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Just alerting you to this 3RR report, since you had to deal with the editor a few days ago... MikeWazowski ( talk) 20:33, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
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Please fetch back my page :( Its very important i have very important information for my contest please :'( I'm crying so much :(( DimitrisLoveIvi ( talk)
Wikipedia is a public wiki. I added my name to Daniel Da Silva and you remove it, what gives you the right to say whether someone's name can be on here or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.10.140 ( talk) 21:40, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Exciral, I noticed that you have deleted my recent contribution. I understand that it has caused some concern among the wikipedia community, but i would like to verify its truthfulness. I understand you need to be stringent when checking for vandalism. Unfortunately due to the relatively small area in which this term is in use i could not find any official citations for the article. Incidentally, would it help if we changed the name of the article to "Wilson Bottom"?
Many Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alialhakim ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
That's not even the person it claims to be, it's one of the "clients" who's been going around for a bit...-- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:19, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you went with Daniel Ortiz (Paintball Player) rather than the more standard, per the MOS, Daniel Ortiz (paintball player)? — C.Fred ( talk) 15:46, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
This means you. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 12:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 20:45, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Excirial,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 18:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Excirial,
It is just short of three months since we last had contact. How are you? Well, I hope.
You kindly said that I should ask if I needed your help. I promise not to be a pest, but in view of your considerable experience in coping with the vandals and the like, could you just tell me what happens next after my posting a report on the Administrators' noticeboard, regarding continuous vandalism and disruptive behaviour by a non-registered IP at an Open Proxy address. I don't understand the next stage of the process. Do I just wait... will I be contacted?
The poster never fills in an Edit summary and warnings posted on the IP Talk page never receive an acknowledgement. Kindest regards, Gareth Griffith-Jones ( talk) 19:44, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys!
I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the
initial documentation about the project and also the
engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.
It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 02:52, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
I see you have edited some of the pages within the scope of immunology. Please have a look at the proposal for a WikiProject Immunology WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Immunology and give your opinion (support or oppose). Thank you for your attention. Kinkreet ~♥moshi moshi♥~ 09:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial,
I am new to creating and updating Wikipedia articles and I wanted to write an article on a non-profit organization by the name of CAMP-of-the-WOODS. For whatever reason, I cannot. For some reason it has been blocked or a previous article has been deleted. The link that I wanted to create is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=CAMP-of-the-WOODS&action=edit&redlink=1.
Would you be able to help me?
Brandonstone7 ( talk) 16:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey there,
Shame our introductions are not in better circumstances but I wanted to thank you for your quick review of the request on Tablighi Jamaat.
I'll keep an eye out for any further vandalism by the IP and if any pops up I'll forward it on to WP:AIAV as advised.
Thanks again and have a good day and good luck with that backlog!
Regards, Terk Terkaal -- <Warning! Self-Confessed Newbie!> ( talk) 08:29, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
<it> Itches the back of my head nevously </it>
I promise this will be the last you hear from me before I end up becoming annoying, or perhaps even more so.
However, after just fixing up the editing on my talk page, I noticed you said If I had a question I could ask you here. Thinking about it, there is one thing.
This isn't so much an issue for myself anymore, I withdrew from the dispute by what I felt was just a case of trying to discuss something with a brick wall and if it was not for the scale on which this spread I wouldn't ask.
However, a while back I stumbled across what looked like a few editors, I believe to be the original creators or patrollers of the article and its related portal in question, the America's next top model portal, while doing a burst of recent changes observation.
It looked as if a group of editors were reversing any changes to a page from significant edits all they way down to the use of a word and formatting of a table (Such as was the dispute I saw that I jumped into).
In the interest of inegrity, I'll be honest with you. I could have engaged in that discussion with a greater set of values. I'm not saying I jumped in with expletives left right and centre, but after getting irritated with what felt like a conversation with a wall, my british sarcasm did rear it's head along with the fact I was still a newborn in terms of community participation.
In this case, I attempted to put in place a comprimise which offered information, while incorperating the original setup in place from the group of editors I referred to.
The response was a barrage of Wikipolicy links, deep analysis of and extrapolation of intent and a total revert of any edit, no matter how small to the the favoured idea of the cooperating editors.
This type of response was not just limited to myself and as a result it effectively locked out any other editor's attempt at contributing to the article or other articles in the portal. In the end, I can see why this isn't so bad, they were after all main contributors and participants in the portal in question, so this isn't really the point I was wanting to ask about.
What was however, is that during the affair, I did look over the talk pages of the users involved in the 'discussion', and noticed a bit of a trend.
