Note: This page has some older stuff from about July 2014 until mid-January 2016. But I often delete stuff from my talk, so it is not complete. There's some even older stuff, from when I first started editing until about July 2014, here
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At Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 June 19 and disclosing a continuing problem that would probably only have continued to grow. Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC) |
One sentence stub: Corse horse. The fr.wiki article is fairly long and appears comprehensive (though I don't speak French), so that one must have some decent material. This English one is not, and I think the proper English title is "Corsican horse" per Hendricks, though that article is the usual superficial Hendricks treatment, it is probably as RS a source as we will find in English, I certainly drew a goose egg looking for anything else (There is a race horse named "Corsican" who pulled several Google hits, but there does appear to be a breed also. Anyway, if you want to take a whack at the French translation, I can augment from Hendricks and we can expand this a bit - and name it properly. I googled "Corse horse" and got nothing but links to people who can't spell "course." And fr.wiki confirms that "Corse" there is Corsica. In your quest to get rid of made up words, I think this is a prime candidate. Montanabw (talk) 18:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Just to clear things up... When I wrote "wiki page", I meant this wiki page, (not the wikia). The quote text that is supposedly a copyright infringement is prose that I wrote a long time ago; I plastered that prose on all the season articles, and the main series article too, as a sort of boilerplate summary. OVGuide is taking prose from Wikipedia, not the other way around.-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 23:14, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your comments and feedback. I have now completely rewritten this page, so there should be no copyright issues, as every sentence has its own reference supporting it. If you look at the page where the copyright issue was claimed there is now absolutely no similarity between the wiki page and the website, and so hopefully the issue is resolved to your satisfaction. -- Geneticcuckoo ( talk) 15:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
The revision named as the start of the problem appears, as well as the two surrounding edits, to be very small indeed, a couple words at most. That seems an unlikely starting point for a large copyright intrusion, so I wanted to double-check that the rev id was correct. Again, thanks for all your great work here! Best, -- j⚛e decker talk 01:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
--> Talk:Swedish_Blue_duck#Move.3F -- PigeonIP ( talk) 20:59, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
because of this change: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Swedish_Blue_duck&diff=prev&oldid=620055022
they are known in the Netherlands as well: ee: Zweedse eend, blauw witborst http://www.zooenc.eu (the dataset of FAO is very old) -- PigeonIP ( talk) 07:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
The SWF Institute is a organization on sovereign wealth funds. You can google it and find out all the information on it. Not sure why you blanked deleted everything, without doing proper research. Jason Lee. The SWF Institute has been sourced in academic journals, news agencies and governments. You can't just mass delete an article without doing your homework. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonlee723 ( talk • contribs) 22:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, thanks for helping out on Sovereign Wealth Institute. Did you see what Jasonlee23 did today?
He clearly isnt interested in wikipedia. Appears only to be interested in the image that the SWI page reflects of SWI. Id assume thats a likely COI. never has discussed anything, but clearly has been edit warring (even if no 3 reverts in 24h). I am for edit war noticeboard and block user until the deletion question can be clarified. what do you think?-- Wuerzele ( talk) 20:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes, that does look like it might well be copyright material. I had not realised, sorry, and was just trying to tidy it up. But I'd be interested to see the copyright source from which it was taken. PCGB led me to this, haha. Many thanks. Martinevans123 ( talk) 15:42, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
You are good at navboxes, wondering if one for rare domesticated animal breeds is warranted. Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung alter und gefährdeter Haustierrassen is a good addition to the collection of rare breeds organizations (note The Livestock Conservancy is FA). Not sure there is a need to list every breed, but the main national organizations, key articles, etc. I realize there is also a category, but navboxes are cool. Just a thought. Montanabw (talk) 00:47, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your reaction! Could you please further elaborate why comune is different from municipality in the CfD? Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:03, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey JLAN, there is an anon IP doing some very extensive work on Mongol horse, sort of expanding the article past a breed piece to encompass Mongol horse culture in general. I was sort of doing some cleanup initially, but lately I've been sitting back (for a change) on this because there is some good work happening, and I have other fish to fry, but I'm also kind of wondering if it's time for a little more guidance; maybe take a look and see what you think. I'm doing my best not to dive in and bite as fast as I sometimes do, but I'm wondering if the article is getting a bit too far afield and maybe a spinoff to a separate article on Mongolian horse culture is appropriate. I'm also starting to wonder a bit about whether there is copy and paste going on. You have a less Anglocentric compass on this and I'd sincerely be interested in your thoughts. Montanabw (talk) 22:24, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see a note which I left for you there. While the original mass moves by SMM seem to go against the need for consensus, it would save some work for admins if you are willing to go directly to a full move discussion instead of wanting the previous moves to be reverted first. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 15:04, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers
I thought I had pretty much gotten rid of any copyright text and applied the duplication detector to the result, which showed only three word strings and references;, but I have now rewritten the sections at issue and reposted the article here Talk:Josephine Flood/Temp as instructed. Garyvines ( talk) 10:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for your help with the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies -page! I'm very sorry for the inconveniances it has caused to you, the copyright problems were unintentional. I'm new in Wikipedia and I didn't fully understand the copyright policy of Wikipedia. I've now created a rewrite of the article, where I've rewritten the introductory paragraph and the Activity -sections, where the problems were. The Administration and History sections are the same (with maybe some minor changes) as before. I would be very thankful if you could check that rewrite, if I've done it correctly. Thank you a lot and sorry for my mistakes I've done. YvainfromFinland ( talk) 12:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Is there any solution for copyright infringement? Appreciate it Fevrret ( talk) 09:44, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
A mess from the first version [3] on with presumably members continually adding copyvio and promotional material. Dougweller ( talk) 18:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
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PS: As with WhatamIdoing, I've raised concerns about the wording of this template on its talk page, but it's what we're stuck with for now. It seems confrontational, but my intent is for the level of confrontation to go down. I suggest that you, I, Justlettersandnumbers and WhatamIdoing should probably have a four-way WP:Dispute resolution. This is not an accusation or "warning", just notice/reminder, and my making it puts me on the same footing. The personalized disputes have to stop. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:51, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
You have seen this? -- PigeonIP ( talk) 19:14, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I want to be sure I understand your position, given that SMC is targeting me individually at the Teeswater sheep/(sheep) page. As you know, my general tendency is to favor WP:NATURAL disambiguation on the horse articles (Foo horse), in part due to the large number of named individuals; but am I correct that you generally advocate parenthetical disambiguation (i.e. Foo (animal)) on most of the other livestock breed articles? After that discussion of the Billy dog/(dog)/dog named Billy/WTF? thing (which made my eyes cross), I'm now sort of in the camp of "let the folks who work with each animal species make the call for "their" articles - and consistency within the animal species is nice." I just want to be sure I do not inadvertently assume your position on an issue and then have my understanding be incorrect. Montanabw (talk) 04:14, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Consolidated: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture#Multiple_move_requests Am I right that there are 11 RMs involving well over 60 separate articles, not counting your separate request at Teeswater sheep? If I'm wrong, feel free to tweak the list Montanabw (talk) 05:32, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, Thank you for your message. The text has been edited in the temp file, please feel free to take a look and comment. Gryffindor ( talk) 15:57, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi JLAN,
I created the Louwalan clan article that has been deleted twice now and is up for discussion in regard to notability. I feel perhaps I should explain. In regard to the copyright infringement. I did source the material for this content which I placed on my blog word for word, and duly noted that this content was copied verbatim. Admittedly my copyright awareness and rules were not all that stringent on my personal blog. Wikipedia picked up the content on my blog and I assumed this was the cause of the problem which is why I re-edited it and included the information on the article talk page. I am now much more enlightened on the copyright aspect and will work at re-writing it. I have left my thoughts on notability on the discussion page as well. Kind regards Eren Gatiat ( talk) 10:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Do you have a script or page that helps you find copyvios or are you manually checking link by link? Just wondering, you're good at it... Montanabw (talk) 05:42, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
This will be of interest to you: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#RfC_-_Animal_breeds_in_lower_case. Montanabw (talk) 23:58, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
I see that SMC is on a tl;dr rant again. Don't let that stuff run you off wiki. That's his MO, abuse people until they leave or give up from exhaustion. Montanabw (talk) 02:50, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
But thought you might like a pointer to this book - Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (5th edition) ISBN 085199430X. 1996 by CABI. Very useful - I'll be picking a copy up when I get home. Covers asses, buffalo, cattle, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. The Arapawa is listed on page 212 "Arapawa Island: (New Zealand)/brown-and-black/feral." (Listing in the book does not mean status as a formal breed - if it was, there would be a listing for the society/association and it's year of formation, or it's recognition by a government or its publication of a herdbook.) Ealdgyth - Talk 12:53, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Instead of editwarring and reintroducing a links to a disambiguation page at Template:Chicken breeds of Belgium, it is a much better idea that you look at the recently merged Belgian Bantam first. That causes the disagreement. Edit warring at the template will not help at all. The Banner talk 20:10, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jlan. I'm confused on your article at Belgian Bantam. Is this a different breed to the ones that consistute Belgian bantam? FAO oddly lists them seperately, so I was wondering if you have more info? The PCGB ref you used though refers to the D'uccle, D'anver etc already converted in separate articles JTdale Talk 20:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
I may be scratching a sore spot, but i hope I'm not. But use of the convert template on horse heights would be a gracious and helpful thing. I can do it myself later, but perhaps as you go would be simpler. See Template:Hands for the solution the techies worked out for us for the breeds with a European/metric standard: to convert cm first: {{convert|77|to|88|cm|hand in|2}} 77 to 88 centimetres (7.2+1⁄2 to 8.2+1⁄2 hands; 30+1⁄2 to 34+1⁄2 in) I think you can change cm to m and get the equivalent results. Your call if you want to do it, hope you will not object if I add it later if you are not interested in doing so. Montanabw (talk) 14:15, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
I am writing to you re Tony Cragg's article on Wikipedia, which I have been trying to improve. As you quite rightly pointed out, (prior to my editing) Wikipedia's coverage of Cragg's life and career is embarrassingly weak and what I have added is not 'necessarily bad.'
I am new to Wikipedia editing and it has been difficult to get to grips with how it works, but I feel like I am getting there. For all my efforts to be deleted would be a real shame. I would like to start up a dialogue so I can continue to improve Cragg's article.
As I understand it, you have identified the section on the Sculpture Park as posing a potential copyright issue, as a copy or modification of the text from Cragg's website. I did indeed use his website as a point of reference (for lack of other sources) but I am surprised you consider what I edited to be a copyright issue. I will happily work on this section further so as to improve it but I ask that you 'unblock' the rest of article and advise the best way to proceed.
I look forward to hearing from you AndrewViolaBowen ( talk) 11:02, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
if you have a moment, i'd appreciate your thoughts on Pmy COIN posting. if you think i am out to lunch, i would get that. I posted asking for feedback and am just pinging you as you seem to participate in that page. thanks Jytdog ( talk) 21:59, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Tempted to prod tag for deletion Silvena Sport, was doing some cleanup and then thought, "WTF? This is just self-promotion of a riding stable." But figured I should get a second opinion. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 04:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
The book you wanted me to get via ILL is in, I have it until December 1, but with no renewal. Much good stuff. Might work for me to scan some pages and email to divvy up work... let me know. Not only has Asia but also some stuff on southern Africa. Montanabw (talk) 07:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
On a totally unrelated note, hope it will not be a problem to suggest that on any article rewrites of extant horse breeds that we put characteristics before history. We can discuss, but the core idea is that readers will usually want to know the simpler material - what it looks like - first, then the other background stuff. (particularly where the history is long, this can become an issue). Also, now that we have a solid convert template working for hands, can we do hands and inches where we put cm first? Also is icky to have "male height" and "female height" when we are talking mares, stallions and geldings. Personally, I'd put the range in the infobox and the details by sex in characteristics (in part so we can say "stallions and geldings" ...) The right to use our horsey technical language was fought and won by Ealdgyth, I'd hate to lose it by default... ;-) JMO and thanks. Montanabw (talk) 07:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with the page. I now know how to handle that situation in the future. Using the information from the page creator was a bad idea since I couldn't know where it came from. Thanks again. Equineducklings ( talk) 23:13, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
I was just taking a fresh look at this template, because I had always planned that someday the "click here" should link to a Request Edit wizard, like the one started at User:CorporateM/request_edit. User:Sphilbrick has been my partner in crime on improving Request Edit processes for some time now and said he would work on, finalize and publish the wizard sometime soon.
I was wondering if you would take a look and let me know if you think the wizard is actually better. A lot of Request Edits are just junk submissions and the wizard is intended to add more structure to submissions, however I am also concerned it may actually make it more complicated than the simple pre-loaded request edit. CorporateM ( Talk) 03:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
I guess we can agree to disagree on the question of putting horse breed history or characteristics first. We have debated it before and it's not worth a knock-down drag out. On the shorter articles on obscure breeds, it's not a real big deal; it becomes a bigger deal where the history is extensive (and/or the characteristics) such as the Finnhorse or the Appaloosa. At root, I suppose it's a debate over what the reader wants to see first (what it looks like versus how it came to be). I wish we could reach a consensus on that question, though we are both rather stubborn sorts so it's probably not real likely. (grin) In the meantime, I hope we can agree to use convert templates, including hands, and as in ENGVAR, now that we have the templates all figured out, I am perfectly willing to have metric conversion first for those breeds where we have no breed standard with hands primary. Montanabw (talk) 23:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
This is regarding the Great Lakes page which you had flagged for paraphrasing. The source link you had shared isn't available anymore so I couldn't see what the content you were referring to were but I have re-written most of the content and cleaned the old content. Request you to review and remove the paraphrasing point.
Thanks! Sushree27 ( talk) 14:52, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is their gaming becoming more blatant? Crow Caw 22:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
He's b-a-a-a-a-c-k: [6] FYI Montanabw (talk) 06:32, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Please stop engaging in antagonistically worded reverts that serve no encyclopedic purpose, as you did at Apulo-Calabrese. That one also deleted substantive content additions. If you have an issue with changes to an article, raise them on the talk page. If you don't like the vertical formatting, despite its readability, feel free to undo that aspect of the change, but you don't need to engage in hostility to effect such a change. You really need to drop the "enemy" act. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 13:01, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, was perusing the CP page and it raises a question: What's the tipping point between G12 speedy and sending the page to CP for rework? I see a couple on there that say they're essentially directly copied from 1 or more sources, but not considered a long-term issue, so what prevents those from just being G12'ed? Crow Caw 00:41, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Please see the Harvey Schiller talk page for second round of edit assistance requests put in OCt 27. thank you so much for your help thus far, really would liek to improve the article as much as possible. please help! thanks 2602:306:CE71:E330:6B:A27B:C2A5:4F7D ( talk) 20:54, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Can you please explain to me why the addition of the Galleri Nicolai Wallner page is a problem in regards to Elmgreen & Dragset? We were the first gallery to work with them, and the page features images of important works throughout their career, as well as a link to their up to date bibliography.
