User talk:DMacks

Hi, we are staff from SCGS and we would like to help to keep the info up to date. Please advise how we can assist to keep the information updated. Thanks. email: scgss_ict@moe.edu.sg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.189.35.234 (talk) 01:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Scoobalawyer==26 July 2015

Hello DMacks, I Kindly Request You To Protect This Wikipedia Page of Kick (2014 film) because of High Vandalism by unknown users link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_(2014_film). Thanks!

Re: OxNotes.com on Wallington Grammar page

Hello DMacks,

I am a representative of OxNotes (a student run website and soon to be textbook) , I apologise for method in which it was recently added to the Wikipedia page, I have ensured all 'marketing speak' has been removed and what is left is only factual information. Please feel free to contact me via LinkedIn, Twitter or email k@oxnotes.com if you require any further information. Thank you.

Kind Regards

Kazim

Kazim Chaudri Editor: OxNotes by Fluxty (Non-Profit) www.linkedin.com/in/kazimchaudri

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Sorry not sure how els to contact you to discuss the farm page.

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

added external links

I had added one reference link to page Бесхвостые , tutorvista had added its 4 links, then why not i can add one more reference link from other website. Its not promotion, but the page which i have, also tells about fron digestive system. So is that bad to put a reference link on that page. Please guide me.

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Maybe you should not rollback my code in the word "leapyear"

Hi, DMacks:

    When I fixed the some mistake of python code in "leap year", my code is rollback by you for the reason "Too much detail/WP is not a how-to manual". I'm software engineer, and I found many people don't known the history of "leap year", include the textbooks about programming in china. the wrong code is used for getting "leap year"(before 1582). So, I spend some time to study this question, and wrote the code which let more people know "leap year". can you allow the code is added to the context of "leap year".

   It's my first commit in Wiki. :)

   Best Regards

   Jerry.Liu, Beijing, China

   PS:
   I have add python code to bake of baidu. let more people knows the history of "leap year".  My English is poor, maybe you can know what I said.  hah.

stop changing my word.

We already had this conversation last year stop changing my word i already made my case you are a bad person on a power trip. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.58.155.181 (talk) 03:59, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

And the final comment I made at the time was that I supported "usually" only if the term "hot dog" was removed. The article says "hot dog", so I (still) object to "usually" as before. You can see from the edit-history that several others do too, and the word "usually" wound up being omitted from the article in the timeframe after the talkpage discussion. So that's the apparent result of the talkpage discussion and seeming consensus of other editors as status quo before you decided to edit-war it again recently. Feel free to dig a hole unrelated to any merit your idea might have and see if it accomplishes your goal. DMacks (talk) 04:44, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

My edits

So, you reverted every edit I've added? I'm trying to learn the ropes around here, but your message and reverting every single edit I've made is an odd way to go about things, in my opinion. Please explain how each edit I made was against Wikipedia rules. If I'm not supposed to mess with Alexa rankings or other analytics, that's cool. But what warranted the others being reverted? Thanks. LordoftheRingsFAN73 (talk) 19:43, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

You are engaging in what appears to be WP:REFSPAM for SimilarWeb, and you are one of a series of editors performing that same activity over the past month or two. Links to that website are currently listed as a likely spam problem. And most of the other edits you performed appear to be WP:OVERLINK. That's another common activity of the other accounts that are refspamming for SimilarWeb. So now there is also a possible WP:SOCKPUPPET problem. Have you been using multiple accounts? Do you have any personal or business affiliation with SimilarWeb? Care to clarify either of these situations for us? DMacks (talk) 19:49, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Yulia Tymoshenko

page Tymoshenko, have You deleted important information, which contains the reference. Do not engage in vandalism--Lidaz (talk) 08:09, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Edit-warring is unacceptable behavior, regardless of whether the content is good or not. Others say it is not good. Please discuss with them. Edit-war, and you will have your right to edit revoked, which means you lose even if you are "right". DMacks (talk) 08:13, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

DMacks,You continue to wrongly delete the information on the page Tymoshenko. I think admins will block Your actions in the near future.--Lidaz (talk) 08:37, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

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Aromaticity

My bad. I misread it as "covalently bond molecules," which clearly wouldn't be right. Thanks for catching it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jqavins (talk • contribs) 11:05, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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Edits to the Dell KACE Page

Hi DMacks, I'm new to editing Wikipedia so thanks for your help & patience with me. I do work for Dell. I just read through the conflict of interest guide. I see your comments on the talk page and will make my comments there. I'll make recommendations on the talk page going forward. If you have any specific recommendations for me that will be helpful. 99others (talk) 19:48, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Seeking your input

Greetings sir,

I'm seeking your input regarding the sources collected for the Parwez article here [7], in order to build consensus on the content before I edit the main page.