It was when looking at the experience other editors were having with the user Mt king (edits) that I began to wonder if rather than a well intentioned editor may have been a case of a very articulate and intelligent malicious user. I understand that is probably not the case but after engaging in dialoge on the user's talk page it ended up being on my watchlist, it was through this that I ended up seeing the issues this editor does seem to be causing to the UFC Wikipedian community and their articles with what on the surface looks like, at best, a well intentioned but overly-beurocratic application of wikipolicy to the detriment of wikipedia's coverage on the category and at worst, a malicious attempt at using wikipolicy to significantly destablise the work of a portal maintained by an editor or editors which may have in some form provoked him.
It was of interest that with every deletion attempt I saw throughout the MMA portal, it was the same editor and what looks at first glance to be a group of friends which were coming down on it's articles in what at worst, looked like harrasment.
Once again, I see editors having the same experience I have, with every attempt at discussion being met with the same repeated response on notability, regardless of evidence provided or attempts at discussion being totally ignored. I even see editors finding this experience spreading into their talk pages into they too explicitly state they withdraw all interest, just to make it stop.
Of course, this is only my perception, likely being influenced by my own experience with the user and as such probably quite biased so this is in no way intended as a "Wahh wahh, that user did this" as I admit it may appear
Just, now that I have a chance to ask, I'm genuinely hoping you might be able to shed some light on what an editor should do when they find themselves involved in such a scenario?
For a history of the I had experience with the editor and associates to better explain the context of the query rather than my own interpretation, see links below with synopsis.
Hello Excirial, Good to know you are back. Hope all is well with you. Kind regards, Gareth Griffith-Jones ( talk) 15:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Semi-protection: For at least a year, please, or preferably indefinitely. Recurring unexplained removal of sourced criticism by IPs and by new users. The most recent case:
Earlier cases:
Even earlier cases, from 2009 or earlier:
I've mentioned all major cases of criticism-removal dating back to August 2008, but not earlier. There are more that happened earlier. I don't have time to monitor the article. Since the most recent criticism removal was left there for six months until I posted this protection request, you can see that nobody else was watching it either. Pending-changes level 1 protection would have been a suitable alternative here. Oh well. Thank you for your time. |
Please check this page again, you shortened my protection, while telling the log you were extending it. Did you miss I set the expiry in April of 2013 by chance? Courcelles 05:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Copyover from another talk page - posted in this revision
Hiyas there Smallman12q,
Yesterday i came across the article Mechanical Aptitude, which is currently being worked on as part of the Industrial Psychology course for which you are listed as one of the ambassadors. The article needed a histmerge (which is now fixed), but afterwards i noticed that the " Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude" section is almost entirely a literal word-for-word copy of the source. I didn't have the time to do a complete check, but a few Google searches on the rest of the content makes me suspect it is mostly minor rewording from other sources.
I'm afraid i lack sufficient editing time lately, so if i were to action this with a comment to the users or similar i'd be very likely to miss the response for some time. Any chance you could have a look? Thanks in advance! Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs) 12:48, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
If you arbitrarily block a multi-use IP adress again, then the full range of WP sanctions may be deployed against you. You should always try to resolve disputes using the Talk page first. 212.121.210.45 ( talk) 15:00, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Thankfully, you are unable to operate in the world outside WP. 212.121.210.45 ( talk) 12:12, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial,
I have never misused my Wikipedia account. On Tuesday I mentioned to a friend that my article is being judged unfairly but did not ask her to edit or contribute. In accordance with Wikipedia guidelines I assume good faith, and did not accuse Sionk of meatpuppetry or collusion because she voted a few hours apart on the same day with Carrite.
I also assume that none of the voters except me have read any of the "Further reading" sources or Borshch's biography in Who's Who in American Art, and yet they rush to delete.
Sincerely, Khidekel ( talk) 17:20, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Originally posted here
We have not entered into any edit wars simply every day we have logged in to find someone has changed our links and sources and removed our text we have simply added back our details and links. The links to this site are in our forum and we guide people here. they then come back to us and state the links and information have been removed and another body named vlcak.co.uk have removed our details and placed theirs in there is no war however the people who keep making changes are in relation to vlcak.co.uk and have nothing to do with our GB club we understand this is a free site but it is unfair that representatives of the vlcak.co.uk feel the need to do this every day we find our links gone and changes made! we simple add ours back to the list and then the next day its gone! or within the hour ? we may have to remove our links directing members to this page as the actions of representatives of vlcak.co.uk are behaving in this manner. can we protect this page? or should we just state to our members that the page can not be accredited and remove our links to your site?
