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Just want to let you know I replied to the contest the speedy deletion with details. I don't know if you or somebody else reviews the reasons I feel this is not spam and would like to know what needs to change versus other examples I've found, in order for it to not be considered spam. I also put in a request to change my username so that it doesn't look to be associated with the product per another comment.
Thanks in advance for your help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dynamicsnavx (talk • contribs)
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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4
 Issue IV - September 2012 | |
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Page Curation update
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome.
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TheRumour (New Zealand band)
Hi There, The image was produced and publicly released in 1970 as the album cover for Garden Of Smiles by the record company Polydor. I have read and followed Wikipedia instructions re uploading images. Please advise the process for consent of use. Thanks Jacques Koolen (talk) 20:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)Jacques KoolenJacques Koolen (talk) 20:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
- In which case Polydor probably owns the copyright. In order for the image to be used here, you will need to obtain their consent and communicate it per the process set out at WP:CONSENT.--ukexpat (talk) 01:13, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Cheryl Buley
Please add new and updated information to Cheryl Buley's page. Thank you!
All the cites were provided.
20:55, 7 January 2013 (UTC)20:55, 7 January 2013 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Freddy Froggy (talk • contribs)
- No they weren't - the links you added do not verify what you want to be added.--ukexpat (talk) 20:58, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
my deletions
I have now gone back and deleted "only" my comments, save for two which can stay. Plaese leave them. Suddenly, my deleted messages were back, seconds after I deleted them. I'll say (type) it, again, this is all quite maddening, to try and do one simple edit for a friend, have to battle unknown editors who pop up from out of nowhere but aren't actually in charge, and then...when I try to simply erase much of what what "inadvertantly" posted in public (versus a private message to 2 editors, which is what I assumed my messages were), all that I erased suddenly appears again, with an accompanying message from yet another person telling me not to delete anything but what "I" typed on this matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cartoonistguy47 (talk • contribs) 21:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
- I have explained this to you on your talk page.--ukexpat (talk) 21:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
The Rumour (new Zealand Band)
Hi There Thank you for your comments and advice regarding images for the above site. I have followed your advice and emailed the correct copyright declaration form for the image -The Sapphires- to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org and applied for undeletion. This image has never been used by any record company and remains our private property. I will ensure that future images to be uploaded will also be our privately owned property. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacques Koolen (talk • contribs) 03:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
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Nicola Benedetti
The MBE redirect on Nicola Benedetti allows the mouse over text to provide the name of the degree within the Order of the British Empire to which the recipient was appointed. When you link directly to the Order of the British Empire this information is missing (which requires the reader to return to the previous page). I'm happy with a direct link so long as you you're happy that the link now provides the name of the entire order instead of the 5th degree within the order.
(The best option would be to re-write the Order of the British Empire page to describe the different degrees then link the redirect to the sub-heading within the page).
Karl Stephens (talk) 19:20, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
- Works for me.--ukexpat (talk) 19:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
How about the grammatical changes?
Thanks for alerting me that I should explain any edits related to a citation. How about the grammatical changes? Should I provide an explanation for each one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmwaniki (talk • contribs) 20:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
The Rumour (New Zealand band) 2
Hi There, I have submitted a WP Consent form authorising copyright for a previously deleted image (The Sapphires circa 1965) and also submitted an undeletion request but the image has not yet been re-instated. Would appreciate your advice or further instruction. Many thanks. Signed Jacques Koolen (talk) 19:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Jacques KoolenJacques Koolen (talk) 19:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC) 11 January 2013.
- It takes time for such requests to be reviewed by the volunteer team, so I am afraid you will just have to be patient.--ukexpat (talk) 20:05, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Cheryl Ritchko-Buley
Cheryl Ritchko-Buley (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Do you have any objections if I move the page to her new married name? More sources were found to assert the move and name change. She is quoted in two of them: "going to get married and move to Kentucky". Last two refs in the article.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- Is there a ref that actually verifies her married name?--ukexpat (talk) 21:19, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- Just before the paywall cut-off "...has hired former Republican appointee to the New York Public Service Commission Cheryl Avioli to lead the effort that will catalog the special districts, find out ..." My bold. --Canoe1967 (talk) 21:54, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- Is there a ref that actually verifies her married name?--ukexpat (talk) 21:19, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Help Project newsletter : Issue 5
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Issue V - January 2013 | |
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Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Hi, I asked you a question under references on the January 11 section in reply to your answer. You may not realize it's there. Please reply. Thanks, Peter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.39.81.115 (talk) 06:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Why?
I don't understand why you are going through the Teahouse Q/A forum and refactoring questions, removing URL's and replacing them with Wikilinks. Although this is technically correct, I was always told it is considered rude to refactor anyone else's entry on Wikipedia, even if what you are doing doesn't change the content and is technically correct. It is important that we make the new editors that bring their questions to the teahouse feel like they are in a safe environment, and someone else changing the format of their questions doesn't do that. Thanks for your attention to this. Gtwfan52 (talk) 16:03, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- Blimey if it's that much of an issue I will revert them all.--ukexpat (talk) 16:05, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Done.--ukexpat (talk) 16:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- Reverting them was not necessary, but thank you. We do things a bit differently at teahouse than at the help desk; creating a safe, inviting environment is just part of it. If you want to help out at teahouse, it would be advisable to read the pages linked at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host lounge. Please don't be offended; offense was not intended at all. Like I said, things are different at the Teahouse than at the Help desk. Happy editing! Gtwfan52 (talk) 16:15, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
UFO DVD image
Thanks. It is obvious that I really did not understand the use of the UFO DVD cover to illustrate the actor's articles, where no other image was available of the actors. What is the approved form of words that is used to re-direct people to the image so that they can see the actor/person's picture, in the case that a non-free use image is available elsewhere in Wikipedia?- Peter Ellis - Talk 17:27, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Talkback
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MUHAFIZ page
Can you explain why my entry for MUHAFIZ is proposed for deletion?
What should I do?