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Hi there January, thank you for editing my post.
I am user:Homebodies.
I just learned from Wiki mail that my username is illegal because it represents a group.
I am wondering, is my posting, which you kindly edited, also illegal?
I created it without using the 4 tildes, for one thing--my bad. I am not used to Wikipedia style yet.
But what about the content for the page I created? Is that legal content, or does it not meet the requirement of being significant.
Also, was my attribution legal?
Homebodies ( talk) 19:46, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't know, or think, that I have. As I said to the original reporter of this, I had some trouble with my scanner and I may have done accidentally, in which case please delete them. But in no way do I want to invoke WP:COPYVIO and that was not my attempt to do so, I just kinda got it wrong in attempting to upload them, since I have been cleaning out the house and moving the printer/scanner and so forth.
So please do delete them if you find them. I couldn't put them on Commons, because of the licence restrictions there, so uploaded them to EN:WP, but if I am in the wrong I should be very glad of your help to make sure I am not in COPYVIO.
My sincere best wishes Si Trew ( talk) 22:07, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for your recent very-speedy deletion of my no-longer-needed user-space pages. Since I read AN/I and some of the other admin noticeboards and I don't recognize your name, I can only assume that you are one of those admins who actually does the work rather than getting involved in drama or wikipolitics. For that, I thank you as well. :) Neutron ( talk) 21:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
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18:36, 7 August 2011 (UTC)I was just about to tag this page for speedy deletion as the whole content was copied and pasted but there was a claim on the talk page that the creator of the article owns the copyright of the work and therefore, he grants permission for us to use his work onto Wikipedia (Although he hasn't specified a licence), and for that case, I reverted my edit. Is it safe to remove the copyright tag on this occasion, or was I correct about tagging this page for speedy deletion? Minima © ( talk) 20:47, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Dear January,
Following the example of an associate of mine, I thought it a good idea to insert a one paragraph biography of myself into Wikipedia, not least because it is considered a more reliable source than some others.
If I understand the process correctly, you have deprecated my entry on the grounds that the statement declaring me to the managing director of my own company (Avancier Limited) is not verified at the reference given, to my own web site (Avancier.co.uk). Yet my web site does show me to be occupy this role. So please can you explain this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.81.190 ( talk) 19:15, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
You said that selfref was a "valid hatnote" but I respectfully disagree. I list it at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 August 13. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.70.187 ( talk) 15:57, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
I put in an addition that was unflattering but true. I noted the article from CityPages. Could you tell me why it was deleted? How would I provide a "verifable source"
Kmulv ( talk) 23:10, 15 August 2011 (UTC)KM
Thank you. I understand
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You deleted the page for Jack Hoban. Can you please reactive it? Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 16:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thank you for your contribution to the Crubeen page, but unfortunately by you moving page Crubeen to Crubeen_(band) this has orphaned all the images and pictures. and after 7 days they get deleted.
Can you please fix this ? and restore the images and pictures. perhaps when moving the page, you should have moved the images and pictures as well.
John6547 ( talk) 12:10, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll read my comment at WP:ANI... and I'll try, if I can find the time, to get deeper into all that you discovered, but I just wanted to reiterate how important I think the work you did in tracking down the basis of that post is... the subtle vandalism stuff is really the most pernicious threat to the encyclopedia going forward, and I think making people aware of that stuff is critical. Your work is exactly what we need more of, so I wanted to thank you. I didn't recognize your name, but that said I've been rather inactive lately so that may be expected. In any case, it's great work. Shadowjams ( talk) 09:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
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For this great find, ANI is such a soap opera, good to see it being put to good use once in a while... Cerejota ( talk) 13:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC) |
If you believe the section I put in the Mike Pence article doesn't deserve to be there then I will leave it out. Sorry about my tirade at the other user on the talkpage. I tend to let my temper get the best of me when I get accusations thrown at me.
