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Hi Mdann52, I could really use your guidance on image licensing! You had a look at a logo for me that I had asked to be uploaded, but I screwed up somewhere it you declined it. I am new to wikipedia and am drafting an article on Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, which is a very historic health charity here in Scotland.
I had hoped to have their logo added under creative commons (free to use, attribute, don't modify), but when I supplied a link to their copyright notice this caused a problem. Copyright is not my area of expertise!
I would deeply appreciate you letting me know where I went wrong and what I can do to fix this and get the logo approved. Thanks for your patience! Jason — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonmacmillan ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Good to know; thanks! J — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonmacmillan ( talk • contribs) 13:11, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:DANTAH, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Users are allowed to blank their user page. They have not specifically requested deletion (U1). Thank you. Alexf (talk) 12:29, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of KAAF University College, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Shirt58 ( talk) 23:10, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
This film was just released September 6, and beginning as far back as last November, [1] has received coverage enough to meet WP:NF. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Article has issues (now tagged) and needs work, but it serves the project and its readers that this stay and be improved over time and through regular editing. And with the release only days ago, we can certainly expect more coverage. Perhaps you might withdraw your nomination? Cheers. Schmidt, Michael Q. 12:23, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, missed your message on my talk page. Revert me if you feel it's appropriate. I do not believe the tags were redundant; the majority of sources used in the article have been passing mentions or press releases, which do not establish notability. Again, revert me if you feel it's appropriate. Edward321 ( talk) 22:42, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you both for helping. For the notability component, we just cited a source that is not a passing mention and is not a press release. That reference can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-factorymade-20130910,0,1723531,full.story
Also, we do not understand what this other issue means "may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject," because all of the sources cited are from various publications. Thank you.
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There are no pages for the "people" you're making wikilinks for. The dead links light up red on the page. Why don't you create pages for Whitehead, Forrest and Mouton and them link them? Hotcop2 ( talk) 18:23, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you.
Ygent ebiz ( talk) 03:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52,
I was just writing to ask about the reversion to the "Big Bang (South Korea band)" reversion.
Would you please explain what you meant by "rm copyrighted material"?
The images are on flickr with a creative commons 2.0 license and I thought that it was alright to share.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/officialygfamily/
Did I do something wrong?
Thank you in advance.
Ygent ebiz
Ygent ebiz ( talk) 00:51, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Civil recognition of Jewish divorce is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Civil recognition of Jewish divorce until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Get (divorce document).
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I noticed that you are taking some of the charge in the article review backlog. Are any special privileges needed to perform reviews? Dovid ( talk) 17:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
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This edit changed the number of equal-signs on the section break in the AFD. That change was later reverted to avoid "breaking" pages that transclude it. I'm letting you know in case you were unaware. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:44, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Governor Stirling Senior High School Crest.gif, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The file is not a match, and therefore not redundant. Please use the proper deletion methods to deal with unfree files. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 18:06, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Mdann52, I believe this election for WP:BPL has ended. Now will you please announce the result, kindly?-- Pratyya (Hello!) 12:57, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
This one has me a bit puzzled. How does an AFC/C submission get accepted then shortly thereafter deleted? I noticed its empty status (despite my suggested articles and categories for inclusion) shortly after it was accepted, noticed later on the note about its pending deletion due to it being empty, and was considering filling it up with some articles, but now - Poof! - it's gone. Was there some reason my suggested articles were not included and could their inclusion have prevented the deletion? I'm not terribly active here and can be very procrastinatory with the edits (hence my preferred use of AFC with it's smooth, efficient, and official-like process for category creation) so my apologies for my recent inaction, but if I had known this would happen, I might have intervened to added some articles as soon as the submission was accepted.
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Thanks! 4.252.128.219 ( talk) 22:23, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
It's quite suspicious but if you're willing to keep an eye on their edits it should be fine. I'd somewhat agree with kuru in that they are dubious, but it's within reason. NativeForeigner Talk 08:08, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mdann52, I saw that you have nominated yourself for RfA. Good luck and I'll definitely support you! :) Jianhui67 talk★ contribs 10:23, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Absolutely fine,thanks :) -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 15:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just a quick note regarding your RfA, which I've been looking through. Some editors may look a little unfavourably on your use of would of
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Is it appropriate to add a Google Earth kml that I compiled to a Wikipedia page? If so, are there any examples of best practices? No. The main reason for this is that software such as Google Earth is copyrighted, along with the maps/images, and they fail our non-free content rules. --Mdann52talk to me! 20:28, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious about that since KML is not software that I know of. It's a series of gps coordinates in an XML file. Wikipedia uses singular gps coordinates in the GeoHack which in turned links to dozens of mapping applications including free ones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dcoffida ( talk • contribs) 01:15, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Is it appropriate to add a Google Earth kml that I compiled to a Wikipedia page? If so, are there any examples of best practices?
No. The main reason for this is that software such as Google Earth is copyrighted, along with the maps/images, and they fail our non-free content rules. --Mdann52talk to me! 20:28, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious about that since KML is not software that I know of. It's a series of gps coordinates in an XML file. Wikipedia uses singular gps coordinates in the GeoHack which in turned links to dozens of mapping applications including free ones.
