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The Detensor

This ain't your fault or your problem, just because you are helping with new articles, but I am soooo having a problem with a _mattress_ being called a modern technique of Traction (orthopedics).

Nor I am not encouraged that *4* 'different' editors have forcedmentioned The Detensor on the Traction (orthopedics) page, in 3 places, just since January, for an item that has been around for ... before 1981 1978? Why the rush? Oh, and one of those being a vendor of same (Jessicaavazo (talk · contribs) aka avazo.com/detensor/). Oh my, and avazo.com is the inventor? avazo.com/ "Doctor Kurt Leonhard Kienlein" (page down once). And ALL the refs are to two commercial sites selling the gadget. This is commercialism, and not for Wikipedia.

Sorry, can you leave this here for awhile? We need to get one of the people interested in paid editors and COI to look into this.

Is there yet a general realization that Wikipedia is a proud obelisk of chalk in a corrosive atmosphere of acid rain? Shenme (talk) 05:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Dainy 123 (talk · contribs)

  • New user piddles around doing nearly useless edits for one day, then waits a week (so... what are the new editor checks and time needed to not be 'new' anymore?)
  • Editor then edits Victor Pinchuk, a businessman (he's very rich!)
  • Editor then edits Orthopedic mattress (a theme here?) (re?)defining the term orthopedics with link to regalsleepsolutions.com.au, as opposed to the already linked article, and which new section is then reverted as copyvio, then re-added by an IP, reverted again ... (blech)
  • Editor then uploads a new picture for Shlomo Einhorn (he's famous!)
  • Editor then edits Stephen Stokols, an entrepreneurblahblah (he's famouser)
  • then The Detensor gets created, and includes a jpg chart by "somebody else", "sent by owner", but which says the author is "ALEXANDERVULFOV". Oh yes, one of those 4 editors to Traction (orthopedics), Alvulfov (talk · contribs). The 'owner' of ... ?

Now I may be hypersensitivesuspiciousparanoid, but this is a paid editor doing biographical touchups and promoting a specific product, using 3 different userids and an IP.

The 'different' users, in appearance order:

Dainy 123 (talk · contribs) (3 January continuing)
Jessicaavazo (talk · contribs) (4 January) (checkout the talk page)
100.34.82.191 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (6 January)
Alvulfov (talk · contribs) (7 January)

Subjects/articles:

Traction (orthopedics)
The Detensor
Orthopedic mattress
and the biographies cited above

Sites:

www.detensor.de
avazo.com/detensor/what-is-detensor/


And I'm checking carefully, and I've decided that 203.4.172.251 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) is not this same person, but rather just has a personal beef with Apparition11 (talk · contribs), and gratuitously reverts their actions. (It's a lovely place we have here)

Shenme, I'm sorry this has happened.. And as you know, I wasn't aware of these nasty backgrounds. I'll take it to AfD and see what the community thinks. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 06:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've added comments at that AfD along with more apologies from me for involving you in a mess. You were only doing Wikipedia a beneficial service by helping out with new articles. Shenme (talk) 14:43, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Srvkumar09

Hi UY Scuti, I would like to request to review a page Tripoto, I did appropriate changes to remove neutrality template, but It still showing at top. One of Wikipedia memeber Dinnypaul refer me to you, that he Is saying this template is applied by you, so Its better to request you to have areview of this page. I would like to request you to have a review Tripoto page, as per I did changes to remove neutrality template. I think you will be satisfy with me.

@Srvkumar09: hello and thanks for getting to me. I did not add that tag to the article, User:180.151.21.5 added it, in this diff. However, I've checked the article for neutrality and have removed the tag. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 11:09, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@UY Scuti: Thanks for review the article.
YW—UY Scuti Talk 04:02, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Soltesh

Hey bro! {{talkback|UY Scuti}} Its me, i just finished working on my next project after my last on wiki, after submitting the draft it was declined for notability reasons, hence i visited the wiki live help were i met you the other time; but i could not find you there and i decided to go ahead and asked for support, their i was told that the reference on the draft are interviews, which does not prove notability i requested help on how to go on, and an administrator their offered to help based on my plight, then he re-edited the article and added sources he gathered by himself, hence he asked me to resubmit once he's done with the changes, could you please help me look into it? Draft Link and again how can i style my personal page like yours? (: Thanks in advance bro! Is Nutin 08:15, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

