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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 93.32.33.103 (talk) at 12:20, 6 December 2014 (→Dreams Not Reality). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Please use my talk page rather than emailing me.

If I left a message on your talk page, please reply there. If you initiate contact here, I will respond here.

Put new messages at the bottom. I will not notice them at the top.

ChexSystems

Moved to Talk:ChexSystems where it belongs

Help for editing page

Conversation moved to Talk:Achraf Baznani (photographer)

Request on 14:53:52, 11 September 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Marcosvr

Hi Amatulic,

Sorry to take up your time but would you mind allowing me a copy the Prometic Life Sciences draft so that I may fix the issue and resubmit it?

I asked Revent and he suggest I ask the administrator which I think is you?

Many thanks for any help Marcosvr (talk) 14:53, 11 September 2014 (UTC) Marcos[reply]

@Marcosvr: FYI, that draft was moved to Draft:ProMetic Life Sciences. Since I'm not an admin, I can't actually look at the deleted draft, but the copyright violation was a press release... as I remember, the 'description of the company' was taken directly from there. Even if a section of text is copyrighted by the subject of the article, it still cannot legally be reused unless it has been released to the public domain or under a WP:Compatible license. You can get a copy of the draft from the administrator who deleted it and resubmit it once the issue has been fixed. Revent
I cannot restore a draft that is a copyright violation.
I would email it to you, but you don't have an email address enabled here. You can set that in your user preferences. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:21, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Clarence N. Hickman

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List of 12 step groups discussion

Howdy Amatulic. A experienced editor has proposed to change the standard for inclusion of List of twelve-step groups from being a list of wikipedia articles, to being a list of 12 step groups (without the necessity of having an article attached to the entry). The discussion is currently on the talk page. I am contacting you because you have participated in the maintenance of that article. If you have no opinion, please feel free to disregard this notice. Cheers! Coffeepusher (talk) 05:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hólmbert Friðjónsson

...has ended up as a redirect to itself. You know the history and can probably disentangle it better than I can. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 20:41, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I thought I took care of that last step. All that needed to be done was revert the last edit. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:32, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Belmond La Samanna

Hi Amatulic. I wanted to check with you whether adding the following 3 citations for the captioned Wikipedia page would resolve the notability concern?

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yoq2kOiSkEEC&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=happy+ward+la+samanna&source=bl&ots=uJBmmFGE_B&sig=nIYRyTxi9sK2ln3GlQDTMEPMMpA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=26IYVKGNLoeQyASjo4GAAw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=happy%20ward%20la%20samanna&f=false

http://www.marc-michaels.com/recognition/featured-publications/robb-report-vacation-homes-january-2008/

http://rolandrichardson.com/lasamanna3.html

Thanks for your advice. Laurashaikh (talk) 21:31, 16 September 2014 (UTC)Laurashaikh[reply]

The first one you cite above is basically a travel guidebook. Their purpose is to provide comprehensive information on the subject matter. This is routine coverage, analogous to a wine review in Wine Spectator or a restaurant description in Zagat.
I don't know what to make of the second one. An architectural firm with a review of a resort? They seem to be referencing (or reproducing) an article from the Robb Report Vacation Homes publication, so I don't know why that source wouldn't be cited directly. In any case if Vacation Homes is in the business of profiling resorts, then that would be routine coverage also.
The third one is an artist's own web site, and the page features his gallery that happens to be located at the resort. That doesn't constitute "coverage" in the spirit of WP:SIGCOV. The source clearly isn't independent of the resort, and independence is required.
Therefore, I do not believe these sources resolve the notability concern.
Finally, I must ask, what is your connection with the subject of that article? Your contribution history suggests an association. You are required to disclose any association publicly, and you agreed to do so when you accepted the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. You seem to be engaging in paid advocacy, public relations, or marketing, so please read WP:NOPAY also.
Please put a conflict of interest disclosure statement on your user page User:Laurashaikh. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:56, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hólmbert Aron Friðjónsson