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Simplest way to explain this: when citing an article from eg The Daily Telegraph then the work is The Daily Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph is not published by The Daily Telegraph - it is published by Telegraph Media Group. Similarly, the Daily Mail is a work; it is published by Dmg media. The Sun is a work, published by News Group Newspapers. As a rule of thumb, where you take a cite from is the work, not the publisher. Blackberry Sorbet 23:17, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to thank everyone who took part in my recent RfA. I will take the advice given to me, and will hopefully have more luck in the future. I have fortunately not become alienated by the process; I will continue to edit Wikipedia, but try and expand my horizons. Once again, thanks to all :) -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 17:30, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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Good evening Mdann52,
I am wondering if you could review an article you deleted recently? I have edited the original article and would like to get this reviewed and published if possible. Someone else had written the original article and it was untouched and unedited for over 6 months. I would appreciate any feedback you have to make this an unbiased article.
Thanks for your help with this.
Regards, Becstar95 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgiebec ( talk • contribs) 23:26, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks User:Mdann52. I have added another two sources for your review. Thanks a bunch User:Georgiebec —Preceding undated comment added 18:08, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52. Thank you very much for reviewing, accepting and publishing the article I created on Baye McNeil. I have some more work on it since its publication - noting more references, and including an external link...I saw that another editor inserted a notice at top of article questioning its notability. I don't understand why. I followed all instructions I was given on articles for creation help page and in live chat I did with help page - noting sources I was informed were reliable...Do you have any thoughts on this? Once again, thank you for your help! Minusminority ( talk) 05:23, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52, FYI, I see you tagged Baye McNeil article as "orphan." I've added some links to article and was wondering if they suffice or more are needed...(Noted this on article's talk page as well.)...Thanks for your input!... Minusminority ( talk) 02:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Mdann52, I could really use your guidance on image licensing! You had a look at a logo for me that I had asked to be uploaded, but I screwed up somewhere it you declined it. I am new to wikipedia and am drafting an article on Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, which is a very historic health charity here in Scotland.
I had hoped to have their logo added under creative commons (free to use, attribute, don't modify), but when I supplied a link to their copyright notice this caused a problem. Copyright is not my area of expertise!
I would deeply appreciate you letting me know where I went wrong and what I can do to fix this and get the logo approved. Thanks for your patience! Jason — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonmacmillan ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Good to know; thanks! J — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonmacmillan ( talk • contribs) 13:11, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:DANTAH, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Users are allowed to blank their user page. They have not specifically requested deletion (U1). Thank you. Alexf (talk) 12:29, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of KAAF University College, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Shirt58 ( talk) 23:10, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
This film was just released September 6, and beginning as far back as last November, [1] has received coverage enough to meet WP:NF. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Article has issues (now tagged) and needs work, but it serves the project and its readers that this stay and be improved over time and through regular editing. And with the release only days ago, we can certainly expect more coverage. Perhaps you might withdraw your nomination? Cheers. Schmidt, Michael Q. 12:23, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, missed your message on my talk page. Revert me if you feel it's appropriate. I do not believe the tags were redundant; the majority of sources used in the article have been passing mentions or press releases, which do not establish notability. Again, revert me if you feel it's appropriate. Edward321 ( talk) 22:42, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you both for helping. For the notability component, we just cited a source that is not a passing mention and is not a press release. That reference can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-factorymade-20130910,0,1723531,full.story
Also, we do not understand what this other issue means "may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject," because all of the sources cited are from various publications. Thank you.
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There are no pages for the "people" you're making wikilinks for. The dead links light up red on the page. Why don't you create pages for Whitehead, Forrest and Mouton and them link them? Hotcop2 ( talk) 18:23, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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Ygent ebiz ( talk) 03:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52,
I was just writing to ask about the reversion to the "Big Bang (South Korea band)" reversion.
Would you please explain what you meant by "rm copyrighted material"?
The images are on flickr with a creative commons 2.0 license and I thought that it was alright to share.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/officialygfamily/
Did I do something wrong?
Thank you in advance.
Ygent ebiz
Ygent ebiz ( talk) 00:51, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Civil recognition of Jewish divorce is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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United Kingdom and in the
Republic of Ireland; the article is unnecessarily, unacceptably and unreasonably hypothetical and legalistic, and ought to be merged with the main article, being
Get (divorce document).
