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I noticed that you added the more or less identical navbox to both Phi Beta Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma members, and have been working on your X7 template. I've made fraternity-related templates (Alpha Phi Omega) before, if you would like help. Your additions to the Phi Beta Sigma related articles have been great! Naraht ( talk) 08:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Take a look at the new template, specifically what happens when you click the "v" in the "v d e", I'm still getting that going to the wrong place, but that may be things that are cached on my system. I thought I'd managed to fix it by changing the name of the navbox. I've put in the template on the main page, the brothers page and the chapters page. My personal option is that the template navbox does not belong on Howard University and NPHC. Whether it belongs on the ZPhiB page, I'm not sure. ZPhiB has a "part of a series" box, just like Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta Sigma isn't in their part of a series box... In fact if you want to completely change the template to be like Z Phi B's that could work. Naraht ( talk) 13:21, 6 August 2009 (UTC) reply

There are a couple of things that could be improved on the Phi Beta Sigma chapter references. The first is that all of the PBS southeastern region can be combined. Instead of <ref>[http://www.pbs1914se.org Phi Beta Sigma Southeastern Region]</ref> again and again, you can use named references. The first one in the file would be <ref name="pbs1914se">[http://www.pbs1914se.org Phi Beta Sigma Southeastern Region]</ref> and any later ones in the file would be <ref name="pbs1914se"/><nowiki>'''. Note that you don't need a '''<nowiki></ref> for the later ones, but you do need the / at the end. (It doesn't have to be the first one that actually has the website, but some people find it confusing if it isn't) Also, the link should be to the actual page that has the information, so I think the link should be to http://www.pbs1914se.org/links.htm which is the page actually brought up as a subpage when you click the appropriate link on http://www.pbs1914se.org/. Also, more than one reference is good, so for the ones where you actually have a chapter list from links page, go ahead and use pbs1914se anyway. I'll start a few of these. Naraht ( talk) 13:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Had a few minutes, so I made the changes. A couple of other things, it seems wierd, at least to me, to see chapter in English Alphabetical order, I'd rather see them in Greek Alphabetical order, presumably in the order they were assigned, taking into account the rule that ending in Sigma is grad chapter and no Omega. It just seems wierd to see a new Alpha Alpha Rho chapter come before Beta (if they were in the same region) and similarly Alpha Alpha Rho Sigma before Beta Sigma for grad chapters. And having Xi after Sigma (in english alphabetical) seems wierd, it should be before, IMO Also, in terms of new data. http://www.gulfcoastsigma.com/gulfcoastchapters.php

I know that you are mentioning specific conclaves as you go along, but you may also consider a page for all of the conclaves the way that it has been done for AKA Boules, OPP or DST. See [[Category:Fraternity and Sorority National Conference Lists]] for the ones that have been done already. I'll be happy to help research these. Naraht ( talk) 12:40, 11 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Whoops, didn't notice that there was an entry for that in the box that you made. I guess it will happen eventually. Naraht ( talk) 16:32, 11 August 2009 (UTC) reply

You may want to take a look at Adopt-a-User, to see if you want me to "adopt" you. (However you may be moving fast enough to "graduation" that you may not need it. Naraht ( talk) 14:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Up to you.... Naraht ( talk) 17:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC) reply

I've added the entry to my user page. You need to add {{adoptee|Naraht}} Naraht ( talk) 18:19, 17 August 2009 (UTC) reply

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Request reason:

I submit this appeal to my blocking on the grounds that I have both read and understand Wikipedia's copyright policy and understand the actions that have lead to this. As a contributing wikipedian for 5+ years I have have worked very hard to make positive contributions in good faith to make Wikipedia better. My contributions to wikipedia can be found in a number of articles such as North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina A&T Aggies football, and Phi Beta Sigma. I noticed that the first warning, that was issued was for material that was within my sandbox, and not within the articles of a wikipedia page. As noted in Wikipedia:About the Sandbox, "The Sandbox was created as a place with fewer rules and policies than other pages on Wikipedia. For example, you don't have to follow the Manual of Style or reach community consensus before making a major change. However, it must not be used for malicious purposes, and policies such as no personal attacks, civility, and copyrights (such as non-free content criteria) still apply." I do understand that copyright rules still do exist in the sandboxes, however the material that you used for my first warning was not in a main article, did not appear on an article, and was used for notekeeping purposes as a piece of information to be re-written in my own words and cited as a source. Again, I accept responsibility for my violation of Wikipedia's Copyright policy, and accept the resulting punishment. I intend to regain the trust of the wikipedia community by displaying the best in conduct. I also pledge that in the future know that when fatigue sets in, it is better to log off and refresh than to cut corners for the sake of trying to finish an article. I implore the administrators to lift my suspension so that I can continue making positive contributions to Wikipedia such as the ones that I have mentioned. Wikipedia is a cause that I am fully invested in and nothing would please me more than to be able to positively contribute to the encyclopedia. I Thank you in advance for your consideration and sincerely hope for a positive resolution. Educatedblkman1914 ( talk) 00:40, 12 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Decline reason:

I am unwilling to unblock you at present, as what you say about the circumstances which led to the block is highly inaccurate. As Diannaa has described below, you have recently been warned several times about copyright, and not only in sandbox pages. Moreover, what she says relates only to recent editing: you have received a number of messages about copyright infringements over a period of almost six and a half years. An editor who ignores a string of warnings about copyright until blocked, and who then appears to accept what he or she has been told about the reason for the block, but who on closer examination turns out to be accepting only a small part of the problem, and appearing to be unaware of the whole story, even though it is visible on his or her talk page, must raise doubts about whether he or she has really taken the issue on board. I suggest that if you consider making another unblock request, you first think very carefully about the whole picture. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 13:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC) reply

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You are incorrect when you say that the first warning was for copyright material you placed in a sandbox. What brought your editing to my attention was copyright violations in article space, added to the article 2015 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team on December 26. The violating content was added from over a dozen different sources. You received a warning for these violations on December 27; I removed the material from the article and revision-deleted it. Through daily monitoring of your contributions I discovered copyright violations being added to a sandbox on January 7, and issued a final warning, again removing the content from the article and hiding the revisions. I noticed further copyright violations being added to a different sandbox on January 11, and at this point you were blocked. Copyright material is not permitted anywhere on this wiki, not even in a sandbox, not even temporarily until you have the time or inclination to edit it. Please store such material off-wiki in a Word document or a text file and make sure to paraphrase it thoroughly before moving it onto this wiki. Please confirm that you have read the guideline Wikipedia:Plagiarism and the policy page Wikipedia:Copyrights. You can comment below my post if you like. — Diannaa ( talk) 00:46, 13 January 2016 (UTC) reply

I have read and understood the pages regarding Copyrights and Plagiarism, however it seems that I am now having to plead my case again with your fellow administrator regarding my entire history. I am requesting further explanation as to what it is exactly that needs to be done to reinstate my account. As user:jamesBwatson noted that I am not only being sanctioned for the original series of infractions but now an even broader history of infractions. As I previously noted, I intend to regain the trust of the Wikipedia Community through correcting my actions however frustration is beginning to set in as it feels like i'm having to plead my case again after stating that efforts would be made to be a better editor. I type all of this not to complain or vent, but to truly get an understand of What more can be done? any insight that can be provided would be greatly appreciated. Educatedblkman1914 ( talk) 00:57, 17 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Next step

I'm looking for what the next step is for User:Educatedblkman1914 , it seems that a review can only occur if the a {{request unblock}} is used. Would the statement made in response to User:Diannaa as part of a request unblock be part of it? It has been two and a half weeks since that comment was made. Naraht ( talk) 22:08, 3 February 2016 (UTC) reply

@ Diannaa: My apologies, that I did not include you in the original message. Naraht ( talk) 22:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC) reply

@ JamesBWatson: Again apologies. Naraht ( talk) 22:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC) reply

First of all, Educatedblkman1914, I see that you tried to link to me above, but I didn't get a notification, because you gave my username as "jamesBwatson" instead of "JamesBWatson", and the software needs an exact match to the username. Consequently, I had no idea that you had posted here, and probably no other administrator did either, which explains why there was no response to your message. Thanks, Naraht, for reopening discussion, and pinging me and Diannaa.

Educatedblkman1914's, I declined your unblock request mainly because you seemed not to have actually taken on board the full message: you wrote "I noticed that the first warning, that was issued was for material that was within my sandbox", whereas the first recent warning was in fact for editing of "2015 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team", and only the second warning was about sandbox content;you then continued to write as though you thought that the only problem was copyright infringement in sandboxes. However, from what you have written, it does look to me as though you realise that copying text from other sources is not acceptable. I also see that the older messages about copyright, from past years, are about images, rather than text, and also that most of them relate to Wikipedia's policy on non-free images, so perhaps they are of limited relevance to this block.

As I have said above, from what you have said it seems that you probably do understand that you must not copy and paste text from other sources into any Wikipedia page, whether article, sandbox, talk page, or whatever. I would have considered that enough for you to be unblocked, were it not for the fact that you made it appear that you had done so only in sandboxes, failing to accept that you had also done so in at least one article, was what held me back from unblocking. Unfortunately, over the years I have found that if an editor is unblocked because he or she has appeared to accept the main point of the reason for the block, but he or she has denied or failed to accept some aspect of it, all too often he or she then continues to edit in the same way. Sometimes this appears to be deliberate evasion, but I think very often it is simply that the editor in question really did not understand the point; however, whatever the reason, repeated experience of that sort of thing has made me reluctant to unblock editors who appear to be holding back on part of the issues that led to the block. Another thing which discouraged me from unblocking was the fact that experience shows that in cases like this, it is not common that a long-standing editor has suddenly started infringing copyright, and has done so several times in a short period despite warnings, and despite never having done so before: it is far more common that he or she has in fact been doing so for years, and it has only just been noticed. In that situation, if, rather than saying "I realise that what I have been doing in articles was a mistake, and I won't do it again", the editor simply denies having done it in articles, it does not give confidence that he or she has really accepted the point.