@Soltesh: Hello, thanks for getting to me and sorry for my late reply. I've had a look at your article, and I think the coverage are more focused on the channel rather than the subject.. You might need more significant coverage about the subject. Other than that, your article looks okay. And to customizing your userpages, of course you can! Just play around with wikicode, you'll do well. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 17:53, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@UY Scuti: Thanks for your reply bro, When i requested for the support on the live help center, the aside from the changes i just made on the article today, which includes his education, photo et.c check the changes made by an administrator named 'MarkTraceur' he was the one that provided me with support on the live help center and he made full corrections on the article, tool out some portion, said he removed on the sources i added which have significant coverage about the subject and be sourced for the once he added and cleared the article that it is now ok, you can check the history page for my own creation and the sources i added, i learnt alot about 'notability' and 'sourcing' when you first helped with my other article (and till date as promised, i still work on it, even today have worked on it), on the help center i asked him again to share light about what he meant by Notability, then he made some points and offered to help work on the article, he was the one that added those links, you could also check on Google the subject has significant coverage and also on Wikipedia, its not an orphan.

Please do what you can, am always up here editing articles {{talkback|UY Scuti}} and i will continue to improve it, aswell as the other articles have created.

Thanks! Is Nutin 20:12, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Good luck —UY Scuti Talk 04:03, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

AFC

Thanks for reverting me. I'll try to help out in some other areas, and I'll be back when I meet the time requirements :) — Omni Flames (talk contribs) 22:06, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
UY_Scuti's help today in weeding out an error on the List of Ships Named Enterprise/Enterprise was both needed and greatly appreciated! Thank you! Srwalden (talk) 15:23, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, it's appreciated!—UY Scuti Talk 15:25, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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03:42:20, 23 December 2015 review of submission by Dedy2109


Hello, I am writing regarding rejection of the submission of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Job-Q.com The rejection reason was that the subject does not meet the WP:ORG, however, I would like to appeal, as it is stated in WP:ORG: "However, smaller organizations and their products can be notable, just as individuals can be notable. Arbitrary standards should not be used to create a bias favoring larger organizations or their products." Job-Q.com has been present for almost 10 years, recognition of its contribution are listed in the proposed article (from government bodies and educational institutions), and reference to the business registration has been provided. There are many organization, even though "notable" and exclusively covered by media, but closing down after 2-3 years. Once again, I am requesting your time to look into the references in detail in considering its notability. Thank you very much.

Signing to archive—UY Scuti Talk 06:20, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Ancsibabaxxx

Dear UY Scuti!

Since we've been working a lot let everyone know more about escape rooms and we put a lot on effort to gather all the information we have. Since I'm not a wiki-pro could you plese help me how we can have an accepted article for escape-rooms.com.

Best regards,

Aniko

Signed—UY Scuti Talk 06:21, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Verified users

