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Article at the time I tagged it for speedy copyvio:
Source [21]: "Finally, the “Kalwe Small Dwarf Galago ,” which is known from two specimens collected in the Misuku Hills of northern Malawi, may also be G. granti . It is much larger and brownish, with a dark brown tail tip and notably short ears. Recorded vocalizations from Kalwe are distinctive and merit further study"
How "Does not look like a violation"? Fram ( talk) 16:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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Then it's plagiarism, not copyvio. Fram ( talk) 16:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
You recently added a link to an article in Sculpture to the Blueprints at Addison Circle Wiki page. The link takes me to the EBSCO login screen; I have access to some EBSCO resources through my local public library, but it won't pull the article up. Presumably the library isn't subscribed to the correct collection, and I suspect that many readers will have this same problem or won't be able to access EBSCO at all. Can you permalink the magazine article, or use a different link to a more accessible web archive? Carguychris ( talk) 21:26, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Please help create subsection format (background and education, career) on the Emmanuel Ibru page. I don't know how to do that yet. Thank you. Jay Kenechukwu ( talk) 09:55, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, you removed the PROD I placed on this article, with an explanation that there are news articles about it. I didn't tag it for lack of news articles; they just do not suffice for the subject of the article to meet the General Notability Guidelines WP:GNG. You've also not mentioned them. While a PROD can be removed for any reason, a good reason is always helpful, especially when disputing the content of the nomination. Best Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 15:50, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
"remove PROD tag. There are additional news articles out there - possibly notable. At the same time, nominator's concerns about reliable sources seriously considered - recommend AfD”
Good to know when people agree with me so I know I'm not being ridiculous. JM ( talk) 19:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
In the List of converts to Hinduism from Islam, that one source you retained for "Bukka I" by some obscure author Y. G. Bhave, I think it can also be removed as the author is not a historian nor any form of recognition or WP:Notabilty in this field. 182.183.7.252 ( talk) 22:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi! The meta:Steward request/username change wasn't the right place for this, so I brought you a kitten. I just wanted to let you know that we genuinely appreciate your volunteer efforts. Keep up the awesome work; we see it and value it!
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I don't want to step on any toes, but I've asked ScottishFinnishRadish about their RfC close on their talk page here: [22]
I know you're intending to put an appeal together as well, but I thought I would be proactive and am happy to help if desired. SportingFlyer T· C 04:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm also happy to help with a draft, though I'm not sure about reopening this can of worms yet since (so far) it's unclear if Sunny or anyone else will be attempting to remove the tables from a greater number of articles. Reywas92 Talk 02:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
I wanted to notify you that I have also decided to request closure review, though my request has a different objective than yours. The link is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard § RfC closure review request at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 187#RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. Sunnya343 ( talk) 04:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
My idea was that I could request closure review regarding the specific changes that I considered necessary, and you could subsequently request your own review centered on your particular concerns. In retrospect, however, I acknowledge that it is rather impractical to have one thorough discussion about the RFC one day, and have another a few months later.
In light of the above, I am willing to withdraw my request for closure review if you desire more time to formulate your arguments in collaboration with other editors. This would leave me in a limbo until you post your challenge: I was apparently the only editor seeking to enforce the RFC consensus, but I no longer feel comfortable defending a major part of the close. We would also certainly repeat ourselves to some degree in a future discussion. Nevertheless, I wonder if it is worth it, in the interest of having a fair debate about this controversial issue. Sunnya343 ( talk) 17:09, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
If that is the case, and given that multiple people have already expounded their arguments, it is probably best to continue with the present review.
