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Hi ReaderofthePack. I don't really have the heart to tell this editor that they don't have the ability to block other editors, but perhaps maybe someone else will. I was going to post something about WP:RGW on their user talk page, but probably won't since it will probably only further aggravate the situation. Then, there's also a possible WP:DISRUPTNAME issue given the this is an SPA and their contributions so far. The fact that there's now edit warring on their user talk page though is probably not a good idea for anyone involved. So, maybe you could take a look at things, and take away their TPA if it appears to be the only way to stop things from further spiraling out of control. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:14, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, it's been three months since I hadn't talked with you here.
First of all, I wanted to tell you that there is an IP who is getting away scot-free. This IP mades not only disruptive edits, but also adds hoax content (such as claiming that a 1986 film which shares name with a 2010 German film about animals exists and so does a fictitious 2013 Malaysian film called The Amazing Safari) and changes dates to incorrect ones. I think this IP deserves a strict block because this IP is not here to build an encyclopedia.
Second, I asked in the talk page of the list of Pixar film references if I could replace the "Citation needed" template with a source coming from The Art of Pixar Short Films in order to verify André's cameo appearance in Red's Dream, but no one answered me. Therefore, I had to consult with you if it can be done if The Art of Pixar Short Films is reliable enough to verify this cameo appearance.
Regarding my Pixar-themed draft, I've been progressively improving it. I have a very worrisome question, which is this: how can I solve the notability issues so that my draft can be submitted with success?
That's all the things I wanted to say. I hope you answer me when you are online.-- André the Android( talk) 10:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work on the article. I was struggling to find any sources beyond passing mentions and I appreciate your vigilance! BOVINEBOY 2008 14:07, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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You may enjoy my new article, and it would enjoy copyediting (it's now nominated for DYK). And of course, any expansion and so on would never go amiss :) Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:00, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, ReaderofthePack. A month ago I learned that André, one of the The Adventures of André & Wally B. characters, had his first cameo appearance since Red's Dream. I have planned to add both this reference and the Buy n' Large logo's cameo in Soul in the list of Pixar film references, as well as I have planned to add André's last cameo appearance in my draft about the mentioned Pixar character. However, I don't know if I have to use this link from Laughing Place (which I have doubts if it is reliable or not) or this one from BuzzFeed (which I fear that it might encourage readers to believe in the Pixar universe theory, a fan theory which I consider nonsensical, despite the BuzzFeed article's title is different).
In brief, which one should I use?-- André the Android( talk) 11:03, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, ReaderofthePack. Today I unwillingly reverted one of a long-term abusers' edit on the article about exercise balls as I denied him personal attention.
I created this section because I'm concerned that he will use the same IP again and he may "manually revert" what I've reverted by adding the same content on the aforementioned article. That's why I think the page about exercise balls deserves indefinite semi-protection and two remaining unreverted articles the IP edited must be restored to their last version prior to the IP the long-term abuser has recently used to edit.
What do you think of this situation? I admit that it is urgent because good-faith editors shouldn't let articles unattended in case these receive disruptive edits.-- André the Android( talk) 14:40, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, I would like to point your attention to this edit made by user Madvark: [1]. As you saw on the AfD for Stel Pavlou, this user was also quite aggressive in making defamatory accusations toward me based on a misdirected semi-DOXing attempt. This was also after the user called for me to be banned here on the BLP noticeboard. I thought you may have suggestions as an admin. Thanks. Qt.petrovich ( talk) 15:59, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, back in 2014 you create-protected the page Rahul Gupta because it had been repeteadly recreated, but the subject now has enough coverage for Draft:Rahul Gupta to be moved to mainspace, so can you do the honours of un-create protecting it? Thanks. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 07:28, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi,
the other day, I followed a citation in an article to a published work, which in turn cited "WK 2011", which turned out to refer to a 2011 version of the article in question. Based on what I've found in the meantime, it looks like this involves dozens of other articles as well. Your username appears in the Wikipedia:list of citogenesis incidents, so I'm hoping you can deal with this in an appropiate way, or notify the appropriate person. Here's the overview:
Between about 2007 and 2013, a series of books authored by Peter Baofu was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The titles follow the general pattern The Future of this: Towards a New Theory of that: [2]
The publisher is a bit dodgy, according to their article; and these books are dodgy by the standards of that publisher, I think: Quite a lot of the prose was copied verbatim from Wikipedia, paying no heed to whether that content was cited or not. The only upside is that this author does credit Wikipedia.