Hi. I've added you to the WP:OP verified users list. You didn't attain a perfect score on the test (though some part of this may be an artifact), therefore I'm required to add some notes. What OP is really good at, why people are referred, is confirmation, certainty, as much as it exists. Some things as you know are quite easy to discover and confirm. Some things are easy to strongly infer, or indeed to wrongly infer. Then there's the stuff that's not so straightforward, the edge cases, exceptions and weird stuff. In some of these cases confirmation, if expressed at all, can and should come in different shades. Anyway feel free to drop by for help. Thanks. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:55, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll do my best and drop by your talk page if need be. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 20:05, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So, you get free reviews as part of the package. [1] This is actually a long term proxy-using banned user. They can normally be found edit-warring with another proxy user. The IP who reports these is normally quite accurate. Moreover, it's open on port 8080 and I've blocked it. Declining is quite an unusual step. [2] apparently belongs to Anonymizer. This can be a slightly grey area sometimes, since they usually require some app or interface and don't run open ports, but really this throws up a huge red flag. It is likely it would get blocked. Moreover, the user using it[3] is clearly an SPA, editing ANI and their own SPI in their small number of edits. In a wider context I would say there's some issues there, even if it's just to point to [4]. [5] It may be clearer to just refer to the above - the numbers will change when the page gets archived. Other than that, keep up the good work! -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:00, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the add-on zzuuzz, it's really appreciated. That one, I shouldn't have declined it.. As far the the Anonymizer IP is concerned, I did check the neighboring IPs and none of them were up or were listed as open proxies in my Google searches. Also, when I poked around the range of /16, all of the ones I checked were not blocked and (or) had a clean block log. But if they don't operate on open ports (which is totally new to me), well, that would explain why none of them were blocked. Please feel free to leave my any such reviews, thanks —UY Scuti Talk 18:20, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I say it's a grey area - usually we can go with DNS/WHOIS records, though these can be incomplete, misleading, or out of date. Some names will keep repeating: https://mullvad.net, https://anonymox.net, http://opengw.net. The entry points for these types of proxies - who knows? but like Anonymizer Inc. they'll privately tunnel the connection to exit from somewhere else. Curiously 147.203.126.166 has the same open ports (554, 7070) as the mystery IP (184.89.89.195) on my talk page, which is almost certainly a proxy. Further information can be got from looking at the contributions of the /24 - lots of edits to Iranian articles, AfD, SPI, DRV, as well as some outright spamming. So combined with the aforementioned stuff - the SPA/SPI and so on, it looks like a cert. At that point we can consider the extent of abusive edits vs. collateral. Another grey area... -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:57, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Zzuuzz: Sorry for the ping, but why is that I'm not seeing any open ports on the 2 IPs (except for 161/UDP on .166)? I've done regular scan, intense scan and intense scan; no ping (using nmap).. —UY Scuti Talk 19:41, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That might just be at my end. I'm in a twilight zone atm. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DRN

Apologies for slacking off at DRN. I had some craziness in real life and so have not edited in 6 days. From what I can see, it's best we close the case due to one of the users being blocked. Joel.Miles925 (talk) 13:51, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No need to apologize, stuff happens ! I've closed the case for lack of participation. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 20:19, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Lucia asanache

Hi UY Scuti, just following up on a request I made 6 months ago to have my employer page edited as it's currently got factually incorrect information. You advised me to place a request and although I believe I followed the right rules and tagging, the page has not got any attention from editors. Any idea why and what I can do? Lucia asanache (talk) 10:48, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lucia asanache apologies for the delay and thanks for contacting me. I did mention that the best way to go about your conflict of interest is to request an article, however I should've added, there are a lot of articles in WP:RA and there's no guarantee your article will be created (it is not mandatory either). Sorry about that. There's another possible way you can create the article about your employer, i.e., using the article for creation. Articles in AfC are subject to review by experienced editors. They'll make sure your article is written neutrally and meets certain criteria before approving the article. The article creation wizard is a great tool to assist you with your writing. Before going any further, you have to declare your conflict of interest in your userpage and if you are compensated for your contribution, it is a must that you declare such compensations per Wikimedia foundation's terms of use. Next you need to see if your employer is notable enough to have an article, and if it doesn't, I'd recommend against writing an article which only would be waste of your time. Please read this guide on creating your first article to help you with you writing. Hope that helps. Please feel free to drop by should you have any questions. Best regards—UY Scuti Talk 15:40, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding my doppelganger accounts

Hi UY Scuti. As the creator of some of my doppelganger accounts, I would like to inform you that after some thinking, I have decided to list all my known doppelgangers for blocking to prevent any sort of abuse. Please refer to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Actions required for my alternate accounts. Regards, Optakeover(U)(T)(C) 13:04, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

page mover

Hello, UY Scuti. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, and move subpages when moving the parent page(s).