By the way, I agree with you about the excessive detail on things like bike routes in certain articles. The Las Vegas airport article used to mention the different parking garages, cellphone lot, and the location of bus stops. I pared down those details recently, though someone added the bus routes back. Sunnya343 ( talk) 23:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi. Following your edit on Bushra Razack, Do you reckon that reliable source(s) as the first one from the GBS Bertha Centre from the University of Cape Town is not good enough? ^ "Bertha Centre". gsbberthacentre.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 16 June 2023. As well as the one from News 24??Please, go through the links and actually read. Thank you MollelwaFahaSaBasotho ( talk) 20:41, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
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We both know, actually everyone knows that "(Remove PROD: 1. - 3 refs in the Ukrainian Wikipedia article. 2. - 50+ Google News articles in last 12 month searching for Badak+gas 3. - over 100 Google Scholar results using Badak+gas)" is a fallacious argument. You know also as well as anyone that not all of those hits are about the subject, and that most of them are trivial mentions. So why embarrass yourself in front of everyone. So I propose you try to embarrass me instead. Those gas fields need to meet WP:GNG or be merged or deleted. So do the work for once and explain how this gas field is notable, and why I'm wrong in thinking it isn't. James.folsom ( talk) 19:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi A.B. You undid my PROD on 'Chuluncayani Adventist University' and suggested AfD. I am new to editing - so very happy to accept this, since you think there might be relevant information (although I looked and couldn't find any). Do I need to do anything? Should I now suggest AfD? Best wishes - Newhaven Lad
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I do have an account there. I don’t believe I’m in cahoots with anyone, though. I haven’t participated in any of the recent threads, but did read them and saw that what was really needed here was some way of cooling the temperature between The Spacebook and JPxG, which is why I closed the two AN and AN/I sections. Unfortunately, it didn’t work, and there’s now an ArbCom case request about it, but I thought (and still think) it was worth a try. 28bytes ( talk) 06:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
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Article at the time I tagged it for speedy copyvio:
Source [21]: "Finally, the “Kalwe Small Dwarf Galago ,” which is known from two specimens collected in the Misuku Hills of northern Malawi, may also be G. granti . It is much larger and brownish, with a dark brown tail tip and notably short ears. Recorded vocalizations from Kalwe are distinctive and merit further study"
How "Does not look like a violation"? Fram ( talk) 16:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
"This criterion applies only in unequivocal cases, where there is no free-content material on the page worth saving and no later edits requiring attribution."
"No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation."
Then it's plagiarism, not copyvio. Fram ( talk) 16:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
You recently added a link to an article in Sculpture to the Blueprints at Addison Circle Wiki page. The link takes me to the EBSCO login screen; I have access to some EBSCO resources through my local public library, but it won't pull the article up. Presumably the library isn't subscribed to the correct collection, and I suspect that many readers will have this same problem or won't be able to access EBSCO at all. Can you permalink the magazine article, or use a different link to a more accessible web archive? Carguychris ( talk) 21:26, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Please help create subsection format (background and education, career) on the Emmanuel Ibru page. I don't know how to do that yet. Thank you. Jay Kenechukwu ( talk) 09:55, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, you removed the PROD I placed on this article, with an explanation that there are news articles about it. I didn't tag it for lack of news articles; they just do not suffice for the subject of the article to meet the General Notability Guidelines WP:GNG. You've also not mentioned them. While a PROD can be removed for any reason, a good reason is always helpful, especially when disputing the content of the nomination. Best Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 15:50, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
"remove PROD tag. There are additional news articles out there - possibly notable. At the same time, nominator's concerns about reliable sources seriously considered - recommend AfD”
Good to know when people agree with me so I know I'm not being ridiculous. JM ( talk) 19:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
In the List of converts to Hinduism from Islam, that one source you retained for "Bukka I" by some obscure author Y. G. Bhave, I think it can also be removed as the author is not a historian nor any form of recognition or WP:Notabilty in this field. 182.183.7.252 ( talk) 22:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi! The meta:Steward request/username change wasn't the right place for this, so I brought you a kitten. I just wanted to let you know that we genuinely appreciate your volunteer efforts. Keep up the awesome work; we see it and value it!