Thanks for sorting the history merge on this page. --nonsense ferret 22:35, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

inre Casey LaBow

I am working on a better version of the poor unsourced stub that you had to A7 speedy back in November 2012. I'll invite you to take a look before I take in to mainspace. Cheers, Schmidt, Michael Q. 10:23, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks much better -- however, as a biography of a living person, the article won't last long in main space without references showing coverage in reliable independent sources. Also it isn't clear from the draft, which part of WP:NACTOR is satisfied by the subject. Her past roles don't appear to be significant although I am unfamiliar with The Twilight Saga and her role in it. ~Amatulić (talk) 13:56, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Twilight Saga is a pretty big deal film-wise, though I admit to personally being bored with it. However, her recurring roles in Part 1 and Part 2, and enough other principle roles have her meet meet WP:BIO though WP:NACTOR and enough media attention to meet WP:GNG. BUT the draft is no way ready yet and I ain't done yet by a long shot. Like I wrote above, I'll invite you when ready. Just wanted to let you know. Schmidt, Michael Q. 22:52, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, I'd say the draft will be ready if you can add a few reliable sources as references. It's certainly a lot better than the deleted version. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Reliable sources added. More to follow. Thanks. Schmidt, Michael Q. 00:07, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Could you keep an eye...

I am about to go away for a couple of weeks. Could I ask you to keep an eye on two items at REFUND which might need follow-up?

Thanks, JohnCD (talk) 17:52, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:32, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. George Farah is done, only Christopher Wright to look out for. JohnCD (talk) 07:56, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Huh. Apparently he posted a reply just minutes after I had checked the page yesterday. Thanks for catching it. I'll monitor the Christopher Wright section. ~Amatulić (talk) 14:35, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DeTao

Hi, Dear Amatulic I just want to ask about my page Beijing DeTao Masters Academy that you deleted due to some copyright reasons. Is there anyway I can restore this page? and how should I do it? Please help! Much appreciated!Detao (talk) 05:22, 23 September 2014 (UTC)-[reply]

Pages with copyright violations cannot be restored. Because much of the material came from the web site http://www.detaoma.net, there would be no reason or benefit to restoring a page that duplicates material elsewhere.
You can certainly try to write it again without copying existing content, or you can write to WP:OTRS to grant irrevocable permission to use that content if you are the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, see WP:CONSENT for a legal template and email address to use.
Your username suggests that you have a conflict of interest with the subject of that article. You might want to read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for guidance, and disclose your conflict of interest on your user page, as you agreed to do by accepting the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of service when you created your account. If you want to re-create the article, I suggest you use Wikipedia:Articles for creation to submit your article for review, which is the appropriate venue for authors with a conflict of interest. ~Amatulić (talk) 07:14, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, seems a bit complicated, but I'll definitely give it a go. Thanks a lot!--Detao (talk) 07:03, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Hi, Amatulic I am really thankful to you for considering my appeal and giving me a chance by unblocking my wikipedia account.

Well in case of getting a mentor I would like you to be my mentor and help me out in contributing to wikipedia.

Thanking you once again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noormohammed satya (talk • contribs) 09:30, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for an opinion about South Beach Diet

Hi Amatulic, I came across your account while reviewing discussions on the Atkins diet Talk page. I've been working with editors to try to make improvements to the South Beach Diet article, but we seem to have come to an impasse. Since this is a similar topic and you say you enjoy commenting on content disagreements, I thought you might be interested in reviewing the discussions (there are a few) on the Talk page. As I've noted there, I am working on behalf of the South Beach Diet and I am avoiding making any edits to the article myself.

To give you a brief rundown of what's happened thus far, I began by preparing a new draft of the article, but after receiving feedback from other editors, I realized there was not consensus for that. Since then, the focus has been on improving individual sections, most recently with a discussion about the History and theory section. As you'll see, there is a difference of opinion concerning what information should be included in that section and, more broadly, the entire article. I'm reaching out to you and one other editor and I'm hoping you can take a look and weigh in if you have time. I realize that the discussion jumps around a bit, so I can try to clarify any threads that are difficult to follow. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 14:41, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Devil Dub