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For your tireless vandal fighting today. Keep going! WikiPuppies! ( bark) 17:40, 20 April 2012 (UTC) |
I had added a mango uncle link on alphonso mangoes page not because I wish to market their website but these fruits are in a great demand all over and people actually search for it on google on how to procure it. I completed that page with one link that i knew — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.91.95.51 ( talk) 21:43, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial, I would like to request my User and Talk pages to be deleted, beacuse I wish to leave Wikipedia permanently. I heard that I can't delete my account but I can request the deletion of my user and talk pages, as written in the 'Right To Vanish'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urduarabicpunjabiengish ( talk • contribs) 21:14, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I am not trying to vandalise Wikipedia. I thought that I was editing the wiki called RationalWiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidoko99 ( talk • contribs) 20:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello; you recently blocked me and my block has expired and I would like to know if I am within my rights to report Ackees for making a personal attack against me in his edit summary on the Benin City article. Particularly, he has called me "neo-nazi", not to mention he removed accurate material which I have since restored and provided a reliable source for. Please let me know how I can bring this matter to the attention of the administrators- I am new to Wikipedia and I do not know how to report another user or where to report him/her. Thank you. (Also, here is the link to the place where I was reported by Ackees: WP:ANEW#User:ElliotJoyce reported by User:Ackees (Result: ) ElliotJoyce ( talk) 21:12, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial, I've reviewed your DYK nomination and there are a couple of issues. Could you reply at the nomination page? Thanks. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 05:24, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hiyas there BWilkins,
I Hope you don't mind, but i upped the block for User:Seeker4264 to one week, and disabled his talk page access for repeated personal attacks. As far as i can see it is nigh impossible to have any form of civil conversation with him right now. Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs) 12:16, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial, now that your protection has expired, our spammer at Aquaponics is at it again. Could you enable protection and / or escalate this through appropriate channels? Thanks! Martijn Meijering ( talk) 10:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial. Just letting you know I removed the PROD tag on this article - Cole has been in the news for quite some time, although I had only added recent references stemming from his fish-eating incident, so I can see why you'd cite WP:BLP1E and WP:NOTNEWS. I've now added a couple of sources from last year to show that he's notable for more than just one event. Yunshui 雲 水 14:05, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I increased the 31 hour block on 64.251.53.213 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to three months as this is a long term vandalism-only school IP. That should last until school is out of session. Judging by the history, they will probably be earning a year-long block when school resumes in the fall. I hope you don't mind my change. If you do, please adjust settings according with no need to notify me. Regards, — EncMstr ( talk) 18:12, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi ya. Thanks for reviewing my article so quickly. I'm not surprised it wasn't accepted as it was my first attempt. However, I have two general questions for you (you don't need to see my article for these I am sure): (1) your comment says I broke the golden rule that article is unsourced. Well, I listed the reference of www.flameradio.com and I 'sourced' this article from interviews with Norman Polden, Station Manager and creator of Flame Christian and Community Radio, and from the Flame website which I was given permission to do. How do I list him as a source? He pointed me to the website where the information is listed about the station and which, again, I put as a reference on my page at the bottom where I was told to put it. Second question: if I am not allowed to 'copy' directly from a website, thus insuring facts are correct and referencing that is where I got the material, with permission from the author himself, Mr Polden, is it better if I just leave it all out and just put in what I wrote and leave all their stuff out (making my article incomplete)? Or if I paraphase absolutely everything from the website, is that considered acceptable, because I can do that. But, my education dictated that quoting from the source (ie, the website) and stating you were quoting from the source and adding a footnote (reference) stating your source insured you were not breaking any copyright laws and verified your FACTS as accurate. And the FlameCCR website isn't copyrighted anyway; there is no copyright notice on the pages anywhere (I checked and I asked). I just want to get this right and as I see articles on Wikipedia using corporate logos, those people could not possibly have permission to use them, they just 'steal' them off the company sites (I asked someone who wrote a Wikipedia article where he got the logo for his page and he told me he just used the one on the companies site). There are parts of my article that are from the website, for accuracy, yes. But the whole article is not. If there is no copyright on the website and the owner of the website gave me permission to use the information from his website as verification of the facts in my article, so it was verified by the man who owns/operates FlameCCr and the website, why can't I use it? Or, again, should I just leave it all out and only submit the part I wrote based on my interviews with Mr Polden? Thanks ever so much for your help. Teresa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teresa McDonnell ( talk • contribs) 19:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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One of the fastest Anti-Vandalism enforcers! Riley Huntley ( talk) 19:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC) |
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I was going to give you an Anti-vandalism barnstar because you beat me to reverts many times today. But then I saw all that you do for Wikipedia and I decided you needed a better one. So, this is my gift to you.