All the best,
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 20:21, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Could you have a look at these contributions for me. Just would like a different set of eyes. RafikiSykes ( talk) 22:17, 26 August 2011 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ParkinsonsUK
Thank you for [2]. Sorry if including the name was inappropriate; I hadn't come across the policy that you refer to. In fact the person in question has gone public to the extent of writing a book on the subject (see ISBN 1844546217), but I'm happy to err on the side of caution nonetheless. Scil100 ( talk) 17:45, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_West I noticed your removal of a name in the soham case and wondered if similar could be done here? Given the hatred shown towards the woman I wonder if removing the names and birthdates of her children entirely would be better for their safety. RafikiSykes ( talk) 18:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Please "undelete" the page about Jack Hoban. It is not in violation of any Wikipedia rules. Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 21:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
We created a brand new page and used citiations for each bit of information. Please depost it and stop deleting it. Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 06:58, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree. It was 3 or 4 brand new sentences and each one had a proper citation using the Wikipedia program. Please repost the page or stop deleting it. Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 15:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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tag to the article on Andre Julian, which has since been edited to address your concerns. I have 2 questions regarding the protocol for adding/removing tags and regarding Wiki standards. 1) Who is allowed to remove the tags: you as orignator, you or any administrator, or any editor? 2) Some Wiki pages have few (e.g., David Gross) or even no references or citations, so what is Wiki policy or what are Wiki standards regarding these articles (e.g., is any editor allowed to add a tag)? Thank you in advance. (PS How did you find the time to edit so may articles??) Ann12h ( talk) 19:34, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Clay Borrell is a musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is known very well by many teenage girls across the country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClayJoc ( talk • contribs) 18:28, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Could you please confirm the removal of AllScamsForum.Com link from the E-mail fraud wiki page. AFAIK there should not be a problem with this. Similar link like http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/ are allowed to exist here. AllScamsForum.Com hosts largest scam awareness community on Facebook. AllScamsForum.Com is where thousands of real reported email fraud samples are searchable. It should be allowed for public good, my2c. Himan577 ( talk) 05:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Appreciate your review comments, Thanks. Himan577 ( talk) 07:47, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for clarifying. Appreciate it. One clarification I would like to put forth - although the name of the site has a "forum" in it, the main purpose of it to act as a repository/database of reported scams. The wiki page E mail fraud is meant to provide information about different types of scams but the person reading it will be most probably interested in knowing whether the particular email that he has received is a scams or not. So the external links section points him to a location where it is possible to do that. Because of WP:ADV I would request you to please restore the link, if you happen to agree with the my clarification. Thanks for your time. Himan577 ( talk) 12:35, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you are an administrator. The article Louie Gohmert had continuously been vandalized by an user. He has tried to avoid detection by using three IP address 99.168.72.86, 75.60.185.120, 75.60.186.187 and two user names Jdblack326 and Johnnyb.3261. The IP addresses all trace back to Columbus, Ohio and have the edits are all revert attempts to edit and a section in the article entitled "Implication Obama is complicit in creating a Islamic Caliphate." The community in on this article has reached a conseus that the title "Statements regarding Obama policies toward the Middle East," is a better title because it is more NPOV. Furthermore, there is a debate on if these quotes should be included at all. The "Terror Babies" incident obviously should because it did garner a create deal of national attention, but the other two are only cited by Talking Points Memo and directly from CSPAN and did not garner much attention outside of the left wing blogosphere. The section College of Fine Art director incident was also listed on Taking points memo but the line section entitled Statements regarding "Obama policies toward the Middle East" was not very notable at all. It attempting to cherry picking data to quite frankly make Louie Gohmert look stupid. I have added sections on his political views to the article because I believe if these "Controversies" sections are to be left in people should at least get the whole picture. It's unfair to the reader to not give them the information and allow them to create their own opinions based on the facts.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
best,
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 15:27, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Good idea. Thanks for your input. I'm going to try to engage the community more.
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 00:22, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Forgot to add, thanks pointing out that it wasn't quite vandalism. As a new user, I'm learning new things about Wikipedia everyday!
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 02:58, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I removed the quotes have attempted to engage the community. I point out the only sources cited were Talking Points Memo and CSpan and pointed to wikipedia guidelines on reliable sources and controversial articles. Thanks again for all your help.
