As the copyvio alert on your talkpage says, "If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see [[Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials]] for the procedure." But see also [[WP:COI]] to learn whether ''you'' should be writing about yourself, and [[WP:BIO]] regarding whether you merit an article at all (regardless of who writes it). As a new editor, maybe our "[[WP:YFA|Your First Article]]" guide would be a good first read to learn about wikipedia. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks#top|talk]]) 19:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
As the copyvio alert on your talkpage says, "If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see [[Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials]] for the procedure." But see also [[WP:COI]] to learn whether ''you'' should be writing about yourself, and [[WP:BIO]] regarding whether you merit an article at all (regardless of who writes it). As a new editor, maybe our "[[WP:YFA|Your First Article]]" guide would be a good first read to learn about wikipedia. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks#top|talk]]) 19:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
== Review request ==
Hello ,
The page [[Karanvir Bohra]] is currently vandalised by many anonymous users. Could you please protect the article from getting vandalised by adding protection for few days.
Yours Sincerely,
[[User:Digvijay411|Digvijay411]] ([[User talk:Digvijay411|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Digvijay411|contribs]]) 13:26, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Revision as of 13:27, 7 October 2015
Great move, however you forgot to add the padlock sign to pornographic film actor. Make sure u do that. Good night!
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email: scgss_ict@moe.edu.sg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.189.35.234 (talk) 01:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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
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.
Copyvio of the content as a whole and license violation of the image. It's only "your own" page in that it is associated with your account; it is still within the Wikipedia site and governed by certain rules. I recommend you spend some time re-familiarizing yourself with our core policies, as many/most/all of your recent edits have been unacceptable. DMacks (talk) 06:24, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No. You and others with interest in that article have demonstrated that you are incapable of creating an acceptable article there (or elsewhere), so you will need to use a sandbox/draft-space so that an administrator can make sure it's acceptable this time. Consider it as an alternative to having your edit-privleges revoked altogether. DMacks (talk) 05:19, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
FACE:B00C collateral victim
addresses with FACE:B00C in their range are used by internet.org app service and not "geologically localized" in that a person in south asia can get allocated an address for a time which will be later cycled to any person in EU or NA. blocking entire ranges is too much collateral damage. please look deeply into this. block the sock accounts, not ip ranges. speaking as a victim of ip rangeblock associated with someone I did not know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahfuzur rahman shourov (talk • contribs) 05:22, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The socks are using many IPs directly and to create many sock accounts using many IPs. Whack-a-mole on the accounts is not an effective or efficient solution at this point. If a pool of IPs that is assigned to a certain service provider is being abused by a vandal who rapidly jumps within that pool, that's exactly the reason a rangeblock is a reasonable solution. And indeed this case is a vandal jumping among many IPs in the range you cite. Maybe internet.org should stop running such an abusable proxy system? I'm not on their administrative or technical staff. Collateral damage of non-vandal users is often easily worked-around (but [citation needed] that it's "too much" as you say). DMacks (talk) 06:28, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
problem is that everyone in the world who are using internet.org gets assigned IP in the face:b00c range and internet.org system cycles the ip on a global scale, not regionally. so, because of some vandals in the ip range, innocent users get blocked. and the vandals can get away by creating accounts in "not face:b00c" range and logging into the vandal accounts using internet.org. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahfuzur rahman shourov (talk • contribs) 06:28, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That is the nature of range-blocks, yes. And I along with several other admins and vandal-patrolling editors felt it was an acceptable trade-off given the circumstances. I have re-examined, and I stand by my position on that. There are multiple methods used here, which also might prevent the vandal getting sneaking back in the way you propose (I won't discuss these technical details further in public). DMacks (talk) 13:35, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [1]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [2]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [3]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [4]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [5]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [6]
MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [7]
Problems
Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [8][9]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [10]
The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [11]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.
