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So why, after saying that the response I had give was OK, did you go ahead and remove the image anyway? And without telling me? -- Evertype· ✆ 17:23, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, have often seen your name in some of the same articles I've edited. I would like to get to know you, since you appear to be more experienced in much of what I strive to do. The Admin. and friend who used to strive to help me just retired from the WP here. My focus is on the biographies of musicians in the Wikipedias. Within that context, I'm drawn mostly to rock and roll, jazz fusion, blues, funk and pop. When I began editing, I found an abysmal lack of articles without photos, so I spend about 50% of my "wiki time" searching for photos and on this end, attempting to edit articles that lack infoboxes and/or photos that lack any references and put in time fixing them. That means finding photos, educating the photographers about the two Creative Commons licenses we accept, uploading them to Commons and doing some cleanup on those articles. I quit counting how many some time ago, but it was upwards of 2,000 photos, I think. There's a link to see which ones from my userpage above the tiny gallery of favorites there. I am hoping you will help me out with occasional questions? Thanks for your time on this! -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 08:55, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney. I've had the joy of stumbling across some copy/pasted sections of prose from 2004 Olympics articles from our old friend Darius Dhlomo. All of the ones I've checked appear to have been missed out from the infamous mass blanking episode, but they are listed on the near endless and now abandoned clean up pages. I noticed you drew up these lists initially.
I was wondering would it be possible to produce a refinement to search out passages of copied prose (which was the main issue anyway)? For example, would it be feasible to get a list of all his edits over 500b that don't contain the phrases "wikitable", "|-", or "*" (for lists)? I know that technically this would be more difficult and time-consuming than the brute "search via byte count" method, but it would pretty much nail down the last vestiges of this grand plagiarism. I've been improving my own programming but frankly I don't even know where to start with building code for something like this. Any ideas? SFB 18:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Two side notes on this. First, I know that User:Amalthea has been working on trimming down trivial diffs in CCIs; tables would count, so if there's a way to get those scripted out, it could likely knock out a good deal. Granted, what would be left would likely be 90% copyvios, but it's something nonetheless. Second, would there be interest in getting a drive going on his CCI? Great progress was made, but it's stalled with about 6,500 left. Yes, it's the second most, but it's a far cry from 23,000. Wizardman 01:23, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney, there is a thread on my talkpage about two FFD nominations you made. If you could drop by your comments, that would be great. Thanks, -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 23:33, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, last time when I've written to you, I've said: "Hi, you never said WHEN exactly you'll be ready to clarify the problem of my posts, WHEN you'll post those translations without hidding them from the public. Which makes me think that it shall happen after one year from now on. Time in which the people who know me shall consider - just because of your hidding of the texs (under your suspicion of someone else's copyright trespassed) - that maybe I'm not really the translator. I spent already talking to you here hours and hours. I'm no longer ready to do this in the future. Well, I've done some changes in those texts because I had had three different versions and it was created there a hotch-potch with them. Sometimes twas lost only a comma. Now I'm not sure if these changes of mine transformed the works into some others. If you still want to keep this publishing, you can allow only me to do changes to the texts, even if now I consider those translations final and without the need of some other changes [in the versions on Internet, maybe only a few of them, minor, in a future paper-publishing]. So, let's recapitulate: 1.If you still want to keep these posts, would you allow only me to do changes?, albeit I'm sure now that I'll not change them anymore (not because I consider them perfectly translated, but because any work has an end, as well as my working on these texts, any start has an end). 2.If you are not able not to allow someone else but me to change anything within the texts (to block them), then it's much better to DELETE ALL THESE POSTS, as I said, these are only some translations and were posted from some reasons, they are not so much important to me in themselves;"
and you put this mesage before your message, as if if was said before. No way, it was said afterwards! And I demand to answer to me!! Furthermore, I've posted an external link to the articke of Wikipedia "Luceafarul" and "Miorita" which conducted to my posts; you deleted these external links. If you really have somethig expressly against my translations, you can just keep for you on Wikisource all those bad and deplorable translations (or the links to them) of people who do not know what's really a translation in general. Do something! I've begged you something. Do! Either, or... Either you revert the hiding of my translations once and for all, or you delete them all. Khesapeake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khesapeake ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Could you help at User talk:Aarganesh#File permission problem with File:HVK Pic for Infobox.jpg 4? There is apparently something which has been sent to OTRS, but the file has been tagged with {{ OTRS received}} multiple times and deleted multiple times. Considering that the file only has got {{ OTRS received}} tags and that it hasn't been restored by an OTRS member, I would assume that no permission mail has been sufficient, but it's hard to tell without access to OTRS. I see that you have participated in a different discussion about the same image further up on the page and that you are an OTRS member, so maybe you could tell what to do. -- Stefan2 ( talk) 21:05, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi VernoWhitney, I just noticed that on 19 March 2013, a post from you resulted in the deletion of a page (by Sphilbrick), I had created in 2002 for the "Thrikodithanam Mahavishnu Temple". The reason given is that text portions on this page were taken from www.thrikodithanam.org . It so happens that I am the owner, author and website administrator for www.thrikodithanam.org . Now, how can I convince Wiki that there has been absolutely no copyright infringement here? Pls let me know. Cheers, Dinakar
namskar sir'
sir main aap ke show wah wah kya baat hai mai hissa lena chahti hu ' to krapya kar mujhe bataiye ki ye kese smbhav hoga ?? aap ki aati krpa hogi.... main aap ke jbaw ka intjar krungi ''
aap ki shubhchintk
pt.ra 1.22.192.49 ( talk) 10:37, 20 June 2013 (UTC)j kumari upadhyay .