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 22:56, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Could you make the deleted text of the article available for me to check through? I've now rewritten the article completely, but would like to see if any additional verified information was added to the old article after the copyright violations took place, which I can then include in the new article. Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:23, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Could you please remove this user's talk page access? In addition to all the rest, the user removed your block template while blocked. CityO fSilver 19:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi January. The edit protection expired not long ago and the sock returned, the same one with the misleading edit summary spelling mistake. Could you please extend the edit protection? Best regards. -- Muhandes ( talk) 08:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
I was hoping you could help me get to the bottom of some very strange goings on here. A couple of weeks ago, User:Sherylanne (since indef blocked as a vandalism only acct) moved my user page to User:Corgan123. I have no idea what the meaning of that was. User:The Bushranger kindly moved it back. Yesterday, I got a message from User:Dipankan001 concerning the speedy deletion of Corgan China. I have no knowledge whatsoever of that article; I assume it was in some way tied to the User:Corgan123 mystery account. Now this same user, User:Dipankan001, has reported me at Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention. I have used this name for almost a year without incident, and don't understand what could possibly be objectionable about it. I assume all of these bizarre events are in some way tied together. As you were the administrator who responded at the noticeboard, I was wondering if you could possibly offer me any insight as to what may be going on here. Regards. Joefromrandb ( talk) 01:06, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
I just had a chance to read your message about my edit of "A Night in Tunisia (1960 album"). As a new user to Wikipedia, I appreciate your comments and will highly welcome any tips or help that will make a better user of Wikipedia. Once again, thanks for your comments.-- Reallyconfused ( talk) 04:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please extend the protection of Vivienne Westwood? As you can see, it took the sock 24 minutes from the moment the protection was removed till they vandalized again. Best regards. -- Muhandes ( talk) 15:56, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to change the Bio for Alan Clemmons to the most current version. If you will look at http://people.forbes.com/profile/alan-d-clemmons/79831 They have updated the Bio. Also it would be nice to take out the Alan D. Clemmons and just make it Alan Clemmons. I am new to this stuff and for some reason it got reverted back to an old version.
Can you help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.74.36.218 ( talk) 21:35, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Ahha I see what you are talking about now. I will check on this. Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.74.36.218 ( talk) 22:17, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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well i know its none of my business... and its not!! but really, thank you, i mean, you did that deletion for housekeeping and thats good, thank you january and thank you ok thank you Puffin Let's talk! 21:25, 10 November 2011 (UTC) |
This article about Celebrity Cricket League was deleted by you as the result of deletion discussion process, But it got more importance now because of new session and more public interest. And few new teams also joined, making it serious cricket(even they got logos and sponsors, it is no more a game in the front yard) for various celebrities of Indian states/language. It will be great if you can review the deletion process. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.207.180.207 ( talk) 08:22, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for finding that picture. Having started the article I always thought the lack of a decent photo was its major weakness. William Avery ( talk) 10:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi January. FYI and [3]. Thank you. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 10:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
The article was fully protected. Maybe the protecting admin thought the dispute was between the two of us. Regardless, you win some you lose some. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 04:46, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.193.254 ( talk) 16:09, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.193.254 ( talk) 20:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.143.217 ( talk) 20:56, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Moving on to another subject though, why have you started behind our backs a "sock puppetry" investigation of Yiannis and myself? This is a bit naughty when on the one hand you are involved in an "edit war" with Yiannis and on the other hand you are using other methods to intimediate him and get him to stop his good faith edits. I would have expected an experienced wikipedia administrator as yourself to not bite off the head of newbies like us on this encyclopedia and assume good faith. In actual fact you write these principles on your discussion page where in fact all you are doing is "teasing out" info from us and then "telling" on us for sockpuppetry!!! How is this fair??? Lastly please reply to my point as to why the Orphanides article is slanted towards pre-2007 research/events and no mention at all is made of his recent actions as central bank governor between 2007-2012. This is undue weight and a slanted representation of a living person and you watchlisting the article and preventing the addition of a section on his record as governor from user 87. is basically perpetuation this slanted view. Who on earth is Geostavr who added the beer image I certainly don't know him and I'm not his "Muppet"!!! 62.12.95.225 ( talk) 06:24, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
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87.228.193.254 ( talk) 21:34, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for helping deal with the backlog at Category:Non-free images with orphaned versions more than 7 days old. Please note, however, that merely deleting the old versions of the iage doesn't remove it from the category - pleasse also remove the {{ orphaned fair use revisions}} tag from the image description page. While a bot to do this does aparently exist, when a call for admins to clear out the category is made, and multiple admins are doing it at the same time, these images should be removed in real time. As far as I can tell, the bot doesn't actually do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Od Mishehu ( talk • contribs) 13:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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90.208.164.22 ( talk) appears to be the same person as 90.208.164.41 ( talk), both are vandalizing UK gameshow and football club articles and have very similar IP addresses. J9 91 19:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Update: It appears a large range of 90.208.164 IP addresses have been vandalizing UK TV, football and political articles. They are most likely all the same person; a rangeblock may be needed. J9 91 19:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
All these IPs have similar edits and have been blocked for vandalism. Yet the disruption continues.