Hi there, you speedy deleted Devil Dub, which existed for more than half a decade, under A9 ("Music recording by redlinked artist and no indication of importance or significance"). Well, at least four of the musicians on the record have articles. They are (former) members of bands such as Guns N' Roses, Primus and Praxis. Also, the album has a bunch of positive reviews, showing its significance. So why speedy deletion and not at least AfD? 93.222.73.139 (talk) 18:32, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article credited the album to the band "Ben Wa". The length of time an article has been around isn't a concern, we have millions of articles here and only a few hundred active administrators. Bottom line, if the band doesn't have an encyclopedia article, then the album won't have one either. Feel free to write an article on Ben Wa that would survive deletion, and I'm happy to restore the page. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I still don't understand, but here you go: Draft:Ben Wa (band). 93.222.73.139 (talk) 20:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nicely done for a submitted draft.
The reason this is necessary is because, if I restored it, someone else would come along and quickly delete it again due to having no band article.
I made some tweaks to the draft. It's pretty weak in sourcing. There is disagreement on whether the Wikipedia community considers Allmusic as a reliable source, going by archived discussions at WP:RSN. And Silicon Valley Metro is a local publication, not regional or even national. You also have a quotation with no citation, which would never be accepted. The saving grace might be the fact that the band had two releases by a reasonably notable record label.
If a reviewer approves it then I'll restore the album article. We'll see. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:32, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The URB quote is referenced via the Goldberg article. I also changed back the record label, because it is in fact "Records" and not "Recordings". I will include a few other alrticles. 93.222.73.139 (talk) 20:41, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Allmusic and MTV disagree with you. The proper name of the record label is Black Hole Recordings. See
Sources disagree on whether "Black Hole" is called "records" or "recordings". Some sources like Barnes & Noble simply call it "Black Hole". I can find no evidence of a record label ever existed with the name "Black Hole Records". As far as I can tell, that's just a record store in California.
That said, the Black Hole Recordings web site doesn't mention the album. If there is a website for the alternate name, that would be useful for verification. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:47, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I somewhat just believe my eyes. I also believe musicians involved in the project such as drummer Brain or Ben Wa themselves. No need to disagree with them. Btw.: Discogs even has twelve labels with that name. 93.222.73.139 (talk) 21:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
In that case the band may not have been published on any notable labels then. Black Hole Recordings is in the Netherlands. Black Hole Records has had at least two different addresses in Oakland, and I can't find any indication that they produced anything other than Devil Dub, which suggests that it was a vanity label for Ben Wa. I was about to revert those Wikilinks but I see you've already done so. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:55, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Stray Records has a nice catalog with several notable artists. More than 60 albums in about two years is not that bad. 93.222.73.139 (talk) 22:03, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Whitelist

Added to whitelist here , is it correctly done?--Misconceptions2 (talk) 12:30, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's a good proposal. I'll add my own comments tomorrow. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Any update?--Misconceptions2 (talk) 12:09, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
There are no deadlines for these things on Wikipedia. However, I have removed the altafsir.com from the blacklist. That doesn't mean the link can be added, though, because it is still blacklisted on meta. I have responded on the spam-blacklist talk page. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:31, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Q1) So what do I have to do now. Do i follwo some sort of procedure to remove it from meta blacklist now? Q2) Another question, I want to blacklist this website: al-islam.org, i see some spam from it and it is also the home page of a fringe islamic sect called the Ahmadiyyah, kind of like Nation of Islam. They have a lot of fringe views their and I have seen it in a number of external links--Misconceptions2 (talk) 20:16, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1. You'd have to make your case at Meta, which is not part of Wikipedia but a global Wikimedia Foundation blacklist. You may have to accept that it may stay listed. In that case, if there is a consistent pattern to use for references, it may be possible to put a pattern-match rule in the whitelist for the purpose of installing in a template. It may even be possible to temporarily whitelist it for template usage and re-blacklist it once the template is done, I am not sure.
2. All you need to do go to the page where you requested de-listing, MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. The top part of the page is for requests to add to the blacklist. The bottom part, where you posted, is for de-listing requests. Present your evidence as completely as possible for administrators to investigate. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:01, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Update. After exploring the site, it seems that a regex pattern like this:
\bwww\.altafsir\.com\/Tafasir\.asp\?tMadhNo=[0-9]+&tTafsirNo=[0-9]+&tSoraNo=[0=9]+&tAyahNo=[0-9]+&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2\b
would likely allow through only the tafsirs in English but not any other part of the web site. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:16, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Eringer discussion

