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Talkback message from Tito Dutta

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They'll again create an account in next 48 hours, For last few months the same thing is going on. Now, they'll start editing from either Katari Veera Surasundarangi or Raktha Kanneeru --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:05, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Talk: Forever Slave#Merge proposal

Hello, you re-added a notability tag to this, back in 2008. You may want to comment at the merge proposal. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 14:41, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Bavarian TV Awards

Hello. I noticed that you recently tagged this list for translation. However, this is basically just a list of names of actors and film or series titles in German, so I'm not sure what you would like to see translated. If you meant to have all the German titles translated to English, please let me know. De728631 (talk) 17:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I guess the list needs a general, thorough cleanup, so I'm going to take a shot at it. De728631 (talk) 10:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yikes, amid this massive wall of text I first hadn't even seen the many German phrases in the lower part of the list. So I hope I caught them all. De728631 (talk) 12:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Politics of Piracy Class Wiki

Hey. Thanks for your help, and I'm glad you're following the class. The text on all of those pages was the same, as I was just trying to figure out the correct place to put it where the students could easily post their responses. This is all very new to me, and even newer for them, so i'm glad to have some guidance. Thanks! Atavel (talk) 20:36, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks for adding that link. Yeah, I'd also like to post my ppt presentation to the wiki also. Do you know a way to do that? I'm using Microsoft PPT....which I'm a bit ashamed of... I also, want to start recording my lectures and post that...and maybe put that on the Wordpress site for the course (which I was previously using). This is it: https://politicsofpiracy.wordpress.com/ Atavel (talk) 01:49, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

assignment template

I just posted at Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard#details_of_the_talk_page_.22assignment.22_template.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you very much for taking on my Interaction, Experience & Engagement course as an ambassador! ToniSant (talk) 14:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia :) Rosiesievers20 (talk) 10:06, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome. My class is doing great. Our next assignment is not on Wikipedia, but we will be using our experiences from this as part of our portfolio and to create our very own Machinima movies, and showing them at our very own Machinima festival at our university. But I'll be on Wikipedia to update anything that comes to mind.Rosiesievers20 (talk) 17:04, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Very patient and helpful when it came to my educational assignment. Amosjfrancis (talk) 03:17, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Thanks for welcoming me and giving me very helpful links. Tasha.Bluck (talk) 15:24, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Need Help

Hi, I am part of the university group you have been helping. I have just added my work to the Criticism of Second Life page and I was wondering if you could have a look at what I have done and give me some feedback.
Thank you
--LewisHoward (talk) 17:15, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
Thanks for helping my university class as we got use to wikipedia LewisHoward (talk) 17:17, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the Warm Welcome

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Thanks for the warm welcome to the world wide world of wikipedia! I hope that i am sending this correctly! (Lewishiley (talk) 09:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Slight concern over one of your student's pages

Hi Geniac. I've tangentially come across your students' project whilst sorting out some AIV issues with one of them (all dealt with, no blocks, don't fret!). However, I'm a bit concerned over their selected article - I actually ended up creating the page on Laura Widyanto‎ myself, to stop their repeated addition of placeholder text, but I'm really not sure she's going to meet WP:GNG or WP:PROF. The only sources in the article are primary ones (including LinkedIn, of all things), and although I dug up one just-about-usable source at creation (since removed), I've located nothing else since. You might want to take a look and offer some assistance; speaking with my admin trousers on, if I saw that tagged with a {{db-a7}} in its current state I wouldn't have to think twice before hitting the bye-bye button. Still, kudos for getting your pod up and editing; both my classes are all still at the sandbox stage, so you're ahead of the game! All the best, Yunshui 雲‍水 23:21, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your help; I know a bunch of students have been hitting the Teahouse pretty hard and I've seen consistently good advice from you there. I agree that Laura Widyanto‎ doesn't currently appear to meet GNG or PROF. I've added a refimprove tag and restored the ref you added. I'll post to the article talk page later with some specific info about notability and sourcing. --Geniac (talk) 02:38, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Grand, good to know you're on top of it. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 08:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Overseeing our university course

Hi Geniac, I was wondering if you can explain the best principles to follow when creating an article about an author to ensure the article doesn't get deleted? Thanks (MatthewBeech92 (talk) 14:57, 9 March 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Hi Geniac i am a student at the university of hull Scarborough campus and i know that you have helped other students out here and as part of the course we are creating a wikipedia page on heather von stackelberg we have got the page up and live now we just dont know what else we could add if you can help us out on this it would be very helpful thanks Gareth1504 (talk) 15:08, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Releasing an article to the Public