See this edit. VWBot added Ezekiel Worthen even though it was already listed on the page. Pburka ( talk) 02:01, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello VernoWhitney. It has been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Jean-Pierre Dorléac.
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Hasteur ( talk) 22:12, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:39cluesbook7.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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Hi. The page Daniel Squadron has a share of unproductive edit warring going on (I'm not involved, but have noticed it), and could probably use a sysop to take a look and figure out the best way to address it. Since you have handled a prior matter on the page, I thought I would reach out to you; I reached out first to another sysop, but then realized he is not now active. Thanks.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 16:38, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
No edits for about 3 weeks. I don't mind maintaining the copyright pages, but it'd be great if the copypastes, incomplete nominations and other stuff were listed. Thanks. MER-C 13:18, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ayaz Samoo. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. UBS talk 10:23, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
An editor who introduced copyvio into this article and which you removed before ( User talk:Joellyn520#November 2012) has just introduced a chunk of unsourced material into the article again. Choor monster ( talk) 21:22, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw your changes on some pages on the Yngling sailboat. There was a discussion some time ago about the class ingsigna of the Dragons ( Commons:Deletion requests/File:Dragon (keelboat) insignia.svg. Since the result was kept! i have reverted your changes. NED33 ( talk) 08:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Ok, no problems.-- GeorgeMilan (Talk) 19:43, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I work as a photographer and I've had some of my work published online. Is there anyway I can upload it here as well or is it going to get deleted if you find it on google as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cutkiller ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
which image would be an appropriate substitution for the one removed from my project? BT14 ( talk) 06:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Ran across this situation, User_talk:1_mamba, when searching for something unrelated (the date unicode combining-ogonek support appeared in browsers... the things search engines decide are "relevant" will never cease to amaze me). Was curious about the odd userpage, and peeked at the history. Although I never figured out the mystery, I did note that you handled the situation very cleanly and nicely. Not sure whether 1_mamba ever returned to appreciate that or not, but figured I would let you know that I appreciated it. Thanks for improving wikipedia, see you around. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 23:21, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear VernoWhitney,
I hope you can help me with my problem. I've created the following content: "POLYMETHYLSILOXANE POLYHYDRATE".
Moreover, I'm the author of the content that was placed under the following link:
http://www.enteromedical.hu/sites/default/files/SG_2013_Ed1_EN_Office.pdf.
This content had been placed without my permission. After that the controllers have threatened to delete my content: [POLYMETHYLSILOXANE POLYHYDRATE]. How can I prove that I'm the author of both the contents?
I've asked to delete my content from the Hungarian site, and they have agreed
(we can even prove that they have agreed to delete it). Nevertheless, one of your controllers thinks that it is we who violates the rules.
Thanks in advance,
Olviastar
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Hi, Verno. :) VWBot seems to have stopped functioning about 6 months ago. This having been 6 months ago, you may be fully aware and there may have already been discussions that I've missed. :D While I will admit that not having pages flagged for {{ close paraphrasing}} and {{ copy paste}} has helped the backlog at WP:CP go away, and I have cheerfully pretended to myself that all those articles have ceased to exist, we really need some of its functions, especially managing page listing at WP:CP.