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. When you move a page, please remember to correct any double-redirects and make link corrections where necessary. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

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If you do not want the page mover right anymore, post here, or just let me know. Thank you, and happy editing! Katietalk 21:35, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I realize the page mover right is new, but intentionally moving a page to an obviously strange title and then tagging it with {{db-redirtypo}} doesn't strike me as the right way to go about this. You shouldn't create intentional typos and then tag them for deletion with that rationale. There's got to be a better way to accomplish what you want to do. wbm1058 (talk) 19:50, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Wbm1058: If there is a better way, it then rests with the admins. I could move a page without leaving a redirect, but not delete the target page. So, I moved the target to a title with an intentional typo. If you are not aware, that was the result of a page move consensus Talk:Michael Booker (American football)#Requested move 30 April 2016). I couldn't see any harm in doing that. But if you could explain what damage I'm doing, I will gladly stop it. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 04:04, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I think all the new page movers should be given wide latitude, as procedures are just being developed, and I haven't thought through all the possibilities myself. So don't take this as strong criticism. The instructions are probably not finalized yet (as much as anything on Wikipedia is ever "finalized";) I think y'all have been given authority to play a game of "musical chairs" where that's possible, on the idea that page movers can take some of the load off of admins, for some types of moves. This works when there is no change in the number of chairs, as there are no chairs to delete. However in cases where a page is assuming primary topic status, where there was previously no primary topic, there is going to be a "chair to delete". In this example, there were two dab pages: Michael Booker and the redirect Michael Booker (disambiguation) which is used for intentional links to disambiguation. When the American football player becomes the primary topic, one of the dab pages is deleted. As this is a situation that requires a page to be deleted, rather than just chair reshuffling, your initial (CSD G6) was correct. You could have waited for an admin to process that, but I understand the desire to not leave an RM close half-done for an indeterminate time. So the issue is, what is the best way to handle these; I don't think (CSD R3) is the best way, and I'm not sure a pile of deleted mainspace pages with odd titles, intentionally created is good. Perhaps a cross-namespace move to the same title, perhaps Draft:Michael Booker (disambiguation) and keep the (CSD G6) tag on it. Or create a new CSD code just for these cases, and perhaps an admin-bot could delete them, in support of the goal of reducing backlogs of routine admin tasks. Make sense? If so, I suppose this should be put up for wider discussion. Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 14:10, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Lawrence Hirst

Hi there, I received a b-bot message stating my images were orphaned and non-free. However the images I used are my own. I would like some assistance to ensure any images I used in the future do not fall into the wrong category. thanks Lawrence Hirst 6/23/2016Lawrence Hirst (talk) 20:48, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

LTA, Proxy Sockings and Suggestions Regarding It

Hello,

I have the list of all VPNs. Is it possible to block all, if i reported them on project page? Many of them were already blocked, i believe...It is a bit tiring but crucial to stop sockpuppetry. Unfortunately, i don't think that checkusers check the IPS of sockmasters to determine if they are proxy or not-just label them as "unrelated". For related discussion, see WP:Tirgil34/talk page. Regards, 46.221.183.171 (talk) 14:33, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @46.221.183.171:, unfortunately that's not a viable option. The number of open proxies are humongous to have it all blocked at once. Since open proxy blocks are hardblocks (disallows even logged in edits), caution is necessary. Every IP must be checked by an admin/proxy-checker to verify that it indeed is an open proxy. The nature of the open proxy must be determined to calculate the length of block, since all open proxies are not static and change periodically, which basically is a sheer waste of time. Besides, editing from open proxies is alright if the editor's intentions are legit. WP:Open proxies states so,
Besides, we have a bot ProcseeBot which continuously sniffs for and blocks open proxies.. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 18:26, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you that every ip on spi cases must be checked. However, it seems that checkusers do not care it. Thanks for your suggestions. I am going to contact user Slakr regarding " technically unrelated" socks. Cheers. 46.221.183.171 (talk) 18:47, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
for helping me setup ZNC. Thank you for being very patient and knowledgeable even though I'm not completely finished yet :P eurodyne (talk) 07:32, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 McDonald's All-American Boys Game images

I see you are among the leading editors at Frank Jackson (basketball). Would you consider helping me determine which images to use in the 2016 McDonald's All-American Boys Game by commenting at Talk:2016_McDonald's_All-American_Boys_Game#Image_voting.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:53, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Cinco_Family_products

