding their names to the RFID article. Also it seems that some people enjoy writing a stupid remark here and there.
What kinds of spam-filtering and writer expulsions are there here? It seems to be too easy to get to write here.
Aren't there protected articles?
I know it is relatively easy to revert to a "non-spam" article, for an "associated editor" if such exists, and I ask: Is that the only form for spam-fighting there is?
Regards/Donald Axel
Hello! I reviewed your article about Elmer Talmage Clark as a New Pages Patroller. I have to tell you, it has some serious problems. The biggest one was the fact that the biographical information was copied verbatim from the SMU website. That is a violation of Wikipedia policy, see WP:COPYVIO, and could have been a cause for speedy-deletion of the article. But instead I deleted the two paragraphs except for a one sentence summary. I suggest you reconstruct the information, but use your own words (not a copy and not a "close paraphrase").
The other problem is that the opening sentences - the "lead" - need to indicate why he is notable enough to have an article here. For information about how Wikipedia views notability, see WP:NOTABILITY and especially WP:BIO. Ask me if you have questions. Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 05:35, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the feed-back. I am not sure at all that Elmer T. Clark needs to be in a 20 volume encyclopedia, but I thought Wikipedia was different - more like a 1000 volume dictionary.
I will go through the recommendations as soon as I get time to night. For now I will just add that I had changed some details (not much, I know) in the over-all bio of this person in order to get the language more coherent.
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Leave a message 02:18, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
On Talk:Sharon Burch, you said some slightly mean things about User:OohBunnies!: suggesting that she's "not a serious person" and hinted that she might have proposed the article for deletion maliciously, and that you would be "going into details about [her] identity later". On Wikipedia, users are asked to assume good faith: obviously, it's not very nice to have someone suggest that an article ought to be deleted, but to presume that OohBunnies! is operating from a position of malicious intent is failing to assume good faith towards her. Please could you consider removing the last paragraph of your statement on Talk:Sharon Burch because it comes off as being an attack. — Tom Morris ( talk) 16:30, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Please note that I am not attacking anyone but that I just show openly that I consider the article important, that I am aware that there are malicious editors even if I assume good faith, and that I do not approve on anonymous or funny usernames.
As stated earlier an article of mine has been subject to non-serious criticism from a criminal element who sneaked into Wikipedia staff and was later expelled from Wikipedia trusted staff. I am not attacking anyone, just seeking verification. The earlier article which revealed a malicious editor was on an Iranian cultivar called "domsiah"; the person (I don't remember the name, it may have been Neil Larson) categorized it as "Food stub" instead of "agricultural stub", which is not only wrong but an openly stupid thing to do when the article quotes Indian Rice Institute research report and funghi problems in the cultivation - and amount of harvest etc.
I also explained that the reason why I consider the prop.del to be result of search for an "easy target of criticism" - this is a typical action of someone who wants to gain credibility and in that process bad judgement may spoil more than it mends.
I became suspicious about the corrections made by the user identified as User:OohBunnies! because I consider it extremely bad practice to use a pseudonym. I skimmed the first lines of User:OohBunnies! and found it rather annoying that he/she praises the free editing of articles which has by now proven to be more of a problem than a benefit. I also stated that I can see reasons for not enough notability in the case of Sharon Burch, but on the other hand that may turn out to be envy or bad judgement because the person in question has many references. I think what really hampered the article was that I was in a hurry and in the initial article just gave a bio from the publisher (with biased information) and a link to 2 or 3 instances on diverse sites (including Washington Post mentioning Sharon Burch in connection with Smithsonian institute). Therefore I considered the attack from Bunnies to be ill-willed and not written by someone who had a serious interest in improving Wikipedia, but rather had an interest in improving the image of Bunnies. I think the name "Bunnies" even may be a jocular reference to magicians pulling rabbits up from a "magic hat".
Now this reply has taken more time than I like to admit, but I did write it because I knew the original article was sloppy writing, and in the hope that Tom Morris isn't just another person trying to cover up illegitimite purposes with Wikipedia.
By the way the history of editing shows that I am not the only person who wishes Wikipedia well; there were some kind additions to the article before I did a bit of revision today.
I think there are ample reasons to improve articles on the heritage of native Americans - not to delete them.
-- d-axel ( talk) 20:13, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on User:Donald j axel/World Tribune requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586203. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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As I never did post anything copyrighted and not anything from a source called "World_Tribune" nor content from any private owned publication, or from a publication with a name containing "World" or "Tribune" I totally would delete such a page called User:Donald j axel/World Tribune if it existed - however, it seems to be gone by now so that makes me a bit more at ease.
Then again! I can see the message above to me has some kind of unfinished air over it, it is a template wherein the sender should fill out a short explanation but it still says "say it in your own words". So maybe this message is in itself a kind of hacker-attack.
Actually this hacking, using my name terrifies me and I consider changing password. So said Sun Oct 27 10:56:57 CET 2019 by Donald Axel, user since long ago. d-axel ( talk) 10:01, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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Marts 22nd. 2020: From messages sent to me as edits on this page I can see that something or someone has posted in my name, which may be dangerous of course. How can I prevent this or how can I report?
[Written in 2004:] I am astonished - so much well written information available. First time I got help from wikipedia was when looking for Bernoulli and other physics history, this time an article about the horrifying "Caligula" film not by Gore Vidal helped me a lot (though not enough!)
I would very much like to contribute to a site of knowledge like this but I need to know much more about how it works and who is writing/editing etc. As far as I could see there was several bad additions to the article about "Caligula", the film, additions which were not included. These stupid remarks could have replaced or damaged the currently presented article! The article is good as it is. I wouldn't call it censorship but simply good editorship and hope that the staff (whoever they are) keep up the spirits.