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I am contacting you after a request received on OTRS. Apparently, there is a little "hidden" war between someone from the World Economic Forum and someone from the Crans Montana Forum for the publishing of images of famous people with the logo of the respective forums appearing on the photos. Eh. Advertisement is good everywhere :) My recommandation to the person who wrote to OTRS was to either live with it or actually modify images so that the mention of the "other" forum would not appear on the picture. I am not quite sure it is appropriate to rework images in that sense, but I feel it might be a way to avoid being too much used as an advertisement plateform :) I just dropped this word to you as you are the last one which restored the image on Huguette Labelle. Best ! Anthere ( talk)
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How do I go about it to prove he is indeed notable for a solo article on Wikipedia? HotHat ( talk) 07:35, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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I've been trying to edit this article [ [6]] and I have seen that you have deleted it because of copyright problems. I have the permission of owner and all information about this article and I'd like to write it. Please tell me what I have to do for open the article and write it again.
Thanks.
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about the jpg what can i the uploader do to keep save it from deletion. i went to non-free pages i read the it still didn't quite understannd. i did change the purpose. what can i do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdabowtheSecond ( talk • contribs) 14:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
I know where you are coming from regarding the 'synth' issue but what was your problem with the primary source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duckquackquack ( talk • contribs) 00:50, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there January, thank you for editing my post.
I am user:Homebodies.
I just learned from Wiki mail that my username is illegal because it represents a group.
I am wondering, is my posting, which you kindly edited, also illegal?
I created it without using the 4 tildes, for one thing--my bad. I am not used to Wikipedia style yet.
But what about the content for the page I created? Is that legal content, or does it not meet the requirement of being significant.
Also, was my attribution legal?
Homebodies ( talk) 19:46, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't know, or think, that I have. As I said to the original reporter of this, I had some trouble with my scanner and I may have done accidentally, in which case please delete them. But in no way do I want to invoke WP:COPYVIO and that was not my attempt to do so, I just kinda got it wrong in attempting to upload them, since I have been cleaning out the house and moving the printer/scanner and so forth.
So please do delete them if you find them. I couldn't put them on Commons, because of the licence restrictions there, so uploaded them to EN:WP, but if I am in the wrong I should be very glad of your help to make sure I am not in COPYVIO.
My sincere best wishes Si Trew ( talk) 22:07, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for your recent very-speedy deletion of my no-longer-needed user-space pages. Since I read AN/I and some of the other admin noticeboards and I don't recognize your name, I can only assume that you are one of those admins who actually does the work rather than getting involved in drama or wikipolitics. For that, I thank you as well. :) Neutron ( talk) 21:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
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18:36, 7 August 2011 (UTC)I was just about to tag this page for speedy deletion as the whole content was copied and pasted but there was a claim on the talk page that the creator of the article owns the copyright of the work and therefore, he grants permission for us to use his work onto Wikipedia (Although he hasn't specified a licence), and for that case, I reverted my edit. Is it safe to remove the copyright tag on this occasion, or was I correct about tagging this page for speedy deletion? Minima © ( talk) 20:47, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Dear January,
Following the example of an associate of mine, I thought it a good idea to insert a one paragraph biography of myself into Wikipedia, not least because it is considered a more reliable source than some others.
If I understand the process correctly, you have deprecated my entry on the grounds that the statement declaring me to the managing director of my own company (Avancier Limited) is not verified at the reference given, to my own web site (Avancier.co.uk). Yet my web site does show me to be occupy this role. So please can you explain this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.81.190 ( talk) 19:15, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
You said that selfref was a "valid hatnote" but I respectfully disagree. I list it at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 August 13. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.70.187 ( talk) 15:57, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
I put in an addition that was unflattering but true. I noted the article from CityPages. Could you tell me why it was deleted? How would I provide a "verifable source"
Kmulv ( talk) 23:10, 15 August 2011 (UTC)KM
Thank you. I understand
Kmulv ( talk) 23:52, 15 August 2011 (UTC)km
You deleted the page for Jack Hoban. Can you please reactive it? Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 16:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thank you for your contribution to the Crubeen page, but unfortunately by you moving page Crubeen to Crubeen_(band) this has orphaned all the images and pictures. and after 7 days they get deleted.