Keep up the great work! Clarince63 ( talk) 19:40, 1 May 2012 (UTC) |
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Panyd The muffin is not subtle 00:05, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Howdy, I'm glad you fixed that false editors vulgar on the Warren G. Harding article, and he's done it more than once, do you know how to block him, so he won't keep messing up the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.230.254 ( talk) 02:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
yepp Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 18:35, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial,
Thanks for looking at the article submission. Can you help me out a little bit why the article was rejected? I have carefully read all guidelines, and have focused on "real-world" press coverage, all verifiable and all reliable. I must be missing something.
Would absolutely love your guidance..
CasperJB — Preceding unsigned comment added by CasperJB ( talk • contribs) 19:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
You removed PokerPlayer1973's removal of content here, I believe the user was removing unnecessary information from the article. As you can see, the article seems to be advertising and contains unnecessary information such as "history of sunglasses" and "safety". SwisterTwister talk 18:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial. Thank you for protecting the UNCF article against the POV IP. FYI they filed a long winded and malformed RFPP here [1]. They also went on a spree of reverting edits made by you and GreatOrangePumpkin. I know that you are busy so I thought I would make aware of these things just in case. MarnetteD | Talk 21:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
With this edit, you reverted an edit I requested on the article's talk page, which was carried out by another editor, and which was fully explained in the edit summary. Yet your edit summary says the reversion was due to "unexplained removal of content". Something seems amiss. Would you please reconsider whether the content you restored actually belongs in the article? It is a copy of a section of the Great Commission church movement article; the information in that section is not specifically about Tom Short. Thanks, SoCalDonF ( talk) 07:41, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial, thanks for reveiwing the article [2]. I do see where the tone of the article is not encyclopedic, we'll be working on that over the next few days. This is what happens when you enlist the aid of volunteers from the advertising world. Aside from tone, are there any other issues you detected with the article that would prevent its publication? Please advise, thanks ... GHS G H Smith ( talk) 14:26, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Good evening Excirial,
I have made a request to have permission to use Huggle. If, in your opinion it should be granted, I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at my application here, and, if you agree, make an appropriate comment.
I should be much obliged.
Kind regards,
-- Gareth Griffith-Jones ( talk) 20:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am user Okiamok89, and you recently reviewed my article "Higashi Yoshizumi." You said that at this time the article cannot be published because it has inadequate sources. In any other scholarly work, I'd agree with you. However, this page is unique in that it is about a Japanese artist who purposefully hides from the public. Therefore, virtually nothing has been written about him. In attempts to increase his visibility, a professor at University of California, Berkeley has conducted an interview with him. All of the content I wrote is based on this unpublished interview, which will be included in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York sometime in the next two years. Considering this unique circumstance, I hope that you will reconsider your review. Thank you, Kiya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okiamok89 ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Excirial, got a question for you. An AfC you declined was nominated for CSD spam. Is there any point to that? Or, do we nominate AfC submissions for db-spam in the first place? Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 19:41, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I removed the iw in the article because it linked to articles in other languages on motorcycles, not about the motorcycle club. Can I restore it?-- 109.232.72.49 ( talk) 19:01, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Saw you on HG, keep up the good work :) Dan653 ( talk) 20:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC) |
What should I do about this [3] I can't report it for edit warring because there aren't four reverts... Dan653 ( talk) 20:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I made an attempt to Archive the user page. You stepped in and now it's double the length it started at. Perhaps you will tidy it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.169.108.193 ( talk) 20:33, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
The bot you use detected a false positive, probably because the edit included the word "gay." 96.25.4.2 ( talk) 04:10, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Just wanted to check about reliable resources for the submission: Martin Anthony. We received a rejection regarding a post. The main 'resource' is a TV station that closed and has not left legacy 'resources' online. Unfortunately, quite often the TV and Cinematic sectors of Turkey seems to not want to highlight its accomplishments. (Sad but true). Of course, this lays claim to legitimate performers involved documentaries, films, and TV shows being left 'un-resourced'.
Are YouTube submissions regarded as reliable? The 6NEWS YouTube page and their website has been struck from their virtual existence. We have added a new resource to the submission. It is the xRdsTV YouTube site that has some of the shows broadcast on the channel. Will this work?
NOTE: The Crossroads with Martin Anthony (TV Show) is still under review.
One side note. Was there a purge of (dormant) users in the past year or so? We had an account and did a lot of editing over the years.
