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Hillel International

Thank you for write-protecting the article Hillel International! I wonder if you can also restore the article to the November 16 version which is the latest version before the disruptive edits began? ImTheIP (talk) 15:44, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit I made to the FarmVille page

Hi,

I was the person who added the development team information to the FarmVille page. Another editor told me that you removed it because it was unsourced.

(talk page watcher) @Mark Skaggs: WP:UNSOURCED. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:30, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

The information is "unsourced" but the person who wrote it David Gray is the source. He was on the team, kept records and still works at the company.

Do we need to have a journalist write a story and then reference that as a source?

Or can we somehow sign a doc verifying/swearing to the validity or truth to this information?

Also, if we referenced my wikipedia entry (Mark Skaggs) that I did not create to add validity to it?

Thanks for your help on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Skaggs (talk • contribs) 16:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mark Skaggs: I did not remove it. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking." RE works at the company, please see above. Wikipedia has little information in what a subject's employee says about a subject. Having a journalist write a story? No. That's not suitable. We? So you are connected with the subject. Please read and heed WP:PAID and WP:COI. Clearly you have a conflict of interest. I will post to your talk page as well. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:25, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is my first time trying to contribute information Wikipedia after donating and supporting for years. You'll have to give allowance for my in experience and not knowing all the expert arcane notations or how to do fancy editing techniques. Also because I don't know the inner workings and interactions between you and other editors. Nor do I really care to spend time on those. I was simply trying to understand why the good intentioned effort to add information to your platform was rejected.

I said "you removed it" because one of your other editors said that. It's confusing to see that neither of you say you removed the information even though the system points me to you two.

Your "We ?" comment makes it seem like you've discovered a crime! Apparently you didn't see my name on the list of information that was removed by "you" (wikipedia)? I wasn't trying to hide anything. I worked with the Author of the information many years ago. I was just sharing what the person shared on FB as a way to save the info from getting lost in time. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).. Your response makes like I was trying to cheat your platform or something. I said We" was because I used to be part of a team that worked together with the author and "we" + others know this information be true. And "we" thought this would be a useful contribution to your platform.

Maybe there's an approach where you can separate out good people with good intentions and work with them, and then keep the rest of your interaction style for the cheaters, liars and exploiters you must be dealing with? "We" are good people with good intensions.

Here's a collection of references from sources on my connection to FarmVille and work at Zynga. You say you won't an article written by journalist the original FarmVille team, do any of these publications or authors add enough credibility for you? I'm asking because I'm trying to work within your rules and it is hard to believe that no journalist can write an story/article to meet Wikipedia's standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Skaggs https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-media-videogams-idUSTRE6BR3XY20101228 https://techland.time.com/2011/04/04/whats-zynga-planning-next/ https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/02/19/19venturebeat-farmville-takes-home-a-prize-and-changes-an-i-6715.html http://allthingsd.com/20110301/zyngas-farmville-and-cityville-developer-spills-the-beans-on-what-makes-games-great/ https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Horizons/2012/0726/Why-Zynga-needs-Facebook https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444657804578053171742809466 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/02/mass-effect-2-snags-top-prize-at-interactive-achievement-awards/1 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/zynga-adds-ville-games-makes-stronger-mobile-push/story?id=16654902 https://www.aol.com/2011/11/15/farmville-creator-great-game-cake/ https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/FarmVille-becomes-social-media-powerhouse-3213773.php https://venturebeat.com/2015/10/14/how-to-cater-to-your-players-demands-and-know-your-audience/ https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/5/8545093/zynga-empires-and-allies-rts https://www.casino.org/features/zynga-history/ https://kotaku.com/the-future-of-pc-gaming-according-to-the-creator-of-fa-5673623 https://www.gadgetsnow.com/it-services/Meet-man-behind-FarmVille/articleshow/10739249.cms https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/16/online-game-farmville-turning-hipsters-farmers/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/06/zynga-banking-on-new-gaming-strategy-to-compete-on-mobile/ https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2009/facebooks-farmville-has-become-an-obsession-classroom-distraction/ https://www.telugu360.com/rajamouli-team-farmville-game-designer/ https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/06/farmville-co-creator-mark-skaggs-leaves-indias-moonfrog-labs-after-2-years/ https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/67020/why-mark-skaggs-left-zynga-for-moonfrog/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/24/mark-skaggs-moonfrog/ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-07-farmville-co-creator-announces-departure-from-moonfrog-labs https://starlocalmedia.com/mckinneycouriergazette/news/more-than-a-game-farmville-creator-mark-skaggs-shows-middle-school-gamers-how-he-makes/article_786f7475-c10f-57eb-bda9-3e88afca1ec0.html https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016592/The-Lessons-I-Learned-from https://www.mcvuk.com/development-news/farmville-creator-mark-skaggs-quits-zynga/ https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/s/era-closes-zynga-farmville-co-200515715.html business-standard.com/article/technology/farmville-co-creatormark-skaggs-is-now-looking-at-india-117071401466_1.html https://www.thestatesman.com/tag/mark-skaggs https://bfme.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_Skaggs https://thetechportal.com/2016/02/25/mark-skaggs-creator-of-farmville-joins-bangalore-based-moonfrog-labs/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jun/27/zynga-unleashes-social-network-farmville-2 Mark Skaggs (talk) 20:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mark Skaggs: I have made no edits to FarmVille. I did answer a question you asked about why your edit was reverted. I replied to you on my talk page. I welcomed you, told you how to change your signature, explained what triggered the edit filter, asked you to read and heed COI and PAID, and asked you to verify that your user name be confirmed via VTRS to prevent impersonation. I'm sorry you have a problem with any of this. No idea why you dumped all those external links on my talk page. They are not germane to the issue at hand. Please read and heed WP:COI and WP:PAID. Please see this page. Because of your conflict of interest, it would be best if you suggest edits on the article page and not edit the article directly. I cannot determine intentions. I can only see your edits. I have assumed good faith by informing you in a civil manner of the situation involving your conflict of interest. Again, I'm sorry if this has upset you. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