Later on, people started citing those books in the articles they'd been cobbled together from. A Wikipedia search for the author currently yields 35 hits: [3]
I've only checked a handful, but I'd be very surprised if the pattern described above doesn't hold for practically all of them. I did wonder whether the citations might have been intended as product placement, to steer Wikipedia readers to the books. Across the ones I checked, this does not seem to be the case, though; the responsible editors and the timestamps are quite different for each one. So the likelier explanation is that occasionally, someone applies a citation needed tag to one of the passages appearing as-is in one of the books, and then someone else coming across the tag, and googles the former, and finds the latter at google books, and fails to wonder about the "WK" attribution there, and adds it as a ref... and voila, circle closed.
So this seems to be more benign than many of the listed citogenesis incidents, in as far as there's no deliberate fabrication at the root of it all, only originally uncited content. Let me know if you need any extra information, or if I can be of any further help with this issue.
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Hi ReaderofthePack. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raising Atlantis was closed as no consensus, but I do think a rough consensus for a merge emerged towards the end, especially into an article on the author since some reviews on other books by him were found. As you at one point mentioned being willing to work on a series page, I was wondering whether you would like to create Thomas Greanias. Or an Atlantis series article, if you prefer; I'm not sure how much useful biographical information on Greanias is available from these reviews altogether. Lennart97 ( talk) 16:11, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi ReaderofthePack. I don't really have the heart to tell this editor that they don't have the ability to block other editors, but perhaps maybe someone else will. I was going to post something about WP:RGW on their user talk page, but probably won't since it will probably only further aggravate the situation. Then, there's also a possible WP:DISRUPTNAME issue given the this is an SPA and their contributions so far. The fact that there's now edit warring on their user talk page though is probably not a good idea for anyone involved. So, maybe you could take a look at things, and take away their TPA if it appears to be the only way to stop things from further spiraling out of control. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:14, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, it's been three months since I hadn't talked with you here.
First of all, I wanted to tell you that there is an IP who is getting away scot-free. This IP mades not only disruptive edits, but also adds hoax content (such as claiming that a 1986 film which shares name with a 2010 German film about animals exists and so does a fictitious 2013 Malaysian film called The Amazing Safari) and changes dates to incorrect ones. I think this IP deserves a strict block because this IP is not here to build an encyclopedia.
Second, I asked in the talk page of the list of Pixar film references if I could replace the "Citation needed" template with a source coming from The Art of Pixar Short Films in order to verify André's cameo appearance in Red's Dream, but no one answered me. Therefore, I had to consult with you if it can be done if The Art of Pixar Short Films is reliable enough to verify this cameo appearance.
Regarding my Pixar-themed draft, I've been progressively improving it. I have a very worrisome question, which is this: how can I solve the notability issues so that my draft can be submitted with success?
That's all the things I wanted to say. I hope you answer me when you are online.-- André the Android( talk) 10:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I hope you are having a great time. I am here so i can invite you to take part in this conversation: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/N4 Axis Centre Thanks. Brascoian (talk to me) 17:12, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work on the article. I was struggling to find any sources beyond passing mentions and I appreciate your vigilance! BOVINEBOY 2008 14:07, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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You may enjoy my new article, and it would enjoy copyediting (it's now nominated for DYK). And of course, any expansion and so on would never go amiss :) Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:00, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, ReaderofthePack. A month ago I learned that André, one of the The Adventures of André & Wally B. characters, had his first cameo appearance since Red's Dream. I have planned to add both this reference and the Buy n' Large logo's cameo in Soul in the list of Pixar film references, as well as I have planned to add André's last cameo appearance in my draft about the mentioned Pixar character. However, I don't know if I have to use this link from Laughing Place (which I have doubts if it is reliable or not) or this one from BuzzFeed (which I fear that it might encourage readers to believe in the Pixar universe theory, a fan theory which I consider nonsensical, despite the BuzzFeed article's title is different).