Thanks, xRdsTV — Preceding unsigned comment added by XRdsTV ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Good evening, in response to your message, I have looked at the article in question. It appears to of been my 9 year old sister. I have had a word with her and she agrees not to repeat this instance. I thank you for bringing this to my attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.13.23.149 ( talk) 23:53, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I don't know if you like to deal with them, but there seems to be a huge backlog at the moment. Dan653 ( talk) 01:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Just alerting you to this 3RR report, since you had to deal with the editor a few days ago... MikeWazowski ( talk) 20:33, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
related ANI posts - related unblock requests
Please fetch back my page :( Its very important i have very important information for my contest please :'( I'm crying so much :(( DimitrisLoveIvi ( talk)
Wikipedia is a public wiki. I added my name to Daniel Da Silva and you remove it, what gives you the right to say whether someone's name can be on here or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.10.140 ( talk) 21:40, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Exciral, I noticed that you have deleted my recent contribution. I understand that it has caused some concern among the wikipedia community, but i would like to verify its truthfulness. I understand you need to be stringent when checking for vandalism. Unfortunately due to the relatively small area in which this term is in use i could not find any official citations for the article. Incidentally, would it help if we changed the name of the article to "Wilson Bottom"?
Many Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alialhakim ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
That's not even the person it claims to be, it's one of the "clients" who's been going around for a bit...-- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:19, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you went with Daniel Ortiz (Paintball Player) rather than the more standard, per the MOS, Daniel Ortiz (paintball player)? — C.Fred ( talk) 15:46, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
This means you. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 12:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 20:45, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Excirial,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 18:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Excirial,
It is just short of three months since we last had contact. How are you? Well, I hope.
You kindly said that I should ask if I needed your help. I promise not to be a pest, but in view of your considerable experience in coping with the vandals and the like, could you just tell me what happens next after my posting a report on the Administrators' noticeboard, regarding continuous vandalism and disruptive behaviour by a non-registered IP at an Open Proxy address. I don't understand the next stage of the process. Do I just wait... will I be contacted?
The poster never fills in an Edit summary and warnings posted on the IP Talk page never receive an acknowledgement. Kindest regards, Gareth Griffith-Jones ( talk) 19:44, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys!
I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the
initial documentation about the project and also the
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Hi Excirial,
I am new to creating and updating Wikipedia articles and I wanted to write an article on a non-profit organization by the name of CAMP-of-the-WOODS. For whatever reason, I cannot. For some reason it has been blocked or a previous article has been deleted. The link that I wanted to create is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=CAMP-of-the-WOODS&action=edit&redlink=1.
Would you be able to help me?
Brandonstone7 ( talk) 16:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey there,
Shame our introductions are not in better circumstances but I wanted to thank you for your quick review of the request on Tablighi Jamaat.
I'll keep an eye out for any further vandalism by the IP and if any pops up I'll forward it on to WP:AIAV as advised.
Thanks again and have a good day and good luck with that backlog!
Regards, Terk Terkaal -- <Warning! Self-Confessed Newbie!> ( talk) 08:29, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
<it> Itches the back of my head nevously </it>
I promise this will be the last you hear from me before I end up becoming annoying, or perhaps even more so.
However, after just fixing up the editing on my talk page, I noticed you said If I had a question I could ask you here. Thinking about it, there is one thing.
This isn't so much an issue for myself anymore, I withdrew from the dispute by what I felt was just a case of trying to discuss something with a brick wall and if it was not for the scale on which this spread I wouldn't ask.
However, a while back I stumbled across what looked like a few editors, I believe to be the original creators or patrollers of the article and its related portal in question, the America's next top model portal, while doing a burst of recent changes observation.
It looked as if a group of editors were reversing any changes to a page from significant edits all they way down to the use of a word and formatting of a table (Such as was the dispute I saw that I jumped into).
In the interest of inegrity, I'll be honest with you. I could have engaged in that discussion with a greater set of values. I'm not saying I jumped in with expletives left right and centre, but after getting irritated with what felt like a conversation with a wall, my british sarcasm did rear it's head along with the fact I was still a newborn in terms of community participation.
In this case, I attempted to put in place a comprimise which offered information, while incorperating the original setup in place from the group of editors I referred to.
The response was a barrage of Wikipolicy links, deep analysis of and extrapolation of intent and a total revert of any edit, no matter how small to the the favoured idea of the cooperating editors.
This type of response was not just limited to myself and as a result it effectively locked out any other editor's attempt at contributing to the article or other articles in the portal. In the end, I can see why this isn't so bad, they were after all main contributors and participants in the portal in question, so this isn't really the point I was wanting to ask about.