Hey,
I was going by WP:FAUNA, which recommends sentence case for animal names. Is there a separate guideline for breed names? Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 22:42, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
I have email permission from Jagan Pillarisetti, author of Bharat Rakshak website to use its content for article MP Anil Kumar. Kindly remove the copyright tag and I can forward the email if required. Vinod ( talk) 15:16, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, I declared my conflict of interest concernign EFPT here. [7]. I hope we will find a solution to use text from our website to improve our WP page. I changed the license but it wasn't good enough. Bw -- Ofix ( talk) 19:54, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Ok, we will work hard on that ! Bw-- Ofix ( talk) 21:58, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Someone linked to this article from one on my watchlist. Given your interest in such matters, thought you might give it a glance with an eye to some improvements. Sounds like an interesting culture group: Vaqueiros de alzada. Montanabw (talk) 22:24, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Hey JLAN! Would you mind helping remove the templates you added at
SALT (institution), an OTRS permission statement was sent by the original source under
WP:CONSENT. I tried doing so, however you altered the text a bit
Best,
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You beat me to it :-). I was actually in the process of re-evaluating my recent tagging of a few articles today and revising them - it suddenly hit me that I didn't tag this (and another) article correctly. My sincere apologies for that. It looks like, in this case, that it led to the discovery of something bigger, so I'll call it 50/50? I'll be more diligent with CSD tagging in the future; the last thing I want to do is cause any kind of disruption to Wikipedia. ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 00:52, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Hey JLAN, just a heads up that the book on Asian horses that I got via InterLibrary Loan is due back on December 1, and there is no renewal, so if you want to peek at those pages I sent you and let me know if you want more or anything that didn't print cleanly, let me know ASAP. This week is Thanksgiving here in the USA, which means it can get a bit hectic (feeding large numbers of people large amounts of food is generally involved). So let me know if you have what you need. Montanabw (talk) 03:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm actually in the process of investigating that a little right now; I've found this blog post, of which parts are written verbatim whats written in our article [8], however the version I'm looking at is 2008 and its 2014 now, so I can not prove who had which version first. That, and the language in the article (In particular phrases like "You may guess on one hand that the Portuguese cinematography and those of Portuguese expression distinguish themselves by this motive, which gives them a voice in the world of cinema, like the voice of Cesária Évora in the world music") lend themselves to having been copied from someplace else online and pasted here. I'm hopeful that its just my imagination, but experience tells me that may not be the case. TomStar81 ( Talk) 12:47, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
(od) Given what I'm seeing in the film articles I think we need an English/Portuguese contributor to look over the articles on the English Wikipedia and see if they match the Portuguese Wikipedia. I'm beginning to think that this may not be entirely a case of copyright, it may be a failure to consider that the user could be transwiking articles here, which would explain in part why they all look to be in such sad shape. Alternatively, it could mean that the user is messing with both the English and Portuguese Wikipedias. I may come back to this tomorrow, but its 7:30 here and I've been up since 4PM, so I'm calling it a night (day?). I hope you and the others may be able to move on some of this - even if its just ruling out copyright, it'll be a step in the right direction. TomStar81 ( Talk) 14:39, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Gentile utente non so chi lei sia e quale competenze abbia, ma sta facendo un cattivo servizio alla storia e alla storia dell'Arte. L'Accademia delle Arti del Disegno non è mai stata fondata nel 1873, quella del 1873 fu una riforma sulla base della legge Scialoia e riprendeva una differenza già in vigore dagli statuti del 1861 con la divisione tra istituzione pedagogica e collegio dei professori (può anche vedere che il catalogo della galleria pubblicato nel 1865 si chiama Accademia delle Arti del Disegno). L'Accademia del 1873 non è un'altra istituzione come lei crede, ma è la solita. Numerosissimi sono i saggi e i libri in cui si può leggere questo tra cui l'ultimo volume sulle Accademie curato dal Ministero (Accademie Patrimoni di Belle Arti), e riprova ne è che il convegno organizzato a Napoli dal Ministero sullo stesso tema ha visto l'apertura del prof. Luigi Zangheri in qualità di presidente della più antica academia del mondo. Questo è perchè nel 1563 esistevano soltanto compagnie medievali tra cui quelle di Firenze (1339) e Roma (1478). Nessuna era mai stata creata da un potere pubblico con scopi pubblici e connessioni tra immagini e potere. l'Accademia di San Luca fu fondata solo 10 anni più tardi, ad esempio. Queste non sono opinioni, ma fatti!!! La prego quindi di desistere dal voler continuare a cambiare dati storici, tra cui il nome dell'attuale Segretario Generale che non è Domenico Viggiano, ma Wanda Butera. Accademia ( talk) 14:41, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
I understand this issue and have repeatedly tried to direct the discussion to the article's talk page without any success. I, like you, have also commented on his talk page but that also seems to be ignored. I was going to post a request on a notice board but some real life issues have just arisen. Happy for you to intervene if it helps. Dan arndt ( talk) 12:11, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi! When you have a moment, could I ask you to comment here regarding the above article, which you may remember from this note. Cheers, Basie ( talk) 11:39, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the WP:Help Desk concerning Joseph Rodney Moss, which both you and a bot tagged as having copyright violations. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:02, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
So far it is based on Polish-language article http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937. Whenever I have some spare time, I will be adding more information to it. Thanks Tymek ( talk) 23:35, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I expanded the article so would you mind dropping in and checking it out. It is probably on your list but just in case it is not I would like you to look it over and PLEASE feel free to make any improving edits necessary as I rushed it a bit. I mentioned it at Talk:Aspromonte goat. Otr500 ( talk) 18:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for your helpful message. Apologies for not responding sooner. I created a page called Solvatten, which was subsequently removed due to concerns around copyright infringements (some of the text matched that found on www.solvatten.se). An email has now been sent from a representative of Solvatten, which follows the guidelines given here Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. This is all new to me, so I'd be very grateful if you could indicate whether the original entry will be restored, or whether it must be written again (assuming the the copyright issue is resolved). With thanks, Tmrl84 ( talk) 09:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
A page you previously contributed to, Joe Williams (jazz singer), had many prior revisions deleted due to copyright issues. For details please see Talk:Joe Williams (jazz singer). Your prior version may be temporarily restored upon request if you need it for reference to re-incorporate constructive edits that do not make use of the copyright infringing material. Please feel free to leave me a talk message if you need this done. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 22:29, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
May require your touch with languages as well as general copyediting... Arriero. Reading it made my head explode. Montanabw (talk) 02:38, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Found a totally unsourced horse breed article, want to do your copyvio check magic on it and see if you can find some RS on it? Nordlandshest/Lyngshest. Possibly @ Pitke: can help if arnoudn en.wiki these days (Pitke usually hangs on Finnish wiki, but has helped with the Scandanavian breed articles) Montanabw (talk) 07:46, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I can't agree that this name is an archaism. We have our article at Apulia, not at "Puglia". Moonraker ( talk) 23:39, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)I did a quick Google search and Puglia gives me 76,600,000 hits, whereas Apulia is only 8,080,000. According to this site, "Puglia" is replacing "Apulia" much as "Mumbai" replaced "Bombay" or "Beijing" replaced "Peking." Hope this helps resolve that matter. Montanabw (talk) 23:27, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you please tell me why you tagged the GRG in Violet Brown's article as potentially unreliable? I know they're the official Guinness World Records verifier (or something) for supercentenarians, and also, they are typically used as the source for birthdates in most, if not all, Wikipedia articles on supercentenarians. I'm merely curious as to your reasoning here. 74.131.251.19 ( talk) 21:06, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
With respect to the Pixie mandarin, et al, copyright violations by a particular user, I noticed your comment on the cleanup on that article and took a look around in the contribution history of this particular user. I found a lot of copy-n-paste edits primarily in biographies -- especially when this particular user created the page. It appears that the articles on various kinds of apples do not have this problem: however, this user may be using sources which aren't so readily available online to make this blatant plagiarism so easy to detect. Also, many of the copyvio instances I found by this user were generally done weeks/months ago -- he/she may have taken the warnings and stopped doing this (although, he/she did not go back and edit the articles to repair the existing problems). More simply, though: it could just be this user slowing down his/her edits during the holidays. By the way, I am not affiliated with the University of California, in any way (most of the sources in question are copyrighted by UC, or UC-Riverside, in particular) -- copyright violations simply make me angry and need to be flagged. Nusumareta ( talk) 22:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I've been looking at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Riversid. I'm curious why we go through this process for articles that are entirely copypasta. Why not just nom the articles that are complete violations for speedy deletion? I get the idea of checking individual diffs when it might just be a sentence or a paragraph.
Along those same lines, as we determine Riversid's articles were copyvio's at what point do we just start blanket deleting them? Chris Troutman ( talk) 02:52, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Withdrew my proposal to close, didn't realize the vote was going toward keeping it as primary, and parenthetical dab is the worst-case scenario here after we got 400 horse breed articles to natural dab. Montanabw (talk) 02:29, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Could use an English speaker who also knows French here: User:Montanabw/Horse welfare sandbox . I have the French editor of the fr.wiki article pinged too. No agenda yet, not certain if I will even create it, but if there's the energy to translate and get it up, I'm "donating" my user space. (Article will need some work to go into en.wiki). Montanabw (talk) 04:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I submitted a new article on Margaret Craske to give a complete picture of her life and work. It has full and accurate information on her career and numerous citations of published, verifiable sources. She is an important figure in dance history, as a teacher of many famous dancers and choreographers. She is also of interest as a follower of Meher Baba, the Indian spiritual leader. As a dance historian, I am dismayed by the sketchy fragment that currently appears on Wikipedia. Please consider restoring my article. I think that you have made a serious mistake in deleting it. With all good wishes. Claude Conyers Claudeconyers ( talk) 17:15, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt response. I appreciate your personal interest in Margaret Craske, but I do urge you to reconsider your decision not to accept my article. It contains all the information in the current version, but it puts it in the broader context of a detailed, chronological review of her life and career. In the interest of making Wikipedia a reliable source of dance history, I do hope that you will reconsider. Miss Craske had significant influence on a great many important people in the world of dance. She deserves fuller treatment than what Wikipedia currently provides. -- Claude Conyers Claudeconyers ( talk) 18:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Don't remember it and didn't author it but good work on copyright cleanup efforts. Do what must be done! Good luck. jengod ( talk) 19:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Justlettersandnumbers. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Morkie, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It's different enough from the original deleted version that I'd prefer it went back to AfD. Thank you. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 06:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, thanks for your sleuthing about that "new" user who was adding the promotional content to the Dressage article. I smell a sockpuppet and possibly paid editing. I guess we can just stay tuned. Montanabw (talk) 19:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you mentioned me as the one who re-added copyright violations to the Woods article. I seriously beg to differ. I spent quite a bit of time explaining copyvios to the original poster and then attempting to add in sourced material. Could you please enlighten me as to what copyvios I added? I am really confused here. JodyB talk 21:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict)I've just finished posting an explanation on the talk page there. You restored copyvio content to the article with this edit after I had removed it. Please don't do so again - as you surely know, those who do so repeatedly risk being blocked from editing. I applaud your efforts to help a new editor, though. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I understand that you added a copyright violation notice to The New Adventures of Nanoboy. I looked into that site, I found some on the Synopsis and Character info of Oscar/Nanoboy, Issac and CJ as I rewrote it by scratch on the Temp page with some modifications to avoid infringement. Hope this would help as I will explain this info to the patroller of the page. Agentmike41 ( talk) 23:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Also I managed to update articles for The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog and Matt's Monsters on the Temp page of each. Hope this issue gets resolved soon. Agentmike41 ( talk) 00:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
I was realizing that some of the older WP articles will be likely to be flagged as copyvios when they are not because there are so many wikipedia mirrors out there. I was looking at an article I worked on 5-6 years ago and ran that copyvio tool on it and it erupted. But I happen to remember writing the content myself, it was not a copy and paste, rather the opposite. I know that the site supposedly "copied" was actually created after the edits in question. How can we sort out those sorts of things? Montanabw (talk) 06:34, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Dont worry, I'll take care of it, and I apologize for any confusion. Thank you.-- The Old Pueblo ( talk) 02:34, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
You have a working familiarity with the doggone M/mustang issue, and now we have this article in need of watchlisting: Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. See talk page drama and edit history. The editor raised one legitimate issue and I fixed that bit. But I am concerned that this new editor is making massive and irrelevant edits to the piece, some without proper attribution. It's a GA-class article, one where Dana boomer led the push (and she doesn't edit any more because she's just sick of all the drama) Might also want to watch new edits for copyvio issues. Don't quite know why it's mustang season around here, but it is. Montanabw (talk) 07:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I may have taken the wrong approach to getting your attention to the article on Thomas M. Humphrey, but I just clicked "undo" on your latest revision. In the long run, the article has been dramatically improved by your insistence at the removal of many of my COI additions, which I now realize did not fit the guidelines for an article on a living person. However, some of the current content, e.g. the small paragraph about his thanking his former professors, now appears inconsequential and should probably be removed. The long quote from Humphrey from one of his own books was an attempt to illustrate influences on his study and writing in the field of history of economic thought. Now that the quote has been removed, the short summarizing paragraph is superfluous and adds no additional information for encyclopedic content.
Similarly, the COI charge for the newspaper editor Lewis Craig Humphrey, my husband's grandfather, seems unwarranted, since he died in 1927. I never met him. I was born in 1936 but have access to a great deal of professional ancestral research, family records, and saved images which I hope to place in the public domain with Wikimedia.
Thank you for your ongoing assistance Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 15:45, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
You've got mail. -- Diannaa ( talk) 20:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
FYI, I acknowledge that the Black (horse) article needs updating. Back when Countercanter was here and working on all the coat color genetics articles, we missed that one, which is ironic, as I got interested in the whole genetics issue in part due to owning a black horse for a while (I also owned a kind-of-rescue-horse who turned out to be affected with cerebellar abiotrophy, which what really got me interested). The coat color testing stuff is just fascinating. Montanabw (talk) 23:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
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If you check the links I listed in regards to the Spot fish on the Spot Fish & Spot Croaker articles you will see the original editor only copied information from those sources and spliced it into what the Smithsonian already created, Also conveniently misnamed the species. Cheatspace ( talk) 22:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contribution to the Wiki Victuallers ( talk) 00:01, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for identifying that the rewritten Barbara Borts article had been wrongly located. Somehow having an article, even in draft, on a Talk page seems counter-intuitive. You might wish to know that I've also rewritten Southlands College, Roehampton: could you please take a look? I can work on rewriting Isabella Plantation next if that would be helpful. Incidentally, all has gone quiet on the OTRS raised for Rebecca Hollweg; it would be good to know please what the problem was with the email correspondence I submitted about it. Headhitter ( talk) 10:49, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
As you can see on the page The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, some anonymous user has removed the copyvio notice meaning the Synopsis part of the page is not needed. Later you restored it. Well on the temp page, the page is the same but without the Synopsis. Even though the info is already next to the Title.
The Broadcast section on the temp page has been added because the unreferenced part of broadcasting on the page has been removed.
I wonder there is a way to fix this issue. Agentmike41 ( talk) 04:17, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to bring this to your attention & get your input on it.(Link Below) With this in mind. I would like to look forward to collaberating and creating accurate content and building this article up.
Cheatspace ( talk) 21:09, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
I was the one who discovered the copyvio on the Gun law in the United States article and did what I could to remove it. What I added to the article, I added in GF and with an eye toward paraphrasing the material at the source cited. (Not easy to do when one is dealing with laws, but the firearms editors like these kinds of details.) Could you please have a care with your edit summaries? [10] Thanks. Lightbreather ( talk) 17:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey Justlettersandnumbers I know we resolved this and I appreciate all your help. Unfortunately, the page hasn't been redirected yet. Do you think you can help me out? Thanks again. Petercannon usf ( talk) 13:58, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Jlan. I've fixed some problems with the headers for March 11 through 17 at Wikipedia:Copyright problems as the pages were not transcluding for the bot reports ( sample diff of correction). Also, there's no header for March 9. Would you mind adding it to the page? I'm not experienced at that page and am not sure how or where to place it. Thanks, -- Diannaa ( talk) 11:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Jlan. Please have a look at my edit and rev-del to the talk page and make sure what I did was okay. Thanks, -- Diannaa ( talk) 23:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because there are no Copyright infringements on the created article as the artist's website clearly notifies that both texts and visual material are under a Creative commons license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which allows even commercial use. The article was not directly copied from the official website but inspired on it. Please, revise and consider my petition as it doesn't violate Wikipedia standards for encyclopedic content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truesc ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The copyright is subject to Copyvio (which you have not indicated to the page admins) and further appraisal by the admins in the Category of Bangladesh and Portal: Bangladesh. If you have any complaints with regard with regard to the article being a violation, please point it to us using copyvio. Also, the copyright policy is no subject to the Copyright law of the United States, so the policies are not that stringent in this case. Please notify the admins and it will corrected promptly.
PLEASE HELP ME RESOLVE COPYRIGHT ISSUES!!!
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Wondering if we need to somehow consolidate all the "horse breeds by country" templates we have now, did you note Template:British horses? Is there something of a consistent format for all these? You know I'm not a huge fan of the "by nation" templates, but seeing as how they are being created, might as well make sure they all look nice and are consistent with one another - and all link to the list of horse breeds. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 19:22, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Just a message to inform you that I've received your messages, become aware of the situation, and consequently responded on the appropriate pages. Once again though I'd like to personally apologise to you for the amount of your own time that all of this has taken up, and to assure you that I've been oblivious to this mounting drama until now, and that I firmly believe that nobody was acting with any ill will or intent to deceive - I think it has all been an unfortunate combination of naivety, inexperience and misplaced enthusiasm. Nonetheless, thankyou for responding as you have, my sincerest apologies for any complications caused, and I wish you the very best of luck. BriceStratford ( talk) 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Interesting article with some good stats, might be just up your alley: [11] Montanabw (talk) 23:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers,
I have done my work with temporary page- User talk:SiloniSam/Carborundum Universal Ltd/Temp and I excluded all that u have mentioned before about the article and thank u. I am expecting you to help in improving the article. Thank you. SiloniSam ( talk) 11:06, 1 April 2015 (UTC)SiloniSam
Hi.. thanks for pointing out the copyright problem over at Tony Wood (businessman). I wanted to let you know that I have rewritten a new lead to that article, should you wish to reassess it. Danimations ( talk) 02:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I have created a temporary page because the article at B FLOW Zambia is suspected to be a copyright violation. Please take a look at this substitute article Talk:B_FLOW_Zambia/Temp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icem4k ( talk • contribs) 19:21, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
hello i saw copyrigt report on sophie lillienne page actually there is not this problem. check the site http://www.radiostar.it/Sophie%20Lillienne/ could you suggest me the best way to resolve this problem? in the meantime i will create a temporary page using the history of the page (hoping this porblem can be solved)
thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauraverroni ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Justlettersandnumbers, I have included a comment here with regards to the changes that you made about the definition of Geoethics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Geoethics I hope my explanation is considered and accepted. Please, I apologize for my unexperience editing wikipedia. Any assistance from you is welcome. Thank you! Jesús Martínez-Frías, President, IAGETH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.130.249.49 ( talk) 18:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
This kind of stuff? Just stop it.
(No, no. Don't. Because then they'll never get done.)
I'll try to hit some more at WP:CP this weekend. Have you looked at User:EranBot/Copyright/rc, by the way? I've been poking at that a bit, and it really works pretty well. It's easier to use than CorenSearchBot. I almost wonder if we could get them to take over new articles. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:07, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
FYI, regarding Florilegium (music group), permission has been archived in the OTRS to use certain copyrighted text. Please see [12]. I offer no opinion on whether or not the content is appropriate for the article for other reasons. (I realize that you removed the text in question 5 months ago - there's an excessively long backlog in the permissions-en queue.) -- B ( talk) 01:23, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
By any chance, do you know how long reviews take for the copyright investigation? I wrote the rewrite over a week ago if I am correct. It's just a question. Thanks, Callmemirela ( talk) 02:15, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
JLAN, can you do your thing at Paul D. Cronin? The individual is adequately notable (I've read his book, actually) but the article is awfully heavy on resume elements. Needs a bit of a look from someone with more time than I have at present. Montanabw (talk) 05:44, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Justlettersandnumbers. I see that you are an OTRS volunteer. Regarding the history purge of Barbara Myerhoff, there is a relevant ticket at VRTS ticket # 2015010810011112. -- B ( talk) 03:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Ciao Justlettersandnumbers,
I am just fine, thanks, except that I just moved and my books are still scattered among my new home, my office and only God knows where. You are most welcome to correct all my english mistakes: actually, someone was buzzing in my ear that desecrated wasn't really the correct word, but you arrived first. :-) About translation, well, what you are saying is only the half truth. Actually, I started this article translating the italian version, but I noticed soon that there were no inline citations. Then I looked in my bookshelves, dug out the "Guide rionali di Roma" (the best source about all the "minor" art works in the eternal city) retrieved info and added notes on the english edition, then went back to the italian edition and added the related info and related notes there. Moreover, I had to ask a colleague in Rome about a missing reference in the Italian wiki, in order to add it in the english one. So, if you compare the Italian version of 5 March with the english as of today, you can see that they are quite different (3K against almost 6K), but it is true that the two versions of today are quite similar, since I have been working on both, enlarging the english one and transferring info and citations to the italian. As a general pattern, italians on wiki:it write good stuff, but they almost always don't insert inline citation, so their articles are good only as starting points, but then one has to research everything again and rewrite a great part of the text. Anyway, it is true that I sometime translate literally little articles from other wikis (the last is
this one), and there sometime I forget to add the template, s.o.m.!
Back to this small church, I wrote the article since my best friend in Rome lives next to it, so I saw the portal at least 200 times in my life, each time that I rang his door bell. Actually, the restaurant that was there was a Govinda restaurant of the Hare Khrishna (it closed about twenty years ago). It would have been a nice hook for the DYK, but unfortunately I could not find any citations on the web that affirms that this restaurant was in the church, so I was forced to renounce to this precious information. :-) Another missed scoop is that it is not true that there are only two surviving frescoes of the church: once I went with my friend in a neighbour's home, and he showed us beautiful religious frescoes in his living room, which was part of one of the naves: but also this info was never published, so I cannot put in the article. :-) Bye, Alex2006 ( talk) 13:42, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
When you find an article with a small copyvio section (e.g., Malcolm H. Stern), is it really necessary to blank quite so much of the article? The original contributor is quite upset. DS ( talk) 19:11, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Justlettersandnumbers,
I have been trying to post some content on LOUISE BLOUIN Page. The content posted was supppressed by you, and the reason was "largely irrelevant content, the remainder not supported by the source cited - Wikipedia is built on INDEPENDENT reliable sources".
My sources were : 1- Canadian Business.com: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/louise-blouin-macbain-the-art-world-aficionado/ an article written in 2005 by Zenia Olijnyk and 2- The World Economic Forum, Davos http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1993.pdf
I do not understand the reason why my posts were suppressed. The content and the sources are relevant.