Can you please fix this ? and restore the images and pictures. perhaps when moving the page, you should have moved the images and pictures as well.
John6547 ( talk) 12:10, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll read my comment at WP:ANI... and I'll try, if I can find the time, to get deeper into all that you discovered, but I just wanted to reiterate how important I think the work you did in tracking down the basis of that post is... the subtle vandalism stuff is really the most pernicious threat to the encyclopedia going forward, and I think making people aware of that stuff is critical. Your work is exactly what we need more of, so I wanted to thank you. I didn't recognize your name, but that said I've been rather inactive lately so that may be expected. In any case, it's great work. Shadowjams ( talk) 09:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
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For this great find, ANI is such a soap opera, good to see it being put to good use once in a while... Cerejota ( talk) 13:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC) |
If you believe the section I put in the Mike Pence article doesn't deserve to be there then I will leave it out. Sorry about my tirade at the other user on the talkpage. I tend to let my temper get the best of me when I get accusations thrown at me.
All the best,
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 20:21, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Could you have a look at these contributions for me. Just would like a different set of eyes. RafikiSykes ( talk) 22:17, 26 August 2011 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ParkinsonsUK
Thank you for [2]. Sorry if including the name was inappropriate; I hadn't come across the policy that you refer to. In fact the person in question has gone public to the extent of writing a book on the subject (see ISBN 1844546217), but I'm happy to err on the side of caution nonetheless. Scil100 ( talk) 17:45, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_West I noticed your removal of a name in the soham case and wondered if similar could be done here? Given the hatred shown towards the woman I wonder if removing the names and birthdates of her children entirely would be better for their safety. RafikiSykes ( talk) 18:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Please "undelete" the page about Jack Hoban. It is not in violation of any Wikipedia rules. Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 21:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
We created a brand new page and used citiations for each bit of information. Please depost it and stop deleting it. Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 06:58, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree. It was 3 or 4 brand new sentences and each one had a proper citation using the Wikipedia program. Please repost the page or stop deleting it. Thank you. Mtpublicaffairs ( talk) 15:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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tag to the article on Andre Julian, which has since been edited to address your concerns. I have 2 questions regarding the protocol for adding/removing tags and regarding Wiki standards. 1) Who is allowed to remove the tags: you as orignator, you or any administrator, or any editor? 2) Some Wiki pages have few (e.g., David Gross) or even no references or citations, so what is Wiki policy or what are Wiki standards regarding these articles (e.g., is any editor allowed to add a tag)? Thank you in advance. (PS How did you find the time to edit so may articles??) Ann12h ( talk) 19:34, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Clay Borrell is a musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is known very well by many teenage girls across the country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClayJoc ( talk • contribs) 18:28, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Could you please confirm the removal of AllScamsForum.Com link from the E-mail fraud wiki page. AFAIK there should not be a problem with this. Similar link like http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/ are allowed to exist here. AllScamsForum.Com hosts largest scam awareness community on Facebook. AllScamsForum.Com is where thousands of real reported email fraud samples are searchable. It should be allowed for public good, my2c. Himan577 ( talk) 05:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Appreciate your review comments, Thanks. Himan577 ( talk) 07:47, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for clarifying. Appreciate it. One clarification I would like to put forth - although the name of the site has a "forum" in it, the main purpose of it to act as a repository/database of reported scams. The wiki page E mail fraud is meant to provide information about different types of scams but the person reading it will be most probably interested in knowing whether the particular email that he has received is a scams or not. So the external links section points him to a location where it is possible to do that. Because of WP:ADV I would request you to please restore the link, if you happen to agree with the my clarification. Thanks for your time. Himan577 ( talk) 12:35, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you are an administrator. The article Louie Gohmert had continuously been vandalized by an user. He has tried to avoid detection by using three IP address 99.168.72.86, 75.60.185.120, 75.60.186.187 and two user names Jdblack326 and Johnnyb.3261. The IP addresses all trace back to Columbus, Ohio and have the edits are all revert attempts to edit and a section in the article entitled "Implication Obama is complicit in creating a Islamic Caliphate." The community in on this article has reached a conseus that the title "Statements regarding Obama policies toward the Middle East," is a better title because it is more NPOV. Furthermore, there is a debate on if these quotes should be included at all. The "Terror Babies" incident obviously should because it did garner a create deal of national attention, but the other two are only cited by Talking Points Memo and directly from CSPAN and did not garner much attention outside of the left wing blogosphere. The section College of Fine Art director incident was also listed on Taking points memo but the line section entitled Statements regarding "Obama policies toward the Middle East" was not very notable at all. It attempting to cherry picking data to quite frankly make Louie Gohmert look stupid. I have added sections on his political views to the article because I believe if these "Controversies" sections are to be left in people should at least get the whole picture. It's unfair to the reader to not give them the information and allow them to create their own opinions based on the facts.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
best,
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 15:27, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Good idea. Thanks for your input. I'm going to try to engage the community more.