Hello Geniac, You have recently spoke to us on my talkpage regarding our Wiki project on Evelyn Ellerman for the university of Hull, Scarborough Campus. As you maybe aware we get marked on engagement but we can't get engagement marks without releasing the article to the public. And that requires notability. I am incredibly confused about the whole process of Wikipedia along with the project. Is there any advice you could give us regarding this matter. It would be very appreciated. This is the page in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xlucky_charmx/Evelyn_Ellerman

Thank you --JoeyFox91 (talk) 19:12, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Housefull (2012 film)

Hey!! This is in regard to the film Housefull, which actually got negative reviews from critics. I remember reading most of the reviews for this, and only Taran Adarsh gave the film a great rating. I've fixed up the article, and put up a reference too :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chulbul pandey ab (talk • contribs) 05:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback on talk page proposal

Hi there Geniac. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post a message to you, but you recently gave me some feedback on a proposed article change that I have on my talk page. I edited the article's talk page (found here) and added the "Determination of Damages" section, discussing what I would like to add. Does this seem like an appropriate way to discuss my proposal? Additionally, it seems the last edit to the article was almost a year ago - does this mean that I probably will not get a response from the other contributors? Thanks for your help! Gloudas (talk) 21:20, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove vandalism you locked

you locked the article Peer-to-peer AFTER it was vandalized. Now it says: "A butthole-to-butthole (abbreviated to P2P) computer network[...]". Please be so kind and remove the vandalism too. (or unlock the article, and I will do it myself) Masgo (talk) 01:07, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Geniac (talk) 01:22, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 30

Hello, thanks for leaving the message. I appreciate that you put your time and effort to look over my edits. I will remember to use neutral POV next time. Thank you--Jockzain (talk) 14:59, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Kelly Shibari

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So, did you have this page Speedily Deleted while I was still trying to improve it? It's apparently your page to do with as you please, but I was just wondering... Guy1890 (talk) 01:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you

Thank you for the barnstar! It is very...interesting to see the various things some people do to try to vandalize articles. --MangoDango (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Amit Kumar

On what basis you say Amit Kumar article contains rumours and is not neutral? The ones I added were details of the songs which he sang and were in particular famous. If a song became popular/famous/rage/hit then what word should be mentioned? There is no other alternative other than mentioning the same words.PrithviSanju (talk) 06:51, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

None of the above. Those are unprovable, subjective, vague peacock terms. Instead of saying a song became popular, use facts and figures to demonstrate it. For example, "this song was listed in such-and-such magazine on their annual Best Songs Of The Year list, has been covered by dozens of other singers and sold 20 million copies." It is then up to the reader to deduce, "wow, that song was popular!" --Geniac (talk) 13:35, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

At present i can only say those songs need to appear in wiki. just suggest a word which is non-peacock. the sentence can be modified - with words replacing the terms like popular/rage/famous.PrithviSanju (talk) 18:10, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Amitabh

There are 2 kinds of mistakes happening in wiki. One is Over Glorification (or complete wrong information listed out) of articles related to people from Film industry(Amitabh) and other is very less information about their successful careers (like in case of Amit Kumar).

Can you help out rectify the various errors in Amitabh article? Overglorification of Amitabh - as even disasters at box office are shown in wiki as hits!! Following films were disasters Saat Hindustani Gehri Chaal Bandhe Haath Mili (1975) Zameer (1975) Faraar (1975) Alaap (1977) Immaan Dharam (1977) Besharam (1978) The Great Gambler (1979) Jurmana (1979) Manzil (1979) Do Aur Do Paanch (1980) Shaan (1980) Barsaat Ki Ek Raat (1981) Silsila (1981) Bemisal (1982) Pukar (1983) Nastik (1983) Mahaan (1983) Inquilaab (1984) Geraftaar (1985) Aakhree Raasta (1986) Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi (1988) Main Azaad Hoon (1989) Toofan (1989) Jaadugar (1989) Agneepath (1990) Ajooba (1991) Indrajeet (1991) Akayla (1991) Khuda Gawah (1993) Insaniyat (1994) Mrityudaata (1997) Lal Baadshah (1999) Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999) Kohram (1999) Aks (2001) In wiki its written that Silsila, Shakti, Bemisaal etc were successful - Its a wrong information. Infact he has flops right from 1981-1999. Only Shahensahah, Sharabhi, Coolie and Mard and Hum were successful in between 1982-1999 as the lead hero. So please rectify the mistake.PrithviSanju (talk) 18:14, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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