Kudpung, thanks for the initiative on the restructuring of RFA. On my talk you say "It may now be appropriate to take an earnest look at the possible introduction of some control over voters". Could you explain what you mean when you say power over voters? Thanks! Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 07:17, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Sir or Madam,
I've written several contributions to the following page: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repubblica_di_Ragusa. Some of them with citations and most of it on the Talk page, not on the articles page. I've never eliminated someone else's contributions. However the things written aren't liked by the users "Presbite" and "Theirrules yourrules" and "Abys" who bloked my account even though I discussed things politely and rationally. They also accuse me to be part of a group pushing POV which I'm not. I just wanted to discuss on the Talk page. All I wanted was that Croatian as a language was included at the top on the right side of the page as one of the languages spoken in the Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik. I also described that Italian was spoken in Ragusa for it was a trade language in the middle ages like English. I also described on the talk page that the Ragusans felt as Croatians and not just Ragusans. I think that's not a reason to block my account. Can you help me? Thank you in advance.
Vatroslav Tudor
Account name VatroslavTudor
I'd also like to ask how can I become an administrator and block someone else? -- VatroslavTudor ( talk) 08:45, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I didnt get any feed back on that page, I will take a look at it. I am not sure what you mean about "following advice" etc... Most of the articles on my talk page that were nominated for deletion are STILL on Facebook. Part of the problem is that people come to see this talk page and they see a few requests and they think all I create are deletable article. I have created over 80 new articles over 2 years that are still on FB, so I am not sure what you mean about "heading warnings" unless you tell me something specific since each case/article was nominated for different reasons. Also some of the 'deletion' nominations are a matter of cultural relevance. So I have people doing things like saying a particular group or person is not notable b/c they were not notable in the western countries or because they are not on international charts... etc...so its not always just about what I did, its also about reporting about countries that dont have all their information online. I will try and improve the article. thanks-- MsTingaK ( talk) 12:53, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, when you wrote on my talk page you mentioned Persecution of Bosniaks. What am I supposed to be looking at on that page? Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 12:54, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung! Could you please help me out here? I just tagged this page as G1. Has it been tagged tagged appropriately? If not, with which criteria should I tag such pages? Thanks and regards, Avenue X at Cicero ( talk) 13:26, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Had a message to contact you regarding The Filaments page. What do i need to add or amend? I'm all new to this. Please don't delete! Many thanks Kim — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burleyford ( talk • contribs) 16:20, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Why was my article deleted? I don't understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjwenergy ( talk • contribs) 19:40, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Actually, I would've tagged Brendan Kelly as PROD because there weren't any sources but I wanted to give it a few minutes in case the editor was gathering information. I know there are many cases where a few minutes later, the editor finished constructing the article. SwisterTwister talk 06:04, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Accidentally deleted it under " WP:PROD for seven days" criterion. I meant to delete it under WP:CSD#G11 (didn't think needed to run for all seven days) - apologies for the error. Neutrality talk 06:06, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
I use Bing :) -- Mr. Vernon ( talk) 06:26, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi this is Grace Kelly. You have proposed deletion of my article on Matt Bostrom. I want you to re-consider. I may be new to writing an article on wiki but I am not new to writing articles. Sheriff Matt Bostrom is a very important figure here in Minnesota, that a simple google search would quickly display. I researched and read all of the articles that you sent me BEFORE I wrote the article. I compared my article to similar articles on similar topics. I think I have met all expectations. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegracekelly ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, what is training like? I read the articles you told me to read, learned a few things, and see what I did wrong. When I am borderline on decisions, can I ask you? Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 14:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
One more thing. What do you do when an article has been deleted before it was marked as patrolled? Current examples: Analogue tachograph and Professor Ian Diamond Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 15:16, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. Thanks for the nice message. I've been following all the stuff including the new zoom interface for NPP. I haven't commented as I have little experience with NPP so can't bring the expertise you, Blade and SW have to the conversation. For what it's worth, I also believe making NPP a user right would help a great deal. Unfortunatley the community hasn't gotten behind that idea.
One thing I have thought about is the priority of things at NPP. NPPers help protect Wikipedia from legal problems, which is an immense value that can't be understated. Maybe users patrolling the front of the queue could focus on legal issues (G10 attack, G12 copyvios, etc.) as these things truly need to be dealt with in minutes. Perhaps less important issues (orphans, wikification, A2 foreign, A5 transwiki, etc.) could be dealt with by those patrolling the back of the NPP queue.
Perhaps we could have Junior NPPers and Senior NPPers. As newbies seem to want to jump in to NPP, maybe should focus our education on the most serious issues like teaching them to tag articles with legal problems. These would be Junior NPPers. Then, as they gain experience, we could teach them more advanced things like checking references and notability and patrolling from the back of the queue. Perhaps we could teach these newbies to not mark a page as patrolled unless they specifically marked it for CSD and to let the more experienced users deal with the more complex issues. This may give them incentive to learn more about NPP and to do a better job so they could become Senior NPPers.
These are just some thoughts I've had, but like I said, I'm too inexperienced at NPP to know if these are useful ideas. I'd very much like to hear from you and others about your ideas regarding NPP. Best regards. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 02:15, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Would anybody like to discuss this further? Maybe the community would be ready for this if we provided a persuasive case? Any thoughts or opinions are most welcome. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 06:26, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't disagree with choosing who should patrol NPP (it would filter experienced people aside from the new editors testing their abilities) but I think if people start choosing certain people, it'll take away a piece of Wikipedia: Anyone can help and edit Wikipedia. Yes, there may be new people that want to help and don't understand but I simply think that making it a entitlement to patrol would change things perhaps in good and not so good ways. SwisterTwister talk 03:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, I've decided to do some more work on New Page Patrol. Please could you explain what it was that gave you concern about my tagging of articles in the past? You weren't very specific. Incidentally, since you mention ACTRIAL, I should say that I am very familiar with it, since Chzz discussed it with me in detail. He seems quite well informed about it. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 06:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi...thank you for your reply. Also, wanted to say you guys are doing a great job, I'm new to this and already very impressed!! I don't know how to link a previous question that I had so I copied it below with your reply.
The page I was referring to is this Nader Guirat.Thanks again!-- Mona MG ( talk) 07:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Reliable Sources Hi...Before I make changes and additions to a page (bio) that needs additional material, could I first send the references, links and reliable sources that I have put together and intend to use on the page to find out if they are satisfactory/sufficient to prevent the deletion of the page? Thank you. --Mona MG (talk) 08:00, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
You haven't left a link here but I assume you are referring to Star Academy Arab World. The article is tagged as requiring clean up, but I don't see any indication that it is slated for deletion. Check that your sources comply fully with WP:RS, and if you feel confident that the addition(s) you intend to make is/are relevant to the article, feel free to go ahead and make the edits. Normally I would suggest you discuss it on the article talk page but there seems to be little activity there apart from some trolling that I have just removed. You may also wish to check the article history that the IP edits are genuine information. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:17, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Don't you think this is an obvious case of blatant advertising, of a non-notable person? Avenue X at Cicero ( talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) 10:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if you've already watchlisted it or not, but I think that we should keep an eye on this article. ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 12:56, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Institute of Sensory Organs - yup i saw it had no refs, i also saw it had already been tagged for having none lower down, ie good enough, dont want to be too heavy handed.
reliable sources - yes i do search for them, when i'm interested enough in the subject to do so. please dont let me stop you adding as many as you like.
csd or prod tag - yes it may do, we'll see. but do feel free to add them yourself.
thanks! -- The Elves Of Dunsimore ( talk) 04:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
i marked it as patrolled because the of the notable nature of the list of people they distribute and the museums they contribute to. its also got notes and a bibliography. ie, it looked good enough imo to get marked as patrolled. -- The Elves Of Dunsimore ( talk) 05:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Chewey93/sanbox => User:Chewey93/sanbox to help out a new user, who's a student trying to figure out the wiki. Just sayin'. Nikkimaria ( talk) 14:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, could you please do something about Institute of Rural Management, which has been recreated by Samar Saeed Akhtar through copy and pasting. I suggest you, after two reminders and three CSDs, block this problematic user. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 04:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello.. I have submitted an article about an organization "Institute of Rural Management" multiple times and everytime it gets deleted with reason mentioning copyright enfringement, although I have mentioned all the references including those detected by you on the wiki. Please guide me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.56.25.19 ( talk) 04:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
why are you worried about my page? I just made it. Im not even done bro. is this a personal problem? CalvinCrabtree — Preceding unsigned comment added by CalvinCrabtree ( talk • contribs) 07:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 07:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
why did you delete the article Kristian Meincke? I am kristian meincke, so why arent I allowed to do an article about myself? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krilson ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 11:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at WP:RFARCOORD's talk page.
