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I was looking over what was going on at the Tuka article, and was disturbed that amid all of the "you're not following the rules" (which, granted, was very true) nobody seemed to notice much that a biography subject was specifically objecting to extremely personal childhood material being included, and that the material was presented in an undue way and sourced to a single interview. I was going to add a talk comment, and saw you had already seen the problem and removed it. Good on you for that. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 03:07, 18 February 2021 (UTC) |
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authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
hi good evening Mr Bilby . i found your profile on wikipedia as a mentor and volunteer in helping new editors on wikipedia . i need help in this procedure . can you please help me finish my article . my article's title is = masoud shafaghi ( best regards neda sajedi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neda.sajedi ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130224 is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI! |
This was so long ago, but thank you so much! -- Sennecaster ( What now?) 02:23, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi I have been reached out by a Mumbai based freelancer telling that, Wikipedia.ind.in is a Wikimedia Foundation website. Is it true? He shared a url with me telling that, it is not a spam website rather it is a real Wikimedia Foundation website and it is not on Spam link while others are
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/wikipedia.ind.in
He told me that logo is also of Wikipedia Foundation with an Indian flag on it. I found this https://www.quora.com/Is-Wikipedia-India-a-scam-site-I-met-a-Mumbai-based-Upwork-freelancer-demanding-money-for-creating-a-page-there-and-claiming-this-site-as-a-Wikimedia-Sister-Project-Is-that-true
Can you please share is this is true?
If not, can you mark it in spam link report, so that it can be verified? Anyone when search below link he doesnt finds it:
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Respected sir, I had created an article named Appy Pie . I didn't knew that the article was previously deleted twice and as i am new i didn't know how to check whether the article was previously deleted or not. So i have created the article in my draft page. After that I had mailed Diptanshu Das (a reviewer) to review the draft and move it to the article space. He checked my draft, moved it to the article space and reviewed that . After that a reviewer named GSS claimed the article as G4. The subject has enough reliable sources from Forbes , Economy Times, Buisness Standard, India Today and many more. Now i don't know what to do. As you know I am new in WIKIPEDIA so please help me to reinstate the article or suggest me what should i do? With regards Batamore Batamore ( talk) 14:32, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Sir i am 15 years old. I am student.I do edit in my free time and out of my interest in Wikipedia.I do not do any kind of paid edit.I am extremely sorry for mailing. As i am new , it was not known to me that the reviewers themselves review the page and i thought that if I mail the reviewers then only they review the articles.Even it wasn't known to me that i can write messages even in the talk page. I am extremely sorry for this. Next time onwards when i will create WIKIPEDIA i will create it in draft and i will wait for the reviewers to review it automatically.Thank You . With regards Batamore Batamore ( talk)
Hi Bilby just a courtesy heads-up really.
I've had some email requests from Paolo Petrocelli concerning the EMMA for Peace article and his hopes that he would have a bit more prominence there, and perhaps even an article on himself in due course. He mentioned that he had attempted to contact you. See User talk:Musicdiplomacy#Sources if interested.
I'm happy to run with it, but obviously any help appreciated. Send me an email if there's anything you'd prefer to say off-wiki. Andrewa ( talk) 17:08, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi. In what way does the inclusion of these links constitute a copyright violation? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 05:28, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby. Thanks for all your work on the anti-vax BLP articles that I identified at Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Anti-vax_report_published_in_The_Hill. What do you think of the current state of them at this point? -- Hipal ( talk) 23:46, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hey! I'm going through some old BLP discussions related to GSoW and find your name pop up often trying to reason w them. Just wanted to say that even though you were often bludgeoned, you did raise some good concerns about notability and so on. If you could link me to any especially contentious debates regarding S Inquirer as a source for BLP articles or in general any discussion where the involvement of some editors with GSoW made it hard to find consensus that would be appreciated. I'm finding quite a few but want to make sure I don't miss anything especially egregious. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Talk 10:42, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for reviewing the article [Benjamin Gilmour]. I saw that you put a tag and suggested that it might be a paid work but I can tell you that this is not a paid work. I can clean up or update the article if there is any issue in the content or structure of the Wikipedia article. Thanks again for reviewing the article and sharing feedback. Regards. Billyatthewheels ( talk) 13:21, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi Bilby - hope you are well. Good spot with IamJayYas. Some red flags where flying when I saw their contributions too, esp. those AfD comments. Thanks for doing the legwork with logging the case. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:41, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi Bilby, when you're free then do have a look at UPE edits at Khaitan Public School, Ghaziabad after this hiring. Thanks mate. 122.57.18.230 ( talk) 10:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
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To spread the load on our current list of around 65 mentors, I'm reaching out to ask if you'd like to help out and sign up as one? The workload is relatively small; User Panini! reports receiving four questions a month, on average, all of which were simple ones of the type we already get at the Teahouse and elsewhere, and I've had just the one in the last 3 weeks. To view a list of every question asked of all mentors over the last 14 days, click here.
If becoming a mentor and helping new users on their first few days here interests you - just as you already do at the Teahouse - then please consider signing up at Growth Team features/Mentor list. Existing users can already 'opt-in' to seeing the Newcomer Homepage features via their Preferences.