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 00:22, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Forgot to add, thanks pointing out that it wasn't quite vandalism. As a new user, I'm learning new things about Wikipedia everyday!
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 02:58, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I removed the quotes have attempted to engage the community. I point out the only sources cited were Talking Points Memo and CSpan and pointed to wikipedia guidelines on reliable sources and controversial articles. Thanks again for all your help.
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 22:56, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Could you make the deleted text of the article available for me to check through? I've now rewritten the article completely, but would like to see if any additional verified information was added to the old article after the copyright violations took place, which I can then include in the new article. Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:23, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Could you please remove this user's talk page access? In addition to all the rest, the user removed your block template while blocked. CityO fSilver 19:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi January. The edit protection expired not long ago and the sock returned, the same one with the misleading edit summary spelling mistake. Could you please extend the edit protection? Best regards. -- Muhandes ( talk) 08:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
I was hoping you could help me get to the bottom of some very strange goings on here. A couple of weeks ago, User:Sherylanne (since indef blocked as a vandalism only acct) moved my user page to User:Corgan123. I have no idea what the meaning of that was. User:The Bushranger kindly moved it back. Yesterday, I got a message from User:Dipankan001 concerning the speedy deletion of Corgan China. I have no knowledge whatsoever of that article; I assume it was in some way tied to the User:Corgan123 mystery account. Now this same user, User:Dipankan001, has reported me at Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention. I have used this name for almost a year without incident, and don't understand what could possibly be objectionable about it. I assume all of these bizarre events are in some way tied together. As you were the administrator who responded at the noticeboard, I was wondering if you could possibly offer me any insight as to what may be going on here. Regards. Joefromrandb ( talk) 01:06, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
I just had a chance to read your message about my edit of "A Night in Tunisia (1960 album"). As a new user to Wikipedia, I appreciate your comments and will highly welcome any tips or help that will make a better user of Wikipedia. Once again, thanks for your comments.-- Reallyconfused ( talk) 04:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please extend the protection of Vivienne Westwood? As you can see, it took the sock 24 minutes from the moment the protection was removed till they vandalized again. Best regards. -- Muhandes ( talk) 15:56, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to change the Bio for Alan Clemmons to the most current version. If you will look at http://people.forbes.com/profile/alan-d-clemmons/79831 They have updated the Bio. Also it would be nice to take out the Alan D. Clemmons and just make it Alan Clemmons. I am new to this stuff and for some reason it got reverted back to an old version.