Hi Kudpung. I am new to wikipedia editing I began a new dom&nic page because I found the page that someone had started about me (I am Dominic Hawley, a music video and commercial film director) was very incomplete and out of date. I understand you would like the article deleted. Can you help me understand how I can make it better or do you believe an article about dom&nic is not a valid topic full stop. Kind regards Dom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domley ( talk • contribs) 21:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. I am new to wikipedia editing I began a new dom&nic page because I found the page that someone had started about me (I am Dominic Hawley, a music video and commercial film director) was very incomplete and out of date. I understand you would like the article deleted. Can you help me understand how I can make it better or do you believe an article about dom&nic is not a valid topic full stop. Kind regards Dom ( Domley ( talk) 21:46, 5 October 2011 (UTC)).
When you posted this, were you talking to only, Spidey665, or mysterytrey? Thanks in advance for answering. mysterytrey talk 01:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Are you referring to a particular tag? Your message on my Talk page was rather vague. -- Mr. Vernon ( talk) 05:39, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
AZA-1
If I had seen it I would have deleted it summarily as a G3 hoax without bothering to tag it first. The creator himself removed the tag - they usually do. Convinced? -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Wow, I can't believe your father helped develop the radar during WWII. BTW, you can chat to me at [1], particularly about ACTRIAL and how I'm disappointed that the top won't let it go ahead. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 06:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
hi, i noticed that this page had been tagged for speedy deletion so i was looking into it and i think it does have claims to be notable. i checked some of the bands it mentioned on the es site, (eg Los Pasteles Verdes, Juaneco y su Combo) and they both mention it, tho there is no page for Infopesa specifically. this site ( http://rhythmnroots.wordpress.com/tag/infopesa/) also says they've been around for 40 years. i think its worth stubbing it and giving it a chance no? -- The Elves Of Dunsimore ( talk) 07:56, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I don't think so. The 'article' had 30 words (two sentences) and absolutely nothing else. The user was offered several messages to do something about it. We'll see what happens if they complain. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Since the creator objected to the speedy deletion, isn't the article inelligible to be PRODed, since there is an objection to deletion? Inks.LWC ( talk) 08:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I read the archive and I gather the India Education Program is already keeping track of articles deleted for copyvio (assuming that someone has actually found the copyvio). But perhaps these two articles here weren't from that project. The subject matter doesn't seem to fit in with any of their courses. I did, however, take the red pencil to this one which is part of the project. I notice that someone from WMF, also edited it a bit before me but missed some chunks of verbatim copying. Sigh. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I've received the "Proposal to delete" message. Understood I did not put in reference and/or source. I've done amendments to the page Yuri Masuda. Please review and tell me if there is anymore error I made.
Im sorry for causing the trouble as I'm very new to creating page in wiki. I do not want the page to be deleted so teach me about what am I doing.
Thanks Kudpung — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5zero6 ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Kudpung for taking time to explain. Looking forward to your reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5zero6 ( talk • contribs) 04:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
[2]. I guess we, the community, are incompetent crackheads now; I was only just able to restrain myself from much stronger language. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 20:33, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kud,
Just following up with my recent deletion of "social majors". Just want some more clarification on where I "promoted" or "advertised" in my article.
My only intention is to inform viewers of "social majors" where they type into Google.
Talk to you soon.
Chao. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trueternal ( talk • contribs) 04:31, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
HELLO I am Netra Nahar. I am student .I am having wiki editing as our academic syllabus.I read the existing data on grey box testing.But it is not sufficient and the editor of particular page not allowing anyone to explore it.So i created new article and started to explore Grey Box testing such as advantages,examples,etc.So can u help me in it rather than deleting the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Netra Nahar ( talk • contribs)
First, I did not remove the speedy deletion tag. Second, my sources are good. La Times, TIME, New York Times. JORGENEV 06:31, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
WOW, thanks! What a surprise! recently I asked for autopatrol and got told that I first had to clean up my articles before I could get it. And now, all the sudden, I get promoted!
Okay, I am not perfect. If you know articles that need work, please tell me. English is not my first language and sometimes I plain do not see what is wrong. but by pointing out the mistakes, I will be able to learn.
Thanks again for the surprise!! Night of the Big Wind talk 09:30, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Re this user, unblocked 3 days ago. Today he/she created another verbatim copyvio at VACCINE MARKET AND ITS AFFORDABILITY. Sigh... Voceditenore ( talk) 09:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm the writer for Vahid Sarlak article. I'm trying to add references to the article, but as soon as I click on Edit, the whole article disappears...what shall I do?
thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alljudo ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your recent help on the MRG talk-page. I was wandering if you could point me to where the templates for "online" and "offline" are? Thank you. Jayy008 ( talk) 18:00, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
You need to put this JavaScript into your User:Jay008/monobook.js page (or vector, depending on what skin you are using)
Script for status changer
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<!-- Status changer puts a coloured blob and label in the top bar of your user page and talk page to notify users of your online status --> //////////STATUS CHANGER // Creator: Misza13 // Credits: Voyagerfan5761 for some minor improvements // Modified by Xenocidic to simply use /Status as a one word indicator, // Modified by Kraftlos to include Sleep status // compatible with {{Statustop}} for display addOnloadHook(function (){ //Check if the config is defined if (typeof(statusChangerConfig) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig = {} } if (typeof(statusChangerConfig.statusList) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig.statusList = [ 'online', 'busy', 'around', 'offline', 'sleep' ]; } if (typeof(statusChangerConfig.statusPage) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig.statusPage = 'User:' + wgUserName + '/Status'; } //Add the links for (var i=0; i<statusChangerConfig.statusList.length; i++) { var stat = statusChangerConfig.statusList[i]; var message = (stat === "sleep") ? link = "asleep" : link = stat; addPortletLink( "p-personal", //target tab - personal links wgServer + wgScript + "?title=" + statusChangerConfig.statusPage + "&action=edit&newstatus=" + stat, //link URL stat, //link text "pt-status-" + stat, //id of new button "I'm " + message + "!", //hover text "", //??? document.getElementById("pt-logout")); //add before logout button } if (location.href.indexOf("&action=edit&newstatus=") == -1) return; //Are we here to auto-edit the status? //Get new status statusRegExp = /&action=edit&newstatus=(.*)/; var status = statusRegExp.exec(location.href)[1]; //Modify the form document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value = status; if (status == "sleep") { status = "sleeping"; } document.getElementById('wpSummary').value = wgUserName + " is now " + status +"."; document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true; //Submit it! document.getElementById('editform').submit(); }); //[[Category:Wikipedia scripts|statusChanger]] |
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 23:12, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
That really confuses me. I've had the symbol before, where it was just the "offline/online" thing without having all of that added to it. Does that way make it automatic and puts it green when I sign on? Also, sorry for the delay I haven't been on for 24 hours. Jayy008 ( talk) 17:17, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
To quote Han Solo, "looks like someone is beginning to take an interest in your handiwork" :-)
(I've mentioned the attribution issue with that copy, and that's understood, and I also mentioned the request-a-nomination page.) -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 19:49, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for the appreciation for giving me advice on giving the instructions. However, I'm going to stop this problem right away and try my best. I would appreciate in assuming good faith, but I will try some ways on setting up my own criteria. Thanks for you're help! Mohamed Aden Ighe ( talk) 23:31, 8 October 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks for the support Mohamed Aden Ighe ( talk) 23:39, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. Hope you're well. A user has contested the deletion of Variator (variable valve timing). As the editor who nominated the page for deletion, your input would be appreciated. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 23:46, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
The backlog is at its lowest level in over a month, (21.96 days), thanks to a joint effort between me and User:ThatPeskyCommoner. Just wanted to let you know. You should focus on the newest pages now (until 0:00 UTC Tuesday) since the backlog is under control. My goal is to get the backlog under 20 days, and i understand it is about quality, not speed. Working hard, Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 01:33, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
NewPages Defcon 4
The queue at Special:NewPages is currently 22.04 days.