Could I ask you to revisit this NAC close? I think there was a workable consensus to delete, especially given the nominator and I provided policy based reasoning for our opinions and the sole keep voter provided no rationale for their opinion at all. Thanks, Reyk YO! 09:12, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please see the talk page of the article for further objection to this close. Cheers, Reyk YO! 09:15, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've reopened the AfD. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 10:07, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morgan Taylor Campbell

Hi UY Scuti. I'd like to request that you either undo your close at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morgan Taylor Campbell, or reconsider it. There was one vote for "delete" – two if you consider my nomination statement which was also clearly in favor of "delete" – and one vote for "merge and redirect". A "no consensus" close on that strikes me as unsupported. It would seem that the minimum result in this case would be "redirect" to Spooksville (TV series) (there's not much to "merge" in this case). I still think "delete" is the right call, but based on the eventual discussion, it strikes me that it's a clear "redirect" outcome when all three !votes are considered... Thanks. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:20, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elevate Myself

I would suggest closing this discussion as "merge" or "redirect" to the Just Like the Fambly Cat article. All three participants at the discussion agree that the topic is non-notable, so "no consensus" is inaccurate. Thanks. SSTflyer 02:17, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected to Just Like the Fambly Cat. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 09:07, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect AFD close at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Orange Lights

Hello. I am concerned at the AFD closure that you have conducted as a non-admin closure at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Orange Lights. You have closed this due to a lack of quorum. I would like to know why you feel that a debate with three favouring deletion, one favouring keep, and a relist "to evaluate sources" would qualify for closure under this point of the guidelines? The guidelines note: "If a nomination has received no comments from any editor besides the nominator (or few in the case of AfDs)." Four participants is not a low enough number to be using this guideline, which is designed for debates with no or close to no (i.e. one comment) participation. As you are not an administrator, it troubles me that you would close in this way as it may suggest a lack of knowledge of the AFD process. It may also be a candidate for deletion review, so I would welcome your comments on whether you feel this was appropriate. I was the nominator, so I do note my conflict of interest. KaisaL (talk) 15:53, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment In fact, you have three other messages on your talk page complaining about this very same issue. Might it be best to abstain from deletion closures if you are frequently getting the notion of WP:NPASR wrong? Non-admins should only be conducting uncontroversial closures (i.e. clear keeps and deletes) and four complaints in August already suggests that you are not doing this. KaisaL (talk) 16:03, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • @KaisaL: Three to one and the one being a good one (providing sources), no more comments/!votes from any other editors on the provided source, and two relists are more than enough to close a debate as no consensus with no prejudice against speedy renomination. Were the Afd relisted for the second time before the keep !vote, this is a case where the close would've yielded a no consensus. I'm quite sure none would've closed this as delete. And I believe you understand that this after all is an WP:NPASR close. Think what you may about my knowledge, but I won't be reopening it since I believe that my judgement is indeed correct here, sorry. You may ask for another administrator to open the discussion (or) take it to deletion review (or) renominate the article for deletion. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 16:22, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Irrespective of your views on this specific close, I have two serious concerns here.
Firstly, in only three days of August you have been challenged on four AFDs that you have closed as a no consensus. That is more than one a day that you are being challenged on. As an administrator this would be bad enough, however;
Secondly, these are non-admin closures. Controversial closures, split decisions, and matters like no consensus are best left to administrators - especially when you're quite clearly getting it wrong regularly. Four challenges in three days, and you haven't even closed many more than that. I could probably point to other closes that nobody has raised yet as similarly disputable, and the whole point of a non-admin closure is to reduce the red tape on clear, uncontroversial close decisions, not to add to the red tape of deletion review or needing to undo poor decisions.
If this continues, you're definitely running the risk of being seriously challenged on a more general level as to your ability to gauge consensus. Personally, I'd advise you don't close any AFDs under this policy or under a no consensus view again. You're welcome to ignore that advice, but I reserve the right to raise it at WP:AN if these poor judgement calls continue. KaisaL (talk) 22:24, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Requests - 195.88.208.155