In brief, which one should I use?-- André the Android( talk) 11:03, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, ReaderofthePack. Today I unwillingly reverted one of a long-term abusers' edit on the article about exercise balls as I denied him personal attention.
I created this section because I'm concerned that he will use the same IP again and he may "manually revert" what I've reverted by adding the same content on the aforementioned article. That's why I think the page about exercise balls deserves indefinite semi-protection and two remaining unreverted articles the IP edited must be restored to their last version prior to the IP the long-term abuser has recently used to edit.
What do you think of this situation? I admit that it is urgent because good-faith editors shouldn't let articles unattended in case these receive disruptive edits.-- André the Android( talk) 14:40, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, I would like to point your attention to this edit made by user Madvark: [1]. As you saw on the AfD for Stel Pavlou, this user was also quite aggressive in making defamatory accusations toward me based on a misdirected semi-DOXing attempt. This was also after the user called for me to be banned here on the BLP noticeboard. I thought you may have suggestions as an admin. Thanks. Qt.petrovich ( talk) 15:59, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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-- Innisfree987 ( talk) 21:33, 24 October 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hi, back in 2014 you create-protected the page Rahul Gupta because it had been repeteadly recreated, but the subject now has enough coverage for Draft:Rahul Gupta to be moved to mainspace, so can you do the honours of un-create protecting it? Thanks. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 07:28, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi,
the other day, I followed a citation in an article to a published work, which in turn cited "WK 2011", which turned out to refer to a 2011 version of the article in question. Based on what I've found in the meantime, it looks like this involves dozens of other articles as well. Your username appears in the Wikipedia:list of citogenesis incidents, so I'm hoping you can deal with this in an appropiate way, or notify the appropriate person. Here's the overview:
Between about 2007 and 2013, a series of books authored by Peter Baofu was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The titles follow the general pattern The Future of this: Towards a New Theory of that: [2]
The publisher is a bit dodgy, according to their article; and these books are dodgy by the standards of that publisher, I think: Quite a lot of the prose was copied verbatim from Wikipedia, paying no heed to whether that content was cited or not. The only upside is that this author does credit Wikipedia.
Later on, people started citing those books in the articles they'd been cobbled together from. A Wikipedia search for the author currently yields 35 hits: [3]
I've only checked a handful, but I'd be very surprised if the pattern described above doesn't hold for practically all of them. I did wonder whether the citations might have been intended as product placement, to steer Wikipedia readers to the books. Across the ones I checked, this does not seem to be the case, though; the responsible editors and the timestamps are quite different for each one. So the likelier explanation is that occasionally, someone applies a citation needed tag to one of the passages appearing as-is in one of the books, and then someone else coming across the tag, and googles the former, and finds the latter at google books, and fails to wonder about the "WK" attribution there, and adds it as a ref... and voila, circle closed.
So this seems to be more benign than many of the listed citogenesis incidents, in as far as there's no deliberate fabrication at the root of it all, only originally uncited content. Let me know if you need any extra information, or if I can be of any further help with this issue.
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-- Innisfree987 ( talk) 00:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi ReaderofthePack. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raising Atlantis was closed as no consensus, but I do think a rough consensus for a merge emerged towards the end, especially into an article on the author since some reviews on other books by him were found. As you at one point mentioned being willing to work on a series page, I was wondering whether you would like to create Thomas Greanias. Or an Atlantis series article, if you prefer; I'm not sure how much useful biographical information on Greanias is available from these reviews altogether. Lennart97 ( talk) 16:11, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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