[graph] [report] | [NPP] [queue]
What happened to the backlog? It shows that it is going up, when I have been working? It should say The queue at Special:NewPages is currently 20.20 days, instead of 23.5 days. Help? PLEASE!!! Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 14:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi as you have said, the sentences were not exactly copied but were modified and changed.some paragraphs were copyvio's but added by some other members of india education program.the college ambassadors will take care of such copyvio'.hope you take a note once again as this is an important activity for our college acedemics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sourabhsk.mech ( talk • contribs) 04:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, I do not speak Spanish and have no idea whether the translation by Google Translate is satisfactory. The Template {{Not English}} says "please do not add an automated translation to the article since these are generally of very poor quality". Are you telling me that what the template says is wrong? James500 ( talk) 05:46, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. We should not use machine translations if the translation cannot easily be cleaned up into correct English. I translated it myself, then checked back in Google; the Google translation was in perfect English. In most cases, a Google translation will show what the basic content is about and we can then tag as required. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung กุดผึ้ง, firstly accept my humble apologies for not being able to tackle this problem myself as I am the on-ground CA of this user, User:Examsandacademics. I was unfortunately out of station for the last week hence could not tackle this issue head on. Thank You very much for re-blocking this user for his continuous copyright violations. I will talk to him personally as well as talk to the faculty in-charge and make sure he does not make further copyvios. I will personally search every sentence he writes to make sure there are no copyvios before he posts on Wiki. I will also have a talk with the concerned faculty to make sure he is banned from editing in the computer lab until further notice. But I appeal to you with the humblest of request to please unblock this I.P. address as this is the college lab I.P. address. I have seen you understand the importance of this program and as you have rightly stated, there is discouragement because of all these deletion and copyvio issues. But understand it is also a pilot project, we are bound to face more problems than solutions. We have made a lot of progress also, check out Robinson Crusoe Economy which is a good article written from scratch by a user from this college and a part of IEP. I will be in touch with you over these issues more directly in the discussion page of IEP. Understand even we Ambassadors are under a lot of burden. We are trying our best but we do not succeed either. I understand the problems and view them in the gravest aspect but please try to look at the brighter side of his program. Perhaps, not all the students will make it onto main space. But if all of us can bear through the storm of Copyvios and other issues, the content that does survive on Wikipedia will be of invaluable contribution. Even we Ambassadors, learn as we go. Please do not lose heart in the program. Lets work together and resolve all these issues. We CA's are your eyes and ears on ground zero. Even we make mistakes but we learn something new from each of our mistakes and try to prevent more. These are students and I understand that you should never compromise on quality and I don't ask you to. Just possibly a bit of leniency while blocking them. Removing their articles is fine. Again these are students, they have great potential, its just it is taking us a bit more time to get through to them than we stipulated.
As for the matter in hand, please unblock the IP address from which [[User:Examsandacademics] was editing. Do not unblock him as of yet. Let me see what I can do and revert back to you as soon as possible. I assure you that all of us ambassadors part of the IEP are also taking these issues in the gravest of light. We too are very passionate about Wikipedia and don't think twice about protecting it from Copyvios or Vandalism. Just have faith in this program a bit, pilot project after all.
Debastein1 ( talk) 10:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
( edit conflict)- I'm sorry, but I'm not unblocking this IP until I hear back from the bosses at the WMF. It's not just about this user, it's about dozens of them who are producing copyvios, and adding copyvio material to existing articles. Even your ambassadors don't understand that in Western countries and under USA law we take copyright violations and plagiarism very seriously indeed. And even the consultant has been telling students how to evade their blocks. Yesterday I wrote to every one of your 40 ambassadors and it took me a long time. Please understand that there are no deadlines here at Wikipedia for new articles. If you have made a deadline for your students' work that is most unfortunately not our problem. Wikipedia is not an experimental place for doing homework. If you have Skype video I'm more than happy to discuss this with you. - Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I will make this suggestion. It will help our patrollers to keep an eye out for the wrong kind of new pages and edits, and it will help us to step in with help for your students if they need it. However, the responsibility lies with you, the ambassadors - we cannot bend the rules for your students, and they will be warned, deleted, or blocked, according to Wikipedia policy if they have not listened to you:
I think that is a very fair solution, but I will remind you that if we have to block one more student, the IP might be blocked again. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 17:30, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Cheers,
Ram ( talk • contribs) 19:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Administrators should take special care when dealing with new users. Beginning editors are often unfamiliar with Wikipedia policy and convention, and so their behavior may initially appear to be disruptive. Responding to these new users with excessive force can discourage them from editing in the future. See Wikipedia:Do not bite the newcomers.
Blocks should be based on the protection of Wikipedia rather than the punishment of offenders. Most IP addresses should not be blocked more than a few hours, since the malicious user will probably move on by the time the block expires. If there is persistent disruption or vandalism from an IP address, the block should be extended (with the 'anon-only' option selected) as long as is necessary to prevent further disruption. (Hence, understand that by blocking the IP, you will not be preventing this user from creating more copyvios, he can just go to a cyber cafe or something if he so wishes. But what you will be doing is discouraging other students.) See Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses for more.
Before implementing a long-term block on an IP address with a long history of vandalism, please check if it is shared by performing a WHOIS and Reverse DNS lookup query on the IP address to determine if it belongs to a school or an ISP. If a Shared IP address' talk page is not already identified or tagged as such, use either the {{ SharedIP}}, {{ Shared IP edu}}, or any one of the templates at Category:Shared IP header templates to do so. For anonymous-only blocks of Shared IP Addresses, please consider using {{ anonblock}} or {{ schoolblock}} as your blocking reason as it causes less offence to innocent users. (We are telling you that this is a college IP. Block anonymous users from editing if you must, but don't discourage the ones who want to do good.)
As per the information you requested it is already available at Wikipedia:India Education Program. Please, let us come together and try to come out with a solution rather than resolve to just threatening by blocking. Especially Kudpung, you are an OA yourself. Please help us in this regard. We also want to protect Wikipedia but that doesn't mean we discourage contributions in fear of Copyvios. If its Copyvios, remove it and penalize the specific student, we are already working on that. Why uselessly penalize all the students who might end up with good contribs that improve Wikipedia.
Regards, Debastein1 ( talk) 18:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
It's 6 am and I'm back at my office here in Udon Thani. During the night I have discussed this problem with the WMF who have already been taking the situation very seriously. They will be having a meeting with the controllers of the India programme today (but remember that America is many hours behind us).