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talk) 15:48, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
I don't want to step on any toes, but I've asked ScottishFinnishRadish about their RfC close on their talk page here: [22]
I know you're intending to put an appeal together as well, but I thought I would be proactive and am happy to help if desired. SportingFlyer T· C 04:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm also happy to help with a draft, though I'm not sure about reopening this can of worms yet since (so far) it's unclear if Sunny or anyone else will be attempting to remove the tables from a greater number of articles. Reywas92 Talk 02:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
I wanted to notify you that I have also decided to request closure review, though my request has a different objective than yours. The link is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard § RfC closure review request at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 187#RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. Sunnya343 ( talk) 04:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
My idea was that I could request closure review regarding the specific changes that I considered necessary, and you could subsequently request your own review centered on your particular concerns. In retrospect, however, I acknowledge that it is rather impractical to have one thorough discussion about the RFC one day, and have another a few months later.
In light of the above, I am willing to withdraw my request for closure review if you desire more time to formulate your arguments in collaboration with other editors. This would leave me in a limbo until you post your challenge: I was apparently the only editor seeking to enforce the RFC consensus, but I no longer feel comfortable defending a major part of the close. We would also certainly repeat ourselves to some degree in a future discussion. Nevertheless, I wonder if it is worth it, in the interest of having a fair debate about this controversial issue. Sunnya343 ( talk) 17:09, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
If that is the case, and given that multiple people have already expounded their arguments, it is probably best to continue with the present review.
By the way, I agree with you about the excessive detail on things like bike routes in certain articles. The Las Vegas airport article used to mention the different parking garages, cellphone lot, and the location of bus stops. I pared down those details recently, though someone added the bus routes back. Sunnya343 ( talk) 23:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi. Following your edit on Bushra Razack, Do you reckon that reliable source(s) as the first one from the GBS Bertha Centre from the University of Cape Town is not good enough? ^ "Bertha Centre". gsbberthacentre.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 16 June 2023. As well as the one from News 24??Please, go through the links and actually read. Thank you MollelwaFahaSaBasotho ( talk) 20:41, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
"'Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material."
"'Reliable' means that sources need editorial integrity to allow verifiable evaluation of notability, per the reliable source guideline. Sources may encompass published works in all forms and media, and in any language. Availability of secondary sources covering the subject is a good test for notability."
"'Sources'" should be secondary sources, as those provide the most objective evidence of notability. There is no fixed number of sources required since sources vary in quality and depth of coverage, but multiple sources are generally expected. Sources do not have to be available online or written in English. Multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability."
"Independent of the subject' excludes works produced by the article's subject or someone affiliated with it. For example, advertising, press releases, autobiographies, and the subject's website are not considered independent."
We both know, actually everyone knows that "(Remove PROD: 1. - 3 refs in the Ukrainian Wikipedia article. 2. - 50+ Google News articles in last 12 month searching for Badak+gas 3. - over 100 Google Scholar results using Badak+gas)" is a fallacious argument. You know also as well as anyone that not all of those hits are about the subject, and that most of them are trivial mentions. So why embarrass yourself in front of everyone. So I propose you try to embarrass me instead. Those gas fields need to meet WP:GNG or be merged or deleted. So do the work for once and explain how this gas field is notable, and why I'm wrong in thinking it isn't. James.folsom ( talk) 19:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi A.B. You undid my PROD on 'Chuluncayani Adventist University' and suggested AfD. I am new to editing - so very happy to accept this, since you think there might be relevant information (although I looked and couldn't find any). Do I need to do anything? Should I now suggest AfD? Best wishes - Newhaven Lad
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I do have an account there. I don’t believe I’m in cahoots with anyone, though. I haven’t participated in any of the recent threads, but did read them and saw that what was really needed here was some way of cooling the temperature between The Spacebook and JPxG, which is why I closed the two AN and AN/I sections. Unfortunately, it didn’t work, and there’s now an ArbCom case request about it, but I thought (and still think) it was worth a try. 28bytes ( talk) 06:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
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