It looks like most of the sources are being accepted, just two questions remain:

1. Can I insert the sourced comment that Parwez rejected "some" hadith to clarify (not remove) his "Quranist" title?
2. How many primary sources can I use to suppliment the 3rd party sources on which there is consensus?

Your opinion will be highly appreciated. Thank you.Code16 ^{... Logic Bomb !} 12:09, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

For 1, I don't know enough about this topic (or subtle shades of meaning of the terminology) to give a good answer within the limits of secondary sources. For 2, I don't know if you need *any* primaries if you have a secondary/tertiary. DMacks (talk) 01:24, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

anti-gravity

"Sound like anti-gravity" - to whom? I can imagine several situation when this content can be relevant, e.g., when some crook tried to sell it as anti-gravity or it was used in film to imitate antiG, etc. However we need a reference for this, right? It does not matter that a wikipedian thinks something "smells like anti-gravity" They didn't look like anti-G for me. Heck, I myself defy gravity every morning :-)- üser:Altenmann >t 17:07, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Exactly. [8] is just one of however-many novelty/toy or hoax/crook examples you want, including the two secondary-cites at the end of the lead. But looking more closely now, the key items from that list already are embedded elsewhere in the article with on-topic discussion, so I don't see the need the for redundant list of them. DMacks (talk) 20:44, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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Black Ivy League

Howard University has more than a medical and law school, why are you omitting the pharmacy and dentistry school ... both are post-bachelor degrees Broadmoor (talk) 03:06, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Once I saw several unexplained and "on their face" confusing and bad-faith other changes, I did not look in any further detail. You are welcome to make corrections with cited sources. I encourage you to use edit-summaries so others know the nature and basis of your changes. I see you have a track record of bad edits, so you should expect extra scrutiny going forward. DMacks (talk) 03:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Apologies

Hello DMacks. You corrected a bad edit I made here [21]. I will endeavor to be more careful in the future and to not become a menace to the factual integrity of Wikipedia. Regards --ChemWarfare (talk) 04:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

No worries! It was already a mistake there before you changed it, and you at least made it a self-consistent and reasonable way. DMacks (talk) 04:55, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Hi, what do you propose we do about Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld? After telling the IP, multiple times to use the talk page, they continue to post on the article itself. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:14, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

He's got 24h to think about what everyone's been telling him. I have no idea the merits of his complaint because it's too vague. The talkpage does have some concerns already noted (again non-specific), but I don't know enough about the subject to know if or what to change. DMacks (talk) 06:18, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Alright then. Even I don't know anything about the subject. I just saw the repeated POV pushing and left warning. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:24, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Catherine Hoke

The photo you removed https://www.flickr.com/photos/democonference/15644445510 was attributed and used within the Creative Commons license posted by the creator (copied below) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ > Please repost. Thank you.

You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenschutz (talk • contribs) 02:49, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Both "NC" and "ND" place this image outside the bounds of what is allowable. DMacks (talk) 02:59, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal ^talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Overthrow vs Coup

Thanks for your assistance on the article. While I disagree with you assertion that I was edit warring, I respect your warning and feel that the move lock is not needed. Softlander was the third person to weigh in and at that point there was a discussion ongoing. If you feel there is enough reason to hold that lock I have no further argument other than, I will not be changing that again, nor is it likely the other editor will.--Mark Miller (talk) 01:33, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Kalash People

I don't understand what is going on. Your last revert has confused me. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:55, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Looks like we edit-conflicted clicking "revert". WP registered yours first, then my action seems to have been registered as a revert of your revert rather than of the actual edit you and I were both trying to revert. Sorry about that! DMacks (talk) 07:05, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Aah, alright. I was confused because you restored the edit, albeit accidentally, of a user you had just blocked, who has, requested for an unblock.. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

MDPI Page

I am Dietrich Rordorf. When I posted those e-mails, I was no longer a founder/owner of MDPI. It was not out of my own initiative, but I was an order from Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. I have left MDPI by the end of July 2015 because I could no longer bear the strange relationship with Dr. Lin. The sentence as presented here insinuates that I faked those documents. This is inacceptable. I request that my name be removed here as it is not relevant who within the company fulfilled Dr. Lin's request to compile the e-mails from the company archive.