Is there anything that can be done about this?
I'm thinking I may need to talk about different processes for working {{ close paraphrasing}} articles, as those are major time consumers. Perhaps if those are not addressed after a week, they should be escalated to {{ copyvio}} or something.
If nothing can be done, please let me know, and I'll see about finding a replacement bot for some of its tasks. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:53, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
I am a Los Angeles-based TV and film composer, and performing songwriter. Someone created a page for me some time ago and I just saw that it had been deleted by you. Why is this? I never received any notice there was a problem with it.
Has the work that was done on the page been deleted? Who do I speak to about this? I don't quite understand.
Thank you, Gary Stockdale
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Which assertion(s) were you challenging with that tag somebody just removed? It's unclear from the tag placement. -- Orange Mike | Talk 23:31, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Verno Whitney, I just received your email dated 14:25 17th Jun 2015 regarding a new item added by myself was deleted by you.
This is referred to the "Further Reading" section on "Feng Shui" article. My new item was a reference:
Mak, Michael & So, Albert. Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment: Theories and Applications, Enhanced New Edition. City University of Hong Kong, 2015.
This book is an academic discourses in this area. It is a serious endeavour to document and interpret some scientific aspects contained in Feng Shui tradition. I sincerely believe the reference to this book is suitable to be added to the "Further Reading" section of the "Feng Shui" article.
I look forward to your kind consideration and approval.
Regards
Dr Michael Mak Username: Drmmak Email: MichMak@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drmmak ( talk • contribs) 22:45, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
There are hundreds of reliable and authoritative sources. Every day there are new investigations of the Italian judiciary and further details. Even the Pope Francis speaks of this investigation of Mafia Capital. I have no more time to devote to this article. I have to continue my historical research on Catholic church of the XVIII century. Manox81 ( talk) 18:17, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney, you recently edited my correct entry on the Dyson Sphere. Your edit comment was not correct, just as it is not correct to built a house, or believe it is possible to handcuff god. If you can't understand that then I can't help you. Actually, to be honest, I can't help you. Wikipedia is a place for information to be put that points to the truth without actually being true. Your edit pointed the arrow in the opposite direction away from god. I wouldn't be surprised if you are now dead, for if you are not you certainly are dying. Please do not respond. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jondeanmack ( talk • contribs) 22:44, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
VernoWhitney, what is the copyright situation for a letter/note? My understanding: current interpretations of copyright law gives more protection to unpublished than published works. In this wiki example, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jonestown&diff=667138664&oldid=666613789 , it seems the entire section "Notes from the deceased" is problematic (good reading though) Advice please -- Lucas559 ( talk) 01:37, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Verno. I wanted to check Blue-winged pitta for possible copyvio, but when I went to VWBot/manual I noticed it hadn't been active for a while. Can you direct me to a bot like VWBot/manual if VWBot/manual isn't being maintained? Thanks! 108.56.199.37 ( talk) 17:59, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Please disregard, VW. I found Earwig's Copyvio Detector at wmflabs.org and it met my needs. 108.56.199.37 ( talk) 19:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
About 4 years ago you restored nopCommerce article on wikipedia ( /info/en/?search=NopCommerce). Originally it was written as a promo text (long-long time ago), that's why it was deleted some day, we fixed it (rewritten the text), and then you restored it. Thanks a lot! And since that moment nopCommerce became very popular solution with more than 3,000,000 downloads. Our software is used by Volvo, Reebok, Mercedes online stores ( http://www.nopcommerce.com/showcaseliveshops.aspx). As you can see on Alexa rank site it's really very popular today - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nopcommerce.com (in top 26,000 sites worldwide). Furthermore, our community already have pages for nopCommerce for the following languages in Wikipedia - English, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, German, Japanese. Vietnamese, Bangla ( http://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/17949/please-help-us-to-translate-our-wikipedia-article-into-your-language.aspx).
But other Wikipedia user (Ohnoitsjamie) decided to delete it several days ago since 4 years after it has been restored. I've tried to talk to him but without luck ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:Ohnoitsjamie#Deleted_NopCommerce_article).