Could you please clarify this situation, where I feel beeing mistreated. Furthermore, this page is only giving space to "CONTROVERSY", when all the real and interesting pieces of information on Louise Blouin are suppressed by one user. This is not fair, as Louise Blouin is a public person.
Hoping to read you soon. Caparica20 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caparica20 ( talk • contribs) 15:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Why did you blank out the whole article for just an issue with the season one summaries when you should have just removed the summaries? I tried to fix it by doing just that and just got backlash and insults from another editor who reverted it. Would you please remove the copyright template by reverting to my last version which doesn't have the copyright issue? helmboy 00:02, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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I would love the COI guidelines within AFC to be debated and thrashed out, I find it a difficult area. Thank yo for the compliment. I try my best and am by no means always correct. I'm learning only to make a review when I am as certain as I can be about it. Fiddle Faddle 16:37, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN. I noticed your question on his talk page, and I'd like to answer it. Truthfully, both "East Village" and "West Village" can go either with or without the definite article, but many New Yorkers prefer the definite article. Epic Genius ( talk) 20:46, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hallo Justlettersandnumbers, Alessandro writing! I would like to ask your opinion about recent edits on several articles concerning landmarks of Istanbul, like for example Hagia Sophia. An editor added the template (and related category) which identify each of these landmarks as (parts of) a world heritage site. I am perplex about this edits, since the WHS of Istanbul are defined as four areas, and there is no list of the single landmarks in these areas by UNESCO. If we want to be correct, we should then mark any object in these areas (also the minor ones, as the Milion) as world heritage site: incidentally, this would be the case also for Rome and the Vatican. But so we would "pollute" the WHS category with thousands of objects (included San Simone e Giuda :-)). What do you think about that? Thanks, Alex2006 ( talk) 14:51, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. I notice that the same IP added significant content to a few other related articles at the same time in 2010. That content may be suspicious and is worth checking in to, if it's survived all these years. —Alex ( Ashill | talk | contribs) 20:51, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
It is mostly WP:CWW. He used to copy and paste things from articles like the examples here, and I tried to keep up with it a while.
Nomination: [30]
We say, at the top of every Signpost FC, that material ay be reused from the relevant articles. While, ideally, everything would be rewritten before publication, given the disclaimer, you really need to drop the stick, Hafs. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 09:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Drmies, I've replied there. Thanks for dealing with the talk page problem. Regards as always, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 17:54, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
JLAN, which program is your current go-to for detecting basic copyright violations? The one wmf had up for a while was gibberish to me (gave a percentage and flagged mirror sites) and dup detector is ... tedious. Have any new gadgets come up lately? Montanabw (talk) 23:47, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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For not only going to the effort to save an article I deleted, but following through, and then finding all the copyrighted revisions, and requesting deletion of them! You have earned this barnstar of dilligence! Chris lk02 Chris Kreider 22:42, 7 May 2015 (UTC) |
I don't know if you recall, but you pinged me in your original SPI of BriceStratford, and I didn't receive notification of the ping, and you thought the software must have malfunctioned. Here is the explanation of why pings do not work in the initial filing of an SPI; it's because the SPI-filing software adds your own signature itself rather than you signing manually. Manual signing is evidently what activates the ping. See User_talk:Drmies#That_stupid_pingie_thingie. Softlavender ( talk) 01:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
See also Wikipedia:Notifications#Triggering_events. By the way, this is all news to me, too. Softlavender ( talk) 02:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, if you have time can you check the deletions to the above article. I'm a bit pressed for time. I have already reverted once, on the basis of unexplained. Thanks in advance. Denisarona ( talk) 12:20, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Dcljr: (also, ec with Moonriddengirl) Ah, I just noticed this. No please, reconsider: I deliberately changed one AND ONLY ONE page because it would be confusing for NON-Wikipedians. I changed ONLY my username... as a courtesy to non-Wikipedians. Non-Wikipedians would not know to look in the hist etc. I emailed non-Wikipedians and asked them to look there. They probably won't, but that's a little irrelevant. I didn't do anything genuinely confusing like AWB a mass of pages. I edited one page. @ Moonriddengirl:, I too am very confused by the hostile tone that Ironholds has adopted. I thank you for noting it. • Arch♦ Reader 01:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN. Could you take a look at User_talk:Nmwalsh#Solvilo and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nmwalsh? One of their edits copied content from User:Trident13/DavisPAuthor which was then used to recreate an article after an AFD using a slightly different title. They started editing shortly after Trident13 was blocked which also strikes me as suspect. Can you notice any behavioural crossover between them? Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 17:25, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, you may want to spot-check some of my other closes of late... Crow Caw 22:19, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Is CC BY SA good enough? that's what the UNESCO folks seem to say the text is, somewhere in the legal verbiage etc. • Arch♦ Reader 11:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi,
I made the edits suggested and gave it a more "encyclopedic" tone to this article. I hope it can be approved now!
Thanks a lot
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Just ran across this, and what on earth is going on here? I'm concerned that it is being linked to a page that is clearly a copyvio in and of itself - the original page for that information would be this one, although any attempt to actually retrieve that article in the correct state is impossible (none of the archive links at the Web Archive seem to work). In addition to this, a huge number of the flags being raised would be triggered on almost any article, because there are very few other ways of describing things without deliberately going against the MOS, the standard formatting for the Football WikiProject, or without significantly changing the information present and presenting this in the wrong way entirely. Not only that, but there are a fair number of totally false flags in there as well. Whilst some of it definitely could, and should, be cleaned up and reworded, I really don't feel that this justifies a great big scare template on a highly-visible article - the evidence is just far too weak, and the scare template stops anyone from attempting to resolve the issue. I mean, the vast majority of flags are either people's names, club names, or references to seasons/times in seasons, with little else there! I strongly feel that you should remove the template. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers,
I am the creator of the website "Scarisbrick - on the Internet" (url: http://scarisbrick.name) and I am slightly confused as to what happened to Wikipedia's "Scarisbrick (surname)" page on 28 April 2015 regarding the request for historical revisions of the page to be redacted because "the article history contains significant copyright violations" of my website. Does the copyright violation refer to the article history or my website and, if it is the latter, is there anything I can do to help?
I would be grateful if you could explain things to me in layman's terms!
Regards, Rob ( User:Scaz) ( talk) 14:05, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)No one can just copy and paste from anywhere else onto wikipedia, especially without proper attribution. Even if it's your own website... and technically WP:COI may apply to you if it is. But to the point of your question, as the editing window says, "By clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL with the understanding that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient for CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution." That means that everything on wikipedia is free for anyone else to use for pretty much any reason. You also cannot plagiarize even public domain work. I'll let JLAN explain further to you, I was just popping by. Montanabw (talk) 04:01, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you Montanabw and thank you Justlettersandnumbers. 13:35, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, I have been through the whole copyright and citing process with wikipedia administrator Bgwhite. The Adnews link you cited was copied from the TrinityP3 website which belongs to Darren Woolley. The original content (before your edits) was rewritten so that it wasn't exactly the same but with the amount of nouns needed to describe where and who he worked with it, was difficult not to "paraphrase". Also, why did you remove his 'Personal Life'? Darren Woolley provided me with that information so it's not copyright material. I do want to get this "right" and include more of the original text rather than as it is (which is almost stripped bare). The original is still in my Sandbox. Please help, thank you Hpe3121 ( talk) 04:06, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, In response to your comments:
Aforementioned third party pointed me to the image of Darren Woolley which I accessed online. I uploaded this image to Wiki Commons and added it to Darren Woolley's page. It has since been deleted. How do I prove no copyright for an image of an individual? Most photos of individuals are from pages where there is no explicit giving up of copyright. Should it be on Flikr or similar? Can you give me instructions on what else I need to do?
Thank you for your time. This is the first article I have put on Wikipedia so it has been a huge learning curve for me. Regards, Hpe3121 ( talk) 01:36, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Wondering if we need an overview article, I'm not finding anyone other than Hendricks and wikipedia morrors who mentions an "Unmol" horse, but if it's an extinct type, may have some relevance merged into something else. Don't know. IN the meantime, found these, FWIW.
Montanabw (talk) 22:04, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Incidentally, you probably don't want to go near this with a 10-foot pole, but it's b-a-a-a-ack; the "kill all redlinks because they re awful": Wikipedia_talk:Red_link#Proposal_regarding_redlinks_in_navigation_templates so far also (closed) and (still open). Get out your popcorn and watch the show. :-P Montanabw (talk) 05:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, on 31 March 2015 you made several edits to Peperoncino, for which I'm grateful to you. However, you also moved the line in the intro which addresses the confusion with the friggitello to a note. I think this confusion should be clarified in the introduction itself instead of the note, because it should be as obvious as possible. A reader reported on the talk page Talk:Peperoncino#Pickled salad peppers that he was still confused. You responded with creating appropriate wikilinks to the friggitello article, but I still think it would be better if the note was moved to an in-text mention in the intro. Would you object if I change it back? -- AlexanderVanLoon ( talk) 07:29, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Discussion of "race" versus "breed" at Talk:Race (biology); it's apparently a spillover discussion from the human race article, which is locked down and the combatants at ANI. I'm thinking that the animal one should just be moved and merged to breed to avoid the whole drama. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 21:13, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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This article needs a rewrite: Freiberger. Lots of good images, but the writing is so bad that I hope it's not a copyvio, because a copyvio is usually of better quality. But this one is probably up your alley. Montanabw (talk) 04:17, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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hi Justlettersandnumbers! just asking for a response to my query on the Brice Stratford talk page - what are the remaining issues with the article? 63399896enrique ( talk) 09:12, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Softlavender ( talk) 23:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, just wanted to come by and say well done and thanks for all your work on this article. I'm a huge fan of the work, and it's long overdue. Excellent job. Thankyou! The Dancing Badger ( talk) 19:53, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Good job, thanks a lot! -- Carlomartini86 (Knock-Knock) 07:53, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
As you and Jytdog may recall, one of the articles the sock/meat farm is involved in is Secret Cinema (company). Could you both keep it on your watch lists -- it is becoming a veritable ad/brochure. Also, the current main sock/meat editing it has also just created Fabien Riggall, also worth watching lest it become likewise fluff/puff. And in case you are wondering the connection, here is a photo of Brice Stratford at Secret Cinema with Fabien Riggall: [39] (click "and 33 others"). Also, Secret Cinema is the first thing listed on Stratford's official CV besides Owle Schreame: [40]. Softlavender ( talk) 12:50, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
This is interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/07/30/in-spain-the-american-mustangs-ancestral-cousins-live-on/
I was just judging a horse show down in Wyoming a couple weeks ago and there was a BLM Mustang born on the range and adopted as a yearling at the show, looked just like a Lipizzan - six years old, already near-pure white coat, about 15.1 hands, classic Baroque type. I was flabbergasted. (Also awarded him supreme champion in the halter classes, even though he was a gelding) Was a fun show, some other folks brought in three of those Gypsy Vanners. Threw a western saddle on one and took them in the trail (horse show) class. You never know what you can find out here in the wild west. Someone just put a Haflinger in the "free to a good home" section of the local paper. Montanabw (talk) 20:22, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi There, yes new to Wikipedia! This is my first attempt at amends and trying to understand it all - hence the only one page edit. I am a bit confused why the filmography has been removed as well as key people in the info box - i have found articles to back them all up? Also what "promotional language" are you referring to?
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Hi. I just want to let you know that this ip address, which is badly editing in Brera Academy, is in it.wiki a verified sockpuppet of User:Alec Smithson, which is doing the same thing. In it.wiki that user has been banned for a lot of troubles he caused. A lot of pages he wrote and a lot of edits from him in it.wiki have been deleted or reverted as copyviol, vandalism, not notable, source mystification... ALL his edits are potentially wrong, trust me, and the worst thing is that he uses a lot of nicknames and ip addresses, and that makes really hard to follow him. I'm not so active here in en.wiki, and my english is not so good, so I can't do here the same supervision I did in it.wiki. So I feel obliged to let you know this situation, and I hope that also here in en.wiki you will succeed to manage the situation. If you need, I can give you more details. Thanks a lot. -- Carlomartini86 (Knock-Knock) 12:59, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
For your information, I am expanding sheep breed stubs in connection with the Stub contest. I am choosing poorly referenced articles that are of a sufficient length to be easily expanded to the required 1500 B. I have about a dozen more on my list! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:36, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Hallo Justlettersandnumbers, and thanks for your nice message! But who told you about this (totally undeserved) honor? Apparently I am still missing something about Wikipedia's communication channels :-) Thanks again, Alex2006 ( talk) 11:07, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
FYI: [41] Long term abuse problem. Montanabw (talk) 23:30, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
As you may have seen, I declined your request for speedy deletion of The Spent Idols because I wasn't sure how to handle the situation. This action is now the basis of a big thread at WP:AN, "What to do about additional articles by Orangemoody socks"; I had asked Risker's opinion of my decline, and he basically said "Let's ask the community". Your reasoning for requesting this page's deletion would be helpful here. Nyttend ( talk) 03:58, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
You didn't specify the CSD code when you tagged Mirus Academy (U.S). Once all admin's are familiar with the Orangemoody situation, they will understand but it would be helpful if you would indicate that the criteria is G5.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 13:31, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that we remove (or edit) the COI in a way that removes the name of the editor in question. Why? Because the editor's name matches that of Ranalli's wife (assuming I have read some of the citations correctly). We don't know for certain whether it is actually his wife. But, either way, it is not good to (a) "out a person" or (b) have another editor maliciously use the wife's name. — Eurodog ( talk) 21:35, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I'm so sorry I never noticed your question on the talk page of my sandbox, not until today, finally. You asked whether of not the word manade in French might not correspond to manada in Spanish. You are probably right, since the term has roots in both the Provençal and Latin languages, as can be deduced from the first line of the article ( "A manade (prov. menada, originally from lat. manus = hand)[1]"). But I am not qualified to say which way it went, from the Spanish to the French or vice versa, nor do I have any sources to prove this point. My best guess is they used the same word as they shared the same interests. The last letter in the modern version of the words is only a co-incidence. Feel free to edit this article in any way you wish! Paj ( talk) 20:42, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
I like to know why you erase my integratoion to Francesco Filippini without no reason. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 17:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
In first I think that the bibliography can help to improve the articles step by step and are checked bibligraphy not ridiculous these is sorry offensive, please check. In second the presence in the museums is an important section for an artist also to visit. For example I wrote the Awards in the rights space of the Infobox and you completly erase without reason. For category is true Filippini is a person not art genre but represent an important art genre in italian. I understand that you said me and I will try to improve the basics principles, but please give more respect and investigation about that the people write because maybe are interesting items that come from a long work of research and need only to be correct. Thank you. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 18:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers,
You recently put COI tag on Madura Kulatunga article. I create this article with help from Wikipedia Live Chat (IRC) support. I did all the things they told me to do. Lot of things they changed, remove, etc. Then they told me to submit for review. Reviewer also found errors and Rejected several times. Then I again got help from Live Chat Support and correct those errors. Finlay my draft got approved and become Live article. Then again User:CactusWriter Administrator & Senior Editor III revised this entire article completely with his neutral point of view. Plese look at this old revision https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Madura_Kulatunga&oldid=679414220 and compare it with current article /info/en/?search=Madura_Kulatunga
I put this message on Talk:Madura_Kulatunga and then I added User:Madura Kulatunga to the Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles and Template:Connected contributor to the Talk:Madura Kulatunga. But User:Jytdog is not allow me to remove COI tag from article page. If you think User:CactusWriter's revision is acceptable you can remove COI tag and add Madura Kulatunga to your watch list. Thank you 112.134.148.4 ( talk) 15:53, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the potential copyright issue on the Palazzo Parisio (Valletta) article, could you please indicate the parts of the text which appear to be copyrighted? Unless User:Continentaleurope wants to do it, I can try to rewrite the parts of the article which are copyrighted. Best regards, Xwejnusgozo ( talk) 21:37, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Why you erase the integration of Triennale? Please explain because I insert all the reference with the links also. Is not important the person that founded and finance the Museum? Please explain, you did 2 times without reason and these Andrea Bernocchi is really very famous, you can check. founder =Andrea Bernocchi [1]. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 22:52, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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I'm kind of busy with my pending RfA, but this was a new article and it's a new editor, but I think good faith and they just need some hand-holding to find sources and such. Campeiro. Only concern I have is if it's a fork of Campolina, as the same editor did a bunch of edits there also. Montanabw (talk) 16:47, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Another new article for you to run your copycheck eyes over: Pampa (horse). I also proposed a merge of that article into Pampa horse, which looks like a duplicate, but far less content. I'm kind of worried about all the photos, I think he's going to wind up with them all being tossed because he's pulling them from random web sites and they aren't free content, but I have other fish to fry right now... I guess alert any gnomes who can help. Montanabw (talk) 05:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Justlettersandnumbers. I've been looking over the contrib history of the editor you and User:Sphilbrick were talking about - the day I shut down prematurely - and I'm seeing more of concern but after spot-checking 30 articles not quite the tipping point for me to be sure we need a CCI. Close. But I'm unsure.
In addition to the two you identified, I have found the following:
I've seen a few other paraphrasings that were closer than I'd like, but not extensive enough in individual articles that I would assess them as copyright issues.
I have removed the user's rights because of the demonstrable copy-pasting in multiple articles in the past week, but I'm not really sure if a CCI is warranted here.
The user seems to be a fluent writer, and I'm at a loss to explain the copy-pasting. When I thought it was just plot-sections aside from the potential anomaly of the one article, I figured perhaps there was a lack of understanding that those were copyrighted, but that doesn't explain edits like this one where the second paragraph of the "Early life and education" section and the second paragraph of "Show business" are almost entirely copy-pasted from [42].