Hi UY Scuti,

I've just posted another request here and wanted to let you know that this one in particular is pretty urgent, as the IP is being used as of VERY recently to evade blocks. Whenever you see this message, can you please give it a quick look? Thanks for all of your help with checking for open proxies and from preventing scrutiny from blocked users! Regards. :-) 208.54.5.133 (talk) 18:54, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'd view this as likely, but am not myself in a position to check. I'd like to ask the IP OP though, if they can tell me, which blocks are they evading? -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:59, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Zzuuzz: Confirmed. Please have a look here. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 19:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
208.54.5.133 The IP has been blocked for 1 year. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 19:31, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it was blocked while I was looking. My question to the IP editor stands. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:32, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

AFD discussion of Avinash-class submarine

A new AFD discussion regarding a newly created article Avinash-class submarine is linked here, if you are still interested in the subject do join the the discussion. the article has some resemblance to Arihant follow-on submarine.Nicky mathew (talk) 15:12, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

  • New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
  • Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
  • TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
  • OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

Read the full newsletter

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of Participation at DRN

Yuck. I see that you are getting no response. So am I. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:23, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, I think it has to do with how much time it takes for us to open a case and then proceed. Editors loose interest in the dispute. It's a pity we have less volunteers, but what's even more pity is that the participants loosing interests in the very few cases opened for discussion. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 17:44, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Bec colman

Hello UY Scuti,

Apologies if this is not the correct forum or way of contacting you regarding your review of my article 'Steve Dub'.

Firstly thank you for taking the time in doing so, especially as I only submitted in yesterday.

However, I strongly believe this was wrongly rejected on the basis of Notability. Steve Dub is a record producer, engineer, mixer and song-writer, which is clearly stated in the opening line of the article. The article doesn't state anywhere that he is/or has ever been part of the band The Chemical Brothers.

Steve has engineered and mixed many of their albums and from doing so has won 3 x grammy awards and been nominated for a further 2 (for his engineering and mixing work). The Chemical Brothers are a duo. Please check their wiki page for details. They don't have any other band members. Please note that the links I provided to the Grammy Awards clearly state Steve as an engineer and mixer, not a band member. This means he was awarded these grammy's for being part of the recording, production and mixing of the records, for example 'Best Dance Recording'. etc..

I hope this has cleared it up. You may note that I also have listed a lot of other acts that Steve has produced and mixed over the years who have nothing to do with The Chemical Brothers.

Thank you for your time and kind regards,

James Bec colman (talk) 09:33, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bec colman, thanks for contacting me. Indeed this is the right place to contact me. Coming to your article Draft:Steve Dub, I believe I've done it right. I acknowledge the fact that being nominated and (or) winning a Grammy is a de facto notability. But the three Grammys are not for his sole performance, but for the band, The Chemical Brothers. If you have a look at the article, all the three Grammys are listed as awards for the band. If anything, everyone that worked in the song are sharing the award and that makes the band notable (per WP:NMUSIC). If you disagree, by all means (you are free to) please resubmit the article for another reviewer to take a look and see what they think. Or alternatively, you can bring it up in the help desk. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 14:10, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 00:38, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wax (rapper)

Good day! I noticed that the AFDs for Liquid Courage (Wax album) and Eviction Notice (Wax album) were closed without agreement of the creator, and without allowing seven weeks days or seven comments of discussion. Is there a reason for this? --Jax 0677 (talk) 19:26, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Jax 0677, sorry, but agreement of the creator, seven weeks, seven comments are not policies. Consensus overrides creator's agreement, discussion is run for 7 days (maybe relisted two to three times i.e., two to three more weeks) and number of comments don't make a difference. Please refer to WP:CLOSEAFD. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 19:36, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply - Sorry for my error, I meant to say seven days. --Jax 0677 (talk) 19:45, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jax 0677, A deletion discussion should normally be allowed to run for seven full days (168 hours). The AfD was nominated at 18:27, 5 September 2016 (UTC) and was closed at 19:10, 12 September 2016 (UTC). So, the discussion did run for 7 days. To be even more specific, 168 hours and 40 minutes. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 19:54, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • And for the second AfD, it was closed after 168 hours and 55 minutes. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 19:56, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply - I read the incorrect date. My bad! --Jax 0677 (talk) 19:59, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New articles