Is it possible if you again have a look at this article and restore it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrey.maz ( talk • contribs) 17:18, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
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So why, after saying that the response I had give was OK, did you go ahead and remove the image anyway? And without telling me? -- Evertype· ✆ 17:23, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, have often seen your name in some of the same articles I've edited. I would like to get to know you, since you appear to be more experienced in much of what I strive to do. The Admin. and friend who used to strive to help me just retired from the WP here. My focus is on the biographies of musicians in the Wikipedias. Within that context, I'm drawn mostly to rock and roll, jazz fusion, blues, funk and pop. When I began editing, I found an abysmal lack of articles without photos, so I spend about 50% of my "wiki time" searching for photos and on this end, attempting to edit articles that lack infoboxes and/or photos that lack any references and put in time fixing them. That means finding photos, educating the photographers about the two Creative Commons licenses we accept, uploading them to Commons and doing some cleanup on those articles. I quit counting how many some time ago, but it was upwards of 2,000 photos, I think. There's a link to see which ones from my userpage above the tiny gallery of favorites there. I am hoping you will help me out with occasional questions? Thanks for your time on this! -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 08:55, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney. I've had the joy of stumbling across some copy/pasted sections of prose from 2004 Olympics articles from our old friend Darius Dhlomo. All of the ones I've checked appear to have been missed out from the infamous mass blanking episode, but they are listed on the near endless and now abandoned clean up pages. I noticed you drew up these lists initially.
I was wondering would it be possible to produce a refinement to search out passages of copied prose (which was the main issue anyway)? For example, would it be feasible to get a list of all his edits over 500b that don't contain the phrases "wikitable", "|-", or "*" (for lists)? I know that technically this would be more difficult and time-consuming than the brute "search via byte count" method, but it would pretty much nail down the last vestiges of this grand plagiarism. I've been improving my own programming but frankly I don't even know where to start with building code for something like this. Any ideas? SFB 18:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Two side notes on this. First, I know that User:Amalthea has been working on trimming down trivial diffs in CCIs; tables would count, so if there's a way to get those scripted out, it could likely knock out a good deal. Granted, what would be left would likely be 90% copyvios, but it's something nonetheless. Second, would there be interest in getting a drive going on his CCI? Great progress was made, but it's stalled with about 6,500 left. Yes, it's the second most, but it's a far cry from 23,000. Wizardman 01:23, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney, there is a thread on my talkpage about two FFD nominations you made. If you could drop by your comments, that would be great. Thanks, -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 23:33, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, last time when I've written to you, I've said: "Hi, you never said WHEN exactly you'll be ready to clarify the problem of my posts, WHEN you'll post those translations without hidding them from the public. Which makes me think that it shall happen after one year from now on. Time in which the people who know me shall consider - just because of your hidding of the texs (under your suspicion of someone else's copyright trespassed) - that maybe I'm not really the translator. I spent already talking to you here hours and hours. I'm no longer ready to do this in the future. Well, I've done some changes in those texts because I had had three different versions and it was created there a hotch-potch with them. Sometimes twas lost only a comma. Now I'm not sure if these changes of mine transformed the works into some others. If you still want to keep this publishing, you can allow only me to do changes to the texts, even if now I consider those translations final and without the need of some other changes [in the versions on Internet, maybe only a few of them, minor, in a future paper-publishing]. So, let's recapitulate: 1.If you still want to keep these posts, would you allow only me to do changes?, albeit I'm sure now that I'll not change them anymore (not because I consider them perfectly translated, but because any work has an end, as well as my working on these texts, any start has an end). 2.If you are not able not to allow someone else but me to change anything within the texts (to block them), then it's much better to DELETE ALL THESE POSTS, as I said, these are only some translations and were posted from some reasons, they are not so much important to me in themselves;"
and you put this mesage before your message, as if if was said before. No way, it was said afterwards! And I demand to answer to me!! Furthermore, I've posted an external link to the articke of Wikipedia "Luceafarul" and "Miorita" which conducted to my posts; you deleted these external links. If you really have somethig expressly against my translations, you can just keep for you on Wikisource all those bad and deplorable translations (or the links to them) of people who do not know what's really a translation in general. Do something! I've begged you something. Do! Either, or... Either you revert the hiding of my translations once and for all, or you delete them all. Khesapeake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khesapeake ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Could you help at User talk:Aarganesh#File permission problem with File:HVK Pic for Infobox.jpg 4? There is apparently something which has been sent to OTRS, but the file has been tagged with {{ OTRS received}} multiple times and deleted multiple times. Considering that the file only has got {{ OTRS received}} tags and that it hasn't been restored by an OTRS member, I would assume that no permission mail has been sufficient, but it's hard to tell without access to OTRS. I see that you have participated in a different discussion about the same image further up on the page and that you are an OTRS member, so maybe you could tell what to do. -- Stefan2 ( talk) 21:05, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi VernoWhitney, I just noticed that on 19 March 2013, a post from you resulted in the deletion of a page (by Sphilbrick), I had created in 2002 for the "Thrikodithanam Mahavishnu Temple". The reason given is that text portions on this page were taken from www.thrikodithanam.org . It so happens that I am the owner, author and website administrator for www.thrikodithanam.org . Now, how can I convince Wiki that there has been absolutely no copyright infringement here? Pls let me know. Cheers, Dinakar
namskar sir'
sir main aap ke show wah wah kya baat hai mai hissa lena chahti hu ' to krapya kar mujhe bataiye ki ye kese smbhav hoga ?? aap ki aati krpa hogi.... main aap ke jbaw ka intjar krungi ''
aap ki shubhchintk
pt.ra 1.22.192.49 ( talk) 10:37, 20 June 2013 (UTC)j kumari upadhyay .