Anyway, I would welcome further thoughts from both you and User:Sphilbrick. And anyone else who assesses this stuff. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Opened, regretfully, at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20150927. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:35, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for putting the wrong link up on WT:WikiProject Equine. I have corrected the problem. Don't know what I was thinking about, unless it was the TWHBEA and all the other associations who use their abbreviation for their web address. I've been scatterbrained this week because on Monday I had to put down a rabbit that I'd raised from birth and who had been ill for over a month...😳 White Arabian mare ( Neigh) 21:20, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
I saw your note on Talk:Slow ageing about the CCI for Trident13. I'd be happy to help with the list, although I'm not quite sure about the procedure to follow. Do I just pick an article from the list, do a similar analysis as I did for Slow ageing and then if necessary, list it as a copyvio the same way I did? Then once I've evaluated an article, do I update the CCI page, or does that get done by whoever takes action? For example, for Slow ageing, would I change
N Slow ageing: (39 edits, 39 major, +34857) (+14481) (+7357) (+34857) (+692) (+174) (+555) (+1094) (+253) (+2003) (+582) (+671) (+658) (+388) (+1131) (+599) (+662) (+576) (+661) (+1145) (+454) (+1257) (+1163) (+325) (+174) (+240) (+169) (+305) (+172) (+200) (+210) (+2943) (+5482) (+843) (+321) (+2697) (+5184) (+1283) (+285) (+2115)
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N Slow ageing:
unattributed copying removed by Justlettersandnumbers and article redirected to Ageing. Ca2james ( talk) 17:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
? Thanks for your help. Ca2james ( talk) 17:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the correction on my name-editing there. When I change name links in lists like that, I nearly always shift the descriptor to outside the link, because most of these lists are made up of names with brief bios ("Diana Ross, singer," etc.). In general I just try to match the pre-existing format of the list. This one was a bare list of names, so that's what I went with - and I guess I spaced on the fact that those parenthetical descriptors are actually useful for telling same-named people apart! Just wanted to let you know I hadn't done it thoughtlessly (at least not 100% thoughtlessly anyway), and to thank you for fixing it. Cheers! Jessicapierce ( talk) 21:56, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello Justlettersandnumbers, I have noticed that there was "Investigation for Copyright infringement" on the Bates College Wikipedia Article. I was wondering as to why that is. The links that were listed as problematic, have zero copyright issues with them. There is no copying of the sources in any capacity nearing that of copyright misdeed. Let me know whats going on here, because I am a little confused. Thanks so much, DonSpencer1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DonSpencer1 ( talk • contribs) 02:00, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I do not have any connection with the college. I was seeking to update educational and informational platforms in Maine, starting with Bates College, etc. I did not mean to cause such a stir; hopefully it will be resolved. I just don't want all the hard work others have put into the article to be erased over my updating of facts. I noticed throughout the page, facts and figures seemed to be from 2011, 2012, and 2013. Certain aspects of the endowment, majors available, admit rate, faculty, etc. were very outdated. Thanks! DonSpencer1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DonSpencer1 ( talk • contribs) 16:29, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Justlettersandnumbers. I do have a connection to Bates, in the Communications Office. You and other users have done good work cleaning up some sloppy additions to the article in the last few days. Thank you. I do think that the article can be cleaned up without blanking the whole article. I'm very familiar with the contents of the article and see no major copyright violation but I understand that there are formal procedures to follow, and welcome forward motion to solve this. Thank you. HJayBurns —Preceding undated comment added 20:13, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Now that the Afd nomination for Ousmane Sow has been withdrawn, I don't know about other editors, but I would like to take you up on your offer to work on the article. -- Bejnar ( talk) 15:36, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I don't know what happened. I screwed up royally. Somehow I failed to notice the AFD template when I did a general revert. Obviously I know not to remove an AFD template nor have I ever done so. I don't know what happened. I must have been dehydrated or need new glasses. Sorry. I also support the AFD, as a matter of fact. Apologies again for the snafu. Yours, Quis separabit? 18:17, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
I very much appreciate your assistance over at Cheval du Morvan. Do the referencing issues you encountered often occur when using ContentTranslation? This is my first time using the tool and I certainly won't put myself or anyone else through that hassle if it can be avoided by simply translating from scratch. /wia /talk 19:10, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Got an alert to these four or five copyright investigations; Kent Warner Smith, Arthur Samish, Montgomery Block, Father Fitzgerald, Justin Hertman. Yes, I cut and pasted. Can I just rewrite the material? I did some of those a long time ago, and most of my work has stood up. Maybe someone should check my other entries. User;Hank Chapot 10/9/15 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.48.224 ( talk) 02:36, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, I translated it from German Wikipedia. They may have taken their info from the links shown as German Wikipedia is not as fastidious about inline citations as we are here. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 19:46, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
I've dropped the protection so you should be able to get at it at your earliest convenience. Good luck with the rewrite! TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:17, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear Justlettersandnumbers: Thank you for your help on the Epsom Salts Monorail article. I have today started from scratch and came-up with this draft. However, I couldn't get one of your tools running to assess it. Could you have a look at it, please?-- NearEMPTiness ( talk) 10:32, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
The daily subpages of Wikipedia:Copyright problems should be automatically created every day by a bot. VWBot has previously done this. 2607:FB90:62F:4EA0:0:1C:5886:3F01 ( talk) 19:11, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers Thank you for your comments. I'm not sure why you question any of the contents I've wrote just based on my name. You can read the whole page Eliot Hodgkin and confirm that everything has a source. You will only find facts on the page and no personal opinion. I encourage you to read the article and please be specific if any references are missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markphodgkin ( talk • contribs) 18:52, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
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Per your comment, I un-redirected Riding horse and redirected Saddle horse and Saddle-horse to it. Totally a one-sentence stub, feel free to add anything you think relevant. Huge topic, hard to know where or how to start. Equestrianism also has redirects from horse riding, horseback riding and so on. Also, FWIW, see here where I've had ideas languishing for years. You are right that an overview is needed. Any thoughts or ideas welcomed. Montanabw (talk) 21:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw you took the italics off Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole. I started to put them back, then checked around, and am now unsure. Proper name (philosophy) says John Stuart Mill defines a "proper name" as "a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about but not of telling anything about it". I would say that means the name cannot be reasonably translated. Charles de Gaulle would not be translated into "Charles of Gaul". But I always use italics for foreign phrases that are followed by the English translation, in this case,
(I use French capitalization for the French form and English capitalization for the English form.) Now I find Wikipedia:Writing better articles saying "Non-English words should be used as titles for entries only as a last resort." So I wonder if the article should be moved to an English translation of the common name:
I don't like that at all because even English sources rarely use the English form except as a translation of the French. Dunno. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:31, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, what is this? "rm refs to newspaper clipping on Facebook per WP:LINKVIO" Why the newspaper is not a valid source? Thank you Pizzole ( talk) 13:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
JLAN - thanks for helping make sense of my edits to the Coldwell Banker page. I found some interesting information about the company but its on the company's website - http://legacy.coldwellbanker.com/ - I know that Wikipedia prefers not to use primary resources, so how can I work that in otherwise? I thought the Philanthropic elements were good insights to the company - like the social causes on the Coca-cola page. Perhaps they should be less wordy and directly about the good done? I.e. 130 homes built for Habitat For Humanity or the placing of over 20,000 dogs with Adopt-a-Pet.com - I also found WWII war effort support on the company website, but couldn't validate it with a 3rd party link so I chose not to add it. They have some awards too but I didn't know what would be deemed "marketing speak" so I chose to skip those additions as well. One last thing I found, was a recent CNET partnership centered around Smart Homes, but again I kept my edits strictly facts in the timeline. I aim to be a good Wiki contributor and value the assistance of experts like yourself.
Sorry for the SFGate link error - that was an input mistake on my part.
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Have you run into the term "block-coloured" as UK English for pinto horses? See here It would be nice to have the UK equivalent for the generic pattern, without using the loaded term "coloured" (which has human racial implications, thanks largely to the history of South Africa but also because "colored" is viewed as a racial slur in the USA too) and thus not having to designate "piebald" and "skewbald" (and is Tricoloured (horse) really used? At the time we did the articles, the UK editors assured me it was, but someone recently argued otherwise... I had been taught that bay pintos were also simply "skewbald"). Anyway, help!? Montanabw (talk) 23:26, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
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Not a death struggle, but you probably can shed enlightenment on this: Talk:Master_of_the_Horse#Requested_move_29_October_2015. Montanabw (talk) 23:15, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I have launched an arbitration request to request removal of Justlettersandnumbers from editing this site. Endidro ( talk) 11:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Seeing the above, my sympathies if the sorting out you and I are doing at the horse article is causing you more stress than you need. We'll get there. In the meantime, on that topic, found this little gold mine to perhaps lighten your mood: [43], [44], and [45]. LOL!
I do see your point, but [46]. There's also walking, but consistency does fit with trot and canter. Dunno. But is Amble the town really WP:PRIMARY? (Wondering) Montanabw (talk) 20:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I do really appreciate you guys for checking this matter, however my question is how and where can I access the old article? since we all know that wikipedia is an open platform anyone or everyone can edit an article or contribute, I do see that copyright issue came from several sources who contribute and edited this article, is there any way that we can undo all the changes from where I started the article? and probably delete all the other changes that a contributor did?. Thanks! CarlaAllison0787 ( talk) 04:44, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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I'm really trying to seek some middle ground here and not push a win-lose situation with the height, characteristics and sourcing on horse breed articles. I have a lot of respect for your ability with language, which I lack, and I also respect your ability to spot copyright violations. I also saw this at the time and took it to heart (though FWIW I remember how awful I felt at the time, so, yes, I also appreciated your acknowledgement that it does take two to tango), but I have to note your own actions played a role in this and this, so I'm really hoping we can just take some deep breaths and avoid another round of acrimony. I'm discussing here rather than at WPEQ because I think this is mostly a personality clash we need to thrash out. Here's my thoughts:
You are the best at figuring out foreign language copyvio; this might just be a bad fr.wiki translation, or more. [47] Your call. I'll go take a whack at it in a few days for bad writing, but don't want to do so if it's got even bigger problems. Montanabw (talk) 03:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
And calm down. -- L.Willms ( talk) 09:57, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey Justlettersandnumbers. I noticed when taking care of some RD1 redactions that you are an OTRS volunteer. I was just wondering if you could shed some light on the draft, Draft:August Puig, that I've just listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 November 14. See there for relevant background. In short, I would have just deleted this as a G12, but it appears an OTRS email *may* have been sent and never reviewed, so I hid the infringing page content rather than deleting it, awaiting OTRS review. However, I suspect such an email may never have been sent (at least properly) since the OTRS email was putatively sent three months ago. I wouldn't have a clue how to check, and probably lack the permissions to do so.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 20:01, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey there. Regarding this recent edit of yours, I'm not sure that this is the best way of notifying the user about the proposed deletion. He appears to have correctly created the page in accordance with the instructions on the copyvio template that was formerly on Keith Sequeira, whereas the wording of your templated notification implies that he was in error to have produced an article which partially duplicates the content of Keith Sequeira. Perhaps you might consider adapting the templated message, or removing it altogether? — Psychonaut ( talk) 14:49, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, thanks for following up with me at Draft talk:August Puig. I missed the connection between Galleri MDA and https://www.artsignaturedictionary.com/artist/august.puig. Next time an issue like this comes up (when there are OTRS emails pending or claims of copyright ownership), would it be more prudent for me to send it off to WP:CP instead of trying to handle it myself? I don't want to step on anybody's toes or cause a hassle. Thanks, /wia /tlk 22:18, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Will you look at the bottom half of my sandbox again and see what still needs fixed about it. I will remove it when I get your feedback. I've rewritten a majority of it, removing some parts. Any help would be appreciative because, I'd like to keep the article. Thanks. 🎄 Corkythe hornetfan 🎄 20:05, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Justlettersandnumbers, will you please review Talk:Thomas W. Butcher/Temp and tell me what you think? I've gone ahead and rewritten it. The tool shows 2%, but it only highlights the "president of Central State Normal School" in the Infobox. Thanks. 🎄 Corkythe hornetfan 🎄 03:55, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for helping to clarify my question about translation. Nadnie ( talk) 21:39, 26 November 2015 (UTC) |
"By clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL with the understanding that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient for CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution." So I can't stop you :-) More seriously, I'm slightly confused what you mean. Can't you just say "Nyttend said:?<blockquote>text text text</blockquote>? Regardless of what you mean, (1) you don't need permission, (2) thank you for asking anyway, and (3) thank you for continuing to work on this. Nyttend ( talk) 22:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Blue Blue Sea. I don't want to be a bitch, but this is kind of self-promotion for a self-published book. Would it be evil if I put on a prod tag? There was some coverage of this story in the horse racing press... but... Montanabw (talk) 09:40, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks you Justlettersandnumbers for the information on how to manage the page. You are right that I have a conflict of interest with this page. My edits were used to help keep the information accurate, well referenced and neutral. I will propose future changes using the talk pages instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelKlouda ( talk • contribs) 12:19, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
I added new text to the Lierna Castle article. Can something be done to hasten the resolution of the copyright issue(s)? -- Bejnar ( talk) 00:44, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Or just free advertising? It's your side of the pond... your call: Warwick International School of Riding. Montanabw (talk) 21:20, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
We have tried to change the name of association with reference but they are changing again. Please help me how to move the article or please help me to create Wikipedia page for Premier Badminton League.
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Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:26, 21 December 2015 (UTC) |
We are thinking to create article for 2016 Premier badminton league before that I have doubt. We have found that second session for Indian badminton leagues(which was renamed to Premier badminton leagues) was already mention. Which was supposed to be held on 2014 but it was postponed to 2015. But currently it was schedule to be held on 2nd Jan-2016. You can also see the article in Google Search, related to 2016 Premier badminton leagues matches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.248.150.157 ( talk) 09:39, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for all the fixes on the copyvio problems on Tisziji Munoz! · rodii · 22:06, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that my question on the Teahouse was archived so I'll ask you here; do I blank the whole page or just the top part? People are still editing the article so I am unsure whether or not I should do this.
Kindest regards,
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Of course, there are blatantly obvious examples of overlinking, but the tone of the infobox article is either pro-link or ambiguous (one of their examples is even internally inconsistent within itself!). I'm not sure if we can define where countries like France stop and "obscure" places like Tuva begin. -- Sunshineisles2 ( talk) 15:09, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I've noticed you've deleted a lot of the Forbes lists for a supposed copyright issue? You did not appear to start conversations about this on the talk pages, and appeared to move unilaterally. According to some research I've done (including on some of the individual talk pages for the respective Forbes lists), having the top 10 people per year on these articles does appear to fall into fair use, while publishing full lists of the winners of that respective year does not. I would ask you to research this, as my experience with Wikipedia copyright is limited, and see if there is enough rationale to restore some of these lists, as the articles are threadbare once the results are deleted. I have restored mos of the Forbes articles and started discussions on each of their talk pages. I would ask that you please do not make major edits on these articles until a consensus has been reached. Fireflyfanboy ( talk) 21:22, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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I'm speaking with a person from the university on Tuesday about helping them improve the page in my usual COI role. I really appreciated your note here, which was exceptionally civil and straightforward. I've done some research so far and the page history looks like a pretty routine case of copyvio/spam. I thought I would just ping you to see if there was any context I was not aware of. If you have any interest, it would be great if I could get them to circle back to you later with a proper encyclopedic draft using secondary sources. David King, Ethical Wiki ( Talk) 21:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
It was created as Indian Badminton League then someone usurped the page to Premier Badminton League. Then, it would appear, that you moved it to Premier Badminton League. Both leagues still appear to exist. 14.140.220.82 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been trying to take it back and I've been reverting. I was just about to report the anon to AIV then figured out (I think) what was going on. It appears that the anon tried to rebuild Indian Badminton League and you reverted it back to the redirect. There has been quite an edit war going on. Any suggestions on correcting this? Please ping. Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 11:01, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
If you look at the coi page it states that if you add this notice to a page you have to state what the bias is you are talking about and that you should also first try to edit out the problem. As copied below. Please read the coi page because it seems to me you are not following proper procedures.
Like the other neutrality-related tags, if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article. If you do not start this discussion, then any editor is justified in removing the tag without warning. Be careful not to violate the policy against WP:OUTING users who have not publicly self-disclosed their identities on the English Wikipedia.
Would you please respond by stating what the problem is on the article talk page as is correct procedure or suggest a way to solve the issue? Regards
L1R5M1 ( talk) 18:49, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
L1R5M1, the talk-page discussion you are looking for is at Talk:Anna Fleischle#Conflict of interest – but you already know that, as you have commented there. I've also explained our conflict-of-interest guidelines on your talk page, as you know. So I see little value in offering advice here too; nevertheless, at your insistence, my advice is this:
In case it isn't completely clear: you are under no obligation to disclose your identity, and should do so only if you want to. One more bit of advice: please don't stray into the area of WP:Disruptive editing – your recent evisceration of the article (which I have reverted) appears to have been motivated more by pique or spite than by any desire to improve this encyclopaedia. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 12:56, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm not sure why you would accuse me of acting out of spite and conflict of interest as the two surely don't seem to go together. As I have explained I am new to this and after this episode I really don't think I'll get involved with Wikipedia at all in future. I thought that by removing material I had edited you would be happy there is no longer conflict of interest and nothing to do with spite. It seems ironic that you feel there is a bias in my editing but you will not let me remove it.
My only concern now is that the subject of the page Anna Fleischle (which is not me) does not have her career damaged by a page that looks as if she has edited it herself. It could be highly damaging if she were thought of as promoting herself in this way. I'm sure that perspective employers will see the message and wonder why it is there. At the least it looks highly embarrassing. I would be completely happy to have nothing more to to with the page if that tag were removed.
L1R5M1 ( talk) 13:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Please, go to Talk:Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People#Copyright issue- January 2016. You are acting unilaterally out of occurdance with the rules, and if this continues, I will consult Wikipedia admin. CONSULT TALK PAGES, and please, get your facts straight. Fireflyfanboy ( talk) 00:22, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
My apology for not mentioning the ANI posting to you. I definitely now agree with you that IBL is now PBL. Thanks for your help on resolving this. The Copyright vio notice on PBL was added Dec 22nd, nearly three weeks agon. Should it be cleaned up by an admin? You did request full protection for Indian Badminton League which was "fixed", but not protected. I wouldn't think move protecting PBL would be necessary unless it happens again? Kind of strange that the IBL website is still up. Thanks again. Jim1138 ( talk) 18:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm concerned that the blacklisting of artsome.co might have been overkill. I see that you removed it here. Do you have any thoughts about it being used as an external link or even a source? -- Ronz ( talk) 18:20, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Have you checked that against the sources? A couple of them are behind paywalls, and I'm a little suspicious there. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 13:22, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello - I am seeking consensus on the alumni question on the FIT talk page, but I was wondering if I could talk to you about the changes to line 68 regarding a source on the museum's history. Here I sought to replace an fitnyc.edu source that no longer exists with a better third party source, namely a book on the history of the collection published by Taschen. Can you provide some insights. I believe what I did is in keeping with Wikipedia best practices. Help out a newbie? Librarianhelen ( talk) 19:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
So if I put that reference back in you won't remove it? Great. Thanks. Librarianhelen ( talk) 21:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm looking to fill in (or at least stubify) the Greek Letter Organizations that belong to the Professional Fraternity Association. One of these is Pi Sigma Epsilon. As you were the one who started the AFD for it, I thought I'd touch base with you. There does appear to be enough information in Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (the 1991 edition) to generate a stub for the group. Please let me know if you have concerns about my plans. Naraht ( talk) 21:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your message and edits. Not quite sure what topic a DYK would address. But if you want to do so, please go ahead. I was going to work on the Museo di Roma after that. Now I will transfer my attentions to the Arch of Janus, about which there is much more to be said. I am trying to write about topics close to my home in southern Rome so if you know of any glaring omissions please let me know. Roundtheworld ( talk) 10:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Note: This page has some older stuff from about July 2014 until mid-January 2016. But I often delete stuff from my talk, so it is not complete. There's some even older stuff, from when I first started editing until about July 2014, here
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At Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 June 19 and disclosing a continuing problem that would probably only have continued to grow. Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC) |
One sentence stub: Corse horse. The fr.wiki article is fairly long and appears comprehensive (though I don't speak French), so that one must have some decent material. This English one is not, and I think the proper English title is "Corsican horse" per Hendricks, though that article is the usual superficial Hendricks treatment, it is probably as RS a source as we will find in English, I certainly drew a goose egg looking for anything else (There is a race horse named "Corsican" who pulled several Google hits, but there does appear to be a breed also. Anyway, if you want to take a whack at the French translation, I can augment from Hendricks and we can expand this a bit - and name it properly. I googled "Corse horse" and got nothing but links to people who can't spell "course." And fr.wiki confirms that "Corse" there is Corsica. In your quest to get rid of made up words, I think this is a prime candidate. Montanabw (talk) 18:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Just to clear things up... When I wrote "wiki page", I meant this wiki page, (not the wikia). The quote text that is supposedly a copyright infringement is prose that I wrote a long time ago; I plastered that prose on all the season articles, and the main series article too, as a sort of boilerplate summary. OVGuide is taking prose from Wikipedia, not the other way around.-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 23:14, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your comments and feedback. I have now completely rewritten this page, so there should be no copyright issues, as every sentence has its own reference supporting it. If you look at the page where the copyright issue was claimed there is now absolutely no similarity between the wiki page and the website, and so hopefully the issue is resolved to your satisfaction. -- Geneticcuckoo ( talk) 15:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
The revision named as the start of the problem appears, as well as the two surrounding edits, to be very small indeed, a couple words at most. That seems an unlikely starting point for a large copyright intrusion, so I wanted to double-check that the rev id was correct. Again, thanks for all your great work here! Best, -- j⚛e decker talk 01:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
--> Talk:Swedish_Blue_duck#Move.3F -- PigeonIP ( talk) 20:59, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
because of this change: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Swedish_Blue_duck&diff=prev&oldid=620055022
they are known in the Netherlands as well: ee: Zweedse eend, blauw witborst http://www.zooenc.eu (the dataset of FAO is very old) -- PigeonIP ( talk) 07:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
The SWF Institute is a organization on sovereign wealth funds. You can google it and find out all the information on it. Not sure why you blanked deleted everything, without doing proper research. Jason Lee. The SWF Institute has been sourced in academic journals, news agencies and governments. You can't just mass delete an article without doing your homework. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonlee723 ( talk • contribs) 22:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, thanks for helping out on Sovereign Wealth Institute. Did you see what Jasonlee23 did today?