It looks like you've been pretty busy with administrative stuff. I have a more polished proposal for the Monaco section on the Robert Eringer Talk page if you are still interested/can find the time for that article. Thanks! 009o9 (talk) 04:11, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I've been out all day. I did see your proposal but I haven't had a chance to look at it closely. I will look at it tomorrow; have to go to bed now. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:17, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, should be pretty straight forward. 009o9 (talk) 22:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've revisited proposal for the Monaco section, made some clarifications and tried to remove some wordiness. Can you have a look when you get a chance? 009o9 (talk) 14:59, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By no means am I trying to rush you, just informing you that I have a clean copy at Talk:Robert_Eringer#Monaco_proposed_III, I've been fussing around with so many clarifications that I'd best provide a clean copy. Hopefully, it will be just a trivial matter of a read-through at your convenience. Thanks!009o9 (talk) 18:30, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Shloime Gertner

Thank you very much for undeleting the page. I have filled it out with new, referenced content. Yoninah (talk) 23:56, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the prior deleted history. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:06, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 11:51:04, 13 October 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Marcosvr


Hi Amatulic,

I been trying to request my deleted page be sent back to me for editing 'ProMetic Life Sciences' and had not luck so far. Can send to me or tell me who I need to contact please?

Thank you

Marcosvr (talk) 11:51, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Generally you would contact the administrator who deleted Draft:ProMetic Life Sciences. In this case, however, RHaworth deleted it due to copyright infringement, so it can't be restored, although the text can be emailed to you. If that's what you want, you need to enable email on your account first. ~Amatulić (talk) 14:23, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

South Beach Diet

Hi again Amatulić, I wanted to thank you again for taking a look at the South Beach Diet discussion. I was wondering if you had any interest in taking a look at the version I had drafted? I would be curious to hear your thoughts about it compared to the current draft. I had proposed it as a replacement a few weeks ago, and received what I'm afraid I consider to be unconstructive comments from LaMona and another editor. I am of course working in tandem with South Beach Diet, however my goal first and foremost has been to write a better Wikipedia article, and I don't think my proposal has had a fair hearing yet. What do you think? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 14:02, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

3D Hubs discussion

Hi Amatulić, Thanks for reviewing my article! I know 3D Hubs well, but I don't have any conflict of interest with them. I'm totallly new to wikipedia (as an editor), I just know some html and I copied the format of the page from wikis of other similar companies. Sorry if some parts seemed overly enthusiastic, hope it's okay now. Cheers, (User talk:Kisg24 09:35, 17 October 2014)

Nadya fatira

Considering the number of times this has been deleted and recreated, would you consider salting it, as well as the correct title Nadya Fatira? Thanks. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 16:26, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@G S Palmer: I've salted the lowercase title. I've refrained on the proper-case one, because pasting it into Google Translate seems to indicate some sort of notability, with a record label release as well as singles being used for movie soundtracks. It bears further investigating, but certainly the COI author needs to be using WP:AFC for this. I will suggest it. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:56, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Clarence N. Hickman

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:59, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Still A7?

Hi Amatulic,

I wanted to create Sarah Àlainn but apparently it has already been deleted by you 6 months ago per A7 (which is comprehensible because she was not famous at that time). In light of her recent mainstream success in Japan I believe the article should be restored, what do you think? A quick search leads to http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/music/mnews/20141023-OYT8T50092.html http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/entame/entertainment/316197/ http://www.excite.co.jp/News/music/20140925/Musicman_artist39870.html I read Japanese, these are real articles, not sponsored. Yomiuri is the largest newspaper in Japan.

Thanks! Waiting for your feedback :-) Nicolas1981 (talk) 14:45, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Nicolas1981: I have restored the article to Draft:Sarah Àlainn for you to improve, before moving it back to main article space. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SBD redux

Hi Amatulic, I've finally returned to the South Beach Diet discussion page this afternoon, aiming for a fresh start. As you may recall, I had recently suggested an alternative draft for this article's History and theory section, however User:LaMona offered several objections to it. I tried to explain why I considered these reasons inapposite, but she disagreed, and no other editors joined. You then appeared in the subsequent thread, advising (correctly to my mind) that the article should not be split, however no more fruitful discussion emerged.