See this edit. VWBot added Ezekiel Worthen even though it was already listed on the page. Pburka ( talk) 02:01, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello VernoWhitney. It has been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Jean-Pierre Dorléac.
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Hasteur ( talk) 22:12, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:39cluesbook7.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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Hi. The page Daniel Squadron has a share of unproductive edit warring going on (I'm not involved, but have noticed it), and could probably use a sysop to take a look and figure out the best way to address it. Since you have handled a prior matter on the page, I thought I would reach out to you; I reached out first to another sysop, but then realized he is not now active. Thanks.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 16:38, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
No edits for about 3 weeks. I don't mind maintaining the copyright pages, but it'd be great if the copypastes, incomplete nominations and other stuff were listed. Thanks. MER-C 13:18, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you offer your opinion on this question I've posed? I could really use your thoughts on the matter. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 15:31, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
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4. Inform the administrator who deleted the page by adding the following on their user talk page:
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ayaz Samoo. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. UBS talk 10:23, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
An editor who introduced copyvio into this article and which you removed before ( User talk:Joellyn520#November 2012) has just introduced a chunk of unsourced material into the article again. Choor monster ( talk) 21:22, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw your changes on some pages on the Yngling sailboat. There was a discussion some time ago about the class ingsigna of the Dragons ( Commons:Deletion requests/File:Dragon (keelboat) insignia.svg. Since the result was kept! i have reverted your changes. NED33 ( talk) 08:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Ok, no problems.-- GeorgeMilan (Talk) 19:43, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I work as a photographer and I've had some of my work published online. Is there anyway I can upload it here as well or is it going to get deleted if you find it on google as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cutkiller ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
which image would be an appropriate substitution for the one removed from my project? BT14 ( talk) 06:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Ran across this situation, User_talk:1_mamba, when searching for something unrelated (the date unicode combining-ogonek support appeared in browsers... the things search engines decide are "relevant" will never cease to amaze me). Was curious about the odd userpage, and peeked at the history. Although I never figured out the mystery, I did note that you handled the situation very cleanly and nicely. Not sure whether 1_mamba ever returned to appreciate that or not, but figured I would let you know that I appreciated it. Thanks for improving wikipedia, see you around. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 23:21, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear VernoWhitney,
I hope you can help me with my problem. I've created the following content: "POLYMETHYLSILOXANE POLYHYDRATE".
Moreover, I'm the author of the content that was placed under the following link:
http://www.enteromedical.hu/sites/default/files/SG_2013_Ed1_EN_Office.pdf.
This content had been placed without my permission. After that the controllers have threatened to delete my content: [POLYMETHYLSILOXANE POLYHYDRATE]. How can I prove that I'm the author of both the contents?
I've asked to delete my content from the Hungarian site, and they have agreed
(we can even prove that they have agreed to delete it). Nevertheless, one of your controllers thinks that it is we who violates the rules.
Thanks in advance,
Olviastar
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talk) 12:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. :) VWBot seems to have stopped functioning about 6 months ago. This having been 6 months ago, you may be fully aware and there may have already been discussions that I've missed. :D While I will admit that not having pages flagged for {{ close paraphrasing}} and {{ copy paste}} has helped the backlog at WP:CP go away, and I have cheerfully pretended to myself that all those articles have ceased to exist, we really need some of its functions, especially managing page listing at WP:CP.