What was however, is that during the affair, I did look over the talk pages of the users involved in the 'discussion', and noticed a bit of a trend.
It was when looking at the experience other editors were having with the user Mt king (edits) that I began to wonder if rather than a well intentioned editor may have been a case of a very articulate and intelligent malicious user. I understand that is probably not the case but after engaging in dialoge on the user's talk page it ended up being on my watchlist, it was through this that I ended up seeing the issues this editor does seem to be causing to the UFC Wikipedian community and their articles with what on the surface looks like, at best, a well intentioned but overly-beurocratic application of wikipolicy to the detriment of wikipedia's coverage on the category and at worst, a malicious attempt at using wikipolicy to significantly destablise the work of a portal maintained by an editor or editors which may have in some form provoked him.
It was of interest that with every deletion attempt I saw throughout the MMA portal, it was the same editor and what looks at first glance to be a group of friends which were coming down on it's articles in what at worst, looked like harrasment.
Once again, I see editors having the same experience I have, with every attempt at discussion being met with the same repeated response on notability, regardless of evidence provided or attempts at discussion being totally ignored. I even see editors finding this experience spreading into their talk pages into they too explicitly state they withdraw all interest, just to make it stop.
Of course, this is only my perception, likely being influenced by my own experience with the user and as such probably quite biased so this is in no way intended as a "Wahh wahh, that user did this" as I admit it may appear
Just, now that I have a chance to ask, I'm genuinely hoping you might be able to shed some light on what an editor should do when they find themselves involved in such a scenario?
For a history of the I had experience with the editor and associates to better explain the context of the query rather than my own interpretation, see links below with synopsis.
Hello Excirial, Good to know you are back. Hope all is well with you. Kind regards, Gareth Griffith-Jones ( talk) 15:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Semi-protection: For at least a year, please, or preferably indefinitely. Recurring unexplained removal of sourced criticism by IPs and by new users. The most recent case:
Earlier cases:
Even earlier cases, from 2009 or earlier:
I've mentioned all major cases of criticism-removal dating back to August 2008, but not earlier. There are more that happened earlier. I don't have time to monitor the article. Since the most recent criticism removal was left there for six months until I posted this protection request, you can see that nobody else was watching it either. Pending-changes level 1 protection would have been a suitable alternative here. Oh well. Thank you for your time. |
Please check this page again, you shortened my protection, while telling the log you were extending it. Did you miss I set the expiry in April of 2013 by chance? Courcelles 05:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Copyover from another talk page - posted in this revision
Hiyas there Smallman12q,
Yesterday i came across the article Mechanical Aptitude, which is currently being worked on as part of the Industrial Psychology course for which you are listed as one of the ambassadors. The article needed a histmerge (which is now fixed), but afterwards i noticed that the " Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude" section is almost entirely a literal word-for-word copy of the source. I didn't have the time to do a complete check, but a few Google searches on the rest of the content makes me suspect it is mostly minor rewording from other sources.
I'm afraid i lack sufficient editing time lately, so if i were to action this with a comment to the users or similar i'd be very likely to miss the response for some time. Any chance you could have a look? Thanks in advance! Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs) 12:48, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
If you arbitrarily block a multi-use IP adress again, then the full range of WP sanctions may be deployed against you. You should always try to resolve disputes using the Talk page first. 212.121.210.45 ( talk) 15:00, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Thankfully, you are unable to operate in the world outside WP. 212.121.210.45 ( talk) 12:12, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial,
I have never misused my Wikipedia account. On Tuesday I mentioned to a friend that my article is being judged unfairly but did not ask her to edit or contribute. In accordance with Wikipedia guidelines I assume good faith, and did not accuse Sionk of meatpuppetry or collusion because she voted a few hours apart on the same day with Carrite.
I also assume that none of the voters except me have read any of the "Further reading" sources or Borshch's biography in Who's Who in American Art, and yet they rush to delete.
Sincerely, Khidekel ( talk) 17:20, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Originally posted here
We have not entered into any edit wars simply every day we have logged in to find someone has changed our links and sources and removed our text we have simply added back our details and links. The links to this site are in our forum and we guide people here. they then come back to us and state the links and information have been removed and another body named vlcak.co.uk have removed our details and placed theirs in there is no war however the people who keep making changes are in relation to vlcak.co.uk and have nothing to do with our GB club we understand this is a free site but it is unfair that representatives of the vlcak.co.uk feel the need to do this every day we find our links gone and changes made! we simple add ours back to the list and then the next day its gone! or within the hour ? we may have to remove our links directing members to this page as the actions of representatives of vlcak.co.uk are behaving in this manner. can we protect this page? or should we just state to our members that the page can not be accredited and remove our links to your site?
