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Please be careful with templated warnings

Hi. Regarding this warning: please can you not use templated warnings in situations like this. The editor is a newbie and trying their best to make proper edits to the page, which is to be encouraged. The editor is now concerned that they may be blocked for disruptive editing.

I countenance patience, not templated warnings. Work with them, please, not against them. The fact that the editor has invited the discussion in the first place is to be applauded, and their subsequent attempts should be guided appropriately, not warning them harshly. Stephen! ^Coming... 12:04, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen, I am led to believe that you have not made yourself acquainted with the editing history of the article, the Jung article now merged into Providence, the associated talk pages, dispute resolution discussions, multiple ANI discussions including community decision to block and ban church members, subsequent SPIs, etc. etc. As for the warnings these are both precise and appropriate, and you can take it to ANI if you still believe they are not. As for contents, no we do not encourage repeated additions of policy violating apologetic crap, but since you appear to do so, post your comment on the article talk page where it belongs. Sam ^Sing! 10:17, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Steve Daines

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ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Misuse of 3O. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 18:14, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, Jim1138. Best, Sam ^Sing! 20:40, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Sam Sailor. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).[reply]

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Hello Sam_Sailor

Thanks for your valuable comment. actually, I read many blog and article about Salamuddin Shaikh so i thought there should be a page about him. I'd be honored if you provide me some tips for not removing this Salamuddin Shaikh's page.