Is there anything that can be done about this?
I'm thinking I may need to talk about different processes for working {{ close paraphrasing}} articles, as those are major time consumers. Perhaps if those are not addressed after a week, they should be escalated to {{ copyvio}} or something.
If nothing can be done, please let me know, and I'll see about finding a replacement bot for some of its tasks. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:53, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
I am a Los Angeles-based TV and film composer, and performing songwriter. Someone created a page for me some time ago and I just saw that it had been deleted by you. Why is this? I never received any notice there was a problem with it.
Has the work that was done on the page been deleted? Who do I speak to about this? I don't quite understand.
Thank you, Gary Stockdale
23.242.255.128 ( talk) 00:35, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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What it says. Happy to see you in my watchlist. Hope all is well with you! -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:59, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Which assertion(s) were you challenging with that tag somebody just removed? It's unclear from the tag placement. -- Orange Mike | Talk 23:31, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Verno Whitney, I just received your email dated 14:25 17th Jun 2015 regarding a new item added by myself was deleted by you.
This is referred to the "Further Reading" section on "Feng Shui" article. My new item was a reference:
Mak, Michael & So, Albert. Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment: Theories and Applications, Enhanced New Edition. City University of Hong Kong, 2015.
This book is an academic discourses in this area. It is a serious endeavour to document and interpret some scientific aspects contained in Feng Shui tradition. I sincerely believe the reference to this book is suitable to be added to the "Further Reading" section of the "Feng Shui" article.
I look forward to your kind consideration and approval.
Regards
Dr Michael Mak Username: Drmmak Email: MichMak@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drmmak ( talk • contribs) 22:45, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
There are hundreds of reliable and authoritative sources. Every day there are new investigations of the Italian judiciary and further details. Even the Pope Francis speaks of this investigation of Mafia Capital. I have no more time to devote to this article. I have to continue my historical research on Catholic church of the XVIII century. Manox81 ( talk) 18:17, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney, you recently edited my correct entry on the Dyson Sphere. Your edit comment was not correct, just as it is not correct to built a house, or believe it is possible to handcuff god. If you can't understand that then I can't help you. Actually, to be honest, I can't help you. Wikipedia is a place for information to be put that points to the truth without actually being true. Your edit pointed the arrow in the opposite direction away from god. I wouldn't be surprised if you are now dead, for if you are not you certainly are dying. Please do not respond. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jondeanmack ( talk • contribs) 22:44, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
VernoWhitney, what is the copyright situation for a letter/note? My understanding: current interpretations of copyright law gives more protection to unpublished than published works. In this wiki example, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jonestown&diff=667138664&oldid=666613789 , it seems the entire section "Notes from the deceased" is problematic (good reading though) Advice please -- Lucas559 ( talk) 01:37, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Verno. I wanted to check Blue-winged pitta for possible copyvio, but when I went to VWBot/manual I noticed it hadn't been active for a while. Can you direct me to a bot like VWBot/manual if VWBot/manual isn't being maintained? Thanks! 108.56.199.37 ( talk) 17:59, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Please disregard, VW. I found Earwig's Copyvio Detector at wmflabs.org and it met my needs. 108.56.199.37 ( talk) 19:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
About 4 years ago you restored nopCommerce article on wikipedia ( /info/en/?search=NopCommerce). Originally it was written as a promo text (long-long time ago), that's why it was deleted some day, we fixed it (rewritten the text), and then you restored it. Thanks a lot! And since that moment nopCommerce became very popular solution with more than 3,000,000 downloads. Our software is used by Volvo, Reebok, Mercedes online stores ( http://www.nopcommerce.com/showcaseliveshops.aspx). As you can see on Alexa rank site it's really very popular today - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nopcommerce.com (in top 26,000 sites worldwide). Furthermore, our community already have pages for nopCommerce for the following languages in Wikipedia - English, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, German, Japanese. Vietnamese, Bangla ( http://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/17949/please-help-us-to-translate-our-wikipedia-article-into-your-language.aspx).
But other Wikipedia user (Ohnoitsjamie) decided to delete it several days ago since 4 years after it has been restored. I've tried to talk to him but without luck ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:Ohnoitsjamie#Deleted_NopCommerce_article).
Is it possible if you again have a look at this article and restore it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrey.maz ( talk • contribs) 17:18, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
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