December 2020

Please see my message at your reply here. I am the IP address who requested to protect 2022 Philippine presidential election. 120.29.66.122 (talk) 15:15, 07 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting permission. -R.G. (talk) 00:22, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies.-R.G. (talk) 07:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving my talk page

Do you think I could archive all my old warnings and unblock requests? Or would that seem too much like trying to hide my... sketchy past? PLease advise, --sithjarjar^{(talk | contribs | email)} 18:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SithJarJar666: Yes, archive. Fresh start. New beginning. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:12, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice, will do --sithjarjar^{(talk | contribs | email)} 18:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done, except for the last two threads --sithjarjar^{(talk | contribs | email)} 18:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Must not have done a thorough enough check on the name I wanted, sorry;) --sithjarjar^{(talk | contribs | email)} 20:47, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SithJarJar666: Not your fault. The bot did not catch it and Central Auth doesn't either. I found out when I clicked the button to rename. Such is the lot of the global rename. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:33, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Account creator rights?

I saw that you granted yourself account creator rights, and I wanted to know what was going on. Invalid ^OS _talk 13:04, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@InvalidOS: Sometimes I need to create accounts for UTRS IP (anon only) blocked users that need help. Did I do it wrong? I seem to remember creating accounts in the past, but it's been a while, and sometimes I forget things. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:01, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepfriedokra: I don't know if you did anything wrong. I guess if you hadn't created accounts in a while, you or someone else might've removed the right since you weren't using it. I was asking because I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything weird going on. Honestly, it probably would've been a better idea to just check the account creation log, but I didn't get much sleep last night so I guess I just didn't think to do that. Probably not my duty to look into this anyway. :p Invalid ^OS _talk 14:46, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer such cases from UTRS to ACC. Account creator is redunant for admins. Neither are needed to create accounts (for others) unless there is a need to override the title blacklist or AnitSpoof. — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Isn’t it a bit of a run around to refer people from one big process to another big process? Usually the point at which I lose motivation for whatever it is I came to do... ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:55, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@JJMC89:1) Thought it was. Been a while. 2) I see no reason to further inconvenience and frustrate an already inconvenienced and frustrated user caught up in a range block by adding another (time and energy consuming) process. And I never override anti-spoof or blacklist, even as a global renamer. 3) What @ProcrastinatingReader: said. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of issues with it. You don't have sufficient information at UTRS and could easily end up creating an account for a sock. You are either compromising any account that you create (putting the password in a UTRS response) or are retaining PII (email address) in UTRS. Neither of those should ever be done. Based on your account creation logs you are compromising the accounts. I confirmed this for two of the accounts that you created last year. All admins (plus stewards) have access to the credentials and could freely use the accounts. — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Then I will send them to ACC. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 03:42, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please review this user

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=994394533&oldid=994394048. Saw you are active admin right now. Please help, my RFC was removed, my AN report also. starship .paint (talk) 14:31, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) - WP:MULTI - Starship.paint please discuss at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#What are the rules for copyrighted content. Cabayi (talk) 15:12, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Cabayi: - thanks, I think people’s attention have been brought now. I’m confident the matter will be settled :) starship .paint (talk) 15:14, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent

Please review request for page protection asap. needs protection Thank youBezeq2 (talk) 14:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) - WP:MULTI - Bezeq2 please discuss at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#What are the rules for copyrighted content. Cabayi (talk) 15:13, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man about my probation

Hey you did an evaluation of my probation last August and unfortunately I made two mistakes, I requested for an extension or a repeat evaluation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Deepfriedokra/archive_2020-02#Evaluation_of_my_probation

This time I'm glad to report that I performed all that you requested without a hitch these last 5 months after the previous probation evaluation. :D So, I'm just updating you on my probation performance thus far. BTW I still cannot get my hands on the book I got my intial info from, before the library closed, and it will remain closed until March 2021. In the meantime, I've tried ordering the book, to screenshot it to show that my previous edit (that made me violate one condition) is legit, but even the publishing company I contacted said they are out of copies.

https://i.imgur.com/vFBPQcQ.png

So unless and until the library opens on March 2021 or when the publishing company releases new copies, or I somehow manage to get a copy of the book I extracted the information, I forgot to attribute, I cannot as of yet prove that my edits were sourced.

At this rate, I can't give you proof of my innocence which derailed my original probation, until March 2021. Is that ok with you? How would you rate my performance thus far? Regards! --Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. (talk) 20:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think any uploads of copyrighted material would violate WP:COPYVIO. I think you need to let that issue go. You should discuss sourcing on the article talk page. There is a Template:Cite for books and other off-line materials. Innocence? Not a court of law. Otherwise, good work. @Chipmunkdavis and Bishonen: Appreciate your feedback. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:33, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't been keeping tabs or anything, but there is some relevant discussion on Talk:Philippines. There were some poor source choices (part of a habit of finding and using really old sources) and added flaws in interpretation (eg). This recent edit was concerning but minor. Use of citation templates is much improved, and at a quick glance appears to be quite regular.

What I don't see in this request is a reason for bringing this up now. What does this evaluation achieve? What Wikipedia activity is being prevented? As said this isn't a court of law, and there's no "innocence" to prove. My interpretation is that the editing restrictions are part of a process to stimulate productive editing that understands Wikipedia policies and guidelines. If there was a proposed action that is being prevented, assessing that would be a necessary case for evaluation. Otherwise, if they seem to be working, what change is being requested? CMD (talk) 13:48, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ChipmunkDavis, about that last edit, I thought that changing the first sentence to conform to the title of the subsection was a matter of correcting a formatting error, which as far as I know doesn't require a reference. Sorry about using older sources, I was thinking before, that those were legitimate, since the sources were closer to the date of the historical event, thank you for educating me that more modern sources were required. --Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. (talk) 01:20, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copa União 1987

I am Brazilian and about the issue Copa União 1987 Championship there is a lot of mistakes at the page. The real Champion, the uniforme and the semi-final are wrong. Perhaps some team suporter did it, but by the Supreme Court the real Champion is Sport Recife and not the one showed at the page. It needs to be edited with the right information. There was not any kind of vandalism as was said. The page was edited to show the truth and wrongly reverted keeping the lies. RB9610 (talk) 12:31, 18 December 2020 (UTC) @RB9610: That's great! Please discuss content and sourcing on the article talk page. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking." --Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:13, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ECP on the Ezhava garden

I saw that you were conflicted in imposing ECP on Ezhava. I just blocked a few socks (there are likely more than a couple of masters), but the are trying to fork out subtopics or the same topic under different titles to push their POV. The trouble has been going on as Sitush is on a much needed break and there's really no one to police article content on these. If you have time you may want to keep an eye out on anything related to Thiyya, Chekavar and various spelling variants too. I'm not on much these days, so socks have been operating for months at a stretch too. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 16:22, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alt acct

How can I disclose some other account? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JustynaCloud (talk • contribs) 10:27, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@JustynaCloud: template:User alternative account --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:33, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User Celco85

Thank you for yesterday adding more information about references to his talk page. I had in the last day or so reverted some of his edits on John Hewson and Michael Kroger. Until now he has then gone and done something else to the articles concerned but this time he has reverted my reversions. I dont want to get into an editing war so am leaving them at the moment. What do you suggest we should do in this situation? Talk:John Hewson describes previous problems I have encountered. Yesterday I did report him as a potential vandal but the request went stale.Fleet Lists (talk) 09:17, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Slovak language

Thank you for protecting the page, but I think it could use a longer block. The vandalism (or sloppy editing, dunno) has been going on for a year now, with a surprising lack of reaction. 83.23.189.85 (talk) 19:38, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]