Today I am taking this new approach: rather than simply offering up my draft for consideration, I have provided a bulleted list of reasons why I believe something should be done about the History and theory section. If we can establish consensus that the current version does not live up to Wikipedia's standards—as I think is unmistakably the case—perhaps this could lead to a new discussion about how to fix it. Would you be willing to take a look and weigh in with your thoughts? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 22:11, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah J Price

Hi I've tried to reply to you about your offer of help about the undeletion of Sarah J Price and the log's been archived so it will not let me, so in reply Yes football writer, musician, and comedian is all the same person, All the work is basically a form of writing and acting, but in different careers this can now be made clear now with links to articles/interviews that are accompanied by photographs and youtube clips of performances that clearly show the same person, if the article could be restored to my user space, that would be great, it would give me a good place to start again then i can run it through DRV as suggested thanks Jasperxj (talk) 05:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC) ' (｡◕‿◕｡)]][reply]

Userfied. See your talk page. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:08, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Miss Supranational - deleted article

Hello Amatulic, first of all sorry - that's my first experience with undeleting..

Article [Supranational] has been deleted for two reasons:

1. This is not a notable beauty pageant. IMO not truth: Miss Supranational started in 2009 (an annual event). National preliminaries are conducted by their licence-holders (84 Grand Finale pageants in december 2014, 82 in 2013, 73 in 2012..)

July, 2013 Global Beauties (the leading independent resource for international beauty pageants) 15th Annual Global Beauties Awards: - Best Stage: WINNER -- Miss World, 2nd place -- Miss Supranational, 3rd place -- Miss Universe - Best Television Pageant Production: WINNER: Miss Supranational, 2nd place: Miss World, 3rd place: Miss Universe - Best Group of Candidates: WINNER: Miss World, 2nd place: Miss Universe, 3rd place: Miss Supranational - Pageant of the Year: WINNER -- Miss World, 2nd place -- Miss Universe, 3rd place -- Miss Supranational - Most watched show on television: WINNER -- Miss World, 2nd place -- Miss Universe, 3rd place -- Miss Supranational (90 countries, in all continents)

Google Trends: for "miss supranational" Google Trends: miss supranational vs. miss tourism international

2. A small number of references Yes, that's the truth. At the moment we have prepared about 30 links to other websites owned and operated by third parties (in english, including bbc, interfax, cnn and others)

IMO article about Miss Supranational should be on Wikipedia. But new article should be better then previous.

I'd be grateful for any help or guidance.. Ickyflix (talk) 09:37, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ickyflix: Your first point is irrelevant to Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion as spelled out in WP:CORP. We need significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject.
Having 30 links to other websites is also not meaningful unless those links are more than directory listings and trivial mentions. Those links need to provide significant coverage. See Wikipedia:Golden rule for a brief overview of what is expected and required.
Your use of the pronoun "we" indicates that the account Ickyflix (talk · contribs) is accessible by more than one person. Is this correct?
You are also implying that you are associated with Miss Supranational in some way. The Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use, which you agreed to abide by when you registered your account, requires you to disclose publicly (preferably on your user page) any paid affiliation you may have to Miss Supranational. Wikipedia:Conflict of interest also recommends disclosing any conflict of interest you may have, paid or not.
Your best approach, since you apparently have a conflict of interest, is to follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Articles for creation to submit your article for evaluation by other editors, prior to acceptance into main article space. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:56, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Journal of Health and Pollution

This page was deleted. Can I get the text back so I can edit. Without seeing it, I don't know why it was deleted. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pollutionfighter (talk • contribs) 16:22, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The message on your talk page by the person who proposed it for deletion explains why it was deleted. It was unambiguously promotional. Sorry, I won't restore it, because the article didn't contain anything worthy of restoration. Wikipedia is not a publicity medium. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:29, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I am not asking you to restore it to wiki. I am asking you to send me the content you deleted so I can make edits. You are not giving me a chance to make any changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pollutionfighter (talk • contribs) 15:58, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Pollutionfighter: Sending you the content is not possible at this time because you have not registered an email address with your account. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:07, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prajyotmahajan