He clearly isnt interested in wikipedia. Appears only to be interested in the image that the SWI page reflects of SWI. Id assume thats a likely COI. never has discussed anything, but clearly has been edit warring (even if no 3 reverts in 24h). I am for edit war noticeboard and block user until the deletion question can be clarified. what do you think?-- Wuerzele ( talk) 20:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes, that does look like it might well be copyright material. I had not realised, sorry, and was just trying to tidy it up. But I'd be interested to see the copyright source from which it was taken. PCGB led me to this, haha. Many thanks. Martinevans123 ( talk) 15:42, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
You are good at navboxes, wondering if one for rare domesticated animal breeds is warranted. Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung alter und gefährdeter Haustierrassen is a good addition to the collection of rare breeds organizations (note The Livestock Conservancy is FA). Not sure there is a need to list every breed, but the main national organizations, key articles, etc. I realize there is also a category, but navboxes are cool. Just a thought. Montanabw (talk) 00:47, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your reaction! Could you please further elaborate why comune is different from municipality in the CfD? Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:03, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey JLAN, there is an anon IP doing some very extensive work on Mongol horse, sort of expanding the article past a breed piece to encompass Mongol horse culture in general. I was sort of doing some cleanup initially, but lately I've been sitting back (for a change) on this because there is some good work happening, and I have other fish to fry, but I'm also kind of wondering if it's time for a little more guidance; maybe take a look and see what you think. I'm doing my best not to dive in and bite as fast as I sometimes do, but I'm wondering if the article is getting a bit too far afield and maybe a spinoff to a separate article on Mongolian horse culture is appropriate. I'm also starting to wonder a bit about whether there is copy and paste going on. You have a less Anglocentric compass on this and I'd sincerely be interested in your thoughts. Montanabw (talk) 22:24, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see a note which I left for you there. While the original mass moves by SMM seem to go against the need for consensus, it would save some work for admins if you are willing to go directly to a full move discussion instead of wanting the previous moves to be reverted first. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 15:04, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers
I thought I had pretty much gotten rid of any copyright text and applied the duplication detector to the result, which showed only three word strings and references;, but I have now rewritten the sections at issue and reposted the article here Talk:Josephine Flood/Temp as instructed. Garyvines ( talk) 10:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for your help with the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies -page! I'm very sorry for the inconveniances it has caused to you, the copyright problems were unintentional. I'm new in Wikipedia and I didn't fully understand the copyright policy of Wikipedia. I've now created a rewrite of the article, where I've rewritten the introductory paragraph and the Activity -sections, where the problems were. The Administration and History sections are the same (with maybe some minor changes) as before. I would be very thankful if you could check that rewrite, if I've done it correctly. Thank you a lot and sorry for my mistakes I've done. YvainfromFinland ( talk) 12:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Is there any solution for copyright infringement? Appreciate it Fevrret ( talk) 09:44, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
A mess from the first version [3] on with presumably members continually adding copyvio and promotional material. Dougweller ( talk) 18:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
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PS: As with WhatamIdoing, I've raised concerns about the wording of this template on its talk page, but it's what we're stuck with for now. It seems confrontational, but my intent is for the level of confrontation to go down. I suggest that you, I, Justlettersandnumbers and WhatamIdoing should probably have a four-way WP:Dispute resolution. This is not an accusation or "warning", just notice/reminder, and my making it puts me on the same footing. The personalized disputes have to stop. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:51, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
You have seen this? -- PigeonIP ( talk) 19:14, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I want to be sure I understand your position, given that SMC is targeting me individually at the Teeswater sheep/(sheep) page. As you know, my general tendency is to favor WP:NATURAL disambiguation on the horse articles (Foo horse), in part due to the large number of named individuals; but am I correct that you generally advocate parenthetical disambiguation (i.e. Foo (animal)) on most of the other livestock breed articles? After that discussion of the Billy dog/(dog)/dog named Billy/WTF? thing (which made my eyes cross), I'm now sort of in the camp of "let the folks who work with each animal species make the call for "their" articles - and consistency within the animal species is nice." I just want to be sure I do not inadvertently assume your position on an issue and then have my understanding be incorrect. Montanabw (talk) 04:14, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Consolidated: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture#Multiple_move_requests Am I right that there are 11 RMs involving well over 60 separate articles, not counting your separate request at Teeswater sheep? If I'm wrong, feel free to tweak the list Montanabw (talk) 05:32, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, Thank you for your message. The text has been edited in the temp file, please feel free to take a look and comment. Gryffindor ( talk) 15:57, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi JLAN,
I created the Louwalan clan article that has been deleted twice now and is up for discussion in regard to notability. I feel perhaps I should explain. In regard to the copyright infringement. I did source the material for this content which I placed on my blog word for word, and duly noted that this content was copied verbatim. Admittedly my copyright awareness and rules were not all that stringent on my personal blog. Wikipedia picked up the content on my blog and I assumed this was the cause of the problem which is why I re-edited it and included the information on the article talk page. I am now much more enlightened on the copyright aspect and will work at re-writing it. I have left my thoughts on notability on the discussion page as well. Kind regards Eren Gatiat ( talk) 10:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Do you have a script or page that helps you find copyvios or are you manually checking link by link? Just wondering, you're good at it... Montanabw (talk) 05:42, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
This will be of interest to you: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#RfC_-_Animal_breeds_in_lower_case. Montanabw (talk) 23:58, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
I see that SMC is on a tl;dr rant again. Don't let that stuff run you off wiki. That's his MO, abuse people until they leave or give up from exhaustion. Montanabw (talk) 02:50, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
But thought you might like a pointer to this book - Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (5th edition) ISBN 085199430X. 1996 by CABI. Very useful - I'll be picking a copy up when I get home. Covers asses, buffalo, cattle, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. The Arapawa is listed on page 212 "Arapawa Island: (New Zealand)/brown-and-black/feral." (Listing in the book does not mean status as a formal breed - if it was, there would be a listing for the society/association and it's year of formation, or it's recognition by a government or its publication of a herdbook.) Ealdgyth - Talk 12:53, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Instead of editwarring and reintroducing a links to a disambiguation page at Template:Chicken breeds of Belgium, it is a much better idea that you look at the recently merged Belgian Bantam first. That causes the disagreement. Edit warring at the template will not help at all. The Banner talk 20:10, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jlan. I'm confused on your article at Belgian Bantam. Is this a different breed to the ones that consistute Belgian bantam? FAO oddly lists them seperately, so I was wondering if you have more info? The PCGB ref you used though refers to the D'uccle, D'anver etc already converted in separate articles JTdale Talk 20:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
I may be scratching a sore spot, but i hope I'm not. But use of the convert template on horse heights would be a gracious and helpful thing. I can do it myself later, but perhaps as you go would be simpler. See Template:Hands for the solution the techies worked out for us for the breeds with a European/metric standard: to convert cm first: {{convert|77|to|88|cm|hand in|2}} 77 to 88 centimetres (7.2+1⁄2 to 8.2+1⁄2 hands; 30+1⁄2 to 34+1⁄2 in) I think you can change cm to m and get the equivalent results. Your call if you want to do it, hope you will not object if I add it later if you are not interested in doing so. Montanabw (talk) 14:15, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
I am writing to you re Tony Cragg's article on Wikipedia, which I have been trying to improve. As you quite rightly pointed out, (prior to my editing) Wikipedia's coverage of Cragg's life and career is embarrassingly weak and what I have added is not 'necessarily bad.'
I am new to Wikipedia editing and it has been difficult to get to grips with how it works, but I feel like I am getting there. For all my efforts to be deleted would be a real shame. I would like to start up a dialogue so I can continue to improve Cragg's article.
As I understand it, you have identified the section on the Sculpture Park as posing a potential copyright issue, as a copy or modification of the text from Cragg's website. I did indeed use his website as a point of reference (for lack of other sources) but I am surprised you consider what I edited to be a copyright issue. I will happily work on this section further so as to improve it but I ask that you 'unblock' the rest of article and advise the best way to proceed.
I look forward to hearing from you AndrewViolaBowen ( talk) 11:02, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
if you have a moment, i'd appreciate your thoughts on Pmy COIN posting. if you think i am out to lunch, i would get that. I posted asking for feedback and am just pinging you as you seem to participate in that page. thanks Jytdog ( talk) 21:59, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Tempted to prod tag for deletion Silvena Sport, was doing some cleanup and then thought, "WTF? This is just self-promotion of a riding stable." But figured I should get a second opinion. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 04:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
The book you wanted me to get via ILL is in, I have it until December 1, but with no renewal. Much good stuff. Might work for me to scan some pages and email to divvy up work... let me know. Not only has Asia but also some stuff on southern Africa. Montanabw (talk) 07:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
On a totally unrelated note, hope it will not be a problem to suggest that on any article rewrites of extant horse breeds that we put characteristics before history. We can discuss, but the core idea is that readers will usually want to know the simpler material - what it looks like - first, then the other background stuff. (particularly where the history is long, this can become an issue). Also, now that we have a solid convert template working for hands, can we do hands and inches where we put cm first? Also is icky to have "male height" and "female height" when we are talking mares, stallions and geldings. Personally, I'd put the range in the infobox and the details by sex in characteristics (in part so we can say "stallions and geldings" ...) The right to use our horsey technical language was fought and won by Ealdgyth, I'd hate to lose it by default... ;-) JMO and thanks. Montanabw (talk) 07:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with the page. I now know how to handle that situation in the future. Using the information from the page creator was a bad idea since I couldn't know where it came from. Thanks again. Equineducklings ( talk) 23:13, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
I was just taking a fresh look at this template, because I had always planned that someday the "click here" should link to a Request Edit wizard, like the one started at User:CorporateM/request_edit. User:Sphilbrick has been my partner in crime on improving Request Edit processes for some time now and said he would work on, finalize and publish the wizard sometime soon.
I was wondering if you would take a look and let me know if you think the wizard is actually better. A lot of Request Edits are just junk submissions and the wizard is intended to add more structure to submissions, however I am also concerned it may actually make it more complicated than the simple pre-loaded request edit. CorporateM ( Talk) 03:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
I guess we can agree to disagree on the question of putting horse breed history or characteristics first. We have debated it before and it's not worth a knock-down drag out. On the shorter articles on obscure breeds, it's not a real big deal; it becomes a bigger deal where the history is extensive (and/or the characteristics) such as the Finnhorse or the Appaloosa. At root, I suppose it's a debate over what the reader wants to see first (what it looks like versus how it came to be). I wish we could reach a consensus on that question, though we are both rather stubborn sorts so it's probably not real likely. (grin) In the meantime, I hope we can agree to use convert templates, including hands, and as in ENGVAR, now that we have the templates all figured out, I am perfectly willing to have metric conversion first for those breeds where we have no breed standard with hands primary. Montanabw (talk) 23:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
This is regarding the Great Lakes page which you had flagged for paraphrasing. The source link you had shared isn't available anymore so I couldn't see what the content you were referring to were but I have re-written most of the content and cleaned the old content. Request you to review and remove the paraphrasing point.
Thanks! Sushree27 ( talk) 14:52, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is their gaming becoming more blatant? Crow Caw 22:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
He's b-a-a-a-a-c-k: [6] FYI Montanabw (talk) 06:32, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Please stop engaging in antagonistically worded reverts that serve no encyclopedic purpose, as you did at Apulo-Calabrese. That one also deleted substantive content additions. If you have an issue with changes to an article, raise them on the talk page. If you don't like the vertical formatting, despite its readability, feel free to undo that aspect of the change, but you don't need to engage in hostility to effect such a change. You really need to drop the "enemy" act. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 13:01, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, was perusing the CP page and it raises a question: What's the tipping point between G12 speedy and sending the page to CP for rework? I see a couple on there that say they're essentially directly copied from 1 or more sources, but not considered a long-term issue, so what prevents those from just being G12'ed? Crow Caw 00:41, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Please see the Harvey Schiller talk page for second round of edit assistance requests put in OCt 27. thank you so much for your help thus far, really would liek to improve the article as much as possible. please help! thanks 2602:306:CE71:E330:6B:A27B:C2A5:4F7D ( talk) 20:54, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Can you please explain to me why the addition of the Galleri Nicolai Wallner page is a problem in regards to Elmgreen & Dragset? We were the first gallery to work with them, and the page features images of important works throughout their career, as well as a link to their up to date bibliography.
Hey,
I was going by WP:FAUNA, which recommends sentence case for animal names. Is there a separate guideline for breed names? Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 22:42, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
I have email permission from Jagan Pillarisetti, author of Bharat Rakshak website to use its content for article MP Anil Kumar. Kindly remove the copyright tag and I can forward the email if required. Vinod ( talk) 15:16, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, I declared my conflict of interest concernign EFPT here. [7]. I hope we will find a solution to use text from our website to improve our WP page. I changed the license but it wasn't good enough. Bw -- Ofix ( talk) 19:54, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Ok, we will work hard on that ! Bw-- Ofix ( talk) 21:58, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Someone linked to this article from one on my watchlist. Given your interest in such matters, thought you might give it a glance with an eye to some improvements. Sounds like an interesting culture group: Vaqueiros de alzada. Montanabw (talk) 22:24, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Hey JLAN! Would you mind helping remove the templates you added at
SALT (institution), an OTRS permission statement was sent by the original source under
WP:CONSENT. I tried doing so, however you altered the text a bit
Best,
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03:16, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
You beat me to it :-). I was actually in the process of re-evaluating my recent tagging of a few articles today and revising them - it suddenly hit me that I didn't tag this (and another) article correctly. My sincere apologies for that. It looks like, in this case, that it led to the discovery of something bigger, so I'll call it 50/50? I'll be more diligent with CSD tagging in the future; the last thing I want to do is cause any kind of disruption to Wikipedia. ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 00:52, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Hey JLAN, just a heads up that the book on Asian horses that I got via InterLibrary Loan is due back on December 1, and there is no renewal, so if you want to peek at those pages I sent you and let me know if you want more or anything that didn't print cleanly, let me know ASAP. This week is Thanksgiving here in the USA, which means it can get a bit hectic (feeding large numbers of people large amounts of food is generally involved). So let me know if you have what you need. Montanabw (talk) 03:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm actually in the process of investigating that a little right now; I've found this blog post, of which parts are written verbatim whats written in our article [8], however the version I'm looking at is 2008 and its 2014 now, so I can not prove who had which version first. That, and the language in the article (In particular phrases like "You may guess on one hand that the Portuguese cinematography and those of Portuguese expression distinguish themselves by this motive, which gives them a voice in the world of cinema, like the voice of Cesária Évora in the world music") lend themselves to having been copied from someplace else online and pasted here. I'm hopeful that its just my imagination, but experience tells me that may not be the case. TomStar81 ( Talk) 12:47, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
(od) Given what I'm seeing in the film articles I think we need an English/Portuguese contributor to look over the articles on the English Wikipedia and see if they match the Portuguese Wikipedia. I'm beginning to think that this may not be entirely a case of copyright, it may be a failure to consider that the user could be transwiking articles here, which would explain in part why they all look to be in such sad shape. Alternatively, it could mean that the user is messing with both the English and Portuguese Wikipedias. I may come back to this tomorrow, but its 7:30 here and I've been up since 4PM, so I'm calling it a night (day?). I hope you and the others may be able to move on some of this - even if its just ruling out copyright, it'll be a step in the right direction. TomStar81 ( Talk) 14:39, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Gentile utente non so chi lei sia e quale competenze abbia, ma sta facendo un cattivo servizio alla storia e alla storia dell'Arte. L'Accademia delle Arti del Disegno non è mai stata fondata nel 1873, quella del 1873 fu una riforma sulla base della legge Scialoia e riprendeva una differenza già in vigore dagli statuti del 1861 con la divisione tra istituzione pedagogica e collegio dei professori (può anche vedere che il catalogo della galleria pubblicato nel 1865 si chiama Accademia delle Arti del Disegno). L'Accademia del 1873 non è un'altra istituzione come lei crede, ma è la solita. Numerosissimi sono i saggi e i libri in cui si può leggere questo tra cui l'ultimo volume sulle Accademie curato dal Ministero (Accademie Patrimoni di Belle Arti), e riprova ne è che il convegno organizzato a Napoli dal Ministero sullo stesso tema ha visto l'apertura del prof. Luigi Zangheri in qualità di presidente della più antica academia del mondo. Questo è perchè nel 1563 esistevano soltanto compagnie medievali tra cui quelle di Firenze (1339) e Roma (1478). Nessuna era mai stata creata da un potere pubblico con scopi pubblici e connessioni tra immagini e potere. l'Accademia di San Luca fu fondata solo 10 anni più tardi, ad esempio. Queste non sono opinioni, ma fatti!!! La prego quindi di desistere dal voler continuare a cambiare dati storici, tra cui il nome dell'attuale Segretario Generale che non è Domenico Viggiano, ma Wanda Butera. Accademia ( talk) 14:41, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
I understand this issue and have repeatedly tried to direct the discussion to the article's talk page without any success. I, like you, have also commented on his talk page but that also seems to be ignored. I was going to post a request on a notice board but some real life issues have just arisen. Happy for you to intervene if it helps. Dan arndt ( talk) 12:11, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi! When you have a moment, could I ask you to comment here regarding the above article, which you may remember from this note. Cheers, Basie ( talk) 11:39, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the WP:Help Desk concerning Joseph Rodney Moss, which both you and a bot tagged as having copyright violations. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:02, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
So far it is based on Polish-language article http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937. Whenever I have some spare time, I will be adding more information to it. Thanks Tymek ( talk) 23:35, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I expanded the article so would you mind dropping in and checking it out. It is probably on your list but just in case it is not I would like you to look it over and PLEASE feel free to make any improving edits necessary as I rushed it a bit. I mentioned it at Talk:Aspromonte goat. Otr500 ( talk) 18:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for your helpful message. Apologies for not responding sooner. I created a page called Solvatten, which was subsequently removed due to concerns around copyright infringements (some of the text matched that found on www.solvatten.se). An email has now been sent from a representative of Solvatten, which follows the guidelines given here Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. This is all new to me, so I'd be very grateful if you could indicate whether the original entry will be restored, or whether it must be written again (assuming the the copyright issue is resolved). With thanks, Tmrl84 ( talk) 09:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
A page you previously contributed to, Joe Williams (jazz singer), had many prior revisions deleted due to copyright issues. For details please see Talk:Joe Williams (jazz singer). Your prior version may be temporarily restored upon request if you need it for reference to re-incorporate constructive edits that do not make use of the copyright infringing material. Please feel free to leave me a talk message if you need this done. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 22:29, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
May require your touch with languages as well as general copyediting... Arriero. Reading it made my head explode. Montanabw (talk) 02:38, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Found a totally unsourced horse breed article, want to do your copyvio check magic on it and see if you can find some RS on it? Nordlandshest/Lyngshest. Possibly @ Pitke: can help if arnoudn en.wiki these days (Pitke usually hangs on Finnish wiki, but has helped with the Scandanavian breed articles) Montanabw (talk) 07:46, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I can't agree that this name is an archaism. We have our article at Apulia, not at "Puglia". Moonraker ( talk) 23:39, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)I did a quick Google search and Puglia gives me 76,600,000 hits, whereas Apulia is only 8,080,000. According to this site, "Puglia" is replacing "Apulia" much as "Mumbai" replaced "Bombay" or "Beijing" replaced "Peking." Hope this helps resolve that matter. Montanabw (talk) 23:27, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you please tell me why you tagged the GRG in Violet Brown's article as potentially unreliable? I know they're the official Guinness World Records verifier (or something) for supercentenarians, and also, they are typically used as the source for birthdates in most, if not all, Wikipedia articles on supercentenarians. I'm merely curious as to your reasoning here. 74.131.251.19 ( talk) 21:06, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
With respect to the Pixie mandarin, et al, copyright violations by a particular user, I noticed your comment on the cleanup on that article and took a look around in the contribution history of this particular user. I found a lot of copy-n-paste edits primarily in biographies -- especially when this particular user created the page. It appears that the articles on various kinds of apples do not have this problem: however, this user may be using sources which aren't so readily available online to make this blatant plagiarism so easy to detect. Also, many of the copyvio instances I found by this user were generally done weeks/months ago -- he/she may have taken the warnings and stopped doing this (although, he/she did not go back and edit the articles to repair the existing problems). More simply, though: it could just be this user slowing down his/her edits during the holidays. By the way, I am not affiliated with the University of California, in any way (most of the sources in question are copyrighted by UC, or UC-Riverside, in particular) -- copyright violations simply make me angry and need to be flagged. Nusumareta ( talk) 22:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I've been looking at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Riversid. I'm curious why we go through this process for articles that are entirely copypasta. Why not just nom the articles that are complete violations for speedy deletion? I get the idea of checking individual diffs when it might just be a sentence or a paragraph.