Can you help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.74.36.218 ( talk) 21:35, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Ahha I see what you are talking about now. I will check on this. Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.74.36.218 ( talk) 22:17, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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well i know its none of my business... and its not!! but really, thank you, i mean, you did that deletion for housekeeping and thats good, thank you january and thank you ok thank you Puffin Let's talk! 21:25, 10 November 2011 (UTC) |
This article about Celebrity Cricket League was deleted by you as the result of deletion discussion process, But it got more importance now because of new session and more public interest. And few new teams also joined, making it serious cricket(even they got logos and sponsors, it is no more a game in the front yard) for various celebrities of Indian states/language. It will be great if you can review the deletion process. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.207.180.207 ( talk) 08:22, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for finding that picture. Having started the article I always thought the lack of a decent photo was its major weakness. William Avery ( talk) 10:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi January. FYI and [3]. Thank you. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 10:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
The article was fully protected. Maybe the protecting admin thought the dispute was between the two of us. Regardless, you win some you lose some. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 04:46, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.193.254 ( talk) 16:09, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.193.254 ( talk) 20:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.143.217 ( talk) 20:56, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Moving on to another subject though, why have you started behind our backs a "sock puppetry" investigation of Yiannis and myself? This is a bit naughty when on the one hand you are involved in an "edit war" with Yiannis and on the other hand you are using other methods to intimediate him and get him to stop his good faith edits. I would have expected an experienced wikipedia administrator as yourself to not bite off the head of newbies like us on this encyclopedia and assume good faith. In actual fact you write these principles on your discussion page where in fact all you are doing is "teasing out" info from us and then "telling" on us for sockpuppetry!!! How is this fair??? Lastly please reply to my point as to why the Orphanides article is slanted towards pre-2007 research/events and no mention at all is made of his recent actions as central bank governor between 2007-2012. This is undue weight and a slanted representation of a living person and you watchlisting the article and preventing the addition of a section on his record as governor from user 87. is basically perpetuation this slanted view. Who on earth is Geostavr who added the beer image I certainly don't know him and I'm not his "Muppet"!!! 62.12.95.225 ( talk) 06:24, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.193.254 ( talk) 13:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
87.228.193.254 ( talk) 21:34, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for helping deal with the backlog at Category:Non-free images with orphaned versions more than 7 days old. Please note, however, that merely deleting the old versions of the iage doesn't remove it from the category - pleasse also remove the {{ orphaned fair use revisions}} tag from the image description page. While a bot to do this does aparently exist, when a call for admins to clear out the category is made, and multiple admins are doing it at the same time, these images should be removed in real time. As far as I can tell, the bot doesn't actually do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Od Mishehu ( talk • contribs) 13:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hello. As your http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Time_Person_of_the_Year&diff=prev&oldid=468646768 would make Time Person of the Year disuse this copyright-restricted magazine cover and thus invalidate the fair use rationale, I would like to discuss whether to keep this copyright-restricted magazine cover in these three articles without rationale explained: AIDS, Antiretroviral drug, David Ho (scientist). I consider that Time Person of the Year would be the only desirable article to ever use the copyright-restricted magazine cover if a very good rationale ever exists. Otherwise, this cover should likely get out of English Wikipedia. Thanks.-- Jusjih ( talk) 14:49, 5 January 2012 (UTC) (administrator asking administrator)
90.208.164.22 ( talk) appears to be the same person as 90.208.164.41 ( talk), both are vandalizing UK gameshow and football club articles and have very similar IP addresses. J9 91 19:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Update: It appears a large range of 90.208.164 IP addresses have been vandalizing UK TV, football and political articles. They are most likely all the same person; a rangeblock may be needed. J9 91 19:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
All these IPs have similar edits and have been blocked for vandalism. Yet the disruption continues.
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Hello
I am contacting you after a request received on OTRS. Apparently, there is a little "hidden" war between someone from the World Economic Forum and someone from the Crans Montana Forum for the publishing of images of famous people with the logo of the respective forums appearing on the photos. Eh. Advertisement is good everywhere :) My recommandation to the person who wrote to OTRS was to either live with it or actually modify images so that the mention of the "other" forum would not appear on the picture. I am not quite sure it is appropriate to rework images in that sense, but I feel it might be a way to avoid being too much used as an advertisement plateform :) I just dropped this word to you as you are the last one which restored the image on Huguette Labelle. Best ! Anthere ( talk)
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How do I go about it to prove he is indeed notable for a solo article on Wikipedia? HotHat ( talk) 07:35, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi,I m Mukta Sawant from India. And thinking of creating Wikiproject page 4 Justin Bieber.If u wish 2 help me reply it on ur page & pls I wanna Listen yes ( 116.203.63.51 ( talk) 07:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC))
Dear January,
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, where 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.
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Hi,
I've been trying to edit this article [ [6]] and I have seen that you have deleted it because of copyright problems. I have the permission of owner and all information about this article and I'd like to write it. Please tell me what I have to do for open the article and write it again.
Thanks.
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about the jpg what can i the uploader do to keep save it from deletion. i went to non-free pages i read the it still didn't quite understannd. i did change the purpose. what can i do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdabowtheSecond ( talk • contribs) 14:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
I know where you are coming from regarding the 'synth' issue but what was your problem with the primary source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duckquackquack ( talk • contribs) 00:50, 7 March 2012 (UTC)