The offer to you has been based on:
The offer you have been made is a fair one. If you can't get the information out to the students and ambassadors or send me the list of users names of students by 10 am your time, that's fine - we can wait until you do. I will be at my computer all day today and I will unblock the IP as soon as you have the details. You can of course wait until the WMF has had their meeting with the organisers of the India programme, but that will take a little longer. Please understand that we cannot make any exceptions to Wikipedia policy. To do so would set a precedent and would put the content of our encyclopedia at risk. You may wish to point the sudents and tha ambassadors oat one of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute.: Respect copyright laws, and do not plagiarize your sources. Non-free content is allowed under fair use, but strive to find free alternatives to any media or content that you wish to add to Wikipedia. Since all your contributions are freely licensed to the public, no editor owns any article; all of your contributions can and will be mercilessly edited and redistributed.
I appreciate that a few new articles have not been deleted, and I thank Andy Dingley for his input. If you have any urgent questions, I am available all day and you are welcome to video-call me. For your further information:
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:54, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
College of Engineering Pune.: UML extension mechanisms: close paraphrasing of www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/ucacwxe/lectures/3C05-02.../aswe15-essay.pdf
Automotive designvery minor contribution by user:Poojanemade. This Wikipedia article was created in 2005. Unattributed use of the complete Wikipedia article by executivemodcartrendz.com/Replica-Car-About-Us.html
Central Government Health Scheme This Wikipedia article was created in 2005.. Significantly edited by User:Devikakannan possible copies of text from http://www.ovguide.com/central-government-health-scheme-9202a8c04000641f8000000000778cf7# and mohfw.nic.in/.../l892s/Chapter14medical%20relie-51096836.pdf
mohfw.nic.in/.../l892s/Chapter14medical%20relie-51096836.pdf File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View Facilities of outpatient care in all systems and emergency services in Allopathic system, free supply of necessary drugs, lab and radiological investigations, domiciliary visits to the seriously ill patients, specialists consultation both at the dispensary and hospital level, family welfare services, treatment in specialized hospitals, ...
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission This Wikipedia article was created in 2005. Significantly edited by User:Debastein1 Content includezs a block of 2032 words and a block of 982 words from http://www.enotes.com/topic/Jawaharlal_Nehru_National_Urban_Renewal_Mission and a blocks of 2032 words and http://www.slideshare.net/sarangvk/indian-economy-2030-mgi-report
2007–present recession in the United States possible copy of text from http://www.scribd.com/doc/7480461/US-Recession-and-Its-Impact-on-India, but tis PowerPopint may have copied text from Wikipedia.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:09, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, I'm having difficulties with an editor who is trying to speedy delete an article, Aziz Shavershian, under the fact that the person has no notability --- the article is clearly established, and this user is just doing so cause a fuss...please take a look, asap! Thank you! -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 11:25, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello my Name Is Fawaz Ibrahim i am currently going to be a star, im in the making sort of. Im just wondering why did my article get deleted ? and how can i bring it back ?
Sincerely Fawaz Irahim11:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by FawazIbrahim ( talk • contribs)
Hello User:Kudpung once again, as other CAs along with me are following couple of issues since past few days, we have been monitoring couple of talk pages, and your's and everyone else's message to handle the situation. So we wanted to know that which all Campus Ambassador's page have been deleted under copyvio, so that we can get in touch with them again and clear their doubts pertaining to Wikipedia:Copyrights. I am aware that you are already under much burden, but it would be great if you could point those CAs now if possible. Thanks. Rangilo Gujarati ( talk) 13:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, You recently nominated my article 'Darjeeling TeaXpress' for speedy deletion. Could you please give me pointers on how to ensure that is is not. I am not in any way affiliated with the company. I tried my best to ensure it's neutrality. Can you give me any assistance? Thank you.
Looking forward to your reply, Nicholas.
Sorry I missed your talkbacks, haven't been on in a while. I replied above! Jayy008 ( talk) 20:07, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
A new deletion review has been created regarding an article you've recently discussed. Dr. WTF ( talk) 20:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung
Thanks for your message. Yes I had seen the dom and nic page and thought it was a little empty and missing a few facts. I am Dom Hawley from dom and nic, so I tried to improve the info about us. I admit that I am completely new to wikipedia editing and therefore jumped in a little too quickly it seems. I have learned a lot in the last week and understand why it is probably not a good idea to edit pages about ones self for obvious COI issues. I did however created the dom&nic page in good faith. Not understanding how things work I didn't want to mess with an article that someone else had started. I realise that is a rather dumb now as working on existing pages is exactly how wikipedia works! (in a good way). I just wanted to add some stuff to proceedings as I obviously know a lot of stuff first hand that would probably never make it to the article otherwise all of which is verifiable with references (if you know what you are looking for). I am fully aware dom&nic do not have that great a notoriety compared with Stephen Spielberg for example and therefore there will be limited interest and limited knowledge amongst the editors out there about us. We have however done lots of work with lots of talented and notable artists and organisations. Anyway I think it would be good if the pages were merged (not sure how that happens). I do appreciate the work of yourself and other wikipedia editors out there. It is an amazing resource and I am going to try and lend my services in areas that I have knowledge about but no vested interest in! Kind regards Domley ( talk) 21:09, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, I've been tagging a few articles for G12, but there's an admin going around blanking all the copyvios that I've tagged. If this person's actions are valid, why should CSD need G12? BTW, for A9, I tried my best to understand it, and when I saw an article about a song (as opposed to the confusing "musical recording"), whose creator didn't have an article, I placed it up for SD. Please understand that I'm only in the business for less than a month, and I'm still learning. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 22:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello KudPung, I was going through your talk page and saw that you requested RAM for a list of students in IEP. I have prepared a list of the students in my class. LIST. Mihir.khatwani ( talk) 06:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
The inevitable now seems to be happening. 8-( Andy Dingley ( talk) 16:20, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Since we've been discussing warning templates on MediaWiki.org, I thought I'd let you know that the third round of templates we'll be A/B testing this week are up on-wiki:
We're in contact with Addshore, and the Huggle devs in general are aware of the tests. Based on the last two tests, we'll get statistically significant amounts of application in about a week. If you have any comments or questions, I'm watching the respective template talk pages. Just for reference, our last results and thoughts on next steps are here. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:30, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, I recently added an article "Jenny Wheeler", which I was told that it will be deleted because correct references/citation could not be found. I have the clippings of news papers from 1988 and 1994. is it possible to upload those scans of newspapers somewhere so the correct references can be cited. Appreciate your help. I am still learning to find my way around Wikipedia. Thanks heaps SamKamani ( talk) 04:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am working on fixing the issue and adding some sources, please give me some time, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwin lo ( talk • contribs) 10:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung
Thanks the pages have been merged. Best regards Domley ( talk) 11:39, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice - I've opted in. Cloudbound ( talk) 14:07, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung!
I've created a page for the list of students in Symbiosis School of Economics, the institute whose IP got banned by you. You can see the users at following link:
WP:India Education Program/Students
I would like to thank you for unblocking the IP.
Cheers,
Ram ( talk • contribs) 15:07, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung! If you have a Mac, the easiest way to make screencasts is to use Quicktime, which (only on OS X) has a built-in screen recording feature. For Linux, the best thing I've found is GTK-recordmydesktop. I know a lot of people use Camtasia for Windows (and for Mac, if you want more advanced options), and I think it's free within a trial period but costs a moderate amount after that. Hope that helps.-- ragesoss ( talk) 02:18, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, per your request please see Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrollers/10+ for a list of editors who have marked at least 10 articles as patrolled since January 1, 2011. —SW— chatter 22:24, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, as a fellow administrator in the Hebrew wikipedia I was surprised to see the speedy deletion on this article. As I am not so familiar with the English wikipedia could you please explain the reason for the speedy deletion mark. Thank you and a happy Sukkot! -- Yoavd ( talk) 14:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi!