Along those same lines, as we determine Riversid's articles were copyvio's at what point do we just start blanket deleting them? Chris Troutman ( talk) 02:52, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Withdrew my proposal to close, didn't realize the vote was going toward keeping it as primary, and parenthetical dab is the worst-case scenario here after we got 400 horse breed articles to natural dab. Montanabw (talk) 02:29, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Could use an English speaker who also knows French here: User:Montanabw/Horse welfare sandbox . I have the French editor of the fr.wiki article pinged too. No agenda yet, not certain if I will even create it, but if there's the energy to translate and get it up, I'm "donating" my user space. (Article will need some work to go into en.wiki). Montanabw (talk) 04:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I submitted a new article on Margaret Craske to give a complete picture of her life and work. It has full and accurate information on her career and numerous citations of published, verifiable sources. She is an important figure in dance history, as a teacher of many famous dancers and choreographers. She is also of interest as a follower of Meher Baba, the Indian spiritual leader. As a dance historian, I am dismayed by the sketchy fragment that currently appears on Wikipedia. Please consider restoring my article. I think that you have made a serious mistake in deleting it. With all good wishes. Claude Conyers Claudeconyers ( talk) 17:15, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt response. I appreciate your personal interest in Margaret Craske, but I do urge you to reconsider your decision not to accept my article. It contains all the information in the current version, but it puts it in the broader context of a detailed, chronological review of her life and career. In the interest of making Wikipedia a reliable source of dance history, I do hope that you will reconsider. Miss Craske had significant influence on a great many important people in the world of dance. She deserves fuller treatment than what Wikipedia currently provides. -- Claude Conyers Claudeconyers ( talk) 18:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Don't remember it and didn't author it but good work on copyright cleanup efforts. Do what must be done! Good luck. jengod ( talk) 19:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Justlettersandnumbers. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Morkie, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It's different enough from the original deleted version that I'd prefer it went back to AfD. Thank you. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 06:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, thanks for your sleuthing about that "new" user who was adding the promotional content to the Dressage article. I smell a sockpuppet and possibly paid editing. I guess we can just stay tuned. Montanabw (talk) 19:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you mentioned me as the one who re-added copyright violations to the Woods article. I seriously beg to differ. I spent quite a bit of time explaining copyvios to the original poster and then attempting to add in sourced material. Could you please enlighten me as to what copyvios I added? I am really confused here. JodyB talk 21:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict)I've just finished posting an explanation on the talk page there. You restored copyvio content to the article with this edit after I had removed it. Please don't do so again - as you surely know, those who do so repeatedly risk being blocked from editing. I applaud your efforts to help a new editor, though. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I understand that you added a copyright violation notice to The New Adventures of Nanoboy. I looked into that site, I found some on the Synopsis and Character info of Oscar/Nanoboy, Issac and CJ as I rewrote it by scratch on the Temp page with some modifications to avoid infringement. Hope this would help as I will explain this info to the patroller of the page. Agentmike41 ( talk) 23:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Also I managed to update articles for The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog and Matt's Monsters on the Temp page of each. Hope this issue gets resolved soon. Agentmike41 ( talk) 00:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
I was realizing that some of the older WP articles will be likely to be flagged as copyvios when they are not because there are so many wikipedia mirrors out there. I was looking at an article I worked on 5-6 years ago and ran that copyvio tool on it and it erupted. But I happen to remember writing the content myself, it was not a copy and paste, rather the opposite. I know that the site supposedly "copied" was actually created after the edits in question. How can we sort out those sorts of things? Montanabw (talk) 06:34, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Dont worry, I'll take care of it, and I apologize for any confusion. Thank you.-- The Old Pueblo ( talk) 02:34, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
You have a working familiarity with the doggone M/mustang issue, and now we have this article in need of watchlisting: Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. See talk page drama and edit history. The editor raised one legitimate issue and I fixed that bit. But I am concerned that this new editor is making massive and irrelevant edits to the piece, some without proper attribution. It's a GA-class article, one where Dana boomer led the push (and she doesn't edit any more because she's just sick of all the drama) Might also want to watch new edits for copyvio issues. Don't quite know why it's mustang season around here, but it is. Montanabw (talk) 07:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I may have taken the wrong approach to getting your attention to the article on Thomas M. Humphrey, but I just clicked "undo" on your latest revision. In the long run, the article has been dramatically improved by your insistence at the removal of many of my COI additions, which I now realize did not fit the guidelines for an article on a living person. However, some of the current content, e.g. the small paragraph about his thanking his former professors, now appears inconsequential and should probably be removed. The long quote from Humphrey from one of his own books was an attempt to illustrate influences on his study and writing in the field of history of economic thought. Now that the quote has been removed, the short summarizing paragraph is superfluous and adds no additional information for encyclopedic content.
Similarly, the COI charge for the newspaper editor Lewis Craig Humphrey, my husband's grandfather, seems unwarranted, since he died in 1927. I never met him. I was born in 1936 but have access to a great deal of professional ancestral research, family records, and saved images which I hope to place in the public domain with Wikimedia.
Thank you for your ongoing assistance Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 15:45, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
You've got mail. -- Diannaa ( talk) 20:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
FYI, I acknowledge that the Black (horse) article needs updating. Back when Countercanter was here and working on all the coat color genetics articles, we missed that one, which is ironic, as I got interested in the whole genetics issue in part due to owning a black horse for a while (I also owned a kind-of-rescue-horse who turned out to be affected with cerebellar abiotrophy, which what really got me interested). The coat color testing stuff is just fascinating. Montanabw (talk) 23:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the great work on Terry Reagan Allvord Theroadislong ( talk) 13:39, 27 February 2015 (UTC) |
Hello, I'm
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I noticed that you made a comment on the page
User talk:Ratn9ne that didn't seem very
civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia needs people like you and me to collaborate, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. In particular, "dicks". The heading has been revised. If you think Ratn9ne has a COI problem, then just ask. If you have some evidence to show COI, then post it. Also, you might use the {{
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If you check the links I listed in regards to the Spot fish on the Spot Fish & Spot Croaker articles you will see the original editor only copied information from those sources and spliced it into what the Smithsonian already created, Also conveniently misnamed the species. Cheatspace ( talk) 22:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contribution to the Wiki Victuallers ( talk) 00:01, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for identifying that the rewritten Barbara Borts article had been wrongly located. Somehow having an article, even in draft, on a Talk page seems counter-intuitive. You might wish to know that I've also rewritten Southlands College, Roehampton: could you please take a look? I can work on rewriting Isabella Plantation next if that would be helpful. Incidentally, all has gone quiet on the OTRS raised for Rebecca Hollweg; it would be good to know please what the problem was with the email correspondence I submitted about it. Headhitter ( talk) 10:49, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
As you can see on the page The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, some anonymous user has removed the copyvio notice meaning the Synopsis part of the page is not needed. Later you restored it. Well on the temp page, the page is the same but without the Synopsis. Even though the info is already next to the Title.
The Broadcast section on the temp page has been added because the unreferenced part of broadcasting on the page has been removed.
I wonder there is a way to fix this issue. Agentmike41 ( talk) 04:17, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to bring this to your attention & get your input on it.(Link Below) With this in mind. I would like to look forward to collaberating and creating accurate content and building this article up.
Cheatspace ( talk) 21:09, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
I was the one who discovered the copyvio on the Gun law in the United States article and did what I could to remove it. What I added to the article, I added in GF and with an eye toward paraphrasing the material at the source cited. (Not easy to do when one is dealing with laws, but the firearms editors like these kinds of details.) Could you please have a care with your edit summaries? [10] Thanks. Lightbreather ( talk) 17:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey Justlettersandnumbers I know we resolved this and I appreciate all your help. Unfortunately, the page hasn't been redirected yet. Do you think you can help me out? Thanks again. Petercannon usf ( talk) 13:58, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Jlan. I've fixed some problems with the headers for March 11 through 17 at Wikipedia:Copyright problems as the pages were not transcluding for the bot reports ( sample diff of correction). Also, there's no header for March 9. Would you mind adding it to the page? I'm not experienced at that page and am not sure how or where to place it. Thanks, -- Diannaa ( talk) 11:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Jlan. Please have a look at my edit and rev-del to the talk page and make sure what I did was okay. Thanks, -- Diannaa ( talk) 23:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because there are no Copyright infringements on the created article as the artist's website clearly notifies that both texts and visual material are under a Creative commons license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which allows even commercial use. The article was not directly copied from the official website but inspired on it. Please, revise and consider my petition as it doesn't violate Wikipedia standards for encyclopedic content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truesc ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The copyright is subject to Copyvio (which you have not indicated to the page admins) and further appraisal by the admins in the Category of Bangladesh and Portal: Bangladesh. If you have any complaints with regard with regard to the article being a violation, please point it to us using copyvio. Also, the copyright policy is no subject to the Copyright law of the United States, so the policies are not that stringent in this case. Please notify the admins and it will corrected promptly.
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Wondering if we need to somehow consolidate all the "horse breeds by country" templates we have now, did you note Template:British horses? Is there something of a consistent format for all these? You know I'm not a huge fan of the "by nation" templates, but seeing as how they are being created, might as well make sure they all look nice and are consistent with one another - and all link to the list of horse breeds. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 19:22, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Just a message to inform you that I've received your messages, become aware of the situation, and consequently responded on the appropriate pages. Once again though I'd like to personally apologise to you for the amount of your own time that all of this has taken up, and to assure you that I've been oblivious to this mounting drama until now, and that I firmly believe that nobody was acting with any ill will or intent to deceive - I think it has all been an unfortunate combination of naivety, inexperience and misplaced enthusiasm. Nonetheless, thankyou for responding as you have, my sincerest apologies for any complications caused, and I wish you the very best of luck. BriceStratford ( talk) 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Interesting article with some good stats, might be just up your alley: [11] Montanabw (talk) 23:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers,
I have done my work with temporary page- User talk:SiloniSam/Carborundum Universal Ltd/Temp and I excluded all that u have mentioned before about the article and thank u. I am expecting you to help in improving the article. Thank you. SiloniSam ( talk) 11:06, 1 April 2015 (UTC)SiloniSam
Hi.. thanks for pointing out the copyright problem over at Tony Wood (businessman). I wanted to let you know that I have rewritten a new lead to that article, should you wish to reassess it. Danimations ( talk) 02:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I have created a temporary page because the article at B FLOW Zambia is suspected to be a copyright violation. Please take a look at this substitute article Talk:B_FLOW_Zambia/Temp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icem4k ( talk • contribs) 19:21, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
hello i saw copyrigt report on sophie lillienne page actually there is not this problem. check the site http://www.radiostar.it/Sophie%20Lillienne/ could you suggest me the best way to resolve this problem? in the meantime i will create a temporary page using the history of the page (hoping this porblem can be solved)
thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauraverroni ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Justlettersandnumbers, I have included a comment here with regards to the changes that you made about the definition of Geoethics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Geoethics I hope my explanation is considered and accepted. Please, I apologize for my unexperience editing wikipedia. Any assistance from you is welcome. Thank you! Jesús Martínez-Frías, President, IAGETH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.130.249.49 ( talk) 18:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
This kind of stuff? Just stop it.
(No, no. Don't. Because then they'll never get done.)
I'll try to hit some more at WP:CP this weekend. Have you looked at User:EranBot/Copyright/rc, by the way? I've been poking at that a bit, and it really works pretty well. It's easier to use than CorenSearchBot. I almost wonder if we could get them to take over new articles. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:07, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
FYI, regarding Florilegium (music group), permission has been archived in the OTRS to use certain copyrighted text. Please see [12]. I offer no opinion on whether or not the content is appropriate for the article for other reasons. (I realize that you removed the text in question 5 months ago - there's an excessively long backlog in the permissions-en queue.) -- B ( talk) 01:23, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
By any chance, do you know how long reviews take for the copyright investigation? I wrote the rewrite over a week ago if I am correct. It's just a question. Thanks, Callmemirela ( talk) 02:15, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
JLAN, can you do your thing at Paul D. Cronin? The individual is adequately notable (I've read his book, actually) but the article is awfully heavy on resume elements. Needs a bit of a look from someone with more time than I have at present. Montanabw (talk) 05:44, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Justlettersandnumbers. I see that you are an OTRS volunteer. Regarding the history purge of Barbara Myerhoff, there is a relevant ticket at VRTS ticket # 2015010810011112. -- B ( talk) 03:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Ciao Justlettersandnumbers,
I am just fine, thanks, except that I just moved and my books are still scattered among my new home, my office and only God knows where. You are most welcome to correct all my english mistakes: actually, someone was buzzing in my ear that desecrated wasn't really the correct word, but you arrived first. :-) About translation, well, what you are saying is only the half truth. Actually, I started this article translating the italian version, but I noticed soon that there were no inline citations. Then I looked in my bookshelves, dug out the "Guide rionali di Roma" (the best source about all the "minor" art works in the eternal city) retrieved info and added notes on the english edition, then went back to the italian edition and added the related info and related notes there. Moreover, I had to ask a colleague in Rome about a missing reference in the Italian wiki, in order to add it in the english one. So, if you compare the Italian version of 5 March with the english as of today, you can see that they are quite different (3K against almost 6K), but it is true that the two versions of today are quite similar, since I have been working on both, enlarging the english one and transferring info and citations to the italian. As a general pattern, italians on wiki:it write good stuff, but they almost always don't insert inline citation, so their articles are good only as starting points, but then one has to research everything again and rewrite a great part of the text. Anyway, it is true that I sometime translate literally little articles from other wikis (the last is
this one), and there sometime I forget to add the template, s.o.m.!
Back to this small church, I wrote the article since my best friend in Rome lives next to it, so I saw the portal at least 200 times in my life, each time that I rang his door bell. Actually, the restaurant that was there was a Govinda restaurant of the Hare Khrishna (it closed about twenty years ago). It would have been a nice hook for the DYK, but unfortunately I could not find any citations on the web that affirms that this restaurant was in the church, so I was forced to renounce to this precious information. :-) Another missed scoop is that it is not true that there are only two surviving frescoes of the church: once I went with my friend in a neighbour's home, and he showed us beautiful religious frescoes in his living room, which was part of one of the naves: but also this info was never published, so I cannot put in the article. :-) Bye, Alex2006 ( talk) 13:42, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
When you find an article with a small copyvio section (e.g., Malcolm H. Stern), is it really necessary to blank quite so much of the article? The original contributor is quite upset. DS ( talk) 19:11, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Justlettersandnumbers,
I have been trying to post some content on LOUISE BLOUIN Page. The content posted was supppressed by you, and the reason was "largely irrelevant content, the remainder not supported by the source cited - Wikipedia is built on INDEPENDENT reliable sources".
My sources were : 1- Canadian Business.com: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/louise-blouin-macbain-the-art-world-aficionado/ an article written in 2005 by Zenia Olijnyk and 2- The World Economic Forum, Davos http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1993.pdf
I do not understand the reason why my posts were suppressed. The content and the sources are relevant.
Could you please clarify this situation, where I feel beeing mistreated. Furthermore, this page is only giving space to "CONTROVERSY", when all the real and interesting pieces of information on Louise Blouin are suppressed by one user. This is not fair, as Louise Blouin is a public person.