Hi. Thanks for recently approving a new article I worked on. I have been writing many new articles on Olympic athletes. For some reason, many sit without being approved. I put in many footnotes. They are not turned down, just not acted on. Should I just wait? Should I let you know of some of them? Maybe people are not sure that Olympic athletes are notable, even if they have a short article. Thank you. --2604:2000:E016:A700:45E:4C3:4B78:5AA4 (talk) 19:50, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@2604:2000:E016:A700:45E:4C3:4B78:5AA4: Sure. Submit it for review and please link them here. I'll see what I can do. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 18:24, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Really? Youre so nice. That would be great. Some have been sitting there as long as two weeks. I'll just mention a few here. I don't want to overload you. And if you dont want to touch them, for some reason, thats fine too of course.

You're awesome. 2604:2000:E016:A700:EC6E:91F9:7A5A:5021 (talk) 07:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RfC for page patroller qualifications

Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:00, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

James C. Webb

I've removed the speedy tag you placed on James C. Webb, as the article clearly asserts notability. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion at WP:CSD. Thank you. Wikishovel (talk) 17:13, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does. Apologies—UY Scuti Talk 17:26, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ORCP

Hi, Scuti, I’ve just been having another look at your entry at WP:ORCP. It may well be time for you to start a new poll and see what happens. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:04, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Kudpung: I've already put my name in ORCP twice. Do you think it is a good idea to put my name in once again? (Note: I was given the title hat collector on my second poll). Regards—UY Scuti Talk 17:05, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed. You're right, best to wait a while befoe doing another one. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:25, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you're ok.

Hey, so sorry to hear about the loss of someone you loved. Let me know if you need anything. Please take time and take care of yourself. Jake Ocaasi (WMF) (talk) 17:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Read the full newsletter



19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review needs your help

Hi UY Scuti,

As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.

Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.

(Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for End-Year Chart 2015 (Romania)

User:XXN has asked for a deletion review of End-Year Chart 2015 (Romania). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 15:21, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You Message is in Error

Your message is in error. I did not create that page, nor have have I ever contributed to that page. Further, I have no knowledge of the "Tinder" app or its functions. wayland (talk) 09:21, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Wayland: apologies for the confusion. All this happened when I erroneously tagged Tinder for deletion, an article you created instead of tagging Tinder (inst Class). Again, sorry—UY Scuti Talk 14:39, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Challenge Series

The Challenge Series is a current drive on English Wikipedia to encourage article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions, countries and topics. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are invited to participate.

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, UY Scuti. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer - RfC

Hi UY Scuti. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:57, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

What do you mean by undoing it because it is not constructive? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipedian renj (talk • contribs) 22:53, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Superstore

Thanks. We don't need to mediate disputes with sockpuppets. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:08, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review - newsletter

Hello UY Scuti,
Breaking the back of the backlog
We now have 819 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.
Mid July to 01 Oct 2016

If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.

Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote

With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.

Sent to all New Page Reviewers. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:16, 26 November 2016 (UTC) .[reply]

Trouted

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: leaving Disney Channel (Asia) with this circular redirect. Dl2000 (talk) 22:24, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

—UY Scuti Talk 05:30, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of active indian military aircraft with photos

A new page List of active indian military aircraft with photos has been created. The only difference is they contain images of active military aircraft. This was done as certain users known as UY Scuti(Mystery Intelligence GUY) and Antiochus the great(Name Shows Inflated EGO) are repeatedly removing images citing Consensus. They are ignoring or not knowing this same development had happened 3 months back and the administrator had asked for reason to have two pages 1 with photos and another without photos. To cut affair short the, Reply to every one is that 1) wikipedia is about Knowldge. 2) A picture is worth 1000 words(More Knowledge).

