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Can you help me understand what happened at HAVE DOUGHNUT? I've been inactive for a while and seem to have forgotten how things work :) It was a redirect that I created in 2014. I requested speedy deletion earlier today to make way to move Have Doughnut to HAVE DOUGHNUT (and create a redirect to it at Have Doughnut). If I read the logs correctly, it was deleted by @ Explicit: at 18:13:52 PDT but recreated by User:JJMC89 bot at 18:17:03. What's happening here? Thanks. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 04:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
So far as they affect the articles that interest me, the changes to BSicon in progress are neutral. But it would have been polite, it seems to me, to have left a briefing note here that explains what you are doing and why you are doing it. The bot is changing a great number of articles at once so an edit note that simply says "changing X to Y" is not documenting the reason for the change, which is what edit notes should do. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 11:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. You recently created Wikipedia:Good articles/mismatches for me using list comparer from AWB. I was trying to fine tune the list to make it easier to manage, but can't seem to make a list larger than 25 000 entries. There are 27,755 Good Articles so this number is a bit short. Did you have a way to increase the list numbers when you ran it or is there another workaround? AIRcorn (talk) 11:46, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for that list by the way. I have sorted out the mismatched categories and am currently working through the GA lists. AIRcorn (talk) 11:47, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Whole section can't be just undone because of citations missing. You can add citations or leave it to oher users to add them by time. It takes time to do a quality job. And thanks for grammar edits on Dalida page. I invite you to continue that work while we are updating her page. As a person who doesn't speak english as a main thounge, I need all help from you. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by DalidaEditor ( talk • contribs) 12:00, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Article Frederick Potter redrafted with references Hugo999 ( talk) 10:50, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi JJMC89. Just noticed
this edit you made. Thanks for tweaking that. At the same time though, redirects are considered OK for |article=
per
WP:NFCC#cite_note-2; so, this type of thing is not technically considered to be a NFCC#10c viloation so to speak if that was a concern of yours. --
Marchjuly (
talk)
01:22, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I edited User:Sj/Update Congress removing a colon in order to solve a Multi colon escape lint error, and you reverted, reinserting the colon in order to "colon-ize" the categories. How can we solve both problems? And by the way, I have no idea how this works. Is there documentation for #invoke? — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:51, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Lost you on this one. School logo seems like the textbook example of WP:NFCC, what am I missing? -- Muhandes ( talk) 17:42, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi - You recently removed a team logo from Band-e-Amir Dragons. The image is non-free content, but is the official logo of the team so there is no alternative. I wonder if you could advise what could be done to make it ok to retain the image? For instance, I don't see how it is different to the logo on Kent County Cricket Club or Sussex County Cricket Club (which are of course much more established clubs). The rationale for this image appears to be virtually the same. Thanks Bs1jac ( talk) 10:03, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
I have a request, but first a couple introductory remarks.
I strongly support Wikipedia's pillar of neutrality. As you know, we've long had an issue with COI and paid editing. There's been a lot of interest in these areas recently in Wikipedia has appropriately tightened its guidelines in these areas including strength and disclosure requirements. I'll also note that while I'm supportive, and have read a fair amount of the documentation, I'm not as close to it as some so there may be some things I don't know about.
One important observation, and one potentially flawed if I'm missing some things, is that we as a community are fairly good at identifying the type of behavior that is to be discouraged or prohibited, and less adept at guidelines or instructions on how problems should be addressed.
This email is prompted by the fact that I'm an OTRS agent and have been contacted in connection with Ed Gold. I note that the article has a prominent template identifying a problem, but unless I'm missing something I don't see clear instructions on what should be done to remove this template. It does have a link to Wikipedia:Cleanup, but that is rather vague. From the point of view of the subject, if they were to ask what they could do to help, I'm short on good answers.
I hope I have one decent answer. Would you be willing to enter into a discussion, probably via email, with the subject of the article in order to identify solutions? -- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:32, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
The coat of arms of all South African provinces, districts and municipalities are currently copyrighted, meaning they can only appear in articles as fair use images. If you intend to remove them as NFCC violations I'd suggest you notify WP:ZA first, as it would affect some 250 pages.-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 03:33, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I've not had time to look into it as I just got to work but I thought I'd point out that your bot appears to have broken several route templates affecting maybe 50 articles. 7 templates are showing up in Category:Templates with missing files that I think are affected, causing a lot of the issues listed on Category:Articles with missing files. I'll try to look into it tonight after work if you, or someone else, hasn't already fixed it. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 08:43, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
I cannot figure out why this has been removed. I got the message (seen below Pamela Nett Kruger email), and thought fair use applied. I reposted it thinking it was okay. Who do I contact regarding this? The image sent was a California State University, Chico, "license use reproduction." Do you need the form from the university, or something else? Thank you.