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I noticed that you are taking some of the charge in the article review backlog. Are any special privileges needed to perform reviews? Dovid ( talk) 17:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
If you think these questions belon in the project talk page, fel free. Honestly, I think this project is begging for a new-reviewer-FAQ. And maybe some screen-shot tutorial. Dovid ( talk) 04:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
This edit changed the number of equal-signs on the section break in the AFD. That change was later reverted to avoid "breaking" pages that transclude it. I'm letting you know in case you were unaware. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:44, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Governor Stirling Senior High School Crest.gif, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The file is not a match, and therefore not redundant. Please use the proper deletion methods to deal with unfree files. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 18:06, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
hi, love the em-dash wikignome work. however, if the dash is in an image name such as here [15], it screws up the image. please correct this, it could lead to fair use images being deleted, wrongfully. Duckduckgo ( talk) 17:26, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Mdann52, I believe this election for WP:BPL has ended. Now will you please announce the result, kindly?-- Pratyya (Hello!) 12:57, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
This one has me a bit puzzled. How does an AFC/C submission get accepted then shortly thereafter deleted? I noticed its empty status (despite my suggested articles and categories for inclusion) shortly after it was accepted, noticed later on the note about its pending deletion due to it being empty, and was considering filling it up with some articles, but now - Poof! - it's gone. Was there some reason my suggested articles were not included and could their inclusion have prevented the deletion? I'm not terribly active here and can be very procrastinatory with the edits (hence my preferred use of AFC with it's smooth, efficient, and official-like process for category creation) so my apologies for my recent inaction, but if I had known this would happen, I might have intervened to added some articles as soon as the submission was accepted.
BTW, here are some more suggested articles:
The Apartment
Haiku Tunnel
Head Office
Office Romance
The Office Party
Office Monkey
Netherbeast Incorporated
Drones (film)
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Thanks! 4.252.128.219 ( talk) 22:23, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
It's quite suspicious but if you're willing to keep an eye on their edits it should be fine. I'd somewhat agree with kuru in that they are dubious, but it's within reason. NativeForeigner Talk 08:08, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mdann52, I saw that you have nominated yourself for RfA. Good luck and I'll definitely support you! :) Jianhui67 talk★ contribs 10:23, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Absolutely fine,thanks :) -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 15:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just a quick note regarding your RfA, which I've been looking through. Some editors may look a little unfavourably on your use of would of
in your answer to a question there, particularly as admins can be expected to be communicating with new users a fair bit. As you've
apparently
not been made aware of this here before, I hope you won't mind me
mentioning it! Of course, it's entirely up to you how much notice you take of this, and how valid you consider such potential concerns are. Cheers. --
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Is it appropriate to add a Google Earth kml that I compiled to a Wikipedia page? If so, are there any examples of best practices? No. The main reason for this is that software such as Google Earth is copyrighted, along with the maps/images, and they fail our non-free content rules. --Mdann52talk to me! 20:28, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious about that since KML is not software that I know of. It's a series of gps coordinates in an XML file. Wikipedia uses singular gps coordinates in the GeoHack which in turned links to dozens of mapping applications including free ones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dcoffida ( talk • contribs) 01:15, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Is it appropriate to add a Google Earth kml that I compiled to a Wikipedia page? If so, are there any examples of best practices?
No. The main reason for this is that software such as Google Earth is copyrighted, along with the maps/images, and they fail our non-free content rules. --Mdann52talk to me! 20:28, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious about that since KML is not software that I know of. It's a series of gps coordinates in an XML file. Wikipedia uses singular gps coordinates in the GeoHack which in turned links to dozens of mapping applications including free ones.
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Oblivion (roller coaster) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Oddbodz -- Oddbodz ( talk) 11:31, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
The article Oblivion (roller coaster) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Oblivion (roller coaster) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Oddbodz -- Oddbodz ( talk) 11:41, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Mdann52. Hope your Wikipedia editing is going fine. You are receiving this message as you are a member of WkiProject Bangladesh Premier League. Currently there is a discussion going on the project's talk page. Your participation will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. . Pratyya (Hello!) (on behalf of Sourov0000( talk)) 14:10, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Simplest way to explain this: when citing an article from eg The Daily Telegraph then the work is The Daily Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph is not published by The Daily Telegraph - it is published by Telegraph Media Group. Similarly, the Daily Mail is a work; it is published by Dmg media. The Sun is a work, published by News Group Newspapers. As a rule of thumb, where you take a cite from is the work, not the publisher. Blackberry Sorbet 23:17, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to thank everyone who took part in my recent RfA. I will take the advice given to me, and will hopefully have more luck in the future. I have fortunately not become alienated by the process; I will continue to edit Wikipedia, but try and expand my horizons. Once again, thanks to all :) -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 17:30, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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Good evening Mdann52,
I am wondering if you could review an article you deleted recently? I have edited the original article and would like to get this reviewed and published if possible. Someone else had written the original article and it was untouched and unedited for over 6 months. I would appreciate any feedback you have to make this an unbiased article.
Thanks for your help with this.
Regards, Becstar95 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgiebec ( talk • contribs) 23:26, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks User:Mdann52. I have added another two sources for your review. Thanks a bunch User:Georgiebec —Preceding undated comment added 18:08, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52. Thank you very much for reviewing, accepting and publishing the article I created on Baye McNeil. I have some more work on it since its publication - noting more references, and including an external link...I saw that another editor inserted a notice at top of article questioning its notability. I don't understand why. I followed all instructions I was given on articles for creation help page and in live chat I did with help page - noting sources I was informed were reliable...Do you have any thoughts on this? Once again, thank you for your help! Minusminority ( talk) 05:23, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mdann52, FYI, I see you tagged Baye McNeil article as "orphan." I've added some links to article and was wondering if they suffice or more are needed...(Noted this on article's talk page as well.)...Thanks for your input!... Minusminority ( talk) 02:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)