Please note that when I declined your unblock request I wrote "I am unwilling to unblock you at present", not "I am unwilling to unblock you ever", precisely because I wanted to hold out hope for an unblock. You certainly have a history of much positive contribution to the encyclopaedia, and I am willing to consider unblocking you now, but I will be more confident that doing so is a good idea if you can clearly state that in future you will not copy content from other sources to any page on Wikipedia, and accept that in the past you have done so at least once in an article, as well as in sandbox pages. Also, you will know whether you have in the past been in the habit of copying and pasting text into other articles, even if you can't remember specific examples: if you know that you have done so, it will help if you can say so.

Diannaa, do you have any comment to make on the suggestion of unblocking Educatedblkman1914, on the understanding that he will not copy content from elsewhere in future? The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 11:38, 4 February 2016 (UTC) reply

I am willing to consider an unblock request under these conditions and have nothing further to add, other than to say I will resume daily checks, and any further violations whether in article space or a sandbox will result in an immediate re-block. It would be highly unlikely the your account would be unblocked a second time. The request for unblock has to come directly from you, Educatedblkman1914. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 14:56, 4 February 2016 (UTC) reply

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Request reason:

I am formally resubmitting an appeal to the block placed upon this account which occurred on 11 January 2016 by administrator @ Diannaa: and the subsequent appeal that was denied by administrator @ JamesBWatson: on 15 January 2016. I would like to start off by stating that I Accept full responsibility for violating Wikipedia’s Copyright and Plagiarism policies that occurred in the 2015 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team article, within my personal sandboxes, and within at least one other article in wikipedia. I now understand that copying and pasting copywritten materials into any section of Wikipedia, including but not limited to Articles and sandboxes, is in fact a violation of this very policy. I plan to regain the trust of the Wikipedia community by making a conscious effort to no longer copy and paste content from other sources into any page on Wikipedia. As a condition for reinstatement outlined by Diannaa, I have reread the Copyright & Plagiarism policies and would be open to additional improvement planning. Lastly, I would like to thank Diannaa and JamesBWatson for their corporation and consideration during these proceedings. I would also like to thank @ Naraht: for his assistance and advocacy; he is truly a mentor and friend. It is my hope that we are able to reach a resolution and begin a new chapter. Again thank you for your consideration. -- Educatedblkman1914 ( talk) 23:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Accept reason:

You have now been unblocked. I will resume daily checks, and any further violations whether in article space or a sandbox will result in an immediate re-block. Good luck, and happy editing. — Diannaa ( talk) 23:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC) reply

• I would just like to say that I agree with Diannaa that you should be unblocked now, in view of the assurances you have given. I hope that from now on you can carry on editing, without similar problems. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 10:16, 16 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi! I'm just writing to invite you to join an edit-a-thon that I'm hosting in Charlotte. We will focus on adding and editing articles for visual artists from Charlotte of the African Diaspora. I'm looking for experienced Wikipedians to help new users and also just more people to come out. Here is our event link for the first event (every Thursday in February): [ [1]] Thanks for any help! -- Heathart ( talk) 00:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the invite, however I wouldn't be of much use as I have been indefinitely blocked. I wish you all the best with your edit-a-thon and will be there in spirit. -- Educatedblkman1914 ( talk) 20:59, 3 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi Educatedblkman1914. Did you know we have available a copyvio detection tool, https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ ? This is an easy way to check content for unacceptable amounts of overlap with source material that is accessible online. Your recent additions to Sandbox 26 show some phrases copied directly from the source page here. Sometimes when providing list-type data or statistics it's unavoidable to have overlap, but we can and should re-work the material as much as possible, by changing the phrasing, adding or removing details, or presenting the material in a different order. I have done some amendments to the page, reducing the percentage overlap as shown by the copyvio tool from 34.2 per cent to 20.6 per cent. — Diannaa ( talk) 20:14, 18 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks @ Diannaa: I really do appreciate the help. This tool will be really helpful :-)

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Hi! I'm helping to organize two editathons at UNC Sloane Library and was hoping you would want to join us or spread the word. The first is March 25 and our scope will be the immigration system in the US. The second will be on April 1 and the scope will be visual artists of the African Diaspora who have been based in Chapel Hill. Hope you can make it! Thanks -- Heathart ( talk) 21:09, 7 March 2017 (UTC) reply

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Frat can we get an updated Fraternity map on the site that reflects NM as now part of the GCR? Also your handle is misspelled as related to the map. Thanks and G.O.M.A.B.

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