Two more appeared, see also User talk:JohnCD#Prajyot Mahajan, yet again. I have blocked and tagged per DUCK, as Ponyo suggested last time, and marked the SPI closed so as not to clutter up the list; but you might give it a glance as a second pair of eyes, to make sure I am not being unreasonable. JohnCD (talk) 20:41, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looked reasonable to me. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:08, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mistaken move

I by mistake moved page because of keyboard pressing. So, please can you make an effort to make a correct move to Kamalapuram mandal. Because you can see Duggirala mandal, Kota mandal, all these pages have small 'm' for mandal.--Vin09 (talk) 07:45, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know; fixed. Hopefully everything including the merged histories are now in the correct place. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:27, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect page

Thanks for deleting the page Hafidh ibn Ahmed Ali al-Hakami (due to a copyright infringement). There seems to be a redirect page also entitled Haafidh ibn Ahmed 'Alee al-Hakamee. Can you remove this also? RookTaker (talk) 10:15, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:27, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Association

Hello. I am not the one who deleted the speedy deletion nomination from the Taya Smith page. And also, I do not have any association with the subjects I have made articles about. 588userd (talk) 07:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on your talk page. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:27, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anachronist. 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.

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Thanks Fuhghettaboutit, I appreciate the note, and am glad to see you being proactive about it, after seeing you mention the problem before, on WP:REFUND I think. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:27, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Range block: Suvray

Amatulic - The hard block here is triggering an unblock request at User talk:Suvray. I can see the rather overt volume of spam coming from that range using multiple IPs, multiple domains, and multiple targeted articles. So, no question about the range block. Does it need to be a hard block? Can we modify to anon-only, or should we do an IP immunity on Suvray? I really detest IP immunity, but it may be the last resort here. He seems to be completely unrelated and has a productive track record. Thoughts? Kuru (talk) 13:40, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Kuru: See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#prolevelweightloss.com for background on how this happened. I myself have no problem with IP block immunity if the user appears to be trustworthy.
It's fine to un-harden the block. I have just done so. I initially made it a hard block to prevent any spammers from spamming if they happened to have created an account, as one such account was identified in the spam-blacklist case. I'll just block the identified spammer account. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:51, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Si, I picked that up from the range contributions; well handled. I'll add those domains to my stalk-list as well. Kuru (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

I saw you removed the speedy on network medicine. So I was wondering: do you think one would work on MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, for example? (That one appears to be written by someone with a COI.) Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 00:52, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Probably. It isn't unambiguously promotional, but it doesn't seem notable. A better solution might be to merge it to Mark Siegler with a short summary in that article. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:12, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Much obliged

I thank you for that undeletion request. I was amazingly underwhelmed by the last attempt at this article, a clear lack of research on this by others. I was able to make a couple minor changes from the old article, but unsurprisingly, very little was used. again my thanks. Have a happy holiday season! ®amos wants you in his office, NOW! 22:43, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. The first-ever revision was rather lengthy, but I didn't think much of it was useful. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:01, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Noormohammed satya

Hello Amatulic. You may recall that User:Noormohammed satya had been indefinitely blocked for copyright violations and sockpuppetry, and that two months ago you unblocked him on the condition that he find a mentor. The user has continued to edit occasionally since his unblock, albeit without first securing a mentor, and perhaps as a consequence he has introduced copyright-infringing text into at least two articles. I notified him about these problems a couple times, most recently on 27 November, but there has been no response. As you were the unblocking admin, could I trouble you to have a look at the situation? The user was already the subject of a fairly extensive Contributor Copyright Investigation back in 2012 and we're not keen on the prospect of having to reopen it. —Psychonaut (talk) 19:06, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dreams Not Reality

Hello, it's Laura writing. As you can see, someone is trying (again) to damage the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_Not_Reality Can you please do something to protect our page??? Thanks for your help! Have a nice week end! --93.32.33.103 (talk) 12:20, 6 December 2014 (UTC)Limbagio--93.32.33.103 (talk) 12:20, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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