Hoping to read you soon. Caparica20 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caparica20 ( talk • contribs) 15:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Why did you blank out the whole article for just an issue with the season one summaries when you should have just removed the summaries? I tried to fix it by doing just that and just got backlash and insults from another editor who reverted it. Would you please remove the copyright template by reverting to my last version which doesn't have the copyright issue? helmboy 00:02, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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I would love the COI guidelines within AFC to be debated and thrashed out, I find it a difficult area. Thank yo for the compliment. I try my best and am by no means always correct. I'm learning only to make a review when I am as certain as I can be about it. Fiddle Faddle 16:37, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN. I noticed your question on his talk page, and I'd like to answer it. Truthfully, both "East Village" and "West Village" can go either with or without the definite article, but many New Yorkers prefer the definite article. Epic Genius ( talk) 20:46, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hallo Justlettersandnumbers, Alessandro writing! I would like to ask your opinion about recent edits on several articles concerning landmarks of Istanbul, like for example Hagia Sophia. An editor added the template (and related category) which identify each of these landmarks as (parts of) a world heritage site. I am perplex about this edits, since the WHS of Istanbul are defined as four areas, and there is no list of the single landmarks in these areas by UNESCO. If we want to be correct, we should then mark any object in these areas (also the minor ones, as the Milion) as world heritage site: incidentally, this would be the case also for Rome and the Vatican. But so we would "pollute" the WHS category with thousands of objects (included San Simone e Giuda :-)). What do you think about that? Thanks, Alex2006 ( talk) 14:51, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. I notice that the same IP added significant content to a few other related articles at the same time in 2010. That content may be suspicious and is worth checking in to, if it's survived all these years. —Alex ( Ashill | talk | contribs) 20:51, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
It is mostly WP:CWW. He used to copy and paste things from articles like the examples here, and I tried to keep up with it a while.
Nomination: [30]
We say, at the top of every Signpost FC, that material ay be reused from the relevant articles. While, ideally, everything would be rewritten before publication, given the disclaimer, you really need to drop the stick, Hafs. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 09:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Drmies, I've replied there. Thanks for dealing with the talk page problem. Regards as always, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 17:54, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
JLAN, which program is your current go-to for detecting basic copyright violations? The one wmf had up for a while was gibberish to me (gave a percentage and flagged mirror sites) and dup detector is ... tedious. Have any new gadgets come up lately? Montanabw (talk) 23:47, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
For not only going to the effort to save an article I deleted, but following through, and then finding all the copyrighted revisions, and requesting deletion of them! You have earned this barnstar of dilligence! Chris lk02 Chris Kreider 22:42, 7 May 2015 (UTC) |
I don't know if you recall, but you pinged me in your original SPI of BriceStratford, and I didn't receive notification of the ping, and you thought the software must have malfunctioned. Here is the explanation of why pings do not work in the initial filing of an SPI; it's because the SPI-filing software adds your own signature itself rather than you signing manually. Manual signing is evidently what activates the ping. See User_talk:Drmies#That_stupid_pingie_thingie. Softlavender ( talk) 01:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
See also Wikipedia:Notifications#Triggering_events. By the way, this is all news to me, too. Softlavender ( talk) 02:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, if you have time can you check the deletions to the above article. I'm a bit pressed for time. I have already reverted once, on the basis of unexplained. Thanks in advance. Denisarona ( talk) 12:20, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Dcljr: (also, ec with Moonriddengirl) Ah, I just noticed this. No please, reconsider: I deliberately changed one AND ONLY ONE page because it would be confusing for NON-Wikipedians. I changed ONLY my username... as a courtesy to non-Wikipedians. Non-Wikipedians would not know to look in the hist etc. I emailed non-Wikipedians and asked them to look there. They probably won't, but that's a little irrelevant. I didn't do anything genuinely confusing like AWB a mass of pages. I edited one page. @ Moonriddengirl:, I too am very confused by the hostile tone that Ironholds has adopted. I thank you for noting it. • Arch♦ Reader 01:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN. Could you take a look at User_talk:Nmwalsh#Solvilo and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nmwalsh? One of their edits copied content from User:Trident13/DavisPAuthor which was then used to recreate an article after an AFD using a slightly different title. They started editing shortly after Trident13 was blocked which also strikes me as suspect. Can you notice any behavioural crossover between them? Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 17:25, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, you may want to spot-check some of my other closes of late... Crow Caw 22:19, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Is CC BY SA good enough? that's what the UNESCO folks seem to say the text is, somewhere in the legal verbiage etc. • Arch♦ Reader 11:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi,
I made the edits suggested and gave it a more "encyclopedic" tone to this article. I hope it can be approved now!
Thanks a lot
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Just ran across this, and what on earth is going on here? I'm concerned that it is being linked to a page that is clearly a copyvio in and of itself - the original page for that information would be this one, although any attempt to actually retrieve that article in the correct state is impossible (none of the archive links at the Web Archive seem to work). In addition to this, a huge number of the flags being raised would be triggered on almost any article, because there are very few other ways of describing things without deliberately going against the MOS, the standard formatting for the Football WikiProject, or without significantly changing the information present and presenting this in the wrong way entirely. Not only that, but there are a fair number of totally false flags in there as well. Whilst some of it definitely could, and should, be cleaned up and reworded, I really don't feel that this justifies a great big scare template on a highly-visible article - the evidence is just far too weak, and the scare template stops anyone from attempting to resolve the issue. I mean, the vast majority of flags are either people's names, club names, or references to seasons/times in seasons, with little else there! I strongly feel that you should remove the template. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers,
I am the creator of the website "Scarisbrick - on the Internet" (url: http://scarisbrick.name) and I am slightly confused as to what happened to Wikipedia's "Scarisbrick (surname)" page on 28 April 2015 regarding the request for historical revisions of the page to be redacted because "the article history contains significant copyright violations" of my website. Does the copyright violation refer to the article history or my website and, if it is the latter, is there anything I can do to help?
I would be grateful if you could explain things to me in layman's terms!
Regards, Rob ( User:Scaz) ( talk) 14:05, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)No one can just copy and paste from anywhere else onto wikipedia, especially without proper attribution. Even if it's your own website... and technically WP:COI may apply to you if it is. But to the point of your question, as the editing window says, "By clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL with the understanding that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient for CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution." That means that everything on wikipedia is free for anyone else to use for pretty much any reason. You also cannot plagiarize even public domain work. I'll let JLAN explain further to you, I was just popping by. Montanabw (talk) 04:01, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you Montanabw and thank you Justlettersandnumbers. 13:35, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, I have been through the whole copyright and citing process with wikipedia administrator Bgwhite. The Adnews link you cited was copied from the TrinityP3 website which belongs to Darren Woolley. The original content (before your edits) was rewritten so that it wasn't exactly the same but with the amount of nouns needed to describe where and who he worked with it, was difficult not to "paraphrase". Also, why did you remove his 'Personal Life'? Darren Woolley provided me with that information so it's not copyright material. I do want to get this "right" and include more of the original text rather than as it is (which is almost stripped bare). The original is still in my Sandbox. Please help, thank you Hpe3121 ( talk) 04:06, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, In response to your comments:
Aforementioned third party pointed me to the image of Darren Woolley which I accessed online. I uploaded this image to Wiki Commons and added it to Darren Woolley's page. It has since been deleted. How do I prove no copyright for an image of an individual? Most photos of individuals are from pages where there is no explicit giving up of copyright. Should it be on Flikr or similar? Can you give me instructions on what else I need to do?
Thank you for your time. This is the first article I have put on Wikipedia so it has been a huge learning curve for me. Regards, Hpe3121 ( talk) 01:36, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Wondering if we need an overview article, I'm not finding anyone other than Hendricks and wikipedia morrors who mentions an "Unmol" horse, but if it's an extinct type, may have some relevance merged into something else. Don't know. IN the meantime, found these, FWIW.
Montanabw (talk) 22:04, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Incidentally, you probably don't want to go near this with a 10-foot pole, but it's b-a-a-a-ack; the "kill all redlinks because they re awful": Wikipedia_talk:Red_link#Proposal_regarding_redlinks_in_navigation_templates so far also (closed) and (still open). Get out your popcorn and watch the show. :-P Montanabw (talk) 05:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, on 31 March 2015 you made several edits to Peperoncino, for which I'm grateful to you. However, you also moved the line in the intro which addresses the confusion with the friggitello to a note. I think this confusion should be clarified in the introduction itself instead of the note, because it should be as obvious as possible. A reader reported on the talk page Talk:Peperoncino#Pickled salad peppers that he was still confused. You responded with creating appropriate wikilinks to the friggitello article, but I still think it would be better if the note was moved to an in-text mention in the intro. Would you object if I change it back? -- AlexanderVanLoon ( talk) 07:29, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Discussion of "race" versus "breed" at Talk:Race (biology); it's apparently a spillover discussion from the human race article, which is locked down and the combatants at ANI. I'm thinking that the animal one should just be moved and merged to breed to avoid the whole drama. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 21:13, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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This article needs a rewrite: Freiberger. Lots of good images, but the writing is so bad that I hope it's not a copyvio, because a copyvio is usually of better quality. But this one is probably up your alley. Montanabw (talk) 04:17, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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hi Justlettersandnumbers! just asking for a response to my query on the Brice Stratford talk page - what are the remaining issues with the article? 63399896enrique ( talk) 09:12, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Softlavender ( talk) 23:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, just wanted to come by and say well done and thanks for all your work on this article. I'm a huge fan of the work, and it's long overdue. Excellent job. Thankyou! The Dancing Badger ( talk) 19:53, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Good job, thanks a lot! -- Carlomartini86 (Knock-Knock) 07:53, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
As you and Jytdog may recall, one of the articles the sock/meat farm is involved in is Secret Cinema (company). Could you both keep it on your watch lists -- it is becoming a veritable ad/brochure. Also, the current main sock/meat editing it has also just created Fabien Riggall, also worth watching lest it become likewise fluff/puff. And in case you are wondering the connection, here is a photo of Brice Stratford at Secret Cinema with Fabien Riggall: [39] (click "and 33 others"). Also, Secret Cinema is the first thing listed on Stratford's official CV besides Owle Schreame: [40]. Softlavender ( talk) 12:50, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
This is interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/07/30/in-spain-the-american-mustangs-ancestral-cousins-live-on/
I was just judging a horse show down in Wyoming a couple weeks ago and there was a BLM Mustang born on the range and adopted as a yearling at the show, looked just like a Lipizzan - six years old, already near-pure white coat, about 15.1 hands, classic Baroque type. I was flabbergasted. (Also awarded him supreme champion in the halter classes, even though he was a gelding) Was a fun show, some other folks brought in three of those Gypsy Vanners. Threw a western saddle on one and took them in the trail (horse show) class. You never know what you can find out here in the wild west. Someone just put a Haflinger in the "free to a good home" section of the local paper. Montanabw (talk) 20:22, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi There, yes new to Wikipedia! This is my first attempt at amends and trying to understand it all - hence the only one page edit. I am a bit confused why the filmography has been removed as well as key people in the info box - i have found articles to back them all up? Also what "promotional language" are you referring to?
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Hi. I just want to let you know that this ip address, which is badly editing in Brera Academy, is in it.wiki a verified sockpuppet of User:Alec Smithson, which is doing the same thing. In it.wiki that user has been banned for a lot of troubles he caused. A lot of pages he wrote and a lot of edits from him in it.wiki have been deleted or reverted as copyviol, vandalism, not notable, source mystification... ALL his edits are potentially wrong, trust me, and the worst thing is that he uses a lot of nicknames and ip addresses, and that makes really hard to follow him. I'm not so active here in en.wiki, and my english is not so good, so I can't do here the same supervision I did in it.wiki. So I feel obliged to let you know this situation, and I hope that also here in en.wiki you will succeed to manage the situation. If you need, I can give you more details. Thanks a lot. -- Carlomartini86 (Knock-Knock) 12:59, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
For your information, I am expanding sheep breed stubs in connection with the Stub contest. I am choosing poorly referenced articles that are of a sufficient length to be easily expanded to the required 1500 B. I have about a dozen more on my list! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:36, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Hallo Justlettersandnumbers, and thanks for your nice message! But who told you about this (totally undeserved) honor? Apparently I am still missing something about Wikipedia's communication channels :-) Thanks again, Alex2006 ( talk) 11:07, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
FYI: [41] Long term abuse problem. Montanabw (talk) 23:30, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
As you may have seen, I declined your request for speedy deletion of The Spent Idols because I wasn't sure how to handle the situation. This action is now the basis of a big thread at WP:AN, "What to do about additional articles by Orangemoody socks"; I had asked Risker's opinion of my decline, and he basically said "Let's ask the community". Your reasoning for requesting this page's deletion would be helpful here. Nyttend ( talk) 03:58, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
You didn't specify the CSD code when you tagged Mirus Academy (U.S). Once all admin's are familiar with the Orangemoody situation, they will understand but it would be helpful if you would indicate that the criteria is G5.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 13:31, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that we remove (or edit) the COI in a way that removes the name of the editor in question. Why? Because the editor's name matches that of Ranalli's wife (assuming I have read some of the citations correctly). We don't know for certain whether it is actually his wife. But, either way, it is not good to (a) "out a person" or (b) have another editor maliciously use the wife's name. — Eurodog ( talk) 21:35, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I'm so sorry I never noticed your question on the talk page of my sandbox, not until today, finally. You asked whether of not the word manade in French might not correspond to manada in Spanish. You are probably right, since the term has roots in both the Provençal and Latin languages, as can be deduced from the first line of the article ( "A manade (prov. menada, originally from lat. manus = hand)[1]"). But I am not qualified to say which way it went, from the Spanish to the French or vice versa, nor do I have any sources to prove this point. My best guess is they used the same word as they shared the same interests. The last letter in the modern version of the words is only a co-incidence. Feel free to edit this article in any way you wish! Paj ( talk) 20:42, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
I like to know why you erase my integratoion to Francesco Filippini without no reason. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 17:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
In first I think that the bibliography can help to improve the articles step by step and are checked bibligraphy not ridiculous these is sorry offensive, please check. In second the presence in the museums is an important section for an artist also to visit. For example I wrote the Awards in the rights space of the Infobox and you completly erase without reason. For category is true Filippini is a person not art genre but represent an important art genre in italian. I understand that you said me and I will try to improve the basics principles, but please give more respect and investigation about that the people write because maybe are interesting items that come from a long work of research and need only to be correct. Thank you. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 18:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers,
You recently put COI tag on Madura Kulatunga article. I create this article with help from Wikipedia Live Chat (IRC) support. I did all the things they told me to do. Lot of things they changed, remove, etc. Then they told me to submit for review. Reviewer also found errors and Rejected several times. Then I again got help from Live Chat Support and correct those errors. Finlay my draft got approved and become Live article. Then again User:CactusWriter Administrator & Senior Editor III revised this entire article completely with his neutral point of view. Plese look at this old revision https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Madura_Kulatunga&oldid=679414220 and compare it with current article /info/en/?search=Madura_Kulatunga
I put this message on Talk:Madura_Kulatunga and then I added User:Madura Kulatunga to the Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles and Template:Connected contributor to the Talk:Madura Kulatunga. But User:Jytdog is not allow me to remove COI tag from article page. If you think User:CactusWriter's revision is acceptable you can remove COI tag and add Madura Kulatunga to your watch list. Thank you 112.134.148.4 ( talk) 15:53, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the potential copyright issue on the Palazzo Parisio (Valletta) article, could you please indicate the parts of the text which appear to be copyrighted? Unless User:Continentaleurope wants to do it, I can try to rewrite the parts of the article which are copyrighted. Best regards, Xwejnusgozo ( talk) 21:37, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Why you erase the integration of Triennale? Please explain because I insert all the reference with the links also. Is not important the person that founded and finance the Museum? Please explain, you did 2 times without reason and these Andrea Bernocchi is really very famous, you can check. founder =Andrea Bernocchi [1]. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 22:52, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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I'm kind of busy with my pending RfA, but this was a new article and it's a new editor, but I think good faith and they just need some hand-holding to find sources and such. Campeiro. Only concern I have is if it's a fork of Campolina, as the same editor did a bunch of edits there also. Montanabw (talk) 16:47, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Another new article for you to run your copycheck eyes over: Pampa (horse). I also proposed a merge of that article into Pampa horse, which looks like a duplicate, but far less content. I'm kind of worried about all the photos, I think he's going to wind up with them all being tossed because he's pulling them from random web sites and they aren't free content, but I have other fish to fry right now... I guess alert any gnomes who can help. Montanabw (talk) 05:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Justlettersandnumbers. I've been looking over the contrib history of the editor you and User:Sphilbrick were talking about - the day I shut down prematurely - and I'm seeing more of concern but after spot-checking 30 articles not quite the tipping point for me to be sure we need a CCI. Close. But I'm unsure.
In addition to the two you identified, I have found the following:
I've seen a few other paraphrasings that were closer than I'd like, but not extensive enough in individual articles that I would assess them as copyright issues.
I have removed the user's rights because of the demonstrable copy-pasting in multiple articles in the past week, but I'm not really sure if a CCI is warranted here.
The user seems to be a fluent writer, and I'm at a loss to explain the copy-pasting. When I thought it was just plot-sections aside from the potential anomaly of the one article, I figured perhaps there was a lack of understanding that those were copyrighted, but that doesn't explain edits like this one where the second paragraph of the "Early life and education" section and the second paragraph of "Show business" are almost entirely copy-pasted from [42].