For now I am not in a position to contribute economically but that may change.
My full name is Donald Jan Axel, and I am living en Denmark, Vejby, which is in the northern part of Europe, southern Scandinavia. I work as teacher, lecturer, programmer, music-writer (long time since, though).
Thank you to all honestly writing people.
I am amazed how much solid knowledge I can get from this.
I do not know how much spam there is coming in here but I can see that e.g. RFID companies and conferences want to advertize by adding their names to the RFID article. Also it seems that some people enjoy writing a stupid remark here and there.
What kinds of spam-filtering and writer expulsions are there here? It seems to be too easy to get to write here.
Aren't there protected articles?
I know it is relatively easy to revert to a "non-spam" article, for an "associated editor" if such exists, and I ask: Is that the only form for spam-fighting there is?
Regards/Donald Axel
Hello! I reviewed your article about Elmer Talmage Clark as a New Pages Patroller. I have to tell you, it has some serious problems. The biggest one was the fact that the biographical information was copied verbatim from the SMU website. That is a violation of Wikipedia policy, see WP:COPYVIO, and could have been a cause for speedy-deletion of the article. But instead I deleted the two paragraphs except for a one sentence summary. I suggest you reconstruct the information, but use your own words (not a copy and not a "close paraphrase").
The other problem is that the opening sentences - the "lead" - need to indicate why he is notable enough to have an article here. For information about how Wikipedia views notability, see WP:NOTABILITY and especially WP:BIO. Ask me if you have questions. Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 05:35, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the feed-back. I am not sure at all that Elmer T. Clark needs to be in a 20 volume encyclopedia, but I thought Wikipedia was different - more like a 1000 volume dictionary.
I will go through the recommendations as soon as I get time to night. For now I will just add that I had changed some details (not much, I know) in the over-all bio of this person in order to get the language more coherent.
The article Sharon Burch has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
OohBunnies!
Leave a message 02:18, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
On Talk:Sharon Burch, you said some slightly mean things about User:OohBunnies!: suggesting that she's "not a serious person" and hinted that she might have proposed the article for deletion maliciously, and that you would be "going into details about [her] identity later". On Wikipedia, users are asked to assume good faith: obviously, it's not very nice to have someone suggest that an article ought to be deleted, but to presume that OohBunnies! is operating from a position of malicious intent is failing to assume good faith towards her. Please could you consider removing the last paragraph of your statement on Talk:Sharon Burch because it comes off as being an attack. — Tom Morris ( talk) 16:30, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Please note that I am not attacking anyone but that I just show openly that I consider the article important, that I am aware that there are malicious editors even if I assume good faith, and that I do not approve on anonymous or funny usernames.
As stated earlier an article of mine has been subject to non-serious criticism from a criminal element who sneaked into Wikipedia staff and was later expelled from Wikipedia trusted staff. I am not attacking anyone, just seeking verification. The earlier article which revealed a malicious editor was on an Iranian cultivar called "domsiah"; the person (I don't remember the name, it may have been Neil Larson) categorized it as "Food stub" instead of "agricultural stub", which is not only wrong but an openly stupid thing to do when the article quotes Indian Rice Institute research report and funghi problems in the cultivation - and amount of harvest etc.
I also explained that the reason why I consider the prop.del to be result of search for an "easy target of criticism" - this is a typical action of someone who wants to gain credibility and in that process bad judgement may spoil more than it mends.
I became suspicious about the corrections made by the user identified as User:OohBunnies! because I consider it extremely bad practice to use a pseudonym. I skimmed the first lines of User:OohBunnies! and found it rather annoying that he/she praises the free editing of articles which has by now proven to be more of a problem than a benefit. I also stated that I can see reasons for not enough notability in the case of Sharon Burch, but on the other hand that may turn out to be envy or bad judgement because the person in question has many references. I think what really hampered the article was that I was in a hurry and in the initial article just gave a bio from the publisher (with biased information) and a link to 2 or 3 instances on diverse sites (including Washington Post mentioning Sharon Burch in connection with Smithsonian institute). Therefore I considered the attack from Bunnies to be ill-willed and not written by someone who had a serious interest in improving Wikipedia, but rather had an interest in improving the image of Bunnies. I think the name "Bunnies" even may be a jocular reference to magicians pulling rabbits up from a "magic hat".
Now this reply has taken more time than I like to admit, but I did write it because I knew the original article was sloppy writing, and in the hope that Tom Morris isn't just another person trying to cover up illegitimite purposes with Wikipedia.
By the way the history of editing shows that I am not the only person who wishes Wikipedia well; there were some kind additions to the article before I did a bit of revision today.
I think there are ample reasons to improve articles on the heritage of native Americans - not to delete them.
-- d-axel ( talk) 20:13, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on User:Donald j axel/World Tribune requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586203. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 15:35, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
As I never did post anything copyrighted and not anything from a source called "World_Tribune" nor content from any private owned publication, or from a publication with a name containing "World" or "Tribune" I totally would delete such a page called User:Donald j axel/World Tribune if it existed - however, it seems to be gone by now so that makes me a bit more at ease.
Then again! I can see the message above to me has some kind of unfinished air over it, it is a template wherein the sender should fill out a short explanation but it still says "say it in your own words". So maybe this message is in itself a kind of hacker-attack.
Actually this hacking, using my name terrifies me and I consider changing password. So said Sun Oct 27 10:56:57 CET 2019 by Donald Axel, user since long ago. d-axel ( talk) 10:01, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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