Email
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Pamela Nett Kruger ((Redacted)) To:you + 2 more Details Slideshow Cliff, Thank you for your interest in material at Meriam Library. Your request was forwarded to me. The photo Diego sent you is from the faculty file, handwritten on the back is “1986”. That is the only information on it. Please credit California State University, Chico, Meriam Library Special Collections in a caption or credit. From discussion with Diego, you are requesting a scan of the faculty file which contains curriculum vitae, and press releases and a clipping. Please fill out the form attached for the information you request. Let me know if you have any further questions. Best, Pam Pamela Nett Kruger, MA, MLIS Special Collections & University Archives (Redacted) |
Wikipedia reply: Thanks for uploading File:Charles E. Winquist.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clyde DeForest Switzer ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Can you help me understand what happened at HAVE DOUGHNUT? I've been inactive for a while and seem to have forgotten how things work :) It was a redirect that I created in 2014. I requested speedy deletion earlier today to make way to move Have Doughnut to HAVE DOUGHNUT (and create a redirect to it at Have Doughnut). If I read the logs correctly, it was deleted by @ Explicit: at 18:13:52 PDT but recreated by User:JJMC89 bot at 18:17:03. What's happening here? Thanks. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 04:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
So far as they affect the articles that interest me, the changes to BSicon in progress are neutral. But it would have been polite, it seems to me, to have left a briefing note here that explains what you are doing and why you are doing it. The bot is changing a great number of articles at once so an edit note that simply says "changing X to Y" is not documenting the reason for the change, which is what edit notes should do. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 11:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. You recently created Wikipedia:Good articles/mismatches for me using list comparer from AWB. I was trying to fine tune the list to make it easier to manage, but can't seem to make a list larger than 25 000 entries. There are 27,755 Good Articles so this number is a bit short. Did you have a way to increase the list numbers when you ran it or is there another workaround? AIRcorn (talk) 11:46, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for that list by the way. I have sorted out the mismatched categories and am currently working through the GA lists. AIRcorn (talk) 11:47, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Whole section can't be just undone because of citations missing. You can add citations or leave it to oher users to add them by time. It takes time to do a quality job. And thanks for grammar edits on Dalida page. I invite you to continue that work while we are updating her page. As a person who doesn't speak english as a main thounge, I need all help from you. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by DalidaEditor ( talk • contribs) 12:00, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Article Frederick Potter redrafted with references Hugo999 ( talk) 10:50, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi JJMC89. Just noticed
this edit you made. Thanks for tweaking that. At the same time though, redirects are considered OK for |article=
per
WP:NFCC#cite_note-2; so, this type of thing is not technically considered to be a NFCC#10c viloation so to speak if that was a concern of yours. --
Marchjuly (
talk)
01:22, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I edited User:Sj/Update Congress removing a colon in order to solve a Multi colon escape lint error, and you reverted, reinserting the colon in order to "colon-ize" the categories. How can we solve both problems? And by the way, I have no idea how this works. Is there documentation for #invoke? — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:51, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Lost you on this one. School logo seems like the textbook example of WP:NFCC, what am I missing? -- Muhandes ( talk) 17:42, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi - You recently removed a team logo from Band-e-Amir Dragons. The image is non-free content, but is the official logo of the team so there is no alternative. I wonder if you could advise what could be done to make it ok to retain the image? For instance, I don't see how it is different to the logo on Kent County Cricket Club or Sussex County Cricket Club (which are of course much more established clubs). The rationale for this image appears to be virtually the same. Thanks Bs1jac ( talk) 10:03, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
I have a request, but first a couple introductory remarks.
I strongly support Wikipedia's pillar of neutrality. As you know, we've long had an issue with COI and paid editing. There's been a lot of interest in these areas recently in Wikipedia has appropriately tightened its guidelines in these areas including strength and disclosure requirements. I'll also note that while I'm supportive, and have read a fair amount of the documentation, I'm not as close to it as some so there may be some things I don't know about.
One important observation, and one potentially flawed if I'm missing some things, is that we as a community are fairly good at identifying the type of behavior that is to be discouraged or prohibited, and less adept at guidelines or instructions on how problems should be addressed.
This email is prompted by the fact that I'm an OTRS agent and have been contacted in connection with Ed Gold. I note that the article has a prominent template identifying a problem, but unless I'm missing something I don't see clear instructions on what should be done to remove this template. It does have a link to Wikipedia:Cleanup, but that is rather vague. From the point of view of the subject, if they were to ask what they could do to help, I'm short on good answers.
I hope I have one decent answer. Would you be willing to enter into a discussion, probably via email, with the subject of the article in order to identify solutions? -- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:32, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
The coat of arms of all South African provinces, districts and municipalities are currently copyrighted, meaning they can only appear in articles as fair use images. If you intend to remove them as NFCC violations I'd suggest you notify WP:ZA first, as it would affect some 250 pages.-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 03:33, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I've not had time to look into it as I just got to work but I thought I'd point out that your bot appears to have broken several route templates affecting maybe 50 articles. 7 templates are showing up in Category:Templates with missing files that I think are affected, causing a lot of the issues listed on Category:Articles with missing files. I'll try to look into it tonight after work if you, or someone else, hasn't already fixed it. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 08:43, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
I cannot figure out why this has been removed. I got the message (seen below Pamela Nett Kruger email), and thought fair use applied. I reposted it thinking it was okay. Who do I contact regarding this? The image sent was a California State University, Chico, "license use reproduction." Do you need the form from the university, or something else? Thank you.
Email
|
---|
Pamela Nett Kruger ((Redacted)) To:you + 2 more Details Slideshow Cliff, Thank you for your interest in material at Meriam Library. Your request was forwarded to me. The photo Diego sent you is from the faculty file, handwritten on the back is “1986”. That is the only information on it. Please credit California State University, Chico, Meriam Library Special Collections in a caption or credit. From discussion with Diego, you are requesting a scan of the faculty file which contains curriculum vitae, and press releases and a clipping. Please fill out the form attached for the information you request. Let me know if you have any further questions. Best, Pam Pamela Nett Kruger, MA, MLIS Special Collections & University Archives (Redacted) |
Wikipedia reply: Thanks for uploading File:Charles E. Winquist.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clyde DeForest Switzer ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 23 May 2018 (UTC)