I saw that you nominated Victoriano López García for deletion using PRODBLP. As it happened, the article was deleted as it was a copyright violation of this page - the text was copied in its entirety. Did you mean to use the PRODBLP tag on it, as the article did point out that the subject was dead? Stephen! Coming... 16:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, thanks for the initiative on the restructuring of RFA. On my talk you say "It may now be appropriate to take an earnest look at the possible introduction of some control over voters". Could you explain what you mean when you say power over voters? Thanks! Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 07:17, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Sir or Madam,
I've written several contributions to the following page: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repubblica_di_Ragusa. Some of them with citations and most of it on the Talk page, not on the articles page. I've never eliminated someone else's contributions. However the things written aren't liked by the users "Presbite" and "Theirrules yourrules" and "Abys" who bloked my account even though I discussed things politely and rationally. They also accuse me to be part of a group pushing POV which I'm not. I just wanted to discuss on the Talk page. All I wanted was that Croatian as a language was included at the top on the right side of the page as one of the languages spoken in the Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik. I also described that Italian was spoken in Ragusa for it was a trade language in the middle ages like English. I also described on the talk page that the Ragusans felt as Croatians and not just Ragusans. I think that's not a reason to block my account. Can you help me? Thank you in advance.
Vatroslav Tudor
Account name VatroslavTudor
I'd also like to ask how can I become an administrator and block someone else? -- VatroslavTudor ( talk) 08:45, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I didnt get any feed back on that page, I will take a look at it. I am not sure what you mean about "following advice" etc... Most of the articles on my talk page that were nominated for deletion are STILL on Facebook. Part of the problem is that people come to see this talk page and they see a few requests and they think all I create are deletable article. I have created over 80 new articles over 2 years that are still on FB, so I am not sure what you mean about "heading warnings" unless you tell me something specific since each case/article was nominated for different reasons. Also some of the 'deletion' nominations are a matter of cultural relevance. So I have people doing things like saying a particular group or person is not notable b/c they were not notable in the western countries or because they are not on international charts... etc...so its not always just about what I did, its also about reporting about countries that dont have all their information online. I will try and improve the article. thanks-- MsTingaK ( talk) 12:53, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, when you wrote on my talk page you mentioned Persecution of Bosniaks. What am I supposed to be looking at on that page? Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 12:54, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung! Could you please help me out here? I just tagged this page as G1. Has it been tagged tagged appropriately? If not, with which criteria should I tag such pages? Thanks and regards, Avenue X at Cicero ( talk) 13:26, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Had a message to contact you regarding The Filaments page. What do i need to add or amend? I'm all new to this. Please don't delete! Many thanks Kim — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burleyford ( talk • contribs) 16:20, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Why was my article deleted? I don't understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjwenergy ( talk • contribs) 19:40, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Actually, I would've tagged Brendan Kelly as PROD because there weren't any sources but I wanted to give it a few minutes in case the editor was gathering information. I know there are many cases where a few minutes later, the editor finished constructing the article. SwisterTwister talk 06:04, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Accidentally deleted it under " WP:PROD for seven days" criterion. I meant to delete it under WP:CSD#G11 (didn't think needed to run for all seven days) - apologies for the error. Neutrality talk 06:06, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
I use Bing :) -- Mr. Vernon ( talk) 06:26, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi this is Grace Kelly. You have proposed deletion of my article on Matt Bostrom. I want you to re-consider. I may be new to writing an article on wiki but I am not new to writing articles. Sheriff Matt Bostrom is a very important figure here in Minnesota, that a simple google search would quickly display. I researched and read all of the articles that you sent me BEFORE I wrote the article. I compared my article to similar articles on similar topics. I think I have met all expectations. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegracekelly ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, what is training like? I read the articles you told me to read, learned a few things, and see what I did wrong. When I am borderline on decisions, can I ask you? Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 14:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
One more thing. What do you do when an article has been deleted before it was marked as patrolled? Current examples: Analogue tachograph and Professor Ian Diamond Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 15:16, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. Thanks for the nice message. I've been following all the stuff including the new zoom interface for NPP. I haven't commented as I have little experience with NPP so can't bring the expertise you, Blade and SW have to the conversation. For what it's worth, I also believe making NPP a user right would help a great deal. Unfortunatley the community hasn't gotten behind that idea.
One thing I have thought about is the priority of things at NPP. NPPers help protect Wikipedia from legal problems, which is an immense value that can't be understated. Maybe users patrolling the front of the queue could focus on legal issues (G10 attack, G12 copyvios, etc.) as these things truly need to be dealt with in minutes. Perhaps less important issues (orphans, wikification, A2 foreign, A5 transwiki, etc.) could be dealt with by those patrolling the back of the NPP queue.
Perhaps we could have Junior NPPers and Senior NPPers. As newbies seem to want to jump in to NPP, maybe should focus our education on the most serious issues like teaching them to tag articles with legal problems. These would be Junior NPPers. Then, as they gain experience, we could teach them more advanced things like checking references and notability and patrolling from the back of the queue. Perhaps we could teach these newbies to not mark a page as patrolled unless they specifically marked it for CSD and to let the more experienced users deal with the more complex issues. This may give them incentive to learn more about NPP and to do a better job so they could become Senior NPPers.
These are just some thoughts I've had, but like I said, I'm too inexperienced at NPP to know if these are useful ideas. I'd very much like to hear from you and others about your ideas regarding NPP. Best regards. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 02:15, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Would anybody like to discuss this further? Maybe the community would be ready for this if we provided a persuasive case? Any thoughts or opinions are most welcome. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 06:26, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't disagree with choosing who should patrol NPP (it would filter experienced people aside from the new editors testing their abilities) but I think if people start choosing certain people, it'll take away a piece of Wikipedia: Anyone can help and edit Wikipedia. Yes, there may be new people that want to help and don't understand but I simply think that making it a entitlement to patrol would change things perhaps in good and not so good ways. SwisterTwister talk 03:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, I've decided to do some more work on New Page Patrol. Please could you explain what it was that gave you concern about my tagging of articles in the past? You weren't very specific. Incidentally, since you mention ACTRIAL, I should say that I am very familiar with it, since Chzz discussed it with me in detail. He seems quite well informed about it. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 06:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi...thank you for your reply. Also, wanted to say you guys are doing a great job, I'm new to this and already very impressed!! I don't know how to link a previous question that I had so I copied it below with your reply.
The page I was referring to is this Nader Guirat.Thanks again!-- Mona MG ( talk) 07:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Reliable Sources Hi...Before I make changes and additions to a page (bio) that needs additional material, could I first send the references, links and reliable sources that I have put together and intend to use on the page to find out if they are satisfactory/sufficient to prevent the deletion of the page? Thank you. --Mona MG (talk) 08:00, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
You haven't left a link here but I assume you are referring to Star Academy Arab World. The article is tagged as requiring clean up, but I don't see any indication that it is slated for deletion. Check that your sources comply fully with WP:RS, and if you feel confident that the addition(s) you intend to make is/are relevant to the article, feel free to go ahead and make the edits. Normally I would suggest you discuss it on the article talk page but there seems to be little activity there apart from some trolling that I have just removed. You may also wish to check the article history that the IP edits are genuine information. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:17, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Don't you think this is an obvious case of blatant advertising, of a non-notable person? Avenue X at Cicero ( talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) 10:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if you've already watchlisted it or not, but I think that we should keep an eye on this article. ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 12:56, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Institute of Sensory Organs - yup i saw it had no refs, i also saw it had already been tagged for having none lower down, ie good enough, dont want to be too heavy handed.
reliable sources - yes i do search for them, when i'm interested enough in the subject to do so. please dont let me stop you adding as many as you like.
csd or prod tag - yes it may do, we'll see. but do feel free to add them yourself.
thanks! -- The Elves Of Dunsimore ( talk) 04:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
i marked it as patrolled because the of the notable nature of the list of people they distribute and the museums they contribute to. its also got notes and a bibliography. ie, it looked good enough imo to get marked as patrolled. -- The Elves Of Dunsimore ( talk) 05:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Chewey93/sanbox => User:Chewey93/sanbox to help out a new user, who's a student trying to figure out the wiki. Just sayin'. Nikkimaria ( talk) 14:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, could you please do something about Institute of Rural Management, which has been recreated by Samar Saeed Akhtar through copy and pasting. I suggest you, after two reminders and three CSDs, block this problematic user. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 04:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello.. I have submitted an article about an organization "Institute of Rural Management" multiple times and everytime it gets deleted with reason mentioning copyright enfringement, although I have mentioned all the references including those detected by you on the wiki. Please guide me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.56.25.19 ( talk) 04:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
why are you worried about my page? I just made it. Im not even done bro. is this a personal problem? CalvinCrabtree — Preceding unsigned comment added by CalvinCrabtree ( talk • contribs) 07:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 07:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
why did you delete the article Kristian Meincke? I am kristian meincke, so why arent I allowed to do an article about myself? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krilson ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 11:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at WP:RFARCOORD's talk page.
Hi Kudpung. I am new to wikipedia editing I began a new dom&nic page because I found the page that someone had started about me (I am Dominic Hawley, a music video and commercial film director) was very incomplete and out of date. I understand you would like the article deleted. Can you help me understand how I can make it better or do you believe an article about dom&nic is not a valid topic full stop. Kind regards Dom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domley ( talk • contribs) 21:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. I am new to wikipedia editing I began a new dom&nic page because I found the page that someone had started about me (I am Dominic Hawley, a music video and commercial film director) was very incomplete and out of date. I understand you would like the article deleted. Can you help me understand how I can make it better or do you believe an article about dom&nic is not a valid topic full stop. Kind regards Dom ( Domley ( talk) 21:46, 5 October 2011 (UTC)).
When you posted this, were you talking to only, Spidey665, or mysterytrey? Thanks in advance for answering. mysterytrey talk 01:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Are you referring to a particular tag? Your message on my Talk page was rather vague. -- Mr. Vernon ( talk) 05:39, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
AZA-1
If I had seen it I would have deleted it summarily as a G3 hoax without bothering to tag it first. The creator himself removed the tag - they usually do. Convinced? -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Wow, I can't believe your father helped develop the radar during WWII. BTW, you can chat to me at [1], particularly about ACTRIAL and how I'm disappointed that the top won't let it go ahead. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 06:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
hi, i noticed that this page had been tagged for speedy deletion so i was looking into it and i think it does have claims to be notable. i checked some of the bands it mentioned on the es site, (eg Los Pasteles Verdes, Juaneco y su Combo) and they both mention it, tho there is no page for Infopesa specifically. this site ( http://rhythmnroots.wordpress.com/tag/infopesa/) also says they've been around for 40 years. i think its worth stubbing it and giving it a chance no? -- The Elves Of Dunsimore ( talk) 07:56, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I don't think so. The 'article' had 30 words (two sentences) and absolutely nothing else. The user was offered several messages to do something about it. We'll see what happens if they complain. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Since the creator objected to the speedy deletion, isn't the article inelligible to be PRODed, since there is an objection to deletion? Inks.LWC ( talk) 08:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I read the archive and I gather the India Education Program is already keeping track of articles deleted for copyvio (assuming that someone has actually found the copyvio). But perhaps these two articles here weren't from that project. The subject matter doesn't seem to fit in with any of their courses. I did, however, take the red pencil to this one which is part of the project. I notice that someone from WMF, also edited it a bit before me but missed some chunks of verbatim copying. Sigh. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I've received the "Proposal to delete" message. Understood I did not put in reference and/or source. I've done amendments to the page Yuri Masuda. Please review and tell me if there is anymore error I made.
Im sorry for causing the trouble as I'm very new to creating page in wiki. I do not want the page to be deleted so teach me about what am I doing.
Thanks Kudpung — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5zero6 ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Kudpung for taking time to explain. Looking forward to your reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5zero6 ( talk • contribs) 04:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
[2]. I guess we, the community, are incompetent crackheads now; I was only just able to restrain myself from much stronger language. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 20:33, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kud,
Just following up with my recent deletion of "social majors". Just want some more clarification on where I "promoted" or "advertised" in my article.
My only intention is to inform viewers of "social majors" where they type into Google.
Talk to you soon.
Chao. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trueternal ( talk • contribs) 04:31, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
HELLO I am Netra Nahar. I am student .I am having wiki editing as our academic syllabus.I read the existing data on grey box testing.But it is not sufficient and the editor of particular page not allowing anyone to explore it.So i created new article and started to explore Grey Box testing such as advantages,examples,etc.So can u help me in it rather than deleting the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Netra Nahar ( talk • contribs)
First, I did not remove the speedy deletion tag. Second, my sources are good. La Times, TIME, New York Times. JORGENEV 06:31, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
WOW, thanks! What a surprise! recently I asked for autopatrol and got told that I first had to clean up my articles before I could get it. And now, all the sudden, I get promoted!
Okay, I am not perfect. If you know articles that need work, please tell me. English is not my first language and sometimes I plain do not see what is wrong. but by pointing out the mistakes, I will be able to learn.
Thanks again for the surprise!! Night of the Big Wind talk 09:30, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Re this user, unblocked 3 days ago. Today he/she created another verbatim copyvio at VACCINE MARKET AND ITS AFFORDABILITY. Sigh... Voceditenore ( talk) 09:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm the writer for Vahid Sarlak article. I'm trying to add references to the article, but as soon as I click on Edit, the whole article disappears...what shall I do?
thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alljudo ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your recent help on the MRG talk-page. I was wandering if you could point me to where the templates for "online" and "offline" are? Thank you. Jayy008 ( talk) 18:00, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
You need to put this JavaScript into your User:Jay008/monobook.js page (or vector, depending on what skin you are using)
Script for status changer
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<!-- Status changer puts a coloured blob and label in the top bar of your user page and talk page to notify users of your online status --> //////////STATUS CHANGER // Creator: Misza13 // Credits: Voyagerfan5761 for some minor improvements // Modified by Xenocidic to simply use /Status as a one word indicator, // Modified by Kraftlos to include Sleep status // compatible with {{Statustop}} for display addOnloadHook(function (){ //Check if the config is defined if (typeof(statusChangerConfig) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig = {} } if (typeof(statusChangerConfig.statusList) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig.statusList = [ 'online', 'busy', 'around', 'offline', 'sleep' ]; } if (typeof(statusChangerConfig.statusPage) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig.statusPage = 'User:' + wgUserName + '/Status'; } //Add the links for (var i=0; i<statusChangerConfig.statusList.length; i++) { var stat = statusChangerConfig.statusList[i]; var message = (stat === "sleep") ? link = "asleep" : link = stat; addPortletLink( "p-personal", //target tab - personal links wgServer + wgScript + "?title=" + statusChangerConfig.statusPage + "&action=edit&newstatus=" + stat, //link URL stat, //link text "pt-status-" + stat, //id of new button "I'm " + message + "!", //hover text "", //??? document.getElementById("pt-logout")); //add before logout button } if (location.href.indexOf("&action=edit&newstatus=") == -1) return; //Are we here to auto-edit the status? //Get new status statusRegExp = /&action=edit&newstatus=(.*)/; var status = statusRegExp.exec(location.href)[1]; //Modify the form document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value = status; if (status == "sleep") { status = "sleeping"; } document.getElementById('wpSummary').value = wgUserName + " is now " + status +"."; document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true; //Submit it! document.getElementById('editform').submit(); }); //[[Category:Wikipedia scripts|statusChanger]] |
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 23:12, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
That really confuses me. I've had the symbol before, where it was just the "offline/online" thing without having all of that added to it. Does that way make it automatic and puts it green when I sign on? Also, sorry for the delay I haven't been on for 24 hours. Jayy008 ( talk) 17:17, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
To quote Han Solo, "looks like someone is beginning to take an interest in your handiwork" :-)
(I've mentioned the attribution issue with that copy, and that's understood, and I also mentioned the request-a-nomination page.) -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 19:49, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for the appreciation for giving me advice on giving the instructions. However, I'm going to stop this problem right away and try my best. I would appreciate in assuming good faith, but I will try some ways on setting up my own criteria. Thanks for you're help! Mohamed Aden Ighe ( talk) 23:31, 8 October 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks for the support Mohamed Aden Ighe ( talk) 23:39, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. Hope you're well. A user has contested the deletion of Variator (variable valve timing). As the editor who nominated the page for deletion, your input would be appreciated. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 23:46, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
The backlog is at its lowest level in over a month, (21.96 days), thanks to a joint effort between me and User:ThatPeskyCommoner. Just wanted to let you know. You should focus on the newest pages now (until 0:00 UTC Tuesday) since the backlog is under control. My goal is to get the backlog under 20 days, and i understand it is about quality, not speed. Working hard, Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 01:33, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
NewPages Defcon 4
The queue at Special:NewPages is currently 22.04 days.