Hence the adinistrators had merged both pages whilr retaining images, Overlooking argument of consensus,Hence the Admin had kept the page Locked for some months. The consensus for removing image was on point that the images were difficult to download on smart phones not that the images did not contribute to page with knowledge, This guys should ideally buy bettter capacity smart phones or upgrade to 3G 4G or visit the pages via laptop computer. They decided to remove images instead.

Now this guys are treating same consensus as gospel truth by removing images and accusing me of disruptive edits. If this is allowed to continue they will make wikipedia a Bible Torah Geeta Kuran. But to avoid conflict I am starting the above said page with images users please do contrbute to new page but without removing images — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yogesh D Churi (talk • contribs) 07:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))[reply]

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review - newsletter #2

Hello UY Scuti,
Please help reduce the New Page backlog

This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.

Getting the tools we need

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO VOTE

Sent to all New Page Reviewers. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:55, 11 December 2016 (UTC) .[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
For going beyond your assigned roles to help WP:Library run smoothly. Thanks for your efforts, and keep up the great work! JustBerry (talk) 10:57, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you :)—UY Scuti Talk 11:41, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

Hello UY Scuti: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America1000 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

ACC

Greetings. Earlier (way earlier) this year, I began to help out on ACC. Then in the fall I took a break from Wikipedia ... actually considered leaving. But now I've decided to come back and do what I can to help. If you still need help on ACC, let me know... and you'll have to walk me through the initial process again. Onel5969 TT me 01:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Onel5969: Hello. I'm glad you've decided to come back to ACC. We definitely could take some more help particularly, with the increasing backlog. Since you were a member on ACC, you don't have to go through the process you initially went through. You just have to send a mail to the admin mailing list (enwiki-acc-admins@googlegroups.com) requesting access to the interface. Once you are approved, chances are you will be, you have to subscribe to the mailing list here (Please make sure you follow the instructions). That is all, you'll be set. Please don't hesitate to leave me a message should you need any help. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 03:46, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, so I forgot how difficult this can. 3 of my first 4 I couldn't pull the trigger on. One, I simply unreserved, the other I left a comment, and another editor agreed that it might be a shared use. The last one, I sent to you directly, since I want to know what you think of that username. Sorry to be a bother, but I want to get it right. Onel5969 TT me 12:45, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Onel5969: No worries. I've left a comment on 188419 and created it. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 14:15, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent, thanks! I can't access ACC while I'm at work, so will check it out this evening. Onel5969 TT me 15:48, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, UY Scuti!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. And for all the help you've thrown my way over the years. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 23:49, 20 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Thanks and wishing you the same onel5969!—UY Scuti Talk 16:11, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please assist

Hello, I have placed several comments in the talk section related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_Go_Fund, yet no record of it has been kept and the article has been deleted for lack of noteworthiness. This in spite of references to news articles and outside sources that show it is not a promotional article but one highlighting a real organization. Please AdviseJafanous (talk) 13:41, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays!

Hello UY Scuti: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, JustBerry (talk) 23:48, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message
Happy holidays to you too JustBerry! Hope you are having fun. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 04:59, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Drew Monson

Hi,

A few days ago, you relisted the deletion discussion for Drew Monson to get a clearer consensus. I think, the consensus is pretty clear, there are four arguments for delete and none for keep. Besides, it literally fails WP:ENT to a tee. When will the article be deleted? -Throast (talk) 17:14, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Throast: Seems so. The discussion will be closed after it runs for a period of seven full days, starting from the date the discussion was relisted (i.e., 23rd - 30th). Regards—UY Scuti Talk 17:37, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All right. Thanks. -Throast (talk) 17:47, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Founding History of The Jayhawks ( dispute help )

There has been a recent dispute ( late last year ) over the exact history of the founding of "The Jayhawks" ( a band from Minneapolis ) over on their talk page. I responded there myself with some information and questioning in an attempt to resolve the issue ( a few weeks ago ), but have not received any communication back. Is there anyway to kindly resolve this dispute? I am brand new to Wiki, and would greatly appreciate your time and help. GeoAntrim53 (talk) 20:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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