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For your tireless vandal fighting today. Keep going! WikiPuppies! ( bark) 17:40, 20 April 2012 (UTC) |
I had added a mango uncle link on alphonso mangoes page not because I wish to market their website but these fruits are in a great demand all over and people actually search for it on google on how to procure it. I completed that page with one link that i knew — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.91.95.51 ( talk) 21:43, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial, I would like to request my User and Talk pages to be deleted, beacuse I wish to leave Wikipedia permanently. I heard that I can't delete my account but I can request the deletion of my user and talk pages, as written in the 'Right To Vanish'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urduarabicpunjabiengish ( talk • contribs) 21:14, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I am not trying to vandalise Wikipedia. I thought that I was editing the wiki called RationalWiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidoko99 ( talk • contribs) 20:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello; you recently blocked me and my block has expired and I would like to know if I am within my rights to report Ackees for making a personal attack against me in his edit summary on the Benin City article. Particularly, he has called me "neo-nazi", not to mention he removed accurate material which I have since restored and provided a reliable source for. Please let me know how I can bring this matter to the attention of the administrators- I am new to Wikipedia and I do not know how to report another user or where to report him/her. Thank you. (Also, here is the link to the place where I was reported by Ackees: WP:ANEW#User:ElliotJoyce reported by User:Ackees (Result: ) ElliotJoyce ( talk) 21:12, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hiyas there BWilkins,
I Hope you don't mind, but i upped the block for User:Seeker4264 to one week, and disabled his talk page access for repeated personal attacks. As far as i can see it is nigh impossible to have any form of civil conversation with him right now. Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs) 12:16, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial, now that your protection has expired, our spammer at Aquaponics is at it again. Could you enable protection and / or escalate this through appropriate channels? Thanks! Martijn Meijering ( talk) 10:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial. Just letting you know I removed the PROD tag on this article - Cole has been in the news for quite some time, although I had only added recent references stemming from his fish-eating incident, so I can see why you'd cite WP:BLP1E and WP:NOTNEWS. I've now added a couple of sources from last year to show that he's notable for more than just one event. Yunshui 雲 水 14:05, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I increased the 31 hour block on 64.251.53.213 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to three months as this is a long term vandalism-only school IP. That should last until school is out of session. Judging by the history, they will probably be earning a year-long block when school resumes in the fall. I hope you don't mind my change. If you do, please adjust settings according with no need to notify me. Regards, — EncMstr ( talk) 18:12, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi ya. Thanks for reviewing my article so quickly. I'm not surprised it wasn't accepted as it was my first attempt. However, I have two general questions for you (you don't need to see my article for these I am sure): (1) your comment says I broke the golden rule that article is unsourced. Well, I listed the reference of www.flameradio.com and I 'sourced' this article from interviews with Norman Polden, Station Manager and creator of Flame Christian and Community Radio, and from the Flame website which I was given permission to do. How do I list him as a source? He pointed me to the website where the information is listed about the station and which, again, I put as a reference on my page at the bottom where I was told to put it. Second question: if I am not allowed to 'copy' directly from a website, thus insuring facts are correct and referencing that is where I got the material, with permission from the author himself, Mr Polden, is it better if I just leave it all out and just put in what I wrote and leave all their stuff out (making my article incomplete)? Or if I paraphase absolutely everything from the website, is that considered acceptable, because I can do that. But, my education dictated that quoting from the source (ie, the website) and stating you were quoting from the source and adding a footnote (reference) stating your source insured you were not breaking any copyright laws and verified your FACTS as accurate. And the FlameCCR website isn't copyrighted anyway; there is no copyright notice on the pages anywhere (I checked and I asked). I just want to get this right and as I see articles on Wikipedia using corporate logos, those people could not possibly have permission to use them, they just 'steal' them off the company sites (I asked someone who wrote a Wikipedia article where he got the logo for his page and he told me he just used the one on the companies site). There are parts of my article that are from the website, for accuracy, yes. But the whole article is not. If there is no copyright on the website and the owner of the website gave me permission to use the information from his website as verification of the facts in my article, so it was verified by the man who owns/operates FlameCCr and the website, why can't I use it? Or, again, should I just leave it all out and only submit the part I wrote based on my interviews with Mr Polden? Thanks ever so much for your help. Teresa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teresa McDonnell ( talk • contribs) 19:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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Panyd The muffin is not subtle 00:05, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Howdy, I'm glad you fixed that false editors vulgar on the Warren G. Harding article, and he's done it more than once, do you know how to block him, so he won't keep messing up the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.230.254 ( talk) 02:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
yepp Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 18:35, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Excirial,
Thanks for looking at the article submission. Can you help me out a little bit why the article was rejected? I have carefully read all guidelines, and have focused on "real-world" press coverage, all verifiable and all reliable. I must be missing something.
