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Sir, yesterday I was reading Wikipedia of Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil. In his Wikipedia I found an infobox. In that infobox an occupation column is present in which it is indicated that he is "Chairman and managing director, VPS Healthcare group, Radiologist". In this occupation column VPS Healthcare group should be in the form of link, so that anyone can easily know about this Healthcare group. One more thing sir, the user who filled the information in occupation column has not arranged the data perfectly. I show how to arrange:-

• Radiologist
• Chairman and managing director of VPS Healthcare group

I tried very hard to add the information correctly but I failed each and every time. I hope you will certainly help me out. 

Thanks.(223.230.133.231 (talk) 16:35, 18 June 2019 (UTC))

Bunch of edit requests

Hi JJMC89, can you look over all the ".. icon" pages here: User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable - looks like you were the last editor on them. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:07, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

WP:ACC Access request

Hello,

I had been active in WP:ACC having handled quite a few requests. Due to personal reasons, I was not active in any wikimedia project for about 10 months (including being inactive in the tool of course) leading to my account being suspended. However I am now back and plan to stick around, and would like to continue helping out in this venue. I have read the guide again, and my access to nonpublic personal data has been restored after me signing the new agreement, so I would like to request that my account is unsuspended and my +accountcreator flag is restored.

Thanks in advance! --Kostas20142 (talk) 23:19, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

@Kostas20142:  Done Please check your email. — JJMC89 05:46, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

JJMC89 bot - admin message list

I wanted to let you know that there may be a bug in the bot's task to update Wikipedia:Administrators/Message list. In the extremely unlikely event that the case arises again, it appears to fail on admins who are desysopped and then resysopped within 24 hours - see Special:Diff/901596499. The actual change was only 1 removed, but the summary was Update MassMessage list: 1 added, 2 removed. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:29, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Not only does it have to happen on the same date, but there needs to be some other change on that date too. If it were a quick change, I'd fix it, but I don't think it is. If I hadn't already known what happened with Floq, the change count would have made me check it out. — JJMC89 00:44, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Ah, most common, I get it

Most common for the whole page... Makes sense. I took it to mean most common for the section which I guess doesn't work. —DIYeditor (talk) 07:03, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Citations for Biographies of Living Person

Savannah Knoop (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hi, I'm not sure what the issue was with my citations? Additionally, I'm not sure what on the page violated copyright. I copy-pasted from a word document that I wrote. Can you also clarify if the issue was with the citations or with the copyright? I'm confused from the history on the page. To clarify, I mean what is the copyright violation that still exists after the user Bledwith removed the information from savannahknoop.com thanks.Ataylorg (talk) 17:11, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

There are a number of issues with the content the you added.

1. Copyright violations from multiple sources: savannahknoop.com, essexflowers.us

   Bledwith removed copying from the first, and I removed copying from the second. In regard to you copying from a document that you wrote, you must have copied material when you wrote that document.

2. Unsourced (particularly personal information) about a living person
3. Citations not supporting the material that you claim (by citing them) that they do
4. Name-dropping, especially supported by primary sources

— JJMC89 23:49, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

added media rational to File:IPadOS 13 Screenshot.png

Hi @JJMC89:, you flagged File:IPadOS 13 Screenshot.png as needing a non-free media rationale, and just wanted to let you know that I added one. GeekInParadise (talk) 16:59, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Change bot instructions?

This bot edit is basically correct, since we shouldn't display nonfree images in projectspace. But would you be able to give the bot special instructions for Graphics Lab pages? There needs to be some sort of link to an image in order for the graphist to know what image to work on, and entirely removing the image leaves the graphist unable to do anything without combing through the page history. I wonder if you could instruct the bot to replace a file display with a link (e.g. changing [[File:Example.jpg]] to [[:File:Example.jpg]]), so that the image remains easily accessible? Thank you. Nyttend (talk) 00:10, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm not keen on adding special cases for certain pages. Namespaces, maybe, if its really necessary. For the Graphics Lab, its not something simple to change since the conversion would be from <gallery>...</gallery>, which could contain multiple free and/or non-free files, to image syntax, not just inserting a colon. The header and editintro for new requests have a reminder to use {{GLNF}} for non-free media. I just added it to the preload too. Maybe that will be sufficient? — JJMC89 01:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) There is a template {{GLNF}} which can be used at WP:GL/P. It says so at the top of the page, but this often get's overlooked by people posting requests and those answering requests. I've occasionally gone in there and converted the file syntax to this template, but I don't use a bot. Perhaps there's a way to strengthen the wording of the GL page's header to further emphasize that non-free files can be discussed, but that they should use the GLNF template. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:17, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

PKP Pecheneg machine gun

@JJMC89: Hi! There seems to have been a slight Snickers with the PKP Pecheneg machine gun page in that I raised a copyvio at the same time as contacting the original author of the text in question by email. He emailed me back to say he was fine with it as long as his website containing the relevant text was properly cited and sourced (this appears to have been the case, though that depends on whether "properly" was really prominent enough). Based on his email, I removed the copyvio tag and explained the situation on the appropriate page.

Unfortunately, a day or two later the text in question and all references to it were deleted anyway, which wasn't quite the outcome I'd intended nor anticipated. Can the deletion be undone? Should it be undone? As someone who's just an occasional editor it's been a rather confusing experience so if you can clarify things that would be most welcome. --Vometia (talk) 12:16, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hi Vometia. I think you might find the information contained in Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources helpful. If the website is considered to be a reliable source for Wikipedia's purposes, then you might be able to summarize relevant content from the website in your own words and then cite it as the source. Copying and pasting content from the website, however, is going to require verification that's goes beyond simple verbal or email permission per WP:MYTEXT between you and the website's creator. Even then, it might not be a good idea to copy and paste such content because content written on external websites tends to be written in a way that doesn't comply with WP:NPOV or other parts of MOS:MOS, which means it might end up being re-written by someone else anyway. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:32, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks very much Marchjuly! (I hope I've got this pinging thing right...) Your explanation is very helpful and I think it also helps settle my own remaining ambivalence about whether the page should've contained almost verbatim text from someone else's website. In this instance I assume the original is a reliable source as the author is widely recognised as an authority on the subject and is a published author about the same, but even without that concern your other points remain. --Vometia (talk) 12:50, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

​Please see my comment at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2019 June 10. If you still want to use the text and the author puts an appropriate notice on their website or emails OTRS, then please let me know. — JJMC89 00:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks JJMC89. That answers yet another thing I wasn't really sure about! I did ask in reply to his reply if he has such a notice on his website but he hasn't (yet) responded. I think I shall leave the matter until such a time as he does so rather than pestering him or anybody else any further. Thanks again, both of you, and apologies for blundering about in a rather confused state! It has been a learning experience for me. :) --Vometia (talk) 07:40, 17 June 2019 (UTC)