Anyway, I would welcome further thoughts from both you and User:Sphilbrick. And anyone else who assesses this stuff. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Opened, regretfully, at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20150927. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:35, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for putting the wrong link up on WT:WikiProject Equine. I have corrected the problem. Don't know what I was thinking about, unless it was the TWHBEA and all the other associations who use their abbreviation for their web address. I've been scatterbrained this week because on Monday I had to put down a rabbit that I'd raised from birth and who had been ill for over a month...😳 White Arabian mare ( Neigh) 21:20, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
I saw your note on Talk:Slow ageing about the CCI for Trident13. I'd be happy to help with the list, although I'm not quite sure about the procedure to follow. Do I just pick an article from the list, do a similar analysis as I did for Slow ageing and then if necessary, list it as a copyvio the same way I did? Then once I've evaluated an article, do I update the CCI page, or does that get done by whoever takes action? For example, for Slow ageing, would I change
N Slow ageing: (39 edits, 39 major, +34857) (+14481) (+7357) (+34857) (+692) (+174) (+555) (+1094) (+253) (+2003) (+582) (+671) (+658) (+388) (+1131) (+599) (+662) (+576) (+661) (+1145) (+454) (+1257) (+1163) (+325) (+174) (+240) (+169) (+305) (+172) (+200) (+210) (+2943) (+5482) (+843) (+321) (+2697) (+5184) (+1283) (+285) (+2115)
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unattributed copying removed by Justlettersandnumbers and article redirected to Ageing. Ca2james ( talk) 17:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
? Thanks for your help. Ca2james ( talk) 17:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the correction on my name-editing there. When I change name links in lists like that, I nearly always shift the descriptor to outside the link, because most of these lists are made up of names with brief bios ("Diana Ross, singer," etc.). In general I just try to match the pre-existing format of the list. This one was a bare list of names, so that's what I went with - and I guess I spaced on the fact that those parenthetical descriptors are actually useful for telling same-named people apart! Just wanted to let you know I hadn't done it thoughtlessly (at least not 100% thoughtlessly anyway), and to thank you for fixing it. Cheers! Jessicapierce ( talk) 21:56, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello Justlettersandnumbers, I have noticed that there was "Investigation for Copyright infringement" on the Bates College Wikipedia Article. I was wondering as to why that is. The links that were listed as problematic, have zero copyright issues with them. There is no copying of the sources in any capacity nearing that of copyright misdeed. Let me know whats going on here, because I am a little confused. Thanks so much, DonSpencer1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DonSpencer1 ( talk • contribs) 02:00, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I do not have any connection with the college. I was seeking to update educational and informational platforms in Maine, starting with Bates College, etc. I did not mean to cause such a stir; hopefully it will be resolved. I just don't want all the hard work others have put into the article to be erased over my updating of facts. I noticed throughout the page, facts and figures seemed to be from 2011, 2012, and 2013. Certain aspects of the endowment, majors available, admit rate, faculty, etc. were very outdated. Thanks! DonSpencer1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DonSpencer1 ( talk • contribs) 16:29, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Justlettersandnumbers. I do have a connection to Bates, in the Communications Office. You and other users have done good work cleaning up some sloppy additions to the article in the last few days. Thank you. I do think that the article can be cleaned up without blanking the whole article. I'm very familiar with the contents of the article and see no major copyright violation but I understand that there are formal procedures to follow, and welcome forward motion to solve this. Thank you. HJayBurns —Preceding undated comment added 20:13, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Now that the Afd nomination for Ousmane Sow has been withdrawn, I don't know about other editors, but I would like to take you up on your offer to work on the article. -- Bejnar ( talk) 15:36, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I don't know what happened. I screwed up royally. Somehow I failed to notice the AFD template when I did a general revert. Obviously I know not to remove an AFD template nor have I ever done so. I don't know what happened. I must have been dehydrated or need new glasses. Sorry. I also support the AFD, as a matter of fact. Apologies again for the snafu. Yours, Quis separabit? 18:17, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
I very much appreciate your assistance over at Cheval du Morvan. Do the referencing issues you encountered often occur when using ContentTranslation? This is my first time using the tool and I certainly won't put myself or anyone else through that hassle if it can be avoided by simply translating from scratch. /wia /talk 19:10, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Got an alert to these four or five copyright investigations; Kent Warner Smith, Arthur Samish, Montgomery Block, Father Fitzgerald, Justin Hertman. Yes, I cut and pasted. Can I just rewrite the material? I did some of those a long time ago, and most of my work has stood up. Maybe someone should check my other entries. User;Hank Chapot 10/9/15 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.48.224 ( talk) 02:36, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers, I translated it from German Wikipedia. They may have taken their info from the links shown as German Wikipedia is not as fastidious about inline citations as we are here. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 19:46, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
I've dropped the protection so you should be able to get at it at your earliest convenience. Good luck with the rewrite! TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:17, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear Justlettersandnumbers: Thank you for your help on the Epsom Salts Monorail article. I have today started from scratch and came-up with this draft. However, I couldn't get one of your tools running to assess it. Could you have a look at it, please?-- NearEMPTiness ( talk) 10:32, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
The daily subpages of Wikipedia:Copyright problems should be automatically created every day by a bot. VWBot has previously done this. 2607:FB90:62F:4EA0:0:1C:5886:3F01 ( talk) 19:11, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Justlettersandnumbers Thank you for your comments. I'm not sure why you question any of the contents I've wrote just based on my name. You can read the whole page Eliot Hodgkin and confirm that everything has a source. You will only find facts on the page and no personal opinion. I encourage you to read the article and please be specific if any references are missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markphodgkin ( talk • contribs) 18:52, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
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Per your comment, I un-redirected Riding horse and redirected Saddle horse and Saddle-horse to it. Totally a one-sentence stub, feel free to add anything you think relevant. Huge topic, hard to know where or how to start. Equestrianism also has redirects from horse riding, horseback riding and so on. Also, FWIW, see here where I've had ideas languishing for years. You are right that an overview is needed. Any thoughts or ideas welcomed. Montanabw (talk) 21:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw you took the italics off Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole. I started to put them back, then checked around, and am now unsure. Proper name (philosophy) says John Stuart Mill defines a "proper name" as "a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about but not of telling anything about it". I would say that means the name cannot be reasonably translated. Charles de Gaulle would not be translated into "Charles of Gaul". But I always use italics for foreign phrases that are followed by the English translation, in this case,
(I use French capitalization for the French form and English capitalization for the English form.) Now I find Wikipedia:Writing better articles saying "Non-English words should be used as titles for entries only as a last resort." So I wonder if the article should be moved to an English translation of the common name:
I don't like that at all because even English sources rarely use the English form except as a translation of the French. Dunno. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:31, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
you know what are the acts of persecution? you're making them. You deleted prudhomme night. That is present in many other sources merging it with a page that has nothing to do. I ask you not to enter more in relationships with me in my no written once again. There are other people and you do not feel qualified to evaluate anything. You do not have the culture to do so. You do not know nothing about prudhommie concept and you erase without reason very important content. -- Alec Smithson ( talk) 23:05, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, what is this? "rm refs to newspaper clipping on Facebook per WP:LINKVIO" Why the newspaper is not a valid source? Thank you Pizzole ( talk) 13:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
JLAN - thanks for helping make sense of my edits to the Coldwell Banker page. I found some interesting information about the company but its on the company's website - http://legacy.coldwellbanker.com/ - I know that Wikipedia prefers not to use primary resources, so how can I work that in otherwise? I thought the Philanthropic elements were good insights to the company - like the social causes on the Coca-cola page. Perhaps they should be less wordy and directly about the good done? I.e. 130 homes built for Habitat For Humanity or the placing of over 20,000 dogs with Adopt-a-Pet.com - I also found WWII war effort support on the company website, but couldn't validate it with a 3rd party link so I chose not to add it. They have some awards too but I didn't know what would be deemed "marketing speak" so I chose to skip those additions as well. One last thing I found, was a recent CNET partnership centered around Smart Homes, but again I kept my edits strictly facts in the timeline. I aim to be a good Wiki contributor and value the assistance of experts like yourself.
Sorry for the SFGate link error - that was an input mistake on my part.
Pdogsi ( talk) 00:41, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Have you run into the term "block-coloured" as UK English for pinto horses? See here It would be nice to have the UK equivalent for the generic pattern, without using the loaded term "coloured" (which has human racial implications, thanks largely to the history of South Africa but also because "colored" is viewed as a racial slur in the USA too) and thus not having to designate "piebald" and "skewbald" (and is Tricoloured (horse) really used? At the time we did the articles, the UK editors assured me it was, but someone recently argued otherwise... I had been taught that bay pintos were also simply "skewbald"). Anyway, help!? Montanabw (talk) 23:26, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
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Not a death struggle, but you probably can shed enlightenment on this: Talk:Master_of_the_Horse#Requested_move_29_October_2015. Montanabw (talk) 23:15, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I have launched an arbitration request to request removal of Justlettersandnumbers from editing this site. Endidro ( talk) 11:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Seeing the above, my sympathies if the sorting out you and I are doing at the horse article is causing you more stress than you need. We'll get there. In the meantime, on that topic, found this little gold mine to perhaps lighten your mood: [43], [44], and [45]. LOL!
I do see your point, but [46]. There's also walking, but consistency does fit with trot and canter. Dunno. But is Amble the town really WP:PRIMARY? (Wondering) Montanabw (talk) 20:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I do really appreciate you guys for checking this matter, however my question is how and where can I access the old article? since we all know that wikipedia is an open platform anyone or everyone can edit an article or contribute, I do see that copyright issue came from several sources who contribute and edited this article, is there any way that we can undo all the changes from where I started the article? and probably delete all the other changes that a contributor did?. Thanks! CarlaAllison0787 ( talk) 04:44, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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I'm really trying to seek some middle ground here and not push a win-lose situation with the height, characteristics and sourcing on horse breed articles. I have a lot of respect for your ability with language, which I lack, and I also respect your ability to spot copyright violations. I also saw this at the time and took it to heart (though FWIW I remember how awful I felt at the time, so, yes, I also appreciated your acknowledgement that it does take two to tango), but I have to note your own actions played a role in this and this, so I'm really hoping we can just take some deep breaths and avoid another round of acrimony. I'm discussing here rather than at WPEQ because I think this is mostly a personality clash we need to thrash out. Here's my thoughts:
You are the best at figuring out foreign language copyvio; this might just be a bad fr.wiki translation, or more. [47] Your call. I'll go take a whack at it in a few days for bad writing, but don't want to do so if it's got even bigger problems. Montanabw (talk) 03:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
And calm down. -- L.Willms ( talk) 09:57, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey Justlettersandnumbers. I noticed when taking care of some RD1 redactions that you are an OTRS volunteer. I was just wondering if you could shed some light on the draft, Draft:August Puig, that I've just listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 November 14. See there for relevant background. In short, I would have just deleted this as a G12, but it appears an OTRS email *may* have been sent and never reviewed, so I hid the infringing page content rather than deleting it, awaiting OTRS review. However, I suspect such an email may never have been sent (at least properly) since the OTRS email was putatively sent three months ago. I wouldn't have a clue how to check, and probably lack the permissions to do so.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 20:01, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey there. Regarding this recent edit of yours, I'm not sure that this is the best way of notifying the user about the proposed deletion. He appears to have correctly created the page in accordance with the instructions on the copyvio template that was formerly on Keith Sequeira, whereas the wording of your templated notification implies that he was in error to have produced an article which partially duplicates the content of Keith Sequeira. Perhaps you might consider adapting the templated message, or removing it altogether? — Psychonaut ( talk) 14:49, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi JLAN, thanks for following up with me at Draft talk:August Puig. I missed the connection between Galleri MDA and https://www.artsignaturedictionary.com/artist/august.puig. Next time an issue like this comes up (when there are OTRS emails pending or claims of copyright ownership), would it be more prudent for me to send it off to WP:CP instead of trying to handle it myself? I don't want to step on anybody's toes or cause a hassle. Thanks, /wia /tlk 22:18, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Will you look at the bottom half of my sandbox again and see what still needs fixed about it. I will remove it when I get your feedback. I've rewritten a majority of it, removing some parts. Any help would be appreciative because, I'd like to keep the article. Thanks. 🎄 Corkythe hornetfan 🎄 20:05, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Justlettersandnumbers, will you please review Talk:Thomas W. Butcher/Temp and tell me what you think? I've gone ahead and rewritten it. The tool shows 2%, but it only highlights the "president of Central State Normal School" in the Infobox. Thanks. 🎄 Corkythe hornetfan 🎄 03:55, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for helping to clarify my question about translation. Nadnie ( talk) 21:39, 26 November 2015 (UTC) |
"By clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL with the understanding that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient for CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution." So I can't stop you :-) More seriously, I'm slightly confused what you mean. Can't you just say "Nyttend said:?<blockquote>text text text</blockquote>? Regardless of what you mean, (1) you don't need permission, (2) thank you for asking anyway, and (3) thank you for continuing to work on this. Nyttend ( talk) 22:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Blue Blue Sea. I don't want to be a bitch, but this is kind of self-promotion for a self-published book. Would it be evil if I put on a prod tag? There was some coverage of this story in the horse racing press... but... Montanabw (talk) 09:40, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks you Justlettersandnumbers for the information on how to manage the page. You are right that I have a conflict of interest with this page. My edits were used to help keep the information accurate, well referenced and neutral. I will propose future changes using the talk pages instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelKlouda ( talk • contribs) 12:19, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
I added new text to the Lierna Castle article. Can something be done to hasten the resolution of the copyright issue(s)? -- Bejnar ( talk) 00:44, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Or just free advertising? It's your side of the pond... your call: Warwick International School of Riding. Montanabw (talk) 21:20, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
We have tried to change the name of association with reference but they are changing again. Please help me how to move the article or please help me to create Wikipedia page for Premier Badminton League.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ratanrawat ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
To all who watch or visit this page:
My very best wishes for the Christmas holidays and for the New Year. For family reasons I will be on Wikipedia only infrequently (if at all) for several days from now.
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Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:26, 21 December 2015 (UTC) |
We are thinking to create article for 2016 Premier badminton league before that I have doubt. We have found that second session for Indian badminton leagues(which was renamed to Premier badminton leagues) was already mention. Which was supposed to be held on 2014 but it was postponed to 2015. But currently it was schedule to be held on 2nd Jan-2016. You can also see the article in Google Search, related to 2016 Premier badminton leagues matches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.248.150.157 ( talk) 09:39, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for all the fixes on the copyvio problems on Tisziji Munoz! · rodii · 22:06, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that my question on the Teahouse was archived so I'll ask you here; do I blank the whole page or just the top part? People are still editing the article so I am unsure whether or not I should do this.
Kindest regards,
Chesnaught555 ( talk) 12:51, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
Of course, there are blatantly obvious examples of overlinking, but the tone of the infobox article is either pro-link or ambiguous (one of their examples is even internally inconsistent within itself!). I'm not sure if we can define where countries like France stop and "obscure" places like Tuva begin. -- Sunshineisles2 ( talk) 15:09, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I've noticed you've deleted a lot of the Forbes lists for a supposed copyright issue? You did not appear to start conversations about this on the talk pages, and appeared to move unilaterally. According to some research I've done (including on some of the individual talk pages for the respective Forbes lists), having the top 10 people per year on these articles does appear to fall into fair use, while publishing full lists of the winners of that respective year does not. I would ask you to research this, as my experience with Wikipedia copyright is limited, and see if there is enough rationale to restore some of these lists, as the articles are threadbare once the results are deleted. I have restored mos of the Forbes articles and started discussions on each of their talk pages. I would ask that you please do not make major edits on these articles until a consensus has been reached. Fireflyfanboy ( talk) 21:22, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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I'm speaking with a person from the university on Tuesday about helping them improve the page in my usual COI role. I really appreciated your note here, which was exceptionally civil and straightforward. I've done some research so far and the page history looks like a pretty routine case of copyvio/spam. I thought I would just ping you to see if there was any context I was not aware of. If you have any interest, it would be great if I could get them to circle back to you later with a proper encyclopedic draft using secondary sources. David King, Ethical Wiki ( Talk) 21:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
It was created as Indian Badminton League then someone usurped the page to Premier Badminton League. Then, it would appear, that you moved it to Premier Badminton League. Both leagues still appear to exist. 14.140.220.82 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been trying to take it back and I've been reverting. I was just about to report the anon to AIV then figured out (I think) what was going on. It appears that the anon tried to rebuild Indian Badminton League and you reverted it back to the redirect. There has been quite an edit war going on. Any suggestions on correcting this? Please ping. Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 11:01, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
If you look at the coi page it states that if you add this notice to a page you have to state what the bias is you are talking about and that you should also first try to edit out the problem. As copied below. Please read the coi page because it seems to me you are not following proper procedures.
Like the other neutrality-related tags, if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article. If you do not start this discussion, then any editor is justified in removing the tag without warning. Be careful not to violate the policy against WP:OUTING users who have not publicly self-disclosed their identities on the English Wikipedia.
Would you please respond by stating what the problem is on the article talk page as is correct procedure or suggest a way to solve the issue? Regards
L1R5M1 ( talk) 18:49, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
L1R5M1, the talk-page discussion you are looking for is at Talk:Anna Fleischle#Conflict of interest – but you already know that, as you have commented there. I've also explained our conflict-of-interest guidelines on your talk page, as you know. So I see little value in offering advice here too; nevertheless, at your insistence, my advice is this:
In case it isn't completely clear: you are under no obligation to disclose your identity, and should do so only if you want to. One more bit of advice: please don't stray into the area of WP:Disruptive editing – your recent evisceration of the article (which I have reverted) appears to have been motivated more by pique or spite than by any desire to improve this encyclopaedia. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 12:56, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm not sure why you would accuse me of acting out of spite and conflict of interest as the two surely don't seem to go together. As I have explained I am new to this and after this episode I really don't think I'll get involved with Wikipedia at all in future. I thought that by removing material I had edited you would be happy there is no longer conflict of interest and nothing to do with spite. It seems ironic that you feel there is a bias in my editing but you will not let me remove it.
My only concern now is that the subject of the page Anna Fleischle (which is not me) does not have her career damaged by a page that looks as if she has edited it herself. It could be highly damaging if she were thought of as promoting herself in this way. I'm sure that perspective employers will see the message and wonder why it is there. At the least it looks highly embarrassing. I would be completely happy to have nothing more to to with the page if that tag were removed.
L1R5M1 ( talk) 13:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Please, go to Talk:Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People#Copyright issue- January 2016. You are acting unilaterally out of occurdance with the rules, and if this continues, I will consult Wikipedia admin. CONSULT TALK PAGES, and please, get your facts straight. Fireflyfanboy ( talk) 00:22, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
My apology for not mentioning the ANI posting to you. I definitely now agree with you that IBL is now PBL. Thanks for your help on resolving this. The Copyright vio notice on PBL was added Dec 22nd, nearly three weeks agon. Should it be cleaned up by an admin? You did request full protection for Indian Badminton League which was "fixed", but not protected. I wouldn't think move protecting PBL would be necessary unless it happens again? Kind of strange that the IBL website is still up. Thanks again. Jim1138 ( talk) 18:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm concerned that the blacklisting of artsome.co might have been overkill. I see that you removed it here. Do you have any thoughts about it being used as an external link or even a source? -- Ronz ( talk) 18:20, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Have you checked that against the sources? A couple of them are behind paywalls, and I'm a little suspicious there. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 13:22, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello - I am seeking consensus on the alumni question on the FIT talk page, but I was wondering if I could talk to you about the changes to line 68 regarding a source on the museum's history. Here I sought to replace an fitnyc.edu source that no longer exists with a better third party source, namely a book on the history of the collection published by Taschen. Can you provide some insights. I believe what I did is in keeping with Wikipedia best practices. Help out a newbie? Librarianhelen ( talk) 19:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
So if I put that reference back in you won't remove it? Great. Thanks. Librarianhelen ( talk) 21:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm looking to fill in (or at least stubify) the Greek Letter Organizations that belong to the Professional Fraternity Association. One of these is Pi Sigma Epsilon. As you were the one who started the AFD for it, I thought I'd touch base with you. There does appear to be enough information in Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (the 1991 edition) to generate a stub for the group. Please let me know if you have concerns about my plans. Naraht ( talk) 21:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your message and edits. Not quite sure what topic a DYK would address. But if you want to do so, please go ahead. I was going to work on the Museo di Roma after that. Now I will transfer my attentions to the Arch of Janus, about which there is much more to be said. I am trying to write about topics close to my home in southern Rome so if you know of any glaring omissions please let me know. Roundtheworld ( talk) 10:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC)