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I am finding a user to create only spam and unqualified pages. Can you please check his contributions? Meeanaya ( talk) 04:55, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MER-C. You blocked this account, but AKinderWorld seems like a possible WP:DUCK if not the Lebronto23 account then perhaps of someone else. Do you think there's anything to this? Seems a little unusual for a new account to show up at a MFD discussion about whether a draft should be deleted. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 02:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER-C. As an addition to my recent report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Josher8a, I am noting both of the editors (and one editor confirmed to be a Josher8a sock) I had raised concerns about have returned to editing, mere minutes apart ( [1], [2], [3]). Best. SamHolt6 ( talk) 00:00, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
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@ MER-C: Would you consider removing the maintenance template placed on the Hypergiant Industries article in July now that multiple COI edit requests have been submitted following Wikipedia guidelines and reviewed by COI editor Spintendo? Thank you for considering. Justin Goldsborough ( talk) 21:09, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
I don't want to clutter up the nomination page too much. But is this along the lines of what you mean? I'm still trying to nurse my photoshop-fu. GMG talk 21:25, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Please block user:Bussy4life ASAP. He is posting lewd photos. CLCStudent ( talk) 15:15, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
It looks like you overlooked the merge part of the closing you did on this category. Do you need help finishing up the merging? ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:59, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
I just noticed that this promotional article had been repeatedly created. I thought about notifying you due to your experience with these kinds of cases.
Who is the best admin to notify if I run into a case like this? Should we file an SPI? HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ ( talk) 13:50, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
Akash1324 is the same user as HPAcc1324/AditiMishra3000 – ten minor edits over four days to get autoconfirmed, then moving Draft:Applied Intuition back to mainspace. Pretty obvious UPE, but regardless of that, needs a sock block. -- bonadea contributions talk 07:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
It looks like you may have a sock puppet account whose evading their block in order to continue editing the Association of Independent Commercial Producers article. Bella Blue Shoes is now editing the article after you blocked Kristin0419 just over a week prior who was doing (what appears to be) the exact same thing. Just wanted to give you a heads up and let you know... I'll take a look on my end and see if I can find any similarities with the content being added. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 06:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I'm not quite sure where to report this so I thought I'd drop a note on your talk page since you seem experienced in dealing with UPE. Sintujaggi looks like an obvious UPE account. Most of their articles have been deleted as G11, and there are multiple COI warnings on their talk page that they haven't responded to. SpicyMilkBoy ( talk) 12:52, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
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I'm reaching out to you in respect to this AFD /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Domio Just wondering as a keen observer why User:Britishfinance edited the Domio page and closed the AFD which was re-listed to get clearer consesus. It seems that Domio as a company hired almost everyone that voted "Keep" on that AFD. You only blocked few of them that had few edits. It's also very plausible that User:Britishfinance was paid by Domio to edit the page and close the AFD when discussion is still on. I also discovered that User:Britishfinance is semi retired. why then did he use his account still? Would like you to look into this. I don't think this is right. Thanks MercuryXD ( talk) 18:54, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER-C, I know you do a lot of work catching covert advertising (thanks for blocking HoneyMalt, by the way - they definitely were setting off warning bells for me), so I wanted to ask you for a bit of advice on the topic:
Would appreciate your insight on these topics. creffett ( talk) 01:02, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
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Would you mind reopening and relisting this discussion? I notice I omitted a crucial word in my comments, it should have been "support this rename" (i.e. support Fayenatic L's alternative) instead of "support rename" (as per nomination). Apologies for the inconvenience. Marcocapelle ( talk) 21:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello sir, I am contributing and reviewing Wikipedia under guidelines and policies for a couple of years and I wanted to ask you this anonymously. I was very curious and had a few questions and haven't got answered for those yet. I have not edited Wikipedia by getting payment from someone yet, but I have seen a few editors, you can say many editors who are editing by getting payments. And I also reported a few of them and put "Undisclosed paid" tag on a few. But my questions are still un-answered and I haven't even asked anyone yet. First I belong to a poor family and I need to start paid editing on Wikipedia, so I need guidance from you. What should I do, when I don't have any other skills to do? I can assure that I will never ever edit Wikipedia out of its guidelines and policies. But I had to get permission and answers before starting that.
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Could you please tell me what the date was when dutchy inserted the copyvio in the lede? Btw, I'm aware of the micro CCI at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2019 November 3 and will get to it when I have the time. Thanks, 💵Money💵emoji💵 Talk💸 Help out at CCI! 21:23, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi,
I am the copyright holder of the recently-deleted text about Nicholas Samartis. The gallery Olsen Gruin (olsengruin.com) used it without my permission (which didn't bother me) and it's use here should not have been affected. That said, the text has been removed from Wikipedia. I would like to replace it with something different in any event, just to minimise confusion.
Is there anything else I need to do before I begin editing a new Nicholas Samartis article?
Thanks for your assistance.
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07:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
Can you userfy that for me that you deleted recently. I know some details about him? He is certainly notable so maybe I can consult the deleted one, or maybe you could stub the article. ww2censor ( talk) 12:19, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
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You deleted a previous version of this article as the work of a sockpuppet or as block evasion. There are now a new article version and a draft version. Please take a look at whether there is being evasion of gaming. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:46, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
In the log for
Anandmurti Gurumaa at its 2018 deletion you said it was the work of a sockpuppet but didn't identify the master. The creator of the current draft,
Draft:Anandmurti Gurumaa, has, as well as using a sock, failed to declare COI, despite multiple requests and evidence that he's LinkedIn, just ignored and removed the requests. Could you tell me who the master was (I can only see previous creators in 2006/7, & IPs in 2009/10/13/14/15) or investigate the deleted stuff please? For some reason he seems to think that his problems are caused by me rather than himself,
here, and on
commons. Thanks,
Cabayi (
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14:18, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, just in case the ping didn't work, there's a question about an article you deleted at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Deleted article: John Ben Shepperd. DuncanHill ( talk) 00:42, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Hey MER-C, got a question on an article that could knock out some work on an old CCI. I saw that Niemotko v. Maryland, which as a foundational creation by that person I get. However, as a US Supreme Court case, the text used in the article should fall under US public domain per the Include-FedCourts Template. Am I missing something obvious in hopefully trying to trim this or should I restore the above and mark off the Supreme Court cases (or at least attribute them, as that was a big issue with this one)? Wizardman 02:29, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Shouldn't it be "Journals published between x and y times per year" rather than "between x to y"? In fact, I think "from x to y" would work better, as the "between" construction could be taken to be exclusive of both x and y. There's also an issue with Category:Biweekly journals - biweekly is ambiguous. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:36, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello MER-C,greetings from Zimbabwe , i wanted to create an article on this subject and i saw there was already a draft article Tatenda Mahachi ,i however edited the information on it and removed promotional language ,my issue however is that after editing i don't see option to submit the draft article for review ,is it because i'm not the original editor who created it or its because it was moved from the article space by you? I'm new here and i'm still learning so forgive me if my questions sounds stupid. Georgiamarlins ( talk) 15:27, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MER-C! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020, hoping that you'll join me for a cool beer in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:51, 24 December 2019 (UTC) |
Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
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フレフレ、みんなの未来!/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
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Hi MER C;
I was doing a few patches on the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations page and noticed that Betty Miller Unterberger is redlinked and found that the article had been deleted for copyright violations.
Would it be possible to access the article to see what can be put in proper form and salvaged?
All the best holiday wishes in any case. ch ( talk) 05:41, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER-C. I’m on a bit of a break, but gave علاء your name as someone he could go to for help with paid editing concerns here in addition to me. If you haven’t met him before, Ala’a is a CU on ar.wiki and a steward globally. Ar.wiki has the benefit of being one of the other projects that actually likes working with en.wiki, so whenever they let us know about cross-wiki spam I always try to help out. Anyway, thought I should give you a heads up that you might be seeing a new name. TonyBallioni ( talk) 07:40, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Mer-C I have been sick for 2 weeks and when I logged back to the page I created on Wikipedia for Mambo, I realized it has been deleted because someone said I was infringing copyrights. The picture I used and uploaded on WikiCommons was a picture I took of my husband in his studio. It was a series of pictures and he posted one of them on Facebook but it was not the same. I have not been able to login until yesterday and I realized I had comments but don't know how to fix it. It took me days to collect all teh information and structure it. It did not mean to infringe any right, I am just new here and trying to understand how it works. Can you please help me? Thank you and happy new year. Jdemarigny ( talk) 20:03, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
Yikes. See this, this particularly egregious, covert spam, this, this and it goes on, particularly their creations which they "just happened" to hear the name mentioned while interspersing a lot of spammy PR garbage throughout the project. Praxidicae ( talk) 13:29, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi to MER-C
I'm a friend of Amos Pizzey who has has a "his article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments" banner posted on the header of his page.
[ Pizzey]
As far as I can see you designated the author of the article, Jon Wilding, a spammer and therefore the article may be suspicious. Is that right? If that is so, can you tell me the reason for your suspicions? Secondly, do you find anything wrong with the article? I can certainly get the author to make corrections. In short, how is the best way to get the banner removed?
I would appreciate your advice.
SS ATX ( talk) 00:28, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Mind taking a look at this user and some of the others in the history of the Isaias articles? This reeks of paid editing, including their "own work" photo uploads. I have now twice warned them about WP:PAID including with a warning to cease editing until they've responded but they appear to be ignoring it. Praxidicae ( talk) 17:50, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
I noticed you recently deleted the page for the late Texan politician Lena Guerrero (1957-2008) for what seem to have been copyright-related reasons. I feel Guerrero was notable enough to warrant a page (she was an influential member of the Texas legislature as well as the first ethnic minority to serve on the Texas Railroad Commission, and her career was ended by a fairly notable scandal), and would like to rewrite her page if possible. Would this be acceptable, and if so how can I avoid the issues which led to the previous page's deletion?
-- Li'ljk100 ( talk) 15:50, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hi MER-C. Do you think this editor Silkeop3 is a clear UPE? One edit from 2015, then a few edits on 9th January before they create a very promotional article Guy Phoenix for an inherently non-notable Nottingham property developer; they even updated UK Real Estate templates with Guy's BLP (even though it was their first full day editing). I see situations like this in NPP where an account that made only one edit from years ago, comes along and creates a promo piece in one day? Given your experience, how would you assess this? thanks. Britishfinance ( talk) 20:57, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
hi MER-C i have created a page on dr hafeez rahman that i have learnt that you removed to draft /info/en/?search=Draft:Hafeez_Rahman so can i create a new page on the same person, i saw the page in draft mine is entirely different content. need help on it. Joydeep ghosh ( talk) 18:20, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Any advice on which of Biografer's page creations should be G5'd? I was using the basis of thinly sourced articles under 1400 bytes that have not had contribs by others. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 05:43, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
You do a lot of work combatting UPE and just spammy PE from disclosed editors and for some reason I'm drawing a blank but I don't recall if we have ever had an RFC or have a policy/guideline strongly suggesting/requiring even disclosed paid editors to go through the AFC process or not? I do recall seeing someone that deals with this stuff tell a (declared) paid editor that they needed (it was phrased as more of a requirement than a suggestion ;)) to have it reviewed via afc. Anyway, the tl;dr is I find edits like those that I pointed out here from paid editors to be highly problematic and would like to be able to point to a more specific policy/guideline than our normal WP:COI/ WP:PAID. On the other hand, if we've never formalized anything surrounding this beyond disclosures, maybe I should start an RFC? Praxidicae ( talk) 20:08, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
I am not aware of any RFCs on the matter, although the recommendation to go through AFC has been in COI for quite a while. I don't want to see paid editors making inclusion decisions. Move-warring into mainspace is obviously tendentious editing. There is also a requirement to disclose any external account where paid editing services are advertised ( m:Linking to external advertising accounts). Admins are forbidden from using performing admin actions for pay ( Wikipedia talk:Administrators/Archive 17#RfC about paid use of administrator tools). MER-C 06:02, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Is it pronounced merci is something else? Esaïe Prickett ( talk) 02:36, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, you deleted the page for [ Porter] claiming that it is unambiguous advertising or promotion. I am rewriting the draft to make it more neutral, include more notable information about him, and add more of the reliable and notable references for him. This, in essence, is in accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines given that I provide the disclosures, as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshleyBell208 ( talk • contribs) 18:15, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
I nominated this category for deletion, and you closed the discussion as delete. However, the category still hasn't been deleted yet. Do you know why?-- ⓋᎯ☧ǿᖇǥ@ℤε 📞 12:48, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Mind taking a look at 9NDX9? They registered in May and have since only created articles which are sock recreations but with like 5 different sock farms. It's fairly obvious some sort of meat puppetry (and they even claim to be a digital marketer on their userpage.) Praxidicae ( talk) 17:07, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Praxidicae ( talk) 20:28, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, MER-C! This seems to be up your street, I wondered if you had any thoughts/comment? Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:39, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Question regarding the closure of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_January_10: are the articles of the deleted categories still in the tree of Jews and in the tree of engravers? I voted 'merge' to ensure they would be kept in those trees, that may still be relevant. Marcocapelle ( talk) 14:45, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that in the wake of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japanelemu/Archive you deleted the article on J'Nai Bridges. She's a notable singer, and I wonder if you you could restore and draftify that article so I can work on it for an eventual move into main space. I've done recently the same for Günther Groissböck and Hongni Wu. I have now the article and the draft on my watchlist, so I'll notice if you do. -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 05:35, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Kailash is a decent contributor, his articles have often been checked at GA and FAC. Surprised that even with experience he thought using imdb text was OK, but I think you've woken him up to the problem. Consider unblocking him as I think over three weeks now is more than enough.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:19, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
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The page for Mitch Chilson was deleted, but I was curious if there was a possibility for it to be restored to a draft state so that appropriate changes could be edited before being re-submitted. Is that an option? Was looking to potentially save some of the work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ACCBiggz ( talk • contribs) 18:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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I am finding a user to create only spam and unqualified pages. Can you please check his contributions? Meeanaya ( talk) 04:55, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MER-C. You blocked this account, but AKinderWorld seems like a possible WP:DUCK if not the Lebronto23 account then perhaps of someone else. Do you think there's anything to this? Seems a little unusual for a new account to show up at a MFD discussion about whether a draft should be deleted. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 02:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER-C. As an addition to my recent report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Josher8a, I am noting both of the editors (and one editor confirmed to be a Josher8a sock) I had raised concerns about have returned to editing, mere minutes apart ( [1], [2], [3]). Best. SamHolt6 ( talk) 00:00, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
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The Homunculus
19:32, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
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@ MER-C: Would you consider removing the maintenance template placed on the Hypergiant Industries article in July now that multiple COI edit requests have been submitted following Wikipedia guidelines and reviewed by COI editor Spintendo? Thank you for considering. Justin Goldsborough ( talk) 21:09, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
I don't want to clutter up the nomination page too much. But is this along the lines of what you mean? I'm still trying to nurse my photoshop-fu. GMG talk 21:25, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Please block user:Bussy4life ASAP. He is posting lewd photos. CLCStudent ( talk) 15:15, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
It looks like you overlooked the merge part of the closing you did on this category. Do you need help finishing up the merging? ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:59, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
I just noticed that this promotional article had been repeatedly created. I thought about notifying you due to your experience with these kinds of cases.
Who is the best admin to notify if I run into a case like this? Should we file an SPI? HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ ( talk) 13:50, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
Akash1324 is the same user as HPAcc1324/AditiMishra3000 – ten minor edits over four days to get autoconfirmed, then moving Draft:Applied Intuition back to mainspace. Pretty obvious UPE, but regardless of that, needs a sock block. -- bonadea contributions talk 07:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
It looks like you may have a sock puppet account whose evading their block in order to continue editing the Association of Independent Commercial Producers article. Bella Blue Shoes is now editing the article after you blocked Kristin0419 just over a week prior who was doing (what appears to be) the exact same thing. Just wanted to give you a heads up and let you know... I'll take a look on my end and see if I can find any similarities with the content being added. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 06:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I'm not quite sure where to report this so I thought I'd drop a note on your talk page since you seem experienced in dealing with UPE. Sintujaggi looks like an obvious UPE account. Most of their articles have been deleted as G11, and there are multiple COI warnings on their talk page that they haven't responded to. SpicyMilkBoy ( talk) 12:52, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
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I'm reaching out to you in respect to this AFD /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Domio Just wondering as a keen observer why User:Britishfinance edited the Domio page and closed the AFD which was re-listed to get clearer consesus. It seems that Domio as a company hired almost everyone that voted "Keep" on that AFD. You only blocked few of them that had few edits. It's also very plausible that User:Britishfinance was paid by Domio to edit the page and close the AFD when discussion is still on. I also discovered that User:Britishfinance is semi retired. why then did he use his account still? Would like you to look into this. I don't think this is right. Thanks MercuryXD ( talk) 18:54, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER-C, I know you do a lot of work catching covert advertising (thanks for blocking HoneyMalt, by the way - they definitely were setting off warning bells for me), so I wanted to ask you for a bit of advice on the topic:
Would appreciate your insight on these topics. creffett ( talk) 01:02, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
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Would you mind reopening and relisting this discussion? I notice I omitted a crucial word in my comments, it should have been "support this rename" (i.e. support Fayenatic L's alternative) instead of "support rename" (as per nomination). Apologies for the inconvenience. Marcocapelle ( talk) 21:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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19:31, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello sir, I am contributing and reviewing Wikipedia under guidelines and policies for a couple of years and I wanted to ask you this anonymously. I was very curious and had a few questions and haven't got answered for those yet. I have not edited Wikipedia by getting payment from someone yet, but I have seen a few editors, you can say many editors who are editing by getting payments. And I also reported a few of them and put "Undisclosed paid" tag on a few. But my questions are still un-answered and I haven't even asked anyone yet. First I belong to a poor family and I need to start paid editing on Wikipedia, so I need guidance from you. What should I do, when I don't have any other skills to do? I can assure that I will never ever edit Wikipedia out of its guidelines and policies. But I had to get permission and answers before starting that.
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19:44, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
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Could you please tell me what the date was when dutchy inserted the copyvio in the lede? Btw, I'm aware of the micro CCI at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2019 November 3 and will get to it when I have the time. Thanks, 💵Money💵emoji💵 Talk💸 Help out at CCI! 21:23, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi,
I am the copyright holder of the recently-deleted text about Nicholas Samartis. The gallery Olsen Gruin (olsengruin.com) used it without my permission (which didn't bother me) and it's use here should not have been affected. That said, the text has been removed from Wikipedia. I would like to replace it with something different in any event, just to minimise confusion.
Is there anything else I need to do before I begin editing a new Nicholas Samartis article?
Thanks for your assistance.
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07:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
Can you userfy that for me that you deleted recently. I know some details about him? He is certainly notable so maybe I can consult the deleted one, or maybe you could stub the article. ww2censor ( talk) 12:19, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
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10:54, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
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You deleted a previous version of this article as the work of a sockpuppet or as block evasion. There are now a new article version and a draft version. Please take a look at whether there is being evasion of gaming. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:46, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
In the log for
Anandmurti Gurumaa at its 2018 deletion you said it was the work of a sockpuppet but didn't identify the master. The creator of the current draft,
Draft:Anandmurti Gurumaa, has, as well as using a sock, failed to declare COI, despite multiple requests and evidence that he's LinkedIn, just ignored and removed the requests. Could you tell me who the master was (I can only see previous creators in 2006/7, & IPs in 2009/10/13/14/15) or investigate the deleted stuff please? For some reason he seems to think that his problems are caused by me rather than himself,
here, and on
commons. Thanks,
Cabayi (
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14:18, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, just in case the ping didn't work, there's a question about an article you deleted at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Deleted article: John Ben Shepperd. DuncanHill ( talk) 00:42, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Hey MER-C, got a question on an article that could knock out some work on an old CCI. I saw that Niemotko v. Maryland, which as a foundational creation by that person I get. However, as a US Supreme Court case, the text used in the article should fall under US public domain per the Include-FedCourts Template. Am I missing something obvious in hopefully trying to trim this or should I restore the above and mark off the Supreme Court cases (or at least attribute them, as that was a big issue with this one)? Wizardman 02:29, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Shouldn't it be "Journals published between x and y times per year" rather than "between x to y"? In fact, I think "from x to y" would work better, as the "between" construction could be taken to be exclusive of both x and y. There's also an issue with Category:Biweekly journals - biweekly is ambiguous. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:36, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello MER-C,greetings from Zimbabwe , i wanted to create an article on this subject and i saw there was already a draft article Tatenda Mahachi ,i however edited the information on it and removed promotional language ,my issue however is that after editing i don't see option to submit the draft article for review ,is it because i'm not the original editor who created it or its because it was moved from the article space by you? I'm new here and i'm still learning so forgive me if my questions sounds stupid. Georgiamarlins ( talk) 15:27, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MER-C! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020, hoping that you'll join me for a cool beer in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:51, 24 December 2019 (UTC) |
Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
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フレフレ、みんなの未来!/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
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03:10, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER C;
I was doing a few patches on the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations page and noticed that Betty Miller Unterberger is redlinked and found that the article had been deleted for copyright violations.
Would it be possible to access the article to see what can be put in proper form and salvaged?
All the best holiday wishes in any case. ch ( talk) 05:41, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi MER-C. I’m on a bit of a break, but gave علاء your name as someone he could go to for help with paid editing concerns here in addition to me. If you haven’t met him before, Ala’a is a CU on ar.wiki and a steward globally. Ar.wiki has the benefit of being one of the other projects that actually likes working with en.wiki, so whenever they let us know about cross-wiki spam I always try to help out. Anyway, thought I should give you a heads up that you might be seeing a new name. TonyBallioni ( talk) 07:40, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
– 2020 is a
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MER-C,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Hi Mer-C I have been sick for 2 weeks and when I logged back to the page I created on Wikipedia for Mambo, I realized it has been deleted because someone said I was infringing copyrights. The picture I used and uploaded on WikiCommons was a picture I took of my husband in his studio. It was a series of pictures and he posted one of them on Facebook but it was not the same. I have not been able to login until yesterday and I realized I had comments but don't know how to fix it. It took me days to collect all teh information and structure it. It did not mean to infringe any right, I am just new here and trying to understand how it works. Can you please help me? Thank you and happy new year. Jdemarigny ( talk) 20:03, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
Yikes. See this, this particularly egregious, covert spam, this, this and it goes on, particularly their creations which they "just happened" to hear the name mentioned while interspersing a lot of spammy PR garbage throughout the project. Praxidicae ( talk) 13:29, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi to MER-C
I'm a friend of Amos Pizzey who has has a "his article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments" banner posted on the header of his page.
[ Pizzey]
As far as I can see you designated the author of the article, Jon Wilding, a spammer and therefore the article may be suspicious. Is that right? If that is so, can you tell me the reason for your suspicions? Secondly, do you find anything wrong with the article? I can certainly get the author to make corrections. In short, how is the best way to get the banner removed?
I would appreciate your advice.
SS ATX ( talk) 00:28, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Mind taking a look at this user and some of the others in the history of the Isaias articles? This reeks of paid editing, including their "own work" photo uploads. I have now twice warned them about WP:PAID including with a warning to cease editing until they've responded but they appear to be ignoring it. Praxidicae ( talk) 17:50, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
I noticed you recently deleted the page for the late Texan politician Lena Guerrero (1957-2008) for what seem to have been copyright-related reasons. I feel Guerrero was notable enough to warrant a page (she was an influential member of the Texas legislature as well as the first ethnic minority to serve on the Texas Railroad Commission, and her career was ended by a fairly notable scandal), and would like to rewrite her page if possible. Would this be acceptable, and if so how can I avoid the issues which led to the previous page's deletion?
-- Li'ljk100 ( talk) 15:50, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hi MER-C. Do you think this editor Silkeop3 is a clear UPE? One edit from 2015, then a few edits on 9th January before they create a very promotional article Guy Phoenix for an inherently non-notable Nottingham property developer; they even updated UK Real Estate templates with Guy's BLP (even though it was their first full day editing). I see situations like this in NPP where an account that made only one edit from years ago, comes along and creates a promo piece in one day? Given your experience, how would you assess this? thanks. Britishfinance ( talk) 20:57, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
hi MER-C i have created a page on dr hafeez rahman that i have learnt that you removed to draft /info/en/?search=Draft:Hafeez_Rahman so can i create a new page on the same person, i saw the page in draft mine is entirely different content. need help on it. Joydeep ghosh ( talk) 18:20, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Any advice on which of Biografer's page creations should be G5'd? I was using the basis of thinly sourced articles under 1400 bytes that have not had contribs by others. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 05:43, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
You do a lot of work combatting UPE and just spammy PE from disclosed editors and for some reason I'm drawing a blank but I don't recall if we have ever had an RFC or have a policy/guideline strongly suggesting/requiring even disclosed paid editors to go through the AFC process or not? I do recall seeing someone that deals with this stuff tell a (declared) paid editor that they needed (it was phrased as more of a requirement than a suggestion ;)) to have it reviewed via afc. Anyway, the tl;dr is I find edits like those that I pointed out here from paid editors to be highly problematic and would like to be able to point to a more specific policy/guideline than our normal WP:COI/ WP:PAID. On the other hand, if we've never formalized anything surrounding this beyond disclosures, maybe I should start an RFC? Praxidicae ( talk) 20:08, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
I am not aware of any RFCs on the matter, although the recommendation to go through AFC has been in COI for quite a while. I don't want to see paid editors making inclusion decisions. Move-warring into mainspace is obviously tendentious editing. There is also a requirement to disclose any external account where paid editing services are advertised ( m:Linking to external advertising accounts). Admins are forbidden from using performing admin actions for pay ( Wikipedia talk:Administrators/Archive 17#RfC about paid use of administrator tools). MER-C 06:02, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Is it pronounced merci is something else? Esaïe Prickett ( talk) 02:36, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, you deleted the page for [ Porter] claiming that it is unambiguous advertising or promotion. I am rewriting the draft to make it more neutral, include more notable information about him, and add more of the reliable and notable references for him. This, in essence, is in accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines given that I provide the disclosures, as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshleyBell208 ( talk • contribs) 18:15, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
I nominated this category for deletion, and you closed the discussion as delete. However, the category still hasn't been deleted yet. Do you know why?-- ⓋᎯ☧ǿᖇǥ@ℤε 📞 12:48, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Mind taking a look at 9NDX9? They registered in May and have since only created articles which are sock recreations but with like 5 different sock farms. It's fairly obvious some sort of meat puppetry (and they even claim to be a digital marketer on their userpage.) Praxidicae ( talk) 17:07, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Praxidicae ( talk) 20:28, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, MER-C! This seems to be up your street, I wondered if you had any thoughts/comment? Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:39, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Question regarding the closure of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_January_10: are the articles of the deleted categories still in the tree of Jews and in the tree of engravers? I voted 'merge' to ensure they would be kept in those trees, that may still be relevant. Marcocapelle ( talk) 14:45, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that in the wake of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japanelemu/Archive you deleted the article on J'Nai Bridges. She's a notable singer, and I wonder if you you could restore and draftify that article so I can work on it for an eventual move into main space. I've done recently the same for Günther Groissböck and Hongni Wu. I have now the article and the draft on my watchlist, so I'll notice if you do. -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 05:35, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Kailash is a decent contributor, his articles have often been checked at GA and FAC. Surprised that even with experience he thought using imdb text was OK, but I think you've woken him up to the problem. Consider unblocking him as I think over three weeks now is more than enough.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:19, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
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The page for Mitch Chilson was deleted, but I was curious if there was a possibility for it to be restored to a draft state so that appropriate changes could be edited before being re-submitted. Is that an option? Was looking to potentially save some of the work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ACCBiggz ( talk • contribs) 18:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)