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What happened to the backlog? It shows that it is going up, when I have been working? It should say The queue at Special:NewPages is currently 20.20 days, instead of 23.5 days. Help? PLEASE!!! Bar Code Symmetry (Talk) 14:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi as you have said, the sentences were not exactly copied but were modified and changed.some paragraphs were copyvio's but added by some other members of india education program.the college ambassadors will take care of such copyvio'.hope you take a note once again as this is an important activity for our college acedemics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sourabhsk.mech ( talk • contribs) 04:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, I do not speak Spanish and have no idea whether the translation by Google Translate is satisfactory. The Template {{Not English}} says "please do not add an automated translation to the article since these are generally of very poor quality". Are you telling me that what the template says is wrong? James500 ( talk) 05:46, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. We should not use machine translations if the translation cannot easily be cleaned up into correct English. I translated it myself, then checked back in Google; the Google translation was in perfect English. In most cases, a Google translation will show what the basic content is about and we can then tag as required. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung กุดผึ้ง, firstly accept my humble apologies for not being able to tackle this problem myself as I am the on-ground CA of this user, User:Examsandacademics. I was unfortunately out of station for the last week hence could not tackle this issue head on. Thank You very much for re-blocking this user for his continuous copyright violations. I will talk to him personally as well as talk to the faculty in-charge and make sure he does not make further copyvios. I will personally search every sentence he writes to make sure there are no copyvios before he posts on Wiki. I will also have a talk with the concerned faculty to make sure he is banned from editing in the computer lab until further notice. But I appeal to you with the humblest of request to please unblock this I.P. address as this is the college lab I.P. address. I have seen you understand the importance of this program and as you have rightly stated, there is discouragement because of all these deletion and copyvio issues. But understand it is also a pilot project, we are bound to face more problems than solutions. We have made a lot of progress also, check out Robinson Crusoe Economy which is a good article written from scratch by a user from this college and a part of IEP. I will be in touch with you over these issues more directly in the discussion page of IEP. Understand even we Ambassadors are under a lot of burden. We are trying our best but we do not succeed either. I understand the problems and view them in the gravest aspect but please try to look at the brighter side of his program. Perhaps, not all the students will make it onto main space. But if all of us can bear through the storm of Copyvios and other issues, the content that does survive on Wikipedia will be of invaluable contribution. Even we Ambassadors, learn as we go. Please do not lose heart in the program. Lets work together and resolve all these issues. We CA's are your eyes and ears on ground zero. Even we make mistakes but we learn something new from each of our mistakes and try to prevent more. These are students and I understand that you should never compromise on quality and I don't ask you to. Just possibly a bit of leniency while blocking them. Removing their articles is fine. Again these are students, they have great potential, its just it is taking us a bit more time to get through to them than we stipulated.
As for the matter in hand, please unblock the IP address from which [[User:Examsandacademics] was editing. Do not unblock him as of yet. Let me see what I can do and revert back to you as soon as possible. I assure you that all of us ambassadors part of the IEP are also taking these issues in the gravest of light. We too are very passionate about Wikipedia and don't think twice about protecting it from Copyvios or Vandalism. Just have faith in this program a bit, pilot project after all.
Debastein1 ( talk) 10:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
( edit conflict)- I'm sorry, but I'm not unblocking this IP until I hear back from the bosses at the WMF. It's not just about this user, it's about dozens of them who are producing copyvios, and adding copyvio material to existing articles. Even your ambassadors don't understand that in Western countries and under USA law we take copyright violations and plagiarism very seriously indeed. And even the consultant has been telling students how to evade their blocks. Yesterday I wrote to every one of your 40 ambassadors and it took me a long time. Please understand that there are no deadlines here at Wikipedia for new articles. If you have made a deadline for your students' work that is most unfortunately not our problem. Wikipedia is not an experimental place for doing homework. If you have Skype video I'm more than happy to discuss this with you. - Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I will make this suggestion. It will help our patrollers to keep an eye out for the wrong kind of new pages and edits, and it will help us to step in with help for your students if they need it. However, the responsibility lies with you, the ambassadors - we cannot bend the rules for your students, and they will be warned, deleted, or blocked, according to Wikipedia policy if they have not listened to you:
I think that is a very fair solution, but I will remind you that if we have to block one more student, the IP might be blocked again. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 17:30, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Cheers,
Ram ( talk • contribs) 19:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Administrators should take special care when dealing with new users. Beginning editors are often unfamiliar with Wikipedia policy and convention, and so their behavior may initially appear to be disruptive. Responding to these new users with excessive force can discourage them from editing in the future. See Wikipedia:Do not bite the newcomers.
Blocks should be based on the protection of Wikipedia rather than the punishment of offenders. Most IP addresses should not be blocked more than a few hours, since the malicious user will probably move on by the time the block expires. If there is persistent disruption or vandalism from an IP address, the block should be extended (with the 'anon-only' option selected) as long as is necessary to prevent further disruption. (Hence, understand that by blocking the IP, you will not be preventing this user from creating more copyvios, he can just go to a cyber cafe or something if he so wishes. But what you will be doing is discouraging other students.) See Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses for more.
Before implementing a long-term block on an IP address with a long history of vandalism, please check if it is shared by performing a WHOIS and Reverse DNS lookup query on the IP address to determine if it belongs to a school or an ISP. If a Shared IP address' talk page is not already identified or tagged as such, use either the {{ SharedIP}}, {{ Shared IP edu}}, or any one of the templates at Category:Shared IP header templates to do so. For anonymous-only blocks of Shared IP Addresses, please consider using {{ anonblock}} or {{ schoolblock}} as your blocking reason as it causes less offence to innocent users. (We are telling you that this is a college IP. Block anonymous users from editing if you must, but don't discourage the ones who want to do good.)
As per the information you requested it is already available at Wikipedia:India Education Program. Please, let us come together and try to come out with a solution rather than resolve to just threatening by blocking. Especially Kudpung, you are an OA yourself. Please help us in this regard. We also want to protect Wikipedia but that doesn't mean we discourage contributions in fear of Copyvios. If its Copyvios, remove it and penalize the specific student, we are already working on that. Why uselessly penalize all the students who might end up with good contribs that improve Wikipedia.
Regards, Debastein1 ( talk) 18:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
It's 6 am and I'm back at my office here in Udon Thani. During the night I have discussed this problem with the WMF who have already been taking the situation very seriously. They will be having a meeting with the controllers of the India programme today (but remember that America is many hours behind us).