Would absolutely love your guidance..
CasperJB — Preceding unsigned comment added by CasperJB ( talk • contribs) 19:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
You removed PokerPlayer1973's removal of content here, I believe the user was removing unnecessary information from the article. As you can see, the article seems to be advertising and contains unnecessary information such as "history of sunglasses" and "safety". SwisterTwister talk 18:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial. Thank you for protecting the UNCF article against the POV IP. FYI they filed a long winded and malformed RFPP here [1]. They also went on a spree of reverting edits made by you and GreatOrangePumpkin. I know that you are busy so I thought I would make aware of these things just in case. MarnetteD | Talk 21:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
With this edit, you reverted an edit I requested on the article's talk page, which was carried out by another editor, and which was fully explained in the edit summary. Yet your edit summary says the reversion was due to "unexplained removal of content". Something seems amiss. Would you please reconsider whether the content you restored actually belongs in the article? It is a copy of a section of the Great Commission church movement article; the information in that section is not specifically about Tom Short. Thanks, SoCalDonF ( talk) 07:41, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello Excirial, thanks for reveiwing the article [2]. I do see where the tone of the article is not encyclopedic, we'll be working on that over the next few days. This is what happens when you enlist the aid of volunteers from the advertising world. Aside from tone, are there any other issues you detected with the article that would prevent its publication? Please advise, thanks ... GHS G H Smith ( talk) 14:26, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Good evening Excirial,
I have made a request to have permission to use Huggle. If, in your opinion it should be granted, I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at my application here, and, if you agree, make an appropriate comment.
I should be much obliged.
Kind regards,
-- Gareth Griffith-Jones ( talk) 20:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am user Okiamok89, and you recently reviewed my article "Higashi Yoshizumi." You said that at this time the article cannot be published because it has inadequate sources. In any other scholarly work, I'd agree with you. However, this page is unique in that it is about a Japanese artist who purposefully hides from the public. Therefore, virtually nothing has been written about him. In attempts to increase his visibility, a professor at University of California, Berkeley has conducted an interview with him. All of the content I wrote is based on this unpublished interview, which will be included in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York sometime in the next two years. Considering this unique circumstance, I hope that you will reconsider your review. Thank you, Kiya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okiamok89 ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Excirial, got a question for you. An AfC you declined was nominated for CSD spam. Is there any point to that? Or, do we nominate AfC submissions for db-spam in the first place? Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 19:41, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I removed the iw in the article because it linked to articles in other languages on motorcycles, not about the motorcycle club. Can I restore it?-- 109.232.72.49 ( talk) 19:01, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Saw you on HG, keep up the good work :) Dan653 ( talk) 20:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC) |
What should I do about this [3] I can't report it for edit warring because there aren't four reverts... Dan653 ( talk) 20:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I made an attempt to Archive the user page. You stepped in and now it's double the length it started at. Perhaps you will tidy it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.169.108.193 ( talk) 20:33, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
The bot you use detected a false positive, probably because the edit included the word "gay." 96.25.4.2 ( talk) 04:10, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Just wanted to check about reliable resources for the submission: Martin Anthony. We received a rejection regarding a post. The main 'resource' is a TV station that closed and has not left legacy 'resources' online. Unfortunately, quite often the TV and Cinematic sectors of Turkey seems to not want to highlight its accomplishments. (Sad but true). Of course, this lays claim to legitimate performers involved documentaries, films, and TV shows being left 'un-resourced'.
Are YouTube submissions regarded as reliable? The 6NEWS YouTube page and their website has been struck from their virtual existence. We have added a new resource to the submission. It is the xRdsTV YouTube site that has some of the shows broadcast on the channel. Will this work?
NOTE: The Crossroads with Martin Anthony (TV Show) is still under review.
One side note. Was there a purge of (dormant) users in the past year or so? We had an account and did a lot of editing over the years.
Thanks, xRdsTV — Preceding unsigned comment added by XRdsTV ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Good evening, in response to your message, I have looked at the article in question. It appears to of been my 9 year old sister. I have had a word with her and she agrees not to repeat this instance. I thank you for bringing this to my attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.13.23.149 ( talk) 23:53, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I don't know if you like to deal with them, but there seems to be a huge backlog at the moment. Dan653 ( talk) 01:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)