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The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
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The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself. [4] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
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I was looking over what was going on at the Tuka article, and was disturbed that amid all of the "you're not following the rules" (which, granted, was very true) nobody seemed to notice much that a biography subject was specifically objecting to extremely personal childhood material being included, and that the material was presented in an undue way and sourced to a single interview. I was going to add a talk comment, and saw you had already seen the problem and removed it. Good on you for that. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 03:07, 18 February 2021 (UTC) |
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authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
hi good evening Mr Bilby . i found your profile on wikipedia as a mentor and volunteer in helping new editors on wikipedia . i need help in this procedure . can you please help me finish my article . my article's title is = masoud shafaghi ( best regards neda sajedi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neda.sajedi ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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This was so long ago, but thank you so much! -- Sennecaster ( What now?) 02:23, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi I have been reached out by a Mumbai based freelancer telling that, Wikipedia.ind.in is a Wikimedia Foundation website. Is it true? He shared a url with me telling that, it is not a spam website rather it is a real Wikimedia Foundation website and it is not on Spam link while others are
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/wikipedia.ind.in
He told me that logo is also of Wikipedia Foundation with an Indian flag on it. I found this https://www.quora.com/Is-Wikipedia-India-a-scam-site-I-met-a-Mumbai-based-Upwork-freelancer-demanding-money-for-creating-a-page-there-and-claiming-this-site-as-a-Wikimedia-Sister-Project-Is-that-true
Can you please share is this is true?
If not, can you mark it in spam link report, so that it can be verified? Anyone when search below link he doesnt finds it:
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Respected sir, I had created an article named Appy Pie . I didn't knew that the article was previously deleted twice and as i am new i didn't know how to check whether the article was previously deleted or not. So i have created the article in my draft page. After that I had mailed Diptanshu Das (a reviewer) to review the draft and move it to the article space. He checked my draft, moved it to the article space and reviewed that . After that a reviewer named GSS claimed the article as G4. The subject has enough reliable sources from Forbes , Economy Times, Buisness Standard, India Today and many more. Now i don't know what to do. As you know I am new in WIKIPEDIA so please help me to reinstate the article or suggest me what should i do? With regards Batamore Batamore ( talk) 14:32, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Sir i am 15 years old. I am student.I do edit in my free time and out of my interest in Wikipedia.I do not do any kind of paid edit.I am extremely sorry for mailing. As i am new , it was not known to me that the reviewers themselves review the page and i thought that if I mail the reviewers then only they review the articles.Even it wasn't known to me that i can write messages even in the talk page. I am extremely sorry for this. Next time onwards when i will create WIKIPEDIA i will create it in draft and i will wait for the reviewers to review it automatically.Thank You . With regards Batamore Batamore ( talk)
Hi Bilby just a courtesy heads-up really.
I've had some email requests from Paolo Petrocelli concerning the EMMA for Peace article and his hopes that he would have a bit more prominence there, and perhaps even an article on himself in due course. He mentioned that he had attempted to contact you. See User talk:Musicdiplomacy#Sources if interested.
I'm happy to run with it, but obviously any help appreciated. Send me an email if there's anything you'd prefer to say off-wiki. Andrewa ( talk) 17:08, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi. In what way does the inclusion of these links constitute a copyright violation? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 05:28, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby. Thanks for all your work on the anti-vax BLP articles that I identified at Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Anti-vax_report_published_in_The_Hill. What do you think of the current state of them at this point? -- Hipal ( talk) 23:46, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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We continue to have a non-editor vandalize List of fatal cougar attacks in North America. SoftwareThing ( talk) 00:14, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
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Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2600 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
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l Request Your help to create new pages on Important topic. Dijo Thomas Scientist ( talk) 19:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hey! I'm going through some old BLP discussions related to GSoW and find your name pop up often trying to reason w them. Just wanted to say that even though you were often bludgeoned, you did raise some good concerns about notability and so on. If you could link me to any especially contentious debates regarding S Inquirer as a source for BLP articles or in general any discussion where the involvement of some editors with GSoW made it hard to find consensus that would be appreciated. I'm finding quite a few but want to make sure I don't miss anything especially egregious. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Talk 10:42, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for reviewing the article [Benjamin Gilmour]. I saw that you put a tag and suggested that it might be a paid work but I can tell you that this is not a paid work. I can clean up or update the article if there is any issue in the content or structure of the Wikipedia article. Thanks again for reviewing the article and sharing feedback. Regards. Billyatthewheels ( talk) 13:21, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi Bilby - hope you are well. Good spot with IamJayYas. Some red flags where flying when I saw their contributions too, esp. those AfD comments. Thanks for doing the legwork with logging the case. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:41, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby, when you're free then do have a look at UPE edits at Khaitan Public School, Ghaziabad after this hiring. Thanks mate. 122.57.18.230 ( talk) 10:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello. As you're currently listed as a host at the Teahouse, I wanted to make sure you're aware of the imminent rollout of new Growth Team Features which every new account will be getting by default. Each users will soon see a new 'Homepage' tab next to their User page. It contains two main elements which might impact on your involvement - and you'd be welcome to get involved and help out directly with one of them.
To spread the load on our current list of around 65 mentors, I'm reaching out to ask if you'd like to help out and sign up as one? The workload is relatively small; User Panini! reports receiving four questions a month, on average, all of which were simple ones of the type we already get at the Teahouse and elsewhere, and I've had just the one in the last 3 weeks. To view a list of every question asked of all mentors over the last 14 days, click here.
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