The offer to you has been based on:
The offer you have been made is a fair one. If you can't get the information out to the students and ambassadors or send me the list of users names of students by 10 am your time, that's fine - we can wait until you do. I will be at my computer all day today and I will unblock the IP as soon as you have the details. You can of course wait until the WMF has had their meeting with the organisers of the India programme, but that will take a little longer. Please understand that we cannot make any exceptions to Wikipedia policy. To do so would set a precedent and would put the content of our encyclopedia at risk. You may wish to point the sudents and tha ambassadors oat one of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute.: Respect copyright laws, and do not plagiarize your sources. Non-free content is allowed under fair use, but strive to find free alternatives to any media or content that you wish to add to Wikipedia. Since all your contributions are freely licensed to the public, no editor owns any article; all of your contributions can and will be mercilessly edited and redistributed.
I appreciate that a few new articles have not been deleted, and I thank Andy Dingley for his input. If you have any urgent questions, I am available all day and you are welcome to video-call me. For your further information:
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:54, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
College of Engineering Pune.: UML extension mechanisms: close paraphrasing of www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/ucacwxe/lectures/3C05-02.../aswe15-essay.pdf
Automotive designvery minor contribution by user:Poojanemade. This Wikipedia article was created in 2005. Unattributed use of the complete Wikipedia article by executivemodcartrendz.com/Replica-Car-About-Us.html
Central Government Health Scheme This Wikipedia article was created in 2005.. Significantly edited by User:Devikakannan possible copies of text from http://www.ovguide.com/central-government-health-scheme-9202a8c04000641f8000000000778cf7# and mohfw.nic.in/.../l892s/Chapter14medical%20relie-51096836.pdf
mohfw.nic.in/.../l892s/Chapter14medical%20relie-51096836.pdf File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View Facilities of outpatient care in all systems and emergency services in Allopathic system, free supply of necessary drugs, lab and radiological investigations, domiciliary visits to the seriously ill patients, specialists consultation both at the dispensary and hospital level, family welfare services, treatment in specialized hospitals, ...
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission This Wikipedia article was created in 2005. Significantly edited by User:Debastein1 Content includezs a block of 2032 words and a block of 982 words from http://www.enotes.com/topic/Jawaharlal_Nehru_National_Urban_Renewal_Mission and a blocks of 2032 words and http://www.slideshare.net/sarangvk/indian-economy-2030-mgi-report
2007–present recession in the United States possible copy of text from http://www.scribd.com/doc/7480461/US-Recession-and-Its-Impact-on-India, but tis PowerPopint may have copied text from Wikipedia.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:09, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, I'm having difficulties with an editor who is trying to speedy delete an article, Aziz Shavershian, under the fact that the person has no notability --- the article is clearly established, and this user is just doing so cause a fuss...please take a look, asap! Thank you! -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 11:25, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello my Name Is Fawaz Ibrahim i am currently going to be a star, im in the making sort of. Im just wondering why did my article get deleted ? and how can i bring it back ?
Sincerely Fawaz Irahim11:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by FawazIbrahim ( talk • contribs)
Hello User:Kudpung once again, as other CAs along with me are following couple of issues since past few days, we have been monitoring couple of talk pages, and your's and everyone else's message to handle the situation. So we wanted to know that which all Campus Ambassador's page have been deleted under copyvio, so that we can get in touch with them again and clear their doubts pertaining to Wikipedia:Copyrights. I am aware that you are already under much burden, but it would be great if you could point those CAs now if possible. Thanks. Rangilo Gujarati ( talk) 13:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, You recently nominated my article 'Darjeeling TeaXpress' for speedy deletion. Could you please give me pointers on how to ensure that is is not. I am not in any way affiliated with the company. I tried my best to ensure it's neutrality. Can you give me any assistance? Thank you.
Looking forward to your reply, Nicholas.
Sorry I missed your talkbacks, haven't been on in a while. I replied above! Jayy008 ( talk) 20:07, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
A new deletion review has been created regarding an article you've recently discussed. Dr. WTF ( talk) 20:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung
Thanks for your message. Yes I had seen the dom and nic page and thought it was a little empty and missing a few facts. I am Dom Hawley from dom and nic, so I tried to improve the info about us. I admit that I am completely new to wikipedia editing and therefore jumped in a little too quickly it seems. I have learned a lot in the last week and understand why it is probably not a good idea to edit pages about ones self for obvious COI issues. I did however created the dom&nic page in good faith. Not understanding how things work I didn't want to mess with an article that someone else had started. I realise that is a rather dumb now as working on existing pages is exactly how wikipedia works! (in a good way). I just wanted to add some stuff to proceedings as I obviously know a lot of stuff first hand that would probably never make it to the article otherwise all of which is verifiable with references (if you know what you are looking for). I am fully aware dom&nic do not have that great a notoriety compared with Stephen Spielberg for example and therefore there will be limited interest and limited knowledge amongst the editors out there about us. We have however done lots of work with lots of talented and notable artists and organisations. Anyway I think it would be good if the pages were merged (not sure how that happens). I do appreciate the work of yourself and other wikipedia editors out there. It is an amazing resource and I am going to try and lend my services in areas that I have knowledge about but no vested interest in! Kind regards Domley ( talk) 21:09, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, I've been tagging a few articles for G12, but there's an admin going around blanking all the copyvios that I've tagged. If this person's actions are valid, why should CSD need G12? BTW, for A9, I tried my best to understand it, and when I saw an article about a song (as opposed to the confusing "musical recording"), whose creator didn't have an article, I placed it up for SD. Please understand that I'm only in the business for less than a month, and I'm still learning. Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 22:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello KudPung, I was going through your talk page and saw that you requested RAM for a list of students in IEP. I have prepared a list of the students in my class. LIST. Mihir.khatwani ( talk) 06:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
The inevitable now seems to be happening. 8-( Andy Dingley ( talk) 16:20, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Since we've been discussing warning templates on MediaWiki.org, I thought I'd let you know that the third round of templates we'll be A/B testing this week are up on-wiki:
We're in contact with Addshore, and the Huggle devs in general are aware of the tests. Based on the last two tests, we'll get statistically significant amounts of application in about a week. If you have any comments or questions, I'm watching the respective template talk pages. Just for reference, our last results and thoughts on next steps are here. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:30, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, I recently added an article "Jenny Wheeler", which I was told that it will be deleted because correct references/citation could not be found. I have the clippings of news papers from 1988 and 1994. is it possible to upload those scans of newspapers somewhere so the correct references can be cited. Appreciate your help. I am still learning to find my way around Wikipedia. Thanks heaps SamKamani ( talk) 04:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am working on fixing the issue and adding some sources, please give me some time, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwin lo ( talk • contribs) 10:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung
Thanks the pages have been merged. Best regards Domley ( talk) 11:39, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice - I've opted in. Cloudbound ( talk) 14:07, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung!
I've created a page for the list of students in Symbiosis School of Economics, the institute whose IP got banned by you. You can see the users at following link:
WP:India Education Program/Students
I would like to thank you for unblocking the IP.
Cheers,
Ram ( talk • contribs) 15:07, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung! If you have a Mac, the easiest way to make screencasts is to use Quicktime, which (only on OS X) has a built-in screen recording feature. For Linux, the best thing I've found is GTK-recordmydesktop. I know a lot of people use Camtasia for Windows (and for Mac, if you want more advanced options), and I think it's free within a trial period but costs a moderate amount after that. Hope that helps.-- ragesoss ( talk) 02:18, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Kudpung, per your request please see Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrollers/10+ for a list of editors who have marked at least 10 articles as patrolled since January 1, 2011. —SW— chatter 22:24, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, as a fellow administrator in the Hebrew wikipedia I was surprised to see the speedy deletion on this article. As I am not so familiar with the English wikipedia could you please explain the reason for the speedy deletion mark. Thank you and a happy Sukkot! -- Yoavd ( talk) 14:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi!
I saw that you nominated Victoriano López García for deletion using PRODBLP. As it happened, the article was deleted as it was a copyright violation of this page - the text was copied in its entirety. Did you mean to use the PRODBLP tag on it, as the article did point out that the subject was dead? Stephen! Coming... 16:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)