Oops, thanks. I put the key info in the caption, but didn't notice that there was description rather than just citation in the footnote. So I removed the (now-incorrect and seemingly redundant) description from the footnote. DMacks (talk) 03:19, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Read your updates on the case linked above. I'm thinking of designing an edit filter for this non-privileged users placing privileged templates. Any thoughts? Have you noticed any trends? Ping me upon reply. --JustBerry (talk) 05:49, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I brought up a discussion on IRC regarding potential cross-wiki abuse for this SPI case. However, the consensus from enCUs and steward appears to suggest that cross-wiki CheckUsers team are already collaborating on issues like this. However, prior to my persistent reporting, users did not seem encouraged to report the issue. Seems like a systemic issue that should be looked on the cross-wiki scale as well. --JustBerry (talk) 11:59, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Tymoshenko
Hello. I am trying to protect the article from My very best wishes. My first edit was at 03:52, 28 August 2015, when I removed allegations that ECHR had recognized that Tymoshenko had been tortured in detention. I provided a reference to the actual judgement of the court, which explicitly rejects these claims. Lidaz then started an edit war to reinstate the false claim about the court's recognition. I asked Future Perfect at Sunrise for help. He rewrote part of the article which had been rewritten by Lidaz in terrible English. It turned out Lidaz was a sock and he was blocked indefinitely. Since IPs started reinstated the same edits, Dennis Brown semi protected the page. Sometimes after that another user, Gal777, started to reintroduce the same edits. He turned out to be a sock of Lidaz and was idefinitely blocked too. Now, Volunteer Marek changed " the Ukrainian Supreme Court closed the case and found that "no crime was committed"." into "the Ukrainian Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights closed the case and found that "no crime was committed"", thus associating the ECHR to the judgement of the the Ukrainian Supreme Court, which is factually false. He seems to enjoy the support of My very best wishes who strangely contradicts his own previous edits. In any case, my action has been conservative. I tried to maintain the consensus reached with Future Perfect at Sunrise and Dennis Brown. Therefore, I do not understand why you accuse me of edit warring, while giving a free pass to MVBW and VM to introduce changes that are factually wrong. Ask Dennis Brown or FPS, they are well aware of the whole affair. Thank you. Againstdisinformation (talk) 04:41, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You are the one who made the same edits several times, whereas multiple others who are not socks made rational edit-summaries disputing it. I am acting solely as admin here, not taking sides here, and WP:EW is very clear that it doesn't matter who is really "right" or which content eventually winds up in the article. By a brief look, I don't see a discussion with clear consensus on the talkpage. Feel free to discuss with the other editors involved, especially those who currently disagree with your edits to try to persuade them that you are right. Ask those with whom you claim you currently have consensus to weigh in as well. All of this goes on the article talkpage so nobody can claim some secret deal, bad-faith explanation, etc. DMacks (talk) 06:07, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"it doesn't matter who is really "right"" I could not disagree more with you. Wikipedia's consensual approach and its positivist disregard for truth are very dangerous. There was consensus at Salem too. When the matter is inherently subjective and there is no objective way to determine what is true, I agree that consensus is the best method if and only if it is accompanied with systematic doubt. As things stand the most vocal, and therefore more biased, voices get their way. In the case at hand, things are easy. Just read the ECHR judgement yourself. If you find any decision by the court that "no crime was committed", I will apologize. Please, if you answer, address the substance, not the editor. Againstdisinformation (talk) 20:22, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There's no deadline that I can see here, whereas WP:EW is a policy that quite clearly is about behavior. Following such a simple behavior policy is a great way to get your ideas heard and possibly implemented. In this case, it seems there are quite obvious disputes about what sources to use, what they actually say, and/or how to write about them. The ultimate form of the article is subject to consensus once it becomes clear that there are genuine mis-readings or that one source is clearly at odds with many others. Please dial down your urgency and strident actions so that your ideas themselves can be taken for what they are. DMacks (talk) 20:30, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I possibly was not clear enough. I thought the consensus has been already achieved in this section, unless Againstdisinformation objects to clarification made by Alex Bakharev (he should not based on his previous edit). Saying that, I do not mind it be protected for weeks. My very best wishes (talk) 23:00, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Right there is a great reason there needs to be a public and centralized discussion, so that anyone else looking at it can see what led to the article being in the form it ultimately has. DMacks (talk) 20:37, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [13]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [14]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [15]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [16]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [17]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hi my name is Gabriele Corcos, you just deleted my page (twice).
I am setting up a bio page and will absolutely release my content from copyright, just wanted to let you know that this is me, in first person and all copyright in question is mine (no share holders).
Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong, I really need this page to go up.
Thanks
Gabriele Corcos — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thetuscangun (talk • contribs) 16:38, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As the copyvio alert on your talkpage says, "If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure." But see also WP:COI to learn whether you should be writing about yourself, and WP:BIO regarding whether you merit an article at all (regardless of who writes it). As a new editor, maybe our "Your First Article" guide would be a good first read to learn about wikipedia. DMacks (talk) 19:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Comment: I brought up a discussion on IRC regarding potential cross-wiki abuse for this SPI case. However, the consensus from enCUs and steward appears to suggest that cross-wiki CheckUsers team are already collaborating on issues like this. However, prior to my persistent reporting, users did not seem encouraged to report the issue. Seems like a systemic issue that should be looked on the cross-wiki scale as well. --JustBerry (talk) 11:59, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
